Ser Serpas presents paintings and four installations at Kunsthalle Basel. It is her largest institutional exhibition in Switzerland up to date. There is pain, audio and visual. Naked bodies in positions of suffering or dissolution.
Tag: Contemporary Painting
À propos des œuvres d’Alizée Gazeau à Venise
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Venice Diaries VII: Ha Chong-Hyun
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.
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