Katarzyna Kozyra: Casting
“Casting,” Katarzyna Kozyra’s Warsaw solo show presented at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, is not a comprehensive retrospective, as…
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Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception
Originally posted in Flash Art International no. 277 March – April 2011 “A Story of Deception” is the first major…
Keeping It Real: Material Intelligence
A vast colony of ants is devouring the world. They make quick work of it. Britain doesn’t stand a chance,…
Rudolf Stingel
Over the course of more than two decades Rudolf Stingel has brought to the fore an approach to painting that…
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work
It was then that she summoned the spirits. In 1965 the English-born Bridget Riley broke from the traditions of painting,…
Marisa Merz
Very few exhibitions adequately follow Mies van der Rohe’s famous motto: “less is more.” But that statement perfectly describes Marisa…
Matthew Barney: Djed
The artworks featured in “Djed,” Matthew Barney’s most recent show at Gladstone, could easily be mistaken for archaeological finds. On…
Maurizio Cattelan: All
Today’s world is not only about ideas. And that may be why Maurizio Cattelan, whose work has always consisted of…
La Carte D'Après Nature
With this intricately interwoven effort, Thomas Demand has raised the bar on curatorial practice to a level at which the…
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
With works occupying eight rooms and featuring the exterior of the recently developed Mathaf, Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in…
The Collectors Show: Chimera
“The Collectors Show: Chimera” at the Singapore Art Museum, comprising 28 contemporary works by 18 Asian artists from private collections,…
We Are Beautiful
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 284 May-June 2012 Looking at society today, the fundamental question of whether human…
Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher
Urs Fischer’s retrospective at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, comprises works made between the early ’90s and the present day, and starts…
Korean Eye
Ahead of an exhibition lie the immeasurable expectations of its audience; behind it, the concealed circumstances of its preparation. Between…
Pictures, Before and After
When a symposium on the work of Douglas Crimp was announced, of course I wanted to go, very much so.…
Nate Lowman
In 1994, retired football star O.J. Simpson lead police on a car chase through Los Angeles in a white Ford…