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Frieze Art Fair may have been around for more than a decade and be one of the most important events in the art world calendar, yet the deel of this year's edition was not one of establishment but rather one of unfinished experiments and building up.
The name - Anonymes Associés - sets the tone: cult, fame and general bling have been ousted. Instead, the collective brings us some much needed peace. Their works are two parts art, one part archi-tecture. The primary principle in their work is that of purity. Anonymes Associés suggest. They bring you possibilities and let your create, be an integral part of the art process.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Catherine Hyland's "Wonderland" series spells out a - very long - post-apocalyptic fairytale. The scene is a Chinese construction site of what was meant to become the largest amusement park in Asia.
Matthias Heinderich is an extremely talented photographer based in Berlin. He agreed to answer a few of our questions about his work, his city, and his friends. Read on...
While every fashion week sees journalists write incessantly about the newest color trends seen on the catwalks, such a formalist approach is rarely encoun-tered when it comes to writing about the works in the latest art biennial or art fair. However, since 160grams has a strong emphasis on fashion, we have decided to bring to you our observation of this year's overriding color choice in the art market: black and white.
It seems like in this post-post-conceptual era, when artists reference artists who reference Duchamp, a new trend is piercing through. Indeed, in between the usual big bright works by young bright things, a growing number of artists are focusing on technique quality and time-consuming works.
At what point does a short movie become an art work, costs the price of an artwork, is exhibited in a museum? I got a glimpse of an answer at "Future Pass - from Asia to the World," a collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale.
Phone booths are intriguing - unless you are a tourist in London, you never see them or look at them. Legendary advertizing agency Dro5a has come up with the idea of using this ubiquitous and material link to our (not so distant) analog past in order to help promote the New York's New Museum's latest show, "NYW 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" (2 February - 26 February 2013).
Looking at photographs by Morlinghaus and Heiderich, we see something new and quite different emerging, through the medium of architecture photograph: instead of taking a medium to create photographic realism, they chose photography to show us the abstractedness of our world.
It seems that nowadays, it is becoming more and more difficult to find a ground-breaking artist who is primarily a painter - it is hard to imagine how a painter could innovate. And indeed, Alexa Meader is not inventing a new way to treat the paint-canvas relationship. Her oeuvre needs to be classified differently - she paints, she photographs, she stages and performs.
While Craver tries to create a "strong undercurrent of incommunicable thoughts," we will try here to convey what the series evokes for us.
Now that the Olympic Games are over, London has been left in this familiar existentialist post-party state, with seemingly nothing to do and nowhere to go. But, back when London was still at the center of the universe, a huge exhibition opened in the Old Sorting Office: the building is now full of artworks by street artist Mr Brainwash (MBW), of Exit Through the Gift Shop fame.
