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WHAT TO COLLECT # 137. Kristóf Szabó
My purpose is to involve the spectator into the vision through my works. For me, the exhibition space is a tool which I recreate and retransform into a new space…
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WHAT TO COLLECT # 130. Anish Kapoor
Mirroring its surroundings to reflect a rose-tinted microcosm of ambient space, Untitled is an exquisite example of Anish Kapoor’s inimitable investigation into the possibilities of interior and exterior space. Seeming to float effortlessly in suspense above the ground, Kapoor’s dish appears to simultaneously curve outwards and inwards, distorting perception and awareness as our gaze passes […]
WHAT TO COLLECT # 128. Cristina Coral
WHAT TO COLLECT # 128. Cristina Coral
WHAT TO COLLECT # 112. Lisa Kellner
Lisa Kellner has created and installed room-sized installations and two-dimensional works throughout the United States since 2006. Her work has been exhibited at the Bellevue Arts Museum (WA), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NY), the Brooklyn Arts Council (NY) and the Weatherspoon Museum (NC), among others. Also, Lisa has worked with galleries including Ascent Contemporary […]
WHAT TO COLLECT # 110. LIONEL SMIT.
Today I went through the exhibition of Emerging and Established Artist Lionel Smit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami Beach. Lionel Smit was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1982. He creates monumental portraiture works on canvas, sculpture, silkscreen, video and public installations. Smit’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally in […]
WHAT TO COLLECT # 109. Chris Ofili ART
Chris Ofili is renowned internationally for his richly layered works that combine imagery and influences from sources as divergent as comic books, hip-hop, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Biblical scenes, and 1970s-era Blaxploitation films. Since moving to Trinidad in the mid-2000s, Ofili has looked increasingly to the Trinidadian landscape and mythology in order to further reflect upon […]
The Woman Behind the First Photography Gallery
Helen Gee risked everything to open Limelight in 1954, selling prints by Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, and Robert Frank for less than fifty dollars each. Her tell-all memoir, Helen Gee: Limelight, a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties, is now available from Aperture as an e-book. Here, Denise Bethel’s introduction offers a […]
Galleries you need to explore during an Art Basel Hong Kong
TANG CONTEMPORARY ART 10/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong https://www.tangcontemporary.com/ PARA SITE ART SPACE Set up in 1996 and for many years the city’s only name in contemporary art, Para Site is still a proud voice in Hong Kong’s independent art scene. • 22/F, Wing Wah Industrial Building, 677 King’s Road, Quarry […]
ABOUT DIVERSITY IN ART INDUSTRY
“The more diversity you have, the faster you are able to get the right answer…” – Kerry McCarthy. When I read interviews with people like Thelma Golden, I am not afraid to achieve new goals. As someone from the far country, I am responsive to the diversity in my industry. For all the time I […]
WHAT TO COLLECT # 107. Gianluca Traina
Gianluca Traina was born in 1984 in Palermo, where he currently lives and works. He attended the art school of his hometown, where he graduated in 2002. In the same year, he moved to Florence to study Fashion Design at Polimoda. In2004 he won a scholarship of the Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana in Milano […]
BEST WAY TO APPROACH A GALLERY
For me, one of the most intriguing moments for the contemporary art, that this is a human way of speaking about our transformations. From the personal prospectives to the outside world we are studying identities in action through the different art technics. I see art as a dominant element which contains a range of conceptual […]
WHAT TO COLLECT # 105. SKY KIM
SKY KIM Born in Seoul, Korea, she received her M.F.A at Pratt Institute, has exhibited all over the US and internationally, and has collected a National Museum of Contemporary Art’s North Korean Art Competition Award and a Pratt Institute Art Grant. Her work has been exhibited at the Toronto Art Fair, GLAAD Art Auction, DUMBO […]
WHAT TO COLLECT # 103. PAOLO ICARO
Paolo Icaro, one of the most interesting contemporary artists. In the seventies he started to construct his research according to a profound and theoretical formal severity, exploring several techniques, spanning from drawings to performances but concentrating primarily on sculptures and installations.