Art Exhibit Posters
Ghana Freedom
The pavilion, located in the Venice Arsenale building's Artiglierie (artillery), was made to reflect Ghana in both the material and architectural style of its construction.[3] In reflection of the earthen, cylindrical homes of Gurunsi villages, the pavilion is partitioned into elliptical rooms by rusty red walls of imported Ghanaian soil.
Liquid Reality
Likening video technology to a “new paintbrush,” Shigeko Kubota was among the first generation of artists to embrace video, exploring the potential of the nascent medium in the early 1970s. She developed a unique form of video sculpture that extended her otherworldly portraits and landscapes into three-dimensional forms made from plywood and sheet metal, often incorporating mirrors and flowing water.
Negentropic Fields
The interactive virtual space is the apex of the experiment that tests modes of “translations”: the molding of the artists’ ideas and their casting into digital topologies, operations that require permutations between effects and concepts, instantiations that do not celebrate either the phenomenon or the formalism behind it, but attempts to graft in a non-trivial manner the latter and the former into each other.
Unstable Ground
Abstract accumulations of brushstrokes, dense clusters of forms, and expanses of material hold together, yet look closely and you’ll notice how easily these systems might come undone. Though the artworks here reflect on geographically specific conditions and histories, they form a constellation that conveys the volatility reshaping established world orders. At the same time, they highlight the connections and communities engendered by shared struggles, suggesting how we might better stand collectively on unstable ground.
Touching the Void
Although coming from diverse cultural contexts that endow their achievements with different meanings, artists based in Asia, Europe, and North and South America shared this artistic sensibility and vocabulary. Such cultivation of restraint can be understood, in part, as a rejection of the saturated visual environments associated with the emerging consumerist societies of the time. Whether strict or playful, the work of these artists tested the meditative possibilities of objectivity, challenging viewers to heighten their sensory perception.
