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Ahead of the third Antwerp Art Weekend, a guide to the best shows across the city.
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When describing post-1960s painting, critic Douglas Crimp points to artist Frank Stella’s practice.
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In her second exhibition at Natalia Hug, Corin Sworn exhibits her most recent video piece La Giubba (as in the expression “the show must go on”, also taken from the Italian opera “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavello), which the artist completed together with Canadian artist Tony Romano.
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The Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition by Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn (b.1976) for the fifth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a biannual award established in 2005 to promote and support women artists in the UK.
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We look ahead to London art openings for May and select 10 must-see exhibitions. This month is quiet for big museums, but instead there are a lot of exciting displays taking place at smaller galleries and cultural centres.
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Born in 1977 in London, United Kingdom, and raised in Canada, Corin Sworn lives and works in Glasgow. Sworn uses a range of media including drawing, sculpture, video and installation. Informed by her background in psychology and her on-going interest in social and cultural anthropology, Sworn’s research-based practice investigates the notion of individual agency from a number of different perspectives. Her works have focused on subjective accounts of modernist architecture, utopian experiments in social development – including the implementation of alternative pedagogical models – and fictional narratives of youths in a state of rebellion. Sworn’s pieces draw on subjects from the recent past in order to generate a conflicting sense of recognition and alterity. Beyond their naturalistic rendering and research-based content, there is often an abstract, incomplete or ambiguous dimension to her works intended to encourage viewers to develop their own narrative readings.
Corin Sworn has an upcoming solo exhibition at La Giubba, Natalia Hug, Cologne, Germany (2015), Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2015), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), Vibrant Matter, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (2014), Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK (2014), Glasgow (2010) and has recently presented solo shows at Washington Garcia, Glasgow (2010), ZieherSmith, New York (2008) and Blanket Gallery, Vancouver (2008). Her work has also been included in “Cosey Complex” at ICA, London (2010), “Morality” at Witte De With, Rotterdam (2010), EASTInternational 2009 at Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich (2009), “Report on Probability” at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2009) and “There Are Those” at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2007).
Corin Sworn is represented by Natalia Hug
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
