Tomorrow is the last chance to visit Mona Hatoum‘s recent show at White Cube Mason’s Yard, installed on the three floors of the gallery. The work on the ground floor of the gallery, called Suspended, caught our eye. It’s a collection of thirty-five swings chained to the ceiling. Each of the 35 swings has the street map of a capital city carved into its seat, randomly chosen from six of the seven continents of the world. As the swings are constantly in motion because visitors walk “inside” the work, the installation creates a very poetic choreography “alluding perhaps to alludes the constant flux of migrant communities across the world that shape the contemporary urban experience”.
At the lower level of the gallery, the artist installed a “major new installation consisting of what appears to be models of 23 empty and derelict architectural structures the installation”. This installation is called Bunker and can be seen as an abstract architectural work but also refers specifically to buildings from Hatoum’s native Beirut.

Amazing sculpture of 3,6 meters tall, black rats facing outward in a circle, their tails bound together in a giant knot. Wish they would fit in the HFA HQ ;-)

(works of Katharina Fritsch can be seen @ Matthew Marks Gallery)

Heaps of hay, stuffed goat, farming tools, antlers & Asian boys dressed in lederhosen form together one of the key works of the 3rd Singapore Biennale. Created by the Scandinavian duo Elmgreen & Dragset & entitled German Barn, you gotta love it.
Also by Elmgreen & Dragset and on display closer to home: the Powerless Structures, Fig.101 (bronze cast of a boy on a rocking horse) will adorn the fourth plinth of London’s Trafalgar Square next year.

(see more photos of the German Barn @ designboom)

Opening today @ Team Gallery, NYC: solo show of Marylin Minter entitled Paintings from the 80s. The show will cover two bodies of her work: the 1986-87 series Big Girls/Little Girls, built from imagery with an almost journalistic remove, alongside works from 1989 Porn Grids, which capture women and men engaged in what the porn industry refers to as “money shots”. Nice example of the latter is above.
And if you like what you see, make sure to also check Marilyn Minter’s latest project Green Pink Caviar.

From the modern to the contemporary, the Pavillon des Arts et du Design, now in its 15th Parisian edition, is currently offering the finest possible slice of the European Art market in a tasty single, frosted event.

The fair, which opened to the public yesterday morning, presents the selection especial of about eighty galleries, a fourth of which hail from Europe and beyond. With a strong focus on the decorative arts, from cosy couches to beautiful baubles, it remains a rare occasion to immerse oneself in gorgeous objets d’Art from a period sometimes too famous to be understood on both artistic and practical levels.

Whether the show is a glorious testimony to French good taste, as its organisers are keen to say, remains to be seen. It is, however, an unmistakably interesting and relaxed occasion, whether you treat it as a living museum or a sales floor. It runs until Sunday, April 3^rd and you would be crazy to miss it!