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Changing Weather – Roseline de Thélin
Friday, 29 June 2007 00:00The exhibition of Roseline de Thelin’s works, “Changing Weather,” presents a Utopian Chinese lightscape composed of light sculptures, videos and digital artworks that reflect upon the many changes occurring in China today. Having viewed climate changes and the increasing number of storms that cross our skies, the artist transforms 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Central […]
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A Tale of One City – Hansel Jedermann
Friday, 29 June 2007 00:00A hulking yet mysteriously timid looking carcass is quietly disappearing under the watchful eye of the TV tower in the middle of historic East Berlin. The cranes and anonymous workers toil all day disassembling, piece-by-piece, the former government headquarters of the German Democratic Republic. Known as the Palast der Republik, the building controversially replaced Berlin’s […]
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PROGRAMâInitiative for Art + Architectural Collaboration
Friday, 29 June 2007 00:00For decades, Berlin has attracted artists from all over the globe with its affordable lifestyle and vibrant art community. Although the job opportunities aren’t sprouting up left and right, artists’ spaces and galleries certainly are. These spaces are no longer only located in the strongholds of Auguststrasse or Zimmerstrasse—areas that once held reign over the […]
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Solution Proposition at 798 Space
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:31"Solution Proposition," a series of one dozen photographs accompanied by autobiographical text, is both an experimental concept and a real life action project. It seeks to draw attention to a widespread social phenomenon that nonetheless remains a social taboo: prostitution. Through her own words and photographs (designed with the help of photographer Xu Yong), co-creator […]
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Shinichi Maruyama
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:30Shinichi Maruyama’s work is subconsciously influenced by a Japanese sense of beauty. This sense of beauty can be found in the concept of “wabi-sabi,” referring to the beauty of imperfection and understated elegance. Additionally, this beauty is also expressed in “ma,” the use of negative space, found in the art of calligraphy as well as […]
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Smile of Matter: Chu Yun at Vitamin Creative Space – Hu Fang, Curator
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:23Chu Yun has remained in continual pursuit of obscuring pain and happiness and his work proves skeptical of dispositions that can be clearly defined by explicit suffering, joy, tragedy or anger. Chu Yun’s pursuit of the hidden derives from his recognition of the real. This has, in turn, made him more and more willing to […]
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Rosalyn Drexler: The Beautiful Stranger – Kalliopi Minioudaki
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:46When the film Who Does She Think She Is? from 1975 summarized the life and art of Rosalyn Drexler, the fame of the “most well-rounded talent in town” was ebbing. But, for a brief moment in the 60s, she was celebrated as a Pop painter, a novelist and an avant-garde playwright—the “queen of the underground.” […]
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American Psycho: Bugs Bunny on Heroin – Andrea Liu
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:39It is a curious thing we ugly Americans do: we are infatuated with a meta-world of fictional animals to replicate our social order, manifest our ids and superegos, our social rites and character flaws, and enact our moral lessons. The peculiar and unprecedented intimacy of the human psyche with anthropomorphized animals saw its flowering in […]
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Collage in the City – Steven Levenson
Tuesday, 26 June 2007 15:10Clifford Faust is a master of color, filling his cut paper collages with brazen, unabashed flashes of vibrant primary colors of every hue. His newest works, many of which were put on display at his Broadway Gallery solo show, “Collage and the City,” this spring, are no exception. In these pieces, Faust mingles his characteristic […]
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Dreamweavers – Steven Psyllos
Tuesday, 26 June 2007 14:59Broadway Gallery’s resident curator, Tchera Niyego, is not a timid creature. Her passionate ideas lend color to a room, spark energy into a conversation and juxtapose artists in almost adventurous ways. In her 16th curated show, Niyego presents “Dreamy Techniques.” With such a title, one might feel light petals from freshly shaken flora as you […]