Author: Tessa Hollings
The debut solo show in France for Jenny Saville is presented by Gagosian. New artworks by Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, and Richard Serra will be on display at Gagosian’s other Paris sites in conjunction with the opening of Latent (Le Bourget). Gagosian will be delighted to take part in the Grand Palais Éphémère’s first Paris+ par Art Basel event from October 20 to October 23. In her latest piece, Saville completely describes a technique she has developed in recent years in which she weaves together stenciled layers of paint, giving particular emphasis to the space between them, allowing an image…
Art often becomes most compelling when it exists between two worlds the familiar and the imagined, the physical and the conceptual, the realistic and the surreal. For artist Natalya Doudell, this space between realities provides an opportunity to explore the human experience through painting and drawing. Working primarily with oil on canvas and pencil on paper, Doudell creates detailed and imaginative artworks that combine figurative subjects, abstract forms, and dreamlike environments. Her practice is characterized by a thoughtful engagement with both realism and surrealism. While her technical approach demonstrates a careful understanding of form, texture, and detail, her compositions often…
Creativity can take many forms, and for Kay, it exists at the intersection of photography, digital painting, imagination, and humor. A keen photographer and digital artist, Kay has developed a distinctive creative practice that transforms photographs of animals, birds, reptiles, and steampunk-inspired subjects into imaginative anthropomorphic artworks. Originally from the UK and now living in New Zealand, Kay has always maintained a strong connection to the arts. Her creative journey began with traditional painting before evolving into a more contemporary digital practice. Today, she combines her photographic skills with digital painting techniques to create playful compositions that invite viewers to…
In contemporary art, hyperrealism is often associated with an extraordinary level of technical precision. Yet for Nigerian self-taught artist Chidi Chibueze, creating highly realistic drawings is about more than simply reproducing what the eye can see. His artistic practice is rooted in emotion, personal experience, daily struggles, and the shared realities that connect one individual to another. Through his distinctive approach to hyperrealism, Chibueze transforms familiar experiences into visually compelling works that invite audiences to look beyond the surface. A contemporary hyperrealist artist from Anambra, Nigeria, Chibueze has developed a creative language shaped by curiosity and a desire to explore…
Golden Peardrop Theatre, Daniel Knorr’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, is presented by PILEVNELI. The Adam Szymczyk-curated exhibition will be open to the public from November 3 to December 3, 2022. Golden Peardrop Theatre, Daniel Knorr’s first exhibition in Turkey, is divided into three sections and is presented on each of the building’s three levels. The three collections of artwork reference the sociopolitical and aesthetic changes that followed the Second World War. The new leisure class in the United States and Western Europe embraced domestic industrial products as an ersatz of luxury in parallel to the Cold War due…
Hundreds of ancient ceramics “perfectly stacked in their original position” have been found in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. The ceramic plates, trays, and bowls date back to the Late Hellenistic Early Roman Period and were found off the coast of Adrasan in the Kumluca district of Antalya. The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, also visited the underwater archaeology site. In a press statement after the dive, Ersoy said that the cargo ship dated back approximately two thousand years. The ceramic artifacts were plastered with raw clay and “placed one inside the other in order to protect them during transportation,” a storage…
Portland , Total Catastrophe Living, a show of entirely new large-scale paintings by Rainen Knecht, opens November 19 and runs through December 17, 2022 at Melanie Flood Projects. Knecht’s experience as a new mother in a fast fading, horribly damaged, and amazingly beautiful earth is reflected in these new works. The show’s title, a play on the title of a mindfulness epic called “Full Catastrophe Living” as well as Martha Stewart’s namesake “Living,” reflects this mix of dread and delight. These paintings, while not precisely a handbook to improved living, delve into the dark humor that Knecht relies on in…
Most kids who are into Disney which is to say, most kids in general typically surround themselves with representations of Disney Princesses. But when Alex Da Corte made his first painting, at age 12, for the walls of childhood bedroom, he instead depicted the characters who antagonize these Princesses. Rather than sleeping beneath Cinderella, her evil stepmother loomed above his feet at night. A smiling Ursula appeared to emerge from a nearby window; Ariel was nowhere to be found. Da Corte is now in his mid-40s, but he seems no more interested in Disney Princesses now than he did 30 years ago.…
In 2015, an Eritrean teenager named Saron told Vice News of her harrowing journey from her war torn home country to Europe via the Libyan capital of Tripoli, a 4,000-mile odyssey that included imprisonment, endangerment, and bearing witness to the torture of fellow female migrants. The Vice story continued to linger with the painter Michael Armitage, so much so that he returned to this agonizing tale nine years later in a work called Path (2024), which is making its debut this month in a haunting solo show at David Zwirner in New York. In Path, hooded figures the women whom Saron saw get tortured with nails, possibly are huddled together behind…
A controversial tunnel will officially be built near Stonehenge, despite opposition from heritage groups, the BBC reports. The tunnel is part of a larger road redevelopment project meant to decrease traffic near the iconic archaeological site and boost tourism. The plan is projected to cost around £1.7 billion ($2.25 billion), completely overhauling a road that connects London to South West England. After years of delays, the project was given approval by Transport Secretary Mark Harper over the weekend. Archaeologists and concerned heritage groups have long opposed the plan on the grounds that the project could destroy as of yet un-excavated portions of the…