No elephant dung, no glitter, no textured, collaged surfaces. It's all a bit of a shock. But do we like Ofili's new work?I'd seen some of Chris Ofili's new work in the lavish new Rizzoli book he has helped put together. Even so, after walking past so many greatest hits and old friends in the galleries at London's Tate Britain, where his latest career survey opens to the public tomorrow, I got a jolt when I walked into the final pair of rooms, filled with his most recent work. In the first, the p...
By Oliver Basciano
For those raised on a diet of contemporary art and all the louche hubbub that surrounds it, entering the London Art Fair is like stepping into a malfunctioning time machine that only ever delivers you back to Cork Street circa the early twentieth century. A quick twirl of the main hall and concentration drifts away from the nicest of nice paintings on sale to the fashions, genteel gossip and guffawing of gallery staff born exclusively of Britain’s public school system, direct...
Adrian Searle is captivated by Boltanski's Parisian installation – an eerie disco of 15,000 beating heartsAdrian Searle ...
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Published 14-Jan-10
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From eerily empty clock faces to angular knots of twisted steel, Strunz creates sculptures that seem trapped in timeSculptor Katja Strunz resurrects the forward-thinking forms of modernism or minimalism, yet what she unearths bears signs of the grave. In her recent Memory Wall (2008), black cubes recalling Kasimir Malevich's famous square or Donald Judd's minimalist boxes congregate haphazardly on walls like migrating birds. While some of her works are rendered in powder-coated steel or bronze, ...
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Published 13-Jan-10
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Masterpiece saved from Nazis in 1938 to sell alongside key works by Cézanne and Giacometti. See gallery hereA rare and luminously beautiful landscape by Gustav Klimt that was crated up by its owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 and then more or less disappeared for decades is to be auctioned in London, Sotheby's announced today.The painting – which represents a key turning point for the artist – is being sold in what the auction house says is one of the most eye-catching sales o...
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Published 13-Jan-10
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Anthony Caro writes: Kenneth Noland (obituary, 9 January) was undoubtedly one of the great masters of 20th-century art. He took his lead from the all-over paintings of Pollock, and instead found the centre of the square canvas. This leap gave birth in the 1960s to his series of circle paintings. Within this simple format, he invested each work, some as large as 6ft x 6ft, with radiant, original colour. These works he followed by opening out the painting by means of the chevron, and later still, ...
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Published 12-Jan-10
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Misconceived as an 'easy' artist, Claude Monet's unnerving talent for mood in fact speaks directly to our subconsciousLast night I dreamed about a painting. It was Claude Monet's Bathers at La Grenouillère (1869), on display at London's National Gallery. (Except that in my dream, it became a black-and-white photograph.) In this painting, people at leisure are glimpsed in a spatter of dancing light: a group of three figures stand on a jetty, fragmented silhouettes against the brightness, while bo...
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Published 11-Jan-10
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The worst way to kick off a new year for an art blogger is to see an exhibition so good you're left wondering if the rest of the year won't be a 12-month letdown.
Manipulating Reality, a show running until January 17 at CCCS in Florence, is brilliant. The exhibition explores the theme of the manipulation and reconstruction of reality through photographic images and videos. Because my blogging slowness is becoming legendary and the exhibition closes real soon, i thought i would be best to post ...
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Published 09-Jan-10
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From vertical farms to solar forests, neutralizing the carbon footprint of urban centers is one of the most popular trends in design.Los Angeles firm Emergent Architecture has come up with a concept that combines public art with creating biofuel. Called a "photobioreactor," the aquarium-like structure would contain green algae colonies, also known as pond scum, which produce an oil that can be processed into a biodiesel fuel that can replace petroleum-based diesel fuel.Even better, green algae c...
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Published 27-Nov-09
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Having obtained MFA in Applied Art & Graphic Design in 1993 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University of Baroda and a bachelors degree from B.K.College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneswar, Odisha , Prof. Paresh Choudhury began his professional career with Archie’s and Indian Express as a graphic designer in Delhi. His creative hunger soon pushed him into the mad-ad world. From Visualiser to Art Director and Creative Head his work took him along agencies from TBWA-Anthem, Interact Vision, to M...
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Published 14-Nov-09
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