SYLVIE HUYSMAN
Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010
Sylvie Huysman studied the effects of gravity on human movement. if asked she can reproduce gravity’s pull on a wall making it seem as if she is slowly falling vertically. The effect is so unnerving and so fundamentally wrong that it makes you feel a little nauseous just looking at it.
Breaking Bounderies
Posted by Fabio 28 October 2010
Galerie Kashya Hildebrand is proud to pay tribute to five highly respected and celebrated artists from the Middle East. Mohammad Ehsai, Ahmed Moustafa, Ali Omar Ermes, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Nja Mahdaoui.
Kashya Hildebrand
28 October – 11 December 2010
Zürich
Erin Shirreff
Posted by Fabio 28 October 2010
Erin Shirreff lives and works in New York City. She holds an MFA from Yale University (2005) and a BFA from the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Recent exhibitions include Knight’s Move at Sculpture Center in Queens, Terminus Ante Quem at Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago, and a two-person show in the Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis.
Erin Shirreff
HERCZEG & KAEHR
Posted by Fabio 27 October 2010
The artistic duo Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr create light illusions using highly complex pyrotechnics. In their series Explosion, they built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the cameras and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion. In this way, they were able to capture motion and time in a split second of an explosion. read more
JULES DE BALINCOURT
Posted by Fabio 26 October 2010
Escaping any easy categorization, Balincourtʼs work can be at once figurative and abstract, narrative and dream-like, down-to-earth and mysterious.
Heavily influenced by American culture, Balincourt has often depicted the contradictory facets of the United Statesʼ social, political and economic landscapes. read more
Dana Schutz
Posted by Fabio 26 October 2010
Some of Dana Schutz’ early images, painted about a decade ago, told the story of Frank, the last man on earth; other pictures showed people eating their own bodies; a few dealt directly with political or overtly social issues. Her flamboyant style, which frequently makes references to art history, and especially to the history of figurative painting, is colourful, gestural, and visceral.
www.danaschutz.com
PLAN B
Posted by Fabio 22 October 2010
Plan B opened in September 2005 in Cluj, the main city of the Romanian province of Transylvania. Initiated by Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie, Plan B functions as a production space for contemporary art; at the same time it is a research center focusing on the Romanian art of the last 50 years, by revealing works of remarkable artists without previous international exposure. Photograph shown here is by artist Alexandra Croitoru.
www.plan-b.ro
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