Soda_Jerk

Posted by Fabio 23 April 2012

Soda_Jerk is a two-person art collective based in Berlin. For the last decade they have been working with audiovisual samples to create speculative narratives that trouble existing formulations of history, culture and politics. In their work, dominant accounts of cultural history are approached as semi-fictional mythologies that attempt to colonise and control the future. read more

Alexandre Singh

Posted by Fabio 20 April 2012

Alexandre Singh (1980) is a visual artist and writer based in New York. Singh’s work derives at once from traditions in literature, performance, photo-conceptualism and object-based installation art. Often starting with elaborate, publicly presented lectures that blend historical fact with narrative fiction, Singh’s practice resists categorization. read more

HANS ARNOLD – From horror to fairy tales

Posted by Fabio 18 April 2012

The famous illustrator Hans Arnold passed away in October 25 2010 after a long and productive life. His production involving nearly 30,000 illustrations. He is best known for his horror artwork in the swedish weekly Vecko-Revyn´s ”Veckans Chock” and his illustration that adorns the cover of ABBA´s ”Greatest Hits”. Many have begged that his relatives will be organizing an exhibition and now it´s finally happening. read more

Petra Cortright

Posted by Fabio 16 April 2012

Petra Cortright is a Santa Barbara, California based Internet artist. She studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York and California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been shown at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale and the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California. read more

Damien Hirst – Tate Modern

Posted by Fabio 3 April 2012

Tate Modern presents the first major Damien Hirst exhibition in the UK. This will be the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and will bring together key works from over twenty years. The exhibition will include iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde. read more

Rashaad Newsome

Posted by Fabio 30 March 2012

Rashaad Newsome’s work examines the visual language of power and status, juxtaposing high and low references to challenge perceived notions of social protocol and hierarchy. Sampling heavily from hip-hop and Pop culture, he selects and appropriates a disparate array of visual components, restructuring them into recognizable statements and symbols. read more

The brothers John & James Whitney

Posted by Fabio 26 March 2012

The brothers John & James Whitney created their remarkable series of Film Exercises between 1943 and 1944. These films are visually based on modernist composition theory, the carefully varied permutations of form are manipulated with cut-out masks so that the image photographed is pure direct light shaped, rather than the light reflected from drawings as in traditional animation. read more

Antonio Santin

Posted by Thorbjorn 23 March 2012

Contemporary art gallery Marc Straus presents an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by Antonio Santin which is his first solo exhibition in New York. This exhibition brings together three related series of works from late 2011-2012 that incorporate the human form as a fetishized object to be hidden or revealed in images that often conjure a cinematic aesthetic. read more

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