Mousse Magazine
Sep, 2019
Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present Shallow Mirror High Tower, an exhibition featuring four artists who each draw parallels between our (non)built environments and distributions of power therein.
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Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present Shallow Mirror High Tower, an exhibition featuring four artists who each draw parallels between our (non)built environments and distributions of power therein.
Read MoreDavid Altmejd’s practice is often beyond words. In breadth and variety that is astounding, he has given rise to werewolf heads and surreal humans beyond wild imagination.
Read MoreRose Marcus is known for photographic works that blur the boundary between photograph, abstract painting and sculptural object. Printed on vinyl and adhered to display and construction substrates, her photographs are then incised, layered, punctured with large cut out shapes or partially veiled in fabric.
Read MoreGlasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean is known for dramatic, highly staged, satirical and grotesquely funny films that poke fun at British politics and other current topics like the rise in plastic surgery, effects of social media, and cuteness culture.
Read MoreGenesis Belanger is quickly gaining recognition for her ceramic sculptures that playfully critique visual tropes of gender, desire, work and addiction.
Read MoreThis four-person group show explores environments and the power dynamics that undergird them.
Read MoreDes étudiants en beaux-arts participent à un projet collaboratif avec l’artiste britannique Mat Chivers
Read MoreThe Big Sandy is America’s largest machine-gun shooting range. It stretches a quarter of a mile across the western desert of Arizona, one of the most “gun-friendly” states in the country. Twice a year it is the venue for a three-day convention, where extreme gun enthusiasts sample their most sophisticated weapons.
Read MoreJean-François Bouchard journeyed deep into the heart of Arizona to document American gun culture and the tourism that has sprung up around it. The resulting photographs have a strong cinematic flavor, offering a dramatic view of the recreational use of military-grade weapons.
Read MoreIn Arizona’s western desert, the Big Sandy lays claim to being the venue of the largest machine gun shoot in the United States. Twice a year, a crowd of legally armed machine gunners spends a weekend on the quarter-mile-long range firing at a wide range of targets.
Read MoreSince 2009 Caroline Monnet has been writing and directing films that centre on the strength and resilience of indigenous peoples in Canada. In her sculptural and installation work she uses materials like concrete, wood, arrows, copper and clothes to explore the complexity of indigenous identity from the vantage point of her urban position and lifestyle.
Read MoreIn a new series of ‘Fragment’ portraits, Monnet has developed individualized masks that overlay the faces of chosen subjects. Mixing facial features with geometric shapes, new identities are forged through abstraction and interference.
Read MorePlusieurs mardis par année, le centre d’art Arsenal art contemporain Montréal engage la conversation avec des artistes de tous les horizons dans ses vastes galeries.
Read MoreTwice a year, hundreds of America's most hardcore gun enthusiasts flock to the northern Arizona desert to spend a weekend firing military-grade weapons at pickup trucks, storage containers, and grounded propeller planes.
Read MoreOpen through April 18 at Arsenal Contemporary is Canadian artist Nicolas Baier’s “Nervure’s Path.” This is Baier’s first solo exhibition in the United States, continuing his work with exploring technology’s evolution and its influence on human life.
Read MoreTammi Campbell lives and works in Saskatoon Canada, Her show at Arsenal Contemporary NY on the Lower East Side borrowed from major modernists and contemporary artists--Joseph Albers and Frank Stella among them--and then adds quite literally a contemporary cover, in the form of seemingly real package materials--bubble wrap, masking tape, etc.
Read MoreElectric lights dot the walls of Nadia Belerique and Sojourner Truth Parsons’ exhibition at Daniel Faria Gallery. Illuminating the spaces between paintings, Belerique’s orbs double as a second sun, echoing the flat yellow circles in Parsons’ paintings.
Read MoreAt Migrations, the new exhibition by English sculptor Mat Chivers, there's a huge piece that dominates the space. It looks sort of like a lumpy figure sitting slouched on the ground.
Read MoreEn 2018, le Musée d’art de Joliette invitait le sculpteur anglais Mat Chivers en résidence de production au Québec, afin qu’il crée un nouveau corpus d’œuvres en dialogue avec le milieu de l’intelligence artificielle, en pleine ébullition à Montréal
Read MoreMolding and firing clay is among the oldest recorded human activities. In the Ancient Near East, clay was imprinted with tiny lines to keep records of grain and other goods. The Greeks made clay vessels for eating and drinking and for honoring the dead, the surfaces covered in intricate geometric designs and abstracted figures.
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