Reviews
The Living Years: Art After 1989
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis
Curated by Siri Engberg and Clara Kim
A Curious Dispassion
By Christina Schmid
Curated by Siri Engberg and Clara Kim, “The Living Years: Art After 1989″ presents a selection of works from the Walker Art Center’s collection. The explicit purpose of the exhibit is twofold: to engage art of the past two [...]
A Visual Essay on Gutai
Hauser & Wirth - New York
Curated by Midori Nishizawa
By Paul Laster
An avant-garde art movement that developed in postwar Japan, Gutai was founded by Jiro Yoshihara and a group of young artists from Osaka and Kobe in 1954. A self-taught artist and son of a wealthy Osaka merchant, Yoshihara called for a style of “art that [...]
Helen Rebekah Garber: Spells, Spires, and Other Delicate Business
Charlie James Gallery - Los Angeles
By Tucker Neel
Humans have constantly employed meditative and repetitive actions to create immersed states that signal towards a profound desire to escape from the constrictions of embodied corporeality; the oppressiveness of being stuck in a body that must constantly face its own limitations is quite a bummer. The [...]
Jason Shawn Alexander: {sic}
101/exbibit - Los Angeles
By Heike Dempster
An artist’s oeuvre represents the story of his life, evolution and process of exploration. The work of Jason Shawn Alexander has changed and moved to new, uncharted territory without a safety net. He has incorporated new techniques into his approach, and for the first time he displayed his [...]
Luis Gispert: Pin Pan Pun
Rhona Hoffman Gallery - Chicago
By Jeriah Hildwine
“Pin Pan Pun” is Brooklyn-based artist Luis Gispert’s second solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. The title is a Cuban slang expression for a foldaway bed, carrying with it connotations of unexpected visits and familial connections. This theme of everyday physical objects with strong [...]
Roberto Diago: Between the Lines
Magnan Metz Gallery - New York
Looking Through Closed Eyes
By Abelardo Mena Chicuri
A ghost runs through Cuban art: It is the spirit of abstract painting. Abstractionism, which was condemned in the 1950s by Juan Marinello in his book Conversación con nuestros pintores abstractos (Universidad de Oriente, 1960), was rejected as escapist under the directives [...]
Travelling in Space
Lélia Mordoch Gallery - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
“Travelling in Space” assembled artists who explore time and space through their oeuvre. The exhibition included works by Robert Blanc, Emmanuel Fillot, Yukio Inamura, Laura and Ricardo Nillni, Keith Long, Joe Neill and Daniel Fiorda.
Curatorship of this exhibition arose from ideas that Immanuel Kant proposed in his [...]
The Hive/El panal
Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan
Several venues - San Juan Puerto Rico
By Paco Barragán
The Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan de Puerto Rico (The San Juan Polygraphic Triennial) kicked off on April 27 under the umbrella title El Panal/The Hive, with the participation of 150 national and international artists. The budget is $1 million, which [...]
…Is This Free?
NURTUREart - New York
Curated by Marco Antonini
By Stephen Truax
“Can art really be free?” asked Marco Antonini, gallery director of NURTUREart and organizer of the cleverly narrative title “…Is This Free?,” a three-part cumulative exhibition held from July 6 to August 31, 2012, that included more than 30 (both willing and unknowing) contributors who [...]
Sharon Hayes: There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
Whitney Museum of American Art - New York
“The Impossibility of Protest from Within the Institution”
By Stephen Truax
Artist and activist Sharon Hayes’ ongoing projects pairing political protest and personal desire exhibited together at the Whitney Museum of American Art illuminated how drastically the present political landscape differs from that of the 20th century. Hayes [...]
