By Alvaro Rodríguez Fominaya
In 2008 Para/Site Art Space invited Ai Weiwei to work on a project in Hong Kong. To my surprise, he accepted. Indeed, we didn’t have much to offer to him, if we compare the micro space of Para/Site Art Space to the Tate Modern or the Mori Art Museum, to mention just [...]
The Strange Alliance between the Oldest and the Newest of all Media
History is always moving in unexpected ways. The paradox of the return of mural painting, the oldest of all media, in the era of the Internet and because of the Internet might well oblige us to change all of our parameters in reading art [...]
Amanda Coulson is the executive director of the VOLTA contemporary art fair in Basel, Switzerland and VOLTA NY in Manhattan. Former editor of the International Edition of Tema Celeste magazine, Coulson continues writing for a variety of art journals, and represents this new breed of art critics and curators that have engaged actively during the [...]
By Paco Barragán
A confession: I’m a frustrated soccer player turned tennis aficionado. This explains why I can’t help but read from time to time certain surveys that appear in the world of sports revealing its competitive dynamics. Maybe my enthusiasm stems from the fact that one way or another they always end up referring to [...]
By Michele Robecchi
In times when art fairs are busy reinventing themselves as ‘international forums’ and ‘cultural, multi-global events’, Fresh Paint, the Tel Aviv contemporary art fair, represents a turn against the tide. Now at its third edition, it deliberately takes place every year in a different location (this year the choice fell on a beautiful [...]
By Christiane Paul
Sustainability has become the new “social networking”-at least it seems to have superseded the latter as the catchword du jour. An increasing number of conferences, think tanks, art exhibitions and publications have been devoted to the subject over the past few years and have reached critical mass. Sustainability has moved from its [...]
By Carla Acevedo-Yates
Jason Kraus (1983, New York) is a promising young artist who recently graduated from the California Institute of the Arts. Since then, he has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York, and he recently collaborated with Martin Kersels in a one-night performance at the Whitney Museum [...]
The collective AES+F (Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes) was formed at the end of the 1980s in Moscow. The very selection of the name, as if it were an acronym for a multinational corporation, communicates the work strategy of these artists. Under the expressive, seductive guise of advertising language and full of [...]
By Jeff Edwards
Sharon Hayes’ art is stunning for the way it both reflects and strives to transcend the divisive political climate we’ve made for ourselves. Though her works are often concerned with specific controversies and transient cultural moments, their apparent single-issue focus can be misleading. Across a broad constellation of performances, installations, and actions dealing [...]
Kostis Velonis was born in 1968 and is considered one of the most important Greek artists of his generation. His sculptural work often refers to historical events and art-historical movements, and the focus is on political utopias and the failure of ideology. Velonis, pivoting himself on the language of Modernism and the theoretical pursuits of [...]
