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Volta10 Preview: Anthony Goicolea
Anthony Goicolea continues to push his fantastic photographic tableaux, maneuvering from the wildly complex multiple self-portraits that he perfected in the previous decade to conceptual territories of displacement and alienation in unpopulated hybrid landscapes. VOLTA10 June 16–21, 2014 Viaduktstrasse 10 Basel Switzerland voltashow.com Guest of Honor Preview Monday, June 16, 10 am – 12 pm […]
Volta10 Preview: Peter Funch
Peter Funch has established himself as a very respected contemporary art photographer. He just had his second solo exhibition at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, and simultaneously his work is to be experienced as part of the Danish Pavilion at the World EXPO in Shanghai. VOLTA10 June 16–21, 2014 Viaduktstrasse 10 Basel Switzerland voltashow.com Guest of […]
From Primitivism to Propaganda
A museum quality exhibition of 35 Russian Constructivist and early modernist works on paper by 16 artists are on view in the main salon of the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park South. Curated from the collection of Marina and Nikolay Shchukin by Matthew Drutt, the show is on view through June 14th, and it is […]
Volta10 Preview: Kadar Brock
Brooklyn-based abstraction alchemist Kadar Brock approaches his paintings as objects themselves, sanding and abrading them and extracting colorful remnants from old canvases as surface materials and activated media toward new works. His process of creation, deletion, recycling, and renewal achieves results that blur the line between painting and sculpture, waste and reward. VOLTA10 June 16–21, […]
One Burning Question With Matt Mignanelli
NY Arts Magazine: Who is your most cherished “Art Crush?” Matt Mignanelli: I’ve long admired the works of Ellsworth Kelly. The paintings have always spoken to me in a unique way, leaving memorable impressions with each encounter. There is a calm for me within his simplicity. His works exude a power that commands a space, […]
Body Double: Brice Dellsperger at Team Gallery
The camera zooms in on small notepad and a pen poised motionless over the page, while the sounds of a pen scratching paper play over the film’s audio. This disconnect between image and reality is a frequent occurrence in the works of Brice Dellsperger’s evocative series, “Body Double: Vous N’en Croirez Pas Vos Yeux,” currently […]
Art In Search of Universal Dialogue with Jackie Sleper
“Jackie Sleper does not match the traditional profile of a Dutch artist. Unlike her historical counterparts, with their austere Calvinist roots and dour palette, Sleper’s work celebrates life with bursts of color and a quixotic co-mingling of sculptural embellishments. She draws inspiration from her world travels, and the wide-ranging cultures she seeks to embrace while […]
Volta10 Preview: Melanie Bonajo
Captivated by concepts of the divine, Melanie Bonajo explores the spiritual emptiness of her generation through photographs, performances, and films. She questions our shifting relationship with nature and tries to understand existential questions by looking at our domestic situation and changes to humanity at large. Her installations place the viewer firmly within an ‘active’ role. […]
photoEspana
As one of the largest visual art event of widely recognized international photography, photoEspana offers a great opportunity for projects including photography, video, installation, and the work of both leading and new visual artists internationally. photoEspana June 4-July 27, 2014 Verónica 13 Madrid Spain phe.es
Art Basel
Described as “Olympics of the Art World,” more than 300 leading galleries will present over 4,000 artists of various artistic media ranging from the masters of Modern art to the latest emerging artists. Art Basel June 19-22,2014 MCH Swiss Exhibition Messeplatz 10 Basel Switzerland artbasel.com
