The Diorama: Fascinating, Provocative and Educational
With issue 109, ESPACE, the new generation, completes its first lap around the track. While the first two issues focused on Re-Thinking Sculpture?, this third issue features the diorama, as put forward (…)
Raqs Media Collective: Casebook.
This book documents 80 works Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) produced between 2002 and 2012. From the outset, attention is given to this contemporary art trio’s approach. They describe their practice as a form of nomadic art, unable to
Starving of Sudan by Xu Zhen: Epistemology and Pragmatics of the Diorama
The term diorama entered the contemporary art lexicon in the 1990s, due mainly to a rising interest in realistic three-dimensional representations, at full or reduced scale, such as the striking works of Jake &
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and the Persistence of the Diorama
The dioramas that Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created in New York for the DIA Art Foundation present us with heterogeneous temporalities and places. These display boxes, which are about the size of a small theatre stage,
Bête Noire by Kent Monkman. Revenge by Diorama
The first dioramas to represent animals in their natural habitat were introduced into North American natural history museums at the end of the 1880s. Although these displays were directly inspired by the dioramas Louis
The Diorama as Artistic Process
In an 18th century Parisian drawing room, a fox sits enthroned on the divan of a duchess. The animal seems absorbed by a pigeon perched the decorative back moulding, wings spread, readying perhaps
Vicky Sabourin’s Stagings
Vicky Sabourin was headed for a career in the theatre before she turned to the visual arts. Each of her installation works combines a tableau vivant and a diorama in which she performs, so
Bois d’Œuvre, Rendez-vous au Cœur de l’Ouvrage. The Saint-Jean-Port-Joli Biennale
The desire to hold a festive summer sculpture event is still alive and well in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. This village, situated on the shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, hosted its first sculpture symposium
Rachel Kneebone: 399 Days
White Cube
London
July 18—
September 28, 2014
Hybrid body parts, severed limbs and phallic figures populate Rachel Kneebone’s 399 Days (2012-2013). Towering over visitors as they enter the White Cube’s 9x9x9 gallery space
Katie Paterson: Ideas That Are Out There
Ingleby Gallery
Edinburgh
June 27—
October 4, 2014
These last couple of months have been quite busy for the Glasgow-born, Berlin-based artist Katie Paterson. Her first major solo exhibition in Britain took place at Ingleby
Camp Fires. The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, Richard Milette. (Edited by Paula Sarson)
Camp Fires. The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, Richard Milette. (Edited by Paula Sarson), Toronto, Gardiner Museum, 2014. Ill. colour. Eng/Fra.
The Human Factor. The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Ralph Rugoff (ed.)
The Human Factor. The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Ralph Rugoff (ed.), London, Hayward Publishing, 2014, 208 pages. Ill. colour.
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