All of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s public sculptures are linked to messages of various sorts; however, in this text, it is their dialogue with urbanism and architecture that we seek to summarize, drawing on our book about their artistic work.1 In 1981, with the
Of the objects which are being carried in like manner, they would only see the shadows. To them, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.1 —Plato, Allegory of the Cave On the spot. June, 2013 After having been welcomed by The Sun, a flamboyant work installed
Art begins not with the flesh, but with the house. That is why architecture is the first of the arts. —Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 1 Tower, detour, contour In the summer of 2013, in one of Parc de la Villette meadows, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, Tasdashi Kawamata, an
I believe that between utopias and these quite other sites, these heterotopias, there might be a sort of mixed, joint experience, which would be the mirror. The mirror is, after all, a utopia, since it is a placeless place. In the mirror, I see myself
Born in England, Peter Hutchinson began as a geometric painter in close contact with minimal artists Sol LeWitt and Tadaaki Kuwayama. However, Hutchinson turned away from minimalism and conceptualism’s rhetorical bent to follow a more overtly poetic and nature-oriented path. Being British born, Hutchinson shares
Anna Frlan: Interbellum III Ottawa school of Art Gallery January 10—February 22, 2013 Anna Frlan uses nothing but steel in her art making. The infinite possibilities of steel’s liquid state keep drawing her back to the welding machine. To her, the magic of manipulating the flowing red hot
In the early spring of 2013, for a period of six weeks, British-born, Berlin-based artist, Tino Sehgal, instigated a variety of emotions in visitors, ranging from delight to trepidation, at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Whether positive or negative, reactions were rarely indifferent to
Richard Clements, Day Treadeth On Night Paul Kuhn Gallery Calgary, Alberta May 17—June 30, 2013 However we see our world, it is very much through the acquisition and use of language, especially speech, that we individually make our peace with it. Even though speech seems to be deeply, consciously organized
Ai WeiWei: According to What? Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario August 17—October 17, 2013 Ai WeiWei came to town. Or, more accurately, Ai WeiWei’s art came to town, the artist himself is still under house arrest back home in China, owing to his activities as a dissident
Philip Monk, Glamour Is Theft : A user’s guide to General Idea, 1969-1978 © 2012 Philip Monk, Art Gallery of York University, 256 p. www.yorku.ca/agyu ; www.artbook.com. Hard covered and fully illustrated with black and white photographs, diagrams and excerpts of the FILE Megazine, the book