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Peggy Guggenheim’s “Art of This Century”, insight into the 1:3-reconstruction-model of the Surrealist Gallery, Los Angeles 1989, Gift of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, © Frederick Kiesler Stiftung, Courtesy Martin-Gropius-Bau

ARCHITECTURE: Friedrich Kiesler, Part I

Friedrich Kiesler was an architect, stage designer, designer, artist and theoretician. Kiesler worked for most of his career as a designer of theatrical sets and art exhibits, and in 1939 he formulated an important modernist theory for understanding the relationship between art and space that he called Correalism. Over and …

Sarah Sze, Timekeeper (2016), Mixed media, mirrors, wood, stainless steel, archival pigment prints, projectors, lamps, desks, stools, stone, Dimensions: variable, Courtesy of the artist Victoria Miro Gallery and Copenhagen Contemporary

ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living …

Shahpour Pouyan, Untitled, 2017, High fired ceramic, 34 x 29,5 x 29,5 cm, 110 x 45,5 x 45,5 cm pedestal, Photo : Bertrand Huet / Tutti Image, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels

EMERGING ARTISTS: Shahpour Pouyan

The Iranian artist Shahpour Pouyan belongs to the generation that came of age after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent Iran-Iraq …

Bill Viola, Walking on the Edge, 2012, Colour High-Definition video on flat panel display, 92.5 x 155.5 x 12.7 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 Aps, Leila Heller Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Dubai-Bill Viola

Bill Viola, in one of the pioneering figures of a generation of artists in the ‘70s employing video art and sound technologies. …

ART NEWS:March 02

Selma Gürbüz presents her solo exhibition “Karnavalesk” that includes never before seen three-dimensional work, painting, work on paper, and kinetic sculpture. Gürbüz’s …

Bernar Venet, Indeterminate Line, 2016, Oilstick, graphite and collage on paper, 220 x 153 cm, Courtesy the artist & Paul Kasmin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Bernar Venet

The French conceptual artist Bernar Venet rose to prominence in the late ‘60s through the art scene in New York. He moved …

TRAVELER’S DIARY: Geishas

“The Art of Love in the Time of Geishas: Forbidden Japanese Masterpieces” is part of the Pinacothèque de Paris exhibitions dedicated to …

OFFICE (Kersten Geers &David Van Severen), Weekend House, 2013, Collage, Courtesy of OFFICE KGDVS & Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

ARCHITECTURE:Spaces Without Drama

The exhibition “Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth” at Graham Foundation examines the recent proliferation of …

Richard Prince, Untitled (eyelashes), 1982-84. Ektacolor photograph, 101 x 158 cm sheet, 125 x 182 cm framed, © Richard Prince, Courtesy Skarstedt-London

PHOTO:Double Take

Appropriation took on new significance in mid-20th Century America and Britain with the rise of consumerism and the proliferation of popular images …

PHOTO:Diane Arbus-In The Beginning

The exhibition “Diane Arbus: In The Beginning” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), considers the first seven years of …

Martin-Gropius-Bau

ARCHITECTURE:Martin-Gropius-Bau

The architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden originally designed the building in the Renaissance style to house an arts and crafts museum. …

Liz Magor, Carton II, 2006, Polymerized gypsum, cigarettes, chewing gum, matches, lighters, 29.2 x 53.3 x 48.2 cm, Collection du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay

ART CITIES:Zurich- Liz Magor

In her native Canada Liz Magor is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary sculptors, the oeuvre she has built since …

Dan Flavin, Untitled (to Barbara Nüsse) (Detail), 1971, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy Estate of Dan Flavin / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2017, Photo: Axel Schneider

ART-PRESENTATION: Primary Structures

When the exhibition “Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors” (27/4-12/6/66) opened at the Jewish Museum in New York Curated by Kynaston …

Eric Cahan, Water - I Hardly Knew Her, 2016, Pigment print, oil paint and varnish, © Eric Cahan, Courtesy the artist

PHOTO:Eric Cahan

Eric Cahan, is Influenced by the Impressionists’ depiction of natural light and its ever-changing qualities, as well as Color Theory. For him, …

Agnès Varda

ART CITIES:N.York- Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda’s films, photographs, and installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinct experimental style. The only …

ART NEWS:March 01

“Blue Room”, the first institutional solo exhibition by Frank Heath, is a synchronized installation of video works connected by an ominous humor, …

Christo, The Floating Piers (Project for Lake Iseo, Italy), 2016, Courtesy Galerie Guy Pieters, Art Paris 2017 Archive

MIRRAGES XXXIV

  Looking at Christo’s drawings for the Floating Piers, his project for Lake Iseo in Italy, I was wondering how someone experiences …