Author: George Greenhill Top 10 Art Exhibitions of 2017 In alphabetical order: Hannah Black Some Context, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 22 September – 10 December The Situation, a book composed of conversations between the artist and her friends about theories of subjectivity and collectivity, provide structure to the assortment of multifarious objects in the exhibition. These new [...]
Author: George Greenhill This Week In Art, London: Monday 4th – Sunday 10th December What’s happening around the world this week Everyone is in Miami! Here is the Art Newspaper’s top ten shows to see there [The Art Newspaper] JFK painting outshines Donald Trump’s sketch at Heritage Auction Texas [New York Post] Lubaina Himid becomes [...]
Born: 1936 in Turin, Italy. Lives and works in: Turin, Italy. Upcoming exhibition: A Continuous Becoming. 26 January – 8 April 2018. Camden Arts Centre. Having just shown at his third Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, Giorgio Griffa’s celebrated abstract paintings will soon be exhibited in London’s Camden Arts Centre. A Continuous Becoming includes works that [...]
Author: Yoli Terziyska Artvisor and Presenza have come together with the launch of the group exhibition Alchemical Imagination. Currently on display at LIBRARY, a private members club in London, are 27 works by 10 international artists working in different media. Some of the artworks are by promising emerging talents, others are made by mid-career or established [...]
Frieze Week With Artvisor: Monday 2nd – Sunday 8th October Author: Yoli Terziyska Blueprint Breakfast Briefings: Art Startup Pitch On Wednesday 4th October at Cromwell Place between 9am - 12pm, Blueprint Breakfast Briefings: Art Startup Pitch will give the stage to a select group of promising art startups to pitch their businesses to a group [...]
Coffee with Alessandro Roma Author: Yoli Terziyska “It is impossible to know where you are here, only your direction is known” Of Walking in Ice, Wednesday 4th of December, Werner Herzog Alessandro Roma, born in Milan in 1977, is a multi-media artist living and working between London and Milan. He studied at the Brera Art Academy [...]
This year, Artvisor and a host of emerging and established galleries will be flocking to Denmark for CODE, Copenhagen’s premier art fair. As a relative newcomer to the circuit of global art fairs, Code Art Fair, which is about to launch its second edition, is already making waves in the art world. Set in the bustling [...]
Born: 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands Lives and works in: Amsterdam Latest Exhibition: Weird Science, Gem Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague. Folkert De Jong creates macabre sculptures from polyutherene and styrofoam. His human sized figures are dismembered and reattached in bizarre poses. They often come dressed in theatrical clothing and splashed in [...]
Born: 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa Lives and works in: Oxford, UK Current exhibition: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (June 13th - August 20th 2017) The South African born artist Carla Busuttil reformulates the conventions of portraiture to create grotesquely comical imagery. By parodying the faces, gestures and clothing of influential figures, she examines the [...]
Born: 1985 in São Paulo, Brazil Lives and works in: Budapest, Hungary Current exhibition: Longlife, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, open July 5th. Ember’s art deals with duality and paradoxes. A multidisciplinary artist, her works question the nature of representation through a redefinition of classical genres of still life and landscape. Her practice moves across a wide [...]
On Monday at midday, the Palais de Tokyo is already bustling with movement as visitors fill in the vast repurposed 1930s building. Their first encounter in the vast entrance is a giant glass bottle, large enough for a few people to comfortably remove the giant cork and slide inside. In fact, the inside of the [...]
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