Venice Diaries, Episode VII: Ha Chong-Hyun’s paintings need not much description; they need to be seen. His works are an expression of doing it differently, of surpassing the basic strands of art history. A study of material as well as of technique.
Category: Reviews
Double Review: Fred Sandback/Rebecca Horn
Once more, Galerie Thomas Schulte transforms its gallery space through two impressive installations. And presents a simple understanding of beauty.
Venice Diaries VI: Francesca Leone. Take Your Time
Venice Diaries, Episode VI: Francesca Leone’s installation 'Take Your Time' presents giant flowers, fragile stalagmites, solid paper. Take your time – to reflect and enjoy.
Venice Diaries V: Joseph Beuys. Fine-limbed
Venice Diaries, Episode V: Pure gesture in paper, clay, and bronze. The exhibition 'Joseph Beuys. Fine-limbed' presents early work on paper and sculptures by the artist. Fragile and essential, prehistoric and modern. Fine-limbed.
Venice Diaries IV: Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined
Venice Diaries, Episode IV: Painting as sculpture as work in paper. Chung Kwang Young's art works recall prehistoric rocks, extra-terrestrial objects, and dinosaurs, wrapped in a contemporary fashion. Hanji for healing!
Venice Diaries III: Ewa Kuryluk. I, White Kangaroo
Venice Diaries, Episode III: As much as a retrospective, the exhibition 'Ewa Kuryluk. I, White Kangaroo' is an intellectual interrogation, artistic investigation, art historical puzzle piece, and an affirmation to play.
Venice Diaries II: Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh
Venice Diaries, Episode II: Devotional images meet contemporary painting, sculpture, film, collage, and Venetian chandeliers. Claire Tabouret's exhibition 'I am spacious, singing flesh' is a must-see for both its art and curation.
Venice Diaries I: Marlene Dumas. open-end
The Venice Diaries present projects around the 59th Venice Biennale 2022. Episode I: Figures like ghosts, painting like drugs: Marlene Dumas’ monographic exhibition 'open-end' at Palazzo Grassi in Venice. An incomplete Review
Desert Disco
Allan McCollum's Constructed and Bleach Paintings are wall structures out of canvas and adhesive. They carry meditation and war, history and the Now. A guide to geometric versatility.
Erica Baum’s Poetography
Erica Baum's works form a junction between photography, abstraction, poetry, and word art. Her exhibition "the bite in the ribbon" gives an intimate view into the artist's practice.
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