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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Le Devoir, by Jérôme Delgado
Jul 26, 2018
La mission autour du potentiel créatif des technologies les plus avancées n’a pas changé depuis 2012. Le programme est toujours aussi touffu, les lieux de diffusion, aussi nombreux, le mariage expositions/spectacles, aussi… fastidieux.
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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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Garage, by Meg Whiteford
Jun 29, 2018
The hybrid screening and performance by these two artists of native ancestry—Ortman is White Mountain Apache and Latimer is Algonquin/Métis—was a closing ceremony of sorts for Canadian artist Wanda Koop’s solo exhibition, “Standing Withstanding,” which is on view through July 1.
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By Anna Kovler
Jun, 2018
Standing on the western edge of the North American continent, by the boats docked at a Vancouver Marina, Maskull Lasserre’s enormous steel sculpture takes a shape that most viewers might hardly recognize. This monumental single-horn anvil, 25 feet long, and about 800 times larger than a normal anvil is perplexing and mysterious.
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Baron Mag, by Claire-Marine Beha
Jun 3, 2018
De l’art 100% digital et avant-gardiste! Toutes les informations sur la 4e édition de la Biennale (BIAN), le 19e festival Elektra ainsi que le 12e Marché international d’art numérique sur elektramontreal.com.
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Eyes Towards the Dove, by Katy Diamond Hamer
Jun 2, 2018
Artist Wanda Koop paints in a very lyrical way. She let’s the paint dictate the painting, not completely dissimilar from The Composition Series by Kandinsky. Using acrylic in a watered-down format, Koop has been making work for forty years. In that time, she has inherently studied the medium, how it responds to various surfaces, and how to work in a way that is freeing and uninhibited.
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Huff Post, by Ismaël Houdassine
May 30, 2018
Les organisateurs de la manifestation d'art numérique ont dévoilé, ce mardi 29 mai, les noms d'une première liste d'artistes qui se produiront dans le cadre de la 19e édition.
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Whitehot Magazine, by WM Staff
May, 2018
A preeminent figure in contemporary Canadian art, Wanda Koop has been making waves stateside recently for her au courant paintings of silhouetted skylines that comment on the intersection between urbanism and the natural world.
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Office Magazine, by Evan Nicole Brown
May 21, 2018
Walking through the space, an intimate and cool respite from the busyness of Bowery just outside, I couldn’t help but think about the impact of color, both in painting and in cultural conversations. Koop, a Winnipeg, Canada native, explains her relationship to cultural color early on: as a young girl, her family lived in close proximity to the Indigenous peoples of Winnipeg, and embraced one Native woman in particular as family.
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The Last Magazine
May 9, 2018
There are two types of voices, according to the ancient Greeks: the articulated voice, phōnē énarthros, which is clear, and the confused voice, phōnē synkechyméne, where articulation is lacking,” says Benoît Maire.
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Blake Gopnik on Art
May 7, 2018
THE WEEKLY PIC: For a couple of decades, Wanda Koop has been one of Canada’s most respected painters, but she’s only now getting a solo show in New York, at Arsenal gallery on The Bowery.
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Artnet news
May 1, 2018
Canadian painter Wanda Koop gets her first major New York solo exhibition, showcasing her unique take on landscape painting, informed by globalization and the technological age, as well as the tradition of communal bonfires maintained by the indigenous people of her native Winnipeg
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Métro, by Érick Rémy
Apr 5, 2018
L’œuvre picturale complète du défunt cinéaste Gilles Carle est à vendre. Cela représente 425 œuvres, toiles et dessins tous exposés à l’Arsenal, dans Griffintown.
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Whitewall, by Pearl Fontaine
Apr 3, 2018
Arsenal Contemporary in New York is currently presenting a two part exhibitions of Robin Meier’s “Synchronicity” and Kim Dorland‘s “Same Old Future.” Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler and Jean-Michel Othoniel, it is presented in collaboration with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
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