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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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Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture
by Rebecca Catching
Posted
11/18/09
Though thoughts of Cambodia and art most often lead to images of 12th century moss-encrusted temple carvings, Cambodia in fact, has a very interesting emerging contemporary art scene. Phnom Penh boasts a growing number of galleries and spaces such as Metahouse (see flavor pic), the French Cultural Center and Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture. Sadly there is still scant funding for the arts and many young artist survive on less than 100$ a month. But scant funds breed a certain resourcefulness an... [more]
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Even in his Youth
by Erik Wenzel
Skylar Fein at New Orleans Museum of Art
September 12th - January 3rd, 2010
Posted
11/2/09
Skylar Fein was the breakout success of the first iteration of New Orleans’ biennial Prospect.1. Fein, who grew up in New York but arrived in New Orleans in 2005, came to prominence through his installation “Remember the Upstairs Lounge.” The piece was an exhaustive historicized installation of the tragic fire that killed many patrons at a famous French Quarter gay bar.
For his current exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Fein looks at youth culture, particularly th... [more]
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A Journey Through The karoo
by Michael Drysdale
Michael Drysdale, Scats Esterhuise, Louis Hiemstra, Philip Kiberd at Flat Stanley's
October 22nd - October 24th
Posted
10/20/09
This is a must see exhibition, by celebrated artists who have captured the heart and soul of the Great Karoo, with it's endless landscapes and mysteries of the arid areas. [more]
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Exciting Survey of Tris Vonna Michell
by Abhilasha Singh
Tris Vonna Michell at Tensta Konsthall (Tensta Centre of Contemporary Art)
October 10th - January 23rd, 2010
Posted
10/19/09
Tensta Konsthall is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Tris Vonna-Michell.
Tris Vonna-Michell, was born in 1982 in Rochford and raised in Southend-on-Sea in England, and lives and works in London and Berlin. His extraordinary performances and installations have received considerable critical acclaim and he was recently selected by two of Artforum’s critics Suzan Cotter and Matthew Higgs as one of the top ten highlights in art in 2008. Vonna-Michell has had solo exhibitions at X Initia... [more]
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What Is Contemporary Family?
by Abhilasha Singh
Tatiana Antoshina, Catti Brandelius, Anna-Karin Brus, Natasha Dahnberg, Per Enoksson, Marina Fomenko, Agneta Forslund, Taisia Korotkova, Maria Krasnova-Shabaeva, Anders Krisár, Nika Kukhtina, Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf, Helena Laukkanen, Vladimir Mishukov, Roland Persson, Alexander Pogorgelsky, Maria Pogorzhelskaia, Nina Svensson, Johan Thurfjell, Knutte Wester, Natalia Zintsova, Katarina Sundkvist Zohari at Moscow Museum of Modern Art [25 Petrovka]
September 27th - October 25th
Posted
10/12/09
The idiom «Swedish family» makes people in Russia smile ambiguously. When Swedes get to know the connotation that the idiom has in the eastern neighbor’s language, they are very surprised and try to find an explanation.
At first, the idea of the exhibition has appeared as a joke during the joint exhibitions of the artists of both countries. Only later it has become clear that the theme of the family, be it Russian or Swedish, is characteristic of many artists’ oeuv... [more]
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Chinese History and Contemporary Society
by Abhilasha Singh
Ai Weiwei at Galleri Faurschou(Beijing)
September 5th - December 20th
Posted
10/5/09
Politically frank and aesthetically poignant, Ai Weiwei’s works deal with Chinese history and contemporary society. His formal practice changes in form and the materials deployed according to the diversity of activities his art embraces. Influenced from his early career by Dada, Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei’s works have been based on a conceptual approach – on installation and sculpture.The socio-political and economic climate of contemporary China most often serv... [more]
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A Kind of Domestic Fantasy
by Abhilasha Singh
Pipilotti Rist at Hauser & Wirth Zürich
August 29th - October 17th
Posted
9/14/09
Pipilotti Rist will create a kind of domestic fantasy for her exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich. The ground floor galleries will be transformed by the artist into her dream living room - a space whose walls, floors and furnishings are alive with images. Rist's video installations take many guises. She has likened them in the past to handbags, ‘because there is room in them for everything: painting, technology, language, music, lousy flowing pictures, poetry, commotion, premonitio... [more]
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Gordon and Antagonisms
by Abhilasha Singh
Douglas Gordon at Galerie Eva Presenhuber
August 29th - October 31st
Posted
9/14/09
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to open its 2009 fall season with a solo exhibition by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. He will be presenting “24 hour psycho back and forth and to and fro”, a video installation projected on two large-format screens, as well as “Looking down with his black, black, ee”, a film shown on three monitors.In his oeuvre, Douglas Gordon explores antagonisms such as dread and temptation, death and life, innocence and guilt. This may be expressed, as in ... [more]
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