Author: Sam Art
When Mexican designer Stephanie Barba Mendoza and her Austrian husband moved into their Victorian home in northwest London seven years ago, the writing was on the walls for a renovation, at some point. With the shell already in “pretty good shape”, new paint and carpets made it ideal for their growing family. Still, as Mendoza adds, “it was always in the cards to do an expansion: make the kitchen bigger, change the bathrooms, make some aesthetic changes.” In 2022, she and her husband Bernhard, together with their children aged eight and five, found the time and courage to make it…
For numerous years, Jade Ahn wrestled with her mental challenges. In that prolonged period, each day felt like an unending battle, and a profound sense of lifelessness covered her. Recently, a sequence of unanticipated events unfolded, guiding her back to art. Then, she discovered that the muted passion for art within her had patiently awaited rekindling. Ever since, art has been healing her wounds, giving her a reason to breathe once again. It makes her feel fully alive. Embarking on a journey to reclaim her lost pieces through art, she knows that someday, she will become whole again. Jade Ahn’s…
The big themes of the spring season in the world of museums and biennials are migration and mutation. The former is the loose focus of this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale, the world’s biggest art festival, which will explore artists who live in diaspora. But it is also the subject of a range of retrospectives for artists whose work provides a rebuke to the notion of national borders as fixed, immutable things. Transformation was a core component of Surrealism, an avant-garde that is turning 100 this year. It is, however, not the only movement celebrating an anniversary in 2024—Impressionism,…
More than 100 Jeff Koons sculptures are still aboard the Nova C (Odysseus) lunar lander, which is likely to soon lose power and communication with flight control engineers. Nova C landed on the moon’s surface on its side late last week, but according to Intuitive Machines, the company behind the lander, the craft fell on its side. The February 22 botched landing occurred after its two rangefinder lasers failed to guide the landing because its safety switches were on, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Switches can only be turned off manually. There were other failures and inaccuracies in…
The Maddox gallery has announced its representation of Munich figurative painter Moritz Moll. Moll’s bright, flattened depictions of friends and family in oil and spray paint explore the transition from youth to adulthood.”Molls’ distinctive portraits are uniquely found within our portfolio, with his vibrant, genre-fluid figures offering a more modernist approach to the genre,” said Fi Lovett, European Director of Maddox.Artist’s debut solo exhibition with Maddox, featuring pop inspiration after skiing portraits, is titled “The Grand Finale” and premiered on February 12 in Gstaad, Switzerland. This exhibition follows his participation in ‘Summer Daze’ at the Maddox space in Westbourne Grove…
Sabrina Puppin is a visual artist whose work has been showcased in different venues worldwide, including the Museum of Kyoto in Japan, the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and various museums and galleries across the USA, UK, Qatar, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Israel, Malta, Dubai, and India. Her art has been celebrated for its ability to reinstate the primacy of form and color, establishing order and a sense of stillness while captivating viewers with its details and vivid colors. Puppin’s journey as an artist has been marked by numerous milestones. She participated in the XIV Florence…
Soap towers inscribed with emotive words, an isolated elevated stilt house, a colorful embroidered map marking global migration, and sets of mangrove plants that slide quietly in and out of the water. These are just some of the 177 conceptual art installations on display at the second edition of the Diriyah Biennale, which is being held in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh.Until May 24, title of the biennial After the rain it refers to a sense of growth and revitalization and was inspired by a particular earthy smell that emerges from dry soil after a rain, “petrichor”. The theme of this…
Michelle Rotert is an artist-painter based in Chicago, whose work is a testament to the power of color and the emotional depth it can convey. Growing up in Clinton, Missouri, she pursued a commercial art degree at the University of Central Missouri before working as a graphic designer in Kansas City, MO. Her move to Chicago in 2012 marked a significant shift in her artistic journey, where she found her true calling in painting. Rotert’s chosen medium is acrylic paint on canvas, and her work is a reflection of the vibrant hues she finds in nature. Inspired by the visual…
As of my knowledge cutoff date in January 2022, some of the biggest collectors of Andy Warhol’s work include: Please note that the information provided here is based on data available as of January 2022, and there may have been changes or developments in the art world since then.
While planning his solo debut at the museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio faced an unexpected setback in the form of a permit issue. For the first time in 40 years, the city of Los Angeles was not going to grant MOCA a permit to open the elevated gallery in its Geffen Contemporary location, unless, for fire safety reasons, they could reduce the size of the room by 600. square meters adding several false walls. Aparicio did not like that solution. Instead, he proposed installing an expanding work on the floor in…