Colin de Land died of cancer at the age of 47, in March 2003. For a lot of people his name is one of many, for others it’s a religion. Some men live and die honored by the public, and there are others who live and die to be commemorated and loved only by those who belong to the first of the two categories. Colin de Land is one of these. His figure is related ineluctably to New York. His activity as an art dealer or, more precisely, his atypical way of directing a gallery – as an artist (the role he covered to all intents and purposes in the project John Dogg, the fictitious artist behind which Colin himself and Richard Prince used to hide) – put an indelible mark on the New York arti ... more
If you are in Rome, take a look at this exhibition at Nomas Foundation. A lot of friends are involved, for the occasion Caterina Nelli will present her artist photobook, published by NERO.
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La Danse Macabre investigates the debate on the transcendent through the works of Carola Bonfili, Roberto De Paolis, Gabriele De Santis, Stanislao Di Giugno, Emiliano Maggi, Caterina Nelli, Nicola Pecoraro. The exhibition project, curated by John Cabot University art students, was initiated within the course ‘Issues and Trends in Contemporary Art’ lead by Professor Ilaria Gianni at John Cabot University, Rome, which confronted the students with the art scene of the city. The show is curated by Alexander Anderson, Poppy Cotterell, Valeria D’Ambrosio, Lucrezia Gaetani Cembran, Angels Miralda-Tena, Olga Serhijchuk, Ellen Von Wiegand.
A different way to see sports. The New York Times asked Ryan McGinley to shoot some pictures during the last Olympic Winter Games. Although it may seem obvious, it took the eye of someone like McGinley to show the beauty of a bunch of human beings who spend their lives trying do something a millisecond faster than their opponents. Too claustrophobic to be real. So thanks Ryan for those different, ethereal views. (vm)
The exhibition SUPERNATURE: An Exercise in Loads is based on the encounter with the first gym in Athens to specialize in competitive bodybuilding. Owned by the highly esteemed pioneer of Greek bodybuilding S. Bournazos, the gym constitutes a unique hybrid of formal qualities. Its function of zestfully hosting the hyper-activity of competitive bodybuilding future is matched by an “archival” quality which throws light on traces of this very activity in the 80s and the 90s. Read more »
February 25 – April 8, 2010
Bernier/Eliades Gallery - Athens
Through his practice, Justin Lieberman attempts to impose a quasi sociological order on the bedlam of a distinctively American subsistence by turning a flux of capitalist odds and ends- magazine clippings, found photos, counterfeit dollars, lottery tickets, small sketches, public signage, etc- into a subjective material history of late-modern life. It is tempting to regard this process as a systematic desublimation (in the Freudian sense) of various social, cultural, and economic orders, one which privileges a critical stance in regards to these things over a poetic one. Indeed, Lieberman often authors texts which would seem to support this view. However, if we examine these texts themselves as part and parcel of the artist’s practice, a different picture emerges. His pieces are frequently humorous and sometimes disturbing. However, there are works that reflect a sedate Lieberman, an artist more concerned with formal questions than with shocking or unsettling the viewer. Read more »
