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The suggestively placed knobs and shiny surfaces of feminist artist Nicola L’s functional sculptures tempt the viewer to stroke, poke, pull and touch. A commode, coffee table, bookshelf and two “sofas” playing dress-up as furniture invite sublimation and use while mocking the impulse to realize an absurd desire.
Read MoreJulie Favreau is known for mixing mediums to create immersive environments that heighten the viewers’ attention to touch.
Read MoreArtist 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.
Read MoreConceptual 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.
Read More"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.
Read MoreNicola 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.
Read MoreArsenal 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.
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!”.
Read MoreResting 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.
Read MoreBreasts 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIt’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.
Read MoreToday’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.
Read MoreThe 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.’
Read MoreCreating 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.
Read MoreLa 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.
Read MoreCréée 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.
Read MoreL’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.
Read MoreELEKTRA showcases artists and works that fuse art and new technologies, and that are connected to current, contemporary aesthetics of research and experimentation.
Read MoreThe 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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