Under An English Sky [Part I ] : Wolfgang Tillmans At The Serpentine Gallery, London
By matthew rose | August 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
I spent a week in London in August, and each day attempted to focus on a substantial outing, an interesting exhibition. My first jaunt was to cross Kensington Gardens to The Serpentine Gallery where the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans put on something of a retrospective, an expansive display of his alchemical results with photography. The [...]
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Letter from Paris: White On White
By matthew rose | July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
The white monochrome painting, once a joke –”cow in a snowstorm” – at other times a beacon heralding modernism (Malevich’s White on White, 1918) has carved out a serious place in the canon of aesthetics. Nearly every art movement over the last 150 years, if only a shake or a jitter, has paused long enough [...]
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Letter From Paris: Dynasty. A Feast Of Disney, Dust & Dinner
By matthew rose | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
The massive two-museum blast of Dynasty, an exhibition of 40 artists at the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, is something of a moveable feast of contemporary French art – a collision of dust and Disney with a bit of dinnertime thrown in. The concept, launched by directors [...]
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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
By matthew rose | June 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sigmar Polke (1941 – 2010), a German painter who for many recast pop art and revived painting in Europe, passed away on Friday, June 10. The artist who used Ben-Day dots, old etchings and even potatoes (for sculptures), brought a new vibrancy to painting and art making in the 1980s. His first New York show [...]
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Bonne Année : Rick Tulka
By matthew rose | December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
Rick Tulka, Paris-based artist and illustrator best known for his on-the-spot sketches of flâneurs burning daylight and washing back kirs at Le Select, the famed café on Boulevard Montparnasse, offers a self-portrait greeting for 2010. Yes, that was him, penciling in your double chin last Tuesday! Only kidding. Bonne Année… See his site here: Rick [...]
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Shepard Fairey Does Venice, Silvio
By matthew rose | December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Shepard Fairey, who rose to fame and made his mark with his wildly successful and now controversial Obama campaign poster, has left his mark here in Venice as well. During the June international art orgy known as the Venice Biennale, Fairey was brought to a tiny bar in the San Polo quarter near the Rialto [...]
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(Picture) Postcard From Paris
By matthew rose | November 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
After the crowds at the FIAC in Paris subside, the gathering at Paris Photo, held in the Carrousel du Louvre, creates a different kind of picture show. Intimate and targeted to serious collectors of photography, only 89 galleries, and 13 publishers including book dealers and other image merchants appear fresh and pressed in the well-appointed [...]
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Letter From Paris: The FIAC – The Hunger, The Hype & The Hysteria
By matthew rose | October 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the contemporary art fair is the media-fattened story of the Balloon Boy (in the US), which swept across the airwaves on a gust of excitement only to be lanced by the truth. It was for the money, after all, and the 10 year-old boy (Little Falcon) supposedly trapped in the [...]
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Gilbert and George on politics and Union Jacks
By matthew rose | July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
In 2007, Gilbert & George mounted a massive retrospective at the Tate Modern that included “Mullah.” The tremendous work (2.42 x 2.02m) from 1980, featured a stone-faced icon seemingly cast from the Magic Forest. Composed of photographs of cut planks of wood (knots for eyes, nose and mouth) and collaged together in Gilbert & George’s [...]
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10 Questions For Peter Schuyff
By matthew rose | June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
10 Questions For Peter Schuyff, after a studio visit in Amsterdamn. Painting, Music and life in the land of the Dutch Masters.
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