(Scant other exceptions include the tough-minded Danish-Icelandic installation-maker Olafur Eliasson).
The Swiss video- and installation-maker Pipilotti Rist is an evangelist for happiness like no other first-rate artist that I can think of, except, perhaps, Alexander Calder.
Utterly and profoundly, for those of us who have followed the career of the prolific installation-maker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer since he emerged from the Soviet Union, in 1987.
It was selected from the museum's permanent collection by Mona Hatoum, a Lebanese-born (to Palestinian Christian refugees), London-based sculptor and installation-maker who has been ubiquitous in international exhibitions since the early nineteen-nineties.
Yoshida has been compared to Stieg Larsson for his pairing of lurid… The Swiss video- and installation-maker Pipilotti Rist is an evangelist for happiness like no other first-rate artist that I can think of, except, perhaps, Alexander… For more than fifty years, Edward Albee has been telling us stories about his interior.
To buy the best art from the best artists and I work closely with 25 to 30 you have to visit their studios and build relationships with them and their dealers".For the visitor, though, Palazzo Grassi is a little like a zoo, housing every major species of modern artist sculptor, painter, installation-maker and video-producer.
ANDREA HAENGGI/AMDAT The dance-and-video installation-maker revisits "Blast Wall Art," a work inspired by the Iraqi artists who paint murals on American security barriers — just the kind of subversion that goes straight to the heart of a site-specific choreographer.
"The Swiss video- and installation-maker Pipilotti Rist is an evangelist for happiness like no other first-rate artist that I can think of except, perhaps, Alexander Calder," writes Peter Schjeldahl this week, in a review of Rist's current show at New York's Luhring Augustine (available online to subscribers).
By The New Yorker September 22, 2010 "The Swiss video- and installation-maker Pipilotti Rist is an evangelist for happiness like no other first-rate artist that I can think of except, perhaps, Alexander Calder," writes Peter Schjeldahl this week, in a review of Rist's current show at New York's Luhring Augustine (available online to subscribers).
ANDREA HAENGGI/AMDAT The dance-and-video installation-maker revisits "Blast Wall Art," a work inspired by the Iraqi artists who paint murals on American security barriers just the kind of subversion that goes straight to the heart of a site-specific choreographer.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Madison Ave .at 75th St. (800-944-8639)—Kara Walker, of the slavery-themed cut-paper silhouettes, isn't only the best artist of the nineteen-nineties generation of often overbearingly critical installation-makers.
