Through photography and filmmaking, Neshat critiques the authoritarian power of national governments, from Iran to the United States and beyond, particularly the way they label their residents in documents like passports and census records. “The Colony” (2019), exhibited at Istanbul’s Dirimart gallery as part of one of Neshat’s latest shows, Land of Dreams, explores a fictional, underground Iranian bureaucracy hidden in an American desert.
Read MoreThe investigation of the material, fabrics and new textiles is currently being conducted by artists of various generations and backgrounds from all continents. Curtains, tapestries and rugs are being rediscovered as the pictorial carriers of contemporary depictions. Fabrics, textile decor and clothing are giving rise to fresh narratives and elucidating the backgrounds of historical, pictorial and global interconnections. This rediscovery of traditional techniques is complemented by an enthusiasm for new digital technologies: in the current era, digital technology controls the looms or spins the threads in an expanded reality.
Read MoreKentridge’s work is vast. The collection features brass sculptures, taking shape from a certain perspective, drawings of human figures, colored block letters on found book pages, and interactive pieces that create a new way to view art. “Doing that in a way that is playful and thoughtful and engages people,” says Melanie Herzog, curator. “He comes at things sideways and invites us to really think about them.”
Read MoreCage 1-6 (P19), is the complete set of six prints published by Heni Editions, London, reproducing Gerhard Richter’s famous “Cage” series. The artist created the large, abstract paintings in 2006 for the next year’s Venice Biennale, and are named after the American minimalist composer John Cage, whose music Richter listened to continuously as he created these paintings. In the spring of 2021, Gagosian exhibited the full “Cage” series in its New York City gallery.
Read MoreST. LOUIS — “Burn this book after you read it,” implores the inside flap of Grapefruit, Yoko Ono’s 1964 collection of 150 prompts aiming to blur the boundary between artist and reader, imagination and reality. Across from the stately colophon, an ink doodle of a blank box flirts below an invitation to “write your own” synopsis, with “name, weight, sex, colour” scribbled in lower-case letters. On the black-and-white cover, Ono looks at us over her bare shoulder, whose rounded form visually mimics the volume’s title. With her untamed mane and oversized aviators, the conceptual artist seems to dare us to partake in something wild and delicious.
Read MoreBorn in the Soviet Union, the artist reflects on how works by her and husband Ilya have taken on new meaning since the war.
The artist couple Ilya and Emilia Kabakov live and create at a home and studio on Long Island, New York. The Art Newspaper met with them there and spoke to Emilia about the often prophetic nature of art and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where both artists were born.
Read MoreShirin Neshat and Shoja Azari’s highly imaginative Land Of Dreams, based on a story by Shirin Neshat, screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière and Shoja Azari takes us on the road to the American Southwest of the near future, where an Iranian colony is nestled in the desert, and where a census bureau collects everyone’s dreams for the dreamers “security”.
Read MoreAfter a frightening diagnosis, the Japanese artist is taking on mortality in her new show in Brisbane, using thread to construct huge artworks that sweep entire rooms the day after Chiharu Shiota was presented with plans for an ambitious solo exhibition spanning her 30-year artistic career, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer.
Read MoreShilpa Gupta's video installation "Untitled", 2022, conceived especially for the Kestner Gesellschaft and exhibited on the roof of the gallery's building, turns the architecture into a living organism. Emitted texts (Time Runs Endless, Fear Fear Itself, One Sentence Ago, etc.) along with visual components, enter into a poetic-political polylogue with the city and its inhabitants, invoking notions of confinement and intimacy, but also legality and illegality, security and censorship, belonging and isolation.
Read MoreFluid Mexican onyx, manipulated digital prints and text-based works scaled to match the urban space intertwine in this exhibition featuring three renowned and internationally acclaimed artists—Kirsten Ortwed, Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weiner—each of whom has made their unique contribution to defining what we understand as contemporary art.
Read MoreThe symphony will premiere the topically relevant animated film by William Kentridge, performed to Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The Shostakovich expert and chief conductor Michael Sanderling will conduct the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester at the KKL Luzern and the Pompeii Theatrum Mundi festival.
Read MoreAn encounter between composer Steve Reich and German visual artist Gerhard Richter a decade earlier had started discussion on a joint project. Richter showed Reich his book Patterns, in which an abstract painting is scanned, cut in half, and half again repeatedly. Out of this Richter was creating a film and Reich’s music was to follow a mirroring musical process.
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