Crucifixion (2009) consists of a landscape image of a pylon in the Sinai Peninsula, the lines strung out in either direction to suggest a cross. Sinai is a contested area of Egyptian land with a chequered history of conflict and terrorism owing to its historical and geographic connection with Palestine. The artist was picked from a shortlist of ten by the prize jury, critic Ben Lewis, Ziba de Weck of the Parasol Unit, Marc Valli of Magma Books and Hilary Lawson from Artscape Project....
Claire Hooper exhibited a film NYX (2010) showing a night-time descent into the underground system of a metropolis. The homeward journey of a youngster turns into a horror trip through the disastrous combination of alcohol and drug intolerance. Fujiwara exhibited Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010), in which he staged the life of his parents during the Franco era. Diverse allusions to the brutal sexual oppression of that regime are played out behind the deceptively harmless façade of a Spanish ba...
Tabaimo, yudangami, 20094 min 13 sec, video installation Photograph by Ufer! Art Documentary© the artist, courtesy of Gallery KoyanagiParasol unit
foundation for contemporary art
26 May – 6 August 2010
Tabaimo is known for her skilfully drawn and disturbing animations that mix imagery from contemporary Japanese life with digital video technique. Throughout her eleven years of practice the artist has created satirical works that often comment on modern life in Japan, and in particular on the ...
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Published 24-May-10
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Picasso: Peace And Freedom, LiverpoolMore than 150 anti-war paintings and drawings by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. While not including Picasso's most alarming cry of protest, Guernica, these works reveal the artist as a passionate peace activist. Picasso, a Communist party member, adopted a disarmingly simple image of a dove as a universal symbol of hope during the cold war. But, given his taste for cubist fragmentation, it is in images of violence against innocents t...
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Published 21-May-10
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Issue 42, May 2010. See the entire magazine online here.Hauser & Wirth, Zurich27 March – 29 MayBy Alex Coles When one thinks of modern sculpture, many different paradigms come to mind – the readymade, the mobile, the monolith and so on. Perhaps the last one to do so is the tradition of semifigurative sculptures begun by the Italian artist Medardo Rosso. But it is from the lineage Rosso established that Hans Josephsohn’s sculptures evolve. As a consequence, for more than half a century Joseph...
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Published 04-May-10
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Artist: Hans-Peter Feldmann
Venue: Malmo Konsthall, Malmo
Date: February 20 – May 2, 2010
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Images courtesy of Malmo Konsthall, Malmo. Photos by Helene Toresdotter.
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Hans-Peter Feldmann was born in Germany in 1941, lives and works in Düsseldorf. He has produced a vast amount of works during the last forty years. Feldmann is widely recognised for his conceptua...
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Published 19-Apr-10
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Whitechapel Gallery, London; Parasol Unit, London; Tate Britain, LondonWhat is the difference between an art film and an art-house film? You might say it all depends on the work. But a film critic of my acquaintance insists that it has nothing to do with art forms and everything to do with audiences and what they are prepared to endure. What the gallery-goer will watch with credulous reverence, he says, is precisely what no cinema audience would ever accept.His definition stands to some extent. ...
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Published 10-Apr-10
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Richard Hamilton, LondonRichard Hamilton's famed collage of 1956, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, featuring an erotically supercharged muscleman and pinup girl amid similarly hot designer furniture, earned him the title Father Of Pop Art. Yet it's an accolade that doesn't do justice to the artist's political punch. This survey focuses on the octogenarian's stridently politicised side, showcasing works that mix righteous ire, piercing insight and media savvy....
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Published 27-Feb-10
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Hans-Peter Feldmann
Malmö Konsthall
20.2 – 2.5 2010
Hans-Peter Feldmann was born in Germany in 1941, lives and works in Düsseldorf. He has produced a vast amount of works during the last forty years. Feldmann is widely recognised for his conceptual approach to books, photography, found images and other material.
Feldmann was part of the group exhibition Ögon-Blickar/New Media I at Malmö Konsthall in 1975, in which Feldmann presented a modest selection of his small handmade books – later to be re...
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Published 03-Feb-10
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Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real
Parasol Unit, London
25 November - 7 February
Bridget Riley describes her mother thus: “She was always pointing out colours: in the sea; the sparkle of dew: changes of colour when the dew was brushed away. If she arranged anything on the table like a bowl of fruit […] she would point out the colours. ‘Look it’s almost got a blue on it.’* She wasn’t a painter, she was a ‘looker’. The pleasure that one could get from looking was part of her pe...
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Published 21-Jan-10
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