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e-flux : Annoucements "Chiharu Shiota: Everyone, a Universe", Fundació Antoni Tàpies

The exhibition Chiharu Shiota. Everyone, a Universe" (March 22–June 23, 2024) is curated by Imma Prieto, Fundació Antoni Tàpies’ Director. The work of Chiharu Shiota breathes a universality that appeals to the hearts and minds of people of different generations, and from distant geographical locations; the massive scale of her works inviting the viewer to be part of this immersive experience. The artist succeeds in making presence evident in absence, like life and death. She is inspired by memory, trauma and uncertainty; concerns that are shared by all humans. [...]The project is completed with several activities addressed to the general public and families, together with the educational programme, especially an inaugural conversation with the artist and the Memory and trauma seminar with the Fundación Rādika, as well as other unique experiences, within the framework of the Tàpies’ Centenary Year. The aim is to further the knowledge of the work and thought of Antoni Tàpies, contribute to updating the reading of his work and create new ways of looking at his legacy.

gabriela ancoMarch 22, 2024Chiharu Shiota

Asia Society : Shirin Neshat's Land of Dreams: Screening and Conversation

Award-winning artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat returns to Asia Society for the screening of Land of Dreams. Described by the filmmaker as one of her most personal works so far (Variety Magazine), the film follows Simin, an Iranian immigrant who works for the United States Census Bureau, on a journey to record citizens' dreams. The film was directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, and stars Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon, William Moseley, Isabella Rossellini, and Anna Gunn, among many others. The film will be shown on March 19 during Asia Week 2024, and will be followed by a discussion with the artist.

gabriela ancoMarch 17, 2024Shirin Neshat

The Art Newspaper : The Big Review: Yoko Ono at Tate Modern, London ★★★★ (by Brian Dillon)

The exhibition "Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" ( Tate Modern, until September 2024)—the title is derived from her concerts in London and Liverpool, in 1966 and 1967—opens with works that seem to rely on Ono’s central presence and laconic persona. In Eye Blink (Fluxfilm No. 15) (1966), the artist’s left eye shuts and opens in a black-and-white, slow-motion close-up. There is just enough facial information to recognise her and imagine you are looking, for two minutes and 40 seconds, at something akin to Andy Warhol’s Screen Test film portraits, begun a couple of years earlier. A staring contest, in other words, between subject and medium, a test of self-possession and charisma.

gabriela ancoMarch 15, 2024Yoko Ono

Brooklyn Rail : Gerhard Richter: Endgadin (by Patricia Lewy)

Gerhard Richter: Endgadin at Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, documents Richter’s ongoing fascination with the Swiss Alpine Engadin surrounding the village of Sils Maria and the Fex Valley (Val Fex) in more than sixty overpainted photographs (Übermalungen), together with paintings and works on paper, drawn from a quarter century (1989–2018) of repeated visits to the region. Supplemented by complementary exhibitions at the Segantini Museum (St. Moritz) and the Nietzsche-Haus (Sil Maria), this show reveals how Richter mines the pictorial possibilities offered by overlaying abstract gestural swipes, drips, and smears on small format, commercially developed snapshots of the region. Ultimately, what might appear as transgressive acts of defacement transform private memories into indelible public revelations.

gabriela ancoMarch 13, 2024Gerhard Richter

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

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

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