Modern Painters Magazine
Devin Troy Strother’s women have a habit of getting away from him. One moment, they’re spazzing out in a pile of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s candies; the next, they’re reclining on shelves, sporting wicked gold Afros, shooting the shit. The Brooklyn-based artist, just 26, has skillfully mapped out a weird world populated by these playful...
A long-haired yogi type torn limb from limb by a far more flexible snake; malleable men and women spanking and licking their way through orgies and acts of S&M; models-cum-kinky-mean-girls; and an arctic huntress hopping inside the fleshy carcass of her skewered prey: The content of Nathalie Djurberg’s stop-motion animation is...
In 2008, at the ripe old age of 29, Gallic phenomenon Loris Gréaud became the first artist ever invited to take over the full 13,000 square feet of the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris. “Cellar Door,” his sprawling exhibition, featured a complex series of architectonic installations that probed notions of the artist’s studio and in situ...
When Uri Aran finished installing his second solo show in New York, at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, he brought a friend’s dog to the Greenwich Village space, put paint on its paws, and tempted it with treats to roam through the exhibition. The result was just one possible path through the work. Other courses were scattered throughout the...
From video and collage to photography and writing, from feminism to social activism: Martha Rosler has influenced as many areas of endeavor as any artist alive. Today, a show of never-before-seen photographs she took in Cuba some 30 years ago will open at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, in New York, and on Wednesday the Brooklyn Museum of Art...
The art of Bill Bollinger possessed a visual language that conjured a Zen sensibility through the use of industrial materials. He shows us tension with a thick rope pulled taut; he embodies containment with clear tubes full of water; his slumping metal screen expresses gravity. Odd as it might seem from a man who earned a degree in...
“If you were sending a letter to Matthias Weischer, and this letter was a painting, what would you want to say?” Damian Stamer, a 29-year-old painter from North Carolina, mused. We’d been standing in front of a completely blank canvas in his studio at the University of North Carolina, where he’s pursuing an MFA. It was January....
This month Art Cologne returns to the Rhineland’s cultural capital, home to more than
30 museums, dozens of galleries, and the city’s landmark Gothic cathedral.GOART COLOGNEWHEN: April 18−22WHERE: Hall 11
of the Cologne Exhibition CenterHIGHLIGHTS: Around 200 galleries — including the local Hammelehle und Ahrens, Beijing’s White Space...
James Benningneugerriemschneider, BerlinFebruary 10–March 24What makes society herald one cabin-bound hermit as a genius and cast out another as demonic scum? A nearly 20-year-long string of pipe bombings seems to do the trick. But James Benning halts such reductionist thinking in Two Cabins, 2011, pitting the aforementioned duo—Henry...
Yevgeniy FiksGalerie Sator, ParisJanuary 14–March 3The two decades that have passed since the Soviet Union’s demise have rendered many aspects of Soviet patrimony less ideologically radioactive. This opens up the possibility of a fresh reassessment of the past. One inspired example of this sort of reappraisal is the work of New York–...
