| the slant from Worldwide | Apr 17th, 2012 |
(Bernhard Winkler, Untitled, Nachtbilder series, 2012, photography. ArtSlant Showcase Juried Winner)
Whether literal or imagined...
...society, propriety, and art-making have many borders. And artists are continually testing, rejecting, and breaching these borders. Yang Fudongmakes the boundary between painting and film seem weak in light of his emotionally charged, non-narrative films. Francesca DiMattio breaks down cultural constructions, celebrating minor arts and creating hybrids from their forms. And Valie Export and Paris Hilton (Export's art heiress) successfully bury the borders of good taste, more or less. Liz Glass visits the netherworld between work-in-progress and finished work at CCA's Open Studios, and Edward Sanderson finds artist collective Irrelevant Commission testing their family bonds. Conor McGrady and Roberto Visani make weapons and plans for an overthrow of ideas. And Christoph Schlingensief confronts a very literal border--exposing the hypocrisy of radical isolationism through irony and subversion. In the RACKROOM Andrea Alessi and Davis Rhodes talk of presence, groundlessness, and silence. GEOSLANT Views Edward Sanderson reflects on Alessandro Rolandi's interventions in a Beijing factory. In the EDITIONS In the SLANT In Chicago, see SURFACE, opening at Chicago Art Source on April 19th from 5-8 pm. Runs through June 16. In Los Angeles, join Linus Galleries in Pasadena for a reception on April 20th from 5:30-9 pm for a collective contemporary art show. And in New York, TNC Gallery presents POW Pop Now, opening on April 17th 6-9pm, on view until May 19. |
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 | INTERVIEW WITH DAVIS RHODES |
| Brussels, Apr. 2012: There is a tendency to anthropomorphize the larger-than-life entities that are New York-based artist Davis Rhodes’ paintings. His four-by-eight-foot foamcore panels lean against t... [more] |  |
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