Art

Felipe Pantone is best known for his chromatic sculptures and installations that demystify the eye. Having exhibited from one corner of the world to the next, the Spanish-Argentine artist is currently showcasing a solo exhibition at CONTROL Gallery in Los Angeles that cements his meteoric rise. Pantone, like many street artists, however, first came to art through graffiti.A new collaboration with KRINK honors Pantone's roots through a set of K-60 markers. Comprising of six 15mm round tip paint markers (black, light blue, yellow, light green, red and purple), the set embodies the spirit of Pantone's practice — which teeters between art's analog past and digital future, where humans and machines will work in tandem to usher in the next frontier of creative expression. View this post on Insta...

While artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for quite some time now, the term has become far more ubiquitous at this point, appearing in nearly every corner of culture. The art world has been one of the many industries both intrigued and perplexed by this burgeoning technology and AI serves as the underlying theme of a new solo exhibition by filmmaker Bennett Miller at Gagosian's 976 Madison Avenue location in New York. As his first show with the gallery, the eponymously titled exhibition features a suite of prints made within the last five years that stem from Miller's thorough investigation of the technological crossroads we now find ourselves in. OpenAi CEO Sam Altman, the San Francisco–based developer of DALL•E, is one of the many influential figures that Miller interviewed with...

If shock factor was an art form, surely, Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova has achieved the rank of master. Formed in Moscow over a decade ago, the Feminist punk rock band has regularly staged anti-government protests, including a crypto organization to raise funds for Ukraine, along with a recent performance where the group burned a portrait of Russian president Vladimir Putin, which went on view at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles last month. To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, Tolokonnikova will screen a new digital billboard entitled Nadya Means Hope. Broadcasting on London's Piccadilly Lights, the short video showcases the Pussy Riot co-founder in her signature white balaclava as she lights an eggplant emoji candle-sculpture ablaze. The work was influenced by the U.S. Supre...

A savant at crafting art sculptures of coveted cars, Pokémon characters and human statues that are reimagined with eroded elements, Daniel Arsham has a plethora of projects lined up for 2023. One of the artist's collaborative efforts involves a partnership with Hublot, and one of their first initiatives is based across the pond in Zermatt, Switzerland where has has crafted a sundial installation that's made from snow and ice.Titled "Light & Time," the horological piece is designed to converge the concepts of timekeeping and land art. It sits at the base of the Matterhorn and measures out to 20 meters wide. The flat plate is sculpted out of snow and features a set of six arches around the edges while a pure white obelisk stands tall in the center. Inside the aforementioned arches, you'l...

TARWUK is a Croatian artist duo comprising of members, Bruno Pogačnik Tremow and Ivana Vukšić. Raised during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and now based in New York, the two revisit their traumatic upbringing through avant-garde painterly styles and anthropomorphic sculptures, such as their latest body of work on view at White Cube in London.Entitled Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu, which in Croatian loosely translates to I planted a bone in the winter garden, the exhibition is a poetic reflection on the unpredictability of nature and human's innate struggle in bringing order. A selection of new sculptures and large-scale paintings create a carnivalesque scene within the gallery, considered by TARWUK as "architectural models of organic growth," where life is merely a performative act pla...

Koichi Yairi is a Japanese artist best known for his comical universe made of monochromatic half-tones and populated by his signature character, Ghost. In each scene, Yairi drops Ghost in ordinary and sometimes unusual scenes that ruminate on how perspective can change any and all situations. In collaboration with Flexx Lex and available at the WOAW Store, the Japanese artist casts his beloved character in resin and alloy. The sculpture features Ghost sitting perched upon a brown stool with his nose, eyes, feet and lips hand-painted in orange and black. Yairi invites his audience to place Ghost in their home like a guardian overlooking one's mood. “Things can be good or evil if the perspective changes," noted the artist in a past statement.Ghost is an edition of 300, plus ten artist proofs...

In celebrating artist Joan Cornellá and AllRightsReserved’s partnership, the two are gearing up to launch its tenth collaborative piece, Humans Are A Virus.Back in 2019, the Spanish cartoonist first joined forces with the Hong Kong-based creative studio to release a 12.5-inch tall SELFIE GUN bronze sculpture. Shortly after, a slightly smaller vinyl edition featuring the same suited man holding a pistol-mounted selfie stick was also released. This was then followed by another iteration of SELFIE GUN in a blue colorway. Since then, the two parties have continued to release more vinyl figures spanning pieces like K-Love, Bootyboop, Fwen, POOPY PANTS, Free Hugs, Double Hand-Stand, and SEND YOURSELF NOWHERE.Standing 10.2 inches tall, the Humans Are A Virus vinyl figure is reimagined from one of...

Gagosian has announced the representation of American artist Derrick Adams. Globally celebrated for showcasing Black daily life through a vibrant and optimistic aesthetic, Adams has been tackling an array of projects as of late, from his first solo exhibition in Asia to launching his own namesake branch of editions.Adams' current exhibition, I Can Show You Better Than I Can Tell You, on view at the The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, centers at the intersection of film, television and media, as he spotlights the very act of movie-making and by extension, world-building through his colorfully geometric depictions of Black domestic life. “Derrick has always been someone that’s been engaged in the art community, and I am excited for him join the gallery because his mission and his vision is ...

Oftentimes, the face is the first feature one looks at in portraiture. For Evgen Čopi Gorišek, however, the Slovenian-born, Berlin-based artist bypasses the face entirely to focus more on the natural beauty of the human body. On view at KÖNIG GALERIE is a new solo exhibition which explores Gorišek's fascination with the contours of the body, as well as his lifelong interest in Tennis. Entitled MATCH POINT, Gorišek presents five large-scale works, his first two-panel painting, along with smaller studies all based on published images of tennis matches. Characteristic of his oeuvre, the artist purposefully distills his subjects' face to comical smileys to strip away the face's association with celebrity, and in effect, rid of the "mask" that hides one's inner truth and emotions. This aestheti...

"Do you remember your first thrills? The ones of your body, of your mind, of your heart?" The latest exhibition at Ketabi Bourdet invites the viewer to ruminate on these questions through a presentation of work by artists Marcella Barceló, Maisie Cousins, Henry Darger, Inès Longevial and more. Curated by Elise Roche, Premiers Vertiges (First Thrills) is a collective coming of age story. While Barceló ruminates on passion and innocence in her painting, First Love (2021), Amélie Bigard showcases a figure that has been hardened and perhaps troubled with time, where a rose and the stability of a chair lie haplessly on the floor. At the core of these transitions are opportunities to question reality and reshape one's inner world. Chiefly known for her introspective paintings, Longevial taps int...