By Alexandra Chang
In the flowery porcelain world of Chinese sculptor, Ma Jun’s, ‘ New China Series ‘ (2005-2007), Qing dynasty-style chinaware is handcrafted, mass-produced, and comes in the shape of ’80s era TVs, boom boxes, radios, sports cars, Coca-Cola cans and Chanel perfume bottles. His sculptures in blue and white and famille verte were recently [...]
After a hectic week during which the 38th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach took place in Miami in conjunction with numerous other art fairs, Wynwood Magazine spoke with Paco Barragán, who curated together with Nina Arias The Expanded Painting Show for MASH Miami, and who also participated actively with PhotoMiami as artistic advisor and [...]
By Susana Iturrioz
The first stage of the journey undertaken by “Zhù Yì! (1) Chinese Contemporary Photography” concluded recently after its debut at the Centro-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo ARTIUM in Álava (Basque Country). In the middle of February next year it will arrive at Palau de la Virreina, a baroque palace in Barcelona’s La Rambla. Thus, six [...]
By Uzma Z. Rizvi
“Sultana’s Dream”, evokes an early twentieth century desire in feminism to designate space for women in the public sphere by relegating men to the private, creating a utopist vision expressed as fantasy. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain inverted the world as she saw it in 1905 British India, effectively altering the lexical marker [...]
By Marcela Römer
Art composition usually starts with a point that turns into a line and then into a shape or plan. That is how, according to the educational standards of the already memorable Bauhaus -and way before that, of course- artists merge their journeys through artistic visions which place them in a world created by [...]
By Lukas Feireiss
Sites of Berlin and Kabul flickering on a small screen. Lateral worlds of imaginary time and space engaged in silent observations of void intensity. Speechless and abandoned. Relics of a fence interwoven with sprawling weeds and leaves. Lattices of living and nonliving structures superimposed not only on screen, but tangible as a physical matrix [...]
By Allard van Hoorn
This project is all about the paradox of history, the encounter and tourism. When I traveled to the outskirts of Mongolia to discover those who had never been in contact with the outside world I was hoping for authenticity, the ‘real’. Now, I realize that by succeeding in finding I instantly destroyed [...]
By Raisa Clavijo
A darkened room houses an enormous sphere full of smoke with texts taken from the Bible and the Koran floating over it. On the walls, acrylic boxes and mirrors reflect the sacred ancient words. Andrés Michelena (Caracas, 1963) has returned with a new concept, the fruit of his tireless genius. OOPSS!! (2007) is [...]
By Raisa Clavijo
Modern man is accustomed to internalizing artistic creation through experience. For the last few decades, we have approached works of art not as passive observers, but as participants. (1) In fact, in the last few years exhibition and museum techniques have evolved into concepts which try to actively involve the spectator in particular environments, [...]
