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Special Edition: ARCO Madrid
by ArtSlant Team
Posted
2/27/12
ARTSLANT'S SPECIAL EDITION
ARCO Madrid 2012
In Madrid. with the ArtSlant Team
The Prado. The Reina Sofía. The Thyssen. From Guernica to Goya, the Spanish capital possesses unimaginable artistic treasures. Add to that the leisurely tapas bars and all-night parties, Madrid’s the perfect spot to indulge in cultural and sensory overload. For one week in February, the crowds of international dealers, collectors, and art-lovers arrive in Madrid to do just that. Oh, and also to buy and sell some... [more]
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Fairs are Great and Everything, But If You're in Madrid, These Are Probably Better.
by Andrew Berardini
Gregor Schneider at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
October 28th, 2011 - February 26th, 2012
Posted
2/16/12
So you're probably there, in Madrid, for the art fair. You quite possibly live there already with a rich and fulfilling cultural life in the Spanish capital, eating lots of tapas and various parts of pigs (like Jamon Jamon Lays potato chips, so porkful in Spain they have to say it twice). But it's likely if you're reading this, it's because of ARCO, one of the grand old art fairs and one of the most important dates in the Spanish art calendar. The fair is a monster. The professional days are pr... [more]
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In Madrid with the ArtSlant Team
by Natalie Hegert
at ARCO Madrid
February 15th, 2012 - February 19th, 2012
Posted
2/15/12
The Prado. The Reina Sofía. The Thyssen. From Guernica to Goya, the Spanish capital possesses unimaginable artistic treasures. Add to that the leisurely tapas bars and all-night parties, Madrid’s the perfect spot to indulge in cultural and sensory overload. For one week in February, the crowds of international dealers, collectors, and art-lovers arrive in Madrid to do just that. Oh, and also to buy and sell some art.
ARCO Madrid is a massive affair: over 200 galleries from nearly thirty countr... [more]
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Animal Welfare
by Jacquelyn Davis
Annika Larsson at Andréhn-Schiptjenko
January 12th, 2012 - February 12th, 2012
Posted
2/7/12
Annika Larsson's fourth exhibition at a gallery located in what Stockholm refers to as their “art palace” in Vasastan, ANIMAL is a curious display focusing on the rapport between the human and animal from multiple angles: anthropological, psychological, theoretical, political—to name a few. More specifically, this show focuses on the philosophical concept of the human as yet another evolving species in flux and becoming.
Stories between and among the animal and human (ranging from real to s... [more]
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Polaris Series 17: Christian Saldert
by Jacquelyn Davis
Posted
2/7/12
Only a little by way of explanation is provided about the artist Christian Saldert on his site or on Galleri Kleerup's site representing him or his recent digital-poetic solo exhibition “Bodies of the Unreal” inspired by found, appropriated web images of American nudists from the mid-twentieth century.
Influenced by pop art and an avant-garde collage aesthetic, Saldert’s work stands alone in their own Scandinavian terrain of beauty—mysterious, detached from a world known to most: a su... [more]
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by Devon Caranicas
Fabio Morais at Galeria Vermelho
January 24th, 2012 - February 18th, 2012
Posted
1/29/12
Touching on notions of technological reproducibility, photographic malleability and subjective interpretations, Fabio Morais' two-story solo show at São Paulo's Vermelho gallery is an inquiry into the construction of personal knowledge. The Brazilian artist has placed, duplicated and grouped visually nostalgic and historically dated educational material throughout the exhibition space. Dating from the 1960s and 70s, Morais' choice of text, image and objects range from the intimate (a grouping of postc... [more]
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Looking Back at Looking Back
by Aaron Carpenter
Corin Sworn at Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery
November 18th, 2011 - January 15th, 2012
Posted
1/24/12
Corin Sworn’s Endless Renovation is being packed up and shipped off to its next destination, I don’t know where that is. Its fragile elements; a few slide projectors, some vases, lanky shelving and drapes as well as a curious synchronizing device known as ‘The Nugget’ have been carefully placed into crates, labeled and rolled into white vans by young men. The gallery space that situated it returns briefly to its neutral state, before the next artist's uncompromising vision is manifested upo... [more]
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Gray Pride
by Aaron Carpenter
Neil Wedman at Equinox Gallery
January 7th, 2012 - February 4th, 2012
Posted
1/24/12
Casual discussions with painters can often veer into strangely specific considerations regarding color. An easel-owning, brush-wielding acquaintance of mine once spent ten minutes relating his anxieties about Tyrian purple. He had been forced, of his own volition, to banish it from the studio because its use had ultimately become a ‘cheap high’; for him, the royal hue had become a crutch, an easy solution to his chromatic inquisitions. Another local painter brazenly announced to me the disc... [more]
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Christina of Sweden
by Jacquelyn Davis
Helen Broms Sandberg at Kulturhuset
November 4th, 2011 - January 22nd, 2012
Posted
1/10/12
A dual video projection displaying the fantastical world of Queen Christina Alexandra (1626-1689) as imagined by a confined writer who suffers from amnesia is coupled with an unhindered view into this same writer's personal, imprisoned space. Helen Broms Sandberg's Unlocking Passages proves more gripping than the more standard photography exhibitions that the Kulturhuset often safely exhibits to placate both local and incoming masses. The convoluted life of this queen is a justifiable topic of historic... [more]
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The Polaris Series 16: Liisa Lounila
by Jacquelyn Davis
Posted
1/10/12
Finnish artist Liisa Lounila (b. 1976) produces art ranging from oil paintings to moving images to textual explorations to sculpture. Further, she uses glitter to create large-scale images (solo, triptychs, series of multiples) which are primarily black and white with shades of grey—with one exception being Vandal, 2003, which incorporates red. There is a recurring glitz, glamour and bling aesthetic in her recent works (e.g. Two Sugars Would Be Great, 2011 and Stargazing, 2011). The first displays two... [more]
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Exactly Five Things from Farflung Places Seen in 2011
by Andrew Berardini
Posted
1/3/12
1: The Lonesomest Moai in Los Angeles
On top of a hill in Glendale, there's a cemetery special in the world, not only because it inspired Evelyn Waugh to pen a comic novel about it ("The Loved Ones") but because it has turned the theater of death into a distinctly California creation. Besides the largest painting mounted on canvas in the world with its own mock-church viewing theater and sundry themed stretches of plots, there is a museum hosting a coterie of odd, disparate objects all arranged w... [more]
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A Year in Art-cum-Movie Poster Quotes
by Andrew Berardini
Posted
12/27/11
Art critics are never quite shilled in the same way as critics for other avenues of culture. Yes, our reviews likely get listed on CVs and not read, adding some vague imprimatur to an artist's career that might help move some product, but we're never exploited in quite the same way, as say, the movie critic, whose thoughtful well-composed reviews (okay not always) get diced into a few words to grace a promotional poster. Oh, if only some art critic (someone from October would be nice, or Texte Zur Kunst ... [more]
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Portable Objects from Southeast Los Angeles
by Andrew Berardini
at Cleveland Museum of Art
April 16th, 2011 - February 26th, 2012
Posted
12/19/11
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LighterAngeleno people, North AmericaPlastic, metalPrivate Collection
The lighter’s considerable wear and tear is an obvious sign of intense use. Often, as a result of continuous handling, the translucency of the lighter darkens over time and receives a deep, glossy patina through scratching associated with overuse. Lighters were frequently acquired at local locations by its original owner or as gifts to maintain harmonious family or kinship ties. As prized daily possessions, lighters... [more]
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These Are Not To Be Toyed
by Jessica Powers
Matt Browning, Klara Glosova, Wynne Greenwood, Jason Hirata, Britta Johnson, Rumi Koshino, Amanda Manitach, Hanita Schwartz, Mike Simi, Ian Toms, Brad Winchester at Soil Art Gallery
November 30th, 2011 - December 23rd, 2011
Posted
12/13/11
Even the most “electronically enlightened” among the gallery world typically top out at straight-faced promotion or very slightly tongue-in-cheek use of mainstream web-marketing techniques that end up feeling even cheaper when they try to sell you art rather than say, a real product. It is for this reason that I commend Klara Glosova and SOIL gallery for the actually convincing way that they chose to advertise their current show; 11 Most Dangerous Toys of 2011. W.A.T.C.H. (World Against To... [more]
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Preservation Hall
by Jessica Powers
Theaster Gates at Seattle Art Museum
December 9th, 2011 - July 1st, 2012
Posted
12/13/11
Last Thursday, I attended the opening of Theaster Gates' new project at the Seattle Art Museum, The Listening Room, not quite knowing what to expect. As the recipient of the Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship for 2011-2012, Gates was given a room in the museum, a cash prize, and a mandate to pursue his practice however he saw fit. Gates is interdisciplinary enough that anything might be possible. In the past his work has used urban planning, community organizing, architecture, music, performanc... [more]
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Staging
by Aaron Carpenter
Guy de Cointet, Geoffrey Farmer, Janice Kerbel, Daria Martin, JUDY RADUL, Ulla von Brandenburg at Catriona Jeffries Gallery
October 28th, 2011 - December 3rd, 2011
Posted
12/7/11
I had a lot of questions going into this exhibition, and I mean that quite literally. How should I walk? Where do I stand? What do I look at? How do I act? Opting for immediate retreat I bolted for the dark confines of the film theatre to view Daria Martin’s Minotaur, 2006, a short film featuring choreographer Anna Halprin’s interpretation of Rodin’s same-named sculpture. The pair of grappling dancers serpentine through the robustly erotic allegory. (A note: this film was scored by electron... [more]
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