Interview with Marina Abramovic

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Interview with muse and irresistible artist.

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FREIEZE LONDON & FRIEZE MASTERS

The most significant contemporary art galleries shown at FRIEZE LONDON and FRIEZE MASTERS 2019. Report from Regent’s Park.

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ Somerset House, London

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THE FIRST-TIMERS

The 5th edition of PhotoLondon at Somerset House with 24 countries, 114 galleries, and over 42.000 visitors in four days.

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/ Somerset House, London

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STANLEY KUBRICK X DESIGN MUSEUM

One of the greatest retrospectives on Kubrick's work “Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” opens at the Design Museum, London.

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/ Design Museum, London

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THE EROCTIC GARDEN OF SHEN WEI

Shen Wei's first solo exhibition in the UK at Flowers Gallery, London.

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/ Flowers Gallery, London

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VASARELY. SHARING FORMS

“Vasarely. Sharing Forms” a homage to Op Art and Victor Vasarely at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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/ Centre Pompidou, Paris

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AMALGAM

The latest installation of Theaster Gates “Amalgam” opens at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

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/ Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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ORACLES

Jean-Michel Othoniel’s latest work “Oracles”, a set of sculptures made out of coloured glass and metal bricks at Galerie Perrotin, Paris

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/ Galerie Perrotin, Paris

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SHARED ROOTS

“Shared Roots” by Brazilian artist, photographer Vik Muniz at Palais Brongniart, Paris by Maison Runart.

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/ Masion Ruinart Paris

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ATLANTES

Blain Southern London, Paul Kasmin Gallery New York and Galería Hilario Galguera in Mexico present an amazing site-specific installation by Bosco Sodi in Casa Wabi.

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/ Blain Southern London

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BRICK BY BRICK

Following Bosco Sodi's successful exhibition “Yügen” in 2016, three years later he returns to Blain Southern with "Heavens and the Earth”.

Interview with Bosco Sodi.

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/ Blain Southern London

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LIFE, DEATH, REBIRTH

Is Viola’s art dated, dead in the water or he is one of the most famous video artists of our time?

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/ Royal Academy of Arts, London

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JOHNNY BURT & JOE KENNEDY OF UNIT AND PHILIP COLBERT AT SAATCHI

THE RINGMASTERS

Who’s behind Unit London? Where does this highly inspirational energy come from?

Interview with Joe Kennedy.

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/ Saatchi Gallery, London

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PARISPHOTO

ParisPhoto, the biggest photo fair in Europe held each November at the Grand Palais, returns with its 22nd edition.

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ ParisPhoto, Paris

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FRIEZE WEEK & FRIEZE ART FAIR

Reporting from the Art Fair and throughout Frieze Week highlighting dozens of art galleries including Thaddaeus Ropac, Stuart Shave, Kamel Mennour, Castelli New York.

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/ published in BALKON

/ Freeze, London

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THE SHREDDED ART WORD

The 10 most significant galleries at FRIEZE London and FRIEZE Masters. Report from Regent’s Park.

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/ Freeze, London

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NO TIME FOR HIBERNATION

Three major London galleries, Victoria Miro, Saatchi Gallery and Unit London were investigated on their latest exhibitions.

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/ Victoria Miro, Saatchi Gallery, Unit, London

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FROM THE FIFTIES BOYS’ CLUB TO ANGEL 

Interview with Amar Singh of Amar Gallery London. His latest exhibition "Hiding in plain sight" celebrates female abstract expressionists of 1950s and 60s New York.

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/ Amar Gallery, London

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THE NEARLY IDENTICAL STARS 

Sherman has long been known for her love of dressing up, inventing new characters, limitless forms that illuminate the nature of subjectivity and sexuality. 

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/ Sprüth Magers Gallery, London

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THE FACE YOU DESERVE

Cindy Sherman, dressing up, inventing new characters in limitless forms and sexuality. 

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/ Sprüth Magers Gallery, London

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GOLF CAR TO MORTALITY

The 9th edition of Masterpiece at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, offered an unparalleled opportunity for networking, champagne, and connoisseurship. A private walk with Paul Freud.

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/ Masterpiece, London

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PAPER CLOUDS & NUDITY

The core of PhotoLondon at Somerset House was based on sensual shapes, landscapes, still lives, abstract objects and nudity.

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/ PhotoLondon, Somerset House, London

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WITCHCRAFT AT THE BARBICAN 

Händel's Rinaldo, a flamboyant drama of love, witchcraft and lot of fearless furies, was staged with a hypnotic cast including the young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński.

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/ Barbican Art Centre, London

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KALEIDOSCOPIC MATTER AND ENERGY 

The Gagosian gallery London presented a monumental and breathtaking installation of Katharina Grosse's bright, sprayed-on, acrylic, large-scale paintings.​

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/ Gagosian Gallery, London

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UNDER THE SPELL OF THE NOAILLES 

Investigating the 33rd International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessory Design in Hyères, in the South of France with Jean-Pierre Blanc, Haider Ackermann and Tilda Swinton.

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/ Villa Noailles, Hyères, France

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PORTRAYALS OF FEMALE IDENTITY

How do we get through confusion and clutter from paper-mâché animal heads to Tilda Swinton’s dead fish? 

Video installations by the celbrated American performance artists, Joan Jonas.

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/ Tate Modern, London

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ORGANIC URUSHI

Genta Ishizuka's work, exhibited at Erskine Hall & Coe Gallery, was deeply inspired by the sculptural technique used in 7th to 8th Century Japan, applying the Urushi lacquering technic that covers the entire sculpture like a second skin.

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/ Erskine Hall & Coe Gallery, London

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MCQUEEN at SARABANDE FOUNDATION

ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV at TATE MODERN CARPENTERS WORKSHOP in LONDON

It is a story about three remarkable places in London, which share nothing in common, but they are unique and revolutionary in their own way.

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/ Tate Modern, Sarabande Foundation, Carpenters Workshop, London

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COMPULSIVE OBSESSION

Eddie Peake is anything but a conventional artist, he is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint, a ferocious attention seeker, but also someone cramped with shyness and insecurity.

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/ White Cube Bermondsey, London

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EMERGING ARTISTS FROM BUDAPEST

Revisiting contemporary art galleries in Budapest and prompting a rhetorical question: "Could Hungary still retake its place on the art-map of Europe?"

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/ TOBE Gallery, Trafo, Trapez Gallery, Esernyos Gallery, Budapest

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EBBS AND FLOWS

A fine selection of the 180 international galleries and publishers presented at the 21th ParisPhoto with the Fair’s Guest of Honour, Karl Lagerfeld, also Patti Smith, Sophie Calle, David Lynch, Martin Parr and Catharine Clark from San Francisco.

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/ ParisPhoto, Le Grand Palais, Paris

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BLACK FLAGS, BEARS AND REFLECTIONS 

Parallel with the 44th edition of FIAC at the Grand Palais, presenting a handful of art exhibitions throughout Paris.

William Forsythe at the Gagosian, MOMA at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

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/ Gagosian, Le Bourget, Carpenters Workshop, Centre Pompidou, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée Rodin, Paris International Art Fair, L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Studio des Acacias, Paris

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UNMISTAKABLE ART / UNCERTAIN TIMES

The 15th edition of FRIEZE London and FRIEZE Masters brought more than 160 international galleries together in Regent’s Park and the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House. 

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/ Freeze, London

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DIARY

The 20th edition of ParisPhoto was a drastically transformed perception of the medium in an age when we are saturated with an omnivorous barrage of distracting and singular imagery.

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/ ParisPhoto, Le Grand Palais, Paris

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Interview with French-Cuban musical duo, LISA-KAINDE DIAZ and NAOMI ZAYAS DIAZ of IBEY.

"IBEYI means twins. Our recording shows a strong and spiritual connection to our Yoruba roots, as we named our themes and titles"

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/ photo © courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Mondino

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Interview with Hungarian abstract-expressionist artist KARL MESZLÉNYI.

“The essence of my work is the material, based on painstaking research and experiments. I love to be challenged. I am like a living laboratory, fuming with ideas, blasting with energy".

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/ photo © courtesy of Jonás Mátyássy

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Interview with Barbados-born contemporary dancer VALENCIA JAMES and co-dancer NELSON REGUERA from Havanna/Paris.

“I see myself as a perpetual student of performance and choreography".

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/ photo © courtesy of Attila Glazer

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Interview with French artist JEROME SOIMAUD.

"When 9 years ago I moved to Miami, Paris was still a fantastic place, multi-cultural, however eventually I was happy to leave because the Paris of my childhood no longer existed". 

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/ published in UBIKWIST

/ photo © courtesy of Jerome Soimaud

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

Interview with Hungarian industrial designer GABOR MAGYARI.

During his university studies he creates Mag-Netic, the prototype of a flying car, and is subsiquently invited at age of 23 to join the design studio at Renaut Paris .

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/ published in BLAST

/ photo © courtesy of Studio Magyari

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Interview with artist ERIC VAN HOVE.

"Tentateur à 29 ans, il est un homme simple naturellement complexe, artiste, sculpteur, homéride, poète, écriveur, réservé, anachorète, pantagruéliste, amanuensis, philosophe, négateur, épicurien, réservé, menteur, séducteur et hédoniste". 

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/ published in BLAST

/ photo © courtesy of Eric van Hove

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

Interview with Hungarian musician YONDERBOI.

"At age 21, he releases his first album Splendid Isolation and takes the music industry by surprise. Paris is celebrating his electro-Hungarian music".

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/ published in BLAST

/ photo © courtesy of Yonderboi

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA