16 hours 22 min ago
In the fourth episode of TurnOnArt TV we sneak into the press preview of the exhibition 'ToledoContemporánea', curated by Elena Foster, the show offers a contemporary view of the city of Toledo: of its past, present and future realities.
1 day 23 hours ago
Familiarity with death and reverence for the dead has had a long tradition in Mexico, figuring prominently in its art and culture. As the anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz has written, “The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that history – within a history in which the key institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen…people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of its social impact.”
1 week 1 day ago
This month we have found several exciting festivals, fairs and exhibitions with a wide cultural programme around it. It looks like if you want to soak up contemporary art these days, you’ll better be prepare to be active. Willing to get involved in a workshop at the New Museum? Have a talk with contemporary photographers at the Oblick Festival? Or maybe propose your own photobooks to the Zines of the Zone? What you get from most of these activities will depend on what you’re able to offer, so start thinking and be creative!
1 week 3 days ago
It used to be that monsters were the spawn of nightmares but nowadays we can feel a change about it in pop culture: monsters are beautiful and fashionable. There are a lot of movies and TV programs with sexy supernatural characters. Now the supernatural is also influencing the art world.
2 weeks 1 day ago
Can history be told within a year scope? The Photobook: A History. Volume III introduces a selection of the best photobooks published since the end of II World War, with an emphasis on those appeared since the publication of Volume II in 2006, and some as recent as A period of juvenile prosperity (2013). The selection might cause controversy, but the attention to the titles included is guaranteed.
3 weeks 1 day ago
Carlos Castillo is, above all, a Venezuelan gatherer and artist. He makes films, he paints and sculpts, he does installations, performances, makes lamps, machines and excavations. His life and his work are about continuity. The essence of his search is the representation of the ‘unexpected’. Behaviours, phrases and objects become contemporary archaeological findings and manage to build a polymorphous and complex portrait of his ideas and of Venezuela.
4 weeks 1 day ago
Turkish conceptual artist Pekdemir deforms the body through a series of mathematical algorithms in digital 3D design. Tsitsopoulos, a Greek painter and performance artist takes a distinctly different path, fragmenting daily life through a carnivalesque theatricality. An exhibition at The Empire Project, in Istambul, recently showed the work of these two artists who pay homage to Arcimboldo with their work.
16 hours 22 min ago
In the fourth episode of TurnOnArt TV we sneak into the press preview of the exhibition 'ToledoContemporánea', curated by Elena Foster, the show offers a contemporary view of the city of Toledo: of its past, present and future realities.
1 day 23 hours ago
Familiarity with death and reverence for the dead has had a long tradition in Mexico, figuring prominently in its art and culture. As the anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz has written, “The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that history – within a history in which the key institutions...
1 week 1 day ago
This month we have found several exciting festivals, fairs and exhibitions with a wide cultural programme around it. It looks like if you want to soak up contemporary art these days, you’ll better be prepare to be active. Willing to get involved in a workshop at the New Museum? Have a talk with contemporary photographers at the Oblick Festival? Or...
1 week 3 days ago
It used to be that monsters were the spawn of nightmares but nowadays we can feel a change about it in pop culture: monsters are beautiful and fashionable. There are a lot of movies and TV programs with sexy supernatural characters. Now the supernatural is also influencing the art world.
2 weeks 1 day ago
Can history be told within a year scope? The Photobook: A History. Volume III introduces a selection of the best photobooks published since the end of II World War, with an emphasis on those appeared since the publication of Volume II in 2006, and some as recent as A period of juvenile prosperity (2013). The selection might cause controversy, but...
3 weeks 1 day ago
Carlos Castillo is, above all, a Venezuelan gatherer and artist. He makes films, he paints and sculpts, he does installations, performances, makes lamps, machines and excavations. His life and his work are about continuity. The essence of his search is the representation of the ‘unexpected’. Behaviours, phrases and objects become contemporary...
4 weeks 1 day ago
Turkish conceptual artist Pekdemir deforms the body through a series of mathematical algorithms in digital 3D design. Tsitsopoulos, a Greek painter and performance artist takes a distinctly different path, fragmenting daily life through a carnivalesque theatricality. An exhibition at The Empire Project, in Istambul, recently showed the work of...
1 month 2 days ago
How would you summarize in a few pages History between 1493 and the Apocalypse? Which would be the main ideas behind human History in these centuries? What kind of graphics, hieroglyphs can define them? We introduce you into a deeply engaging project born from the collaboration of various institutions around one of the first printed books, the...
1 month 6 days ago
Berlin’s project spaces are a mixed bag: indefinable in their variety, not standardized by any taste requirements, purposefully and proudly democratic. From weekly events to monthly exhibitions, from discourse only to painting and sound, from a single artist’s fantasy project to a team of 17 curators and interns, and from a zero budget to tens of...
1 month 1 week ago
What’s on the arts world in March? The Tate Modern in London, Para-Site in Hong-Kong, Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris, ACCA in Sidney, Institut Français in Madrid, Art Dubai Fair, the MoMA in NYC, Istanbul Modern or Mercer Union in Toronto. No matter the continent you live in, we’ve found something worth seeing and doing this month....
1 month 1 week ago
ToledoContemporánea is a photographic project proposed by Ivorypress that makes part of the exhibition’s programme celebrating the fourth centennial of El Greco in the town of Toledo. As its curator -Elena Ochoa Foster- expresses, the exhibition reveals, through the experiences and impressions of twelve artists, the nooks and crannies of the city...
1 month 2 weeks ago
Last February photographer Paul Graham (U.K, 1.956) gave a lecture at Fundación Telefónica (Madrid). He just wanted to give some ideas about photography, art and life, but in the end he also left us some beautiful lessons on those topics.
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