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Studio visit with Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. This version, a clay figure, is about 2 feet tall, about double a previous version, and too large to fit in the typical Brazilian kiln.
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 4
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin, part 4 This is the last of four posts on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. Links to the other posts are at the bottom. Among the exhibitions worth a look in the Hamburger Banhof area is Frontlines: Notations From The Contemporary Indian Urban in the newly opened space by India’s prominent Bodi Gallery, BodhiBerlin. Frontlines is the inaugural show for Bodi’s only gallery in Europe. YouTube video of Shaheen Merali explaining about Indian art. The exhibit’s curator, Shaheen Merali, examines what has become a subject of much contemporary art in India, the accelerated urbanization sweeping India ...
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 3
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin, part 3 This is the third of four posts on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. Links to the other posts are at the bottom. Mona Hatoum, Nature morte aux grenades (detail), 2006-2007, Crystal, mild steel and rubber, 95 x 208 x 70 cm, Edition of 5, photo courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler Around the corner from Barbara Weiss is Arndt and Partners, which is showing the work of Muntean/Rosenblum, an artist couple who work collaboratively. Muntean and Rosenblum describe their work as an exploration of painting. The show includes large representational paintings of expressionless, languorous teens, with ...
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 2
Post by Mari Shaw This is part 2 of Mari Shaw‘s post about Berlin Gallery Weekend.Read Part 1. Parts 3 and 4 will follow. A must- see Gallery Weekend show is a large installation by Andreas Siekman that inaugurates Galerie Barbara Weiss’s new ground floor space on Zimmerstrasse. Andreas Siekman, detail, Negotiations Under Time Pressure, at Galerie Barbara Weiss. Photo courtesy of the gallery. Siekman is a brilliant, gifted artist who, along with his talented artist wife Alice Creischer, has been an important and active voice in Germany’s left-leaning intelligentsia since the 1970s. After completing their studies at the famed ...
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 1
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin This is part 1 of four parts. Mona Hatoum, Undercurrent (red), 2008, Cloth covered electric cable, light bulbs, dimmer device, Edition of 3 plus 1 AP, at Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, OsramHöfe, Berlin. image provided by Galerie Max Hetzler. Comments on this work will appear in part 3 of the post. I emerged bleary-eyed from Tegel Airport for Berlin’s Fourth Gallery Weekend. The sun was shining and a Berlin breeze swept the city’s energy over me. It is true. Berlin pulses. Four years ago, a group of prominent galleries in Berlin launched the Spring ...
Report from Madrid: Picasso Land at ARCO
Post by Mari Shaw Thomas Hirschhorn, Concept Car, at Art Fair ARCO in Madrid I overcame my art fair fatigue and visited Madrid’s Art Fair ARCO for the first time last weekend, lured in part by the exhibitions in Madrid’s great museums. How could I resist seeing the Picasso exhibition with the Spanish light in my eyes at the Reina Sofia, home of Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece Guernica? Nor did I want to pass up Velasquez at the Prado or the two part Modigliani show at the Thyssen-Bornemisz Museum and the Caixa Foundation. I was not disappointed. ARCO is a kinder, ...
Mari Shaw, part 2
This is part 2 of an article about art collector, Mari Shaw. Read Part 1. I asked Mari Shaw if she made art herself. “I never took art classes. I started drawing as an adult, when I was a lawyer before I was married to Peter. Then I took sculpture at Fleisher Art Memorial. In Berlin, the museums are free from 6-10 pm Thursday nights. I go and draw, with my sketch book and a pencil. My favorite spot is the Pergamon Museum. I have lots of favorite spots inside. I use a pencil but I started experimenting with a ...
Mari Shaw makes it happen
“I have some stories for you,” said Mari Shaw as she looked down on me from her spot on the ramp at the Institute of Contemporary Art. It was Sept. 6, the opening of the museum’s fall shows, and the curators were doing their walk-through of the various exhibits before the reception. The talk started downstairs and everyone had just moved up the ramp and into the second floor Project Space. I was a lone straggler when Shaw greeted me with her conspiratorial conversation opener. Mari and Peter Shaw in their kitchen in Center City, looking at photos of an ...
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 ...
