Art

Sitting in his Paris garden, Jean-Michel Othoniel observes nature’s course. “There is always a moment of contemplation at the beginning,” he tells Hypeart, describing a flower's bloom and the ways in which a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis. Othoniel, who was born in Saint-Étienne and is now based in the French capital, has for over 30 years created poetic glass sculptures that draw from nature, personal memory and transformation. It was natural, of course, for him to gravitate to using glass, whose very properties arise from a metamorphosis of melting sand and shaping that blown liquid into uncanny forms — that for the artist, has manifested into towering necklace-shaped sculptures, cascading entrances to the Paris metro, as well as a fountain in the Gardens of Versailles. Hypeart met ...

In 1992, Jeffrey Deitch lifted the veil on Post Human, his monumental group show. The exhibition explored the role of technology in everyday life, foregrounding the tech-riddled existentialism that would continue to undergird our society today. Blurring binaries to make anew, the exhibition looked for answers in the prim and plastic.More than 30 years later, Post Human returns to Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles in an iconic renaissance. The exhibition features the work of 36 artists including Hajime Sorayama, Kiki Smith, Damien Hirst, Pippa Garner, Jordan Wolfson, Cindy Sherman, Urs Fischer and more. Together, key figures from the show’s original run join forces with fresh faces in contemporary art to embark on new frontiers of bodily transformation, challenging the value of Realism in the age ...

Last weekend, American artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn played curator-in-residence at the Metrograph theater in downtown Manhattan. In collaboration with Gagosian, the artist presented a selection of his favorite films, bringing A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Hustle & Flow (2005) and Lust for Life (1956) back to the silver screen.The three films were brought together by their exploration of a better life. “Driven by a profound platform of faith, they’re trying to get out of the mud and find a way to walk into the light,” the artist tells HypeArt. “You have to be slightly crazy to believe in the things that, by all accounts, seem impossible.” Whether it be through Walter’s business ventures in A Raisin in the Sun, DJay’s pursuit of music in Hustle & Flow or Van Gogh’s unwavering love for p...

Hauser & Wirth has announced the global representation of American Mississippi Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson. Born in Colorado and currently based in Upstate New York, Gibson was recently appointed as the first Indigenous artist to represent the U.S. pavilion at the ongoing Venice Biennale, transforming the space into a vibrant theatre of sculptures, tapestries and film installations rooted in his "complicated relationship" with the country of his birth, but created to parallel and connect with the struggles of native populations around the world. Gibson's first showcase with his new gallery will take place at the upcoming Art Basel in Paris along with a solo exhibition at Hauser's French outpost in October 2025. "Jeffrey occupies a unique position in the sweep of contemporary...

For this year’s Taoyuan Land Art Festival, Manfred Eccli and Pedro Cavaco Leitão’s Moradavaga teamed up with Blue Dragon Art Company to present “Squid Squad: Family Day.” Following their previous squid installations, the Italian and Portuguese architecture duo take to Taiwan to reflect on the rich history and culture of the city's Guishan district. They are joined by a band of local and international artists, coming together for an electric display of outdoor artworks.Found along the rim of Zhiqing Lake, the interactive installation features three life-size colorful squids — small, medium and large — symbolizing the typical Taiwanese nuclear family. With tentacles outstretched and interwoven in trees, the family of creatures emerge from the grass. While the artwork serves as an acoustic pl...

White Cube New York will present the final series of work created by the late Korean artist Park Seo-Bo, before his passing in 2023. Entitled The Newspaper Écritures, 2022–23, Park's final studies involved painting repetitive gestures with oil directly on global newspapers, each selected to signify an important date from his life — wedding anniversaries and family birthdays to major events that he noted on the back of the canvas.Park's Écriture series stems back to the 1960s, as the artist began fusing Korean calligraphy with principles native to Taoist and Buddhist philosophy. The repetitive mark-making has no intrinsic narrative and is meant to reflect the state of mind the artist was in — Écriture translating to "writing" in French. “Like the Korean scholars and Buddhist monks who saw w...

Museum staff sometimes struggle to distinguish art from everyday objects, as seen in a recent incident at the LAM Museum in the Netherlands. An elevator technician, filling in for a regular worker, mistakenly threw away Alexandre Lavet’s All the Good Times We Spent Together (2016), thinking it was trash. The artwork, two hand-painted beer cans meant to evoke memories of friendship, had been intentionally placed inside an elevator shaft to mimic something casually left behind.LAM, known for its food-themed art and unconventional displays, places pieces in unexpected locations to encourage visitors to view ordinary objects differently. “Our goal is to make people see the mundane in a new light,” said museum director Sietske van Zanten in a statement. The technician, unaware of the museum’s a...

Trauma is sometimes the best teacher. For Frida Kahlo, her near-death bus accident and lifelong quarrels with partner Diego Rivera consistently informed themes of physical suffering and psychological pain she'd imbue within her self-portraits, such as in The Broken Column (1944). For Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, who recently unveiled a towering bottle cap assemblage at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, he continues to utilize discarded materials to symbolically probe into post-colonial legacies and the traumas inflicted by past empires. There is an invisible barrier within the mind that separates pain and creativity, a metaphysical state that serves as the theme for a new group exhibition at Compound in Long Beach. Curated by artist Tofer Chin and his partner, mindfulness writer and educato...

Mercer Labs is days away from opening the doors to their new haunting exhibition. The brainchild of co-founder and multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, Dark Matter: Nightmare Before Midnight faces fantasy and fear in an embark into the unknown. Staged at their 36,000 square foot space in lower Manhattan, the exhibition features 15 unique rooms, each an entrancing world of its own. Ahead of opening, Nachum gave HypeArt an exclusive look into the depths and darkness of his latest exhibition.By day, Mercer Labs will continue presentations of their inaugural exhibition Limitless. After the sun sets, however, the museum will explore a darker side. Across 4D soundscapes, infinity rooms, 360-degree projections and large-scale oil paintings, the show probes the presence of darkness in art, culture...

For the first time ever, the whimsical world of Wes Anderson is museum bound. Opening next year at London’s Design Museum, the exhibition will chronicle the evolution of Anderson’s iconic style, from his early projects in the 1990s to his most recent Oscar-winning films, as fans of the filmmaker will get the chance to take an up-close look at a comprehensive retrospective of his work.Produced in partnership with La Cinémathèque Française, Wes Anderson: The Exhibition will delve into Anderson’s unique cinematic universe, showcasing an array of props, costumes, and set designs from his films. Visitors will be treated to behind-the-scenes insights, as well as items from the director’s personal collection, offering an intimate glimpse into the creative process, narrative approach, and meticulo...

Apple launched its latest iPhone 16 series earlier this month and whilst, on first glance, it may not seem like much has changed on the outside compared to previous, recent generations of the device, the Cupertino-based brand is putting a lot of stock into what's on the inside – or, to be more specific, the device's cameras.To celebrate its flagship iPhone 16 Pro Max model, Apple enlisted Kathy Ryan to curate a trio of artists whose talents would help to best showcase the capabilities of its latest device's camera. The result, 'Chasing the Light', is a multi-city exhibition featuring the works of Prince Gyasi, Ryan McGinley and Chen Man that took placed in New York, London, and Shanghai last week. For Ryan, the exhibition also marked a public return to work after retiring earlier this year...