Archive for December, 2006
Antti Laitinen: Your Gallery Critic's Choice By Melissa Johnson
In 2002 the Finnish artist Antti Laitinen embarked on an extended performance piece entitled Bare Necessities, a work Richard Long and Vito Acconci might have dreamt up had they ever collaborated. Laitinen decided to live in the forest for four days without provisions of any kind – except for state-of-the-art camera equipment with which to document his return to nature. 
Sam Dargan At Rokeby, London
Life is a riot, 2006 Rokeby gallery in London is opening an exhibition of new paintings by Sam Dargan on 3 January. Dargan, who graduated from the Royal College...
Tate Britain Triennial: Call For Curator
John Stezaker, 'Mask II 1991-1992' Courtesy The Artist & The Approach, London The Tate is looking for a curator for the 2009 Tate Triennial, who will take up 'a prominent...
Jh Engstrom On His New Series, 'cdg'
Species of non-spaces 'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes,' Marcel Proust Impressions from early childhood are hard to part with,...
Sol Lewitt And Jonathan Monk At The Lisson Gallery, London
Jonathan Monk, 'Second Hand', 2006 Sol Lewitt and Jonathan Monk make me think of a father and son that have been separated at birth - removed from each other...
Elena Del Rivero’s Book Of Dust
When all goes and only loss and emptiness remains, of one thing we can be sure: the void will be covered in dust. In the last few years...
Elena Del Rivero's Book Of Dust
When all goes and only loss and emptiness remains, of one thing we can be sure: the void will be covered in dust. In the last few years...
Rachel Howard At Gagosian, Los Angeles
Rachel Howard, Memory, 2006 Rachel Howard pours layers of thick luscious household paint onto gigantic canvases for a living. For the last two years she's been working flat out...
Amanda Beech At Mot, London
"A young wife in a Scandinavian town, a new and unexpected baby and the threat to everything he stands for is on the line. How could a stranger's...
Carlos Bunga Wins 2006 Castellon International Painting Prize
Carlos Bunga, 'Untitled', 2006 The young Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga has won the third Castellon County Council Painting Prize, the only prize in the world dedicated to 'expanded painting',...

















Nicole Garton, Saatchi Online: Hello Hermit: "Casino" sold after the close of voting and won't be shi...
Hermit: What does confuse me, though, is that the winner has already sold thei...
Hermit: No, I like the themed contests. There just needs to be a decent voting...
DAn Adams: I really have no idea what the winning painting "Casino" has to do wit...
Steve Swango: My wife and I recently fell in love with and purchased your work title...