Sara Sze @ the United States Pavilion, Venice Biennial 2013

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Sara Sze @ the United States Pavilion, Venice Biennial 2013

If the Futurelab was to give its own Biennale awards, Sarah Sze would have been one of the winners.

This year’s US artist painstakingly transformed their Pavilion with a myriad of tiny objects, suspended from tiny strings, wire, wood, and plastic. There is a real feeling of being inside of another universe where Sze is the benevolent ruler.

Setting the tone for the exhibit, suspended precariously above the entrance to the US Pavilion are several enormous boulders that are situated on narrow boards, held down by only a few straps. One would be forgive for being afraid to come closer. Upon reaching the entrance, the viewer is greeted by another large rock placed safely on the ground, and it becomes obvious that the boulders are not rocks at all, but mere paper imposters. The surfaces are digital paper prints of rock texture pasted over a lightweight structures. And here begins the experience with Sarah Sze’s outstanding performance at this year’s Venice Biennale.

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Although Sarah Sze and the US did not win the Golden Lion this year, the Biennale’s top prize, her performance has been well-received.

This year’s prize went to Angola, with an equally stellar performance, with its much more subtle installation at the Palazzo Cini,conceived in 1984 as a house-museum, after a collection of Tuscan masterworks were donated by Princess Yana Cini Alliata de Montereale.)

The theme of the Biennale this year is Encyclopedic, and this is necessary to know when engaging Sze’s installations. One the one hand, there is an encyclopedic cataloging of her own personal objects(tea bags, granola bars, tools, and coffee cups), and on the other hand, obsessive micro representations of the marco (entire galaxies of things orbiting around precarious sun-like shapes. All the elements of our universe and all the elements of human life and death represented by the most unexpected and simplest of things makes for a truly eye-opening art experience.20130529-232536.jpg

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Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2013


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Juan Miquel Pozo Cruz: Market@ Liebkranz Galerie, Auguststrsse 62, Berlin


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Jenny Michel, System and Sensuality:from the Collection of the Ernst Schering Foundation, Kupferstichkabinett, Kulturforum, Berlin


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Auguststr, Berlin


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Helmut Newton, Arielle after haircut, 1982, CWC Galerie, Berlin

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Jeauloup Sieff, Twiggy in the ferns, 1967, CWC Galerie, Berlin

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Helmut Newton, Jenny Kapitan, Pension Dorian, 1977, CWC Galerie, Berlin
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Helmut Newton, “By-Product of an advertising sitting“, CWC Galerie, Berlin


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Minimalist mural, Skalitzerstr 78, Berlin


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Annette Selle Songs out of color@Aquabit, Augustr 35, Berlin-Mitte, May 2013


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Frank Plant More than a feeling@3 punts Galerie, Berlin April-May 2013


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Adrian Ghenie: New Paintings
@ Pace- 534 West 25th Street, New York March 8 – May 4, 2013


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Amy Cutler   Brood @ Leslie Tonkonow
January 26 – March 9, 2013


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Francis AlÿsREEL-UNREEL @ David Zwirner
January 10 – February 9, 2013   New York

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Luc Tuymans The Summer is Over @ David Zwirner
January 10 – February 9, 2013   New York

Studio work from J. Lipovac, 2013

These little circle paintings are all about 10″ wide and done in acrylic. The first one is the most recent a piece of acrylic skin. The other two are on wood.

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MARK BRADFORD @ Sikkema snd Jenkins NOVEMBER 13 – DECEMBER 22, 2012

MARK BRADFORD @ Sikkema snd Jenkins
NOVEMBER 13 – DECEMBER 22, 2012


Romare Bearden at MOMA


Tom LaDuke, Eyes for Voice, at CRG gallery, November through December, 2011


Howard Fonda at Mixed Greens, November 2011 through January 2012


Walton Ford, I DON’T LIKE TO LOOK AT HIM, JACK. IT MAKES ME THINK OF THAT AWFUL DAY ON THE ISLAND, at Paul Kasmin Gallery,NOVEMBER 3 THRU DECEMBER 23, 2011