Upon entrance into Ulla von Brandenburg’s colorful installation entitled Singspiel, one is confronted with a sensation of curious exploration coupled with the particular anxiety of entering the unknown. The labyrinthine structure is made up of a series of solid colored fabrics forming an intervention in space and architecture. These colors refer to the color scale of Swiss Psychoanalyst Max Luscher, who in the 1950s conceived[…..]
Grazia Toderi’s 2009 work, Orbite Rosse, is featured in this year’s Venice Biennale as a part of the Making Worlds exhibition. Its two video screens feature images of cities captured at night from an aerial perspective. Toderi’s use of video, which uses light to create compositions, marries well with his choice to depict cities brightly lit at night. The resulting abstraction of these far-away cityscapes[…..]
The Russian artist duo Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov present Danger! Museum at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In this playful installation of paintings and video, the artists continue their exploration of painting’s art historical past and the legacy of Socialist-realism. In this instance their paintings are created through the lens of the the Italian Renaissance, highly appropriate for the Biennale’s setting. Dubossarsky and Vinogradov’s exhibition[…..]
Steve McQueen’s newly commissioned work, Giardini, represents Great Britain at this year’s Venice Biennale. Giardini takes its name and subject matter from the main venue of the Biennale, the Giardini di Castello, on two separate, highly horizontal film screens placed seamlessly side by side. The images on each screen in turn interact with one another, offering different vantage points of the same imagery. Each screen[…..]
Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Guests represents Poland at this year’s 53rd Venice Biennale. Wodiczko’s video projection installation is at once an aesthetic and a political work. While much contemporary art addresses social and political issues, it is an exceptional achievement for an artist to convey such commentary through powerful aesthetic means as Wodiczko manages to do in this work. Guests is realized by the projection of large-scale[…..]
The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh is currently showing, Buried, a solo exhibition featuring new and recent video and photographic work by artist Willie Doherty in conjunction with the release of a new publication by the same name. Doherty, who was born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, addresses his homeland’s struggle to come to terms with its haunting past of violence and loss. His work[…..]
Steve McQueen, Girls, Tricky Coinciding with the opening of the Art Institute new Modern Wing in Chicago is the newly created Donna and Howard Stone Film, Video, and New Media Gallery. The gallery is the first devoted “black box” installation space at the Art Institute. Steve McQueen’s Girls, Tricky has been selected to be the space’s first featured work and is currently on view until[…..]
