Do you remember Mathew Barney and his eight-year project Cremaster film cycle (1994-2002), exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 2003? Do you remember that this epic presentation involved biological, mythological and geological references of sex and the creation of the body called Cremaster, which is a muscle of the male body that regulates testicular contractions [...]
The 13th Istanbul Biennial will open on Saturday September 14th and entrance will be free. The organizers had planned to use open urban spaces, but following the anti-government demonstrations in the Taksim Square-Gezi Park area they decided to hold the exhibitions at interior venues. “I believe that by withdrawing from urban public spaces, thus [...]
When you were a child, you were vulnerable and you did not understand the world around you, its harshness, its darkness, where did you go? Did you hide yourself under the bed, behind a book, a corner in the back garden? Did you talk to your frog pet, your fantasy friends, did you listen [...]
In just under two hours outside of Beijing, monumental high-rise buildings disappear, the sky opens up and farmhouses begin to discern among trees and mountains. Not far from the Great Wall and shaded by chestnut trees, hawthorns and apricots, a modern rectangular-shaped building, minimalist in style, sits at the foothills of the Jiaojie River valley [...]
Before it will move to downtown Manhattan in 2015, the Whitney Museum of American Art has provided an exclusive opportunity to see and experience Robert Irwin’s 1977 installation of “Scrim veil-Black rectangle-Natural Light”. “Irwin’s work offers something profound that cannot be easily and quickly consumed”, says the chief curator Donna De Salvo, “the opportunity to [...]
by Light-man The issue of time in art is not new. Contemporary artists tend to be ahead of time. They delve into concepts that have not been dealt with. They want us to see things that we have not seen before. But the contemporary artist from Uruguay, Marcelo Larrosa-Martinatto thinks that art needs time, and [...]
There is a park in New York City blooming with red mountains, yellow coastlines and copious blue cascade. If you look closer, you would find that these elements of a landscape in spring and summer are actually hand-knotted nautical ropes covered in paint. This is a monumental installation consisting of 1.4 million feet of rope, [...]
by Ligh-tman This year summer came early to New York. As usual, the moment the sun comes out, New Yorkers fill up the streets with their summer outfit- shorts, sandals, hats, beach clothing, even though the temperature is still not warm enough to go to the beach. Perhaps it’s because winters are so long [...]
Sixty-four years after his death, the work of the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres Garcia still reigns the market of South American art. According to a recent report by the Associated Press, his oil painting “T No.1 –Peinture” was the “great star” of the night of the auction of Latin American art by [...]
There are thousands of people that are exploring some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. This chapter we will take you to Norway Switzerland and France where people are jumping cliffs as high as 6,000 feet. Experience Zero Gravity will hopefully provide you with the feeling and the emotion that we feel when [...]
