Friday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, conductor Edo de Waart led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a three-part program that began with subtle Chinese philosophy and ended in Germanic self-aggrandizement.
De Waart opened the program with the orchestra’s first performance of Qigang Chen’s “The Five Elements,” a delicate and appealing 10-minute tone poem inspired by traditional Chinese beliefs about the building blocks of the universe.
The work unfolded in two-minute sections titled “Water,” “Wood,” ...
Emilio Chapela, Digital Degradation, 2009, polyptych of 50 / inkjet on paper. Courtesy of EDS Galeria/Mexico City.
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If we think of an artist whose work analyzes our technological, media and internet-based society in a critical and challenging manner, the name of young Mexican artist Emilio Chapela Perez (1978, Mexico City) easily comes to mind. Communication, interpretation, and translation are key concepts in an original artistic practice that both formally and conceptually revolves ...
Ted Larsen, Hierarchical Stature, Mixed Media, 35” x 30” x 2”. Courtesy of the artist and Pan American Art Projects.
Pan American Art Projects
March 13 - April 17, 2010
Pan American Art Projects has brought together two artists with a minimal aesthetic. Carolina Sardi and Ted Larsen come from different traditions but share a like-minded approach to their art. Each offer understated metal sculptures in a joint exhibition at the gallery from March 13 - April 17.
Carolina Sardi’s wall installations...
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Published 12-Mar-10
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YORK, NY.- Throughout history, humankind has sought to make sense of
their world through myths. These stories, often taking visual forms,
have been both preserved and transformed over the years as they have been
repictured and retold. Artists have long considered mythology part of their
aesthetic language, a tradition continued by modern and contemporary artists who
address and reinterpret mythologies in their works. "The Modern Myth"
features works on paper from the collection of The...
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Until April 3, 2010, Mike Weiss Gallery in New York presents Remote Control, a multimedia installation including sculpture, photography and drawing by artist Sofi Zezmer. It’s the artist’s third solo exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery. Work her work, she uses fragments of manmade, mostly synthetic materials.
Sofi Zezmer constructs her works by a gradual additive process dependent on intuitive responses to the materials and objects she uses forming color-saturated assemblages. Among the elements s...
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Published 11-Mar-10
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Olivier Gourvil, Erostar, 2007.
By Claude Temin-Vergez
Painting’s omnipresence today is difficult to untangle from the climate of insecurity and safe value strategies associated with its format. Although it might seem fair to a medium that had been precipitated into darkness in past decades by the advent of conceptualism, the installation generation and the tidal wave of new media, its eclipse was not always unfounded. What interests me here is the effect of those decades on a genre that was bo...
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Published 11-Mar-10
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Santiago Sierra, No, Global Tour. Times Square, New York, 2009. Courtesy prometeogallery by Ida Pisani/Milano, Lucca and Galeria Helga de Alvear/Madrid.
By Pablo España
Public art that attempts to go beyond mere urban decoration has always had a marked social and even political character. We find ourselves at a moment in time when this practice has become incorporated into the mechanisms of “spectacularization” and institutionalization of contemporary art, where its potential is neutralized.
In ...
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Published 10-Mar-10
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Chisenhale Gallery
The white-walled gallery with cracked concrete floors is cold, harshly reverberant and empty apart from a number of speakers, emitting high-pitched electronic tones, suspended from the ceiling at angles that call to mind surveillance cameras. Yet there is something very accessible about Florian Hecker’s solo exhibition (co-commissioned by Chisenhale and IKON Gallery, Birmingham), which seems designed not to disorientate with sonic extremes – although it oc...
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Published 10-Mar-10
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EMERGING ASIAN ARTISTS – ART PRIZES
Four Asian artists were nominated for Pulse Awards at the PULSE art fair which took place in New York City and Miami between 4-7 March 2010: Shun Duk Kang from Korea, Hiroshige Furuhaka from Japan, Farsad Labbauf from Iran and Sopheap Pich from Cambodia.
Though none of these four artists won either the PULSE award or the People’s Choice award, the fair gave them a extensive exposure (they each won their own booths) and point to their status as emerging nam...
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Published 09-Mar-10
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PARIS (AP).- Performance art — which saw Dutch design
duo Viktor & Rolf strip a pup tent-shaped former supermodel down to
the size of a Playboy bunny in front of an audience of thousands — rang in
Saturday day four of the City of Light's eight-daylong ready-to-wear
week. Besides the odd-but-comeplling display, other highlights of
the day included the world-beat vibe at Jean Paul Gaultier, where a band
made up of such disparate elements as a Russi...
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