Gerhard Richter hat für das Verhältnis seiner Malerei zur Wirklichkeit mal einen schönen Begriff gefunden. "Teilweisigkeit" nannte er es, wie die Realität sich in sein künstlerisches Abbild mischt. Dieses Wort, das selbst nur in einem Bereich der Teilweisigkeit existiert, denn es steht nicht im Duden, ist aber trotzdem verständlich, stellt in seiner absichtlichen Unschärfe dennoch eine präzise Frage an die Kunst und das einzelne Bild, nämlich die nach der Bedeutung.
Read MoreConserving the Future is a recently published book that bears witness to 25 years of curating contemporary art in the same place: the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice. 25 years: a lengthy period in which the curator Chiara Bertola has seen the metamorphoses and rebirth of this ancient palace thanks to the different visions of the artists projected in its spaces, who have each transformed it into multiple places.
Read MoreOn Saturday, June 3, 2023, the Nuit Blanche returns for its 21st edition in Paris and the Ile-de-France region. This year, the cultural event is organized around the theme of the Seine. An inspiring subject... Especially for the artists of the Hangar Y, in Meudon, who present their works during this new night. Works by Shilpa Gupta and Kiki Smith will be presented.
Read MoreIs there a more misunderstood and maligned artist than Yoko Ono? Despite being one of the most iconic names in music history, her actual music is often overlooked. Maybe John Lennon was right when he called her "the world's most famous unknown artist."
Read MoreGerhard Richter, one of the most important German painters of the post-WWII era is 91. A recent show at David Zwirner Gallery on 20th Street in New York, which closed this past weekend, was a vivid reminder of the painter's ongoing vitality.
Read MoreEmbracing the central methodologies of the Centre for the Less Good Idea — collaborative making, free-spirited engagement with materials, the act of allowing oneself to be led by image, sound and impulse — William Kentridge and members of the center invite participants from across the Brown community to join in surfacing, rupturing, re-reading and activating the heavy histories and enduring realities.
Read MoreA major retrospective of the artist’s hard-to-define work evidences her shapeshifting nature. The offence that all critics inevitably commit is choosing one interpretation over another. Invariably, when it comes to Trockel, these expositions come off as disassociated white noise, like the vague warble that Charlie Brown – protagonist of the comic book series Peanuts (1947–2000) – hears when his teacher talks. They also cold- shoulder the mire of associations that is the only honest response to this work. Wandering Trockel’s maze-like practice, you might well feel an unconscious, chthonic humming. It’s the sound of every thought and feeling being trailed by those that died for it to live.
Read MoreIhr neustes Regiearbeit ist der Spielfilm Land of Dreams, der zum einen die für ihr Werk bekannten Themen vereint, doch zudem die Sicht einer Außenstehenden auf die Vereinigten Staaten, ihre Kultur, ihre Politik und ihre Gesellschaft zeigt. Anlässlich des Heimkinostarts am 28. April 2023 spricht Shirin Neshat im Interview über die Verbindungen der Geschichte des Films zu ihrer Biografie, die US-amerikanische Landschaft und die Protagonistin Simin, gespielt von Sheila Vand.
Read MoreLCIFF 2023 kicked off Wednesday, April 12 with a special showing of the 2021 political satire “Land of Dreams,” directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari. The film stars Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon, William Moseley and Anna Gunn as well as Isabella Rossellini, Christopher McDonald, Gaius Charles and Adrian Luna. The movie was filmed in New Mexico for several months in late 2020 near Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Farmington and outside Las Cruces.
Read MoreSouth African artist William Kentridge became world famous for his charcoal drawings and hand-drawn animated films, but his work continued to grow in scope and he began staging performances. Today he also creates operas and collaborative stage productions combining numerous art forms. The production was first performed in London in 2018; its South African premiere was delayed by three years because of the COVID pandemic. It features music by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi, choreography by Gregory Maqoma and an array of stand-out vocalists and musicians. Senior lecturer in theatre Fiona Ramsay asked Kentridge about creating the work.
Read MorePortikus 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).
Read MoreIranian-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.
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