Chris Huen Sin Kan “Puzzled Daydreams” Simon Lee Gallery / London
On Monday, June 15, the wheels of the London art world — those which had so unceremoniously been halted almost…
Reviews
“Come Together” Fost Gallery / Singapore
COVID-19 is tipping the world into a dangerously volatile new era. People everywhere are being forced to step outside their…
Albert Mertz Croy Nielsen / Vienna
There are no sacred cows in art. Every practitioner follows a plan of sum totality while at the same time…
Ann Cathrin November Høibo “Hvis verden spør, så er svaret nei” STANDARD (OSLO)
In the 1920s, textile artist and Bauhaus educator Anni Albers described weaving as a way to “regain sensitivity toward textile…
Enzo Cucchi Balice Hertling / Paris
Three canvases are installed on three adjoining walls at Balice Hertling gallery. Each unstretched canvas is draped on a wall,…
Cao Fei “Blueprints” Serpentine Galleries / London
“Blueprints” at the Serpentine was the last show I saw before the entire world went home to flatten the COVID-19…
Ulla von Brandenburg Palais de Tokyo / Paris
Growing markets for life coaches and physical and mental hygiene apps suggest that today’s digitally dominated consumerist society is chasing…
Isa Genzken “Window” Hauser & Wirth / London
As an individual accustomed to lengthy physical encounters when appraising exhibitions, my first attempt to write a review relying…
“Phantoms and Aliens: The Invisible Other” Gillman Barracks / Singapore
Multicolored lights flash in synch to the beat in a karaoke lounge. A bed remains unmade. Assorted dumbbell weights lie…
Frank Holliday “SEE/SAW” Mucciaccia Gallery / New York
In his essay for the catalogue of this exhibition, the curator, legendary critic Carter Ratcliff, states, “If the painting is…
Tishan Hsu “Liquid Circuit” Hammer Museum / Los Angeles
The first museum survey of Tishan Hsu’s work to be mounted in the States, titled “Liquid Circuit,” traces the artist’s…
Hardy Hill "The Easy Yoke" Hannah Hoffman / Los Angeles
The five works on view in Hardy Hill’s first exhibition in Los Angeles pulse with uncanny febrility, fortitude, familiarity, and…
Ian Law “Drips the room” Piper Keys / London
In She’ll (2013/2020) a room becomes a plinth; it is a replica of the internal dimensions from Ian Law’s bathroom…
Sean Steadman “1,000,000,000,000” Project Native Informant / London
Roiling space, deep time, off radar. Some kind of churning galactic volume is given over, like nakedness or the way…
Jakob Lena Knebl Galerie Georg Kargl / Vienna
The plush schemes of Jakob Lena Knebl are fanciful camp depictions, embellished mise-en-scènes of fantasia in the manner of commedia…
Jared Madere "Paths to G-ddess~ Tiny Dick Timmy Ricochet~ Live from the Geomancer’s Clit Ring" Federico Vavassori / Milan
Cats, an unofficial symbol of déjà vu, are the main denizens of the mirror world that Jared Madere has created…