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.
Tag: Contemporary Art
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.
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.
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.
Forming Time: Glenda León
The Fundació Miró Palma shows the work of Glenda León in dialogue with the work of Joan Miró. The two artists share colour, shapes, and a sense of place – exciting but calm, aesthetic but free.
Rafaël Rozendaal: Colour, Code, Communication
'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.
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.
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.