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Stir world : Berlin Art Week offers a flurry of events putting women artists front and centre (by Hili Perlson)

Berlin’s art scene never sleeps. This year’s edition of Berlin Art Week took place from September 13-17. [...] The Neue Nationalgalerie also hosted, for the second year, a series of live happenings and performances, which featured a rare highlight: Yoko Ono’s seminal Cut Piece from 1964. The museum’s director Klaus Biesenbach shared with journalists that its appearance was a matter of personal trust—Ono doesn’t usually let this work be restaged. Berlin-based performers enacted the work, in which the audience is invited to cut off a piece of the performer’s clothing, one by one. How far they choose to go is up to the situation, which becomes the palpable immaterial substance of the piece.

gabriela ancoOctober 1, 2023Yoko Ono, Rosemarie Trockel

Daily Maverick : Artists Dada Khanyisa, William Kentridge heal Johannesburg’s wounds and put the Spring back in her step (by Ferial Haffajee)

William Kentridge and Nhlanhla Mhlangu shared the How of a forthcoming production called The Great Yes and The Great No at the stage of The Centre for the Less Good Idea. This production is another in his line of interrogation of colonialism: this time about slavery and the Caribbean island of Martinique. It features the philosophy of Negritude of Aimé Césaire and Susanne Césaire. It also includes the ideas of Franz Fanon and Léopold Senghor. It creates counterpoints using Josephine Bonaparte (born in Martinique) and the American-born French superstar Josephine Baker. From the masks, the choir, and the deconstruction of text, this will be another epic production fitting like a glove into our decolonising epoch. Kentridge has long resisted the impulse to the single story. So does Dada Khanyisathe (the 2022 FNB Art winner Dada Khanyisa at Johannesburg Art Gallery). So should we in thinking about Johannesburg today.

gabriela ancoSeptember 29, 2023William Kentridge

stir world : Shilpa Gupta and Marisa Merz redefine ways of seeing and feeling (by Urvi Kothari)

“The invisible is the outline and the depth of the visible," Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher. What is your take on their being a Western notion of seeing and an Eastern notion of feeling? Transcending long-established conventions, we stand in a day and age of re-exploring the proposition of the many ways of seeing. In an attempt to encourage a wave of deeper introspection on this topic, two worlds, two histories, and two eras meet for the exhibition visibleinvisible, curated within the Baroque rooms of Palazzo Ardinghelli at the famous MAXXI L'Aquila museum in city of L'Aquila, Italy. The exhibit celebrates two artists—Marisa Merz and Shilpa Gupta—born 50 years apart in two distinct places, Italy and India, respectively. Under the artistic direction of Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Fanny Borel, this art exhibition breathes new life into the idea of perspective and meaning-making.

gabriela ancoSeptember 25, 2023Shilpa Gupta

Time Out : Frieze Sculpture 2023 is the best outdoor art you’ll see this autumn (by Eddy Frankel)

You might think autumn would be a stupid time to open an outdoor sculpture exhibition. But that hasn’t stopped Frieze from returning to Regent’s Park once again with their annual outdoor sculpture extravaganza (from 20 September to 29 October) [...] Go get the beanies and brollies, we’re going arting. Moss has been big in art for a few years now, it’s a ubiquitous, damp trend that shows no signs of abating, especially now that Turkish artist Ayse Erkmen has whacked this big moss column up.

gabriela ancoSeptember 20, 2023Ayse Erkmen

Ocula : Chiharu Shiota, The Wall Behind the Windows at the König Gallery

For "The Wall Behind the Windows" (König Gallery, September 13 - November 11 2023), Chiharu Shiota has turned the former Chapel at St. Agnes into one of her intricately threaded sculptures, on a scale that fills every inch of the exhibition space. Rather than entering the space perambulatorily, Shiota has devised a way for the interaction itself with her work to reflect the nature of the objects that feature most prominently within it: windows

gabriela ancoSeptember 13, 2023Chiharu Shiota

Artdaily : Exhibition of Gerhard Richter's Overpainted Photographs opens in Dresden

The Overpainted Photographs are intimately linked to Richter’s artistic works. Every day, after working on his large-format paintings in his studio, Richter dragged the photographs through the wet paint left on his doctor blade. The result depended heavily on chance, and surprising new realities were formed. In 2017, Gerhard Richter announced his retirement from painting, and at the same time the end of his work on the Overpainted Photographs.

gabriela ancoSeptember 12, 2023Gerhard Richter

Zeit online : Berlin Art Week lockt mit Yoko Ono, Ai Weiwei oder Bisky

With the festival meeting point "BAW Garten," Berlin Art Week also attracts visitors to the countryside. Visitors can experience performances, talks, interventions, workshops and music at the Neue Nationalgalerie. A temporary artistic installation of trees along the iconic building provides the setting and puts the focus on sustainability. Artistically, director Klaus Biesenbach has another treat in store: with Yoko Ono's permission, the museum is allowed to show her 1964 performance "Cut Piece" every day.

gabriela ancoSeptember 11, 2023Yoko Ono

Papercity : William Kentridge Examines the Shadows of South Africa and Takes On Apartheid in a Powerful MFAH Exhibit : An Artist Who Understands Both Life and Art Are Full of Chaos (by Erica Schiche)

At times, it becomes almost easy to view South African multidisciplinary artist William Kentridge as an uber-smart, omniscient god-like figure. But the truth is, he is much more down-to-Earth. Kentridge is also an artist with a deep conscience. Through his work, he offers critiques of colonialism, capitalism, whitewashed history and, in the case of South Africa, Apartheid regimes and practices. His 100-year-old father, retired attorney Sir Sydney Kentridge, defended Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chief Albert Luthuli and activist Steve Biko’s family.

gabriela ancoSeptember 8, 2023William Kentridge

OI Canada : Shirin Neshat “I am a nomad, I am always looking for new challenges. Art is not propaganda"

“I do not feel like a traditional artist, I have never been able to keep up with big events: I get bored quickly, I am afraid of repeating myself, I always feel the need to take on new challenges, even at the cost of failure. And in the end I always find my way.” Shirin Neshat is in Venice on the occasion of the Venice Film Festival to receive the film Life of Imagination. Visual Arts Award, a new recognition of cinema, Giornate degli Autori and NABA, an award from the New Academy of Fine Arts to those filmmakers who have distinguished themselves in other artistic practices of vision.

gabriela ancoSeptember 5, 2023Shirin Neshat

ND. Aktuell : Die Wahrheit ist konkret (by Larissa Kunert)

Es war schon ein merkwürdiger Zufall. Ende März eröffnete die Gerhard-Richter-Dauerausstellung inklusive des »Birkenau«-Zyklus in der Berliner Neuen Nationalgalerie, nur wenige Wochen später eine Schau in der St.-Matthäus-Kirche gleich nebenan, die Gemälde zeigte, mit denen der Künstler Michael Müller Richters Werkreihe kritisch kommentiert. Davon, dass es zu dieser Zusammenführung kommen sollte, erfuhren Müller und wohl auch Richter erst im Vorbereitungsprozess.

gabriela ancoSeptember 3, 2023Gerhard Richter

Art net : Art World Why Did Yoko Ono’s Arboretum Art Installation in New York Shut Down Early? (by Katie White)

This week, the foundation Faurschou New York made the decision to shutter an installation of Yoko Ono’s work Ex It—an indoor arboretum of dogwood and evergreen trees planted in coffins—after four of the trees included in the work died. The installation had opened in April as a major part of the three-artist exhibition “Embrace the World from Within,” which also included works by artists Miles Greenberg and Louise Bourgeois.

gabriela ancoAugust 18, 2023Yoko Ono

Explore Liverpool : THE BLUECOAT ANNOUNCES YOKO ONO EVENT FOR HERITAGE OPEN DAYS

Liverpool city centre’s oldest building will hold a talk on the artist, plus a series of behind the scenes building tours and open studios. This September the Bluecoat will celebrate Heritage Open Days, England’s largest festival of history and culture, with a talk on the arts centre’s long relationship with iconic artist Yoko Ono. Responding to this year’s Heritage Open Days theme of ‘Unwrapping Creativity’, the Bluecoat’s Director of Cultural Legacies, Bryan Biggs, will explore both these events in a fascinating free talk. This will be illustrated by archival material including some relating to other events at the arts centre associated with Ono, such as Bed-In at the Bluecoat, 2010.

gabriela ancoAugust 17, 2023Yoko Ono

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