Aesthetica Art Prize Interview: Photographer D. Bryon Darby

We catch up with longlisted Art Prize photographer D. Bryon Darby, whose work investigates perceptions of place as mediated through technology, photography, and personal experience.

Fiona Rae: New Paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery

Since Rae’s 1991 Waddington Galleries show announced her as a distinctly postmodern abstract painter, it has been common to consider Rae’s work a delicate play between chaos and order.

Review of Ólöf Arnalds New Album Sudden Elevation

Sudden Elevation will be relished both by admirers of Ólöf Arnalds’s crystalline voice, and by devotees of the Nordic modern-folk music associated with fellow Icelandic musicians Björk and Sigur Rós.

Interview with Marco Sanges

Marco Sanges shoots a cinematic world of dreams and drama. Exhibited worldwide, Sange’s clients include Agent Provocateur, Vogue, Sunday Telegraph, Photo, Katalog, Dolce&Gabbana and Eyemazing.

On Creating Reality by Andy Kaufman, Maccarone Gallery

Andy Kaufman was one of those mercurial types that we commonly refer to as a ‘genius’. This is owing to his ability to realise, beyond human experience, a new way to practice his craft.

Joe Sorren: The Great Cantaloupe Day, New York

AFA of SoHo will present a collection of new paintings and sculpture by Joe Sorren. The Great Cantaloupe Day will also feature a retrospective of more than 30 graphics and three new releases.

Spring Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary, Margate: Rosa Barba

Three new exhibitions have just opened at Margate’s seaside gallery, Turner Contemporary – Carl Andre: Mass and Matter, Rosa Barba: Subject To Constant Change and Turner: Turner’s Perspective.

Interview: AWOL Studios’ Phil Walton

AWOL Studios provide an artistic home for the burgeoning creative scene in Manchester. AWOL Studios is a cost effective space to an eclectic and diverse range of creative individuals.

Tacita Dean: JG, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia

British-born, Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean presents her new film project JG at the Arcadia University Art Gallery. JG is the sequel to FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

Aurélien Froment: 9 Intervals, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin

9 Intervals is about dialogue. Dialogue between juxtaposing images, presented on two screens playing in tandem across the walls of Mother’s Tankstation Gallery from 16 January.

Review of Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union, London

Saatchi’s Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union is a broad anthology of Russia’s contemporary cultural offerings. Lightness, is an element scarcely present within this latest show.

Review of Estrangement: Fatma Bucak, Larisa Daiga, Evariste Maïga, Samuel Williams

Estrangement presents four emerging artists whose practices and nationalities choreograph a sly line between identity, economy, politics and video art history. With work by Samuel Williams.

Interview with Photographer and Artist Kevin Cooley

Kevin Cooley presents his stunning photographs from his Night for Night series in Aesthetica Issue 51. His largescale video installation, Skyward, is currently on show at Pierogi’s The Boiler.

Lesley Dill: Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan

It can be said that art can serve as a universal language. Lesley Dill applies literal meaning to art as a communicative agent by incorporating various forms of language into her multi-faceted work.

Degrees of Uncertainty

Concerned with observing the world, Kevin Cooley captures a profound and intense mood through his treatment of light, colour and object.

Aesthetica Art Prize Interview: Damien O’Mara

We spend some time with shortlisted artist, Damien O’Mara. The photographer will be exhibiting The Trespasser, which depicts suited men in places that are “off-limits” to people in corporate roles.

Review of Juergen Teller: Woo! London

Juergen Teller’s Woo! is a showcase of the greatest work from Teller’s longstanding, unwavering career. One of the most recognisable about his work is his ability to portray subjects entirely stripped back.

Joy Division’s Peter Hook & Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, MCA Chicago

Joy Division’s bass guitarist Peter Hook is in artist conversation at the MCA on Tuesday 5 February. Reflecting on the band he helped co-found and his new book Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division.

Interview with the Director & Curator of Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando

Although its origins date back to 1996, Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando officially opened its doors in Madrid in 2004. It has since concentrated on promoting unknown or little-known artists.

Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London

Richard Wentworth presents an exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London, from 30 January until 9 March. The British sculptor continually questions the way in which we approach the material world.