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Mike Nelson on his sensory new survey, scavenging objects and simulating reality

Creative Boom

Mike Nelson, MAGAZIN: Büyük Valide Han, 2003. Installation view, Büyük Valide Han, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2003. Courtesy the artist and the Hayward Gallery Installation view of Mike Nelson, The Asset Strippers (solstice), 2019. Found tyres. Photo: Matt Greenwood. Photo: Matt Greenwood.

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Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt offers a fresh answer to the age-old question: what is beauty?

Creative Boom

All photos taken by Pawel Streit and © Impulse Gallery The artist's latest exhibition in Lucerne showcases both philosophical insight and innovative technique. Case in point: Christian Bolt's latest exhibition, On Human Beauty, at Impulse Gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. What is beauty? What is beauty?

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Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the inaugural 2024 Saltzman Prize

Creative Boom

Her work has previously been exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, and ICA Philadelphia. Scarville was a participant in our Woodstock AIR residency in 2003, so her selection here, for the extraordinary work she has produced since then, is especially gratifying for all of us at CPW. "We

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Olafur Eliasson Floods an Art Gallery in Basel

Azure Magazine

In an act that he describes as “caring,” Eliasson removed most of the windows from the museum’s main gallery, allowing the nearby pond to spill into the building’s interior. The flooded gallery’s bare white walls provide an almost ironic backdrop, as art takes place, unconventionally, below the visitor’s feet. .

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Barbara Cole's underwater photos are ethereal, timeless and utterly enthralling

Creative Boom

Once I began to shoot underwater in 2003, I thought that that series would be a one-off," he notes. "I Selections from Somewhere will appear in a photography book, Between Worlds , from teNeues publishing house, and in several forthcoming exhibitions, including at the new Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto, from now until 30 September.

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We Are Just Grains of Sand on This Earth: Tomás Sánchez Draws Giant Forests and Massive Landcapes

Design You Trust

He joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1996. In 2003 a substantial monograph on the artist’s body of work was published by Skira with an essay by the South American poet and Nobel Laureate, Gabriel García Márquez and texts by Edward J. In 1985 he had his first retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana.

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Meet the Jury of the AZ Awards 2024

Azure Magazine

Lee Alumni Centre and Ponderosa Hub, both at the University of British Columbia (UBC); Ottawa’s Global Centre for Pluralism for the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada; the Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan; and the recently completed Harrison McCain Pavilion for Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.