'Rafaël Rozendaal: Color, Code, Communication', at Museum Folkwang poses the question: what will be the image in the 21st century? The works in the exhibition offer practical and intellectual examples, reflective and fun.
Author: cmarthoughts
Violent Void: Laura Lamiel
Laura Lamiel's 'Vous les entendez?' at Palais de Tokyo proposes a parcours through different media, colours, and experiences. The quietly and plainly shocking presentation counteracts a numbness in the face of an omnipresence of images of violence.
Mystery Street: Vasantha Yogananthan
Vasantha Yogananthan has captured specific moments and a specific place. Fragile and immediate images. A quiet exhibition, very worth seeing.
House on Fire: Sur le feu
In his essay "Dispersion", Seth Price asks for an Art Degree Zero, categorically ambiguous. The exhibition "Sur le feu" at Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris, comes close. Through its focus on practice, the exhibition asks what do we ask from an art exhibition today.
Deliciously Aesthetic
"Tutti Frutti. A new harvest on the classics" is what the name promises: an experimental, juicy reinterpretation of the fruit still life. The exhibition combines the 15th century with the contemporary, and religious with conceptual gestures.
Difficult Listening Hour (1984)
On the occasion of Laurie Anderson's Summer tour 2023, we revisit her video work "Difficult Listening Hour". And honour this Grand Dame of Sound and the Sensual.
Josh Sperling: A walk through
Josh Sperling’s exhibition ‘Head Over Heels’ is a contemporary climax from the bottom to the top floor. The works combine nature and craftsmanship through different stages of colour, canvas, and complexity. Their optical play presents mesmerizing mazes between mandalas and marble game.
Giant Triple Mushroom / An Easter Proposition
Carsten Höller’s 'Giant Triple Mushroom (Fly Agaric, Bay Bolete, Plums and Custard)' (2018) is what its title says: a giant sculpture composed of fragments of a Fly Agaric, Bay Bolete, and Plums and Custard mushrooms. As the mushroom’s two-sided effects, the installation creates perplexity, excitement, and delight. A contemporary artistic culinary Easter proposition.
#eyeofthestorm
A twenty-first century Turner. A green Renaissance. Politics and theatre, home and commerce. Past becoming immediate present. The exhibition Avant l’orage (Before The Storm) at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection shows prophetic oeuvres comprising all media, subjects, perspectives, and interpretations.
Time.Machine
Malte Bartsch's "Time Machine" (2013 - ongoing) generates testimony and record, paths into past and future, brings together outer spaces and inner times A reflection with Immanuel Kant.