Taking found imagery and film as a point of departure in her work, Marlo Pascual creates photo-based sculptures, installations, and images that employ strategies of artistic movements such as Conceptual Art, Surrealism, Minimalism, and Arte Povera. Re-examining the viewer’s relationship to the photograph, Pascual is interested in exposing an image’s active presence by playing with [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition, photography
Tagged: Casey Kaplan Gallery, installation, Marlo Pascual, New York, photography, solo exhibition
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- 24/01/2010 – 8:55 pm
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- By The Pandorian
Diemar/Noble Photography opens its doors to the critically acclaimed, prize-winning ‘Crazy God’ by Yvonne De Rosa. The project resulted from the photographer’s work as a volunteer during the 1990’s in an old psychiatric hospital in Southern Italy, whose name and location remains anonymous.
Several years after the asylum closed down, De Rosa returned to photograph the [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition, photography
Tagged: book, Crazy God, Diemar/Noble, photography, solo exhibition, Yvonne de Rosa
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- 20/01/2010 – 12:36 pm
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- By The Pandorian
Manifeste (installation): white boards mounted on poles, slide projection of writings photographed in public toilets, sound track of flushing water. Manifeste is a solo exhibition by Benjamin Sabatier.
Replacing the slogans usually paraded at street demonstrations, anonymous messages written in the intimacy of public restrooms are projected onto the boards, displacing private experience towards public space. [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition
Tagged: Anonymous, Benjamin Sabatier, demonstrations, graffiti, language, Manifeste, messages, Paris, pornographic, public toilets, scatological, solo exhibition, taboo, toilet
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- 08/11/2009 – 11:48 am
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- By The Pandorian
Acclaimed for her photographic and film installations, Sophie Calle’s work reports on encounters and situations that she sets in motion. Whether asking strangers to sleep in her bed, or inviting an author to take charge of her destiny, she documents social interactions that require a pact of complete trust. This exhibition brings together major works [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition
Tagged: Prenez soin de vous, solo exhibition, Sophie Calle, Take Care of Yourself, Talking to Strangers, The Bronx, Whitechapel Gallery
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- 04/11/2009 – 9:10 am
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- By The Pandorian
Daniel Holfeld’s debut solo exhibition, curated by Predrag Pajdic
see this man
know this man
embrace this man
pay this man
believe this man
belong to this man
love this man
fuck this man
…
Image: © Daniel Holfeld
Words: © Andrea Cev
As part of Belfast OUTBURST Queer Arts Festival
Opening on Friday 13 November 2009, 6.30 – 8.30
The exhibition runs until the 20th of November 2009
Drama [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition, queer culture
Tagged: Belfast, Daniel Holfeld, fables, man, OUTBurst, Predrag Pajdic, Queen's University, Queer Arts Festival, solo exhibition, Untold
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- 28/09/2009 – 12:28 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Images: © Maurizio Giuseppucci
From the solo exhibition Frames by Maurizio Giuseppucci
inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s (1912 – 2007)
Deserto Rosso (The Red Desert, 1964) and L’avventura (The Adventure, 1960).
Saint Filippo church, Fossombrone, Italy, Summer 2007.
Categories: contemporary art
Tagged: Antonioni, Deserto Rosso, Frames, L'avventura, Maurizio Giuseppucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, solo exhibition, The Adventure, The Red Desert
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- 16/09/2009 – 3:06 pm
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- By The Pandorian
Chisenhale Gallery presents The Meaning, a major solo exhibition by British artist Tariq Alvi. Working intuitively, recycling and re-contextualizing found printed matter from newspapers and magazine advertising, Alvi’s labour-intensive works present us with both disarmingly simple and complex aesthetic forms that reflect upon contemporary society.
Alvi presents a group of sculptures, paintings and collages that meditate [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition
Tagged: Chisenhale Gallery, solo exhibition, Tariq Alvi, The Meaning
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- 12/09/2009 – 9:36 am
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- By The Pandorian
Yvon Lambert Paris is pleased to announce The Waste Land, the second exhibition by Kendell Geers at the gallery.
T.S Eliot’s poem The Wasteland ( 1922) has much inspired Kendell Geers. A dark elegy Eliot’s The Wasteland is a revolutionary poem whose very form leaves the reader puzzled by changing register, subject, place and time, pushing [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition
Tagged: Kendell Geers, Paris, solo exhibition, T.S. Eliot, The Devil You Know, The Waste Land, The Wasteland, Yvon Lambert
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- 11/09/2009 – 11:25 am
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- By The Pandorian
London-based Israeli artist Smadar Dreyfus is interested in how meaning is both created and reconstructed at the intersection of the aural and the visual. She has separated image and sound in several of her works in order to present different perspectives on the same scene.
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is pleased to present Dreyfus’ first exhibition [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition
Tagged: Magasin 3, Mother's Day, Smadar Dreyfus, solo exhibition, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden, Tessa Praun
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- 08/09/2009 – 12:58 pm
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- By The Pandorian
Bonniers Konsthall opens its autumn season with magical memories and classical illusions. The French artist Aurélien Froment is showing the video installation Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) and the performance Le chiffre à la letter (Code Countdown).
Aurélien Froment works with pictures, objects and symbols. He playfully speculates about how things are given meaning by means [...]
Categories: contemporary art, exhibition, performance
Tagged: Aurélien Froment, Bonniers Konsthall, Code Countdown, Le chiffre à la letter, Pocket Theatre, solo exhibition, Sweden, Théâtre de Poche
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- 29/08/2009 – 1:38 pm
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- By The Pandorian