Pedro Wirz
When asked in an interview about what triggered her iconic Water Event (1971), Yoko Ono said that when she first…
Magazine Articles
Leo, 35, 60, 179
In 1984, when he took part in the group show “Como vai você, geração ’80?” [How are you doing, ’80s…
Adriano Amaral
Adriano Amaral’s delicate installations are grounded in the interpolation of layers, elements and moments of both experience and representation. Matter,…
I Went to São Paulo and Learned a Lot
OK, OK, so good-time summer isn’t entirely gone; it probably never really is. Sounds a little true and somewhat right…
Her Other Selves
For over a decade, Anna Maria Maiolino has produced a series of sculptural objects called Outros (Others, initiated in 2000).…
Beto Shwafaty
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis in the late 2000s, the international media seemed to give unprecedented exposure…
The Arts and the Multitude
If São Paulo’s contemporary art production is, for the moment, mainly centered on exhibition programs within a sprawling network of…
Accomplished Things
Bruno Dunley: When I first started to think about this conversation, it occurred me that a common ground I perceive…
Art of Change: New Directions from China
Barely two days into its existence, “Art of Change” found a critic in the authoritative figure of Ai Weiwei, who…
Jon Pestoni
Jan Tumlir: In your latest paintings there are forms we identify as “figures,” simply because they are bounded by contour lines…
Diango Hernández
Jade Niklai: Your practice reminds me of the ancient art of storytelling. Fact and fiction are consistently interspersed with meaning and…
Gianfranco Baruchello
Angelo Capasso: Hypothalamic Brainstorming, is the work that you chose for your participation in dOCUMENTA (13). The hypothalamus is a…
Lee Mingwei & Charwei Tsai
Ephemeral implies that which is brief, transitory and short-lived. One experiences it in various forms on a daily basis, from…
Ronald Ventura
Lucy Rees: Your recent exhibition “Fiesta Carnival” at Primo Marella Gallery in Milan explores concepts of transgression and border dissolution.…
Bharti Kher
To experience Bharti Kher’s work is to enter a labyrinth of complex questions based on cultural misinterpretation, social structures and…
Ziad Antar
Christine Macel: You started with short, single-shot videos such as Tokyo Tonight (2003), in which a Lebanese shepherd comes from…