e-flux shows

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  Itineraries

  Fetched: 25-April-2012, 4:01pm EDT

  Keen on finding the missing link between Baldessari?s pure beauty and Deleuze?s theory of the anomalous? Or perhaps argue that Matta-Clark?s building intersections can be twice as fun if you?re reading an essay on MACBA?s pristine building? Or maybe just create a playlist of all the MACBA?s mp3 lectures you are planning to listen this weekend? Either way, when it comes to the Itineraries it?s really up to you to curate, collect, and provide the meta-reading on MACBA?s rich digital heritage. Itineraries are one of the key features in MACBA?s new website: they?re collections of content available at www.macba.cat, as chosen by you under any given concept. Each Itinerary enables you to collect whatever content under an initial concept or idea, be it a ?Top 10 favourite MACBA exhibitions,? a re-reading on the International Situationism or an homage to Richard Hamilton.
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  Santu Mofokeng and Sharon Lockhart

  Fetched: 25-April-2012, 8:01am EDT

  On 3 May 2012, Extra City Kunsthal is delighted to invite you to the opening of the retrospective Chasing Shadows ? Thirty Years of Photographic Essays of the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng, as well as the installation Podwórka by Sharon Lockhart. Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows For his significant contribution to research on human development in the South African context and for his acute understanding of the cultural meaning of the landscape, Santu Mofokeng is a major figure in contemporary photography.
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  Itineraries: find new ways around MACBA

  Fetched: 25-April-2012, 8:01am EDT

  Keen on finding the missing link between Baldessari?s pure beauty and Deleuze?s theory of the anomalous? Or perhaps argue that Matta-Clark?s building intersections can be twice as fun if you?re reading an essay on MACBA?s pristine building? Or maybe just create a playlist of all the MACBA?s mp3 lectures you are planning to listen this weekend? Either way, when it comes to the Itineraries it?s really up to you to curate, collect, and provide the meta-reading on MACBA?s rich digital heritage. Itineraries are one of the key features in MACBA?s new website: they?re collections of content available at www.macba.cat, as chosen by you under any given concept. Each Itinerary enables you to collect whatever content under an initial concept or idea, be it a ?Top 10 favourite MACBA exhibitions,? a re-reading on the International Situationism or an homage to Richard Hamilton.
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  Société Réaliste: empire, state, building

  Fetched: 25-April-2012, 8:01am EDT

  Société Réaliste is an artists' cooperative founded in 2004 by Ferenc Gróf (1972) and Jean-Baptiste Naudy (1982). Central to their activities is the exploration, subversion, and deconstruction of the specific devices of visual communication that have been developed and employed by institutions, governments, and rulers, i.e., the representatives of power?in the fields of religion, politics, culture, art, and finance?so as to position themselves. By exploring the representative and aesthetic roles of these agencies?including signs, logos, maps, symbols, typefaces, landmarks, emblems, statues or even buildings?in complex contexts of much broader time and space, the artists place them in a new light in the form of a ?political cabinet of curiosities,? a critical, narrative implementation of design.
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  Peter Land

  Fetched: 25-April-2012, 8:01am EDT

  Peter Land?s (b. 1966) solo exhibition owes its title to the Danish artist?s eponymous installation: Springtime (2010) is a large pile of bricks from which an arm protrudes. Whether it concerns the limb of a person who has been buried alive and is crying for help, or rather, as the title suggests, a triumphant ?Here I am again,? remains open. It is a two-facedness oscillating between tragedy and comedy, between a nightmare and a child?s game that traverses the artist?s entire oeuvre, frequently confronting us with extreme opposites. Land gained recognition in the mid 1990s with his simply produced videos?documentations of personal failure and excessive meaninglessness in which the artist is seen tumbling down an endless flight of stairs, repeatedly falling off a ladder while painting or sinking himself in a boot.