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Five Artists in the News: Marlene Dumas’ Pact with the Devil, Cai Guo-Qiang Goes Bang and Bernar Venet’s marvelous year

3 min read  ·  23 Sep 2024

Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive opening of PST Art at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Credit via Getty Museum/NYT

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London: Marlene Dumas’ solo show at Frith Street Gallery features new paintings that often begin with paint poured or thrown on to the canvas instead of images culled from newspapers, she tells The Guardian.

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Los Angeles: Cai Guo Qiang’s “explosion event” marking the start of PST Art went awry, leaving several injured and others shaken. the Getty has issued an apology, The Times reports.

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Legal: Ai Weiwei’s opening of his solo show at the Palazzo Fava in Bologna was marred by a man deliberately breaking one of the exiled Chinese artist’s porcelain works, ARTnews reports.

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London/New York: Olafur Eliasson's deliberately blurry digital work, Lifeworld, is going to be presented on big screens in Piccadilly and Times Square in collaboration with Circa, reports The Guardian.

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Profile: Bernar Venet has celebrated a special year in the tenth anniversary of his foundation in southeastern France, which presents his work alongside pieces by many of his contemporaries, writes Forbes.

In other news

Vienna: Storm Boris hit Austria on days during which the viennacontemporary took place last week but the fair was still a success, reports Arterritory.

Rio de Janeiro: ArtRio 2024 opens this week, September 25- 29, featuring a new section for indigenous exhibitors among the 100 galleries, reports LatAm Arte.

"‘I’m back to my first love – the gesture that can’t decide if it wants to be a face or a figure.’ Marlene Dumas on why she is pouring paint on to canvases to see where it takes her."

- The Guardian