Kirsty Bell
Composite Realities
by Kirsty Bell
In some of von Wulffen’s paintings, a crackled varnish applied to the surface splits like dried skin; the works want to look old. Some motifs may be traced back to sources like a late nineteenth-century farmhouse interior by Austrian painter Franz Defregger or a landscape from a blatantly kitsch kind of Parisian street-market impressionism. .. Read more
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In his superforms picturing telephones or neatly ironed shirts, coat hangers, or polished shoes, Thomas Bayrle's emphasis was as much on the manufacture and distribution of the products of capitalism, and the operators of those products, as on the products themselves. .. Read more
Since 2009, Yugoslavia-born video and internet artist Aleksandra DomanoviÄ? has increasingly used her new-media skills to produce tech-savvy sculptural installations involving stacked paper, huge acrylic scrims and sci-fi prostheses.
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German artist Annette Kelm's humorous, formalist-looking photographs often deliver a surprising sociopolitical punch... Read more
Pablo Bronstein's ground-floor apartment in an 18th-century brick house feels far removed from the urban hustle of this East London neighborhood... Read more
The British artist Phil Collins seeks to dispel the corrosive effects of media on society and private lives.
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Emily Wardill scrambles cinematic conventions to create films that meld physical gestures and psychic states. .. Read more
