Articles of ‘Paul Chan’

The Importance of Daydreams

Curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch
World Class Boxing – Wynwood Art District, Miami
July 11 – August 31, 2009
 The Challenges of Daydreaming
 By Irina Leyva-Pérez

Putting together a collective exhibition is never an easy task. Finding the connection between the works and presenting them is always a challenge. If that exercise has to be done by selecting the pieces [...]



Venice Biennale – Making Worlds

 
By Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart
 
Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, the 53rd Venice Biennale presents an extensive arsenal of works from over ninety international artists. The Biennale also heralds a record number of 44 Collateral Events proposed by international groups. Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, the main exhibition’s multiple themes converge into an overarching gestalt exploring many creational forces. [...]



Things Fall Apart

Winkleman Gallery - New York
January 16 - February 21, 2009
By Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart
 
Turning and turning in the widening gyre,?
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;?
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;?
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere?
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst?
Are full of [...]



Traces du Sacré at Haus der Kunst (Munich, Germany)

September 19th, 2008 - January 11th, 2009
The beginning of the 20th century is marked by the impression of faith’s foundation being shaken to the core. Nietzsche’s declaration, “God is dead” (1881/1882) and Max Weber’s assertion of the “disenchantment of the world” (1904) revealed just how much people’s relationship to religion had changed. Yet this did [...]



The Cinema Effect

By David Schmidt
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has included the unprecedented exhibition: “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image” in this year’s schedule. It is a reflection on how the invention of cinema and its accompanying introduction of the moving image have radically changed the human being’s perception of his surroundings.