Archive for July 2011

ARTFORUM CRITICS’ PICKS: “Venice in Venice”

I am posting the first of two reviews I wrote after visiting the openings at the 54th Venice Biennial. The Venice in Venice show is the first event of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980—a cluster of exhibitions and related cultural events scheduled to run at over sixty venues throughout Southern California starting this […]

“ATOM SUIT PROJECT: ANTENNA OF THE EARTH” Kenji YONOBE Solo Exhibition

The upcoming show at the Yamamoto Gendai gallery follows suit of Chim↑Pom’s response to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (see previous posting). What follows is the gallery’s press-release. Atom Suit Project: Antenna of the Earth is an installation of a life-size figure of the artist himself in a radiation detecting Atom Suit equipped […]

Chim↑Pom on Fukushima: “Real Times”

This posting is long overdue since the related exhibition took place over one month ago, in late May, but I left Tokyo three days after the earthquake, one day after I learned about the radiation leak, and in the time that followed I never got a chance to write about this remarkable show. At the […]