The British Council announced that Sonia Boyce has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.
Sonia Boyce is known for her uniquely innovative and experimental approach to art-making and the use of performance and audio-visual elements. Since the 1990s, her practice has gradually become more improvisational and collaborative, inviting a broad audience to come together and speak, sing or move in relation to the past and the present.
Emma Dexter, British Council Director Visual Arts, Commissioner of the British Pavilion, and Chair of the British Pavilion Selection Committee, said:
“The British Council is thrilled to announce that Sonia Boyce has been commissioned to represent the UK at the Biennale Arte 2021. We are eagerly anticipating her exhibition, where collaboration, improvisation, and dialogue will undoubtedly play a key role. Boyce’s work raises important questions about the nature of creativity, questioning who makes art, how ideas are formed, and the nature of authorship. At such a pivotal moment in the UK’s history, the Committee has chosen an artist whose work embodies inclusiveness, generosity, experimentation and the importance of working together”.
Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor of the Charging Bull, dies at 80 in his hometown in Sicily.
The sculptor lived in New York City for over 40 years. He arrived in 1973 and opened an art studio in the SoHo neighborhood. With the help of a truck crane and a crew of 40 men, Di Modica installed the bronze bull sculpture in New York’s financial district without permission on the night of Dec. 16, 1989.
Tracey Emin reveals her cancer is ‘all gone’. Artist says she will live the rest of her life with ‘major disability’ due to having a urostomy bag.
Emin is one of the most famous artists of her generation and was nominated for the Turner prize in 1999. In an interview with The Times, Emin said: “It was squamous cell cancer, which means it’s really rapid, really aggressive. It’s known as bad cancer.” Her doctors told her they had to act fast and remove her uterus, bladder, ovaries fallopian tubes, part of her colon, urethra, and part of her vagina.
Unleashing a child within, Robert Nava,- Hated by Art Connoisseurs, Loved by Collectors. But What really matters?
Despite the harsh criticism coming from much of the commentariat, his paintings are selling for a lot of money. In July, Robert Nava made his auction debut at Phillips, where The Tunnel (2019), a painting of a monster’s blood-red eyes, was estimated to sell for $40,000 to $60,000. It sold for $162,500. In the following months, his depiction of a transforming Power Ranger fetched $124,195. A painting of a child riding a monster snake brought $100,000.
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery is opening a new location in Paris. A renowned art dealer wants to further her focus on the art from the African Diaspora.
Just two years after moving her fast-growing gallery from Seattle to Chicago, Mariane Ibrahim will open a new location in Paris with plans to further her focus on art from the African diaspora. Paris location will welcome visitors in September to an inaugural show in a newly renovated three-story space on Avenue Matignon in a 19th-century Hausmann building in Paris’s 8th arrondissement. For an art dealer who grew up in Somalia and France before leaving Paris for the United States in 2010, this will be a homecoming of sorts.