Acclaimed film work by Willie Doherty on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

DUBLIN.- A haunting film work by leading Derry-born artist Willie Doherty opens to the public in the Annex at the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s temporary off-site exhibition spaces in Earlsfort Terrace on Tuesday 21 May 2013. Secretion, 2012, first shown to critical acclaim at dOCUMENTA 13, draws on the possibilities of lost and forgotten narratives located somewhere between recent history and a near future. Shot on location in and around Kassel, Germany, the powerful narrative at times presents echoes of Doherty’s [...]

First UK show of the American artist Edy Ferguson at Faggionato Fine Arts

LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Arts announced the first UK show of the American artist Edy Ferguson. The exhibition America combines video and film installations, drawings, paintings and photographs. Ferguson’s works are vibrant and confrontational comments upon American popular culture. This is demonstrated in two video works, and particularly a film installation, simply titled America (1996). Two films are projected onto a purpose-built derelict wall in the corner of the main gallery. One is a film clip from the 1941 Captain Marvel series ‘Curse [...]

Major exhibition by Eija-Liisa Ahtila opens in Kiasma

HELSINKI.- Eija-Liisa Ahtila (b. 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is an international contemporary artist. She has exhibited her work in major museums across the world, including Tate Modern in London, Jeu de Paume in Paris, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, National Museum of Art in Osaka, and National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. The exhibition presents Ahtila’s work from the past ten years. In her most recent works, Eija-Liisa Ahtila explores the relationship between man, animals and nature. The title of the exhibition [...]

Cardi Black Box in Milan opens exhibitions by Marnie Weber and Loredana Di Lillo

MILAN.- Cardi Black Box, the Milan-based contemporary art gallery, announced two exhibitions featuring works by Marnie Weber and Loredana Di Lillo. The shows will be on view April 23 to May 25, 2013. The Day After Forevermoreexhibition centers on Marnie Weber’s film, The Night of Forevermore,set in a fantastical world that exists somewhere between a Hieronymus Bosch painting and a contemporary Halloween horror movie. It follows a young white witch as she embarks on a journey to escape the forces of [...]

Chrysler Museum roadshow takes the art into the air with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Airborne”

NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents Airborne, an interactive video projection by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, as part of the Virginia Arts Festival. The evening projections are on view April 19 to 28 from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Virginia Arts Festival Green on Bank and Charlotte Streets in Norfolk. The excitement moves to Bank and Charlotte Streets. Airborne transforms a 6,000-square-foot outside wall into a poetic shadow play. Participants are invited to cast their shadows on the wall. These shadows [...]

MoMA to trace the evolution of documentary practice in China over the past 25 years

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions, an exhibition that features nearly 30 films made between 1988 and 2013 that highlight the evolution of documentary practice in China over the past 25 years, revealing the growth and ever-increasing influence of nonfiction film and media as a mode of communication and expression in contemporary Chinese film and art, May 8 through June 1, 2013, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. Amid China’s epochal transformations over the last [...]

Art Gallery of Ontario presents renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller

TORONTO.- Internationally celebrated artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller make their highly anticipated return to Toronto this spring with Lost in the Memory Palace, a selection of seven installations incorporating complex soundtracks, videos, objects and images that have never before been shown together in Canada. The exhibition, opened on April 6, 2013, and running to Aug. 18, 2013, includes the debut of a new as-yet-untitled work specially created by the duo for the AGO, as yet untitled. Co-curated by Kitty Scott, [...]

Fundació Joan Miró presents Insomnia, an exhibition about film as a material for contemporary art

BARCELONA.- Fundació Joan Miró hosts Insomnia, a selection of works that have been conceived to be projected in museums and galleries, invading the exhibition space or inviting visitor participation. These art spaces have allowed artists greater freedom than the strict confines of the film industry and its distribution channels. The exhibition includes works by Hollis Frampton, Stan VanDerBeek, Dan Graham, Lis Rhodes, Peter Kubelka, Ben Rivers and Stan Douglas. The title of the exhibition comes from the sentence that Hollis Frampton used [...]

0 to 60 contemporary art exhibition brings together modern masterworks that explore the concept of time

RALEIGH, NC.- Beginning March 24, 2013, the North Carolina Museum of Art, in partnership with Penland School of Crafts, presents 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, an exhibition looking at how contemporary artists blur the boundaries among art, craft, and design, and how they incorporate elements from science, engineering, robotics, computer software, and gaming technology to explore the concept of time. The works in 0 to 60 fall into six categories—real time, virtual time, historical time, recorded time, [...]

Bill Smith highlights the intersection of art, chess, and nature in new exhibition at World Chess Hall of Fame

ST. LOUIS, MO.- Bill Smith’s art emerges from an analysis of our increasingly technologically advanced society and our shrinking natural world. With a background in sculpture, microbiology, chemistry, and mechanics, Smith creates art inspired by disciplines outside of the humanities where the aesthetic beauty of Smith’s creations is a byproduct of his process. By understanding the way nature works on a microcosmic level, he mimics nature’s growth characteristics and inherent beauty. Smith sees the celebration of the human condition as being [...]

Exhibition consisting mostly of new works by Joachim Koester opens at Palais de Tokyo

PARIS.- Working in the murky zone between conscious and unconscious, dream and reality, the artist Joachim Koester explores vast fields of knowledge, ranging from Haitian ritual to esoteric séances, and including yoga, Peyote and other hallucinatory experiences. As a result, he creates works that blur the line separating the documentary and the fictional, asking the audience to reconstitute mental journeys on which they undoubtedly would never embarked. This exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo allows the visitor to discover films evoking John Murray [...]

Madrid-based visual artist Daniel Canogar unveils first permanent piece of public art in the U.S.

MADRID.- Daniel Canogar, a Madrid-based visual artist, recently unveiled his first permanent piece of public art in the U.S. Waves, a suspended 24-foot sculptural LED video installation in Houston, Texas, echoes the flow and constant current of people walking through the atrium daily. The video display content is the result of a public-participation performance, a signature method of the artist. 90 workers and tenants of the building complex, as well as passersby, performed over a green-screen surface while being captured by [...]

French artist Cyprien Gaillard’s first solo exhibition in New York on view at MoMA PS 1

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Cyprien Gaillard’s (b. 1980, Paris) work navigates geographical sites and psychological states, addressing the relationship between architecture and nature, and evolution and erosion. Using a variety of artistic mediums ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, film, and video, Gaillard juxtaposes pictorial beauty and the atmospherically lush with elements of sudden violence, destruction, and idiosyncrasy culled from popular culture, pointing to the precarious nature of public space, social ritual, and the very viability of the notion of [...]

Ed Atkins’ first solo show in the United States opens at MoMA PS1

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Known for his high-definition videos that defy standard narrative conventions, Ed Atkins (British, b. 1982) works with filmic and text-based forms in technological transition. The artist considers HD technology deathlike because of its virtualized form, and he deploys this bodiless movie format to highlight the conflicted intimacies that contemporary mechanisms of cultural production represent and allow us to achieve. Unlike traditional films that give priority to the image over the soundtrack, Atkins gives equal weight to what [...]

Move on Asia: Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012 exhibited at the ZKM / Media Museum

KARLSRUHE.- The title of the exhibition “Move on Asia. Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012” points to the increasing significance of Asia in global contemporary art. Fifty years following the emergence of video art the exhibition, held at the ZKM | Karlsruhe in February 2013, provides insights into the most recent developments in this medium in thirteen Asiatic countries with over 140 works. While over the course of global upheaval and ongoing crises the West persists with its political and cultural incompetence, [...]