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A quickie before i embark on lengthier businesses: Huang Yong Ping whose work i’ve seen in New York and Venice this year set up two impressive exhibitions in Paris this Fall. Unfortunately, I missed the Arche exhibition which looked spectacular and closed, alas!, on December 1st. However, I did manage to see the Cavern and [...]

ASPECT is a biannual DVD publication. Each issue highlights 5-10 artists working in new or experimental media, whose works are best documented in video or sound. The works can be viewed with or without an additional commentator audio track. I don’t care much for DVDs. I already spend too much time in front of my [...]

A very moving exhibition i saw yesterday morning in Amsterdam: Every quarter of an hour Ton Grootes, the owner of Sex Cinema Venus in the Red Light District in Amsterdam, changes the Super 8 rushes containing porn films from the Seventies. He doesn’t like nowadays’s porn. Ladies have inflatable breasts and there’s little scenario, actors [...]

I’ve written about Artissima, Turin’s contemporary art fair, in my previous post (Artissima, Turin’s contemporary art fair), I’ll let the photos do the talking this time, except when they document performances or installations. Matej Andraž Vogrinčič‘s installation Untitled (56 Boats) was a collection of 56 upturned rowing boats placed inside the bombed ruins of the [...]

Last Thursday i went to see Open City: Designing Coexistence, the main exhibition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. It’s one of the most exciting and satisfying exhibition i’ve seen this year. Proper report will follow in an hopefully not too distant future. Until then here’s one of the [...]

Mask. Central PENDE; DRC. Royal Museum for Central Africa. Gift from R. P. Biebuyck. Registered in 1929. Studio R. Asselberghs – photo F. Dehaen, RMCA Tervuren © Last Friday, it was sunny, i took the old tram number 44 from Brussels center through the forest of Tervuren and to the Royal Museum for Central Africa. [...]

The future seen from here is gloomy. It is made of ecological disasters, political tensions, economical apartheid, overpopulation and promises never fulfilled. Feedforward, the exhibition opened a couple of weeks ago at the Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, offers space for artist to reflect and comment on the global political and [...]

Haltestelle, 2009. ©Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst Part of Thomas Demand’s wonderful show Nationalgalerie, “Haltestelle” (2009) is a very recent work, as usual a large-scale photograph of a life-size paper model resembling a space of cultural significance. In this case it is a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside [...]

Atelier van Lieshout, Course of Life, 2009 (Galerie Krinzinger) Spain has ARCO in Madrid, France FIAC in Paris, the UK do Frieze in London, Germany has Art Cologne and art forum in Berlin, etc. But what is the main contemporary art fair in Italy? Do sit down please because the list is getting longer. There’s [...]

A few days ago i was in Athens and found less time than i had hoped to visit galleries. I nevertheless managed to see a fantastic exhibition at theDESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. `Photo: © Panos Kokkinias Established as a nonprofit foundation by art collector Dakis Joannou, DESTE is located in a former socks factory [...]