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The secretive Bond Street Art Collective has released a new image, In Hyde Park #1, a work of saturated crimsons and pinks; a chromatic piece in which the distinction between interior and exterior, centre and periphery, organic form and abstraction becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. The enormous pink expanse appears almost geological. Fine veins radiate … Read more
There is an understandable temptation to describe this work as a field of coloured marks enclosed within a border. Such a reading, while technically defensible, mistakes appearance for ontology. For Van Gogh (Not That One), the individual mark is never autonomous. It exists only in relation to the infinitesimal hesitation separating it from its neighbours. … Read more
There are artists who produce objects. There are artists who produce experiences. There are artists who produce discourse. Octavian Vale produces advice. For nearly two decades Vale has maintained one of the art world’s most peculiar practices. He is an advisor to collectors, an artist whose medium is connoisseurship itself. Collectors travel considerable distances to … Read more
There are artists who represent systems, artists who critique systems, and artists who infiltrate systems. Robin Como occupies a more elusive category entirely. Her work does none of these. Instead, it critiques the Western financial system so completely that the distinction between financial documentation, conceptual art, speculative fiction, and administrative bureaucracy quietly dissolves. For over … Read more
At a time when contemporary art increasingly concerns itself with blockchain provenance, algorithmic authorship and immersive digital environments, the quiet persistence of the postal service feels almost radical. It is perhaps inevitable, then, that someone would eventually make the ordinary postcard into an artistic medium. Less inevitable is that they would do so with such … Read more
In the increasingly specialised world of contemporary conceptual art, it is tempting to believe every conceivable subject has already been claimed. Markets have certainly been explored. Money has been examined, criticised, fetishised and dismantled by generations of artists. Yet one emerging figure has quietly carved out an oddly convincing territory that feels entirely his own. … Read more
In the crowded word of contemporary art, where painters paint, sculptors sculpt and mixed media artists do everything else, it is difficult to imagine there remains an entirely unexplored niche. Yet somehow one artist has managed to grow a career in a category so specific it sounds almost unlikely: speculative onshore oil exploration art. The … Read more
“The Frozen Shadows of Collectif Umbra: A Brief History of Light’s Captives” By Dr. Helena Váradi, of the Institute for Obscure Aesthetics, University of Tiszagyartelep In the volatile experimental art scene of Eastern Europe in the late 1990s, a small, elusive collective emerged that seemed intent on capturing the impossible. Known as Collectif Umbra, the … Read more
Most art is made for walls, some for floors, others for entire landscapes. Jonas Richter, however, has claimed a stranger territory: the elevator. For more than a decade, the German-born artist has exhibited exclusively inside elevators, transforming the transitional space between floors into a site for art, ritual, and encounter. “I am interested in pauses,” … Read more
Walking into a gallery of Clara Jensen’s work feels like stepping into a dissection room. Familiar armchairs sit beneath bright lights, but their upholstery has been carefully sliced open. Springs protrude like ribs. Padding hangs in tufts like torn muscle. Frames, once hidden, jut out like bones. These are not broken objects, they are sculptures, … Read more