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in abstraction, I find that people try to explain what you cannot explain. Come on, it’s only a painting, you know! >> Read more

Raimund Girke’s medium was white: as erasure, as layer, as edge, as foreground, background, gesture, fog, lens and matter...whiteness is not simply a counterpoint of contrast and scale, but the elemental background...
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Xu Zhen – produced by MadeIn Company Movement Field September 11 – November 7, 2015 Movement Field, initiated in 2013 by Xu Zhen, is a long-term art creation and research project. It consists of a garden created out of a maze of various sized paths. Each path within the garden is the replica – enlarged […] >> Read more

“Artist” is irreplaceable and useless.This introduction to Ryan Gander is also useless. Where to begin even?
 
 
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Two recent Berlin shows provide competing though equally compelling responses to the production line of abstraction currently dominant, or at least voluble, in New York. >> Read more

We begin at the Courts of Justice, which were built on the hill overlooking The Marolles district to intimidate the poor who lived there. Now there is a lift to take you straight down, or up, depending on your inclination. >> Read more

Huang Yong Ping, the most prominent member of "Xiamen Dada", was one of the key artists to have emerged in 1980s China. Here the art historian and director of MAXXI Rome, Hou Hanru, spoke about “Baton Serpent”, a major survey of Huang Yong Ping in Italy... >> Read more

Abstraction is becoming the Western equivalent of the most masturbatory Literati work. Whether we call it “Zombie Formalism” (Walter Robinson) or “MFA-clever“ (Jerry Saltz), we end up bending for beige. >> Read more

Leading Australian conceptual artist Scott Redford muses on the place of Anselm Reyle in current postmodern discourse. Reyle, born 1970, retired this year despite being one of the most prominent German artists. >> Read more

That is still what I believe. You make something and hopefully it is strong enough to survive this society at large, as it is today. >> Read more