Lost at E Minor

By Rebekah Rhoden in New Art on Friday 7 December 2012

William Forsythe’s installation entitled Scattered Crowd is a combination of thousands of suspended white balloons and music by Ekkehard Ehlers. According to Forsythe, this intriguing space is ‘an air-borne landscape of relationship, of distance, of humans and emptiness, of coalescence and decision’. Forsythe’s incredible installation has been installed in galleries, museums, banks, and many other spaces around the world, and ‘Scattered Crowd’ will make its next appearance at the Bockenheimer Depot in 2013.

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By Demi He in Video on Tuesday 4 December 2012

Imagine yourself walking into a dark, lonely desert, until you find something blue glowing behind a few yards away. Is this an alien, lunar-esque landscape or a figment of your imagination? As you walk along, you’ll find your mind engulfed in the sci-fi, hologram art installation by Kelly Richardson. The holographic trees blow through the wind while the aesthetics of this HD 3-screen video structure shadow the depths of a cinema-like scene.

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 6 November 2012

With the American election currently dominating the media, I often find myself wondering: How much of what citizens of democracies are promised today will be kept by the winning parties tomorrow? And do we ever sanction that enough as voters? The installation “Fleet of unfulfilled election promises” deals with the very subject rather creatively. The electoral programs of the current government in Madrid were folded and turned into an “enlightened” fleet of small paper boats only to be flushed down the street during a ritual cleaning: once the installation was completed the wet and now unreadable, paper boats were picked up and deposited into paper recycling containers.

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By Low Lai Chow in New Art on Friday 2 November 2012

Every person, every object has the potential to be great. This includes, er, toilet paper. Turkish artist Sakir Gökcebag, who is based in Hamburg, has an installation project, Trans-Layers, with toilet rolls sprawled across walls and dangling down from ceilings with pretty grand results. This really makes us want to doll up our bathroom walls with toilet rolls.

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By Mareike Muller in New Art on Thursday 13 September 2012

What a beautiful idea: building huge nests. And not only a few. Patrick Dougherty build over 230 of them over the last thirty years. By using thousands of sapling twigs, he builds these pieces of art all over the globe expressing his love of nature and his great carpentry skills. There will be a documentary about his work coming out soon, too, but for the time being, check out his book, Stickwork. 

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By Demi He in New Events on Thursday 23 August 2012

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? True when one is bound to a mark of secrecy, guilt or regret, but Candy Chang’s Confessions invites people to confess about whatever troubles their mind. People anonymously shared their confessions on wooden plaques in the P3 Studio at The Cosmopolitan.  Along with her team, she exhibited the wooden plaques by hanging them on the walls and also painting select responses onto large red canvases.

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By Low Lai Chow in New Art on Thursday 26 July 2012

We love it when our perspective of stuff gets messed with. We’re five years late for this one, but it’s still a good one: Swedish designer Pernilla Jansson’s 2007 fluorescent light installation, A new Proposal, has office armatures dangling from ceilings, with fluorescent light tubes bending and slumping all over the fixtures after presumably breaking out from their rightful place.

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