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Earth, Water and Fire
by Rebecca Catching
CHAN Dany, Peou Sam-An and Than Sok, Phe Sophon at French Cultural Center / Centre Culturel Francais
November 18th - November 21st
Posted
11/18/09
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There is something very endearing about collecting – gathering scraps of cloth, discarded bits of plastic and working them into something startling and new. Part of it is the ritual of gathering, and part of it is the phoenix-like transformation of the materials. The idea hunting and... [more]
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Meta House
by Rebecca Catching
Posted
11/18/09
This non-profit art space, run by filmmaker Nico Mesterharm, is another axis of activity in Phnom Penh. On any balmy evening you’ll find the patio crowded with artgoers who flock there to see the exciting program of locally produced and foreign documentaries and films. There is a distinct German bent – with funding from the Goethe institute – but a surprising amount of variety. Previously screened films include “The Wave” 2008 a German film about a teacher creates a false dictatorship in... [more]
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Homestyle Tinkerin'
by Matthew Dibble
50+ regional established artists at 1516 euclid Avenue
July 10th - July 12th
Posted
8/26/09
HOMESTYLE TINKERIN'
Ingenuity gathers the family around
by Michael Gill
Ingenuity organizer James Levin predicted that Ian Charnas' production Boltz — a campy mix of musical theater, dance and electrical tinkering presented by Case Western Reserve University — would be the iconic event that people remembered from Ingenuity 2009. Hopefully that's not true. The production's music and dance weren't badly realized, and the sustainability message was just about right for an after-school spe... [more]
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An Epic Exploration
by David Yu
Adel Abdessemed, Franz Ackermann, Angela Bulloch, Mircea Cantor, Cerith Wyn Evans, The Otolith Group, Henrik Håkansson, Antonia Hirsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ann Veronica Janssens, Kimsooja, Jed Lind, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Josiah McElheny, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Tania Mouraud, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Paci, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Fred Tomaselli, Keith Tyson at The Power Plant
June 12th - August 30th
Posted
8/15/09
I’ve been away from the Toronto art scene for a number of years and was looking forward to revisiting the city that served as backdrop to the cultivation of my love for contemporary art. What I miss most about the Toronto approach towards exhibiting work are the conceptually curated, neatly packaged exhibitions that stimulate.
The exhibition at The Power Plant, Universal Code, had me worried a bit. At first glance, the concept seemed too broad - a show designed for anything - ano... [more]
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Made in Canada
by David Yu
Marc Bell, Tasha Brotherton, Mark Delong, Barry Doupe, Shayne Ehman, Liz Garlicki, James Kirkpatrick, The Lions, Amy Lockhart, Jason McLean, Jennie O'Keefe, Seth Scriver, Peter Thompson at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)
June 27th - August 23rd
Posted
8/15/09
Pulp Fiction is a great exhibition that showcases a uniquely North American trend in art practice which sprung out of the 1990’s and continues on to this day. It arose out of the need for emerging Canadian talent to find spaces and networks in order to collaborate and create new work. Because of a lack of funding and available exhibition spaces, artists sought out like-minded others, self-organized exhibition spaces and created opportunity for themselves. This led to the development of a... [more]
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OPENING SPEECH BY KATALIN GELLER:
by Hungarian Multicultural Center Szechy
at HMC-Medosz
August 14th - September 13th
Posted
8/14/09
OPENING SPEECH BY KATALIN GELLER:
AIR/HMC, Balatonfured/Budapest, International Artists Residencies exhibition at
Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism
August 3 - September 13
When Beata Szechy's founded the Hungarian Multicultural Center in 1990, her goals were fostering culture, personal connections, and art related exchanges. At the beginning mostly American artists participated at the residencies. Now artists from all over from the world come to work here for few weeks and exhibit t... [more]
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The Big Questions
by Abraham Ritchie
Francis Alÿs, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Lygia Clark, Tony Conrad, Tacita Dean, Jason Dodge, Trisha Donnelly, Marcel Duchamp, Harold Edgerton, The Institute For Figuring, Ceal Floyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roger Hiorns, Douglas Huebler, Pierre Huyghe, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Christine Kozlov, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mark Manders, Kris Martin, Steve McQueen, Helen Mirra, Catherine Murphy, Bruce Nauman, Rivane Neuenschwander, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Ondák, Giuseppe Penone, Susan Philipsz, Anthony Phillips, Adrian Piper, Steven Pippin, Charles Ray, Tobias Rehberger, Hannah Rickards, Arthur Russell, Michael Sailstorfer, Roman Signer, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Mladen Stilinović, Sturtevant, Shomei Tomatsu at Walker Art Center
April 24th - September 27th
Posted
8/7/09
The theme of the Walker Art Center’s exhibition “The Quick and the Dead” got personal, quickly, when I observed that an On Kawara date painting near the entry was the same date as an uncle’s birthday. Made by Kawara to mark the passage of time, the ongoing series implies its own end in the artist’s death, just as birthdays imply to many of us that there are only so many left. This exhibition announces its’ intentions to examine The Big Questions of Life at the outset in th... [more]
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Great use of "Clean Color"
by Ernie Ferguson
nicholas byer at www.boundlessgallery.com
April 13th - April 13th
Posted
7/15/09
Your colors are so clean and vibrant, and this goes well with your obvious knowledge of expressing your art. Your work is a great example to those artists wishing to know color and value.......Wonderful [more]
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World on a String
by Rebecca Catching
Bestué /Vives, Jumana Emil Abboud, Georges Adéagbo, John Baldessari, Rosa Barba, Massimo Bartolini, Thomas Bayrle, Simone Berti, Mike Bouchet, André Cadere, Paul Chan, Nikhil Chopra, Moscow Poetry Club, Tony Conrad, Roberto Cuoghi, Keren Cytter, Gino de Dominicis, Nathalie Djurberg, Anju Dodiya, Elena Elagina, Cerith Wyn Evans, Öyvind Fahlström, Lara Favaretto, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, William Forsythe, Yona Friedman, sunil gawde, Gilbert & George, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sheela Gowda, Tamara Grcic, GUTAI, Guyton\Walker, Gonkar Gyatso, Anawana Haloba, Rachel Harrison, Jan Håfström, Carsten Höller, Florian Hecker, Susan Hefuna, Koo Jeong-A, Joan Jonas, Miranda July, Rachel Khedoori, Toba Khedoori, Moshekwa Langa, Sherrie Levine, Arto Lindsay, Renata Lucas, Goshka Macuga, Igor Makarevich, Gordon Matta-Clark, Cildo Meireles, Aleksandra Mir, Yoko Ono, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Blinky Palermo, Lygia Pape, Anna Parkina, Philippe Parreno, Pavel Pepperstein, Alessandro Pessoli, Falke Pisano, MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Att Poomtangon, Marjetica Potrc, Sara Ramo, Tobias Rehberger, Pietro Roccasalva, Tomas Saraceno, Amy Simon, Simon Starling, Xu Tan, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Grazia Toderi, Ulla von Brandenburg, Madelon Vriesendorp, Tian Tian Wang, Richard Wentworth, Pae White, Haegue Yang, Huang Yong Ping, Chu Yun, Héctor Zamora, Chen Zhen, Anya Zholud at La Biennale di Venezia
June 7th - November 22nd
Posted
7/13/09
Curator Daniel Birnbaum chose a clever theme in this year’s curated biennale exhibition. It has almost endless scope and he did a fairly good job of making sure that the artists fit the topic – even if that did sometimes mean equating “making installations” with “making worlds”. The art was generally of high quality, interactive, thought provoking and yes, even fun.The first and most entrancing work was Lydia Pape’s “Ttéia I, C. 2002” – a black void shot thr... [more]
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Collateral Damages
by Rebecca Catching
at La Biennale di Venezia
June 7th - November 22nd
Posted
7/13/09
The collateral events, like the pavilions, were a very mixed bag – it was like the biennale threw a party and everyone was invited – even those who should have been left off the guest list such as Liu Zhong (“In Praise of Nature”) and his traditional Chinese painting renditions of dull-eyed sheep – reportedly sponsored by the Chinese government. Many of the shows seemed to fall between the realms of completely irrelevant expressionist painting and poorly conceived conceptual art.T... [more]
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