RACHEL LIBESKIND was announced in Artsy‘s

15 artists in NY summer group shows who deserve solo shows!

After Rachel‘s performance at Cuevas Tilleard Projects, Artsy listed her as one of the artist who deserved a solo Show in New York. In her performance she reenacts and reinterprets Leo Steinberg‘s lectures in front of reproductions of the masterpiece printed on tapestries at Walmart that depicted Christ‘s circumcision.
By rereading art history contextualized with iconographical religion, Rachel points out Christ’s Jewish beginnings within the tradition of catholical imaginary.

Across her multimedia practice, Libeskind excels at this sort of cheeky social criticism, drawing provocative lines between historical and contemporary pain points surrounding religion, identity, and gender.

– by Alexxa Gotthardt

read more: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-15-artists-in-ny-summer-group-shows-who-deserve-solo-shows

We are very excited to hear that

NIKA FONTAINE

was selected as a finalist of the RBC Canadian painting competition!!!

— For Fontaine, the glitter so often associated with ‘queerness’ in today’s art establishment is more a formal means: ‘At first I worked with acrylic and oil, and always tried to make my colors as intense as possible. But they were never strong enough for me. With the glitter, I get this intensity of color and brilliance, and in addition an interactive aspect, because every movement on the part of the viewer changes the coloration and sense of spatial depth.’ —

CANADIAN ART, July 5, 2016

Read more: http://canadianart.ca/news/15-artists-longlisted-for-rbc-canadian-painting-competition/

 

We are super excited for our next upcoming exhibition!

BOOKS

A group exhibition with

RACHEL LIBESKIND

ARTURO HERRERA

ASTALI/PEIRCE

MARIO ASEF

MAURICIO LIMON

BENJAMIN TORRES

Books shows beautiful and special works by artists, who use the book as an artistic medium and support: pages and cover have been altered, edited and elements extracted.
Books expands our aesthetical experience with the book as a cultural good.

This saturday, July 9th

from 7-10 pm

at Berliner Imbiss

Graf-Adolf-Platz 1

40213 Düsseldorf

 

Our exhibition transcendental state of grace by NIKA FONTAINE will close this Sunday, June 26th.

Stop by and celebrate with us and a glass of Champagne!

26.6.2016

10am-8pm

Königsallee 92

Düsseldorf

We are happy that transcendental state of grace by NIKA FONTAINE was announced in the RHEINISCHE POST!!

The exhibition will close this Sunday evening, June 26th.

Wildpalms is proud to present NIKA FONTAINE’s transcendental state of grace,

a group of paintings, created for her first solo show in Düsseldorf.

TRANSCENDENTAL STATE OF GRACE
opening 23.06.2016. 7 PM
Königsallee 92
40212 Düsseldorf

Fontaine’s body of work is the result of a one year long process, by which the artist researched pictorial expressions for meditative mind states, dreams and happiness.
Applying different layers of glitter and acrylic on the stretched canvas, each work is a visual field that changes every second, accentuating different color pigments used and refracting the diverse color spectrum of light depending on the position of the beholder, the hour of the day or the light projected.

We are very proud that Nika Fontaine is contributing at the Valencia Sex Festival, 

supporting the transgender community and exploring new forms within her artistic practice.

by Valencia Sex Festival

She is an incredibly creative, aware and courageous artist and we are happy to see her developing!