Renowned American Artist Gary Simmons Exhibits at Simon Lee Gallery in London

LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery presents its second solo exhibition of the renowned American artist Gary Simmons. For Gary Simmons, the act of erasure has been a central theme in his work throughout his career. Referencing film, architecture, and white American popular culture, his new “erasure” drawings move away from the use of paint and canvas, and revert back to pastel and chalk on black or white paper, which is where his practice began. Gary Simmons, Twins, 2011. Photo: Courtesy Simon [...]

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Opens Exhibition of Works by Jane and Louise Wilson

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.- Suspending Time, the exhibition by Jane & Louise Wilson that the The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea presents, is the most complete look at the work of these two creators held in Spain, curated by Isabel Carlos. It includes their most recent work, except for Hypnotic Suggestion 505, from 1993, a piece in which the artists allow themselves to be hypnotised before a camera. It became a benchmark for some of the elements in their creative concerns: [...]

Istituto Veneto di Scienze Shows Stanley Kubrick, the Photographer

VENICE.- Love of the paradoxical, of the oxymoron, of the ambiguous, is a key to the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick. While his films are known and appreciated by millions, few were aware until now that Kubrick was also a great photographer, in the years just after World War II. From 1945 to 1950 he worked, in fact, for the magazine Look, a popular weekly published in New York that aimed to document social [...]