How to arrive at such a reduced language? Yet so intense. Mona Hatoum investigates geo- and sociopolitical conditions and conflicts, Her retrospective at three Berlin institutions presents her varied and poetic oeuvre.
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See a Tree Growing: Giuseppe Penone
Giuseppe Penone has donated 328 works on paper to the collection of the Centre Pompidou. The works show the development of the artist’s ideas, led by the hand, and a feeling for his subject: nature. A life-long experiment, outwards to the material and inwards to the body.
The Longest Whistlegraph Ever
The Whistlegraph trio was founded in 2020 in Ashland, Oregon. "The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far)" presents a synthesis of beat, tone, and line – experimental performance at its perfection.
Miquel Barceló: Grisaille
Darkness, death, luxury, and light. Skulls, pomegranates, skeletons, ad lobsters: Miquel Barceló offers a new interpretation of the still life. Images between ecstasy and decay.
Grotesquely Genius
Humorous, perverse, and esthetic: Performance artist Leila Hekmat discusses her exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, previous works, her iconography, and inspiration.
Scenes and Smoke: Justin Williams
Born in Australia with Egyptian descent, the cultures seem to fuse in Justin Williams’ paintings: Oranges and snakes, pipes and water pipes, jeans and morning gowns, flowers and fish. Gaugin with an Egyptian touch. Matisse’s paper-cuts in acrylic – iconography and invention.
Gabriel Orozco, Diario de plantas
Une exposition simple, dans le meilleur sens du mot: Gabriel Orozco a peint un journal des plantes. Créations de la création, sans ardeur, ou le besoin d’y ajouter d’autre. Une interprétation modeste, consciente, parfois humoriste, parfois sérieuse ; et tout à fait honnête.
Mimosa Echard: Sporal
Mimosa Echard’s solo exhibition Sporal at Palais de Tokyo ended on September 4, 2022. The open-source video-game accompanying the exhibition can be downloaded via www.sporal.net. Get the review/teaser here!
Galactic Images
Sasha Svirsky’s films combine 90s computer aesthetics with drawing, electronic music with speech, and critique with imagination. Deep thoughts meet dreaming, dry humor meets pure fun: Stroboscope colour explosions in black and white.
Venice Diaries X: Zinaida. Without Women
Venice Diaries, Episode X: The exhibition 'Without Women' highlights the nowadays ‘other’ sex. And shows a way of life very few of us would otherwise experience or even know about.
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