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September 2011
Hackney Film Festival
The good thing about London is that there's always something exciting going on. If it's not a cinema competition on racing boats across the city canals is hidden super secret evenings with Eastern Europe's best trapeze artists or high-quality electro squats. The bad thing is that most of these are 1 time only and hardly repeat themselves throughout the months or years. And here comes the second edition of a great initiative:the Hackney Film Festival! Conceived as a platform for local…
Find out more »Alien Theory @ Le Plateau – Paris
Xavier Franceschi brings to the Parisian Le Plateau a solo show for the first time in France of Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva... The Portuguese duo whose works & egg sculptures represented the Iberian country @ 2009 Venice Biennale (with great acclaim everything has to be said) bring their “poetic philosophical fiction” to Paris until the end of November, and we suggest... if you're a sci-fi and paranormal activities lover then this one is an unmissable autumn…
Find out more »Fame Fest 2011 @ Grottaglie – Italy
After the 2010 edition comes the... 2011 one! One of the best summery street art festivals will once again take place at the southern Italian city of Grottaglie: Fame Fest. About to be canceled at first, the people @ Studio Cromie have managed however to put together the 4th edition with an always amazing selection of artists, for 2011 Angelo and the crew @ Cromie have brought Vhils, Nespoon, Erica il Cane, NUG, Boris Hoppek.... amongst many others. Quite a…
Find out more »Nordic Days 2011
Last year with the beginning of autumn a new festival started to take shape in the streets of Madrid. A viking invasion leaded by Jonathan Johansson, Kaspar, Murder and José González. But it wasn't all about viking music, viking rock & soft pop. There was some room for cinema, dark literature and a few talks too, but most of the festival gravitated around our beloved viking sounds. How about this year? Well yes, there will be a second edition of…
Find out more »October 2011
alighiero boetti: game plan @ MNCARS – Madrid
Madrid's modern art museum Reina Sofia (MNCARS for those who love acronyms) is presenting this autumn a retrospective of Boetti's life & works
Find out more »John Stark’s Apiculture @ Charlie Smith London
John Stark is back to London's Charlie Smith gallery with his second solo exhibition.... Beekeeping, a surrealistic Dalinian approach to honey bee maintenance. For this exhibition Stark has created a body of work that gravitates towards the centre of his preoccupations of the last three years. Stark’s paintings transcend time by navigating the historical, the contemporary and the futuristic. At once his content recalls the Flemish landscape painting of Patinir; the figure work of Zurbarán and Sassoferrato; and the minimal…
Find out more »The Passions @ Lyons Wier gallery – NY
I had the opportunity to admire Martin Wittfooth's Fish Market more than a year ago when it came along with many other American paintings to Bristol's city museum. That mix of wild diabolic nature, possessed fauna and apocalyptic sceneries. Human horrors or nature errors? Flying monkeys, deadly hummingbirds, perturbed and perturbing creatures ... Canadian artist Martin Wittfooth just opened his newest (and first) solo exhibition @ New York's Lyons Wier gallery last week. "The Passions" comes to represent the religious…
Find out more »Diane Arbus @ Jeu de Paume – Paris
After photographing freaks, marginals and "different" people for years, Diane Nemerov started to fear that she would be known simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"... but unfortunately for her (and right after her suicide ... just when her legend begun) Miss Arbus was often referenced for her deviant photography. We had the opportunity to see her works in Madrid a couple of years ago @ Festival Off (part of PHotoEspaña 2010) so when realizing that Parisian Jeu de Paume via…
Find out more »Mental States @ Hayward Gallery – London
£10 for your daily nightmare may seem a bit expensive but as Mr Condo puts himself, the more disgusted you feel when looking at his paintings, the more attracted you are. George Condo's "Metal States" brings the first major retrospective of the American artist after visiting the New Museum in New York and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam last summer. Now in London (and before traveling to Frankfurt next February) the Hayward Gallery brings the first major survey of…
Find out more »René Daniëls @ MNCARS – Madrid
Never to late to remind you of one of the best exhibitions happening right now in Madrid: An exhibition is always part of a greater whole... an open view onto the versatile nature and the complexity of the René Daniëls’ works. René Daniëls (Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1950) began his personal exploration of the possibilities of painting as a medium in 1976, on completing his art studies. He linked the visual arts and their rich history with literature and everyday life. Ambiguity…
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