Art
Collectors: Luca Benini’s Archive of the Global Underground
Luca Benini had no real connections to the fashion industry. Surprising, given the impact the 62-year-old has had since starting his cult clothing store and fashion label Slam Jam back in 1989. “I come from a small town in the outskirts of Ferrara, literally in the middle of nowhere,” Benini tells Hypeart. “I have always been naturally interested in clothes and how people dress.” Like an invisible magnet drawing him from afar, music “played – and still plays – a major role” in Benini’s taste and curiosity — from disco and house to electronic and hip hop. For nearly 35 years now, Benini has in-turn become the magnet that now draws in customers and tastemakers from around the globe, as he continues to shape clothing with an “Attitude for the Global Underground,” as his brand’s motto goes.Sla...
Signed Dalí Prints Take to Auction After Rediscovery in a London Garage
A garage holds what time forgot, but the art market might not. Resurfacing fifty years after their original purchase, a collection of 10 lithographs by Salvador Dalí will go to the block after their rediscovery in a London garage. Alongside five lithographs by Théo Tobiasse, the French painter and engraver, the pieces are expected to bring in several thousand dollars at the Hansons Richmond auction on September 30.Chris Kirkham came across these works following an invitation to the consignor’s property located in Berkeley Square, an area known for its historic charm. The consignor purchased the lithographs for £500 EUR (approximately £2,400 or $3,100 EUR today) from a London gallery before it went under in the late 1970s. Today, this collection is set to fetch ten times their original inve...
Mark A. Rodriguez Interrogates the Eternal in ‘Forever’
Mark A. Rodriguez’s new solo exhibition is now on view at Chris Sharp Gallery in Los Angeles. Presenting a new array of work, Forever takes cues from the US Forever Stamp. Coinciding with these everlasting postal stamps, this show imbues everyday Americana with a “deadpan” existentialism.In this collection of around 20 pieces, Rodriguez constructs unique stamp frames, cutting across borders of painting and sculpture. These works almost swallow the stamps in a cloud of sculptamold and acrylic paint. By eclipsing their small size, each frame brings the stamp’s detail into full focus.“The objects themselves are weirdly beautiful; their formal attributes evoking whole histories of Los Angeles sculpture from Mike Kelley to Ken Price,” the gallery says in a statement. The vibrant colors of Forev...
Nicolas Party Reflects on the Climate Emergency at the Leeum Museum
Swiss artist Nicolas Party has unveiled a new solo exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul. As his first show in Korea, the show will present a wide survey of work, spanning painting, sculpture and the site-specific installations that Party has come to be known for over the past decade.Dust is centered around themes of longevity and the existential threats facing nature and civilization. Party is revered for blending tropes from art history through a surreal vernacular that he achieves through pungent oil pastels, often recreating entire exhibition halls into fantastical worlds that radiate with a mysterious and often beguiling charm. His latest show will comprise of 48 existing works, including 20 new paintings and five large scale pastel murals alongside Leeum's permanent collecti...
ACU and Jahan Loh Present Immersive Art Exhibition ‘The Fookie Hall’
Singaporean contemporary artist Jahan Loh has opened The Fookie Hall, a new immersive art exhibition at Chengdu’s MEW Art & Culture Space. The exhibition is presented by Shanghai-based retailer, ACU, and will remain on time for a limited only.Touted by the artist as a “veritable feast for one and all,” The Fookie Hall combines contemporary art with traditional Chinese elements. The title of the exhibition is also a play on "福气” (pronounced fúqi), the Chinese character for blessings. Expanding the theme using the five auspicious Chinese characters: "福”, “禄”, “寿”, “禧”, ”财" (fortune, prosperity, longevity, happiness, wealth), Loh curated five different sections to the exhibition, each offering a distinct experience.Symbolizing fortune, the “福” Pavillion provides a place to pause, gather a...
The Noguchi Museum Opens 40th-Anniversary ‘Against Time’ Exhibition
Against Time: The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Reinstallation is now open at The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum until September 14, 2025. Pieces from the original second floor installations will return to their galleries for the first time in fifteen years, ahead of the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2025.The reinstallation will include more than 60 works from the museum’s permanent collection, including Noguchi’s 1928 brass and wood sculptures. With many considered as personal breakthroughs, these pieces narrate the peaks and troughs of the artist’s six decade-long career.Against Time is looks to The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry M. Abrams, Inc.,. 1987) instead of traditional wall labels. While it cannot reconstruct Noguchi’s exact vision for the galleries, the...
James Turrell to Illuminate Almine Rech Paris With New Installation
In October, Almine Rech Paris will unveil a new light piece from James Turrell’s ongoing series, Tall Glass / Wide Glass. This announcement marks the gallery’s 12th exhibition with the installation artist in the last three decades.Behind Tall Glass / Wide Glass is a state of becoming. The forthcoming piece builds on the series’ twenty-year-long exploration of elliptical and rectangular forms in a “unique aperture”. Viewers will bear witness to a dream of light and color, made possible by diaphanous material , as it bends and flexes through the whole of an hour.Whereas previous works in the series took on a neon hue, Turrell began considering LED possibilities in 2015. With a wider spectrum of rich hues and light levels, this turn allowed for greater artistic liberty with regards to shape ...
‘KAWS:HOLIDAY’ Shanghai Embraces the North Bund Moon
Update (August 29): KAWS:HOLIDAY Shanghai made its grand reveal last night at the renowned North Bund dock along the Huangpu River, featuring a brand-new design: a large inflatable art installation of COMPANION sitting leisurely, holding the moon, and gazing at the sky. This marks the first light sculpture in the KAWS:HOLIDAY series.Update (August 16): Shanghai's rapidly developing North Bund area has been revealed as the next stop in the KAWS:HOLIDAY tour. After teasing the massive installation vis Instagram this week, the Brooklyn-based artist says that the work was made in collaboration with organizer JFJ Productions to honor the upcoming "Moon Festival’s tradition of displaying lanterns for good fortune." Accompanying the installation, which will be on view from August 29 to September ...
K11 Art Foundation Launches Its First Generative Art Exhibition ‘Lunar Water’ in Seoul
K11 Art Foundation is kicking off a series of events for Frieze Seoul, starting with its Moon Party to mark the occasion. In celebration of Korea's Moon Festival, K11 is embodying the Chuseok spirit, while celebrating creativity and synergy with its first generative art exhibition titled, Lunar Water.With the support of lead sponsor Flipster and digital screen partner LG OLED, the exhibition features immersive experiences that feature generative artworks by a'strict and Tyler Hobbs alongside a new large-scale generative artwork by Cheng Ran. Exclusive to this exhibition, Cheng Ran collaborated with Genify and Bohan Sun to reimagine his work "In Course of the Miraculous" -- a nine-hour film that first premiered at the Istanbul Biennale, to create his first generative artwork. The exhibit al...
‘3B Collective: Highway Hypnosis’ Embraces the Artisan and Artist in Equal Breath
Craft Contemporary presents 3B Collective: Highway Hypnosis, now on view in Los Angeles. The exhibition maps the cultural history of 3B Collective, a group of multi-disciplinary Angelenos, as they re-envision forces of migration and adaptation through cultural iconography. In a constellation of murals, ceramics, masks, and textiles, a look back on the group’s work brings hidden stories of indigeneity, labor, and commodity to center stage.In collaboration with skilled artisans in Oaxaca, Jalisco, El Salvador, and Baja California, the works of Highway Hypnosis embody expressions of cultural resilience that flex across borders and time. For “Freeway Weaving”, 3B comes together with Tallerocoho8, a textile space in Oaxaca founded by Beto Ruiz. With dyes made from native plants, the tapestry sh...
NADA Announces First-Ever Paris Invitational Art Fair
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) announces the debut of their invitational art fair, The Salon. Organized in collaboration with Paris-based art space, The Community, the fair is set to gather 46 exhibitors from galleries in association with NADA and The Community’s directory of non-profit arts organizations for four days of programming at 76 Boulevard de Magenta in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. A forerunner to Paris Art Week, The Salon will take place from October 17–20, alongside a book fair on October 19.Held at the former training center for the SNCF, the country’s state-owned rail system, the five-floor venue will build on the city’s burgeoning art scene. Participating galleries include 2 Walker, Harper’s, Nil, and No Agency x Cafe Forgot, alongside big-league enterprises, and NADA m...
Tra My Nguyen Faces the Open Road in ‘Fallen Angels’
The neon-lit tenderness of the motorcycle in Wong Kar-wai’s film Fallen Angels has grown to be one of the most iconic shots in modern cinema. The scene captures a melancholic romanticism as Michelle Reis and Takeshi Kaneshiro’s characters become one with the bike that carries them forward, bodies folded atop one another.In Fallen Angels, Tra My Nguyen tells a story of memory and movement. Taking title cues from the cult-classic neo-noir film, Nguyen draws urban poetry from diasporic perspectives for her new solo exhibition at GROTTO. The Berlin-based artist reimagines her childhood spent in Vietnam in a series of distorted vignettes, where mobility, body politics, and gender collide in the streets of Hanoi. With a practice encompassing textile, video, and sculpture, Nguyen rethinks materia...
