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Jonathan Baldock

A universe of faces, in multiple colors, to be worn, inhabited or confronted, such are the offerings of British artist Jonathan Baldock. A thread, and as it grows, a hole. Their agreement is pure, perverse too. Eventually their lovers' discourse finds itself trapped in a jungle of veils. From such transparency, turned upside down, the…

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Ruti De Vries

The fragile contradiction between discarded materials and immortal ideas powers Israeli artist Ruti de Vries' installations, drawings and animations. Mountains properly recycled reemerge as fire. Clouds that fade today are the hidden wrinkled messages in the plastic bags of tomorrow. Arrows have been fired without hitting the target, but somehow they always found their way back…

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Bubi Canal

With references to childhood memorabilia as well as the mystical and absurd, Bubi Canal from Spain invites us to a musical and colorful wonderland. Movements for the gods amusement. Dance floors , outdoors,overload of furious furors. Music fantastic, plastic bombastic. Red recesses dressing rehearses. Blue voodoo undoes,a revue to pursue, unscrews. Yellow, odd fellow, bellows ,…

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Doreen Garner

Luxurious and disturbing at the same time, the sculptural creations of American artist Doreen Garner suggest other forms of life and mutation and remind us of the strangeness and wonder of our own bodies. By ribosomian labyrinths guarded, amino acid whimpers and pushes, so eager to please. Court is held between melanocyte walls. Here is Klerokinosis…

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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_lovebomb

For Terre Thaemelitz , sales, distribution and claims are the essential tools of culture and thus they determine his* artistic practice, where her* roles as DJ Sprinkles, writer, contemporary artists, designer and businessman become one. In Lovebomb, the video/conceptual album on view at Documenta, these practices result in a disturbing,challenging and intense audiovisual experience. Circuitry of…

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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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Phyllida Barlow

With a long career behind her, Phyllida Barlow has been given the spotlight of the British Pavilion and turned the neoclassical building into a joyous and rough universe with her project “Folly”. In that age rich in clumsy wonders, they invited themselves into the still thin air, shy but certain in their greatness. Sliding off sharp edges,…

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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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