A complex question, and follow up to the previous post: what do we admire about art ?
Tag: Art
What do we admire artists for?
A burning question occupying my mind for a while: what do we admire artists for, actually ?
Dead Man’s Letters (1986)
On Konstantin Lopuhansky's movie 'Dead Man's Letters' (1986). A reminder of humanity’s capacities for both destruction and love; a demonstration of the worst-case accident and a beacon of hope.
David Salle. Farbe and Feeling
Fragmented limbs and hysterical women, candy on canvas, but with substance. Matisse, marks, and Loriot: David Salle conceiving perfect paintings.
Mona Hatoum: Berlin Retrospective
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.
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.
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.
On … Art & Utopia
On the status and possibilities of Utopia in technologically advanced societies. And Art's vital role within creating it.
The Material as Agent
Silvia Noronha’s practice combines material research and transformation. Focussing on geological and environmental subjects, her work investigates visual habits as well as time layers and the mutual informing of different materials.