A complex question, and follow up to the previous post: what do we admire about art ?
Tag: Art History
What do we admire artists for?
A burning question occupying my mind for a while: what do we admire artists for, actually ?
a matter of time: Roberta Cotterli and Claudio Zorzi
The artist-couple Roberta Cotterli and Claudio Zorzi jointly present their work. Roberta Cotterli’s sculptures examine male representation in art history; Claudio Zorzi’s portraits develop the idea of a modern Icon. Both investigate time in relationship with process, art history, and moments spent with the other. The exhibition centres around the question of muse and model, suggesting a play between intimate representation vs. presented intimacy. Classical motifs are taken up and continued; roles are turned around. Old Masters and Christian iconography intersect with the Contemporary. a matter of time.
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.
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.
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 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.
Street Is Queen
“Vivian Maier. Streetqueen” at Werkstattgalerie Noack gives an astonishing overview about the photographer’s oeuvre. The images unite aesthetics and documentation, social and fashion photography, life and still life, or time study and art history. With an eye for the bizarre, and a love for the subject.
Thought traveling
Anne Speier's exhibition "Dienstag bis Sonntag" [Tuesday to Sunday] encompasses centuries. Her paintings invite an equally visual and theoretical reflection. In this, they are extra-ordinary in their respect.