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Lorna Simpson: Momentum, 2011

Lorna Simpson: Momentum, 2011

Lorna Simpson presents her work, Momentum, 2011, at the Paramount Pictures Studio, during the Frieze LA 2020. Feb 14 - 16, 2020 The Paramount Pictures Studio, 5515 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038 Lorna Simpson: in the studio Lorna Simpson talks to Frieze about her life and work in her Brooklyn studio. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised

Ann Veronica Janssens: HOT PINK TURQUOISE

Ann Veronica Janssens: HOT PINK TURQUOISE

Light effects, mists, colour trails & reflective optical illusions. The Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens' (f. 1956) mission is to push our perceptions of the known. As an artist, Ann Veronica Janssens works almost scientifically to push the boundaries of the known. Although her art is not easy to classify, its effect on us as viewers is not to be mistaken. For her, it's not about confirming what we already know. In fact, it aims to locate us precisely at the spot where we

At home with Deborah Irmas--collector, curator and art advisor

At home with Deborah Irmas--collector, curator and art advisor

Deborah Irmas collector, curator and art advisor How it is to live with an immersive digital artwork? ArtPlay: I remember you former apt, when you got off the elevator you immediately were confronted by this incredible digital artwork that completely engulfed you in the beautiful light in the entry space. DI: It was a trip, people got off the elevator and thought - where am I? Visitors would often just stand there - like, What’s gong on here? The video set them up so when the

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: ONE LAST TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: ONE LAST TRIP TO THE UNDERWORLD

Spanning both of the gallery’s floors, this much anticipated show will be Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s first solo exhibition in New York since 2013 and will be the worldwide premiere of four new video works. Djurberg and Berg’s collaborative works conjure surreal landscapes that explore the shadows of human subconsciousness. Using sculpture, stop-motion film, sound, and immersive installation the artists construct narratives that speak to emotional tension, confliction,

Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again

Alexandre Singh - A Gentle Horror

Alexandre Singh - A Gentle Horror

Alexandre Singh’s first major exhibition at Metro Pictures features the New York premiere of his short film The Appointment (2019, 19 min). Singh transforms the gallery into an abandoned cinema from an imagined dystopic future. With trompe l’oeil wallpaper and flooring that is painstakingly hand-drawn, the exhibition includes sculpture and paintings that refer to the macabre vernacular of the film. The works further Singh’s ideas around narrative and storytelling, which he fi

Monica Lacy - living with video art in Los Angeles

Monica Lacy - living with video art in Los Angeles

Monica Lacy Los Angeles based collector ArtPlay: How long have you been collecting contemporary art? Monica: I’ve been collecting art for about 15 years. I was first interested in paintings and then changed my focus to photography. I found artists working with the newest digital technology and camera-less photography to be the most interesting. ArtPlay: How did you become interested in video art and media based art? Monica: I saw the work of the LA based, video artist Brian B

REICH RICHTER PÄRT - THE SHED

REICH RICHTER PÄRT - THE SHED

The Reich Richter collaboration, a Shed commission, examines the intersection between Richter’s formula for his “Patterns” series and Reich’s rigorous, repeating musical structures in a genre-crossing moving picture work made in collaboration with Corinna Belz and featuring the world premiere of a new Reich composition. In his “Patterns” series, Richter repeatedly divides and mirrors a computer image of an abstract painting to further abstract the work, ending in solid bands

Petra Cortright - PINK_PARA_1STCHOICE - TIMES SQUARE

Petra Cortright - PINK_PARA_1STCHOICE - TIMES SQUARE

Petra Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software. Whether she is manipulating digital files into two-dimensional paintings in Photoshop or uploading videos to online platforms, the Internet is deeply ingrained in Cortright’s work. She became renowned for making self-portrait videos that use her computer’s webcam and default effects tools, which she would upload to YouTube and caption with spam

Laurie Anderson Interview: A Virtual Reality of Stories

Laurie Anderson Interview: A Virtual Reality of Stories

In this exclusive video, Laurie Anderson presents her prizewinning virtual reality work from 2017: “I wanted to see what it would be like to travel through stories, to make the viewer feel free,” the legendary multimedia artist says. Laurie Anderson’s ‘Chalkroom’ (2017) has been created in collaboration with the Taiwanese artist Hsin-Chien Huang. In ‘Chalkroom’ it is possible to float around virtually and to explore a hand-drawn universe of sentences and words written in chal

Studio Visit with Ed Atkins

Studio Visit with Ed Atkins

Berlin Art Link Productions visited Ed Atkins' studio to talk about his working process and how he culls through a mass of ideas to reach his final, holistic exhibition. British, Berlin-based artist Ed Atkins' HD videos and text-based works create worlds simultaneously hyper-real and undeniably artificial. His current exhibition 'Old Food' at Martin-Gropius-Bau is no exception: the video works presented in the show are without concrete narrative but evoke a melancholic emotio

Jon Rafman & Hans Ulrich Obrist | DLD 19

Zaria Forman - Perspective

Zaria Forman - Perspective

Known for her impeccably naturalistic pastel drawings, Zaria Forman finds inspiration in remote landscapes and environmentally sensitive locations. Her drawings include carefully rendered images of glistening icebergs, turbulent arctic waters, and crashing tropical waves. She has traveled extensively in Greenland and the Maldives to both collect material for her drawings and raise awareness about climate change. ABOUT THE ARTIST Zaria Forman documents climate change with past

Bill Viola Interview: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

Bill Viola Interview: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

When video artist Bill Viola was 6 years old he fell into a lake, all the way to the bottom, to a place which seemed like paradise. "There's more than just the surface of life." Viola explains. "The real things are under the surface". American Bill Viola (born 1951) is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. As a child Bill Viola felt that the world inside his head was more real than the o

Rachel Rose: Between Living and Non-Living

Rachel Rose: Between Living and Non-Living

Meet the praised New York-based video artist Rachel Rose, who creates visually poetic and multi-layered narratives, exploring different “scales of mortality”: “I try to use myself a bit like a tiny sensor, and then quickly move outside myself to the place that it spots,” she says. Rose believes that all of her video works stem from a question or a feeling, such as fear or unease: “Trying to understand that feeling and connect it to places and time outside myself, to deepen it

Ericka Beckman: DOUBLE REVERSE

Ericka Beckman: DOUBLE REVERSE

You The Better (1983), produced, directed, shot and edited by Ericka Beckman. Produced with funds from The National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts For the past four decades, the New York- and Boston-based artist Ericka Beckman has centred her video work on the visual language of games, fairy tales and folklore. While these might be sources of childhood fun, Beckman is not playing around: her dark, techno-futuristic films and installations us

William Kentridge LET US TRY FOR ONCE

William Kentridge LET US TRY FOR ONCE

KABOOM!, 2018 inaugurates the exhibition: a three-channel work projected onto a model scaled to the stage of The Head & the Load, alongside charcoal drawings used in the production. Birds, soldiers, historical figures, waterfalls, and landscapes recreate an imaginative topography in the North Gallery. “The head and the load are the troubles of the neck” goes the Ghanaian proverb. The Head & the Load tells the story of the nearly 2 million African porters and carriers used by

Jennifer Steinkamp - IMPEACH

Jennifer Steinkamp - IMPEACH

Jennifer Steinkamp (American, b. 1958), Blind Eye, 1, 2018. Video installation, 12' x 43' 2" (3.66 x 13.16 m) “The centerpiece of the exhibition is Steinkamp’s Impeach (2019). Previously exhibited as a printed billboard in “Jam, The Billboard Creative,” a public art project organized by Mona Kuhn and Alex Prager in Los Angeles in 2017, Impeachhere bursts to life as a digital animation for the first time. A mash-up of stage diving fruit, especially peaches, plunging themselves

Bill Viola - LIFE DEATH REBIRTH ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS JANUARY 26, 2019 - MARCH 31, 2019

Bill Viola - LIFE DEATH REBIRTH ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS JANUARY 26, 2019 - MARCH 31, 2019

This exhibition brings together two artists – born centuries apart – who explore the same universal themes with works of transcendent beauty and raw emotional power. In 2006, pioneering video artist Bill Viola saw the finest of a collection of these drawings at Windsor Castle, and was astonished by the Renaissance master’s expressive use of the body to convey emotional and spiritual states. Although created in a radically different medium, Viola’s own works also grapple with

Ryan Trecartin: The Safe Space of Movies

Ryan Trecartin: The Safe Space of Movies

Step inside groundbreaking video artist Ryan Trecartin’s surreal universe, which has been described as a place where “horror movies meet reality TV.” In this comprehensive video, the leading figure of a new generation describes his movies as a “safe space,” where you can explore dubious ideas or characters. “It doesn’t have to be a statement, it can be a landscape of opportunities, of thought and invention rather than answers.” Trecartin’s first movie project was in a small f