What exactly would a normal year in the art world look like?\u00a0New-normal, paranormal and business as (ab)normal \u2013 this year had it all.\nThere was a tentative\u00a0transition from URL to IRL. Exhibitions got physical again, and art fairs \u2013 along with the rest of us \u2013 were freed from...
Emerging from the industrial brutalist labyrinth that is London’s 180 The Strand, it’s customary to feel like your senses have been through the wash a few times. But after Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda’s solo show, your eyes could hear, and your nose could see. Ikeda didn’t politely request our attention, he got inside our heads and played our eardrums like snares. This did not feel like an exhibition, it felt like a sensory assault course that one does not view, one survives.
© Judy Chicago/Artists Rights Society , New York Photography © Donald Woodman/ARS, New York. Courtesy of the artist; Salon 94, New York; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; and Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. Image provided courtesy of the Fine ArtsAt the age of 82, and after 60 years of spearheading feminist art, Judy Chicago received her first retrospective in 2021.
In July, Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen took over the hallowed halls of Berlin’s Berghain with his immersive VR installation, a vast virtual swampland. Drawing from meticulous fieldwork in Germany’s Spreewald, archival research and collaborations with biologists, linguists, sound artists and creative technologists,encouraged viewers to contemplate the forgotten complexity and beauty of wetlands.
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