an-apparent-motion:

ANGELIKA LODERER

http://www.angelikaloderer.at/

petitemusiquemartienne:

Kiki Smith, Blue Moon I (2011)

Kiki Smith at Timothy Taylor Gallery in UK. 

“Since the early 1980s, Smith has ‘used the body as metaphor, drawing upon myth, spirituality and narrative to consider the human condition, its strengths and its frailties’. More recently Smith’s work has been concerned with the interdependence of the natural world; her exhibitions and installations express the vitality of an animistic, spiritually charged universe.

Smith’s imagery shows the fundamental elements of life: humans in their diversity; animals, birds and other reptiles; flora and fauna; geology and the elements; as well as the firmament with its suns and moons and stars, all in generative and destructive harmony. She creates an idiosyncratic cosmology.”

bombmagazine:

I always think the whole history of the world is in your body. – Kiki Smith interviewed by Chuck Close

To read the entire BOMB article, visit http://ow.ly/csOpv

amnhnyc:

Photo: Louise Bourgeois; SPIDER I, 1995; Bronze, dark and polished patina, wall piece; 50 x 46 x 12 1/4”; 127 x 116.8 x 31.1 cm; Courtesy Cheim & Read and Hauser & Wirth; Photo: Allan Finkelman, © Louise Bourgeois Trust

(via artlog)

“Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist who finds pleasure in contradiction, whether in bioethics, mythology or even artistic materials. Although she hails from Paris and works in New York, for the past three years Nourry’s mind has been in India. She is currently wrapping up a three part project on gender selection in India entitled “Holy River.”

The title references the Ganges River, which is worshipped as the Hindu Ganga deity and deemed sacred through and through….Yet in reality the Holy River is one of the most polluted in the world, hazardous not only to those who bathe in it but to the surrounding ecosystem….

A similar paradox surrounds gender; while the female cow is praised for her fertility women are devalued and denied freedom. Gender selection began worsening the sex ratio in India in the 1980’s, and is estimated to create 25 million surplus males in India by 2020. After learning from academics, sociologists and scientists, Nourry presents us with the bizarre practices that worship a symbol while leaving a reality to drown.”

What a beautiful exhibition.

“Ana Rajcevic created her conceptual collection ‘Animal: The Other Side of Evolution’ at the London College of Fashion’s MA Fashion Artefact Program. Animal forms appear as extensions of the human body, suggesting “strength, power, and sensuality.”

The pieces she has created have a double life: on the one hand, are fashionable adornments, playing upon features of the human face, and, on the other hand, when seen alone, are covetable sculptures. Working in fiberglass, silicone rubber and resin, Rajcevic set out to create a collection of pieces which wouldn’t fall under the traditional mold of jewelry or accessories, and to develop a new type of artefact; precious objects which can be worn or exhibited. “

(via explosionspace)

Shirley Tse, Bleeding Heart, 2011

Vital Organs and Other Stories, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, through Mar 24, 2012

Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972

Hammer Museum, Feb 5 - April 29

…The first museum survey in the United States devoted to this Polish artist. The exhibition brings to light the extraordinary oeuvre of Alina Szapocznikow, one of the most significant yet lesser known sculptors of the 20th century. At the core of Szapocznikow’s art is the ephemeral condition of life and the human body. Her work oscillates between permanence and impermanence, from carvings in Carrara marble to the precarious assemblages of lips and breasts cast in polyester resin. The exhibition includes approximately 60 sculptures and 50 works on paper, as well as a poignant group of photographic works, demonstrating the tremendous range and scope of Alina Szapocznikow’s art.

So many good upcoming LA shows. Incredible life story.