Andrew Pasquier

May 29, 2024 | frieze.com | Andrew Pasquier

Billy Bultheel | Thomaskerk | 30 and 31 May Thief’s Journal (2023) is Billy Bultheel’s semi-autobiographical expression of the sacred and profane artistic influences that have shaped the Belgian composer’s spatial-sonic universe. The hour-long performance takes its cue and title from Jean Genet’s 1949 classic tale of gay vagabondage, and stars nine musicians, playing everything from euphonium to flute, as they move hauntingly around the spectacular interior of Amsterdam’s brutalist Thomaskerk.

Feb 9, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Andrew Pasquier

by Andrew Pasquier About an hour into the Emirati desert, past super-sized malls, mosques, and uninterrupted expanses of sand, is Al Madam, a ghost village that encapsulates with uncanny poetry the critical reflexes of the second edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. The settlement’s linear plan and squat concrete buildings are the bones of a failed attempt to house a local Bedouin tribe in the wake of the UAE’s independence.

Jan 7, 2024 | 032c.com | Andrew Pasquier

January 7, 2024|Andrew PasquierIn Berlin, being “poor but sexy” has made a lot of landlords rich.

Oct 31, 2023 | frieze.com | Andrew Pasquier

Entering Neo Matloga’s latest show, ‘Figures’, I find myself encircled, inescapably witnessed, by eight charcoal and ink portraits. Laying across the canvas in tense repose, these sombre sitters exude a sense of nervous intimacy through their deep expressions, dart-like eyes and close-cropped framing. Matloga’s new works are a departure from his typical convivial scenes of collective Black joy, such as Khemistr (Chemist, 2022), in which cut-up figures eat, laugh and embrace.

Oct 31, 2023 | pinupmagazine.org | Andrew Pasquier

by Andrew Pasquier If you had to design a hard seltzer bar, what would it look like? On a triangle lot in the hip Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, three brothers are spearheading the unlikely inevitable with a ”Barragán-meets-Blade-Runner” palace to the joys of getting drunk on fermented cane sugar. To crown the 3,000-square-foot space, the trio enlisted Philly-local artist Alex da Corte to add his highly considered dose of stained glass Americana.