The Monumenta 2012 exhibition invited Daniel Buren to create a work for the monumental space of the 45-metre high glass atrium in the 13,500-square-metre nave of the Grand Palais in Paris The annual exhibition featured Anselm Kiefer in 2007, Richard Serra in 2008, Christian Boltanski in 2010 and Anish Kapoor in 2011. Buren based his installation, Excentrique(s), … Continue reading
Per Ardua et artifices ad astra* might be the motto of Flights of Fancy, Tatton Park’s third biennial of contemporary art, where artists and writers were invited to respond to the themes of the impossible and aeronautical innovation to create works set in the context of the park, gardens and mansion of Tatton Park, a … Continue reading
The completion of the 26 artworks in the Art in the Park programme for the Olympic Park launched the London 2012 Festival (UK wide from 21 June – 9 September). The commissions include Monica Bonvicini’s free-standing mirror sculpture, RUN, with the majority of the commissions integrated into the Olympic Park infrastructure of bridges, underpasses, security … Continue reading
As an alternative to the economy of the artist / restaurateur, food and exchange are the core values in two projects, Soup/No Soup at the Grand Palais in Paris, and Time/Food, a pop-up restaurant that has appeared in New York and Berlin. These emphasize the artist’s practice concerned with dialogue, participation and social and community … Continue reading
The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings opened in March 2012 to provide a new regional venue for the Jerwood Visual Arts Programme and as a permanent home for the Jerwood Collection of 20th and 21st century paintings. Designed by architects HAT Projects, the gallery is a response both to the character of the site and the … Continue reading
