Art

Hypeart’s showcase at SCOPE Art Show in Miami delves into the transformative possibilities of spray paint in contemporary art. The exhibition features artists who transcend the traditional boundaries of street art and graffiti, reimagining the medium with experimental approaches to texture, layering, and mixed media. Their works challenge conventional ideas of space, movement, and form.Key highlights include KATSU’s “Untitled (Drone Smile)” series, created with autonomous drones, presented against a 12-foot vinyl wall adorned with his AI Criminal portraits—AI-generated faces of infamous figures. This installation examines the evolving interplay between humans and machines, blurring the lines between human craft and robotic precision. Another standout is Stickymonger’s six-foot-tall shaped ...

When Rafael Lozano-Hemmer found out he was to become a father of twins, it brought out the scientist in him. Rather than buying matching outfits, he purchased two ultrasound monitors, allowing him to hear both baby's heartbeats simultaneously."They were completely different," he says, standing at the entrance to his "Pulse Voronoi" work, which has just been unveiled at Swarovski Kristallwelten in Austria. "They were syncopating and making this minimalist music, and I thought 'that would be amazing if we could take everybody's heartbeat and create a massive choir'."Since that moment, Lozano-Hemmer has dedicated his practice to this exploration route. Sometimes it is literal heartbeats, and sometimes it's voices – but in general, it's this idea of connection.Lozano-Hemmer's relationship with...

At Miami Beach, SCOPE Art Show is heating up for its 23rd edition, now through December 8, 2024. In line with this year’s theme of Interdependence, the show is bringing together over 85 international exhibitors from 15 countries to celebrate the power of creative collaboration. Here’s a glimpse of what’s on view so far.Art and sport become one at GCS Gallery’s solo spotlight on Nikkolos Mohammed, capturing the rhythm of competition in his bold collage-like works. Dr. Esther Mahlangu’s 26 foot painting “Ukuthula Makube Nawe (Peace Be With You)” delivers a tender message of peace while Lucy Sparrow’s Produce family portraits features a sweet display of her signature smiling felt fruits.Elsewhere, artists look to texture as a dialogue of collaboration and collective memory. At John Doe Galler...

Pippa Garner’s world is one in constant flux. From automobiles to raw flesh, few things escape her restless imagination. Her practice inhabits a space of continual transformation, blurring the boundaries between the gender binary, past and present, human and machine. For decades, Garner existed on the fringes of the art world, but at 81, she’s finally stepping into the spotlight.STARS and Matthew Brown Gallery have teamed up to present a bi-coastal solo exhibition celebrating the radical ingenuity of not Mr. or Mrs., but Misc. Pippa. Across drawing, photography and sculpture, the exhibition traces over half a century of Garner’s satirical creations, as she transforms the mundane into the extraordinary, finding a surreal joy in the mechanics of mass production.The show begins in Los Angeles...

Heaven by Marc Jacobs has lifted the veil on a new group exhibition entitled Just Like Heaven, now on view at CONTROL Gallery in Los Angeles through January 18, 2025. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Marc Jacobs brand, the exhibition takes a look back on some of the landmark collaborations that shaped the subversive sub-label to what it is todayCurated by CONTROL and ICNCLST co-founder Sky Gellatly alongside the Heaven by Marc Jacobs team, the exhibition presents work from across several decades, pairing the brand’s nostalgic signature with a keen eye for up-and-coming talent. From Bladee’s electric candy wrapper collage to Alake Shilling’s heart stealing bear sculpture, each piece reinterprets and revels in the aesthetic ethos of the new creative generation – ethereal and acidi...

Tokyo's PARCO MUSEUM will soon unveil a new group exhibition centered around Godzilla. As the fourth installment in the institution's Godzilla-themed programming, the forthcoming show will be curated by NANZUKA and comprise of 15 international artists, including Roby Dwi Antono, Hiroki Tsukuda, Ryuichi Ohira, James Jarvis and Tadanobu Asano, who've each created unique artworks tailored specifically for the event. Highlights include Haroshi's totemic bust of the big dinosaur monster, crafted in his signature blend of recycled skate decks and visually inspired by the Godzilla film of the 1950s. Elsewhere, British artist and filmmaker was excited to create a unique noise piece using the sounds of Godzilla movies. "I produced this with the help of my friend David Scott Stone, who has produced ...

Hypeart takes center stage at SCOPE Art Show this December, redefining the possibilities of spray paint in contemporary art. The presentation highlights artists who push the medium far beyond its graffiti roots, employing bold techniques like textured layering and mixed media to challenge perceptions of space, movement and form. SCOPE will run from December 3-8 in South Beach, Miami. Tied to SCOPE’s theme of Interdependence, the booth explores spray paint as a symbol of creative freedom—where control and chaos collide, reflecting the raw unpredictability of human expression. The lineup features KATSU, known for integrating technology like drone painting into conceptual works; Stickymonger, whose spray-based creations transform spaces into haunting, dreamlike realms; and UFO907, blending fi...

LA-based conceptual artist, Awol Erizku has unveiled Quaquaversal, his latest exhibition with Ben Brown Fine Arts. Building on Erizku’s ongoing engagement with Hong Kong, this bold showcase comprises paintings, neon installations as well as a newly unveiled series of bronze sculptures. The pieces expand on the artist’s dialogues on materiality, symbolism and cultural intervention while celebrating the African diasporic identity.In this exhibition, the artist deconstructs and reconstructs cultural motifs from music, popular culture and sports, creating nuanced narratives that favor Afrocentric perspectives. A standout feature is the series of five bronze sculptures depicting Egyptian Queen Nefertiti fused with various objects, reflecting ongoing debates about cultural sovereignty and the co...

Beers London is set to unveil a new exhibition entitled The Horizon Pulled Me Close by Mexican artist Myrna Quiñonez. Born in Sinaloa and now based in Bristol, Quiñonez reimagines familiar and uncanny landscapes in a suite of lush paintings. Infusing technical traditions with a 21st century flair, the artist navigates the shifting terrain between memory, technology and the very idea of place.The exhibition draws on landscapes from the artist’s past – the River Wye, the shores of Cornwall to the Los Mochis in Sinaloa – yet these places dissolve into liminal spaces that are both everywhere and nowhere at once. Fragmented and harmonious, these deconstructed scenes hint at a disconnection to the natural world, equally attending to a desire to return to nature and our increasingly digitized rel...

A new, lovesick group exhibition has landed at Lodovico Corsini in Brussels. Curated by artist and writer Charlie Fox, Flowers of Romance surveys the work of nearly two dozen artists, tracing through love’s many faces. Following the presentation of Day earlier this fall, Act Two or Night delves into the messiness of heartbreak and obsession, inviting us to explore the darker side of desire.Beneath the Oliver Leith's never-ending soundtrack, the gallery transforms into a hallucinatory landscape – soft grass carpets the floor while pink-tinted windows bathe the space in a sickly sweet glow. From snarling dog puppets to photographs steeped in the acidic and evocative, the exhibition transcends into viewers a dream state, mirroring the seductive and sinister power of love."I wanted to make a d...

Ziping Wang is days away from making her Berlin debut with Act Normal, a new solo exhibition at Peres Projects. Known for her intensely fragmented and kaleidoscopic paintings, Wang explores the complexity of modern visual culture, offering a much-needed meditation on the age of information overload.The exhibition welcomes viewers into the artist’s delightfully graphic world. The old and new become one in an interplay of brand logos, children’s toys, old master still lifes and Chinese decorative motifs, all of which are overlaid atop a hand-painted transparency grid. Christened by the smooth touch of a digital brushstroke, this interplay of cultural signifiers highlights a fascination with the deceptive malleability of images, exploring the blurred lines between reality and its digital rein...

Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara has unveiled a new suite of paintings and drawings at BLUM's Shibuya outpost. The latest showcase is notably inspired by Nara's large-scale sculptures, as well as the cutouts French artist Henri Matisse embarked on at the end of his life.I Draw the Line presents Nara's familiar wide-eyed characters in loose gestural strokes, accompanied by haiku-like phrases in both English and Japanese, from "CHEER FOR YOU" to "WE ARE OUTLAWS YES!" Each composition is created on found wood panels, a medium that the artist favors for its familiarity and ease of use, as he looks to emphasize utilizing sustainable practices and the unexpected effects that wood grain adds to his subjects. While his work can at times be meticulous, such as his richly detailed painting, Midnight V...