Louise Zhang: The Paradoxical Grotesque
Sydney based artist, Louise Zhang, creates sculptures and paintings that represent the grotesque: layered with beauty and repulsion simultaneously.
Sydney based artist, Louise Zhang, creates sculptures and paintings that represent the grotesque: layered with beauty and repulsion simultaneously.
Deb Covell was shortlisted in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2014 with work from her acrylic paint series Black and White (2013), and has since exhibited at Middlesbrough…
FotoFest, the photography biennale in Houston, Texas, takes the theme of Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet for its 16th edition. The festival takes a fresh angle on climate change by focusing on what’s poetic, mysterious, wondrous and awe-inspiring about the natural world.
At times a celebration, other a mourning of British culture, Barbican launches Strange and Familiar, featuring photographs from foreign artists who visited Britain from the 1930s onwards.
Running alongside the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition is a dynamic series of lunchtime talks. Taking place at York St Mary’s, the talks are led by industry experts including curators and academics.
Cara Barer crafts a tangible record of the book as an object, resisting its encroaching obsolescence in the face of digital repositories of information.
Laurent Kronental’s Souvenir d’un Futur documents the lives of residents in the Grands Ensembles, the distinctive housing projects around Paris.
Centre Pompidou launches a retrospective of the still influential French designer whose craft, power and pragmatism set his work apart.
Constituting an imaginative reinterpretation of historical eras and literary masterpieces, Tagliavini explores idiosyncratic themes and characters.
For Alicia Savage, self-portraiture is a means to explore her past and present, including the literal and metaphorical journeys that she takes.
The spirit of pilgrimage is evoked in a striking new performance, Songs of the Wanderers, which looks at tradition through contemporary eyes.
A major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, creating a conversation between the dangers of domesticity and the depths of identity today.
Pervading Joshua Jordan’s charismatic works are figures who observe and undermine the borders in which they exist.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores ideas of community as an intrinsic part of the aesthetics of contemporary Japanese architects.
Heroes is a photographic project that started in Italy in 2013. It is about craft shops and artisans that are disappearing.
Photo London spans decades, genres and use of both analogue and digital methods, showcasing an evolution of the artistic practice of photography.
Photographer Christopher Payne originally trained as an architect and has dedicated himself to the exploration of America’s industrial heritage.
Journalist Ellen Köhrer and expert Magdalena Schaffrin produce the first fashion publication that illustrates how green has become the new black.
John Hansard Gallery’s final exhibition before moving from Southampton University’s Highfield Campus. brings together two distinctly separate yet intimately entwined critical thinkers.
