Fracture: Daido Moriyama

Posted by Fabio 23 April 2012

Photographer Daido Moriyama (Japan, b. 1938) first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. His highly innovative and intensely personal photographic approach often incorporates high contrast, graininess, and tilted vantages to convey the fragmentary nature of modern realities. 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

Foreversunset – Milan 2012

Posted by Fabio 18 April 2012

Foreversunset consists of pictures from all over the world, arranged by the suns distance to the horizon. The user takes part in the Foreversunset by uploading their image of the sun. With every image uploaded, the sunset gets a little bit closer to forever. 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

Antonio Santin

Posted by Fabio 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

Jorinde Voigt – Konnex

Posted by Fabio 22 March 2012

Jorinde Voigt’s large-scale works on paper are composed of intricately drawn networks of sweeping arcs, arrows, lines and labels recalling written recordings of sonic vibrations. Referred to by the artist as notations or scores, her work uses a unique visual language to represent subjects such as bass frequencies and musical melodies. read more

Richard Hollis Exhibition

Posted by Fabio 22 March 2012

The Richard Hollis exhibition, curated for the Libby Sellers gallery by design historian Emily King, will consist of roughly 200 items drawn from the designer’s archive. It will reflect Hollis’s entire professional life, including his travels in the 1950s and 60s to Cuba, Zurich and Paris, his part in founding a new art school in Bristol in 1964, his role in the design of radical politics in the 1960s and 70s and his career-long investigation of the graphic design of culture. read more

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