PIA CAMIL'S STUDIO in Mexico City is an expansive, windowless room on the ground floor of an old building tucked away between a wide arterial road and the city's Parque de Chapultepec. She keeps the basement-like space orderly, and during the workday it is almost impossible to imagine it moonlighting as El Cisne (The Swan), a lively cabaret Camil...

Joep Van Lieshout is a highly unreasonable artist. That, at any rate, was the verdict of the Louvre, which abruptly pulled one of his sculptures from a planned installation in the Jardin des Tuileries in 2017. It was easy to see why: the huge structure, entitled Domestikator, suggested an agricultural shed that had, Transformer-like, assumed the...

Ciudad de México (N22/Redacción)–Realizada in situ, Telón de boca, es una pieza de la artista Pia Camil, que se construye con playeras de bandas musicales. Esto como una forma de invocar las historias que guarda el Tianguis Cultural del Chopo. Camil buscaba una obra que, como dijo en una entrevista publicada por el propio museo, “tuviera algo de...

Candida Höfer, 74, one of the biggest names in contemporary photography, is best known for photographs of interiors of public buildings such as libraries, museums and theaters without human presence in them.

Pia Camil’s first solo exhibition in the UK might be called Split Wall but it is actually entirely walled in. The large windows at Nottingham Contemporary that usually offer passers-by a sneak preview have been blocked up, and even the glass doors at the front of the space remain covered. The only way to experience the Mexican artist’s work is to...

Asterismos. Sustantivo plural. Patrón prominente o conjunto de estrellas que, vistas desde la Tierra, parecen formar una figura geométrica. A diferencia de una constelación, no tienen reconocimiento oficial por parte de la comunidad científica.Con el anterior texto, rotulado en el umbral de la planta baja de la Galería OMR, inicia el diálogo...

'México es un país del que siempre aprendo algo nuevo,' dice el artista brasileño Artur Lescher (São Paulo, 1962), sobre la exposición que presentará en la galería OMR de la capital del país. 'Estoy nervioso y ansioso. Es un desafío, tenemos poco tiempo para producir,' cuenta. 'Es una muestra de trabajos nuevos que he desarrollado desde hace un...

Ciudad de México (N22/Huemanzin Rodríguez)–La galería OMR aloja, hasta el 8 de septiembre, la más reciente exhibición en solitario del artista brasileño Artur Lescher (Sao Paulo, 1962), Asterismos. Desde sus primeras obras, a los 22 años, este artista ha explorado la relación de figuras geométricas con arquitecturas específicas. A propósito de...

José Dávila elabora el discurso de Mecánica de lo inestable, su exposición en la galería OMR, a partir de las características de los materiales que conforman sus esculturas. 'Me interesa exprimir momentos poéticos a soluciones aparentemente muy técnicas,' comenta el creador, que se formó como arquitecto.

Recientemente fue inaugurada en la Galería OMR la muestra Mecánica de lo inestable del mexicano José Dávila. Formado en la arquitectura, la práctica escultórica del artista se encuentra permeada por una noción sobre la elementalidad de los materiales. En sus piezas se observan diversas formas que, lejos de transformarse a través de la talla o del...

Visitors to last year's edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach no doubt remember seeing Ugo Rondinone's Miami Mountain, the Swiss artist's permanent installation for the Bass. The piece, a 41ft totem made of neon limestone boulders, was installed in front of the museum in Collins Park. At the time, the Bass was closed for a $12m renovation to restore...

Throngs of excited visitors came out earlier this month to the newly reopened Bass Museum of Art on Miami Beach, a project nearly three years in the making. Families were everywhere, gleefully uncovering what the team at Bass had done after two years of construction and a year of planning and fundraising. Put simply, it was free and the halls were...

The most prestigious and innovative galleries throughout Latin America come to the US to break down walls.With the political climate being bombarded with chatter about walls, both physical and rhetorical, the Latin American art scene is beginning to address the issue in greater depth. This is the premise for proyectosLA, an exhibit which heavily...

Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno—the first major U.S. exhibition about the American poet, artist, activist and muse John Giorno—has opened simultaneously across 13 locations in New York City. I ♥ John Giorno is a work of art by Giorno's husband, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. The exhibition is a celebration of the life and work of John...

I learned early on from the eats, such as Allen Ginsburg and William Burroughs—and the Pop artists too—that archives were very important. This was around the late 1950s, or the beginning of the '60s. So, I just saved all of my work. My parents had a house in Roslyn Heights, Long Island, and for fifty years I brought everything I made...

As its title suggests, Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno is both a valentine from a sweetheart and an open invitation to explore the legacy of an iconic New York poet. In celebration of John Giorno's eightieth birthday, Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, who is his husband and occasional collaborator, has restaged and substantially expanded an elaborate...

MASS MoCA, the vast, multibuilding museum of contemporary art here, is a weird and wonderful place. For one, the dominance of brick walls, wood floors, big windows and frequent columns of its repurposed 19th-century factory buildings is the apotheosis of SoHo, whose small-industry loft spaces were taken over by commercial art galleries in the...

Light can be bright and dull, clear and murky, or velvety and abrasive. In James Turrell's Perfectly Clear (1991), the viewer is subjected to an electromagnetic storm, a cascade of colors: rose, magenta, turquoise. Here, the medium is light, or, rather, the human optical-neurological apparatus that apprehends light. After putting on shoe covers,...

The master plan for MASS MoCA in 1986 was a wildly ambitious dream: to simultaneously rehabilitate all 28 buildings of a shuttered 19th-century factory in this depressed Berkshire County town for the long-term display of monumental art installations.

A major architectural light installation by internationally renowned light artist James Turrell is set to transform Queensland's Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in its 10th anniversary year.Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said the James Turrell commission would illuminate GOMA's facade at night from early...

Since the 1960s, John Giorno has been a nexus of New York's downtown art scene. This 80-year-old poet, artist and activist had been a muse of Andy Warhol's and has hosted dinner parties with friends like Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring. In more recent years, he has collaborated with the French artist Pierre Huyghe and starred in...

Miami Beach — The third time's the charm. Following two postponements caused by construction delays, Miami Beach's city-owned Bass art museum has announced its October 2017 reopening following a $12 million renovation project.The overhauled museum, housed in a 1930s-era Art Deco building, will include four new galleries, adding 4,100 square...

The four recipients of this year's BALTIC Artists' Award are Jose Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Toni Schmale and Shen Xin. The winners of the 2017 prize were announced this month at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.

‘A photograph brings me so much joy, they’re beautiful objects,’ says Sir Elton John, discussing a remarkable collection of 25 works by some of the world’s greatest photographers, to be offered at Christie’s in New York on 6 April 2017. Proceeds from the sale of these works will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), an international...