Mario García Torres

The Brussels gallery Jan Mot says he is 'as mischievous as he is thoughtful'. Some magazines described him as a 'branchitude' (trend-itude) artist from L.A. But today he is neither trendy nor mischievous… jetlag kills his charm and my questions on 'history' makes him a serious school boy. Sitting in the café on the 6/F of Pompidou Centre, with a light yellow pullover around his neck and a white T-shirt that goes only with a pair of worn-out blue jeans, Mario García Torres enjoys the best view of Paris and the gentle sunshine of the early Parisian summer. (read more)

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Chen Qiu-Lin
20.06.2009 - 31.07.2009

Chen Qiu-Lin (b. 1975) flew to New York to prepare for her second solo show in Max Protetch Gallery, New York. On view is a series of new photographs and videos and more importantly, perhaps, is a series of new figurative papier mache sculptures that Chen has been developing over the past two years. On this occasion, we talked to Chen about personal history and social changes. (read more)

Paul Chan
On Sade, Freedom, Sexuality and Morality

Zilvinas Kempinas
On Sculpture, Sensation, Space and Time

Ming Wong on Language and Identity

53rd Biennale de Venice
07.06.2009 – 22.11.2009

The 53rd Venice Biennale which started on 7th June takes Making Worlds as its title to explore different 'way of making world.' But, what kind of new world does art offer us? How a world imagined by artists differs from that we encounter everyday? Wherein lies the possibility for making an alternative world? (read more)

Exclusive Interviews
Paul Chan (Making World)
Zilvinas Kempinas (Lithuania)
Andrei Molodkin (Russia)
Tozer Pak (Hong Kong)
Ming Wong (Singapore)

A Venetian Illusion

Venice taught me what ephemeral really means. The moment I arrived Venice in the name of art, I stepped into a world of illusion at my own cost. The decline of the oldest commercial city in modern form started in the 15th Century and today, people live among ruins. This is the proof of their past glory, a glory that leads to nowhere. Venice is sinking, so the world. (read more)

Pina Bausch (1940 – 2009)

When Isadora Duncan took off her pointe shoes to dance barefoot, a new dance form called Modern Dance was born. Three generations later, Pina Bausch put the shoes back onto the stage and a new genre of dance called Dance Theatre (Tanztheatre) started. As a dance form, Bausch has her dancers adopt stories, emotions, gestures, clothes and props from everyday life. Now, they dance barefoot, but also in sneakers, in high heel shoes and in business shoes. They forgot they are on stage. They called each other by their own name. They cry and laugh, and they kiss and fight. Since Pina Bausch, they don’t walk the same… (read more)

Alexander Calder

is well known for the large mobiles and stabiles of painted metal to be seen in cities over the world. A recent show in Pompidou Centre offers an opportunity to see the works in their original state in terms of motion and equilibrium but now condemned to immobility by the exactions of time or by the death of their creator and animator. In this special Sunday visit, we saw them came to life. (read more)

Picasso – Cézanne
27 May – 29 Sept 2009

Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model
July 22 —October 4, 2009
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Berlin

Crossfields: Korean Artists in London
3 August – 30 September 2009
Korean Cultural Centre UK


The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009
12 Jul - 18 Oct 2009

Design Objects - See and Pick