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Chen Chen & Kai Williams

New York-based designers Chen Chen (Shanghai, 1985) and Kai Williams (New York, 1984) met in the early 2000's at Pratt Institute in New York. They have both the ability to design exploiting the unexpected part of a huge palette of materials. Since 2011 they've been working creating furniture, products, interiors and mixed materials in their…

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Documenta 14_undersea Kingdom

The big great whale, Walis Gwy Um, as fellow Kwakwaka’wakw people named Beau Dick , one of their hereditary chiefs, was a maker of masks, a hand guided by superior forces to bring them to life in colored cedar wood. All the masks exhibited at Kassel and Athens have been danced and will do so…

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Documenta 14_i Had Nowhere To Go

For the following weeks, this column will be dedicated to discuss some of the works exhibited at the Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany. The first takeaway from this huge endeavor is its leviathanic ambition to collect, process and polemize urgent topics of politics, economy and culture. Much like the globalized world it is discussing, Documenta…

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Michele Gabriele

The disturbing life forms that Italian artist Michele Gabriele creates through a mix of alien materials and everyday objects offer a glimpse into an alternate or possibly future world. On purple a lake boiling wild, feverish tendrils submerge their crystal cut shapes into a miasma of rotten circuits. By the shore a processor waits lazily…

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Berlinde De Bruyckere

Berlinde De Bruyckere, from Belgium, has become a well-known artist because of her masterful use of wax, wool and horse skin to create her work. Oh you have travelled far! You have expanded and collapsed, rotted endlessly and yet again have been reborn into amniotic fluids playing court to your pulsating whims. One…

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