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Mike Nelson at the Tate Britain

Mike Nelson’s The Asset Strippers reminds us that art that communicates something about the time it was created has a sudden greatness that quickens our sense of being alive. The first thing to strike you at this exhibition as you observe the remnants and ghosts of the machine age, of industrial…
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Néle Azevedo’s “Minimum Monument”

(Texte) John K. Grande
John K. Grande—Néle, so great to have finally met you here in Burlington, Vermont, where you enacted one of your short-lived yet phenomenal Minimum Monument events. The “collective” of ice figures disappeared within forty-five minutes, but as an expression of universal complicity in today’s…
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“Sowers”: Maria Rebecca Ballestra & Lino and Elia Barone

(Texte) John K. Grande
Economists, like artists, can use the world’s natural capital creatively and sustainably. Maria Rebecca Ballestra occupies a fascinating place at the crossroads of art in a time of change. Ballestra’s art is based on the processing and reinterpretation of social, political, and environmental…
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“Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky”: Manif d’art 9–The Québec City Biennial

(Texte) John K. Grande
The title of this year’s Manif d’art, taken from Leonard Cohen’s song “Stories of the Street,” expresses so much so simply: this wonderful Quebec City art event is a beacon that shines in the night—and in the light of day, too. The forty artists in the biennial, curated by Jonathan Watkins of Ikon…
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André Du Bois
“Les Attracteurs”: An Homage to the Difference

(Texte) John K. Grande
André Du Bois’s Les Attracteurs – parcours interactif involves a radical realignment of what public art is or can be. The sculptures that form part of the ensemble are enigmatic, prescient, and have the insignia of an artist whose engagement with nature is the point of departure for a dialogue on…
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“Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration”
Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, and Nicholas de Pencier

(Texte) John K. Grande
Edward Burtynsky, one of the world’s most timely photographers, has achieved an aesthetic and a perspective that give us a feel for how the built environment connects to nature and to the human footprint on Earth. The spectrum is spectacular, and the great theatre of Earth becomes the canvas. With…
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Michael Rakowitz: “The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist”

(Texte) John K. Grande
The footprint of the Trafalgar Square plinth is the same size as was the original base in Iraq. Reconstructed in a 1:1 scale out of 10,500 Iraqi date-syrup cans, the lamassu is a cultural memory brought back to life. Rakowitz used date-syrup cans because “the date was to Iraq what the cigar was to…
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Rufino Tamayo
A Solitary Mexican Modernist

(Texte) John K. Grande
Of the same generation as the more overtly political Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo remains less well known than those compatriots. As curator of Rufino Tamayo: A Solitary Mexican Modernist, Marisol Argüelles makes clear, the Zapotec…
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Sebastião Salgado. Homage to Planet Earth

(Texte) John K. Grande
For his first ever exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York, Sebastião Salgado presents some forty of his photographs. They span many periods of his career and include Genesis, Workers, and Migrations. Many are portraits of people in the land, while others present the majesty and scale of…
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Vanishing Ice

Hats off to Barbara Matilsky for generating a show that brings into focus the context and history of art as it relates to climate change. And what range of imagery has been brought together of alpine serenity, of sailing ships caught in the arctic ice, of caribou herds seen from the air, and the…
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La Caisse de la culture Desjardins accompagne artistes, organismes et entrepreneurs en agissant comme un moteur engagé de l’économie culturelle et un véritable tremplin pour leurs projets.
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