5 to Read: This Month
This month’s publications offer surveys across a range of industries, from the changing face of architecture to fine art photography and installation.
This month’s publications offer surveys across a range of industries, from the changing face of architecture to fine art photography and installation.
Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. A new body of work is inspired by 1920s Hollywood cinema.
How can photography make sense of the world? Shows running 2-3 June demonstrate the ways practitioners are engaging with timely ideas.
Fashion photographer Gösta Peterson combined styled compositions with spontaneity, foregrounding the individuality of each subject.
Landscapes After Ruskin at Grey Art Gallery, New York, explores how practitioners are making sense of the changing environment.
The June / July edition of Aesthetica is available now. Issue 83, A New Way of Seeing, considers the intersection between the created and the real.
Erica Nyholm’s body of work explores familial relationships, reflecting on defining moments from a female perspective.
Between Art & Fashion: Photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani offers dialogues about the authenticity and autonomy of images.
Technological advances have altered our conception of space. James Turrell questions notions of materiality and physical location.
For Joachim Hildebrand’s latest series, he travelled through the seven states of the American southwest – a visual journey through myth and reality.
Marking a departure from self representation, new works by Elina Brotherus offer a playful, performative approach inspired by Fluxus.
Works by Erwin Olaf address social issues, taboos and conventions through a highly curated approach, offering stylised visuals.
Victor Micoud’s La Cité Idéale focuses on the surroundings of Disneyland Paris, capturing the essence of this surreal neighbourhood.
Translating personal experiences into hyperreal images, the renowned photographer Alex Prager is celebrated through a mid-career survey.
Using repeated patterns including colour, material and texture, Jon Setter organises details of landscapes as an abstracted expression of space.
Carolina Mizrahi is an art director, photographer and set designer whose cross-disciplinary practice traverses a line between fine art and commerce.
Melancholy and, at times, tied to a Romantic sensibility, Isabella Ståhl’s images communicate the desire to return to the notion of home.
A vision of the future, Evelyn Bencicova’s series Artificial Tears assesses what it means to exist within today’s increasingly factitious world.
Michelle Cho & June Kim’s collaborative series look into the ideas of relativity in the everyday, inspired by vivid and structurally expansive architecture.
