Damián Ortega Finds Inspiration in a Newspaper to Create Barbican Art Gallery’s Latest Exhibition

LONDON.- Over the period of a month leading up to the exhibition opening, acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega worked in The Curve creating new works on a regular basis in response to aspects of the daily news. Each day he took inspiration from a newspaper. This could be a news item, a photographic story or graphics selected from local, national or international press which he translated into a physical interpretation be it a sculpture, installation, proposition or prototype for a future [...]

Heather Rowe Reconfigures Installation for Exhibition at D’Amelio Terras

NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents their third solo exhibition with Heather Rowe. Rowe’s art occupies a space at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and architecture and her constructions derive their tension from a refusal to fit neatly into any one category. For this exhibition, Rowe has reconfigured a large-scale installation, “Trouble Everyday,” realized this past October for her solo show at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, organized by Jacob Proctor. The installation uses metal and wood supports [...]

Ariel Hassan to Show Works with a Degree of Theatricality at Greenaway Art

ADELAIDE.- Ariel Hassan is primarily a painter, but his practice extends to sculpture / installation and photography. The title of his latest exhibition Today all your plans are going to be successful! is patently ironic, as the viewer, who is invited to have a great day will be confronted by demons; the ghosts generated from memory, anger ,frustration, fears and phobias temper the greeting. This exhibition is triggered from a more personal perspective than some of the more analytical investigations [...]

ARCOmadrid_ 2010 to Showcase the Quality and Diversity in Contemporary Art

MADRID.- As we have come to expect in the month of February, galleries, collectors and other players from the contemporary art world will be travelling to Madrid for ARCOmadrid_ 2010, the 29th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair from February 17th through 21st. Given its growing influence, this annual fair is now one of the world’s major art market events. Around two hundred galleries and almost three thousand top drawer artists will make the fair a good mirror of [...]