The 20 fascinating artists selected for our 2022 edition of Foam Magazine’s Talent Issue look closely at both the world around us, and the one within – without shying away from discomfort or pain. (more…)
Born in 1959, Atul Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai. His work features in a great many international collections, including at the Mnam-Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, London, Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has taken part in most major exhibitions on India art organized in the USA, Europe and Asia in recent years: After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India at Queens Museum in New York, 2015, India: Art Now at the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, 2012, La Route de la Soie at Tri Postal in Lille and Paris Delhi Bombay at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2011, Inside India at Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana Turin and The Empire Strikes Back at the Saatchi Gallery in London, 2010, and Indian Summer at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, 2000. He also participated in Documenta 12, Kassel, curated by Roger Buergel in 2007, the Gwangju Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2008, the Moscow Biennale curated by Jean-Hubert Martin in 2009, the 7th Asia Pacific Trienniai of contemporary Art / APT7, Brisbane, in 2012 and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2012. In 2013, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi organized a mid-career survey show curated by Ranjit Hoskote. In 2014, the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum held a major exhibition of his work: 7000 Museums.
Bodyfulness consists of a series of photographs and musical compositions revealing the potentials and paradoxes of digital intimacy. The work is accompanied by video referring to popular online voice-guided meditations (more…)
Galerie Gmurzynska New York is pleased to present Rouge et Noir an exhibition of works by Otto Piene (Bad Laasphe 1928 – Berlin 2014), founder of Group Zero, lifelong pioneer of modern art, and key avant-garde figure of the second half of the twentieth century. (more…)
As of Friday, February 25, 2022, The Calvert Journal ceased publication until further notice. At a time when Russian acts of war are being committed in Ukraine, we cannot in good conscience continue our work covering culture and the arts like business as usual. (more…)
Sinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.
My earliest memory of Ukraine is like a snow globe where a simple shake spreads the tiny sequins into the atmosphere, silver flakes swarming slowly in the confined sky, covering the entire landscape. (more…)
Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé continues the NMNM program of exhibitions dedicated to the revolutionary aesthetics developed by Serge Diaghilev in Monte-Carlo. Heralding certain aspects of contemporary art, the cross-disciplinary approach taken by the founder of the Ballets Russes brought radical transformation (more…)
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. (more…)
Hear You Athens is a series of 50 photographs and two letters, a correspondence between two friends, Georges Salameh and Alexandros Mistriotis. Their conversation, over the years, is summarized in this book. (more…)