By Anna Kovler
Jan, 2019
Julie Favreau is known for mixing mediums to create immersive environments that heighten the viewers’ attention to touch.
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By Anna Kovler
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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Office Magazine, by John Martin Tilley
Oct 6, 2018
Breasts stacked like frog’s eggs; the imprint of the artist’s arm or legs in motion as it progressively deconstructs the very sculpture representing it; plaster that captures the memory of her body leaning on or sitting in the confines of a space exploration habitat—these are the discoveries that await you in the uncanny world of Brazilian artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite.
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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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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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