Artist: Gian Maria Tosatti Title: History of Night and Destiny of Comets Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Italy Curated by: Eugenio Viola Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “History of Night and Destiny of Comets is an installation by Gian Maria Tosatti that combines literary references, visual […]
Artist: Andra Ursuţa (Romania-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Andra Ursuţa’s seductive and unsettling sculptures – often made from casts of her own body – are radical hybrid beings. Recalling both American science fiction action horror films including Predator and the Alien […]
Artist: Jana Euler (Germany) Year: 2019–2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jana Euler’s work bounds between stylistic conceits, trafficking in grotesque, monstrous, contorted, eroticised, and frequently off-putting representations of figures, both human and not. Aping the jokey, anarchist attitude, surrealist fixations, and […]
Artist: Ilit Azoulay Title: QUEENDOM Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Israel Curated by: Shelley Harten Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “How sovereign can art be? Ilit Azoulay casts off the restrictions of national and male representations and opens pathways into an interconnected Middle East. The Queendom, […]
Artist: Elias Sime (Ethiopia) Titles: Red Leaves, two Veiled Whispers Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Elias Sime’s large-scale abstractions are made from thousands of electrical wires, type keys, microchips, and computer hardware components. His focus on electronic materials began approximately […]
Artist: Hannah Levy (USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Hannah Levy defamiliarises commonplace objects by warping or exaggerating their formal properties. Levy’s visual vocabulary includes medical equipment, gymnastic devices, safety bars, vegetables, pastries, and pearls. Her objects provoke repulsion and attraction to […]
Artist: Joanna Piotrowska (Poland) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Joanna Piotrowska’s psychologically charged photographs probe human behaviour and the dynamics of familial relations, exploring intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection. The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, […]
Artist: Simone Leigh (USA) Title: Sovereignty Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: USA Curated by: Eva Respini, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Characterised by an interest in performativity and affect, Simone Leigh’s expansive body of work in sculpture, video, and performance parses the […]
Artist: Sondra Perry (USA) Title: Lineage For A Phantom Zone Year: 2020 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Sondra Perry rigorously considers the dehumanisation of Black bodies from a historical and personal perspective, using visual strategies culled from computer-based media to reflect critically […]
Artist duo: Skuja Braden Title: Selling Water by the River Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Latvia Curated by: Solvita Krese and Andra Silapētere Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Skuja Braden, an international artistic collaboration that was born in 1999 between Ingūna Skuja from Latvia and Melissa […]
Artist: Felipe Baeza (Mexico) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “These lines title a large-scale painting by Felipe Baeza, who combines collage, mixed media, egg tempera, and printmaking to make heavily textured two- dimensional works. Dreams of other planets, of another life arise […]
Artist: Tau Lewis (Canada) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Tau Lewis transforms foraged textiles and artifacts through painstaking processes of sewing and quilting into imaginary talismans and magical beings who inhabit sci-fi worlds. Recalling the works of Gee’s Bend quilters, […]
Artist: Uffe Isolotto Title: We Walked the Earth Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Denmark Curated by: Jacob Lillemose Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Step into a hyperrealistic world of unexpected drama. Set in a strange hybrid time period where elements from the historical past of Danish […]
Artist: Simone Leigh (USA) Title: Brick House Year: 2019 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Characterised by an interest in performativity and affect, Simone Leigh’s expansive body of work in sculpture, video, and performance parses the construction of Black femme subjectivity. Leigh’s large-scale […]
Artist: Joseph Beuys (Germany) Title: The Pack Year: 1969 USEFUL LINKS: Joseph Beuys in this blog | Wikipedia
Artist: Nick van Woert (USA) Title: Anatomica Year: 2020 USEFUL LINKS: Nick van Woert in this blog | Website | Wikipedia
Artist: Tatiana Blass (Brazil) Title: Globo da Morte Year: 2008 USEFUL LINKS: Tatiana Blass in this blog | Website | Wikipedia
Artist: Jannis Kounellis (Greece / Italy) Title: Untitled Year: 2006 USEFUL LINKS: Jannis Kounellis in this blog | Wikipedia
Artist: Albert York (USA) Title: Woman and Skeleton Year: c. 1967 USEFUL LINKS: Albert York in this blog | Wikipedia
Artist: Gerhard Richter (Germany) Title: Kleine Sekretärin Year: 1965 Technical details: Oil on canvas, 47 cm x 36 cm USEFUL LINKS: Gerhard Richter in this blog | Website | Wikipedia
Artist: Norman Mooney (Ireland) Title: Wallflower No.2 Year: 2009 USEFUL LINKS: Norman Mooney in this blog | Website | Twitter | Instagram
Artist: Cudelice Brazelton (USA/Germany) Title: Undergird Year: 2019 “Undergird (2019) is a circular collage-painting on a black and white inkjet printing, presenting a close-up of Brazelton’s own skin. The piece is particularly marked by the way the surface has been worked over. What does it mean when an […]
Artist: Sarah-Jane Hoffmann (Germany) Exhibition: The Absent Body At: CINNNAMON, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2016 USEFUL LINKS: Sarah-Jane Hoffmann in this blog | Instagram
Artist: Dori Deng (China/UK) Title: Expansion Series, Work No. 2 Year: 2021 USEFUL LINKS: Dori Deng in this blog | Website | Instagram
Artist: Nairy Baghramian (Iran) Title: Sitzengebliebene / Stay Downers Year: 2017 Techinical details: polyurethane, lacquered aluminium, siilicone Exhibition at: ADAA, New York, 2018 USEFUL LINKS: Nairy Baghramian in this blog | Marian Goodman Gallery | Wikipedia
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