This week’s Weekly has my review of Matthew Osborn at Pageant and Candida Hofer at Arcadia. Below is the copy with some pictures.
Matthew Osborn’s “My Bones – Your Skin” at Pageant and “Candida Hofer – Philadelphia” at Arcadia University are two shows that take you to the limits of 2-D art being shown locally. Osborn’s [...]
Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery.Candida HoferPalacio Nacional de Queluz II2006C-print200 x 247 cmCH-399
Candida Hofer’s wall-sized photos — portraits of grand architectural interiors, printed so large that the gallery-goer feels almost as if she’s in the space depicted — are both deadpan and glorious. Hofer’s love of these beautiful, historically-reverberant interiors is palpable. The [...]
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By libby | September 20, 2007
Hofer between her assistants Victoria Lelandais Gandit (grey top to left of Hofer) and Alex Janta (on the right of Hofer, with black sweater), taken at Slought Foundation. Christine McMonagle is on the far left.
Candida Hofer, the internationally known German artist acclaimed for her enormous photographs of architectural spaces, is here in Philadelphia [...]
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This week’s Weekly includes my review of the ICA’s Spring Shows (all except Soft Sites in the Project Space). Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with some extra pictures. And here’s Libby’s post on the ICA shows. Here’s my flickr set with shots of Zoe and others [...]
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DSCN0998.JPGOriginally uploaded by sokref1.
Image is a Stephan Balkenhol carving and a Candida Hofer photograph from Pier 90 at the Armory Show. The small figure seeming to look at the big picture is kind of how I felt when I walked around the huge international show.
We went to the Armory Show Thursday afternoon. And for four [...]
Posted in art fairs/biennials, national | Also tagged alex katz, arcadia university art gallery, armory show, go rondinone, james morrison, koto ezawa, omer fast, rodney graham, russel crotty, stephan balkenhol |
By libby | October 19, 2004
The work that engaged me most in New York this past visit was work that chewed on some aspect of politics.
So I found myself interested in Jane and Louise Wilson’s five-screen video installation “Erewhon” at 303Gallery until Nov. 6, even though it is somewhat repetitive. (“Erewhon” is the title of Samuel Butler’s satirical novel of [...]
