Metro Pictures has announced that it is now representing Oliver Laric. Laric has shown widely on the international circuit, and was included in last year’s New Museum Triennial, but has yet to have a solo exhibition in New York. The news comes just days after Laric’s British gallery, Seventeen, announced plans to expand to New York City. (more…)
Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens (Installation view), via Sprüth Magers
For the most recent new exhibition in Berlin, Sprüth Magers has brought together work from thirteen artists under the title Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens. Curated by Goodroom and Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, the exhibition features works by Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin, Andy Hope 1930, Oliver Laric, Jon Rafman, and Andro Wekua, among others. Intended to navigate visitors through the intersecting narratives within the realm of surrealist animation, abstraction and the ideas of “New Materialism” as expressed through the greater logistics of the world wide web, the exhibition references the notion of the screen as a critical tool of the conscious and unconscious, as well as a surface for projections of communication and technological abstraction. (more…)
Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari billboard at the Highline Park
(Photography by Zoe Zabor for Art Observed)
Since late last year, the Highline Park in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood has been commissioning work for the large billboard that sits alongside the elevated park at 18th Street and 10th Avenue. In collaboration with its owner, Edison Properties, the billboard has been home to works by such artists as David Shrigley, Anne Collier and John Baldessari. Now, the billboard is under the design of artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, co-heads of the Italian photography magazine Toilet Paper.
