VARIETIES OF DISSENT By Andrew Maerkle “Social Botany” project (2013- ), video still from Immortality. Born in 1957, Xu Tan first attracted international attention as member of the Big Tail Elephant group of artists active in Guangzhou in the 1990s.View More >
III. Boogie Frutti (2008), tempera and gold leaf on linen canvas, 200 x 200 cm. ART iT: You mentioned how roundness is deeply connected to the physical world of perpetual motion, friction, collision and collapse. In that sense, could weView More >
II. Yielding Stone (1992), Plasticine, 35.6 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm. Courtesy Gabriel Orozco and Marian Goodman Gallery. ART iT: We were just talking about your photographs and how the imprint of the body in life can have multiple connotations.View More >
INELUCTABLE MODALITY By Andrew Maerkle La DS Cornaline (2013), installation view in “Gabriel Orozco: Inner-Cycles” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2015. Photo ART iT. One of the most significant artists to have emerged internationally since the start ofView More >
TIME TRAVELER By Andrew Maerkle Modernology (Triangular Atelier) (2007), Installation with wall system, 8 rear-glass paintings, partition wallsupholstered in black buckram fabric, joined by metal hinges, dimensions variable. Installation view at documenta 12, Kassel, 2007. Photo Hannes Böck, courtesy FlorianView More >
EMPRESS OF SIGNS By Andrew Maerkle Mes transports (Detail) (2012-13), mixed media, dimensionen variable, courtesy Annette Messager / Marian Goodman Gallery Paris/New York, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Photo © Marc Domage, © Kunstsammlung NRW. Working with everything from photographsView More >
COLD DARK DEEP AND ABSOLUTELY CLEAR By Andrew Maerkle Saturday’s Ledge (Grey) (2014), watercolor on canvas, 101.5 x 132 cm. All images: Unless otherwise noted, © Silke Otto-Knapp, courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. Born in Germany in 1970, Silke Otto-KnappView More >
II. The Makes (2009), HD video, 26 min. All images: Courtesy Eric Baudelaire. ART iT: It seems that Japan, specifically your residence at the Institut Français in Japan’s Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2008, was a big experience for youView More >
A LANDSCAPE, CUT AND FOLDED By Andrew Maerkle The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011), Super 8 and HD video, 66 min. All images: Courtesy Eric Baudelaire. Beginning his career in artView More >
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS By Andrew Maerkle Installation view at the Yokohama Triennale 2014. All images: Photo courtesy Elias Hansen. Born in 1979 in Tacoma, Washington, and now based in Upstate New York, Elias Hansen is known for his installationsView More >
21 C. UILENSPIEGEL By Andrew Maerkle Flatbed Trailer (2007), installation view at the Yokohama Triennale 2014. Photo ART iT. Known as an art world trickster, Wim Delvoye has made works ranging from X-ray photographs of people having sex to gasView More >
THE WORLD’S LARGEST CINEMA By Andrew Maerkle Staircase (2005). Photo Kioku Keizo, Courtesy the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. All images: ©Leandro Erlich Studio. Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Leandro Erlich makes works that combine elements ofView More >