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a glimpse into the Palais de Tokyo in Paris during the exhibition Anywhere, Anywhere Out of the World* by PHILIPPE PARRENO

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*this exhibition is running through January 12, 2014

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Untitled (2013) by JOSE ROJAS
seen at Liste during Art Basel 44
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work by Swiss artist JEAN OTTH (1940-2013) from his latest solo exhibition entitled Rêverie zénonienne presented at Mamco, Geneva,  June 2013

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detail from the installation by TOBBY LANDEI for the group exhibition Hotel Abisso that took place at Centre d’Art Contemporain from April to May 2013

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Sofa, Leinwand, PVC (2013) a work by OTHMAR FARRE
presented at Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel
on the occasion of the Regionale 14

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this exhibition is on view till January 5, 2014

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detail from the series The Conversation by DOMINIC HAWGOOD presented at Hyères for the 28th Festival of Fashion & Photography this spring

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more about Hyères here

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poster work by Swiss artist MAYA ROCHAT for the exhibition Cherche appartement at Centre de la Photographie of Geneva in January 2013

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stay on wfw and read more about MAYA ROCHAT here

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The Long Walls (2013, steel, screws, straps, 538 x 1913 x 7.5cm) is an installation by ALLYSON VIEIRA presented during her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel this autumn

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view from the exhibition Ten Works, a solo exhibition by German artist DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER which took place at Kunsthalle Mulhouse from May to August 2013

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print by French artist SYLVAIN COUZINET-JACQUES
from his solo exhibition Standards&Poors
presented at Le Bal, Paris
seen on Thursday, December 19, 2013
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Standards&Poors is on view at Le Bal till January 5, 2014

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scene from PIERRE HUYGHE‘s solo exhibition
seen at Centre Pompidou, Paris
on Thursday, December 19, 2013
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JON RAFMAN talks about his ongoing project 9-Eyes with WILLY STALEY for the New York Times Magazine (December 2013), make sure to read the whole interview here

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Animation, masks, 2011
3D animation, sound, 12′ 29”
courtesy of the artist

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JORDAN WOLFSON‘s work is thoroughly original, unlike anything out there: he combines art historical references with pop culture, the conceptual with the obvious, reality and imagination and, perhaps most importantly, animation with sculpture. The New York native artist – who specializes in film, installation and performance-  is concerned with portraying contemporary society with all its absurd needs and desires. Though indirectly and certainly not exclusively, his work is a meditation on the modern viewer’s relationship to art.

In 2011, JORDAN WOLFSON released Animation, masks (2011), a 12-minute video that became one of his notable piece of work. The video features a grotesque, animated caricature of a middle-aged orthodox Jew, who recites Richard Brautigan’s Love Poem and, the intimate words of two young lovers, while flipping through a recent edition of Vogue Magazine.

I try to be as open as I can to different types of content. I open  myself up and I really just follow what I think is interesting and what I feel is – it’s not even about relevancy – what I’m internally moved by. A lot of my videos I saw in my head quite clearly before I made them. With Animation, masks (2011) – the first time I heard the Richard Brautigan ’Love Poem’ I immediately saw the Shylock character that I used in the video, speaking the words. The strongest case so far has been with Raspberry Poser. What you see in the video is really how things looked inside my mind when I was making the work. I really saw it just like this. It’s a very close approximation of my imagination being relayed into the media.– JORDAN WOLFSON in conversation with KATIE GUGGENHEIM

Good news: Chisenhale Gallery in London is currently presenting the first UK solo exhibition by JORDAN WOLFSON and the UK premiere of Raspberry Poser (2012). This is WOLFSON‘s most recent video and the final instalment in a trilogy of works also comprising Con Leche (2009) and Animation, masks (2011).

I’d watched JORDAN’s Raspberry Poser (2012) in progress sections on my tiny laptop screen before seeing it installed in full at REDCAT. If I’d loved it in fragmented miniature, then sitting there, my chest exploding from the booming vibrations of Beyoncé’s ‘Sweet Dreams’, was nothing short of apocalyptic. This is an amazing work. The elastic inventions of animation warp themselves around human darkness in a rhythmic gravitational swirl that levitates and sags with equal volatility. Sitting there in the most immaculately installed media environment I’ve ever seen, I felt alienated, in love, possessed with jealously, and all accelerated in a confusion of hieroglyphic approximations and linguistic shorthand only just in reach of my grasp. Jordan is a troublemaker and this video is parasitic and obsessive, but wonderfully, perversely, outrageously under the skin. – HELEN MARTEN, Highlights 2013 for Frieze

➝ Raspberry Poser (2012) is on view at Chisenhale Gallery in London till February 2, 2014. Meanwhile you can watch more videos by JORDAN WOLFSON via ubuweb.

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Imagine the Space between your hand and what it holds
(2013, print on microfiber, metal) by GINA FOLLY
seen at Kunsthalle Basel during the exhibition Why is Landscape Beautiful?
on Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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detail from Untitled (Haemanthus albiflos, Suite), 2013 by GINA FOLLY
seen at Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel
on Sunday, December 15, 2013
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this work is part of the Regionale 14 – Being Specific! at Kunsthaus Baselland on view till January 5, 2014

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