THE BALLAD OF ECHO AND NARCISSUS By Andrew Maerkle THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR OF 1979 (2012), HD video installation, 20 min. All images: Courtesy Elizabeth Price and MOTINTERNATIONAL, London and Brussels. Based in London, Elizabeth Price is known forView More >
The artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yasumasa Morimura, unveiled a detailed list of participating artists in his exhibition at a press conference at the Yokohama Museum of Art on Apr 22. Morimura announced the names of 55 newView More >
Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers 22 APR – 1 JUN 2014 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo http://www.momat.go.jp/ Marcel Broodthaers. Installation view Ana Torfs Du mentir-faux (2000) Akram Zaatari Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright (2010)View More >
HAND-HELD CINEMA By Akira Rachi All Images: © Wang Bing and Y. Production. Born in 1967, Wang Bing has risen to acclaim as one of China’s and the world’s most extraordinary documentary filmmakers. Beginning with his feature debutView More >
THE TALE OF TWO DREAMERS By Andrew Maerkle All images: Unless otherwise noted, Installation view of “Condensation” at Le Forum, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, 2014. © Nacása & Partners Inc, courtesy Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Since 2010, the Fondation d’entrepriseView More >
Pipilotti Rist – Mercy Garden Retour Skin (2014), audio and video installation (photograph inspired by Yuji). Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine. At a press conference in Kyoto on April 4, Shinji Kohmoto, the artistic directorView More >
CITIES AND THE SKY By Andrew Maerkle All images: On How the Earth Wishes to Resemble the Sky (II) (2005), metal, wood and lighting. Installation view in “The Marvelous Real: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Art from the MUSACView More >
Cardboard Cathedral (2013), Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo Stephen Goodenough. Shigeru Ban has been awarded the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it has been announced. Ban is the seventh Japanese architect to win the prize, considered to be the top distinctionView More >
CINEMA OF CONSEQUENCE By Andrew Maerkle All images: Lav Diaz – Norte, the End of History (2013). © Raymond Lee & Lav Diaz. Born in 1958, Lav Diaz is known for his films depicting contemporary life in theView More >
The Earthly Paradise Vol.7 Aki Yahata 15 FEB – 22 MAR 2014 gallery αM http://www.musabi.ac.jp/gallery/
THE SPACE BETWEEN 0 AND 1 By Andrew Maerkle Guide Star, ESO (2012). All images: Unless otherwise noted, © Wolfgang Tillmans, courtesy Wolfgang Tillmans and Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. One of the leading artists working with photographyView More >
II. ART iT: We were just discussing the “Approaches” (1987-88) series of early photocopy works and your fascination with the gray areas between opposing extremes, information and no information, the rational and irrational. In that sense I am curious toView More >