Hiroshi Sugimoto for Hermès during Art Basel

During this year's Art Basel, Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Couleurs de L'Ombre" is on show at the Museum der Kulturen. Hermès invited the artist to make a new design for their beautiful silk scarfs. The scarfs as well as Sugimoto's coulour polaroids are on show at the Museum der Kulturen until June 21st.

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El Anatsui in The Word Magazine

The Word Magazine believes a visit to our Anatsui exhibition is the perfect way to spend a weekend full of art in Belgium.
Find out here.

Nitsch and Shiraga at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Tonight's the opening of Explosion! Painting as action in the Moderna Museet at Stockholm. Today we already spotted a meeting between Hermann Nitsch and Kazuo Shiraga...

El Anatsui's exhibition in La Libre Belgique

"EXPLOSION! Painting as Action" at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Explosion! is the latest exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. It opens on June 2nd and runs until September 9th 2012. The exhibition will travel on to the Fundacio Juan Miro in the fall.

Explosion! brings together many of Axel Vervoordt Gallery's artists that value the creative act of art making. The gallery was very pleased to lend some works of the collection for this exhibition. You can see work of a.o. Sadaharu Horio, Kazuo Shiraga, Otto Piene and Gunther Uecker.

Lunch with Anish Kapoor (by Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times art critic)

Over a fusion takeaway feast at his London studio, the artist talks to the FT’s Jackie Wullschlager about sex, psychobiography and the ‘madness’ of his towering new sculpture at London’s Olympic Park

Conversation with El Anatsui right before installing Stitch in Time

In the past ten years, Anatsui has focused on large tapestry-like metal sculptures made up out of thousands of colourful liquor caps. Using found objects he reworks and rearranges materials and transforms them into something new without them losing their own history. His work could be described as a collage of discarded memories. Anatsui recombines them into his own, never fixed syntax, which the viewer is invited to adapt freely, bringing in his own history.

(extract from the Axel Vervoordt Gallery press release)

On May 10th El Anatsui’s solo exhibition Stitch In Time at Axel Vervoordt Gallery opens. While much has been said and written about the cultural influences that pervade El Anatsui’s work, it seemed a fortuitous occasion to have a brief interview regarding the artist’s working processes and their relationship to time.