CBC Arts, by Lise Hosein
Feb 7, 2019
At Migrations, the new exhibition by English sculptor Mat Chivers, there's a huge piece that dominates the space. It looks sort of like a lumpy figure sitting slouched on the ground.
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CBC Arts, by Lise Hosein
Savoir média
2019
En 2018, le Musée d’art de Joliette invitait le sculpteur anglais Mat Chivers en résidence de production au Québec, afin qu’il crée un nouveau corpus d’œuvres en dialogue avec le milieu de l’intelligence artificielle, en pleine ébullition à Montréal
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By Anna Kovler
Jan, 2019
Molding and firing clay is among the oldest recorded human activities. In the Ancient Near East, clay was imprinted with tiny lines to keep records of grain and other goods. The Greeks made clay vessels for eating and drinking and for honoring the dead, the surfaces covered in intricate geometric designs and abstracted figures.
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OFluxo
Jan, 2019
Arsenal Toronto is proud to present Enchantment, the first international solo exhibition by Greg Ito presenting paintings, sculpture, and installation that explores the state of lucid dreaming where daily life collapses into fantasy, nightmare, hope, failure, and the unforseen future.
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Cultured Magazine
Jan 10, 2019
Over an extensive career, Nicola L journeyed from Morocco, where she was born, to Paris, the city where she first encountered Nouveau Réalisme to great influence, to New York, where she took roost in the Chelsea Hotel, and Ibiza, whose sun-kissed coast inspired the artist’s longstanding concern for the skin’s warm envelopment.
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Artsy
Jan 3, 2019
Artist Nicola L., best known for her anthropomorphic, functional sculptures, died on December 31, 2018, at age 81. From a white, foot-shaped sofa to a curvy yellow cabinet with a round face and suggestive, nipplesque drawer pulls, L.’s artwork cheekily merged principles of art, design, and furniture.
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Artnet News
Jan 3, 2019
Conceptual French artist Nicola L., whose feminist work has been experiencing newfound recognition in recent years, died on Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 81. Her shape-shifting art, which spans sculpture, painting, performance, and furniture, often explored the human (and mostly the female) body.
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Architectural Digest
Nov 19, 2018
"It would be perfect for jewelry," says a gallery visitor at New York's Arsenal Contemporary to the woman next to him, tugging open the nipple drawer of Nicola L.'s La Femme Commode and contemplating its obvious use: storage.
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New York Magazine, Bedford + Bowery
Nov 13, 2018
Nicola L was making art around the same time as other household pop art names like Andy Warhol. But while Warhol has a huge exhibition at the Whitney right now (with a sick gift shop), Nicola L. didn't get her first major retrospective until last year.
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Art Viewer
Oct 30, 2018
Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present the Brazilian, Brooklyn-based artist, Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s first solo presentation in New York, Until Different. The exhibition opens 13 September and runs through 4 November, 2018.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite reformulates physical presences and absences in the world and body, negating the mere reassertion of subjects and their environments through acts of pivotal transformation.
New York Times - STYLE Magazine
Oct 12, 2018
There was a “Saturday Night Live” sketch not too long ago in which Kate McKinnon pretended to be Brigitte Bardot responding to the #MeToo movement. “Why does woman have breast? It’s for a man to grab and pull!” she said, taking a drag on her prop cigarette. “A drawer has a knob. A woman has two knobs!”.
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By Anna Kovler
Oct, 2018
Resting somewhere between dream and reality, Vanessa Brown’s sculptures test the boundaries of the familiar. What we normally encounter on a small scale, like a pair of earrings or a cigarette, take on impossibly strange proportions in her metal and glass works.
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Artnet, by Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein
Aoû 30, 2018
In her new sculpture series, inspired by Mesoamerican funerary urns, Brazilian artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite has cast her own body in clay to make life-size vases with vaguely unsettling organic qualities.
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Artnet news
Aug 27, 2018
It’s your last chance to catch this summer group show, featuring Abbas Akhavan, Maskull Lasserre, Ana Mendieta, and more. The theme is folkloric rituals associated with witchcraft.
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Artnews
Aug 27, 2018
Today’s show: “A Kiss Under the Tail” is on view at Arsenal Contemporary in New York through Sunday, September 2. The group exhibition presents work by Ana Mendieta, Dena Yago, Abbas Akhavan, Latifa Echakhch, Maskull Lasserre, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Isabelle Cornaro, Michael Assiff, and Julia Feyrer.
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Creative Applications, by Greg J. Smith
Aug 3, 2018
The 4th edition of the International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN) wraps up this week, and per previous editions it did not lack in ambition. Drawing on the momentum built over the last six years, and – in particular – the excellent last, third edition, this BIAN was dedicated to the theme ‘AUTOMATA: Sing the Body Electric.’
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Artsy, by Tess Thackara
Jul 30, 2018
Creating new forms is a mission for me,” said Juliana Cerqueira Leite, “a way of not reasserting the world as it is, but of positing a transformation.” Leite’s sculptures testify to one’s ability to transmute the world around them.
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Art in the Digital Age, by Dominique Moulon pour Art Press
Jul 18, 2018
Créée en 2012 par Alain Thibault, la Biennale Internationale d’Art Numérique (BIAN) s’inscrit dans la continuité du festival Elektra initié en 1999. Elle s’articule autour de divers lieux incluant la Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) et l’Arsenal Art Contemporain.
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Art Press
JuL 17, 2018
L’aventure de cette quatrième édition de la BIAN de Montréal se poursuit à l’Arsenal où se tient la principale exposition intitulée Automata et dont le commissariat a été confié à Peter Weibel, fondateur du Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) de Karlsruhe en Allemagne.
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Redazione Digicult
Jun, 2018
ELEKTRA showcases artists and works that fuse art and new technologies, and that are connected to current, contemporary aesthetics of research and experimentation.
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