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ART NEWS:Sept.01

At the center of “Pensiero Spaziolungo”, Rosa Barba’s solo exhibition, is Drawn by the Pulse, a new silent 35mm filmic sculpture that combines astronomical researches and cinematographic techniques. Filmed at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory the works is dedicated to American astronomer Henrietta S. Leavitt and her research on observation, quantification …

Left to Right: Danh Vo, Oma Totem, 2009, Philips tv, Gorenje washing machine, Bomann mini refrigerator, wooden crucifix, Private collection-Torino. Danh Vo, 08:03, 28.05, 2009, Chandelier, late 17th century, National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) Collection, Photo: Nick Ash.Installation view: Danh Vo وادي الحجارة , Museo Jumex, Mexico City,2015, Photo: Abigail Enzaldo and Emilio Bernabé García, Courtesy Museo Jumex-Mexico City

ART CITIES: Copenhagen-Danh Vo

Danh Vo’s artworks dissect the power structures, cultural forces, and private desires that shape our experience of the world. His work addresses …

Left: Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#50, 2017, Mixed media, © Nobuta Omote/SANDWICH, Courtesy Scai The Bathhouse. Right: Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#49, 2017, © Nobuta Omote/SANDWICH, Courtesy Scai The Bathhouse

ART CITIES:Paris-Kohei Nawa

Since completing a Ph.D in fine art sculpture from Kyoto City University of Art in 2003, Kohei Nawa has won several awards …

Giancarlo De Carlo, Collegi universitari in Urbino, 2015, Photo: Olivo Barbieri

ARCHITECTURE:Bruno Zevi’s Architects

Bruno Zevi (22/1/1918-9/12000) was an Italian architect, historian, professor, curator, author, and editor. Zevi was a vocal critic of “classicizing” modern architecture …

Francis Alÿs, Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco-Spain, 2008, 2 video projections, 7:44 min each, Photo: Roberto Rubalcava, © Francis Alÿs, Courtesy the artist and Art Sonje Center

ART CITIES:Seoul-Francis Alÿs

One of the most compelling artists working today, Francis Alÿs offers a thought-provoking point of view on the times in which we …

Poul Gernes, Pyramide 1967–2018, Photo: Mattias Givell. Courtesy Wanas Foundation

ART-PRESENTATION: Projects x 3

Sculpture, both what it is and what it can be, is explored at Wanås Konst, Chiharu Shiota and Katarina Löfström (SE), who …

Left: Administration Building, Jeju National University, 1965, Photograph of Kimchungup Architecture Museum Collection, Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea. Right: Samil Building, 1969, Photograph of Kimchungup Architecture Museum Collection, Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea

ARCHITECTURE:Kim Chung-Up,Dialogue

As the only Korean who worked in Le Corbusier’s atelier, Kim Chung-up (1922-1988) laid the foundation for contemporary Korean architecture after returning …