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Heinz Mack has never stopped being an artistic pioneer. The multifaceted artist has created works across a wide variety of mediums including light art, sculpture, kinetic art, drawing, painting, photography, and land art. Underlying every work across his oeuvre is a fascination with the possibilities of time, space, and perception.

"Today, this spirit of openness is threatened and in danger, and some people only recall the seductive aspect of my work, forgetting the raw, political dimension. I think this is a mistake and you have to stay with what is raw and true, which doesn’t mean you can’t make life more enjoyable through the beauty of art."

Cardenas' exhibition 'OLYMPIA' brings together a suite of artworks that questions the role of painting in the context of accelerated image culture. The artist draws from the mutable nature of mythology, though in a very loose way, instead, we see an unfolding set of narrative works where unreal characters engage and play with fire in their pictorial landscape.

Marie Laurencin's paintings, which essentially represent teenaged girls, women, and children, are indeed marked by a grace that was considered very feminine by critics of the period, something the painter did not deny. With pastel shades and delicate features, she proposed an idealized figure of femininity.

A vivisected bird of prey, a dead fly, a phallic grasshopper; last summer, Johan Creten exhibited one hundred and twenty pieces of his hybrid bestiary in a flamboyant exhibition in Orléans. The ardent dialogue between his work and the permanent collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts ended in September, but eleven monumental bronze pieces remain on display in the city streets until Summer 2025.

Almine Rech collaborates with Yangyun to jointly present an international contemporary art exhibition Children of the Image, featuring the works of artists from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Italy, Serbia, and South Korea. The participating artists include Justin Adian, Oliver Beer, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Erik Lindman, Rudolf Polanszky, Ryan Schneider, Turi Simeti, Vivian Springford, Kim Tschang-Yeul, and Tursic & Mille.

"I know that when I build an exhibition or a painting, there are many times when there’s a shift, and I always tend to move almost toward destruction... So you may ask: do I need to hurry, or should I take my time? Well, that's just it: you must do both."

My dad worked with satellites. His office was full of photographs of satellite dishes against desert landscapes, ancient ruins, and rural communities. He loved the image of the new technology he worked on against the world as we already knew it. This romantic side of my dad was the first thing that came to my mind when walking into Bloomberg Space. The site of the company’s shiny new office building in central London was the place where ancient ruins, a temple of the cult of mystery god Mithras, were once found.

‘The Accomplished Form of The Poem,’ a review by  Jérôme Sans, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘OUR LAND JUST LIKE A DREAM,’ curated by Meriem Berrada, on view at MACAAL, Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden, Marrakech, from September 24 to July 16, 2023

A poetic exploration of the relationship between nature, culture, and power in the digital age. Through a series of paintings and sculptures, viewers are invited to contemplate the rise and fall of civilisations in the age of globalisation.

"I believe that history is filled with contaminations, which become apparent in concrete elements such as plants."

"During a trip to the Amazon, I realized that there is an immutable, powerful, complex, telluric wilderness that is intrinsic to the magic of the earth, which is incompatible with the Western worldview."

Encompassing the entire history of human yearning, desire is a vast dark continent. It is a powerful force frequently felt, but seldom understood. Desire pushes us to uncomfortable acts; acts which are often inexplicable once its urgings have left us. But beyond being the subject of a thousand pop songs, what exactly is desire, and what do its fevers mean?

Minjung Kim pursues an art of astonishing restraint. Brushing thin layers of watercolor onto hanji, the traditional Korean paper made from the inner bark of the mulberry tree, she builds luminous, cloudlike mountains. 

If you visit Umar Rashid’s exhibition at MoMA PS1 this fall expecting a passive interaction with paintings on a wall, you will be met with an art viewing experience that demands both your attention and critical mind. In his first solo museum show to take place in New York City, Rashid doesn’t just create an exhibition, he creates a world with a full cast of characters, histories, and plot lines.

Yes, we recognize some of the great Spanish artist’s themes in Atassi’s paintings—bathing women on the beach, the arabesques of the studio windows in “La Californie,” or the musical still lifes. But it’s not so much Picasso’s legacy that gives Atassi her foundation in the contemporary artistic landscape, but rather an unusual way of transforming these appropriations to produce a unique kind of painting. 

"On the one hand you have sex, and on the other the idea of something fading away, like death. It might also be the actual way the pieces are glazed that says something else."

"I think maybe we too, as artists, need to open doors for others, to help others… I’ve seen a lot of offspring from Odore di Femmina, it’s made a lot of babies and that’s fantastic."