I recently interviewed Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto for ArtSlant. We discussed his latest show at Annet Gelink in Amsterdam, but we also talked about his work in general. Go read the full interview here.
Another month, three more reviews. Check them out.
Pierre Bismuth, An Ocean of Lemonade @ SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Mick Peter, Tao Foam @ Grimm, Amsterdam
Folkert de Jong, The Man From Delft @ Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Tino Buchholz is a German urban planner and filmmaker. He has been living in Amsterdam long enough to become fascinated with the close relationship that links the city’s creative community to the problem of affordable housing, so he made a movie about it. I saw his documentary and decided to interview him, which happened for Metropolis M. Read the piece here, it came out quite interesting.
After coming back from vacation the art offer in Amsterdam has gotten considerably better, and I got my share of it. Read my monthly contribution to ArtSlant below.
Genius Without Talent @ De Appel, Amsterdam
Axel Hütte, Towards the Wood @ Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
Nathaniel Mellors & Chris Bloor, :Hypercolon: @ SMART Project Spance, Amsterdam
Not a lot going on in Amsterdam, so there’s another outdoor mission featured in July’s batch on ArtSlant. Two bad reviews out of three, which means quality has been an issue, along with quantity. Or maybe I haven’t looked hard enough? Really possible.
Jan Fabre, Hortus/Corpus @ Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Last Thursday I went to the Cognitive Cities event at Trouw. The meeting dealt with how urbanism is evolving and what it can learn from new media. Here’s my report.
This month I have been travelling around the Netherlands a bit more than usual, so the ArtSlant gallery hop includes a big Elmgreen & Dragset show in Rotterdam. Also, since the culture budget cuts in the Netherlands might kill it, make sure you check out the NIMk exhibition.
Elmgreen & Dragset, The One and The Many @ Submarine Wharf, Rotterdam
Michael Kunze, Ruperts Worte, Davids Stimme @ Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
These are the shows I reviewed for ArtSlant‘s Gallery Hop in April 2011.
Ryan McGinley, Somewhere Place @ Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam
Carl-Johan Högberg, Roderick Hietbrink @ Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Recently my book review of OPEN 20 on the Masters of Media blog was republished on the French digital magazine OWNI. As a follow up to that article I wrote another one, specifically for them, regarding a related event here in Amsterdam. The conference, titled The Populist Front, was the perfect occasion to write some considerations I had been brewing about some art shows I’ve seen.
Read the article here.
Off Beat is an Amsterdam-based magazine about alternative and underground cinema. In the lates issue you can find my review of Champion, a documentary about the trials and tribulations of Danny Trejo, the bad-ass Mexican from Machete.
Go enjoy it here.
