Monster Chetwynd’s imagination takes over Villa Arson in an outpouring of creativity on the walls, ceilings or floor. A sound atmosphere and colourful lighting support this punk and humorous production. The artist adds an ecological claim through a strong relationship with poor, light, easily transportable materials.

OK, my friends. The subject of today’s Art Talk is the provocative and explicit art of British artist Sarah Lucas, currently on display at Hammer Museum. The tongue-in- cheek title of the exhibition, Au Naturel, is a French phrase meaning 'in the nude.' And nudity–plenty of nudity–fills the many museum galleries in the form of sculptures,...

As a motivation for making art, sometimes enough is enough.That seems to be one motor driving Sarah Lucas, the cheeky British Conceptual artist whose always smart, often deliriously funny retrospective exhibition is at the UCLA Hammer Museum. More than 130 works in sculpture, photography, collage and video made over the last three decades are...

As women, the world infiltrates us with an obscene amount of signs and signifiers, which, in turn, overwhelmingly inform how we relate to our bodies. Playing with the concepts of objectification and vulnerability of the female body, Sarah Lucas, in her new show at the Hammer Museum, Au Naturel, critiques, but also empowers. Whether through casts of...

The survey of the British artist’s work includes collage, photography, sculpture, video and installations, many of which humorously juxtapose everyday objects in a way that challenges assumptions about gender, sexuality, religion and power. One standout piece is Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab (1992), which features, well, two real fried eggs and a pita...

The first museum show in Europe hosted by Fondation Beyeler will present a selection of Stingel's major and world renowned historical works alongside brand new works created specifically for the exhibition. This career-spanning selection offers a comprehensive gestalt of Stingel's work and heightens his repute as he spans the walls alongside...

Disorientingly familiar, the entrance of My Head Is a Haunted House is covered with a Twin Peaks–esque Red Room floor vinyl that grounds whatever happens there in another dimension. But in contrast to David Lynch’s tricks, there are no velvet curtains bordering an outside;1 there is no alternative to rambling through the rooms suffused in green and...

Charlie Fox invites you on a tour of the inner workings of his mind with Dracula’s Wedding and My Head is a Haunted House–two simultaneous exhibitions on this summer at Rodeo and Sadie Coles HQ respectively. Though working in different colour schemes, both shows are a compilation of Fox’s favourite artists and their spookiest works, in all sizes...

Au Naturel, the almost-thirty-year survey of the work of British artist Sarah Lucas, offers a witty send-up of the avant-garde saviour complex at the heart of a self-righteous but flawed contemporary art world. Lucas systematically deploys high culture references combined with kitsch slogans in a manner seemingly designed to lambaste and offend,...

I didn’t get a chance to see My Head Is A Haunted House until about a week and a half after it opened. In this time (and before the opening), I’ve felt like it was omnipresent online. Constant photos of people posing with giant humping soft sculptures, the cover for the accompanying book endlessly whipping through my feed–It’s had a palpable sense...

For his last big show in Europe in 2013, Rudolf Stingel covered the floors and walls of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice with an Ottoman-style synthetic carpet. Now he’s taking over the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, with an exhibition of work from the last three decades.Mr. Stingel, who is based in New York, has devoted his career to...

Art Basel 2019 opens to the public on Thursday, June 13, with two preview days, on June 11 and 12. Some 290 galleries from 34 countries will show work at the Swiss fair, which runs through June 16.

Now on view at the Fondation Beyeler is an exhibition of Rudolf Stingel’s work, curated by Udo Kittelmann. This is the first major presentation of the artist’s works in Europe since his celebrated show at Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2013, and his first exhibition in Switzerland since the early show at Kunsthalle Zürich in 1995. Whitewaller spoke...

SL: They’re quite amazing to walk around in the street with, because it draws everybody’s eye, and they have to do a double-take as to whether it’s a real tit or not. Because it operates on people as if it is a real tit. It would be quite funny to go to a nursery with them or something, or somewhere with loads of babies — just to see what they make...

Artist Ryan Sullivan looks to improvisation to inform his process of making paintings. Sullivan is one of eight artists participating in En Plein Air, a group exhibition presented by High Line Art that broadens and challenges historical ideas of outdoor painting. The exhibition title refers to the mid-19th century practice of en plein air painting...

In March, the National Gallery of Australia will unveil its most recent significant international purchase, Francesco (2017), a sculptural portrait by Urs Fischer of respected Italian art curator Francesco Bonami standing atop a refrigerator, looking intently at an iPhone in his hand. The sculpture is designed to be burnt: wicks are inserted at...

On est fasciné par ses toiles abstraites qui fleurissent dans les plus grands musées et dans les foires. On foule ses tapis-peintures engloutissant les espaces des galeries ou du Palazzo Grassi. On touche et on laisse son empreinte sur ses larges panneaux comme ceux qu’il avait installés dans le Pavillon italien de la Biennale de Venise. Mais...

The Swiss artist Urs Fischer has returned to The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, which first presented a solo show of his work in 2010, with ERROR, a surreal landscape of sculptures, paintings, and a full-scale cabin—partially made of slowly moulding bread.

Presented as a part of her upcoming retrospective, Au Naturel, the performance, as the title might suggest, consists of a thousand eggs. To make the work, Lucas invited participants to throw, hurl, chuck, pitch, fling, volley, and otherwise break every last egg on an enormous wall in the gallery specifically treated for this purpose.

Es ist bemerkenswert, wie viele warmherzige Umschreibungen Museumsdirektor Sam Keller für eine Kunst findet, die zunächst so kühl wirkt. Ihm gehe es mit Rudolf Stingel wie bei einer Wanderung in den Bergen, wenn man denkt, die Sonne sei jetzt aber wirklich untergegangen, man dann einen neuen Gipfel erreicht und sie wieder scheinen sieht. Der...

In Sarah Lucas's universe, the mundane can become menacing, the erotic perverse, and the human condition inescabable from the grotesque. In this, her works become a mirror for reality, however uncomfortable that may be.

In March 2019, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) acquired Urs Fischer’s four-metre red wax sculpture, Francesco (2017), for their permanent collection. With wicks running through its wax frame, Francesco is designed to be lit and slowly melted like a candle. Documenting Francesco’s decomposition via social media, the NGA recently conducted an...

In World Cup, currently showing at Sadie Coles HQ, the bodies have faces. There is a series of private detective style portraits of white male professionals, photographed from afar in frantic motion. They mostly wear earbuds and appear distracted from the world by tiny interior crises. These portraits are entirely free from the manipulations that...

With AIDOL, Lek explores the importation of algorithmic automation into the products of the culture industry. Steering us through a CGI landscape of monumental Chinese temples, retro-futuristic humanoid robots, and otherworldly cosmic jungles, the adventure is accentuated by a greatest-hits soundtrack of Diva’s singles, all scored by Lek himself.