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Solo Exhibition by Finnish Film and Video Artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila at Parasol Unit

February 26, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Films & Multimedia

Solo Exhibition by Finnish Film and Video Artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila at Parasol Unit

LONDON.- Parasol unit presents a major solo exhibition by the renowned Finnish film and video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. It will include three important video installations never before seen in England. Ahtila is best known for works that concentrates on narratives in human life together with the relationships and primal emotions that underlie them. She describes her films as ‘human dramas’ because they play on the central themes of our existence, such as love, death, sexuality, the difficulty of communication, and [...]

New Work by Dutch Artist Jacco Olivier at Marianne Boesky Gallery

February 26, 2010 by All Art News  
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New Work by Dutch Artist Jacco Olivier at Marianne Boesky Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier. This is the artist’s third solo show at the gallery. Fusing painting and filmmaking, Jacco Olivier continually reworks his canvases, photographing each iteration and brushstroke, and finally combining the various stages with their liquid color into films. The subject matter of Olivier’s new work represents a notable shift, as the artist frees the films from the loose narrative framework he had previously employed, [...]