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e - flux Announcements : Assembly Portikus

Portikus presents Assembly (May 6–July 16, 2023), a series of interventions in public space featuring works by James Gregory Atkinson, Thomas Bayrle, Ayşe Erkmen, Slavs and Tatars, and Sung Tieu. Institutions, much like living organisms, are influenced by, coexist with, and depend on their environment. For Assembly, Portikus invites five artists to respond to public sites in its immediate surroundings, the neighborhood of Sachsenhausen, thus addressing its location on Frankfurt’s Alte Brücke (Old Bridge).

gabriela ancoApril 15, 2023Ayse Erkmen

npr : An Iranian artist on life in exile

Iranian-born visual artist Shirin Neshat is seen as a powerful voice for Iranian women... but her art has never been shown in her country. This hour she speaks on life in exile, how her acclaimed and controversial art is shaped by politics, and her hope for the ongoing protest movement in Iran.

gabriela ancoApril 14, 2023Shirin Neshat

ArtDependence Magazine : Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

"Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin” shows for the first time the long-term loan of the Gerhard Richter Kunststiftung to the Neue Nationalgalerie. The central work in the exhibition, held in the Grafisches Kabinett of the Neue Nationalgalerie, is the series “Birkenau” (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. [...] There is also another large group of works from Richter’s striking series of overpainted photographs, in which he addresses the tension between photography and painting. The exhibition has been realised in close collaboration with the artist.

gabriela ancoApril 7, 2023Gerhard Richter

Greenpointers : Yoko Ono Brings the Trees Indoors at Faurschou (by Billy McEntee)

Yoko Ono’s Ex It — part of the her solo exhibition, Golden Ladders, as seen at Faurschou Beijing in 2015 and originally conceived and seen in Valencia in 1997 — is an indoor arboretum and one of three works currently part of Embrace the World from Within, on display through September 17 at the gallery’s 148 Green Street location.

gabriela ancoApril 7, 2023Yoko Ono

Amnesty Journal : ZORN UND SCHÖNHEIT (byCornelia Wegerhoff)

Sie ist Fotografin, Filmemacherin und hat bei den Salzburger Festspielen inszeniert: Multitalent Shirin Neshat ist die bekannteste iranische Exilkünstlerin. Seit Jahrzehnten setzt sie sich für Frauenrechte und Demokratie in ihrer alten Heimat ein. Mit starken Bildern.

gabriela ancoMarch 31, 2023Shirin Neshat

Arts in the City : Exposition Chiharu Shiota à la Galerie Templon : Memory under the skin

L’artiste japonaise, célèbre dans le monde entier pour ses installations de fils rouges entrelacés, signe son grand retour dans la capitale avec cette exposition tentaculaire, intime et délicate, interrogeant les notions d’existence et de transcendance qui se cachent derrière chacun de nos artifices.

gabriela ancoMarch 25, 2023Chiharu Shiota

e-flux annoucements : Special reopening exhibition Before/After

It is with great pleasure that the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art presents Before/After, a special exhibition commemorating the completion of a major renovation project at the museum that was conducted over a period of some two years and three months. […] Through the artists’ keen eyes and historical perspectives, this exhibition will examine the before and after as well as the in-between and overlapping elements in a variety of subjects. By inviting a group of artists whose practices seemed well suited to inquiries of this kind, we have arrived at an exhibition combining works that were selected from the museum collection with new works that the artists made specifically for this occasion.

gabriela ancoMarch 18, 2023Shirin Neshat

Marian Goodman Gallery : William Kentridge | UC Berkeley Residency | Spring 2023

Marian Goodman Gallery presents William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency and related events.

gabriela ancoMarch 16, 2023William Kentridge

White Hot Magazine : William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows at the Broad Museum, Los Angeles (by Peter Frank)

There is general consensus that South African multimedialist William Kentridge is one of the leading artists of our time. “Leading” can be one of those empty adjectives that seek to qualify art with quantified bluster; but not only does Kentridge in his intellectual, social, and technical ambition “lead” with aesthetic and extra-aesthetic substance, but he literally “leads” us into and through a world view of profound wonder and equally powerful witness.

gabriela ancoMarch 14, 2023William Kentridge

BOMB : Chiharu Shiota Interviewed by Laura Bannister

In the early 2000s, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota shot to fame for the labyrinthine installations she produces with colored wool, rope, and thread. These supersized, tangled spider webs swallow whole rooms and hold objects captive in midair. Knotted and twisted over multiple days with a team of assistants, her webs are both hopeful hallucinations—inferring the invisible connectivity that pervades all life on earth—and insuperable, brutal obstacles that force audiences to renegotiate how they move through space.

gabriela ancoMarch 6, 2023Chiharu Shiota

Las Cruce Sun News : From the Land of Enchantment to ‘Land of Dreams’: New Mexico-filmed movie to open festival (by Leah Romero)

LAS CRUCES – The eighth annual Las Cruces International Film Festival will open with a screening of “Land of Dreams,” a New Mexico-filmed movie released in June 2022. “Land of Dreams” is a political satire and follows the story of an Iranian American woman discovering the meaning of being a free American. According to a news release, the story is set in a small town in a future where the country completely closes its borders.

gabriela ancoMarch 5, 2023Shirin Neshat

The Wire : Verse Affairs: Writing Kites From the Prison to the World (by Uttaran Das Gupta)

Faiz is one of the poets included in a new anthology For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: Encounters With Prison, edited by artist Shilpa Gupta and poet and journalist Salil Tripathi. The book is the textual avatar of an eponymous exhibition on which Gupta and Tripathi collaborated in 2017, in response to a growing atmosphere of intolerance in India, which, as we now know, was the first symptom of the country’s democratic backsliding.

gabriela ancoMarch 5, 2023Shilpa Gupta

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