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Aglaia Konrad “Autofictions in Stone” at Secession, Vienna

Stone is omnipresent in all our lives; not least saliently, in the form of the architectures in which we live and work. In films, photographs, and sculptures, Aglaia Konrad grapples with the utopias and contradictions implicit in those architectures. The artist grew up in the Alps, and stone as the primeval material of rock formations
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Blasting Books with High-Pressure Water, Guy Laramée Scales Mountains of Knowledge

Blasting Books with High-Pressure Water, Guy Laramée Scales Mountains of KnowledgeLaramée manipulates bound text blocks into craggy cliff faces and rocky promontories.

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Sadao Hasegawa “English Companion Inc.” at a. SQUIRE, London

Brief personal history Born in 1950. Tell you the truth, I have never had formal training of art. I was kind of an autistic child who could not enjoy playing with other kids at all, rather, it was even painful for me.Instead, communing with mother nature, loving flower, animals, and tiny inseccts were my mentor.It
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Radio Juxtapoz, ep 159: Noelia Towers on an Account of Preceding Events

Radio Juxtapoz, ep 159: Noelia Towers on an Account of Preceding Events
Barcelona-born ⁠Noelia Towers⁠ has been painting a form deconstructing power structures for years now, but it seems like over the last few years her subject matter has received a heightened attention. And importance. Not like a typical activist painter, Noelia is placing herself right in the center of both a personal biography and a universal appeal for action against patriarchy and a prevailing mood across the world of a new form of masculine power structures. I wrote a few months back, “She plays with ideas of myth, both personal and universal, using imagery that creates a feeling of familiarity but abstracted to make you rethink your expectation of memory,” and this holds up even more after our conversation.