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Published in Bloomberg.com, 12 December 2008
Working from news photographs as well as her own snapshots and Polaroids, Dumas takes on Big Themes—sex, death, birth, race, motherhood—without sensationalizing or sentimentalizing them.
Her figures are anonymous but unmistakable, isolated in extreme close-up on monochromatic backgrounds and distinguished by blurred edges, bleeding veils of paint and physical characteristics that she distorts for emotional effect without resorting to caricature.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=akTIRWk6WQuw&refer=muse
Related Artists: Marlene Dumas
Published in Frieze, 8 December 2008
In ‘Dream Villa,’ the largest single body of her colour work shown to date, Singh explores the mysteriousness of ordinary spaces obscured in darkness. She exploits colour photography’s unique ability to reproduce gradations of colour and density in light, juxtaposing artificial lighting with moody night skies.
http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/dayanita_singh/
Related Artists: Dayanita Singh
Related Exhibitions: Dayanita Singh: Dream Villa
Published in Financial Times, 22 November 2008
In her newest series, Dream Villa, [Singh] focuses once again on the empty places in this most populated of countries… and now, in a departure from her signature black and white, she is using colour - not to reflect the famously vivid Indian palette but, unexpectedly, to capture the shifting facets of the Indian night.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/73e1657a-b838-11dd-ac6d-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1
Related Artists: Dayanita Singh
Related Exhibitions: Dayanita Singh: Dream Villa
Published in The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, 16 October 2008
Dayanita Singh’s Sent A Letter (Steidl, 2007) grew out of what she describes as a “diary-like way” of photographing that she started around the year 2000. She would take photographs while walking around a city or travelling together with, or simply thinking about, a friend…
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081016/jsp/opinion/story_9971108.jsp
Related Artists: Dayanita Singh
Published in Artforum, October 2008
Related Artists: Craigie Horsfield
Published in The New York Times, 21 August 2008
“Stillness” is about duration and change, which are the same thing and are also the substance of life and history. Ms. Dean’s film of Mr. Cunningham’s performance is about the sound and motion of history in action: the personal history of one man’s fidelity to the memory of another; the cultural history of a living artist transmitting and rejuvenating the creative essence of one who has died; the contemporary history of a younger artist preserving and honoring all this, and the two men (the piece is above all a portrait of Mr. Cunningham) in her art.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22dia.html?_r=1&ref=design&oref=slogin
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in Time Out London, 4 August 2008
A bevy of Belgian women smoking shows Akerman the filmic anthropologist at her finest: making art out of the way cinema handles the female subject…
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/events/773723/chantal_akerman.html
Related Artists: Chantal Akerman
Published in Amsterdam Weekly, August 2008
Related Artists: Fiona Tan
Published in Artforum, Picks, Summer 2008
Much of Tacita Dean’s recent work in film has been portraiture, and her scrupulous attention has brought forth a range of engrossing characters…
http://artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks20885
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
Published in New York Times, 27 July 2008
[Tacita] Dean’s installation looks amazing down here. Walking down the stairs from the museum galleries and stepping into the darkness, you can see only the flickering lights of the six projectors. They look like radiant stars in the night sky. As you get closer to each projection, the imagery comes into view. The soundtrack also begins to kick in, over and above the whirling hum of the projectors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27artswe.html
Related Artists: Tacita Dean
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