Author Archives: mauri
Richard Garrison at Robert Henry Contemporary
Repackaged is a continuation of Richard Garrison’s analysis of ubiquitous materials, objects and places from the suburban, often consumer related, American landscape, such as Sunday newspaper sale circulars, parking lot colors, product packaging, Disney World and Wal-mart, among others. Garrison’s recontextualization of aspects of consumer culture affords us a new perspective on commonplace objects, places […]
Kaoruko: Enn at Mike Weiss
Synthesizing a thorough understanding of Western modernism and traditional Japanese artistry, Kaoruko’s monumental paintings offer an unabashed glimpse of female figures behind closed doors – uninhibited, disrobed, and mid-gesture. Intermingling silkscreened kimono patterns, sumi calligraphy, rich acrylics, and graphite tracing, an eloquent portrait of hybrid identity emerges which unravels the intricate nature of human connection, […]
Yesterday’s Sun by Uri Gershuni from Sternthal Books
The haunting photographs in Uri Gershuni’s latest book Yesterday’s Sun pit contemporaneity against nostalgia in creating a series of images that not only capture lost moments in time, but also give the same urgency to the present day. Gershuni follows in the footsteps of William Henry Fox Talbot, one of photography’s pioneers, recapturing his estate […]
The Field is to the Sky, Only Backwards
The Field is to the Sky, Only Backwards, studies the intersections of subjects such as economic and social relations, space and architecture, image, material, sound, movement, migration and mobility, the included artists transgress disciplines. They realize forms of research and modes of practice that are coded within disciplines but also inhabit temporary spaces between them. The artists disclose […]
Andrew Dadson’s Suburban Suprematism at Galleria Franco Noero
A series of black and white surfaces, halfway between paintings and sculptures, articulate the walls in the new spaces of Galleria Franco Noero. Suburban Suprematism is the title of the third exhibition that Andrew Dadson presents in the gallery in Turin. The title itself reveals two of the main sources of Dadson’s artistic research: the […]
Maryam Nilforoushan
For many years my challenge was to break through my classical training in order to become accepted in the world of contemporary art, but now in my more mature years I have come to realize that all I know and what I have learnt is part of what I am as an artist. I enjoy […]
Vukovic’s Adriatic Wonder Opens to Enthusiastic Success
It’s not every evening that you get to celebrate the opening of an artist’s work like Davor Vukovic was fortunate enough to enjoy at Broadway Gallery last night. His impressive seascape-inspired abstractions span almost ten feet in any given direction and are full of vibrant colors. An expert in juggling hues, the artist has composed […]
Dana Levy’s World Order from Sternthal Books
Abandoned spaces, preserved materials, and the lingering feeling of a life once lived—these are all necessary components in the video and photography work of Dana Levy. Her new monograph World Order, published for her solo exhibition at the CCA in Tel-Aviv, highlights her interest with the appropriation, display and study of everyday curiosities. The two […]
Potentially Guilty Thought: Lawrence Weiner at Giorgio Persano, Turin
With a strongly emblematic title, MENS REA, Lawrence Weiner’s new exhibition at Giorgio Persano in Turin is divided into three sentences that unfold along the perimeter of the walls. Starting with the presumption that thought is guilty only when it generates an action, within the space of the gallery the artist presents concrete examples of […]
Caroline Krabbe
Through my paintings, I show the Andalusian countryside, as this is what my eyes (and my heart) are full of. The layers, the transparency, and structures inside the forms drive me forward, painting the light and the darkness, and the intensity of the color. Hues are intentionally pushed completely to their limit, where they get […]
