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The Grand Tour has only just begun this week in Europe with the Venice Biennale, but already there are future art festivals to look forward to.
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Ghebaly Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Willa Nasatir.
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APT Artists: Davide Baloula, Melik Ohanian, and Zineb Sedira nominated for the 2015 Marcel Duchamp prize
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On Wednesday night, Art Basel’s Parcours section, which places artworks throughout a different part of the city every year, opened to the public.
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Basel’s Münsterplatz is the locale for the 2015 Parcours exhibition of site-specific and performative work by more than 20 leading international contemporary artists.
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The Association for the International Diffusion of French Art—ADIAF, for short—has announced the nominees for this year’s Marcel Duchamp Prize, which is given annually to a French artist whom they believe is worthy of foreign recognition.
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Buried, burned and drowned, Davide Balula’s canvases brave the elements in his pursuit of perfect imperfection.
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French artist Davide Balula takes a deep dive into a shallow pool for his new painting installation. The disarming reversals are confounding. The s
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Born in 1978 in Vila dum Santo, Cota, Portugal, Davide Balula lives and works in Paris. Balula is an artist and a musician. His debut album “Pellicule” combines folk ballads, indie rock and manipulated sounds. Informed by his electro-acoustic training, Balula's visual practice investigates chance encounters, random patterns and the passage of time. Working with various media including sound, installation and drawing, he explores the nature of events and correlations. Balula's installations often take the form of recording devices, unusual measuring tools and scientific experimentations. His piece “Heartbeat Exciter” (2006) tests the influence of a heartbeat pulse on the growth of nettle plants, known for their beneficial cardiac properties, while his installation “Concrete Step, Memory Recorder” (2005-2007) documents the sonic landscape of various exhibitions within a suitcase, doubling as a portable black box.
Recent solo exhibitions include “American Wall Nut” at Fake Estate Gallery, New York (2009), “The Doors behind the darts” at Envoy Gallery, New York (2009), “Le Lac, le mensonge” at Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2008), “De la place pour le sable” at galerie frank elbaz, Paris (2007), ”Tonspur 22” at Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna (2009) and “Austria Sirène du Mississipi” at Musée de l’Objet, Blois & Ecole des Beaux Arts de Chateauroux & Bourges (2007). His work has also been shown as part of “Return to Function” at MMoCA, Madison (2009), “The Possibility of an Island” at MOCA, Miami (2008), ”Balula & Contador meet Coffin Green House” at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007), “360, Transparent” at ARC/MAMVP, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris and CCC, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours (2007) as well as “This Is Not For You”, Sculptural Discourses at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2006).
Davide Balula is represented by Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
