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Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition “A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster,” the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery.
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New MoMA installation, Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, Hiller, Landy, Gupta, Titian, Thek and many more.
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Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver January 25 to March 9, 2014. For more than 30 years now, North Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery has
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Summer’s over, but Rothko (Tate Modern), Bacon (Tate Britain), Warhol’s television and films (The Hayward), and new Gerhard Richters (Serpentine
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The Great White North, as Canada is affectionately known, could be called something altogether different in the heated summer months.
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Art Public, curated this year for the second time by Patrick Charpenel of Guadalajara, Mexico, features 9 projects by internationally renowned artists from seven countries.
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When Queensland Art Gallery’s fifth Asia Pacific Triennial opened in 2005, it could not help but play second fiddle to the vast new Gallery of Modern
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Born in 1970 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Runa Islam lives and works in London. Islam is inspired by the language of film itself. Foremost, she is fascinated by the reflective processes and the inherent power of this medium. Islam is influenced by European filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Godard and Bergman. She generates data using techniques, fragments and elements drawn from these films, which serve as a starting point for her works.
Runa Islam has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Projects MoMA, New York (2011), Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (2011). She has recently presented solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2010), Kivik Arts, Kivik, Sweden (2010), Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2010), Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2009), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (2009), White Cube, Hoxton Square, London (2009), MUMOK, Vienna (2009) and Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy (2009). Her work has also been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions including Prospect 2, New Orleans (2010), “There is always a cup of sea for man to sail”, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2010), Manifesta 7, Trento (2008), “Brave New Worlds” at Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (2007), “Fever Variations”, the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2006), “Around the World in Eighty Days” at ICA, London (2006) and “Always a Little Further” in the Arsenale as part of the 51st Venice Biennale, Venice (2005). She has been nominated for the Turner Prize at Tate Britain, London (2008).
Runa Islam is represented by White Cube, London.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
