Reviews
Diferido - Diogo Pimentão
MARZ Galeria - Lisbon, Portugal
By Ekaterina Rietz-Rakul & Steve Schepens
Drawing is the main medium of young Portuguese artist Diogo Pimentão. However, Pimentão (like the artists of arte povera) refuses to stay traditional and seems completely open toward new materials and processes. The artist widely uses the method of alienation, or Verfremdung. The technique, popularized by [...]
Andy Coolquitt
Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco
By Cara Despain
Like the show’s title, Andy Coolquitt’s sculptural works at Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco carry a distinct human quality that is once removed from their creator. Constructed from scavenged materials-specifically pieces of metal and plastic pipes in graduating sizes, drinking straws, lighters, electrical wire, a partially consumed [...]
Genoveva Fernández and Martín Calcagno
Elsi del Río Contemporary Art - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Curated by Fernando Entin
By María Carolina Baulo
The Argentine artists Genoveva Fernández and Martín Calcagno presented two different but complementary series at the gallery Elsi del Río Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires. The curatorial proposal related the interaction of opposites and stimulated the spectators to read the art [...]
Sean Lynch
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Searching for Delorean
By María Mínguez
Have you ever thought of what happens to a car factory when it is closed? Where does the material end up? What happens with its building and surroundings? What provoked the factory’s bankruptcy?
The first solo exhibition of the Irish artist Sean Lynch (b.1978) at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery [...]
MONUMENTA 2010 – Christian Boltanski
Grand Palais - Paris
My death waits like a bible truth at a funeral of my youth
Weep loud for that and a passing time…
Jacques Brel
(Extract from MY DEATH )
By Lara Pan
Monumenta 2010, curated by Catherine Grenier, showcases one of the most important artists on the French and international scenes. It is [...]
Luc Tuymans
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn & Helen Molesworth
By Franklin Meléndez
Luminous in its flatness, the Luc Tuymans mid-career survey at SFMoMA brings together an impressive array of works, expertly selected by co-curators Madeleine Grynsztejn and Helen Molesworth from his prolific output of over 500 paintings. The second leg of the tour, which [...]
Damien Hirst – No Love Lost / Nothing Matters
The Wallace Collection & White Cube - London
By Michele Robecchi
In a recent issue of Marcus Harvey’s magazine Turps Banana, Damien Hirst lively expressed his scarce appreciation for Luc Tuyman’s work. “Will someone get him a color box and a ruler? I hate that indecision in painting.” Whilst Hirst’s outburst is quite refreshing - artists seldom [...]
Manuela Ribadeneira - Change is Around the Corner
dpm Gallery - Miami
By Rodolfo Kronfle-Chambers
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall -and of the panorama outlined by Francis Fukuyama before the horizon of a unipolar world- the “end of history” is reconfigured in different parts of the world in a reloaded version of the old clash of ideologies contradicting -at least for [...]
Miami’s Art Fairs Week 2009
By Cara Despain
Anyone who has been to Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach and its many fringe fairs knows how daunting an endeavor visiting even a fraction of them can be. Even the most dedicated art lover is subject to fatigue and an overwhelming sense of jadedness at times. But let us not forget: although [...]
Cattelan vs. Cattelan
The Menil Collection - Houston
By Héctor Antón Castillo
Maurizio Cattelan is a mainstream name who can already afford himself the luxury of fighting with himself, without fear of failure as far as media impact or controversial coverage is concerned. More than one emblematic piece helps this thoughtful humorist complicate or simplify the nuances of his hyperrealistic [...]
