David Claerbout, Olympia, 2016
Artist: David Claerbout (born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium; lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin, Germany). Full title: Olympia (The real time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years) Materials: Two channel real-time projection, colour, silent, HD animation, 1000 years (begun 2016) Description: “Olympia is a […]
Leonor Antunes, discrepancies with C. P., 2019
Artist: Leonor Antunes (born 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives and works in Lisbon and Berlin, Germany). Material: Sculptural installation comprising six sculptures on a sisal carpet. Description: Installation at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. It is based on Antunes’s “intense engagement with Cuban furniture designer and interior designer Clara Porset (1895–1981), which began in 2007 […] […]
Xavier Delory, Pilgrimage Along Modernity, 2014–19
Artist: Xavier Delory (b. 1973, Liege, Belgium; lives and works in Brussels) Description: A series of digital photomontages showing buildings by Le Corbusier in a state of dereliction and ruin. The images above are Pilgrimage (2014), an image of the Villa Savoye, and The End of Modernity (2015), showing the chapel at Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp. Other […]
Chto Delat, Untitled (Tatlin’s Tower), 2013
Artist: Chto Delat [What Is to Be Done?] [Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Nina Gasteva, Artiom Magun, Nikolay Oleynikov, Natalia Pershina/Glucklya, Alexey Penzin, David Riff, Alexander Skidan, Oxana Timofeeva, Dmitry Vilensky] (collective founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Russia). Materials: Description: “The quotation [of Tatlin’s Monument] created by Chto Delat, a Russian collective of artists, critics, and philosophers, […]
Sandra Gamarra, Soft Modernity, 2015
Artist Sandra Gamarra (b.1972, Peru; lives and works in Madrid) Material Paintings, poster, installation. Painting LiMac Miami Bordes Blandos II, 2015, oil on canvas, 17 7/10 × 17 7/10 inches Description Artist-curated exhibition Modernidad blanda (Soft modernity), shown at Art Basel Miami in 2015. Gamarra was invited by Galeria Leme (Sao Paulo) to design its booth […]
Isaac Julien, Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, 2019
Artist Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London; lives and works in London) Materials Nine screen installation, super high definition (4k), color, 9.1 surround sound, 39’08” duration View the trailer here. Description A video installation reflecting on Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992) and her approach to Brazilian culture. It was filmed on location in hree of […]
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Total Transformation, 2019
Artist Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen (b. 1977, Aeroe, Denmark; lives and works in Copenhagen). Materials Exhibition at Galleri Møller Witt, Copenhagen. Paintings, oil on canvas, various sizes. Above: installation view; Deserting Desert Land (2019), 146 x 231 cm; Total Work of Art (2019), 140 x 184 cm; Mood Machine (2018). Description An exhibition of paintings depicting modernist […]
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Past Presence, 2019
Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1947 in Tokyo, Japan; lives and works in New York, USA and Tokyo) Description: “Past Presence explores the artist’s continued interest in time and history though a canon of twentieth-century masterworks […] From Brancusi, Picasso and Matisse, through Magritte, Duchamp, Mondrian, to Giacometti, Warhol and Johns, each picture depicts an object […]
Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus, Public Collection, 2014
Artists: Alexandra Pirici (born Bucharest, 1982, lives and works in Berlin) and Manuel Pelmus (born 1974, lives and works in Oslo and Bucharest) Description: Public Collection is a continuous performance in an exhibition context, performed by 3 or 4 dancers, that proposes the idea of an immaterial collection of modern art. Illustrated above: installation at […]
Netta Yerushalmy, Paramodernities, 2013–2018
Paramodernities is a six-part series of lecture-performances or dance-experiments that weaves theory and performance into a four-hour-long hybrid event. “Yerushalmy and a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, ranging in age from 20 to 68, perform deconstructed installments of Nijinsky’s Sacre (1913), Graham’s Night Journey (1947), Ailey’s Revelations (1960), a mix of Cunningham works Rainforest, Sounddance, […]
