Articles
03
May
2012
The Art Newspaper
May 2012
p.79 “Kusama comes to Kiev”
By Gareth Harris
KIEV. What makes the first Kiev International Biennale different from countless other biennials on the global circuit? Its curator, David Elliott, believes that the Ukrainian event, which brings together more than 250 works including 40 new pieces made for the exhibition, is...
24
January
2012
In this collection of photographic diptychs made by American photographer Greg Friedler, we see average citizens of New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and London first clothed, then completely naked. Only their ages and professions are given as captions. Here we see all types of people, men and women of all shapes, ages, colors, and classes.
As diverse and unique as these individuals...
17
January
2012
CITIZEN OF THE STATE
In the same hospital, upon the same bed, different people die in their own way. The photographer Quentin Shih thinks that hospitals, which have always defined the life and death, are a symbol of power and violence. People, being born and dying here seem so insignificant and powerless.
In this series, Quentin, using surrealist techniques and accurate pictorial...
12
January
2012
During my first visit to New York back in 2005 I accidentally walked in the gallery down on 4th street and Bowery. It was called The 4th Street Photo Gallery. What I saw there really intrigued and fascinated me- large black and white silver gelatin prints attached with cloth pins to the fishing line on the wall. The space was also full of historical artifacts: various sizes of...
12
January
2012
French photographer Olivier Valsecchi specializes in portraiture and photographing nudes.
The most attention he has recently gotten is with his series Dust . Nude males and females covered in white powder in awkward positions.
More: http://www.oliviervalsecchi.com/
Maksym Bilousov
30
December
2011
Dear readers!
It is very soon that the entire planet will be seeing in the New Year, and we haven’t even yet sent our greeting out to you on this great occasion. I would like to at last fix this and to thank you all for being with us in 2011.
For our magazine, the year 2011 has been very fruitful and controversial at the same time – we did our best to present you with...
20
December
2011
ART UKRAINE presents the 2011 TOP-100 most influencial people in contemporary Ukrainian art-scene.
For this project we invited many experts and professionals – people who throughout the entire year have kept their hand on the pulse of Ukrainian art life. Some of the results were quite unexpected; some of the members of the expert committee have even themselves made it...
16
December
2011
We often hear from wise people that one needs to love the cause he is fighting for and to do it honestly and diligently, even if there is no one around to support or help you. Only then will your work be successful and, most importantly, appreciated. British sculptor Phyllida Barlow was never previously recognized for her art during her lifetime. Despite the fact that her art was always the...
14
December
2011
Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum and “Carsten Höller: Experience” at the New Museum were two of the most ambivalently reviewed exhibitions of the year. But you wouldn’t know it from the crowds they’re drawing.
On Thursday, the New Museum announced that its Höller exhibition —...
06
December
2011
Even a show-off like me finds this new, super-rich art-buying crowd vulgar and depressingly shallow.
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard. They were found nestling together in their super yachts in...
