“I tore everything apart … I grew a lot.” Alizée Gazeau's paintings resemble skin, maps, fossils, and hieroglyphs. Their reddish tones recall blood and femininity; their surface evokes time and process. Her installation "Océanité" at Lapis Lazuli: artE embraces looseness and the acceptance of flow.
Tag: Art contemporain
Interview: Chloe Bensahel
Chloe Bensahel's work considers the role of textiles within the constitution and existence of individual and collective identity. By incorporating the mediums geopolitical, historical, and physical references, Bensahel’s tapestries embrace the conceptual and the sensual, proposing a contemporary approach to a traditional technique.
Rudolf Englert x Chloe Bensahel
"Rudolf Englert x Chloe Bensahel" unites two positions that are related across time and independent of the different media. The juxtaposition emphasises the simultaneously analytical and playful approach of both artists and enables a new way of perceiving their works.
Daniel Spivakov: Chronorama Redux, 3rd Chapter
Daniel Spivakov presents the third chapter of his contribution to the exhibition Chronorama Redux at Palazzo Grassi, Venice. The three paintings show images between strass and hoodie, lipgloss and dirt, force and ennui. The sweetness and void of celebrity, manifested in paint.
Beatrice Bonino: Cosetta
Beatrice Bonino's work is characterized by a sense of alienated beauty. Her exhibition at mmxx.uno in Milan presents objects between office and catwalk, mortuary and luxury shop. Cunning beauty, or a calm betrayal.
Art as impetus: Oscar Tuazon
The Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents works by Oscar Tuazon, based around the question: what do we need? Continuously re-considered, the question, according to the artist is more important than the answer. The exhibition offers engaging points of departure for its reflection.
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.
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.