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 >
BUILT WITH YOU IN MIND By Andrew Maerkle Art Bin (2010/14), installation view at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Photo Yuichiro Tanaka, courtesy the Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale. Born in 1963 and based in London, Michael Landy is bestView More >
LIVING WITH ART By Andrew Maerkle All images: From Jiao You (Stray Dogs) (2013), DCP, 136 min. ©2013 Homegreen Films & JBA Production. One of Asia’s leading filmmakers, the Malaysian-born Tsai Ming-liang rose to prominence in the 1990s as aView More >
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES By Andrew Maerkle 21KE (2010), animation, 27 minutes. All images: Courtesy Sun Xun and π Animation Studio, Beijing. Born in 1980 in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, and educated at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Sun Xun isView More >
UNCONSCIOUS FRAMES By Andrew Maerkle Cluster Illusion (detail) (2014), dyed silk, 120 x 175 cm. Courtesy Meyer Riegger, Berlin and Karlsruhe. Photo Sugiyama Gosuke. All images: Courtesy Melvin Moti and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Born in 1977, Melvin MotiView More >