Major new multi-media installation by Richard Mosse opens at Foam in Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major new multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The installation consists of six large screens which represent the conflict situation in Congo, shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are presented. Throughout 2012, Richard Mosse and his collaborators Trevor Tweeten and [...]

University of Chicago’s Logan Center Exhibitions presents exhibition of Chinese artist Yang Fudong

CHICAGO, IL.- The University of Chicago’s Logan Center Exhibitions presents a rare solo exhibition of the Chinese film-based artist Yang Fudong (杨福东), one of the preeminent Chinese artists of the generation that rose to international prominence since the 1990s. Developed in conjunction with UChicago Arts’ Envisioning China: A Festival of Arts and Culture (“演视中国” 文化艺术节), the exhibition is named after the poignant, multi-channel meditation on the artist’s place of birth, East of Que Village (雀村往东) (2007), and is the first exhibition of [...]

Ed Atkins’ first institutional solo show in Switzerland opens at Kunsthalle Zurich

ZURICH.- In his work, which includes videos, video installations, texts and drawings, British artist Ed Atkins (born 1982, lives and works in London) explores the virtuality of our contemporary visual world and its profound effect on the reality of our embodied lives. His High-Definition videos and powerful soundtracks question their own technical accomplishments, promises and ideologies. Atkins begins, often with the idea of his chosen media’s paradoxical capacity to realistically reproduce our material world in decidedly dematerialized ways. Alongside the last [...]

Art made with code: DevArt by Google with the Barbican Centre launched today

LONDON.- DevArt by Google with the Barbican is launched today. This major project includes four new art commissions that form part of the Barbican’s summer exhibition Digital Revolution, 3 July – 14 September 2014. DevArt by Google with the Barbican, explores art made with code, by developers using technology as their canvas and code as their raw materials to create innovative, interactive digital art installations. The project is designed to inspire the next generation of developers and artists by highlighting coding as [...]

“Dance Machines – From Léger to Kraftwerk” opens at Moderna Museet in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet opens its 2014 art season with the exhibition Dance Machines – From Léger to Kraftwerk. The exhibition focuses on the modernists’ fascination with the machine and mechanised everyday life, and how Kraftwerk has explored the relationship between man and machine in multidisciplinary projects. Dance Machines – From Léger to Kraftwerk opens on 22 January. In the first decades of the 20th century, industrialised, mechanised society made inroads into art and everyday life. The Italian futurists proclaimed a new era, [...]

Group exhibition of video works, some shown for the first time in L.A. opens at Regen Projects

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents a group exhibition of video works by John Bock, Keren Cytter, Paul Pfeiffer, Gillian Wearing, and Akram Zaatari. This presentation marks the first time many of these works are being shown in Los Angeles. John Bock’s Dandy (2006) was filmed at the family home of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, the Chateau du Bosc. The video stars Monsieur Lautréamont, a character akin to Lautrec, who is willing to transgress traditional taste in the pursuit of aesthetic perfection. [...]

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents videos centred on the dancing body and performance

MONTREAL.- As part of its Projections series, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents Music Video, a program of works produced between 2010 and 2013, and centred on the dancing body and performance. The history of the music video is punctuated by some memorable performances that reflect not only current trends and issues, but also the growth of technology and the media. With the advent of YouTube, social networks, webcams and online sharing platforms, the music video scene has once again been transformed, [...]

MoMA to pay tribute to film production designer Dante Ferretti with large-scale multimedia installation

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art honors Dante Ferretti (Italian, b. 1943) with a large-scale multimedia installation comprising a 12-screen labyrinth featuring projected scenes from his work; original set pieces from the films that earned him three Academy Awards; and a six-month retrospective of 22 films featuring the production designer’s career-defining work. Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema, on view from September 28, 2013, through February 9, 2014, features large-scale, original set pieces recovered from sets designed by [...]

George Eastman House announces long-lost Orson Welles film turns up in Italy

NEW YORK (AFP).- A long-lost silent film directed by Orson Welles in 1938 has been recovered from a warehouse in northeastern Italy, where it will be screened in public for the first time in October. “Too Much Johnson” was originally intended to be shown as a prologue to a slapstick comedy at the Mercury repertory theatre in New York, but it was never finished. Until staff at the Cinemazero art house cinema in Pordenone, Italy found the work print in a warehouse [...]

Tunga’s seminal 1981 film installation on view at Luhring Augustine’s Bushwick location

BROOKLYN, NY.- Luhring Augustine presents Tunga’s seminal 1981 film installation, Ão, in the gallery’s Bushwick location. The work is comprised of a 16mm filmstrip that moves through a projector and around the exhibition space on a series of roller bearings. The projected image shows the interior of a curved segment of the Dois Irmãos Tunnel in Rio de Janeiro; it is looped to appear as though the camera moves along a continuous, ring-shaped path, as if traveling through a particle accelerator. The [...]

New summer exhibition considers story telling and narrative through animation

ROCHESTER, MN.- Shannon Fitzgerald, Rochester Art Center’s new Executive Director’s first curated exhibition for the Art Center said: “We are excited to present our summer exhibition The Protagonist: Narrative & Animation that includes compelling work by 6 internationally recognized artists- working across disciplines, but with a shared interest in animation. We are delighted to present work by Barry Anderson, Tara Najd Ahmadi, Allison Schulnik, Catharina van Eetvelde, Hank Willis Thomas, and Marina Zurkow to this part of the county for the first [...]

The Whitney presents United States premiere of a new work by David Hockney

NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the Whitney presents the U.S. premiere of The Jugglers, June 24th 2012, David Hockney’s first video installation. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, the work is being shown in the Museum’s second-floor Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery, from May 23 through September 1, 2013. A group of twelve figures, clad in black, juggle brightly colored objects in an equally bright room, creating a vibrant composition, the energy of which is echoed [...]

Acclaimed film work by Willie Doherty on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

DUBLIN.- A haunting film work by leading Derry-born artist Willie Doherty opens to the public in the Annex at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s temporary off-site exhibition spaces in Earlsfort Terrace on Tuesday 21 May 2013. Secretion, 2012, first shown to critical acclaim at dOCUMENTA 13, draws on the possibilities of lost and forgotten narratives located somewhere between recent history and a near future. Shot on location in and around Kassel, Germany, the powerful narrative at times presents echoes of Doherty’s [...]

First UK show of the American artist Edy Ferguson at Faggionato Fine Arts

LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Arts announced the first UK show of the American artist Edy Ferguson. The exhibition America combines video and film installations, drawings, paintings and photographs. Ferguson’s works are vibrant and confrontational comments upon American popular culture. This is demonstrated in two video works, and particularly a film installation, simply titled America (1996). Two films are projected onto a purpose-built derelict wall in the corner of the main gallery. One is a film clip from the 1941 Captain Marvel series ‘Curse [...]

Major exhibition by Eija-Liisa Ahtila opens in Kiasma

HELSINKI.- Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is an international contemporary artist. She has exhibited her work in major museums across the world, including Tate Modern in London, Jeu de Paume in Paris, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, National Museum of Art in Osaka, and National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The exhibition presents Ahtila’s work from the past ten years. In her most recent works, Eija-Liisa Ahtila explores the relationship between man, animals and nature. The title of the exhibition [...]