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Devil’s Noise
In recent work, the New York-based artist Brendan Fernandes investigates the dilemmas and codes that language create through ethnicity and sub-culture, where language becomes codified and creates barriers that allow for understanding within specific groups and communities. He explores the way in which language is used to maintain imbalances of power within society, how it …
Dutch Artistic Tradition at ThyssenBornemisza
To coincide with the celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Museo ThyssenBornemisza is launching a new exhibition programme with the general title of “Overlapping gazes”, in which special installations of works from its own collections will be presented on a regular basis. The aim of this programme is to promote the concept of the …
Come back to the war
Come back to the war is the first solo exhibiton in Germany by Lebanese-American artist Annabel Daou. In her work, Daou explores the intersections of language, culture and our present political reality. Working primarily on handmade paper, her writing and markings form conceptual maps that do not encompass geographical areas but create borders and spaces …
Matthias Bitzer in Brussels for the first time
The themes of history and identity are central to Matthias Bitzer’s work. The lives of historical figures that inspire the artist are taken as the starting point for his reflection ; the artist reconstructs their biography through diverse means. The different media are brought into a narrative field rich in references and are interrelated. In …
The symbolic western spaces of Pablo Genovés
Following Precipitados, Pablo Genovés’ first individual show in the Galería Pilar Serra, we now present Cronología del ruido, an exhibition in which he returns to his particular process of re-signification of symbolic spaces …
Antoni Tàpies. 60′s & 70′s
Antoni Tàpies. 60′s & 70′s features a selection of works made in the two decades spanning the sixties and seventies by the master of Spanish informalismo and one of the truly seminal names in contemporary art in Europe. The exhibition includes large-format mixed media works on various supports from this decisive phase in the artist’s …
Florian Heinke and other artists at NKV Wiesbaden
Florian Heinke. “Kein Gott und seine Kinder”
Consistently Florian Heinke reduces his colour range exclusively to black, which he applies directly on to nettle cloth, in order to use it as a radical medium for his painting, which he calls Black Pop. Pictures from the fast-moving media, like the Internet, magazines and newspapers, his own photos …
Middle class by Hillerbrand+Magsamen
From January 13, the American artist collective Hillerbrand+Magsamen is presenting its first solo exhibition in Spain, “Family Politics”.
Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s videos, photographs and installations reinterpret the people, activities and objects of their everyday life and engage the edge between the heroic and tragic. They navigate perceptions of identity, emotion and family within a uniquely American subjectivity that curiously …
Snapshots of skin and body
Baudoin Lebon Gallery begins 2012 with a dual exposure approach. Two contemporary classics of photography depict their ideas about the skin and the body through contemporary photography. Profils de peau is the title of the exhibition that brings together the works of Peter Knapp and Rafael Navarro, two looks and two sensitivities around photography and …
Imagination and painting
Philipp Fröhlich presents his third solo exhibition at the Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, consisting in a selection of paintings completed over the past two years. Once again, he offers fragmented landscapes and uncompleted stories in which something is likely to have happened or is about to occur. Through the application of the same process of …