Archive
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Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle
From kinetic sculptures to ‘do-it-yourself machines’ and scorched animal skulls to self-destructing golden phalluses, Tinguely courted controversy and spun spectacle throughout his life. Here, the artist who fought against being ‘museumised’ is subjected to, well, just that
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James Wilkes: ‘Mind-wandering has became a productive way for us to disrupt that idea of there being rest and the opposite of rest’
The exhibition Rest & its discontents at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London, is one of a number of events born from the works of Hubbub, a collective of multidisciplinary practitioners investigating busy-ness and rest. Wilkes, a poet, writer and…
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Beyond Caravaggio
The shadowy and sensuous world of Caravaggio was too tempting for contemporaries to ignore. But as this exhibition demonstrates, his were large boots to fill
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John Akomfrah – interview: ‘The question of discourse is absolutely central’
The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the importance of the Black Audio Film Collective, of which he was a founding member
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Olga Chernysheva: Vague Accent
This series of drawings depicting urban life in New York was made while Chernysheva was on a month-long visit from Moscow, and marks the first time she has explored a subject outside her home country
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Amalia Ulman: ‘I learn things from the performances that I wouldn’t have otherwise’
Having presented her fictionalised personas on her Instagram account and at the Tate Modern, the artist goes back to the gallery space to present a new installation that continues her ongoing performance, Privilege
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Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape
A trail-blazing artist, largely lost from sight, is brought back into the limelight in this excellent exhibition, full of sunsets, poppies and crashing waves
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Paul Feiler
Examples of the signature works that occupied Feiler from the 1970s are on show at the Jessica Carlisle gallery, and are also to be seen alongside other modernist works at House of the Nobleman
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Nicolás Herrera: ‘this mural is about life’
Studio International travelled to Cuenca, Ecuador, to talk to Nicolás Herrera about his new work, El Jardín de las Mujeres, or The Garden of Women, a sculptural mural at La Casa de la Provincia, where it is permanently installed. It…
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Cecilia Brunson: ‘In the case of Willys de Castro, it’s also a perceptual and mental game’
The Latin American art dealer explains the ethos of her Bermondsey gallery and the importance of the Brazilian neo-concrete artist, Willys de Castro
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The Lumen Prize Awards 2016
In its fifth year, this leading global prize for digital art has really hit its stride, with a greater diversity and richness of technology and themes deployed to artful ends than ever before
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Jamian Juliano-Villani: The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth
For her first solo public exhibition outside the US, the artist shows a sculptural installation and six new large-scale paintings, which are like painted diaries of her visual influences
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Carla Rapoport: ‘I like to think we’re the Elvis of the art world’
The founder of the Lumen Prize says Elvis brought gospel and black music into the mainstream, and she hopes the annual Lumen awards will do the same for global digital art
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James Richards: ‘I was really into making an exhibition space where there would be nothing to look at’
The artist, who will be representing Wales in Venice (Cymru yn Fenis) at next year’s biennale, talks about his processes of collaging together digital fragments to create immersive audiovisual installations
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Lucia Nogueira
As this selection of work shows, the sculptures and installations of the Brazilian artist, made from found or secondhand objects, are full of contradictions
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Bedwyr Williams: The Gulch
This is a disorienting exploratory playground for the imagination, a procession of surreal scenarios, theatrical set-pieces and interactive enticements that lures visitors down the less-travelled B roads of human behaviour
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Wendy Stavrianos: ‘I have always aimed for my work to be more akin to visual poetry’
The artist talks about her concern with environmental degradation and mass migration, and her aim to share her sadness and memories in her latest works
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Arthur Watson: ‘What connected Nagoya and Chicago was the level of interest in the work. “Not bad,” is as good as it gets in north-east Scotland’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, Double Diablerie, in which he explores superstitions around the Devil, along with fellow Scottish artist Ian Howard and two Japanese artists
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Picasso Portraits
Picasso’s life and art were shaped by friends, family and lovers, and as this exhibition demonstrates, his portraits were just as varied as his relationships
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Toby Ziegler: ‘In half an hour, you can undo an entire month’s work’
Toby Ziegler explains his processes of painting and sanding, and using Google’s reverse image search to create works with layers of geological exploration
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Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards
The opening room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset has been transformed into a spider’s lair, a fitting scene to start this exhibition of late etchings by Louise Bourgeois, seen here together for the first time
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Giuseppe Penone: Fui, Sarò, Non Sono
Although he may not initially seem to possess the radicalism of his arte povera contemporaries, the Italian artist’s work abounds with mellow fruitfulness and measured contemplation
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Image Music Text: Andrew Gillespie, Andrew Lacon, Joanne Masding
Nathaniel Pitt explains that he looked to the processes of artists, instead of the subjects of their work, to curate the show. The three artists in this show, he says, are not starting from media, but from their curiosity
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Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia
In an exhibition dominated by self-portraits and seascapes, Celia Paul demonstrates the virtues of subtlety and perseverance
