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Highlights from the Tate Modern

February 29, 2008 by ArtJetSet

In a recent visit to the Tate Modern, there are almost interesting nouveaute!! I really liked Dieter Roth’s 6 Piccadillies (yes, I liked these 4 of the 6 the best). An interogation of different ways of representing and painting the same scene. Steve McQueen’s Drum Roll. McQueen won the Turner Prize in 1999. This inovative video he put 3 video cameras in a steel barrel and rolled it through the streets of New York City. Negotiating our way through a […]

Categories: London • Tags: Cheri Samba, Dieter Roth, Steve McQueen, Tate Modern

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Turbine Hall Tate Modern

February 27, 2008 by ArtJetSet

There are always interesting things happening in Tate Modern Turbine Hall. LIVE : LIVING CURRENCY, a two-day exhibition of performance art in contemporary dance. X-Event 2 autonomous units imposing the limitations of the individual in awareness of a place. The dancers move slowly and thoughtfully around and towards each other. Subtly touching, holding, posing, spitting, creating the distance and the interconnections between the whole and the individual. Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth, a crack that starts at the entrance of the Turbine […]

Categories: London, Uncategorized • Tags: Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth, Turbine Hall Tate Modern

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Kim Dorland at Angell Gallery

February 25, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Kim Dorland, fantastic landscape in gestural dynamic technique. The colours are intense and the shadows are better. The layering effect seems to be a new trend in contemporary painting. Like Daniel Richter, Dorland uses a spray paint grafitti technique which gives these large works a dynamic relevance. Angell gallery is one of my perfered galleries in Toronto.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Angell Gallery, Kim Dorland, Toronto Art

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Costa Dvorsky at Engine Gallery

February 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Engine Gallery was so kind as to let me take a last glance of the Costa Dvorsky exhibition after it was finish and half taken down. The title of the show is Jump. Children diving and jumping into colourfield abstractions. Vivid and explosive, the temperment of fearless youth. I love this exhibit, great work. Its refreshing to come out of an exhibition and feel dynamic. The movement of the figures, the explosive energetic texture of the grounds, the fluidity and […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Costa Dvorsky, Engine Gallery, Jump

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Michael Burges Reverse Glass paintings

February 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Stunning technique on display at Galerie Lausberg. Michael Burges paints energetic layers on to plexiglass, once dried they are sandwiched together resulting in a tenacity of movement in abstraction.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Galerie Lausberg, Michael Burges

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David Rokeby Profiling at Whitney

February 1, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Such a pleasure to see an exhibition by David Rokeby, I went to see a lecture given by him when I was a university student at York University.Profiling is an interesting commentary on ‘the war on terrorism’ and the use of technology and survielance videos and photography to create digital profiles. Commenting on privacy and identity. The space with two large screens, one traces ghostly shadows by a camera which registers heat emmisions within the room. This projection is looped […]

Categories: New York • Tags: David Rokeby, Profiling, Whitney New York

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