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Cat Street Gallery
Here is an unmissable event to add to your Hong Kong Art Week circuit!
The famous Cat Street Gallery is opening their Wonderworks show at The Space on Friday, May 24. Wonderworks brings together a beautiful and intriguing combination of young and established artists from Asia, America, Africa, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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Legend Tripping
Those of you looking for some post-work culture, look no farther. One of the must-see exhibitions this spring is Masters & Pelavin’s new group show, Legend Tripping. Expect a thrilling variety of media—installation, mixed media, painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, collage—and a number of international artists.
Legend Tripping, also known as ostension, is actually an adolescent practice (containing elements of a rite of passage) in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site that is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly supernatural event or haunting. The legend trippers violate the tabooed site for the specific purpose of flirting with that danger.
Legend Tripping is on view from April 18 through June 1, 2013.
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Turner Prize 2013
The nominees for the Turner Prize 2013 were announced this morning!
The artists nominated for the £40,000 prize are:
1. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for her paintings of imaginary people, which use invented pre-histories.
2. Tino Sehgal for his performance work in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and his project at documenta (XIII).
3. Laure Prouvost for her surprising and unpredictable films-cum-installations.
4. David Shrigley for his solo exhibition at Hayward Gallery, David Shrigley: Brain Activity, which revealed his black humor, macabre intelligence, and infinite jest.
The Turner Prize exhibition will be in Derry-Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013, opening on October 23, 2013. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on December 2, 2013.
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Willem de Kooning
“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.” - Willem de Kooning
A leading figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement, famed artist Willem de Kooning was born on this day in 1904 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. -
PooL Art Fair
Inspired by the French tradition of Artists Fairs, starting from the famous 1863 Courbet’s Salon des Independents, (AKA Salon des Refusés) PooL Art Fair is dedicated to the many fantastic but unrepresented artists.
PooL’s main purpose is to create a meeting ground for outstanding unrepresented artists—and for gallery owners, curators, and other art enthusiasts to discover them.
Mark your calendars: Debuting May 10, 2013, this three-day show includes lectures addressing the challenges of the art world, along with special projects and events.
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Colette & Tilda
It is difficult to trace the roots of an idea to its source, and, as the pundits say, everything has been done before. Therefore, it is with an equivocal eye that one might gaze upon the sleeping actress, Tilda Swinton, in a glass box at The Museum of Modern Art.
The artist Colette Lumiere slept in a glass case on public display for her Liberte to Olympia exhibition, at the Rempire Gallery in Soho, in September, 1991. As this performance piece predates Swinton’s by four years, it might be speculated that the androgynous actress was inspired by this exhibit.
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Art Plural Gallery
Indian artists Thukral and Tagra, also known as T&T, have been collaborating since 2004, creating fascinating paintings, sculptures, and installations. Their art has appealed to a global audience; they address universal important themes such as identity, consumerism, and change. In a humorous yet provocative manner, T&T address the harsh realities of Indian society today, while mirroring its fantasies and aspirations.
“We grew up with the general acknowledgement that most Indians dream of leaving India and moving abroad,” said Thukral and Tagra, “albeit a dream that is laced with anxiety and insecurity.”
If you’re in Singapore next week, don’t miss their latest show, Windows of Opportunity, which opens April 22 at Art Plural Gallery.
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Contemporary Readymade
For those of you gallery hopping in London today, don’t miss Blain|Southern’s new show, Tell Me Whom You Haunt: Marcel Duchamp and the Contemporary Readymade. The show explores the alternative meaning(s) bestowed upon objects through their placement in the gallery space, within which seemingly ordinary objects can be redefined as art!
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California Art
From Sam Francis to David Hockney, we’re celebrating artists from the postwar California art scene!
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Venske & Spänle
Artists Venske & Spänle are interested in the power of art to alter an environment or affect the people who experience it. Using brilliantly pure white marble, the artists transform the material from hard blocks into sensuous shapes. In the sense of Surrealism, the (Abstract) sculptures still evoke living forms and are, in fact, strongly inspired by cartoons that the artists grew up with, the Smurfs!
If you’re in Sydney, don’t miss the opening of their latest show, which takes place this Tuesday, April 8, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Conny Dietzschold Gallery.
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Hirst’s Skull
Damien Hirst’s work has generated enormous controversy for its morbidity and fascination with medicine, which is evident in several of his series: the encased dead animals in various states of preservation, cabinets filled with pharmaceuticals, and various skulls.
Pictured is one of his skulls, Till Death Do Us Part - Milk - Chocolate Brown True Blue Bubblegum Pink Skull (2012).
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The Madness of Art
A look behind the scenes of a Chelsea art gallery:
In Jim Kempner’s The Madness of Art, the art dealer exposes the everyday happenings at his gallery.
In Season 1, Episode 3, one of the prominent members of the Pop Art movement, Robert Indiana, surprises Jim at the gallery.
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Banksy
Some Street Art to start off your morning: Banksy’s Choose Your Weapon first appeared in the streets of London in 2010.
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Photograms and ma.r.s.
Using a wide range of technological approaches, and often pushing the limits of photographic representation in the process, Thomas Ruff has reinvented many historical conventions and expectations of the medium.
Those of you in New York, don’t miss the opening of his incredible new show, Photograms and ma.r.s., at David Zwirner’s W. 19th Street spaces.
The works in Ruff’s ma.r.s. series, many of which will be on view for the first time, are based on black-and-white satellite photographs of the surface of Mars, taken by high-resolution cameras aboard a NASA spacecraft (ma.r.s. stands for Mars Reconnaissance Survey). Studied by scientists for information about the planet’s geology and potential landing sites for future visits, these works reveal extreme close-ups of the planet’s rugged surface; until recently, these pieces had not been seen by anyone.
Ruff’s Photograms series is reminiscent of artistic experimentation with camera-less photography in the 1920s, when objects were placed directly on photo-sensitive paper and exposed to light, creating white or gray silhouettes wherever they made contact.
Opening reception: Thursday, March 28, 6–8 p.m.
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Gold Tears
No cigarettes or pills for a change; here, British enfant terrible Damien Hirst arranges diamonds on gleaming shelves in the style of his well-known cabinet works.
