It is not often to see good art by lesser known artists from far away continents. It is possible right now, this summer, in Paris, at The Louis Vuitton Foundation, which has dedicated its entire space to celebrate African art under the title of “Art/Afrique, Le Nouvel Atelier” (Art/Africa, the New Workshop). The event [...]
by E. Leigh I was not familiar with Soledad Sevilla’s work when I walked into the Malborough Gallery in Barcelona. Her paintings in different sizes, some of them occupying a whole wall, immediately caught my attention. Obsessive play of lines and color combinations, risky use of negative space variables and light, leaving us a [...]
How do we come to terms with a territory? Where are we situated as human beings? How do we interact with the world? What possibilities would a territory offer us if it exists? How do we occupy the space of tomorrow? A recent exhibition of French photography at the Antioquia Museum in Medellin, Colombia, posed [...]
Four Cuts into the Space A world mostly in black and white and many shades of grey. But more than that, Chinese artist Zheng Chongbin’s works are dense with texture, images that set the imagination free, distortions of space and time, shades that change when viewed from different angles. Zheng’s current solo exhibition [...]
An image can tell stories that words cannot. It can say a lot about a nation's past and present, and it can dwell in dark places of our heart and soul for a long time. And it can also move us onto the awareness of something true and valuable. He Chongyue, one of China's most [...]
Spouts Installation The world famous Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, who is not allowed to travel outside of China since 2010, opened a solo exhibition for the first time in his home country. I was lucky to arrive at the opening before it became too crowded. The exhibition took over two adjacent galleries and [...]
by A.P. With the theme of “All the world’s futures”, the Nigerian Okwui Enwezor, the first African guest curator in the Venice Biennale’s 120 years of history, has got together 136 artists from 56 countries, of whom 89 artists are showing their work for the first time. Enwezor’s intention is to “build a new focus [...]
Ceiling high works that can measure as long as seven meters. All-over paint and collages of precious metals, bumper stickers, rubber tires, cracked eggs, a hundred dollar bills in Ziploc bags, trash. Overwhelming in scale, dynamic in sense of color and texture. For Michael Chow, better known as the celebrity co-founder and owner of the [...]
Chinese artists have been pushed from one village to another, evicted from here to there. They disperse and come together again and again. The story of Yuan Ming Yuan Artists Village in the western part of Beijing began in the 18th century as the oldest center for the arts in China. In [...]
The Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik, according to Croatian tourist brochures, schedules an important local artist during the busy summer months. No more details were given but I decided to go anyway. The short walk from the walled old city circled around a beach where hundreds of people were taking a dip in the [...]
