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Scott Treleaven On the Edge of Drawing lecture at the MoMA

January 31, 2012 by ArtJetSet

The MoMA’s Contemporary Drawing department hosted their annual lecture with guest speaker artist Scott Treleaven.  ArtJetSet first saw works by this talented Canadian artist at NADA Miami 2008, https://artjetset.com/2008/12/24/nada-fair-miami-2/ The lecture explored the direction of how the definition of drawing is evolving.  As a young artist Treleaven created zines – most notably Salivation Army, cut and pasted Xeroxes of photos and stories.  This greatly shaped his maturer works, as he evolved his practice towards collage, and most recently abstracted collaged paintings. Another concept […]

Categories: New York, Panel + Symposiums • Tags: MoMA, Scott Treleaven, zines

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Carsten Höller: Experience at the New Museum

January 9, 2012 by ArtJetSet

Carsten Höller, scientist-come-artist, hilariously delightful exhibition at the New Museum presents the familiar in a way that challenges our preconceived notions of experience. The Mirror Carousel is strikingly beautiful but spins at an impossibly slow speed.  Not only changing the expected velocity of fun but allowing the viewer to experience riding a carousel not as a joyful carnival ride by rather at a pace to savour every elongated second of the ride. Höller’s work centres around the reinterpretations of sensory experiences, specially enjoyed the Rabbit on […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Carsten Höller, New Museum New York

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Maurizio Catellan: ALL at The Guggenheim

January 9, 2012 by ArtJetSet

  Life, death, humour, irony, distortion of scale, pigeons… what can you say about Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective at the Guggenheim titled All.

Categories: New York • Tags: Guggenheim New York, Maurizio Cattelan

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Michael Snow at Jack Shainman

January 8, 2012 by ArtJetSet

It was an absolute pleasure to have met Michael Snow at the opening of his new show In the Way at Jack Shainman Gallery. Snow is one of Canada’s greatest contemporary artist, whose ground breaking experimental films revolutionized new media and recontextualized experiencing and ways of seeing and looking.  His new video installation remphasizes what Snow does best, creating an environment where the viewer is physically engaged in active looking. The other video work, In the Way, was shot while […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Michael Snow

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