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October 2011
Edward Burra @ Pallant House – Chichester
A couple of days ago our "Soldiers at Rye" post from last April (just when Watercolor's exhibition was on @ Tate) started to get hundreds of hits. With a quick search I realized Edward Burra finally got a new major retrospective @ Chicherster's Pallant House Gallery. Something to celebrate indeed, something we've been asking for since the very moment we admired Burra's war paintings and his surreal yet impressive watercolours. Now all of a sudden everyone and everything is about…
Find out more »RB Music academy 2011 – Madrid
We encouraged you earlier last February to participate in this year's edition and after a whole 2011 filled with amazing tours @ some of the most vibrant world cities (From Cape Town, Paris or Berlin to Detroit, Toronto and this weekend in London), The RedBull Music Academy will finally take place in Madrid by the end of the month @ one of the most iconic landmarks of the Spanish Capital... the old slaughterhouse. This year's edition includes 5 weeks of…
Find out more »November 2011
Heilstätten @ David Zwirner – New York
Three key exhibitions @ New York's David Zwirner art gallery until the snow makes its appearance in the big city with Christmas time. Capitalizing on two of its major figures "The Devil's dress" & "Heilstätten" are the newest works of Michaël Borremans & Neo Rauch. For Rauch this represents the artist’s fifth solo show at the gallery (demonstrating the interest of public & $$ for the German artist's works), and consists of small and large format paintings—several larger-than-life—as well as…
Find out more »Encrages @ Galerie Perrotin – Paris
JR needs no presentation, neither does Emmanuel Perrotin "Le malin de l'art" & owner of 3 well-known art galleries that take his name (two in Paris one in Miami). When both combined you can expect a bombastic & highly profitable venture right? Galerie Perrotin is bringing not one but two solo exhibitions (one in Paris, one in Miami) about the suburbs street artist starting later this month (19th in Paris, 29th in Miami). And we would try & not miss…
Find out more »Michael Wolf @ Flowers – London
One of Michael Wolf's latest stifling photographic series hast just landed @ East London's Flowers Gallery: Tokyo Compression. Although those poor Tokyoites are not the only ones being exhibited, two more extracts of his previous series "Hong Kong: Architecture of Density" & Transparent City (Chicago) take most of Flower's ground floor bringing the complexity of city life through observations of how vernacular architecture and public space are used. You've certainly come across his hyperdense and overwhelming photographic series that gave…
Find out more »December 2011
Post Digital Monsters @ Gaite Lyrique – Paris
There's still a loooong way to go before Pictoplasma 2012 takes Berlin for another animation rave, so in the meanwhile the organization & Parisian digital arts centre Gaîté Lyrique have teamed up to bring the festival to the French capital next month. From December 7 to 31 la Gaîté lyrique presents a comprehensive program with installations, exhibition, artist conferences, performances, screenings.... "Post Digital Monsters" is the main exhibition everything revolves around. A vast, central group show that presents international contemporary artists…
Find out more »Les histoires de Babar @ Arts Decoratifs – Paris
Despite living an average of 50 - 70 years the elephant King is already 80, and if no-one kills him (we doubt Laurent de Brunhoff, son of the original creator will), Babar may surely overpass the 82-year old record Raja still holds. If in your childhood you never read or watched Babar the elephant then you've missed a big classic, a bit like not knowing who are the barbapapas or the smurfs. (and note that you didn't have to be…
Find out more »Gotthard Schuh @ Mapfre Foundation – Madrid
Mapfre Foundation is organising a first major retrospective in Madrid of one of the most important Swiss photographers of the XXth century: Gotthard Schuh. In his early 30s Schuh stopped his promising career as a painter to become a passionate photographer, participating enthusiastically in the aesthetic photographic revolution of the late 20s.. the "new vision". He had discovered photojournalism, an excellent way to put into practice all his ideas. But photojournalism wasn't enough for him, he tried to escape from…
Find out more »January 2012
Together in electric dreams @ Riflemaker – London
Next Monday evening will mark the opening of Stuart Pearson Wright's second solo exhibition @ one of our favorite London galleries: Riflemaker (we don't say that about every single one ok?). As one of the youngest winners of the BP Portrait award (back in 2001 when he was only 26) Stuart's new works emphasize the artist’s concern with the motif of the smile and its traditional role in the history of portraiture as well as its use in advertising, popular culture…
Find out more »Lumarca @ Eyebeam – NYC
Here's a quick but highly recommended free visit proposal for next week in NYC: Lumarca. The installation is a volumetric display which allows viewers to see 3D images and motion. The system requires only a computer, a projector, and common materials found at most hardware stores. Its scale is limited only by the size of the projected image and.... your own ambition. Conceived as an affordable platform for artists to design compelling content, Lumarca is a collaboration between Albert Hwang,…
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