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Playing with abstraction illusionism, Robin Rhode (*1976, Cape Town, South Africa) hijacks public space and transforms it into a personal dreamscape where flat renderings of daily objects becomes 3-dimensional ones. Through a precise physical interaction with his drawn objects which Rhode then registers by photography and composes into digital animations, simple abstract shapes are transformed…
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The art collector, Erika Hoffmann-Koenige, together with her husband, the late Mr. Rolf Hoffmann, has built up one of the finest collections in contemporary art since the 1960s. At the fall of the Wall, they moved their home from Cologne to Berlin, settled down with their collection in a factory complex in former East Berlin…
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Hans-Peter Feldmann insists that he’s not an artist. He dislikes such labels, because for him, the so call “Art” is simply part of the everyday life, nothing more nothing less. Text by Selina Ting, 2011 Spring, Berlin Born in 1941 in Dusseldorf, Germany, Feldmann started cutting and collecting pictures from books and magazines at the…
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The paintings of Li Fang look familiar. Yet this familiarity is deeply infused with an intangible, uncanny mood. Selina Ting for initiArt MagazineNovember 2009 Click Here for an interview with Li Fang Moving away from her well-received depiction of the ephemeral presence of urban passers-by, Li Fang’s recent work concentrates on the more subtle psychological activities…
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The paintings of Li Fang look familiar. Yet this familiarity is deeply infused with an intangible, uncanny mood. Moving away from her well-received depiction of the ephemeral presence of urban passers-by, Li Fang’s recent work concentrates on the more subtle psychological activities of individuals. Based on photos of her family and acquaintances, Li Fang captures…
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Elke Krystufek’s work is highly controversial. She is entrenched in the idiosyncratic struggle between sex, art and money. Her work warns that when a portion of the triad breaks down the remnants are left to fend for themselves. In the interview, Elke Krystufek talks with us about Female Sexuality and Social Taboo.
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The Fondation Cartier in Paris is presenting the exhibition Born in the Street – Graffiti (July 7 – November 29) which brings to light the extraordinary development of an artistic movement that was born in the streets of New York in the early 1970s to rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon. Yet, despite its immense popularity, this essentially…
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Selina Ting Oct 2009 In the Russian Pavilion, Andrei Molodkin (b. 1966) is showing alongside 6 compatriots, Pavel Pepperstein, Alexey Kallima, Irina Korina, Gosha Ostretsov, Anatoly Shuravlev and Sergei Shekhovtsov. Entitled “The Victory over the Future”, a name borrowed from a futurist opera “Victory over the Sun” in 1913 which was an omen of impending…
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Sade for Sade’s Sake (2009), a three-channel animation projection that Paul Chan (b. 1973) presented for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia this year, depicts shadow-like human bodies in physical movement. These figures talk, argue, and plea with one another, walk and crawl, beaten and whipped, and engaged in sexual activities and religious rituals. Interspersed among them…
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In Venice, the young artist from Lithuania is conquering the senses of visitors by offering an ultimate sensual experience to them. The New York-based artist Zilvinas Kempinas (b. 1969) present his new installation Tube (2008) in the Lithuania Pavilion at the renaissance building Scuole Grande della Misericordia. Tube, made of videotape, looks more like a translucent tunnel of parallel lines, invites visitors to walk through it, to experience “a new sense of space and one’s body in a moment of time.”
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