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Weekly Update – Matthew Osborn’s world and Candida Hofer’s Philadelphia
This week’s Weekly has my review of Matthew Osborn at Pageant and Candida Hofer at Arcadia. Below is the copy with some pictures. Matthew Osborn’s “My Bones – Your Skin” at Pageant and “Candida Hofer – Philadelphia” at Arcadia University are two shows that take you to the limits of 2-D art being shown locally. Osborn’s drawings and Hofer’s color photographs represent some of the best of what’s being done here — from hip musings in ink on paper by a young local talent to majestic architectural photographs by an internationally-acclaimed artist at the top of her game.
Divas: Candida Hofer’s photographs sing
Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery.Candida HoferPalacio Nacional de Queluz II2006C-print200 x 247 cmCH-399 Candida Hofer’s wall-sized photos — portraits of grand architectural interiors, printed so large that the gallery-goer feels almost as if she’s in the space depicted — are both deadpan and glorious. Hofer’s love of these beautiful, historically-reverberant interiors is palpable. The way the rooms are lit, the painterly color, the stillness and drama of the shot, all this telescopes the artist’s love like a kiss. There may be blemishes in these old places but they’re sure not visible. Courtesy Sonnabend Gallery.Palacio Nacional de Mafra I2006C-print250 x 200 cmCH-380Notice the ...
Candida Hofer in Philadelphia
Hofer between her assistants Victoria Lelandais Gandit (grey top to left of Hofer) and Alex Janta (on the right of Hofer, with black sweater), taken at Slought Foundation. Christine McMonagle is on the far left. Candida Hofer, the internationally known German artist acclaimed for her enormous photographs of architectural spaces, is here in Philadelphia until the 27th. What she’s doing here, how her visit came about and what she had to say to a class of art history students at the University of Pennsylvania are what this post is about.Why she’s here Hofer is in town for 10 days to ...
Weekly Update – ICA Spring Shows
This week’s Weekly includes my review of the ICA’s Spring Shows (all except Soft Sites in the Project Space). Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with some extra pictures. And here’s Libby’s post on the ICA shows. Here’s my flickr set with shots of Zoe and others and the art at the opening last month.Ode de CologneGerman spaces collide with Philly faces at the ICA. Strauss’s image Daddy Tattoo. For a harrowing update on the woman in this photo, whose name is Monique, see Strauss’s blog post.WARNING: It might make you cry. Germany meets ...
Art for sale!
DSCN0998.JPGOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Image is a Stephan Balkenhol carving and a Candida Hofer photograph from Pier 90 at the Armory Show. The small figure seeming to look at the big picture is kind of how I felt when I walked around the huge international show. We went to the Armory Show Thursday afternoon. And for four hours we marched up and down Pier 92 and Pier 90 on the Hudson River looking at work in 154 booths by exhibitors from around the world. What struck me most (apart from the weariness factor of being bombarded visually by all that ...
Government exercise and other New York moments
The work that engaged me most in New York this past visit was work that chewed on some aspect of politics. So I found myself interested in Jane and Louise Wilson‘s five-screen video installation “Erewhon” at 303Gallery until Nov. 6, even though it is somewhat repetitive. (“Erewhon” is the title of Samuel Butler’s satirical novel of a young Brit colonial who builds a new life in the isolation of New Zealand.) The installation shows long, old-fashioned, oppressive institutional hallways; dormitory-like rooms with old bed springs; empty landscapes; and young women in a soaring modern space wearing First World War-era athletic ...
