Within the last couple of years Greece has really hit the spot light, not only politically, but also artistically — from the Whitechapel Gallery's Neon curatorial exchange, to the further
coming Documenta.
Not exact matches
In 2007, it was shown in the
Documenta quinquennial, in Kassel, Germany, before
coming back once again to Marshall's studio for a further reshuffling of its cast of characters.
One such example is Einhorn (Unicorn), 1970, which was originally presented at
Documenta in 1972; it depicts a woman walking through a field and down a tree - lined path without offering explanation of who she is or how she
came to be there.
So, to
come back to this work for
Documenta, you say that the format of the piece was developed in relation to the space where you'll be showing it in Kassel.
For the 14th Istanbul Biennial, in keeping with her
Documenta strategy of hiring agents to advise on the show — she will draft the exhibition with help from various artists, curators and others: «seeking the artistic advice of Cevdet Erek, the intellectual rigor of Griselda Pollock, the sensitivity of Pierre Huyghe, the curatorial imagination of Chus Martinez, the mindfulness of Marcos Lutyens, the acute gaze of Füsun Onur, the political philosophies of Anna Boghiguian, the youthful enthusiasm of Arlette Quynh - Anh Tran, the wise uncertainties of William Kentridge and manifold qualities and agencies to
come as the process develops».
In 1968, she went to
Documenta, an international art show in Germany, and was bowled over by the freshness and originality of the work on display by a new generation of artists seeking to
come to terms with their nation's past.
Also given prominent spaces are Channa Horowitz, who died last year, with large - scale, intricately constructed ink drawings on mylar that are reminiscent of Hanne Darboven's numeric abstractions, and leporellos — painted accordion - folding books — by Etel Adnan, the Lebanese - American writer and artist who participated in
dOCUMENTA 13 and has an exhibition at the Arab Museum of Modern Art (aka Mathaf) in Doha
coming up later in March.
At
Documenta, seeing your Fairytale (2007) and looking at your blog, increasingly I
came to think that your blog is actually a social sculpture in a Joseph Beuys kind of sense.
Bernd Leifeld will step down as director of
documenta (a major exhibition in Kassel, which
comes round every five years), after 18 years in the post.
As one of Cambodia's up - and -
coming artists, Vandy has had his work featured in recent exhibitions including «TIME of OTHERS» at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art and «
dOCUMENTA (13)», and was also shortlisted for this year's Hugo Boss Asia Art Award.
He first
came to international attention as a participant in
Documenta IX, 1992.
Notable galleries for 2014 include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in
dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition
Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.
And while I may be an easy mark here, I would argue that this entire
Documenta evokes his spirit: «What goes up must /
come down, what dooms must do, standing still and walking in New York.»
Van de Ven heeft onderandere deelgenomen aan de volgende groepstentoonstellingen: Project Europa: Imagining the Impossible, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Moving Worlds, Podbielsky Contemporary, Berlijn (bijde 2011); Morality — Act VIII Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai World Expo (2010); Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union, New York (2009); Be (
coming) Dutch, Van Abbe Museum (2008),
Documenta 12, Kassel (2007), the 2006 Sydney Biennale, and Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, Witte de With (2005).
Stan Douglas
came to international prominence in the 1990s when his film installation Der Sandmann was one of the highlights of
Documenta X in 1997.
The decisive change
came with the
Documenta of 1972, when Harald Szeemann celebrated curatorial self - glory in all of its splendor.
The immersive installation
comes from
Documenta 13 and features video projections, sound, and shadow play via rotating cylinders painted with reverse Hindu and Western images.
The latest letter
comes at a time when
documenta CEO Annette Kulenkampff and artistic director Adam Szymczyk have
come under intense scrutiny following revelations around the exhibition's sizeable deficit and an independent audit report investigating the matter.
He claimed that he
came across its location by chance, and that «Untilled wasn't done for
dOCUMENTA... but the frame of
dOCUMENTA allowed it to occur.»
Pierre Huyghe nearly stole the show at the last
Documenta with the dystopian, outdoor installation that culminated (if that's even the right word) with the visitor
coming upon a large, figurative sculpture of a reclining, nude woman whose head was alive with a swarm of bees.
The significantly larger and more ambitious two - part Richter abstraction, Gelbgrün (Yellow - Green)(1982)-- which exhibited at
documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany, that same year, as well as in the artist's acclaimed «Panorama» retrospective at Tate Modern in 2011 — sold to a telephone bidder for # 9.5 million, near its high estimate of # 10 million, and
came to # 10.8 million with fees.
No way was I anticipating
coming to the conclusion that
dOCUMENTA (13) is a triumph.
By the time of
Documenta X, I had
come to know Benjamin Buchloh, who also moves across the social circles of artists and writers and thinkers in his own political, philosophical way, and he introduced me to Gabriel Orozco.
You could even argue that that snuffed out that movement, and in it's place has
come all this socially - aware art which I think we saw, say, in the last Whitney Biennial, we saw it in
Documenta.
Like other recurring exhibitions founded in the wake of tragedy (the Gwangju Biennale and
Documenta come to mind), Surviving Sandy uses the exhibition format as a generative act.
Thek's contribution — the now legendary «Pyramid» installation —
came to be seen as the supreme example of Individual Mythology, and is one of Thek's best known works (
Documenta 5 is likewise among the most famous of all Documentas to date).