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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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Erkka Nissinen And Nathaniel Mellors

Harbingers of anarchic humor aiming to shake some intellectual borders, the bi national collaborators Nissinen (Finland) and Mellors (UK) have invaded the Finnish Pavilion at the Biennale with talking eggs and acid laughter. Savior in a box, protecting the national borders of your inner space. Head in the bucket circle red harrow minded.…

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Villa Argentina_arunÀ Canevascini

When she was only one year old, Arunà moved to a small village in Switzerland with her Swiss father and her mother, an Iranian artist. As a foreigner, she felt that people did not use to interact with strangers and also her mom, as foreigner and artist, was an unusual character for the local…

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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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Raque Ford

In the border between painting, sculpture and installation, Raque Ford from the USA creates colorful, playful juxtapositions that explode and multiply in space. Everything inside each other. Taking shape in the corners. On the brisk of final dissolution. Broken, rearranged. Chained to colors and sprawling miles. It has been remembered, not as it happened, but…

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John Bock

A pioneer in the realm of performance, John Bock from Germany filled the stage with humor, mistakes and absurd objects that tell fantastic stories to a conspiring audience. In the ringing of his bells there is the truth of laughter. He circles the stage and from the shadows produces instruments of torturous colorfulness. Strings are…

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Mariechen Danz

With meditative and mantric monologues, musical performances and installations rich in materials, Scottish artist Mariechen Danz seeks the knowledge and power contained inside each human body. As the lips move, tendons relax and tense again. Electricity pulses through causeways built from a thousand riches gathered from each corner of the universe. Saliva coils in liquid…

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Aernout Mik

Through a combination of video and performances, Dutch artist Aernout Mik decomposes social structures and turns them into uncertain and fragile gatherings full of potential and violence. Come, tornadoes of togetherness. We take on the invisible corridors that would seek to separate us. We turn them into...into what? There would have seem to be an…

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