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Glasstress

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Glasstress: © Jaume Plensa, Glassman, 2004

Glasstress is an arts project that sponsors and exhibits artists, architects, designers working in the medium of glass – The exhibition in Venice was conceived by Adriano Berengo of the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, and produced by Venice Projects and the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) of New York, who will be hosting the exhibition at a future date.

Works were exhibited by artists Jaume Plensa, Vik Muniz, Nabil Nahas, Kiki Smith, Doug and Mike Starn, Pharrell Williams, Zaha Hadid (whose work was not completed in time) and Erwin Wurm among many others. Plensa’s glass body above with its blood red fluid is a reminder of the flow of gravity after death.

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Tags: Adriano Berengo, Doug and Mike Starn, Erwin Wurm, Glasstress, Jaume Plensa, Kiki Smith, MAD Musuem, Museum of Arts and Design, Nabil Nahas, Pharrell Williams, Venice Biennale, Vik Muniz, zaha hadid
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Kiki Smith’s New Stained Glass Window Lights Up the Lower East Side

Friday, December 24th, 2010

By Kiša Lala

Eldridge Street Synagogue's new stained-glass window co-designed by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans. Photo: K.Lala

Kiki Smith at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, photo: Kisa Lala

The Museum at Eldridge Street celebrated the launch of their $18.5 million renovation of Eldridge Street Synagogue with a new stained-glass window co-designed by artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans.

The circular window is anchored by a six-pointed star of David at its centre with celestial stars spiraling towards it – as many as 600 of them representing the federal period, establishing the identity of the United States, and marrying symbolically the Jewish faith and the immigrant population of the Lower East Side that originally founded the 1887 synagogue.

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Tags: Deborah Gans, Kiki Smith, Kisa Lala, Lower East Side
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Marilyn Minter’s Inspiration for Show on Perspiration

Monday, August 30th, 2010

By Kiša Lala

Marilyn Minter, Trickle, 2010 C-Print

Far from the sweaty sidewalks of New York in the cooler climes of Gstaad, better known for its ski resorts, Marilyn Minter is co-curating a show with Fabienne Stephan titled SWEAT. The show at Patricia Low Contemporary includes works by Matthew Barney, Kate Gilmore, Mika Rottenberg, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith among others – with depictions of the skin’s secretions ranging from the erotic to the mundane.

Cindy Sherman : Untitled 1985

Sweat is the conditional response of our skins, the body’s largest organ: try as we might to mask the hint of arousal and exertion, the thin wet odorous film is a primitive and instinctual expression of our latent desires, a Pavlovian reflex to fear and sex. While Minter’s work explores the erotic surface tension of dirt and sweat, Kiki Smith’s work is one of abstract crystallized droplets, and Ryan McGinley photographs a runner in the saintly glow of exhaustion.

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Tags: cindy sherman, Kate Gilmore, Kiki Smith, Kisa Lala, Matthew Barney, Mika Rottenberg, Ryan McGinley
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