What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
Trisha Baga’s brand of weirdness draws from science fiction, spiritualism and contemporary oracles like Wikipedia and Alexa, the digital personal assistant. As art, it takes the form of a psychedelic 3-D video installation, ceramic sculptures in various sizes and paintings on lenticular photographs in the show “Mollusca & the Pelvic Floor” at Greene Naftali. Read more on The New York Times.LINEBREAK
TINA BRAEGGER X KASPAR MÜLLER BOARD
The Straight and Narrow new artist collaboration board with Tina Braegger & Kaspar Müller. Buy now here or here!LINEBREAK
Petra Cortright谈艺术家与品牌的“另类合作”
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Artist Sean Raspet on making things nobody asked for
Sean Raspet discusses the corporation as a form of artistic practice, Nonbar prototype 2 (with sesame seeds), and scent rights. Read more on The creative independent websiteLINEBREAK
Petra Cortright Debuts Public Art Installation at Doota Plaza in Seoul
The L.A.-based artist was commissioned by the Seoul shopping center for a new large-scale public art installation, which was unveiled today. Working with Korean creative agency SketchedSpace, which produced the project, Cortright created new digital paintings which “skin” the building’s facade, as well as 17 large flags bearing her designs. Read more on WWDLINEBREAK
Bunny Rogers: INATTENTION on view at Marciano Art Foundation
Bunny Rogers: INATTENTION on view now at Marciano Art Foundation.LINEBREAKSeptember 1, 2018 – January 6, 2019LINEBREAK
Trisha Baga’s “Mollusca & The Pelvic Floor”
Trisha Baga’s third exhibition at Greene Naftali is also her most ambitious. “Mollusca & The Pelvic Floor,” like its cosmically hilarious and dizzyingly psychedelic predecessors, features a dazzling and untidy collection of found, handmade, and moving-image works: from doctored lenticular posters of human anatomy to idiosyncratic ceramic representations of everyday objects, all arranged around and within a deliriously complex 3D video installation. Read more on art agenda.LINEBREAK
Timur Si-Qin’s Campaign for a New Protocol
As startups looks towards increasingly abstract schemes, where is the art that answers to today’s deeply networked structures? Read more on Frieze LINEBREAK
Timur Si-Qin at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Money for Sale, Heroin-Injected Lasagna: How One Artist Is Defining Our Era
As playful as he is provocative, Darren Bader interrogates the meaning of art itself. Read more at nytimes.comLINEBREAK
Colin Lang on Jeanette Mundt at Société, Berlin
The September issue of Texte zur Kunst focuses on Amerika (U.S. America principally): the land, the idea, and all that seems to come with it. What is Amerika today other than a contradiction between brute political reality and a largely fictional self-image, where fiction says as much about fact as “alternative facts” say about the truth? Purchase full online accessLINEBREAK
La diversity è necessaria: in conversazione con Timur Si-Qin
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Why Should a Webcam Plus a Woman Equal Sex? For Petra Cortright, It’s Art
The artist uses the web to create striking, ethereal art that sometimes seems too simple to be true. Elle USALINEBREAK
Stephan Jansen über “Mandy’s Piano Solo in Columbine Cafeteria” von Bunny Rogers
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Bunny Rogers Interview: Mourning Youth
Watch the praised artist Bunny Rogers (b. 1990) talk about creating autobiographical work that draws from memory and deals with her childhood by archiving her feelings from that time: “You can’t make objective art, it’s going to be subjective.” Louisiana Channel on VimeoLINEBREAK
Sean Raspet on artificial flavors
Sean Raspet describes his interest in the chemical structure of flavors and scents, and considers how molecular analysis presents new ways of thinking about the potential of art objects and their relationship to audiences. Swiss Institute on YouTubeLINEBREAK