Yearly Archives: 2013

KALEIDOSCOPE – Awaken perception through sensorial experiences

Two-week art exhibition showcasing seven international upcoming and established artists that will awaken visitor's perceptions by stimulating sensorial experiences, providing an entertaining ride out of everyday routine. Open daily from 10am until 6pm, Kaleidoscope runs from the 3rd-17th October 2013 in London's East End. Offering insightful events throughout the show,...

Marcius Galan Interview

It was with great pleasure that I interviewed Marcius Galan, a Brazilian artist that left me overwhelmed by the array of works he presented at White Cube Bermondsey. The exhibition Geometric Progressions will be on until September 29. Enigmatic, enlightened, the words I choose to describe are somewhat on the...

David Bowie “IS”

A sponge, absorbing everything around him… A chameleon, transforming himself… An alien, androgynous figure of Ziggy Stardust… My neighbour! Born in Brixton at Stansfield Road, 40. David Bowie is many things and everything. Dissolved into contemporary culture, we will continue to see his influence many years from now. He is present, past and future....

Hans Ulrich Obrist

I would like to ask you, as curator and author of many books on art, how do you see the borders between curator and critic? Do they still have a voice to determine, for example exhibitions like this year’s Venice Biennale was a really narrative exhibition, or has it all...

ART HAPPENS – Thiago Rocha Pitta

Along the way there was a rock There was a rock along the way (Translation of a poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, from Minas Gerais, Brazil) Art can happen anywhere, anytime. Like cave paintings that emerged on a specific time and place, without any practical explanation other than the need to understand...

Sterling Ruby at Hauser and Wirth – EXHM

EXHM, the artist’s abbreviation for exhumation, emphasizes the feeling one gets from his burned ceramics, bleached black denim canvas and melting urethane sculptures, an expurgation of all his feelings about society. Sterling Ruby came into the world of art through the punk movement, a movement of transgression. His persona comes...