Contact About Privacy policy Directory. Editorials Features Reviews. February 7, — Review. Michael Kurtz. As much arsonist as archivist, Augustas Serapinas takes an irreverent approach to remnants of the past. In he transformed student artworks discarded at the Estonian Academy in Tallinn into strange-looking gym equipment. For the inaugural exhibition of his London gallery Emalin in , he repurposed materials left by the locksmith who previously occupied the building to create a functioning sauna.
And in he invited children of workers from a decommissioned nuclear power station in his native Lithuania to create a sculpture using rubble from the Soviet-era site. In each fraught context, he intervenes with light-hearted acts of creative destruction, fostering new forms of sociability and use value rather than worshipping at the altar of cultural heritage. Examples of this architectural vernacular survive from as long ago as the nineteenth century in Lithuania as well as over the border in Poland and Belarus.
February 6, — Review. Travis Diehl. Would you pay to have less property? Patrons of Michael Asher did. In , collectors Elyse and Stanley Grinstein commissioned him to make a work for their Brentwood home, adding to a semiprivate showcase that included arrangements of yellow stripes by Daniel Buren and huge redwood logs by Richard Serra. Asher, who died in , may seem like one of the drier conceptual artists of his generation.
His work was usually temporary and survives largely through documents and writing. His most famous pieces involved removing the front wall of a gallery or rebuilding every temporary wall ever installed in a museum. His site-specific interventions were often something of …. January 30, — Review. Maria Dimitrova.
Looking at works from an unfamiliar world, we need the world as much as the work to understand what we are seeing. A similar reconstructive logic underpins the first retrospective of Soviet textile artist Anna Andreeva, curated by Kiaer at the Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection in Thessaloniki.
