“In China, modernity in art is not a quality in and of itself. Each new generation of artists does not feel obliged to provoke a breach with the past in order to affirm itself and to exist. The teaching of the techniques of painting – on paper or on canvas – have not changed and …
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Zeng Fanzhi has been deploying since the 1990s a distinctive language marked by his kinship with both Asian art and the many Western influences he has been subjected to. Confronted with this all-embracing style, the viewer is reminded of Chinese landscape painting at the same time as …
CRAC Alsace CRAC Alsace presents Smog a Los Angeles, Elisabetta Benassi’s first solo exhibition in a public institution in France. “Smog a Los Angeles” was a jotting on the back of a photograph in one of the archives Elisabetta Benassi is building up: in all some 70,000 photos collected from major press agencies and national …
Singapore The Singapore Biennale was established in 2006 as the country’s pre-eminent platform for international dialogue in contemporary art.The fourth edition of the Singapore Biennale (SB2013) will feature works by 82 artists and artist collectives from the region and beyond. Open to the public from 26 October 2013 to 16 February 2014, this instalment of …
Platform China, Beijing Films About Death and Dancing is the first solo show in China of the London based, film-maker Stuart Croft. The exhibition curatedby David Thorp features three of Stuart Croft’s major moving image works, all of which were completed between 2010-2011. They are each presented as continuously projected installations across Platform China’s gallery …
Museum Tinguely The exhibition Metamatic Reloaded presents new art projects in dialogue with Tinguely’s drawing machines. The show is the result of an international call for entries issued by the Dutch Métamatic Research Initiative (MRI) in 2009. Artists were called on to tackle, from today’s perspective, the topic and concept of Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines, …
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi Fault Lines is the first major solo exhibition in Italy by Allora & Calzadilla. The Fondazione Nicola Trussardi has invited the American artistic duo to develop an ambitious new project for Palazzo Cusani, an extraordinary gem of architecture on Via Brera, in the heart of Milan.Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have developed …
Whitechapel Gallery Situation by Sarah Lucas is the first major solo show in London of the British artist bringing together over two decades of sculpture, installation and photography. The exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery explores Lucas’s remarkable career and assesses the vital role she plays in British art.Since the late 1980s, Lucas has created sculptures …
Gagosian Gallery, London Gagosian Gallery presents The Show is Over, an exhibition about abstraction and the end of painting, often proposed but never concluded. Christopher Wool’s statement in paintings, drawings and billboards, taken from Vasily Rozanov’s nineteenth century definition of nihilism, contains sufficient irony to suggest that painting itself, the spectacle that surrounds it, and …
Victoria Miro Gallery, London The fourth solo presentation by Adriana Varejão at Victoria Miro Gallery opens on the 16th of October. Varejão’s diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Her sources are many, encompassing baroque art, history, architectural ruins, natural sciences and theatre.The Brazilian artist has long been fascinated by themes of miscegenation and …
LONDON Sluice is a fair exclusively for artist and curator-run galleries and projects. It will take place on the 19th and 20th of October at 47/49 Tanner Street, a three-storey Victorian warehouse close to the Tower Bridge in London. This year 37 international artists’ projects will participate and there will be a wide range of …
LONDON Redesigned for 2013, Frieze London brings 152 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries to the UK this October. The change in the design of the fair will introduce more sizable public areas and wider aisles as well as a new layout of galleries.The fair is housed in a bespoke temporary structure designed by architects …