Renowned Film Maker Harun Farocki Created Site Specific Work at Osram Art Projects

MUNICH.- For the seventh new installation on the SEVEN SCREENS the internationally renowned film maker Harun Farocki has created a site specific work that reacts to the ‘spectacle expectation’ that is often associated with LED screens as a medium.
Umgiessen (Re-pouring) refers to Tomas Schmit’s performance, ‘Zyklus für Wassereimer (oder Flaschen)‘ (Cycle for Water Buckets [or Bottles]), which he performed on December 18, 1963 in Amsterdam. The Fluxus artist knelt on the floor in a [...]

World Premiere for New Documentary Film on Influential British Designers Robin and Lucienne Day

DENVER, CO.- Design Onscreen—The Initiative for Architecture and Design on Film presented the world premiere screening of its latest documentary, Contemporary Days: Robin and Lucienne Day Design the UK. The ninety-minute film premiered at the National Geographic Museum’s Grosvenor Auditorium.
The May 15th premiere event was scheduled to coincide with the opening of Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain, on view at The Textile Museum in Washington, DC May 15 through September 12, [...]

Two Video Installations by Willie Doherty on View at Alexander and Bonin

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of two video installations by Willie Doherty opened at Alexander and Bonin last week.
UNFINISHED, 2010 is a two-channel video installation made specifically for this exhibition.
The camera examines the interiors of two large warehouses through a sequence of slow pans and static images. This is accompanied by a recording of a harrowing account from an anonymous man of his experience of being taken hostage and held in a similar space. The [...]

Sound and Video-Installation with Sophie Whettnall’s Latest Self-Portrait at Fundació Joan Miró

BARCELONA.- Sophie Whettnall (Brussels, 1973) is presenting a sound video-installation with her latest self-portrait, designed specifically for Explicit Silence and titled Excess of Yang. According to oriental philosophy, yin and yang is a concept based on the duality in everything that exists in the universe. In Chinese medicine, the symptoms of a nature that is excessively yang – a quality generically associated with action, movement, light and the male – can include stress, [...]

Darren Almond Debuts Six-Screen High-Definition Video at Matthew Marks Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks Gallery presents the exhibition Darren Almond: Sometimes Still at 523 West 24th Street. The exhibition marks the debut of a six-screen high-definition video Almond photographed near Kyoto, Japan, over the past several years. Three new photographs made in the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda will also be on view in the gallery at 526 West 22nd Street.
In Sometimes Still Darren Almond follows a Tendai monk as he engages with the [...]

Stuart Pearson Wright’s ‘I Remember You’ at Riflemaker

LONDON.- The work of Stuart Pearson Wright (b. Northampton 1975) reflects a search for lost identity. One of the first children born in the UK by artificial insemination the artist feels that the process has created an ‘identity void’ which his work attempts to deal with. Wright’s new series of paintings at Riflemaker – shown alongside a film installation featuring Keira Knightley – explore and dispel the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity as depicted [...]

Six New Video Works by Shoja Azari at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Video work by artist and filmmaker Shoja Azari will be on view at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery from May 4 though 27, 2010. SHOJA AZARI: ICONS, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City, will feature six new video works, which examine the role of saints and heroes in modern society. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Sam Bardaouil, Dr. Hamid Dabashi, and Benjamin Genocchio will accompany [...]

Hong Kong-Based Artist Simon Birch Challenges Established Paradigms in Art

HONG KONG.- Hong Kong-based artist Simon Birch has created Hope and Glory, one of the most ambitious multi-media art projects ever undertaken in Hong Kong.
The unprecedented scale of the show, filling the 20,000sq ft ArtisTree exhibition space in TaiKoo Place, Island East through May 30th, challenges established paradigms in art presentation and construction while bringing the audience on a fascinating and immersive adventure through a metaphorical world – a conceptual circus – created [...]

Acclaimed Artist and Filmmaker Gerry Fox Exhibits at Eleven Fine Art

BERLIN.- For his first exhibition at Eleven, acclaimed artist and filmmaker Gerry Fox will realise a brand new series of video works based on 19th century paintings. While in Venice making a large-scale installation about this contemporary city last year, Fox came across a series of works by famous painters including Turner, Sargent, Manet, Monet and Renoir all featuring gondolas in the city’s canals. He set out to recreate these paintings on the highest [...]

Contemporary Video Installation Features Public Internet Images of the ROM

TORONTO.- Online social media, photography and their impact on one’s perception of reality come together in the new site-specific video-sculpture Creative Commons, presented by the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), as part of this year’s Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Guillaume Cailleau uses 18 TV monitors to create a kinetic collage of images of the ROM that were drawn from thousands of free-to-use photographs [...]