Pierre Huyghe is a producer of spectacular and memorable enigmas, with works that function more like mirages than as objects. Abyssal Plain (2015–ongoing), his contribution to the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, was installed on the seabed of the Marmara Sea, some 20 metres below the surface of the water and close to...
In the early decades of its existence, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), founded in 1929, transformed from a philanthropic project modestly housed in a few rooms of the Heckscher Building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, to an alleged operating node in the United States' cultural struggle during the cold war, and one of the...
Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy.Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
In the history of art at all ages and countries, a window has acted as a motif that reposed various meanings. The affinity between the window and the camera obscure, and the relationship with the modern society which had developed after the industrial revolution have been included in Homma's work as significant components. Despite of this exhibition themed the windows of Le Corbusier's architectures, the artist said that he does not have any focus on windows. He only used windows to capture the nature of architectures which are both realization and the vessel of the thought of architects. 'If I shoot architectures just like normal, it would become just architectural photographs. I had in my mind, capturing windows to fend off this.' said Homma. Through the sceneries from the window, he undertakes capturing the whole aspect of architecture as abstract and conceptual images. For the artist, to photograph sceneries through Le Corbusier's architectures windows, is re-experiencing the perception of the great architect and knowing more about what he had done. Consequently, Le Corbusier's architects have turned into images released from bonds of architectural photographs which pursue similarly information conductors, and are exposed in front of viewers as a fragment of the world Homma has detached.
* Part of the works of this exhibition were commissioned by Window Research Institute.
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