La Grande Bouffe
Harry Lime, the cynical and diabolical character played by Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949), would have never imagined…
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Circle the Wagons
Laura Mclean-Ferris: To begin this discussion about pastoralism, I’d like to ask about your most recent body of work, which…
Art & Language
Although it may be difficult or even unfair to make a true assessment of the real extent of Art & Language’s…
Franz Erhard Walther
I have always felt fortunate to have come of age as an artist during the early ’70s (turning 20 in…
Keith Sonnier. Light and space
Keith Sonnier is one of the first artists who worked with light as a sculptural material. In the late ’60s, he started experimenting with a combinations of incandescent light fixtures, neon tubes and other materials to explore the diffusion of light through various materials and the surrounding architectural space.
After the Deluge
The waters in Piazza San Marco were rising the night of the official Venice Biennale opening, causing a mini flood…
Notes on Venice Biennale
A tale of a Nose Everyone talks of the high life, money, carousing and non-stop parties of Venice. I love…
Is There a Lot to Understand?
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colorists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire In an interview published in March 2011…
The Scottish Connection
Figurative painting in Britain over the past two decades is a story of fragmentation, of individual accomplishment that has never…
Remembering Okwui Enwezor: Intense Proximity Triennial, a conversation with Rahma Khazam
Rahma Khazam: “Intense Proximity” is the title of the triennial you are curating at Palais de Tokyo and other venues,…
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
There have always been artists who required us to do extra homework to be ready for the full intellectual effect…
Matthew Day Jackson
Nathalie du Pasquier
Molto grigio con blu is one of a series of paintings done between 2001 and 2003 that mainly depicts glass…
Painting It, Touching It
The paintings of Leidy Churchman (b. 1979, US; lives in New York), Van Hanos (b. 1979, US; lives in New…
Wang Xingwei
One day in 2009 Wang Xingwei (b. 1969, China; lives in Beijing) was leaving the pigment shop at the gate…
Blinds and Mirrors
Manifold intentions define portraiture in painting today: to interrogate the portrait’s capacity to frame the dynamics of identity construction and…