Olafur Eliasson | Spectacle and Substance
Standing before a luminous artificial sun or walking through rainfall inside a gallery, audiences might mistake spectacle for Olafur Eliasson’s primary concern. Yet, beneath the immediate visual drama lies a profound inquiry into the fundamental processes by which we perceive, interpret, and ultimately co-create the world around us. Olafur Eliasson: Presence, occupying GOMA’s ground floor spaces, […]
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Jenn Nkiru: REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
This presentation of the work itself is a re-imagination – or, a rebirth – of Nkiru’s original version of the film. Back in 2017, Nkiru presented a single-channel iteration of the work with NOWNESS, the digital media screening platform founded by TRANSFORMER curator Jefferson Hack. Here, it appeared as part of the Black Star series, […]
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KILL PIXIE @ EDWINA CORLETTE, BRISBANE
ONE OF OUR favourite young artists – LA-based Australian, Kill Pixie (aka Mark Whalen) – is having an exhibition of new works at Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane—and you only have one more week to see it. We profiled Kill Pixie in Issue 7. Not only were we really taken by his work, which betrays […]
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Tagged Art, Brisbane, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Graffiti, Kill Pixie, Mark Whalen, painting, street art
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KATE SHAW @ RYAN RENSHAW, BRISBANE
“AT FIRST glance, artist Kate Shaw (FEAT. AP ISSUE 6) is dabbling with a subject painted by artists throughout art history. But Shaw’s landscapes, although recognizable as such, are not mere pictorial representations of polar ice caps and interior Australia. Her spectacularly hallucinogenic paintings remind us of the threat of global warming and environmental degradation […]
