Artist: Joseph Beuys (Germany) Title: Lightning with Stag in its Glare Year: 1958–85 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Lightning with Stag in its Glare is a large-scale installation that occupies an entire room, created by the German artist Joseph Beuys. The work comprises […]
Artist: Jenny Holzer (USA) Title: BLUE PURPLE TILT Year: 2007 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Video Credits: Barbara Picci “BLUE PURPLE TILT consists of seven tall and narrow LED (light-emitting diode) signs leaning against the gallery wall at an equal distance from one another. The top and […]
Artist: Haegue Yang (South Korea) Title: Sol LeWitt Upside Down – Structure with Three Towers, Expanded 23 Times, Split in Three Year: 2015 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Powder-coated aluminium, steel, plastic, LED lights and nylon. Purchased with funds provided by the Asia-Pacific […]
Artist: Cildo Meireles (Brazil) Title: Babel Year: 2001 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers. The […]
Artist: Yayoi Kusama (Japan) Title: Obliteration Room Year: 2011 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Yayoi Kusama’s interactive Obliteration Room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from […]
Artist: Robert Indiana (USA) Title: Love Year: 1970 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in […]
Artist: Tetsumi Kudo (Japan) Title: Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule Year: 1968 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Tetsumi Kudo was part of a generation of Japanese artists that was highly skeptical of traditional society in the wake of the […]
Artist: Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada-France) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Drawing from her training in anthropology, Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-based work in film, sculpture, performance, and installation signals anti-colonial struggle and attention to systems of power through a combination of conceptual and architectural strategies. […]
Artist: Precious Okoyomon (Nigeria-USA) Title: To See The Earth Before the End of the World Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Precious Okoyomon – poet, artist, and chef – stages sculptural topographies composed of living, growing, decaying, and dying materials, including […]
Artist: Anish Kapoor (India/UK) Installation view at: Gallerie Dell’Accademia, Venice When: from 20 APRIL until 09 OCTOBER 2022 Curated by: Taco Dibbits Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia is staging an ambitious presentation of both retrospective and new works by Anish Kapoor, the British artist […]
Artist: Teresa Solar (Spain) Title: Tunnel Boring Machine Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Teresa Solar’s art alludes to material entities in states of transformation. Suspended between the biological and the industrially produced, the tangible and the mythical, her works of sculpture, drawing, […]
Artist: Raphaela Vogel (Germany) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Creatures of the natural world are a source of fascination for the German artist Raphaela Vogel, who frequently includes animal parts both natural and synthetic – cow, goat, lion, and elk hides, fragments […]
Artist: Louise Nevelson (Ukraine-USA) Title: Homage to the Universe Year: 1968 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Louise Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky) created elegant, room-sized sculptures throughout the post-war period, during which she honed her best-known artistic process, which involved salvaging cast-off wood […]
Artist: Katharina Fritsch (Germany) Title: Elephant Year: 1987 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Katharina Fritsch’s realistic sculptures dissolve the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, stirring our deep-rooted dreams and nightmares while awakening childhood memories of religious tales, fables, and myths. […]
Artist: Marguerite Humeau (France) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Marguerite Humeau’s supernatural, biomorphic sculptures could have been lifted from a work of science fiction, occupying a world in which hypermodern technology and medical equipment have displaced human life. A vacillation between speculative […]
Artist: Jakup Ferri Title: The Monumentality of the Everyday Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Kosovo Curated by: Inke Arns Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jakup Ferri presents paintings, embroideries, and carpets in a monumental display. Ferri’s works are inspired by children’s drawings, folk art, and so-called […]
Artist: Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Title: Between Sunrise and Sunset Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: United Arab Emirates Curated by: Maya Allison Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim developed this single, room-filling installation commissioned for the Emirates Pavilion. Dozens of human-sized, biomorphic sculptures cluster in […]
Artist: Muhannad Shono Title: The Teaching Tree Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Saudi Arabia Curated by: Reem Fadda Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “This artwork forms a monolith tree-like installation that occupies and consumes the space it inhabits. It has been carefully crafted combining natural elements and […]
Artist: Cosima von Bonin (Kenya) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cosima von Bonin came of age as an artist in the 1990s amid the storied art scene in Cologne. In her practice, mixed references to art history, popular culture, and music are […]
Artist: Jonathas de Andrade Title: Com o coração saindo pela boca / Con il cuore che esce dalla bocca Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Brazil Curated by: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jonathas de Andrade bases his work on his profound interest in […]
Artist: Zineb Sedira Title: Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: France Curated by: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Zineb Sedira’s film installation investigates the drive to make militant films […]
Artist: Yunchul Kim Title: Gyre Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: South Korea Curated by: Youngchul Lee Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “In the infinite cycles of creation and extinction, it gyrates and descends; this theme permeates everything from energy to matter, life, and the universe – […]
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: 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 […]
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