Rahma Khazam
“The Lie and the Powerpoint”
Shanaynay
June 2013
The latest addition to Parisian project space Shanaynay’s innovative exhibition program, “The Lie and the Powerpoint” stages a unique encounter between the art of Liam Gillick, Benoît Maire, and Falke Pisano. Rather than presenting … READ ON
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Ryan Gander
Palais de Tokyo
November 2012
The inaugural show in a series revealing the workings of the artist’s mind, “Esperluette” (Ampersand) highlights salient aspects of Ryan Gander’s methodology—and not least his proclivity for challenging established systems of thought.… READ ON
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Doug Aitken
LUMA Foundation
November 2012
Doug Aitken’s monumental filmic installation Altered Earth, 2012, presents fragmented and nonlinear vistas of disparate images and sounds that never gel into a logical, reassuring whole. Commissioned by the LUMA Foundation for a 50,000-square-foot… READ ON
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“LE SILENCE Une fiction”
Nouveau Musée Nationale de Monaco
March 2012
In Werner Herzog’s science fiction fantasy The Wild Blue Yonder, 2005, a space expedition returns to earth to find that human civilization has been wiped out. The exhibition “LE SILENCE Une fiction” builds on this scenario, offering a… READ ON
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“Du Monde clos ā l’univers infini” (From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe)
Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain de Quimper
March 2012
When the expanded-cinema movement of the 1960s and ’70s brought moving images out of the closed confines of the movie theater into the open spaces of the art gallery, it not only undermined cinematographic conventions but also questioned … READ ON
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“Antic Measures”
Galerija Gregor Podnar
January 2012
At a time when the practice of transfiguring the commonplace is itself commonplace, this timely group exhibition infuses the cult of the banal with an uncommon playfulness and sensuality. Some of the pieces shown here endow mundane objects … READ ON
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Alex Cecchetti, Mark Geffriaud, Florian Pumhösl, Neil Beloufa
December 2011
Repetition and recurrence were the leitmotifs of three outstanding shows this year. At each performance of Alex Cecchetti and Mark Geffriaud’s “The Police Return to the Magic Shop,” 2011, at Jeu de Paume, two actors declaimed the same… READ ON
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Cyprien Gaillard
November 2011
Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition at Centre Pompidou—one of the perquisites of winning the 2010 Marcel Duchamp Prize—is less a celebration than a chilling meditation on the relationship between architecture and nature, and on the inexorable… READ ON
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Thomas Hirschhorn
October 2011
With “Equality Float,” Thomas Hirschhorn pursues his research into the intersections between art and philosophy. Following up a string of works ranging from 24h Foucault, 2004, to The Map of Friendship Between Art and Philosophy, 2007,… READ ON
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Vittorio Santoro
Vittorio Santoro discusses his exhibition at Campagne Premičre
August 2011
Vittorio Santoro is an artist based in Paris and Dublin whose post-Conceptual mixed-media works probe questions of reception and interpretation. Here he discusses his latest solo exhibition, “Les vingt-quatre heures” (Twenty-Four Hours),… READ ON