Marina Abramović – 512 hours
After her much acclaimed and publicised The artist is present (2010) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the godmother of performance art, Serbian-born Marina Abramović (1946), came back with a new work, a performance emphasizing the importance of ‘nothing’. Already ..
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There are some images that once seen are part of one’s imagination forever. – Susan Hiller
What is your favourite masterpiece? Everyone’s got one. Is it the milkmaid of Vermeer, the church of Saint Lawrence in Alkmaar of Saenredam, a drowning Ophelia of Millais or the ..
Le Vide 1958
An empty gallery space. Nothing more, nothing less. You’d expect to find something, something even tiny. However the space itself is the exhibit. The work called La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, is quite a ..
Eenzaam object verloren in groen geweld
‘Te midden van een grasveldje bij de vijver in het Amstelpark en het daarnaast gelegen café-restaurant staat het kunstwerk Thunder, Rumbling (2014) van de Belgische kunstenaar Freek Wambacq er een beetje verloren bij. Hoewel niet erg klein van formaat wordt het overschadu..
Small and beautifully grim work reigns supreme at Borremans retrospective
One thing is clear, Michaël Borremans (1963) masters the techniques of classical painting to perfection and seeks with his work rapprochement with the tradition of drawing and painting. He establishes a dialogue with the remains that have been handed down to us from the 1..
The storytelling of Tris Vonna-Michell
The shortlist for the Turner Prize 2014 was unveiled last week. Novelty, none of the nominees is well-known outside the contemporary art world. The shortlist is made up of Ciara Philips, Duncan Campbell, James Richards and Tris Vonna-Michell. The four are difficult to cat..
Ruin lust
A farm in the province of Zeeland, a sanatorium, a brick factory or the Scheveningen pier. These abandoned buildings in different states of neglect or ruination, situated in the Netherlands, have been a preoccupation of Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui (1972). Her ruin lust..
Rossella Biscotti
For six months Italian artist Rossella Biscotti (1978) led a workshop in which participants shared and recorded their dreams. The participants were not any participants, they were the inhabitants of the women’s prison on the island of Giudecca in Venice. This workshop res..