Curated by New York-based Italian curator Cecilia Alemani, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia takes its title The Milk of Dreams from a book of drawings by the surrealist Leonora Carrington, in which the artist describes a world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination, where everyone…
Hailing from São Paulo, for over a decade, Indonesian-Brazilian artist Daniel Lie has been working with organic materials to create immersive large-scale pieces that simultaneously grow and decay. Exploring the idea of rotting as a way to complicate conventional binary oppositions between life and death, Lie understands their works as living entities possessing awareness and…
Multi-disciplinary artist Manuel Mathieu works across painting, ceramics and installation. Through his diverse practice, he investigates themes of historical violence, erasure and cultural approaches to physicality, nature and spiritual legacy. Mathieu’s interests are informed in part by his upbringing in Haiti, and his experience relocating to Montreal at the age of 19. Freely operating in…
Located near the foothills of the Sivalik range of the Himalayas in northwest India, Chandigarh is regarded as one of the best experiments in urban planning and modern architecture in the 20th century, and famed French architect Le Corbusier is widely credited with planning and designing it. However, alongside Le Corbusier were other visionaries like…
Running from 5–8 May 2022, Independent Art Fair is set to return to New York with a programme led by Founding Curatorial Advisor Matthew Higgs and co-produced in collaboration with leading galleries, non-profits and museums worldwide, showing work by over two hundred commissioned artists. Embracing a hybrid model for storytelling, the fair will continue to…
In his captivating paintings, South African visual artist WonderBuhle’s muses are presented with an appearance of youth, serenity, and self-possession, guided by the moon’s light and protected by the abundant flowers that adorn their faces. The figures stand immersed in a sea of carefully selected colours, cleansing themselves of negative energies and, as the artist…
Experimenting with desserts as a medium with which to explore vast themes from cultural identity and belonging to socio-political pressures and the preservation of family traditions, the below culinary creatives make edible works of art which seamlessly blur the lines between sculpture and patisserie. From joyous expressions manifested in cream cheese frosting and fruit to…
Programmed by Cinema Curator Matthew Barrington, Journeys across Afro-Futurism, a new season of film, launches at Barbican Cinema this June, looking at the origins of Afro-Futurism and exploring how the traditions of the aesthetic impact cinema today. Barrington explains: “Afro-Futurism for me, as an idea, is a wonderfully rich one which engages with the politics…