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Art Net : A New William Kentridge Video Exhibition Is Planned for Venice (by Jo Lawson-Tancred)

The South African artist William Kentridge will debut his latest work, "Self-Portrait As a Coffee Pot", at the Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation in Venice from April 17 through November 24, 2024. The new conceptual series of nine 30-minute videos was produced in the artist’s Johannesburg studio between 2020 and 2023 and explores how we make and experience art in the digital age. “Filming began in the first lockdown and the studio mimicked the closed spaces of Covid,” Kentridge explained in a press statement. “But the studio is also an enlarged head, a chamber for thoughts and reflections, where all the drawings, photos, detritus on the walls become these thoughts.”

gabriela ancoMarch 12, 2024William Kentridge

Art news : William Kentridge Joins Hauser & Wirth, Departing Longtime Dealer Marian Goodman (by Sarah Douglas)

William Kentridge, one of South Africa’s most celebrated artists, has signed with mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, which has 19 locations around the world. Kentridge’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth is planned for next year in one of the gallery’s New York spaces. "I am excited to begin the next chapter, working with my existing galleries Goodman Gallery and Galleria Lia Rumma in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth", said the artist.

gabriela ancoMarch 7, 2024William Kentridge

Dresden Magazin : Gerhard Richters Wandgemälde „Lebensfreude“ (by Susanne Peter)

„Lebensfreude“ lautet der Titel der 63 Quadratmeter großen Arbeit des Ausnahmekünstlers Gerhard Richter, die dort in Teilen freigelegt wird. Die 1956 entstandene Diplomarbeit des Malers zeigt verschiedene Figurengruppen in unterschiedlichen Alltags- und Freizeitszenen. [...] Kaum ein Besucher wusste, was sich hinter der nüchternen weißen Wand im Treppenhausfoyer des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums verbirgt: Ein „echter“ Gerhard Richter, ein monumentales Frühwerk des weltberühmten Künstlers mit den Dresdner Wurzeln. 1979 wurde es überstrichen und geriet nahezu in Vergessenheit. Jetzt wird es im Rahmen einer Schaurestaurierung teilweise freigelegt. Das einzigartige Zeitdokument gelangt damit wieder in die Öffentlichkeit.

gabriela ancoMarch 5, 2024Gerhard Richter

Kulturvision : Gerhard Richter am Tegernsee (by Ines Wagner)

Beim Soft Opening von „Gerhard Richter. Werk im Plural. Aus der Sammlung Olbricht“ (3. März - 28. Juli 2024) am Sonntag im Olaf Gulbransson Museum Tegernsee standen die Besucherinnen und Besucher Schlange. [...] Aus den lückenlosen 187 Editionen und Multiples Gerhard Richters von 1965 bis 2023 sowie zahlreichen Originalen konzipierte der Sammler mithilfe seiner Kuratorin Sarah Sonderkamp die Ausstellung für das Olaf Gulbransson Museum. Insgesamt 88 Offsetdrucke, Künstlerbücher, Tapisserien, übermalte Schallplatten und überrakelte Fotografien mit Unikatcharakter zeugen in den nächsten Monaten in Tegernsee vom extensiven Schaffen des Künstlers.

gabriela ancoMarch 5, 2024Gerhard Richter

Far out magazine : Teacher, Not Muse: Tate Modern’s Yoko Ono ‘Music Of The Mind’ (by Lucy Harbron)

Too often reduced to being merely a muse to his career, it’s clear that Yoko Ono was, in fact, the master, doubtlessly inspiring The Beatles and Lennon’s deeper dive into experimentation as she brought her avant-garde experience and vastly creative brain into their realm. [...] Throughout "Music Of The Mind" (until 1st september, 2024), the Tate turns those voices down to turn the sound of Ono’s own remarkable and expansive career up. [...] Tate’s efforts feel like a vital redirection and rebalancing of Ono’s history. As they highlight her collaborations with the likes of John Cage, they spotlight her place in the exciting sect of avant-garde artists who used sound as a canvas.

gabriela ancoMarch 4, 2024Yoko Ono

Mutual Art : Kiki Smith, Woven Worlds

The Kiki Smith's exhibition "Woven Worlds" (Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Feb 21 - Oct 20 2024), organized in close collaboration with the artist, brings together approximately 50 works, central among them her large-format, woven wall tapestries. This series displays plants and animals, celestial entities and bodies of water, as well as Adam and Eve as biblical archetypes, interwoven into a narrative that draws upon the Story of Creation. With great urgency and poetic clarity, these strikingly designed multicolored tapestries – with silver threads, hand-painted, and finished with gold leaf – unite timeless validity with our immediate present.

gabriela ancoMarch 1, 2024Kiki Smith

Brown edu : South African artist William Kentridge and collaborators share innovative artmaking approach at Brown (by Jenna Pelletier)

Through a dynamic, multi-part residency with the Brown Arts Institute through mid-June, William Kentridge and artists from his Johannesburg-based arts incubator are engaging with the University community and beyond. [...] Kentridge applies that ethos to artmaking at the Centre for the Less Good Idea, a Johannesburg-based arts organization that he co-founded with fellow artist Bronwyn Lace in 2016 as an incubator for experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary performance projects. [...] “With this residency, we are interested in seeing if the way we work — a reliance on being open to what emerges in the process of rehearsal, among other things — resonates further than Johannesburg,” Kentridge said.

gabriela ancoMarch 1, 2024William Kentridge

Mutual Art : Kiki Smith: Sometimes

Kiki Smith’s seventh solo exhibition at Krakow Witkin Gallery began as a way to present the artist’s largest editioned print, “Wooden Moon.” [...] Throughout the show, through drawing, photography, sculpture, and print, the artist’s mastery of processes, historic and contemporary representations of imagery, a deep and vast appreciation for that which surrounds us (in both space and time), as well as a commitment to personal vision all provide an opportunity for appreciation, exploration, and reflection.

gabriela ancoMarch 1, 2024Kiki Smith

e - flux Journal : A Soviet Engineer of Eternal Life (by Arseny Zhilyaev)

“Stars suddenly floated, the earth shrank terribly, and I felt myself uncertain on the surface of this small ball. I saw that space was coming up from behind me, together with my planet, and my brain began to explode from horror.” said Ilya Kabakov. The same experience of cosmic horror is essential to the medium of total installation, with which the Kabakov name is so closely associated. Methodologically speaking, it might be said that all of the Ilya and Emilia Kabkov's duo’s installations are in some way or another connected with a special structured experience of space, echoing the transformations of the starry sky. But there is one installation in which the sky also becomes the center of gravity. We are talking about perhaps their most famous installation, "The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment", first shown in the Kabakovs’ Moscow studio in 1985.

gabriela ancoFebruary 27, 2024Ilya&Emilia Kabakov

Harper's Bazaar : The people vs Yoko Ono: Why has the ground-breaking artist been disliked for so long? (by Ella Alexander)

As a blockbuster Tate Modern exhibition on her opens, we celebrate Yoko Ono and explore why she's never been given a fair trial “Yoko Ono is such a versatile artist and has worked in so many different ways to convey her message,” says Juliet Bingham, co-curator of Tate Modern’s "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" (15 February - 2 November at Tate Modern).“One of the things the show tries to do is honour all the different strands of her métier – participatory work, her conceptual pieces and art designed to stimulate the imagination of the viewer. Yoko upended the relationship between the artist and the audience.”

gabriela ancoFebruary 24, 2024Yoko Ono

Fad magazine : THE IFPDA PRINT FAIR 2024 – HIGHLIGHTS (by Mark Westall)

The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair opens to the public tomorrow⁠

February 16th running through to 18th, 2024 (VIPs 15th February). [...] German gallerist Mike Karstens will offer works by Shilpa Gupta, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Gerhard Richter, Kiki Smith, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Rosemarie Trockel in a limited edition portfolio published by Art-19 to benefit Amnesty International. The name Art 19 comes from an abbreviation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression”. The artists are contributing 100% of their fees to the cause and Kiki Smith and Emilia Kabakov will be presenting a public program at the fair on Sunday, February 17th at noon.

gabriela ancoFebruary 16, 2024ifpda

Design boom : TATE MODERN PRESENTS YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND

From February 15th to September 1st, 2024, Tate Modern presents UK’s largest exhibition celebrating the influential work of artist and activist Yoko Ono, spanning seven decades of her multidisciplinary practice. Titled YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND, the show features over 200 works, including installations, films, music, and photography, highlighting Ono’s radical approach to language, art, and participation. Ono’s art revolves around ideas expressed in poetic, humorous, and profound ways. The exhibition delves into her role in experimental avant-garde circles in New York and Tokyo, focusing on her ‘instruction pieces,’ which encourage visitors to imagine, experience, or complete the work.

gabriela ancoFebruary 15, 2024Yoko Ono

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