ART NEWS:March 04
The online keywords anthology “In Terms of Performance”, produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the University of California, Berkeley, is now reimagined as an installation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). “In Terms of Performance” at BAM transforms the web-based publication into a physical exhibition through interactive displays, text, video, and selected materials from the BAM Hamm Archives that illuminate and extend key points from the anthology’s web of reference. Intended to provoke discovery and generate shared literacies across disciplines, the exhibition is a living anthology that continues to expand and features essays and interviews from more than 50 prominent artists, curators, presenters, and scholars who reflect on common yet contested terms in contemporary cultural practice. Current entries include “Composition,” “Curating,” “Prop,” “Duration,” “Live,” and “Postdramatic,” among others. Info: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 30 Lafayette Ave, Peter Jay Sharp Building, Brooklyn, Duration: 6/3-8/5/18, www.bam.org
A recurring aspect in Vlad Yurashko’s work is the mercilessness and the frequent brutality of life. But also the motif of renewal and conscious change are central to his work. In his solo exhibition “Attraktion” the artist presents an installation that consists of a large number of smaller works, assembled into a mosaic, into a “big picture” of the world. Different subjects and themes give a global view of the world, twinkling with all its burning issues in front of our eyes. They create a certain visual noise and level the significance of a singular problems by relating it to others. Gender issues, social inequality, control, humiliation of human dignity, violence and its representation, ideological and political struggle, war, terrorism, ethnic and religious conflicts, political crisis, right, left and anarchist demonstrations, protests against uneven distribution of resources and capital, exploitation of man by capital or ideology. Info: Kuckei + Kuckei, Linienstraße 158, Berlin, Duration: 9/3-14/4/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 11:00-18:00, Sat 11:00-17:00, www.kuckei-kuckei.de
Conceived as a “narrative machine,” the exhibition “Come, come, come of age”, Tarik Kiswanson’s first solo institutional exhibition in France, presents a sonic-sculptural installation. Kiswanson embarks on a new series of sculptures for the show, which create a scenography for a sound work: poems in the form of a deconstructed interview that unfolds between two figures. Their voices proffer fragmented reflections on questions of desire, corporality, birth, cycles of life-and-death, coming of age, and the construction of identity. His artistic practice, which encompasses sculpture, performance, and poetry—evinces an engagement with the poetics of métissage: a means of writing and surviving between multiple conditions and contexts. The reduction, refraction, multiplication and disintegration of form and language in Kiswanson’s work evoke the contingency of memory and polyphonic hybridity. Info: Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, 12 rue Boissy d’Anglas, Paris, Duration 13/3-21/4/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com
A latent urgency connects the works of the artists included in the exhibition “One Long Changing Body”, which manifests itself in the distinct manner in which each artist approaches the human form. Seen as a constellation, this group of artists forms a “variation” on the notion of intimacy. A kind of repetition or alteration of a theme, each artist presents his or her own particular permutation of this common, yet increasingly fraught, human condition. A desire for connection; empathy and attraction; a compulsion to memorialize lovers, friends, or family members; the boundaries between the self and the other, these are all subthemes that emerge through the works in the exhibition. Participating artists: Jens Fänge, Louis Fratino, Vincent Gicquel, Anton Henning, Tomasz Kowalski, Caroline Mesquita, Apolonia Sokol and Peter Stauss. Info: Carlier|Gebauer Gallery, Markgrafenstraße 67, Berlin, Duration: 17/3-14/4/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00, www.carliergebauer.com
Rethinking strategies for rural development is a global pressing challenge. To stimulate the international discussion Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin is presenting a remarkable example form rural China. In the mountainous landscape of Songyang County, architect Xu Tiantian, in collaboration with the engaged provincial government and local people, developed thoughtful architectural acupunctures that generated a kind of new “rural self-confidence”. With the exhibition “Rural Moves-The Songyang Story”, the Aedes Architecture Forum is opening a new chapter in the long and trusting relationship with the Chinese architecture scene for nearly two decades. In the continuation of this reciprocal exchange, Aedes and ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory are now exploring China’s countryside. The exhibition presents nine realized projects by models, plans, photographs and a film installation. Xu Tiantian is the first woman running her own architecture studio in China, has already realized a wide range of architectural interventions on a micro-level in cooperation with the respective village communities, the municipal government, and local craftspeople. Info: Aedes Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, Berlin, Duration: 17/3-17/6/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 11:00-18:30, Mon & Sun 13:00-17:00, www.aedes-arc.de
The exhibition “Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960-Today” offers the first large-scale examination of the relationship between club culture and design, from past to present. The exhibition presents nightclubs as spaces that merge architecture and interior design with sound, light, fashion, graphics, and visual effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk. Examples range from Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular, from the Haçienda in Manchester designed by Ben Kelly to more recent concepts by the OMA architecture studio for the Ministry of Sound in London. The exhibits on display range from films and vintage photographs to posters, flyers, and fashion, but also include contemporary works. A spatial installation with music and light effects takes visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures—always in search of the night that never ends. Info: Curators: Jochen Eisenbrand , Catharine Rossi and Katarina Serulus, Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Str. 2, Weil am Rhein, Duration 17/3-9/9/18, Days & Hours: Daily 10:00-18:00, www.design-museum.de
The exhibition “The Metropolis in Latin America 1830-1930”, explores the impact that a century of accelerated urbanization as well as political and social transformations had in the architectural landscapes of six Latin American capitals: Buenos Aires, Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago de Chile. The exhibition features rare maps, engravings, drawings, photographs, books, and videos that range from Hernán Cortés’ map of Tenochtitlán (1524) to Le Corbusier’s sketches made during his visit to Buenos Aires (1929). Until 1850 the eventual adoption of modern architectural repertoires fostered the removal of symbols of colonial power and the construction of new civic buildings emphasizing each country’s own new self-view. By the later part of the nineteenth century significant changes, including massive migration to cities and the beginning of local industrialization, resulted in new urban developments. In the 1910s, grand celebrations marking the first century of independence, which coincided with the end of World War I, sparked a return to local architectural traditions. Later, a new generation of Latin American designers imagined utopian visions of the metropolis in modern ways. Info: Curators: Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato, Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, Duration 22/3-30/6/18, Days & Hours: Wet-Sat 12:00-18:00, www.as-coa.org
Seund Ja Rhee was a South Korean painter, engraver, draughtswoman, and illustrator. She also designed tapestries and mosaics. She was a prolific artist with more than 1,000 paintings, 700 prints, 250 ceramics, and numerous drawings. The exhibition ”Rhee Seundja: Road to the Antipodes”, marks the 100th anniversary of Rhee’s birth. The exhibition categorizes her oeuvre into the four periods. Exploring Forms in the early 1950s, she learned the basics of painting and worked on abstract art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. In Woman and Earth she, as a mother of three children, painted the earth as if she farmed the land. Yin and Yang is that she expressed city of layered buildings. Lastly, in Road to the Antipodes, she depicted nature, universe and poles that she looked down in the airplane going back and forth between Korea and France. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art-Korea, 313 Gwangmyeong-ro, Gwancheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Duration: 22/3-29/7/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri & Sun 10:00-17:00, Sat 10:00-21:00, www.mmca.go.kr
Art Paris Art Fair celebrates its 20th anniversary and hosts to 142 galleries from 22 countries providing an overview of European art from the post-war years to the current day, while leaving room for the new horizons of international creation from Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Art Paris Art Fair 2018 offers a theme-based approach emphasising discovery and rediscovery. This year’s guest country is Switzerland and the fair will also be taking a close look at the French art scene with a new theme developed especially for the 20th anniversary as well as the monographic exhibitions in Solo Show and emerging artists in Promises. French art scene: 20 artists among the projects presented by participating galleries and to produce an in-depth textual analysis of their work. Switzerland as Guest of Honour presents : A selection of around 100 artists represented by either 13 Swiss or European galleries, the presentation of Helvetia Art Collection, a video art programme in the Project Room and a program of digital projections on the Grand Palais façade. Info: Art Paris Art Fair 2018, Fair DirectorDirector: Guillaume Piens, Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris, Days & Hours: Wed (4/4) 18:00-22:00 (by invitation only), Thu & Sat (5 & 7/4) 1:30-20:00, Fri (6/4) 11:30-21:00, Sun (8/4) 11:30-19:00, Catalogue: €20, Entrance fee: Adults and children over age 10: €25, Students and groups of 10 or more: €12, Free admission for children under age 10, www.artparis.com