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Cassidy Toner, gambling as a career plan

by Paolo Baggi

Cassidy Toner stages repeated artistic misfires to better diffuse anxiety, pressure to perform, or the legibility of an artwork

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Vera Palme’s self-operating subjects

by Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Vera Palme’s work generates a certain gut feeling in the viewer, where gut is the distinct opposite of the German...

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Julien Carreyn: a malicious pleasure to watch from afar

by Oriane Durand

A reflection on the art of Julien Carreyn, whose small-scale paintings and photographs seduce you to come close, very close...

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Niklas Taleb: staging privacy with no cunning

by Piero Bisello

Somehow staged and performed, yet down-to-reality, the art of Niklas Taleb presents his private sphere without an annoying sense of...

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Hélène Fauquet, resolution in space

by Céline Mathieu

Reflective things absorbing light and soft surroundings: an open-ended reading of the work of Hélène Fauquet

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Stella Zhong and many confusing scales

by Piero Bisello

In its richness, a Stella Zhong painting, just like a Zhong sculpture or installation, is a little extra universe added...

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Aesthetic communities in the work of Pol Taburet

by Isabella Costabile

Through symbolic spaces like the yard and the trap house, Pol Taburet blends cultural awareness with entertainment’s aims

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Sara Deraedt: sous vide

by Emile Rubino

Sara Deraedt paradoxically reinvests visuality by operating a shift of the discursive impulse away from words

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Cosima zu Knyphausen and her imprecise skeletons

by Piero Bisello

The paintings of Cosima zu Knyphausen persuade you to ask what surrounds them, circulating motifs and subtle atmospheres, dismissing style.

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Naoki Sutter-Shudo, monuments and icons

by Samantha Ozer

In crafting speculative worlds on a shrunken scale, Naoki Sutter-Shudo dislocates us from the abstraction of the impending future, allowing...

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Henrik Potter: HINGE

by Céline Mathieu

The work of Henrik Potter is not the in-between. It is more the and and. It’s a mutuality, a literal...

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Marina Xenofontos, fluidity is a chrism

by Stefano Pirovano

Marina Xenofontos' poetic loops entail independent words, images and forms, that fluidity turns into a discourse

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At the tender edge of violence: Fin Simonetti

by Veronica Gisondi

Spaces of worship constitute a fruitful field of inquiry for Fin Simonetti due to their symbolic value and particular function,...

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Estrid Lutz and rootless cyberpunks today

by Piero Bisello

Estrid Lutz's dislike for finishedness, common beauty and constrains makes her a kin to previous renovators of punk attitudes (and...

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Justine Neuberger: coughing up a strand of angel hair

by Céline Mathieu

Preferring her goofier, odder doodles, Justine Neuberger develops her swirly figures. "And then there is what the paint wants to...

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Every ticket wins: hyperpositivity in the work of Elif Saydam

by Miriam Bettin

Elif Saydam’s references are literal but overstimulating. The overflow of information makes you at times dizzy—and tired

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Josefine Reisch: if history is a stage

by Veronica Gisondi

Josefine Reisch and not letting yourself "become part of the killer story." An essay inspired by the carrier bag theory...

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Larissa De Jesús Negrón’s path to enlightenment

by Veronica Gisondi

"Things tend to build up and then you’re left with a bunch of anxiety and jealousy that you don’t understand."...

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Elene Chantladze: where art lands

by Stefano Pirovano

An artist by instinct and not by profession, Georgian Elene Chantladze shows the self-confidence of an established master

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Ser Serpas walks

by Dora Budor

Ser Serpas skims the surfaces of the streets and lots, "attempting to rip something from the refuse piles"

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