Monthly Archives: July 2019

In the work of Mariela Scafati, one can be disconcerted by the use of multiple mediums. Rather than traditional painting and sculpture, the Argentinean artist limits of the pictorial mediums by placing her work unframed work hanging in ways that often obstruct or jut out of the wall, similarly to an item of clothing or […]

Starting in the early 1960’s, the Minimalist period was characterized by unitary objects with geometric forms and patterns, in which industrial materials were often incorporated, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The movement, born from the Abstract Expressionism, attempted to avoid metaphorical associations and symbolism. From Dan Flavin to Carl Andre, the minimalist style […]

The young French artist Caroline Mesquita’s practice unfolds as she works with raw materials that offer the possibility of transformation. Bending
copper sheets and adding to oxidized plates is a technique which has been performed throughout the majority of her career as she is able to recompose a narrative in the shape primarily of human forms. […]

The world in which Laure Prouvost lives is full of fantasy and fables. She aims to reach her audience through her imitation of those fables. Some may perceive her work and recounting of these fables as lies, as she is frequently named “the trickster of the art world”. But what one can say with certainty, […]

From the outset of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s career direct social engagement has been at the basis. Tracing back to some of his first installations, in 1992 Untitled (Free), Tiravanija cooked and served Thai Curry to a gallery space full of bewildered viewers and anticipating critics instead of the exhibition promised by the 303 Gallery in New […]

Any resurgent interest in abjection in contemporary art might correspond with the ubiquity of an experience mediated by technology – an experience wherein vast swathes of the world are calmly abjected with a swipe of the finger, made to disappear over material distances that are collapsible solely by those technologies that rendered them there. This trajectory […]