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May 2013
Never Odd Or Even @ Carroll / Fletcher – London
Thomson & Craighead, two of the UK artists who've most experimented and mixed Internet art for the past 2 decades are coming to Carroll / Fletcher again, this time for a survey exhibition bringing together a range of new and recent works. Interested in how information about the world is filtered through the prism of the world wide web, and other forms of information technology, Thomson & Craighead play with this data to create works that ask fundamental questions about what it is…
Find out more »Phantom Home @ Jeu de Paume, Paris
The photographic work of Ahlam Shibli (Palestine, 1970) addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home. The work deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on the individuals and groups marked by repressive identity politics. Examples of places where the problematic is encountered include the occupied Palestinian areas; monuments that commemorate members of the French Resistance against the Nazis together with French…
Find out more »June 2013
These Foolish Things @ Space station 65, London
Camp, extremely camp or simply politically offensively camp (or the whole opposite), David Shenton's cartoons have been appearing locally and internationally for quite a few decades... Gay News, Capital Gay, Positive Nation... to The Guardian or his very own DS comics. David Shenton - Bananas Are Not The Only Fruit (via DS) These days Shenton's cartoons can be found on Facebook where Been There, Seen That lets us glimpse scenes observed by the artist at meetings, marches, events, and in…
Find out more »Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures @ Blain Southern
London´s Blain|Southern gallery & Bill Viola have a good track of successful collaborations, and for their latest production the American video artist is bringing nine new works to the central gallery in "Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures". Bill Viola The Dreamers (detail) 2013, Video-Sound Installation Photo by Kira Perov (courtesy of Blain Southern) Created between 2012 and 2013, both on location and in the artist’s studio in Southern California, the exhibition presents three distinct bodies of works; the Frustrated Actions,…
Find out more »Still Life @ Daniel Templon
American grotesque & fabulous photographer David LaChapelle is about to present 2 new series of his latest works next week in Paris for the first time: Still Life, and Last Supper. Still Life - Michael Jackson 01, 2009-2012 Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris World-renowned for his fashion photography and flamboyantly baroque portraits of celebrities, David LaChapelle proposes this time @ Galerie Daniel Templon a new approach that bears witness to his interest in the underside of the…
Find out more »PHotoEspaña 2013 – Madrid
Our favorite annual European photographic festival hast just started... PHotoEspaña 2013, 16th edition of the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts is taking place until the end of July. Shirin Neshat - Divine Rebellion, 2012 - Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussel © Shirin Neshat 2013 will see 74 exhibitions with works by 328 artists from 42 countries and an ample selection of public and professional activities. Lanzarote, Zaragoza and Prague are added to Madrid, Cuenca, Alcalá de…
Find out more »Psycho Nacirema @ Pace London
Having opened a couple of weeks ago, Pace´s latest exhibition "Psycho Nacirema" presents itself as one of the most attractive proposals for this first part of the summer in central London. James Franco - Psycho Nacirema - Installation view (courtesy of Pace London) P.N., Franco’s first major exhibition in the UK presented by the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon presents a mise-en-scène of director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, remodelling the infamous Bates Motel where the intrigue of the film takes…
Find out more »Say Watt? @ La Gaîté Lyrique
The Gaîté Lyrique´s summery expo this year gravitates around sound... sound systems to be more precise. "Say Whatt?" pays tribute to the sound system, portable audio systems, mobile discos... The invention of this form of musical expression came from the streets. From raves in Europe to demonstrations from Kingston to Belem, from France to Columbia by way of Kenya and the huge K7 sound players favored by rappers, the amplified sound of sound systems has been the common ground among…
Find out more »Charles Avery – It Means It Means! – Gallery Perrotin
Kicking off the summer with a group exhibition in the Parisian centre, starting this weekend ‘It Means It Means!’ proposes a drawn group expo which will be staged in 2 locations simultaneously, once as a fiction, once as a fact. The first location is the Museum of Art Onomatopoeia on ‘The Island’, a fictional realm that has provided the backdrop to Charles Avery’s artistic and philosophical investigations since 2005. The second location is Galerie Perrotin, Paris. Charles Avery, “Untitled (It Means…
Find out more »July 2013
The Birth of Cinema…and Beyond @ Rosenfeld Porcini
Central London gallery Rosenfeld Porcini is proposing a summer expo willing to explore the way in which an idea of a virtual cinema existed in people’s imaginations before the invention of the medium itself. Robert Muntean, Everest, 2013 (Courtesy of Rosenfeld Porcini) The Birth of Cinema…and Beyond presents a themed exhibition presenting mixedmedia works by old master and contemporary artists. Works which will be juxtaposed in an attempt to explore how narrative approaches have altered with the change in societies…
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