Alicja Dobrucka
Posted by Fabio 17 November 2011
Artist and photographer Alicja Dobrucka was born in 1985 in Poland. She was recently a recipient of the Sortiri Prize 2011, Korce, Albania. In 2010 she received the highly competitive Deutsche Bank Fine Art Award and Grant in Photography. She is currently showing as a part of the New Contemporaries 2011 at the ICA in London. read more
The British Guide to Showing Off
Posted by Fabio 17 November 2011
In The British Guide to Showing Off, director Jes Benstock takes us under Andrew Logan’s glittering wing to take a joyous look at this most quirky and exotic subculture event. Raucous, liberating and sexually charged, The British Guide to Showing Off speaks to the outsider in all of us. For anyone who has ever wanted to break out.
www.britishguidetoshowingoff.com
CHRISTIAN FALSNAES – ELIXIR
Posted by Fabio 17 November 2011
In the sequence of passive consumption, the Elixir in art and culture is not recognized. The Elixir, the essence we are looking for to effect Transformation, requires active interest. Video/performance by Christian Falsnaes recorded at PSM Gallery, Berlin 2011.
The Confetti Museum
Posted by Fabio 17 November 2011
Founded in 2010, The Confetti Museum is the world’s first museum of confetti. It has assembled the largest and most impressive collection in the history of confetti. By now, the Confetti Museum’s permanent collection totals about 20.000 confettis and is permanently growing. read more
MICHAËL BORREMANS – The Devil’s Dress
Posted by Fabio 14 November 2011
Borremans’ drawings, paintings, and films present an evocative combination of solemn-looking characters, unusual close-ups,
and unsettling still lifes. There is a theatrical dimension to his works, which are at once highly staged and ambiguous, just as his complex and open-ended scenes lend themselves to conflicting moods—simultaneously nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque. read more
Made by Hand
Posted by Fabio 9 November 2011
Writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash.
Film
Posted by Fabio 9 November 2011
FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall by British artist Tacita Dean. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital.
Susie MacMurray
Posted by Fabio 31 October 2011
Susie MacMurray’s work encompasses drawing, sculpture and architectural installations. A former classical musician, she retrained as an artist, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in 2001. She now has an international exhibition profile and shows regularly in the USA and Europe as well as the UK. read more
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