Buenos Aires: Crisis and Rebirth Xil Buffone and Eduardo Costa Sometimes art bloomsin poverty, like some plants that refuse fertilizers, opting for their naturaldiet and a genuine growing rate. A somber political and financial picture inArgentina has doubled the creative response with the visual arts, the movies,music and the performing arts going into a good […]

Lance Denh�’s Delivery Aaron Zimmerman I don’t need much from an image: bold color, a unique sense of form andlight, and something that revives my purpose to make paintings. Lately I’vecraved it more and more. Maybe it’s the war. Maybe it’s the springthat is still winter here in New York. Whatever the case my needs […]

Andreas Jaeggi @ Berliner Kunstprojekt, A SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND MEANING Agustina O’Farrell and Erica Snow Andreas Jaeggiis constantly searching for beauty, harmony and balance in his artmaking. Butmore importantly, one might add, he is searching for truth. What would be thecontent suggested by these generalizations—often misused and abused terms—isalways a challenge for any artist […]

An Interview with Tom Wesselmann AJ Nadel Tampering with an icon, even by its creator, poses considerable challenge andrisk. Tom Wesselmann’s Great American Nude series was introduced in the1960s to make representation of the figure as exciting as could be achieved bythe brush strokes and deconstruction of De Kooning. Colors were kept realisticbut the size, […]

East Brought West Alexandra Hyde The exhibitionChen Zhen. An artist between East and West currently at the Padiglione d’ArteContemporanea in Milan (until 18th May), centres around “differences withno hierarchy”. Zhen’s ethics and art are derived from travels in diversecontinents, forming his concept of “globalisation” – “thatpeople from different races can unite and live together”. Political […]

Jueves: Vortrag en el MUMOK Andr�s Ram�rez Gaviria p> Eran sobre lascinco de la tarde cuando entré en la librería del Museum Quartierpara calentarme un poco. Di el mismo paseo que acostumbro, ojeando algunos librossin preocuparme mucho por otros – perfilando, mas que nada, la aparienciadel consumidor. En la sección de las revistas, ya saliendo […]

June Picks Christopher Chambers Walking past LehmanMaupin’s stylish new Chelsea space – with its exposed brick and plywoodinterior – after attending a few openings the other night, I noticed a particularlybeautiful painting, imbued with angelic light, hanging inside.[By the way, therewas a show of plywood hung as art by I don’t remember who at Paula […]

Angiola Churchill @ the Palazzo Fortuni,Venice Dana Zeman In her recent Venice exhibition, Beyond the Garden, Angiola Churchill filledthe Venice gallery of Palazzo Fortuni with white papers patterned into labyrinths,personages, gates, and fountains, floating from above. The garden functions asa totality. The papers are luminous as they interact with the dark surroundingspace. Even the shadows […]

The Green Paintings of Lucio Pozzi Daniel Rothbart Lucio Pozzi’s new paintings are green. They are the green of pastures, apples,moss, and clovers, but they are also the green of oceans, emeralds, envy, jade,tea leaves, and the goddess Tara. Pozzi welcomes diverse interpretations of andassociations from the Green Paintings in much the same that he […]

The Happy Face of Globalization:Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art Daniela Conradi The Inspirationof the Attese, Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, lies in the 20th centuryavant-garde tradition that, in its most significant phases, found an outlet forexpression in this area of Western Liguria well known for its long-establishedceramics manufactures. Departing from the numerous noteworthy […]