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    A Met Exhibition Will Present Ancient Greek and Roman Sculptures in All Their Original Technicolor Glory

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced an exhibition exploring the use of color in ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, presenting pieces from the Met’s collection as they would have originally been seen in antiquity. Installed through the museums’ Greek and Roman galleries, “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” opens on July 5 and explores polychromy, the ancient practice of painting sculpture and architecture.
    “This innovative exhibition will activate The Met’s displays of ancient Greek and Roman art like never before by displaying colorful reconstructions of ancient sculptures throughout the galleries,” Max Hollein, the Met’s director, said in a statement.
    Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx. Photo: courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    Although today we only see plain carved stone and marble, many pieces of ancient sculpture were once vividly painted, giving these works life-like features. The Met’s exhibition aims to bring wider attention to this practice by placing 15 full-size fully painted recreations—produced by Dr. Vinzenz Brinkmann, head of the antiquity department at the Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection in Germany, and Dr. Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann—alongside 40 works from the museum’s collection. Among them is a richly colored version of the Met’s Archaic-period Sphinx finial that serves as the centerpiece of the show.
    Marble portrait bust of the emperor Gaius, known as Caligula, 37–41 C.E. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    In addition to explaining why sculptures and architectural elements were painted in this way at the time they were made, the show will examine how polychromy conveyed meaning in both the Greek and Roman civilizations, how the practice was received in later periods. It also reveals how experts find and identify color on such ancient works in order to recreate their original painted patterns, using cutting-edge technology such as 3D imaging and art historical research.
    Column-Krater ca. 360–350 B.C.E. Photo: courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    A symposium will also be held at the museum in March 2023, which will bring together curators, conservators, and scientists to discuss polychromy, and the results will be published by the Met.
    “It is truly an exhibition that brings history to life through rigorous research and scientific investigation and presents new information about works that have long been in The Met collection,” Hollein said.
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    “The Man on the Stone” by Jofre Oliveras in Aberdeen, Scotland

    Spanish muralist and activist Jofre Oliveras decided to explore what nationalism means in 2022 for his Nuart Aberdeen mural. Located on Frederick Street, his large-scale painting depicts a man who’s holding a flag – but the flag is covering his face.Exploring the concept of Nationalism, the man on the stone, blinded by the flag is denied a perspective on anything else. It’s this “perspective on anything else”, that lifts it beyond bipartisan politics into a more universal realm. Which is probably just as well in the UK at the moment.“The flag is not letting this man see and have perspective,” said Jofre. The talented artist wanted to investigate the paradox of “being more global than ever but also being more isolated”.Take a look below for more photo’s of “The Man on the Stone” Photos by Brian Tallman; Doug Gillen; Clarke Joss Photography; Conor Gault More

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    Thousands of Artists Are Participating in Documenta 15. Here’s the Most Comprehensive List to Date

    Today in Kassel, the press got its first look at Documenta 15. It also got its first real sense of the show’s massive scope with the release of the full artist list.
    Ruangrupa, the curatorial collective organizing the affair, invited 53 artists and collectives. Each of these, in turn, has invited their own sub-constellation of artists to work with them. In some cases, these new artists then invited still more artists.
    As a result, even the gigantic roster we bring you below is not complete, as the show sprawls in many unexpected directions. Bolded names are the main invited artists, with the artists that they invited listed below each one. Those listed by themselves are not showing with other artists.

    Christian Geselle (SPD, l-r), Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel, Reza Afisina, ruangrupa, Leon Schniewind, Inhouse Desinger Documenta and Sabine Schormann, general director of Documenta and Museum Fridericianum, stand in front of the new Documenta 15 logo. Photo by Swen Pförtner/picture alliance via Getty Images.

    Kiri Dalena

    MADEYOULOOK
    Ato MoiloaRobyn CookVallery GroenewaldNozuko MapomaMolemo MoiloaNare MokgothoJoseph MothupiJoao OrecchiaModise Sekgothe

    Más Arte Más Acción
    Ailie RutherfordAlejandra RojasAlejandro CastillejoAlison TurnbullAna GarzónAndrés TorresAndrés VelézApichatpong WeerasethakulAriane AndereggenArianne KamsteegCarmenza Rojas PotesCarolina RincónClaudia HowaldDavid ParedesDavid SuárezDiego AretzElizabeth GallónElkin CalderónEnrique GonzálezEricka FlórezErna Von Der WaldeFausto MorenoFernando AriasGregorio GómezHortencio PalaciosJhon Esteban LassoJoep Van LieshoutJonathan ColinJosé Fernando SerranoKarina AnguloKathrin WildnerKnowbotiqYvonne WilheimChristian HueblerKurt HollanderLeonel VásquezLeyner PalaciosLiliana GómezLina Bryyi MorenoLorena DiezMagdalena WallpotManuel David RiascosMaría AndradeMiguel NavasNatalia AriasOsneyder ValoyPaola PérezPaula Andrea OrozcoPilar MendozaRossana AlarcónSandra VegaSina RibakStefan PetersTahuanty JacanamijoyTed GaierTeresa FeldmannVelia VidalWalker & BromwichYaisa Mariam QuintanaYei Moreno

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    BPOC Festival KasselCarl-Schomburg-Schule, KasselDeborah Manavi – Partizipative Tanzforschung zum Common GroundDiakonisches Werk Region KasselDivine Impact Church of GodEssbare Stadt e.V.,Ev. HoffnungskirchengemeindeFamilienbildungsstätte SternschnuppeGoethegymnasiumInstitut Sozialwesen der Universität KasselIslamisches Zentrum KasselJugendarbeit Wesertor der Stadt KasselKassel Kunsthochschule’s Performance and Multidisciplinary Class in collaboration with Class for Performance and Time Based Media from the Berlin University of the ArtsKita SonnenhangKulturzentrum Schlachthof gGmbHNisa e.V.Stadtteilzentrum WesertorUnterneustädter GrundschuleWalter-Lübcke-Schule

    Centre d’art Waza
    Agathon KakusaBodil FuruBram GootsCecile MwepuChadrack KakuleChriss KabongoChristelle NtangaChristian NyampetaDamien KahambweDenise MahehoFeza KayunguGuellord MbolelaIIunga Kangalele RichardJean-Guy MbopeyJeanne IIungaJoseph KasauKabala Mwana Mbuyi AdamoKabulo Kazadi RichardKazadi Kapenda RichardLeon VerbeekLubange Wa KangaleleLumbwe Kafwana LaurentLumuna NdalaMaman KisimbaMaya Van LeemputMichel KasongoMwewa KasongoNadine PenaNaomie Monga MasengoNontobeko NtombelOlivier BwihanganePatrick MudekerezaPierre KahengaProdige MakongaRaphael SalumuRene NgombeRichard MbuyuRita MukeboSamuel LuenbergerSari MiddernachtStephane KabilaTresor MakongaVeronique Poverello

    Jumana Emil Abboud
    Tareq AbboushiAli Shneina (Abu Jum’a)Lydia AntoniouIshraq AwashraAyoub YacoubCanaan Mazar’a (Abu Ibrahim)Sa’ad DagherMounya ElbakayIssa FreijYasmine HajAmal HajjajJumana Emil AbboudAmany KattomSalma KharoubaLama KhatibDanna MasadZeina NedalSourabh PhadkeSahar QawasmiRahaf ‘AlqemYazan SalemRaghad SaqfalhaitAnna SherbanyNida SinnokrotSuha ‘Atta ‘AlqamTabaraq ‘AlqemLayla TaherThurayya Shneina (Um Jum’a)Yusef Yacoub (Abu Omar)Haifa Zalatimo

    Gudskul
    Arab Theatre StudioAsia Art ArchiveBa Bau AirBishkek School of Contemporary ArtblaxTARLINES KUMASIEkstrak KolektifEl WarchaEssbare StadtFeinmechanikFloating ProjectGame Department Kunsthochschule KasselGrafis Huru HaraGud RnDHysteriaInfazioLifepatchLoad Na DitoNordland kunst- og filmhøgskoleOmni SpacePangrok SulapPAYONPSS DurenSalikhainSandy LoScutoid CoopSerrumStäedelschuleStuffo LabsSudut KalisatTIGA (Tindakan Gerak Asuh)TokonomaUnconditionalDesignYao Jui ChungYayasan Tonjo Foundation

    Britto Arts Trust
    Khabia AregMd. Aminul  IslamMd. Khairul AlamMd. Abu Sayed AliMd. Esahak  AliMd. Kased AliMd. Abba AliMd. Saheb AliRakibul AnwarMilton AnwarGeeta Rani BarmanTuton Chandra BarmanAshik Chandra BarmanBiplob Chandra BarmanAnjali Rani BarmanRupe Chandra BarmanSuhel Chandra BarmanSonji Rani BarmanParpoti Rani BarmanMonju Rani BarmanHiru Chandra BarmanMuchu Chnadra BarmanDipaly Rani BarmanBoidya Chandra BarmanBogi Rani BarmanPrakash Chandra BarmanShila Rani BarmanShimul Chandra BarmanGautam Chandra BarmanTara Rani BarmanBabita Rani BarmanMani Chandra BarmanShuren Chandra BarmanPushpa Rani BarmanMunna Chandra BarmanTayeba Begum LipiAlok Raj BongshiBithul ChichamOstina ChiranTapan C. DasBiswajit DasBipin DasTishanker DasAshim DasBishwarup DasShakil DasSobuj DasSajib DasPrasenjit DasAdhir DasJiban Chandra DasGopal Chandra DasPritan Chandra DasMani Shanker DasJubaraj DasPankaj DasJhulon DasShattarup DasSudhir Chandra DasShimul DattaShrimoti DeviLakshmi DeviProvat DlopoMd. Lal Maud FakirAnisuzzaman  FaroqueFarhana  FerdausiTarun GhoshSubol HajongAjit HajongSindhubala HajongArti HajongSopna HajongDron HajongSelim HajongBithi HajongSubitra HajongBhim HajongBinjuli HajongBondona HajongShanta HajongShikha HajongJhuma HajongJontu HajongChahela HajongBinoy HajongDipaly HajongBiswajit HajongJitu HajongAshim HalderSaidul Haque JuiseMehedi HasanEmdadul Hoque TopuImran HossainSyed Fida HossainSafiha HossainMaynul Islam PaulSarah JabinYasmin JahanMd. JaidulBipul JangchamJinnatun JannatKhushi KabirMohosin KabirRA KajolKazi Sydul KarimAzizee Fawmi KhanRaj KishoreBasu MalakarFarah Naz MoonMd. MostafaBijonti MreeRingchi MreeKhamree MreeMd. Musharaf MusaLutfun NaharNijhum Zannatun NaharEma NokrekHanif PappuTrishna PaulAbdur RabMahbubur RahmanShree RamMojes RemaBickrom RemaMoumita  RemaJewel A  RobAnimes RoyNayan RoyPijush RoyJeny RuramMonjur  SagorShimul SahaShyamal SarkerReetu  SattarShahriar ShaonArpita Singha LopaEmran SohelMohammad SultanFareha Zeba

    *foundationClass
    Fadi AljabourUlf AmindeAnwar Al AtrashSusan AziziYemisi BabatolaCarolyn Amora BoscoMohamad HalbouniNadira HusainAli KaafKatharina KerstenCẩm-Anh LươngAbiye OkujaguKrishan RajapaksheMiriam SchicklerHatef SoltaniVera VarlamovaNoureddin YassinMc3BArtsMohanad AlsneehOsamah AbouzorMayada Al KayalMahmoud IsmailRichard KhaldonBatoul SedawiSultan YousifBoaz MurinziKhaled MzherRena OnatAref TorkamanMarina NaprushkinaMax GrauBora YedielStefan DarabanOgün KebapçıYalçın AlayÖzdemir AdidSelim ÇakırHüseyin ÇakırHasan ÇakırDoğru Şükrü
    There are also other artists who wish to stay anonymous.

    Sebastián Díaz Morales

    Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh
    Ahmad al-KhalilAhmed El-FaourAli al-AliBen PeléFatmeh SoleimanHamada El-JoumaaKhawla KhalafMaya ZebdawiMela Dávila FreireNailé Sosa AragónSiwar KraytemWasim SaidYasser Ibrahim

    Fehras Publishing Practices
    Alex Viteri ArturoCatalina FernandezCécile PerrotCharline Tsidie TezangueCornelia HerfurtnerEd HichensErdem ŞentürkEren Selin Akosman-YildizErwan DambrineEyad HoussamiFadwa MerkhanHagen VerlergerHana CopicHeidi EricksonJulian BrimmersLan NguyenMarei LoellmannMartyna Marić-BarhanovićMerve CelikyurtNancy Nasr Al-DeenNaom GorbatNazila KarimyPeimaneh YaghoobifarahRasha Qass YousefRayya BadranSina AhmadiTamir Shmeltzer Frenkel LederbergTeodora TabackiWolfgang SchlegelYuyu ElmiZekeriya Kasaboglu

    Graziela Kunsch

    Serigrafistas queer
    Cecilia CamposAna Carolina Fernández AlonsoMariela GouiricGuillermina MonganMurilloVictoria Musotto DelrieuxMariela Paula ScafatiMoyi Schwartzer

    La Intermundial Holobiente
    Noelia BilliIngrid BleynatErica BohmVirginia BuitrónGabriela Cabezón CámaraLucio CapeceGraciela CarnevaleTulio De SagastizábalLucas Di PascualePaula FleisnerClaudia FontesCarla GrunauerGustavo IbarraReynaldo JiménezGuadalupe LuceroAnahí Rayen MariluánPablo Martín RuizIsabel MendozaJuan MendozaKarina MendozaGuadalupe MilesLeticia ObeidSergio RaimondiSol RéboraLuis SagastiHector (Chino) SoriaThe ten thousand thingsRal VeroniSusana VillalbaWeavers of the Tewok Cultural Centre

    Party Office
    Abhinit  KhannaAda NavarroAfter Party CollectiveAli Akbar MehtaAllies for the Uncertain FuturesAmrish  KondurkarAruAumAnna TjeBenji Hartc1Coranza de RobotaDhrubo JyotiDINAGrace BanuJasmine InfinitiJoey CannizzaroJuliana HuxtableJyotsna SiddharthKinkinellaMorenxxxOkhigobe Omonblanks OmonhiminPêdra CostaRamya PatnaikShaunak MahbubaniSlim SoledadTsohil BhatiaVidha SaumyaVidisha-Fadescha

    Nhà Sàn Collective
    Ayesha KeshaniBill NguyễnĐặng Thuỳ AnhĐạt VũĐinh Nhung (Vagina Talks / A Queer Museum)Đinh Thảo Linh (ba-bau AIR)Đỗ Văn HoàngDương Thanh QuangFlinhHelen PritchardLa MaiLại Diệu HàLaura BurnsLê Đình ChungLê Thị LươngLem Trag NguyenNguyễn Đình PhươngNguyễn Đình PhươngNguyen Duc TuongNguyễn Hoàng AnhNguyễn Hữu Hải DuyNguyễn Kiều AnhNguyễn Mạnh ĐứcNguyễn Nhật QuangNguyễn Phương Kiều AnhNguyễn Phương LinhNguyễn Quốc ThànhNguyễn Thanh TâmNguyễn Thị DiệpNguyễn Thị Thu HằngNguyễn Thủy TiênNguyễn Trần NamNguyễn Trinh ThiNguyễn Văn ThuỷNhi LêPhạm HảiPhan Đông TháiPhụ Lục (Nguyễn Huy An, Ngô Thành Bắc, Vũ Đức Toàn)Phùng Tiến Sơn with Giáo phường Kim ĐứcQuang QuangQuynh DongTaey Iohe and Cian DayritTrần Trung HiếuTrương Quế ChiTuấn Mami with Fami FarmVân ĐỗYoungsook ChoiSao La Collective (Đỗ Thanh Lãng, Nguyễn Đức Đạt, Nguyễn Kim Tố Lan)

    Sa Sa Art Projects
    Ang ChouleanChanveasna ChumMit Jai InnSamnang KhvayAung KoDara KongSiden KongLyna KournNge LaySokchanlina LimVuth LynoNgoc NauCarsten NicolaiSopheap PichSamnang SamKhvay SamnangPinaree SanpitakLeang SeckonJakkai SiributrThida SokLim SokchanlinaSutthirat SupaparinyaZen TheAshley ThompsonLyno VuthSophia Young

    Safdar Ahmed
    Alia ArdonCan YalçınkayaSafdar AhmedKian DayaniSusie HurleyMichal ImielskiMurtaza Ali JafariKazem KazemiZeina LaaliZeinab MirMNMona MoradveisiSusie NelsonSaeedMiream SalamehTabz A

    Jimmie Durham and A Stick in the Forest By the Side of the Road
    Bev KoskiJone KvieWilma LukatschElisa StrinnaRosca Van RooyenJoen VedelBev KoskiJone KvieWilma LukatschElisa StrinnaRosca Van RooyenJoen Vedel

    Wakaliga Uganda
    Assimwe ApolloBisaso DaudaCoconote studioHarriet  NakasujjaIsaac Godfrey Geoffrey NabwanaKasekende MustafaKatunda Abdul WahabKazibwe RonaldKizito Isaac NewtonLyagoba SuudiMax WincklerMbulaiteriNashibah NakibuukaNattembo Racheal MonicaNsamba FrancisSsebagenyi RonaldSsempala SulaimanWakastarz Band

    Trampoline House
    Carlota MirDady de Maximo Mwicira-MitaliFedaa Sultan (from Oct. 2020–Dec. 2021)Helene GrønJean Claude MangombaJoachim HamouKhalid AlbaihMorten GollMuhannad Al UlabySara AlberaniShakira Kasigwa MukamusoniTone Olaf NielsenvisAvisYong Sun Gullach (from Oct. 2020–Dec. 2021)

    ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics
    Aline SchwörerDanijela Pivašević-TennerFrank Jimin HoppMarie Salcedo HornNelly Choné
    Art AshramFlorian DietrichGeorg ScherlinKlara AdamMarkus ZimmermannNelli DavidSina AhlersVerena SeibtArved Schultze
    ConstructLab    Alexander RömerCo–Re (Contextual Research)Daniela Medina-PochFrederick BeckerJan BarnerMin Kyung KimPablo Santacana LopezRedwane JabalSvenja Simone SchulteViviane Tabach
    Making WavesDaniel SeipleEmily KofskyHassan AjiMomtaz DimashqiNafee KurdiGob Squad Arts Collective
    IAK – Institut für Architekturbezogene Kunst TU BraunschweigSina HeffnerMax JerominFolke KöbberlingAlexa KreisslGergely LaszloBenjamin MenzelBernd SchulzMichael Zwingmann+ 140 StudierendeLea Søvsø
    Madar CollectiveYong Sun GullachFedaa Sultan
    Mimiferment    Reiko KanazawaMarkus Shimizu
    Picnic FMAndrea GoetzkeJosephinex Hansis
    PrivatOperRoland CastringiusAndrea ChudackKatharina Laura KunzTobias OpiallaLars Straehler-PohlMartina Hoffmann
    ReFuncJan KörbesSchneider TM & Tomoko NakasatoZappi W. Diermaier
    Selbstgebaute Musik    Lea GrönholdtMatthias KremsreiterSascha SchneiderManuel StrubeHajo Toppius
    Cetka Program Barbara BernsmeierOlesia VitiukCetka Artists from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia
    Timemaschine Aline SchwörerNelly ChonéFrank Jimin HoppMarie Salcedo HornDanijela Pivašević-Tenner
    ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und UrbanistikHarry SachsJan van EschKristina MillerMatthias EinhoffPhilip Horst

    INLAND
    Miguel  “El Pajarito”Sabina AguileraRubén AlonsoJuan CasillasVienne ChanFranz de HamiltonAlvaro FierroYona FriedmanMax GmürEugénie GoldsternOscar HagermanPeter HodgsonR. R. HofmannManolo HuguéUgo La PietraStina LarssonLASACarl LumholtzJohann  Melchior RoosYou MiFernando MoroFrida NavratJosé Ortiz EchagüeJaakko PallasvuoKibandu Pelo-EssoTom PhilipsonTito RivasMarth SitánachiHito SteyerlJohn UsherSusana VelascoBedwyr Williams

    Sourabh Phadke
    *foundationClass*collectiveJumana Emil AbboudEugene AndrePeter AnhaltLydia AntoniouMarwa ArsaniosElke Charlotte AvenariusKarin BoenningerNatascha BurkChenfeizi ChenGuanting ChenQiaohui ChenXinyu ChenYige ChenZijin ChenYasmine Eid-SabbaghGozde FilintaMartin FokkenIssa FreijJakob GebertLeah GordonIswanto HartonoJonas HohmannZhenwu HuFangqiang HuangYanyijia HuangAnne JacobiLara KhaldiElvyn KompiYifan LiDavid LoescheBaldwin MaslimValerie MeyerDina MimiDaniella Fitria PraptonoMalene SaalmannTeguh SafarizalMelissa SchmidtChristine SeefriedZiyuan ShaoViola SommerfeldMichael WeberDavid Zabel

    Abdul Dube

    Cem A.

    LE 18
    In the first circleFrancesca MasoeroLaila HidaNadir BouhmouchSoumeya Aït Ahmed
    In the second circleAmine LahrachAudi George BajaliaCarlos Perez MarinMontasser DrissiShayma Nader
    From our wider circleAbdellah HassakAhmed BennysAhmed BouananiAhmed BoughabaAli EssafiAlioucha TaziArchives Bouanani CollectiveAssia DjebarAWALBasma RkiouiBenjamin VerhoevenCaravane TighmertCorinne WissElisa ZorziFarida BenlyazidFiras HamdanGroccoHadia GanaHamza AzeroualHicham BouzidImane ZoubiJumana Emil AbboudKhadija El AbyadLe BrouillonLéa MorinLes Mamans Douées
    Louisa AarassM’barek BouhchichiMeriem BenmhamedMeryem FekhariMohamed OubenaalMounir RahmouniNabil HimichNassim AzarzarQANATReem ShadeedRim MejdiSara FrikechSofia FahliSoufiane LakrakTamo ChikerTekchbilaToufiq EnnouriTouda BouananiTroupe AsnimerTroupe Cheikh HammouUntitled duo (Soukaina Aboulaoula, Yvon Langué)Yasmine BenabdallahYassine RachidiZakaria AlilechZakia Kadiri

    Wajukuu Art Project
    Alexis TeyieArts Taste Curiocity (at&c Nairobi)Becki WaweruBlackink FilmsCharles Muthumbi GithinjiDaniel OndiekiDauti KahoraEmmaus KimaniEric Gitonga Mong’orionFedaa Sultan
    Freshia  NjeriJoseph WaweruJoseph Ndung’uJosphat KimathiKimani KinyanjuiLawrence (Shabu) MwangiLazarus TumbutiLewis KimoneMercy WambuiNgugi Waweru
    Paul IrunguPeter AchayoRose JepkorirSitawa NamwaleVictor Chege GatugiWambui NgomboWambui NgomboYong Sun Gulach

    Sada
    Ali EyalSajjad AbbasBassim Al ShakerLayth KareemSarah MunafRaed MutarRijin Sahakian
    The Institute of People Oriented Culture Taring Padi
    Fitriani  Dwi KurniasihDodi IrwandiSri MaryatoYusuf MohammadHestu NugrohoAris PrabawaBudhi PrakosoNur Seto SetiawanAlexander SupartonoLidija Triana DewiBayu WidodoSurya WirawanDhomas Yudhistira Sugijanto

    Putra Hidayatullah

    Siwa Platform – L’Economat at Redeye
    Marwan AkroutiLassad BeldiYagoutha BelgacemMouna BelhouchetNoura Ben AliSamir Ben BoubakerHaythem Ben BousahaSalim Ben MohamedOkacha Ben SalahSophie BessisMalek BouaoniLaid BouoniLaurence ChableHoucine ChraitiMarianne DautreyAli DhahriJean Michel DiazFakhri El GhazelTahar EzzeddiniHoucine EzzediniMohamed Amin EzzediniJean Pierre HanHamouda JarrarMuntasser KramtiMohamed LabidiMatheiu LontanazaAtef MaatallahFatima MachouchRochdy MachouchAbdelhamid MansouriAicha MansouriHelmi MbarkiArafat SadallahImen SmaouiSaad TabbabiFrancois TanguyNadia TaziLoup UbertoRai UnoFarid YahyaouiHaytham ZakariaChemssedine ZitouniMohamed ZnaidiSalah Znaidi

    Nguyễn Trinh Thi
    Jamie Maxtone GrahamLê Quang MinhLê Thuận UyênNguyễn Xuân SơnPhạm Chí KhánhPhạm Hoàng Gia KhangUông Thanh Ngọc

    Komîna Fîlm a Rojava
    Mohammad HamanAbdi Hussien IbrahimHamo MahmoudMohammad SevinazHinde Shero

    Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture
    Alfred BanzeAwika SamukrsamanChia Wei HsuChristine Falk
    Dangchanok PongdamJiradej MeemalaiKrittaporn MahaweeraratLiam Morgan
    Pakchira ChartpanyawutPornpilai MeemalaiShih-Tung Lo

    The Another Roadmap School
    Cairo Working Group
    Andrea THALRana ELNEMR
    Johannesburg Working Group
    David ANDREWPuleng PLESSIERangoato HLASANETumi MOGOROSI
    Kampala Working Group
    Emma WOLUKAU-WANAMBWAKitto Derrick WINTERGREEN
    Kinshasa Working Group
    Cédrick NZOLOJean KAMBA
    Lagos Working Group
    Abiodun AKANDAAyo ADEWUNMIOlutayo AJEPeju LAYIWOLAQuadri OLUWASEGUN
    Lubumbashi Working Group
    Chadrack KAKULEChristelle NTANGA
    Patrick MUDEKEREZAProdige MAKONGARita MUKEBOSari MIDDERNACHTStéphane KABILAVéronique POVORELLO KASONGO
    Maseru Working Group
    Lineo SEGOETEZachary ROSEN
    Nyanza Working GroupChristian NYAMPETAChrista UWASE

    Erick Beltrán
    Benjamin DeistCecilia VallejosEduardo Barrera ArambarriFranca BrockmannKatharina Stadler
    Matthijs de BruijneMonika PieniazekNina ShumannNuria Rojas CastanedaPol Aumedes (La Sarandaca)
    Ramon Aumedes (La Sarandaca)Tim RudolfVeronika BarreraYianqian XuZora Lotta Joest

    Amol K Patil
    Aji S DharanAjith A SDas RollschuhmagazinKumar MisalKundan ShanbhagLinojoe Raju
    Parul SinhaPoonam JainRohit VarekarSachin KondalkarSachin Pitale
    Saviya LopesVinit DhariaYALGAAR Sanskrutik Manch,IndiaYogesh Barve

    Atis Rezistans (Resistance Artists)
    Adriana BenjaminAndre EugeneBastian HagedornCamile CheddaCarima NeusserCatherina BarichDemar BrackenridgeEdouard Duval-CarrieElizabeth WoodroffeEvel RomainHenrike NaumannHerold Pierre LouisJean Claude SaintilusJean Jonas LabazeJean Louis HuhtaJean Muller MilordJean Robert PalenquetJerry Reginald CheryJohn CussansKatelyn AlexisLLaura HeymanLeah GordonLondel InnocentLouis KervansMario Pierre LouisMartina VaninMichel LafleurNanne BuurmanPatrick EliePedro  LaschRoberto N PeyreSheldon GreenSimon BenjaminTom BogaertVivian ChanWesner BazileWhit ForresterWilerme Tegenis

    ikkibawiKrrr
    Cho Jieun
    Jungwon Kim
    Gyeol Ko

    Alice Yard
    Ada M. PattersonAmanda HernandezBlue CurryBruce CayonneCass’Mosha Amoroso-CentenoChristopher CozierCo-rd Ltd.Gwladys GambieKaryn  OlivierKriston ChenLuis Vasquez La RocheMichelle EistrupNicholas LaughlinNicole DelgadoOneika RusselRaquel Vasquez La RocheRazia BarsatieSean LeonardShannon AlonzoTessa MarsVersia Harris

    Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie 
    Awel HaouatiLydia SaïdiSaadia Gacem

    Subversive Film
    Aoe TanamiFadi Abu NemehMasao AdachiMustafa Abu AliCasey Asprooth JacksonElettra BisognoDon CatchloveJim CranmerDoha Film InstituteGent and GEM Kab ConcordiaVictor HaddadBilal Hibri
    Riuychi HirokawaSamir R. HissenTom HollymanIwanami ProductionsKASK School of the ArtsHatsuyo KatoKristine KhouriKitchen BXLJack MadvoT. MakiMonica MaurerMineo Mitsui
    Rami NihawiSamir NimrSami SalamoniRasha SaltiGhaleb ShaathIsmail ShammoutBaker SharqawiSharjah Art FoundationSHIRAKKhaled SiddikWakamatsu ProductionsSabih Al Zoohiri

    Agus Nur Amal PMTOH
    lumbung Story Gudskul
    Adji UtomoAldinoArie “ABG”Budi “Bungen” MuliaDoni BusatwegoDwi “Ube” Wicaksono SuryasumiratGreistina KusumaningrumHady SuharyadiIndriatma SitorusJufi Iqbal (Suara Djaya)MushowirNissal “Lindung”  Nur AfryansahNovi Elisa SuryaNugraha SalimOshan NurisaPanji “Jin” Purnama PutraRino AditiaSalman HaniefTopan “Opang” DarmawanWiratamaWiratamaGesyada SiregarJJ AdibrataLibby DavitriMG Pringgotono
    lumbung Story Jatiwangi art Factory
    Adji UtomoAhmad sujaiAldizar Ahmad GhifariAlma NoxaAnzar “Aaf” Agung FauzanArie Syarifudin (Al Ghorie)Arief Yudi RahmanBayu EdmandaBunga SiagianDadang Sugiyarto
    Dedeh MarwiahDeden ImanudinDiah MardiahDoni BusatwegoEl GeaGinggi Syarif HasyimGreistina KusumaningrumIbu DarminiIbu Nia MardiyaniIlla Syukrillah SyarifIsmal MuntahaKiki PermanaLibby DavitriAldinoMikayanti EngkusMini RukminiMiningsihMushowirNissan “Landung” Nur AfryansahNugraha SalimOshan NurisaPanji “Jin” Purnama PutraRino AditiaRohanahSalman haniefSuniTedi EnUun UnayahWiratamaYati Sumiati
    *Gerak-Gerak Pictures*Tritangtu
    Agung M. AbulAry “Jimged” SendyBopikBudi “Bungen” MuliaBudi SetiawanGreistina Kusumaningrum
    Julian RiezkyLibby DavitriMuhammad RevaldiPaniSaleh HusseinUju
    Cast:Agung ‘Abul’AniBaharDianDikaElsaEnjenErosFarisIinJohaniMang EdieNetiNurRohaniSantiSariTetiUjuUunWiiwinYati
    Mechanic Object
    Arief AttoFathan MubinAldinoOshan NurisaPutra Hidayatullah

    El Warcha
    Aziz AissaouiAziz RomdhaniBenjamin Perrot
    Chiraz GuellelaMarlene HalbgewachsNaomi Nantois Meadow
    Radhouane BoudhraaSelma Kossentini

    Richard Bell
    Alethea BeetsonSutapa BiswasTania BrugueraDigi Youth ArtsDave FernandoGary FoleySylvia McAdamAlan MichaelsonJosh MilaniWanda NanibushThe Black ArchivesVivian Ziherl

    Asia Art Archive
    ArahmaianiAung KoJosef NgJyoti BhattK.G. SubramanyanKarla SachseKo Siu Lan
    Lawan JirasuradejLee WenMa LiumingMaung San OoMoe SattNilima SheikhNitaya Ueareeworakul
    Phaptawan SuwannakudtPhyu MonRay LangenbachSanmuShu YanWomanifesto

    The Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt
    Tania BrugueraCarlos Cárdenas CárdenasChrisAminta D’CardenasGretell DomenechSolveig FrontAnaeli IbarraHamlet Lavastida Lavastida
    Camila LobonLeila MonteroClaudia Patricia OliveraLeonardo OtañoUlises PadrónJuliana RabeloMarta Maria Ramirez

    Chang En-Man
    Han Fang Wang
    Shueh Ching Lu
    Ting Tsou

    Nino Bulling
    Samandal Comics x Nino BullingMloukhiyyé Al-FilBilge EmirMichel EsselbrüggeAki HassanNour HifaouiJoseph KaiBea KittelmannRomy MatarNygel PanascoBarrack RimaJo RüßmannNatyada Tawonsri
    Comic Artists’ UnionSheree DomingoTinet ElmgrenBilge EmirJul GordonEva GräbeldingerMarc HennesJiaqi HouIlknur KocerStefanie LeinhosAnsgar LorenzEva MüllerMalika TeßmannChiny UdeaniMarijpol
    Exhibition Hafen 76Katja Lonzeck – textile designMarlene Oeken – scenography

    Victoria Lomasko

    The Black Archives
    Brian ElstakDion RosinaIris KensmilJaasir LingerJessica de AbreuMitchell EsajasRaul BalaiRossel ChaslieSerana Angelista

    Hamja Ahsan
    Zahedi AbbasUddin AlaBullivant CerieYusuf-Pankhurst HodanDawud NadeemBarylo William

    Chimurenga
    Akin AdesokanBianca Van RooiBogani KonaChantal Bouw
    Graeme ArendseMamadou DialloMoses MarzNomaliqhwa Hadebe
    Ntone EdjabePura Lavisa

    Jatiwangi art Factory
    ADANYAHAndzar Agung FauzanAldizar Ahmad GhifharyKetut AminudinAriswandiBeningMing ChowTarsono D. MardianaDartoFaniGetotMuhammad Ilham SamudraDeden ImanudinKarissyaEman KurdimanAna Merliana
    KarissyaMayor StaffPipin Muhammad KaspinIsmal MuntahaTatita Na SaeInin NastainTamyiz Noor RamadhanAlma NoxaAlfiza Nur Aisyah IrmandaElgea Nur BalzarieTedi NurmantoGilang PramudithaPandu RahadianKiki RasmadiRifayantiDeden Sambas
    Prabowo SetyadiYuliati ShalihatBunga SiagianKarna SobahiSubitaAhmad SujaiPepep Syaiful HidayatGinggi Syarief HasyimArie SyariefudinIlla SyukrilaLoranita TheoAhmad Thian FultanArief Yudi RahmanIka Yuliana

    OFF-Biennale Budapest
    OFF-Biennale Core Team
    CuratorsNikolett ErőssEszter LázárHajnalka SomogyiEszter SzakácsBorbála SzalaiKatalin Székely
    Team  András BognárDina DarabosDominika SzabóSzabolcs Vida
    What ifs and why nots: OFF-Playground
    ArtistsArchitecture Uncomfortable Workshop (Dénes Emil Ghyczy, Lukács Szederkényi)Ádám KokeschEva KoťátkováIlona NémethThe Randomroutines (Tamás Kaszás, Krisztián Kristóf)Recetas Urbanas (Santiago Cirugeda,  Alice Attout,  Carlos Vázquez Gardón,  Garazi Merodio Ayarza, Ania Jaca Sanz de Arellano, Jorge Barroso (Bifu), Martina Helmke,  Emilien Le Goff,  Mario Bestion, Isadora Grumiaux)
    Contributors and partnersEdible City (Maximilian Mechsner)Kassel University (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Körner, Dr.-Ing. Florian Bellin-Harder)LABAK (Michal Marcinov, Katarína Stanislavová)   Marián RavaszUnterneustädter Schule, Kassel
    One day we shall celebrate again – RomaMoMA
    ArtistsDaniel BakerJános BalázsRobert GabrisSead KazanxhiuDamian Le BasMałgorzata Mirga-TasMara (Omara) OláhTamás PéliSelma SelmanCeija Stojka
    Co-curatorsDaniel BakerEthel   BrooksTímea  JunghausMiguel Ángel Vargas
    ConsultantsEszter GyörgyAngéla KóczéAnna Lujza SzászTeri Szűcs
    PartnerERIAC – European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
    ContributorEast Europe Biennial Alliance
    One the same page – OFF-Curatorial Practice
    Rita KálmánLívia PáldiKatarina Šević

    Project Art Works
    Kate AdamsAida AshallConnor AshleyLuke BebbHelen CarltonJohnny  Caroll PellPaul ColleyAndrew CooperTim CorriganJessica Courtney BennettOliver CrowtherNatalie DanceMark DanielsSara DareDion DownesSarah DunnStanley EllisGemma EvansAmy FentonPatricia Finnegan
    Siddharth GadiyarDavid GeallJo GoldmanJack GoldsmithCharlotte HanlonLucy JenionNeville JermynAnnis JoslinEden KöttingThomas LeporaLucyHolli MacnamaraClaire MatthewsLeila McmillanLouise NewhamSean OrmondeIndia O’SullivanMagda PataSharif PersaudPhoebe Ellen Prebble
    Peter QuinnellGabriella RapisardaMichelle RobertsWendy RoutleyGeorgie ScottCarl SextonMaya Shapiro SteenWill ShepherdGeorge SmithSam SmithDarryl SpencerEsther SpringettCharlotte StephensMartin SwanSarah TKatie TaylorCharlie ThomasChristopher TiteAnnie Rose WallerMarion Willis

    Pınar Öğrenci
    Ayşe DorakDidare İşleyenNuriye İşleyenNeşe Polat

    Cinema Caravan
    Akira OkuraDanuraga SastrainingEikou HaraguchiEisuke OgawaGen NagashimaKazuaki Komiya
    Keita YamadaMasaya KobayashiMichinori MaruMizuki NishimuraNaoito ItoRai Shizuno
    Satoru SegiSolar DarmikaTakashi KuribayashiTatsuya Sano

    Arts Collaboratory
    Arts Collaboratory School hosting Team
    Adrian Milk Jimar
    Alex Rubela
    Alvaro Castillo
    Ana Milena Garzon
    Andres Villalobos
    Arts Collaboratory members and ekosistems
    Binita Shrestha
    Darina Kaparovaa
    Dasha Chernysheva
    Diego Teo
    Geral Faun
    Jaza

    Marwa Arsanios
    Marwa ArsaniosAmani DagherMaya DghaidiDr. Joanna DoummarKatrin EbersohnMazen HachemFamilies of Mamlouk and MohamadNancy NasseredineWissam SaadeWael Yammine

    The Question of Funding
    Eltiqa exhibition researchAdele JarrarMohammad Amal NazeehNicola GrayShayma Al BessSiwar KraitemZiad Haj Ali
    Eltiqa Exhibition artistsDina MatterMohammad Al HawajriMohammed AbusalRaed IssaRauof Al Ajouri
    Childern booksHadeel BadarniHassan ZahredddineHatem ImamLarissa BenderMona KareemOmar LayzaSahar AbdallahSamir SkayniStudio SafarYousri Al Amir
    DayraAbdelwahab ZoabiBasel NasrIbrahim OwaisMutsaem JobranQusai JodeSami KhaldiShurouq QawariqStudio Kawakeb
    WebsiteArine AprahamianFarah FayyadHussein Nassereddine
    How to work togetherAkef DarawshehFadya SalfitiFayrouz SharqawiHadeel YaqoubHussam GhoshehIman HammouriLina Isma’ilMajid DoghlasNisreen MazawiRami MassadRaya Ziada
    AKA NetworkCollective of collectives based in Kassel
    Baskom and Jam on Jam on Jam on JamDaniel Aguilar RuvalcabaDiana CantareyJulian Abrahamözgür atlaganSimnikiwe BuhlunguSungeun Lee
    Question of FundingAmany KhalifaLara KhaldiNoor AbedRayya BadranYazan Khalili

    Cao Minghao and Chen Jianjun
    Chi XinanFAN XiaoJianjun ChenKathryn WeirKonchok PalsangLaura NingLiu Man-kun
    Minghao CaoHai RENTao GuWan LiYang LinqingYin ChunMi You
    Yu JiahuaYu BiaoZhang XuehuaZhou YufeiZhou LaiZhu Dan

    Saodat Ismailova
    Aïda AdilbekBenazir IbraimovaDana IskakovaMunis JurayevaTokzhan KarataiNazira KarimiDaria KimJazgul MadazimovaZumrad MirzalievaTillaniso Nuregdi
    Daria NurtazaIntizor OtaniyozovaAziza PulatovaDiana RakhmanovaDilda RamazanMukhiddin RisqiyevOdina RisqiyevaDiana UMadina Zholdybekova

    Black Quantum Futurism

    The Fondation Festival sur le Niger
    Abdoulaye CamaraAbdoulaye KonatéAdama KeïtaAmaichata SalamataAttaher MaigaAwa DiarraBourama DiarraBréhima CoulibalyCheick Amadou Tidiane SeckCheick Oumar SissokoDjoulaye Samuel CoulibalyElisée SangareFatoumata Tioye Coulibaly
    Gaoussou DiaoIbrahima WaneKalifa DembéléLAMINE DiarraLassina KonéLosso Marie Ange DakouoMadou TounkaraMahamadou DrameMama KonéMamou DafféMariam KonéMohamed DoumbiaMoise  Sagara
    Moussa Boubacar DiarraN’Dji Yacouba TraoréN’Fana DiakiteSalia MaléSalif BerthéSalomé DembéléSamba TouréSeydou CamaraSouleymane OuologuemTieble TraoréYacouba MagassoubaYaya CoulibalyZakaria Konaté

    Keleketla! Library
    Malahlela MaloseHlasane Rangoato

    Dan Perjovschi

    The Nest Collective
    J.P. WaitheraJim ChuchuNjeri GitungoNjoki NgumiNoel KasyokaSunny Dolat

    FAFSWAG
    Elyssia Wilson HetiFalencie FilipoHōhua Ropate KureneIlalio Loau
    James  WaititiJermaine DeanMoe Laga-ToleafoaNahora Ioane
    Pati Solomona TyrellTanu GagoTapuaki HeluTim Swann
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    “Beyond Walls” by Saype in Belfast, Ireland

    Swiss-based French graffiti artist Saype’s worldwide ‘Beyond Walls’ Project extends its symbolic human links to Northern Ireland. The gigantic, bio-degradable lawn fresco of intertwined hands will be displayed at the Stormont Estate from 14 June 2022, as part of the Belfast Photo Festival (2-30 June 2022).Giant biodegradable landart painting by French-Swiss artist Saype from the Beyond Walls project on Saturday June 11, 2022 in front of the Parliament Buildings (Stormont, Belfast). The artwork is extended over an area of 45 by 240 meters. Created using biodegradable pigments made of charcoal and chalk, the artwork will fade away with the growth of the grass.The gigantic artwork is part of the Belfast Photo Festival (2-30 June 2022) with support by the Embassy of Switzerland in the United Kingdom. (Saype)The hands of people from Belfast are the photographic base of the artworks, advocating solidarity, dialogue and friendship beyond geographical and societal constraints around the world. Belfast will join some 30 cities across five continents which have participated in the large-scale art installation, with previous iterations appearing in Ouagadougou, Paris, Geneva, Dubai and many other locations.Michael Weir, Director of the Belfast Photo Festival, says: “Saype’s artworks are best perceived by drone, a lens in the sky, opening up questions about how we access an art piece, even when the vantage point is out of our physical reach. Due to the fleeting lifespan of his art, photography is an integral part of the process, capturing the tangible presence and preserving its message for people to enjoy, even when the physical piece has long disappeared.”Saype is renowned as a pioneer of an artistic movement linking street art and land art. His approach and innovative technique earned him global recognition as his poetic and ephemeral works travel around the world to impact minds and spark conscious dialogue. He is committed to eco-friendly methods in his art: “One of my aims is to not only shed light on issues of social transformation but to promote eco-friendly and sustainable methods of creating art through respecting nature.”Swiss Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Markus Leitner, says: “Saype’s message of global connectivity and sustainability is part of a number of activities we are organizing and supporting in the context of the Embassy’s #WeAreSwitzerland tour of the United Kingdom. Through this initiative we will connect with Swiss citizens, companies, artists and researchers in the UK and will forge new synergies with our local partners in politics, science, business and culture across all nations of the United Kingdom throughout the month of June.”The ‘Beyond Walls’ Project is accessible to the public from 14 June 2022 for around two to three weeks.Scroll down below for more photos of the project.Photo credit: Saype More

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    Documenta 15 Opens With a Record 1,500 Artists, Promising to Be Unlike Any Edition That Came Before It

    Psychedelic rock blasted from speakers in an outdoor soccer stadium while the audience filed in for Documenta 15’s press conference. Outwardly, there was little sign of either heightened tensions or increased security here, despite the controversies that have swirled around the show recently.
    As a tone-setting event, the press conference made it clear that Documenta 15 aspires to be something very far from the buttoned-up exhibitions that came before it. The throngs of artists invited by Indonesian collective Ruangrupa made up much of the crowd at the stadium, and greeted them repeatedly with waves of cheers and clapping. At one point, a karaoke-style music video by Tropical Tap Water played, and the audience clapped and sang along to the refrain “We Use the Baskom” (a word that refers to a type of wash basin familiar in Indonesia).
    The scheme of the show is novel. Fourteen core member groups invited by Ruangrupa are working together with around 50 artist collectives; each of those collectives, in turn, invited still more artists.
    The result is a truly gigantic exhibition. The artist list unveiled in the press materials comes to at least 1,500 figures, the group said. In fact, even that staggering number doesn’t capture the scope, as the second invited round of artists invited another round in some cases, too.
    “The philosophy was ‘not big but many,’” said artistic team member Frederikke Hansen. “On paper, we have invited very few, but in practice we have invited very many.”
    Artist participants cheer after a performance by lumbung artist Agus Nur Amal Pmtoh at the press conference in the Auestadion. Photo: Swen Pförtner/picture alliance via Getty Images.
    Signaling the kind of communal-focused art favored by the show, one of the many was Agus Nur Amal PMTOH, who did a touching, low-fi performance, half-singing a story about his recent workshop he did at a school in Kassel. “The children,” he sung out, “are pessimistic / We want to create wishful thinking.”
    Thus, from these very first opening moments of this years-in-the-making show (it opens to the general public on June 18), it is clear that Ruangrupa’s focus is on hope and joy, as well as offering alternative solutions to complex issues of economy, globalism, and climate change. The show is focused around the concept of lumbung, which means “rice barn” in Indonesian. The group has said the term represents their desire for community-sharing and resource-pooling. Projects are decentralized across Kassel, with many “venues” and events in the program taking place in parks as well as at more traditional spaces.
    The press conference marked an attempt at a reset, of sorts. In the lead up to the closely watched show, Ruangrupa had their wider efforts overshadowed by accusations of anti-semitism but also racist vandalism on two of its venues.
    Members of the Indonesian artist collective Ruangrupa applaud the artists in the crowd during the press conference in the Auestadion. Photo: Swen Pförtner/dpa via Getty Images.
    Politicians who welcomed Ruangrupa onstage addressed the allegations of anti-semitism that have been looming over the show since January—serious in any country, but especially so in Germany. 
    “Documenta has always been a place of exchange and also of heated discourse,” said Angela Dorn, art and culture minister in Kassel. She said she welcomed the debates that have been ongoing since January, when a blog made allegations about the anti-Israel political motives of a few members of the artists and artistic team. Ruangrupa has vehemently rebutted these charges.
    Dorn added that she hopes the debates can be fruitful. “Dialogue means differentiating, not painting in black and white,” she said. “Dialogue presupposes that people listen to each other and also that they understand where boundaries lie.”
    She added that “anti-Semitic resentment” has no place at Documenta, nor does any “racist hostility” or attacks, referring to the the recent vandalism targeting a group of Palestinian artists in the show.
    “The pictures of threatening graffiti in the exhibition area of ‘The Question of Funding’ have made me very concerned,” said Dorn. “My solidarity also goes explicitly to the curators and artists who have been racially targeted and attacked in the course of the debate.”
    Documenta 15 runs from June 18 to September 25, 2022.
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    “Wishing for Wings” by Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada in Catalunya, Spain

    Contemporary artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada recently worked on a new mural for the GarGar festival in Penelles near Lleida in Catalunya.For the last 2 years, the artist has focused on working on lines and movement, which allows him to play with various textures and techniques. This mural is another example of the unified aesthetic that the artist has developed in the last few years. Gerada’s murals now bridge together all of the artist’s directions, including his land-art works, sculptures and paintings.Gargar Festival 2022The annual Gargar Mural and Rural Art Festival was created by Binomic.cat who wants to promote the artistic culture in the rural world, turning the village of Penelles into a reference point, engaging people in a unique project of which we can be proud. Also, it aims at energising the village and promote tourism.This year, the festival was held on 29th, 30th of April and the 1st of May 2022 in Penelles.“The festival hopes to generate resources that allow us to correct the effects of time and the deterioration of our streets, reinspiring hope in our neighbours.” – Gargar FestivalGargar Mural and Rural Art Festival was born from the need and the strong determination to add a distinguishing value to the village of Penelles. The objective is to appreciate, encourage and give visibility to street art and alternative ways of artistic expression in public rural areas.DESEANDO ALAS (WISHING FOR WINGS)The mural is situated on the side of a residential building at the entrance of the town, located on the corner of Carrer de Roques. Gerada’s mural is approximately 12m x 10m and was created using exterior latex paint.Gerada set out to create a mural that draws attention to the plight of loss of population in rural areas. A lot of Gerada’s work is rooted in the context of the location and the history of where he creates his work. The Gargar festival uses muralism to bring interest and people back to the town of Penelles without the worry of the negative aspect of gentrification, which is an evident issue in cities.The use of the hashtag symbol in the design alludes to the need for more people to see what is happening here, and in rural towns across the world. The bird in this mural is an endangered bird that is used as a symbol for this festival. Gerada gave talks to school children about street art and the world in general. Two students were able to gain credits that would go towards their art degrees, by assisting the artist and learning valuable techniques, such as use of equipment, paint mixing, preparation and process.The mural took one week to be completed.Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a contemporary Cuban-American artist based in Barcelona, Spain. He is internationally recognized for creating his works on a large scale in urban space, sometimes so large that they can be seen from space and photographed by satellite. He is recognized for using walls and streets as canvases and citizens as role models to create powerful works around the world.Take a look below for more photos of the mural. Photos Courtesy of Gerada More

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    7 Exhibitions to See Around Town During Art Basel 2022, From a Survey of Piet Mondrian to Moody Figuration by Michael Armitage

    If you’re headed over to Switzerland for Art Basel, you know that this year’s edition of the fair isn’t the only show in town. Basel, a marvelously museum-rich city, has all kinds of other delights in store. Here’s a roundup of what not to miss on your trip.

    “Brice Marden: Inner Space“Kunstmuseum BaselThrough August 28
    Brice Marden, Second Window Painting (1983). © 2022 ProLitteris, Zurich.
    More than 100 works by the American painter Brice Marden, revered for his fusion of expressionist gesture and Minimalist rigor, come together for this exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel. Most of the pieces, made between 1972 and 2019, are on paper, but the show also includes eight paintings and a special selection of works from the artist’s collection, including never-before-seen pieces.

    “Mondrian: Evolution“Fondation BeyelerThrough October 9
    The conservation studio at the Fondation Beyeler, with paintings by Piet Mondrian. Photo courtesy Fondation Beyeler and La Prairie.
    To mark the 150th anniversary of the Dutch avant-gardist’s birth, the Fondation Beyeler has organized a retrospective looking at Mondrian’s earliest abstract experiments, in which he painted windmills and seascapes, through his radical reinvention of painting with his Neo-Plastic canvases, which he began in the 1920s.

    “Michael Armitage: You, Who Are Still Alive“Kunsthalle BaselThrough September 4
    Installation view, Michael Armitage, “You, Who Are Still Alive,” Kunsthalle Basel, 2022, featuring The Perfect Nine, 2022. Photo: Philipp Hänger/Kunsthalle Basel.
    New works by Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage are the focus of this show, his first in Switzerland. Per the museum, the “moody, sumptuously layered figurative paintings” are intended as meditations on civil unrest, political uncertainty, and the enduring spirit of humanity.

    “Jean Jacques Lebel“Museum TinguleyThrough September 18
    Installation view of the Jean-Jacques Lebel show. Photo: Daniel Spehr.
    Jean-Jacques Lebel, an early Happenings artist, was instrumental in organizing a memorial service in 1960 in Venice for the murdered artist Nina Thoeren, during which a sculpture by Jean Tinguely was interred in the lagoon. That event—later deemed by Allan Kaprow the first European Happening—is the subject of this exhibition, which also includes later works by Lebel, such as a video installation looking at images of women in art and society.

    “Plastic: Remaking Our World“Vitra Design MuseumThrough September 9
    Panasonic Toot-a-Loop R-72S radio, 1969–72. © Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Andreas Sütterlin.
    This show, organized with the V&A Dundee and the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, looks at the ways in which plastics have shaped our lives, from electrical conductors to Lego blocks, and how they’ve evolved from a symbol of carefree consumerism to a signal of overconsumption and unsustainability.

    “Napoli Super Modern“Swiss Architecture MuseumThrough August 21
    Photograph by Cyrille Weiner, from the series “Assimilation douce,” Napoli, 2020.
    The city of Naples—its history, culture, and role in the public imagination—comes alive through this exhibition focusing on its unique architecture, organized by Benoit Jallon and Umberto Napolitano, who together run the Paris-based studio LAN. Among other exhibits, the show features photographs by Cyrille Weiner, who documents the specifically Modern aesthetic that rose out of postwar reconstruction in the city.

    “Picasso–El Greco“Kunstmuseum Basel-NeubauThrough September 25
    Pablo Picasso, Mme Canals (Benedetta Bianco) (1905).
    The influence of the Greek artist El Greco on Picasso is the subject of this show, which includes landmark loans from international collections. The exhibition—curated by Carmen Giménez, with Gabriel Dette, Josef Helfenstein and Ana Mingot—makes the case that respect for the iconoclastic artist, forgotten for years after his death, was revived in the early 1900s in large part by Picasso’s fascination with and celebration of the artist.
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    Never-Before-Seen Sketchbooks of Drawings Picasso Made With His Daughter Maya Go on View in Paris

    The Picasso Museum in Paris is staging an exhibition of never-before-seen works by the Spanish master, bequeathed by his eldest child, Maya Ruiz-Picasso, in 2021.
    The show features nine major works by the artist and personal family items dating from 1895 to 1971. The selection includes drawings, paintings, photographs, ephemera, a coloring in book, and an adorable how-to-paint book that the artist and his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter made for Maya.
    Maya Picasso, Maya au bateau (1938). Photo © Succession Picasso 2022.
    The exhibition, “Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Daughter Of Pablo,” was co-curated by Picasso Museum curator Emilia Philippot and Maya’s daughter Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso, who discovered drawings and sketchbooks by chance while going through storage. She showed her mother, who is now 86, and she remembered making the drawings with her father.
    Maya recalled that time, paper, and pencils were in short supply then. “Who has never heard it said when looking at a canvas by Picasso, ‘A child could have done that!’” Diana wrote in the book accompanying the show. “Many of the artistic revolutions of the 20th century were greeted with mockery and scandal, it is true, but in Picasso’s case there is a hint of truth in that judgment. As Maya, his first daughter, recalls, ‘the mystery of life, and therefore of childhood, always filled that father of mine with interest.’”
    Pablo Picasso, Lettre à Maya (1946). Photo © Succession Picasso 2022.
    Picasso drew with Maya the way he had with his own father, who was a drawing professor, and the sketchbooks reveal this touching exchange.
    “That’s probably why my father wrote in my exercise books and colored with my pencils. I still have fond memories of those moments when we met up in the kitchen to draw together. It was the only place in the apartment where it was warm,” Maya said, according to the Observer.
    Pablo Picasso et Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pommes (n.d). Photo © Succession Picasso 2022.
    The drawings also give insight into Picasso as a father and as an artist.
    “There’s a beautiful page where he’s drawing a bowl and she’s drawing a bowl,” Diana told the Observer. “Sometimes she’s making an image and he’s doing another, showing her the right way to do it. Sometimes they would depict different scenes. Other times, he would draw a dog or a hat. Sometimes he’s using the whole page to draw one particular thing. Other times, he’s depicting certain scenes, scenes of the circus. It’s very interesting.”
    Pablo Picasso, Maya à la poupée et au cheval (1938). Photo © Succession Picasso 2022
    “Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Daughter Of Pablo” is on view at Musée Picasso in Paris through December 31, 2022.
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