Christopher Alessandrini

1 month ago | frieze.com | Christopher Alessandrini

Frieze PublishingYes, email me reviews, offers, and opinions by artists, writers, and editors from Frieze Frieze EventsYes, email me Frieze Events Inc and Frieze Events Ltd’s global programme information including special offers and benefits Noah Davis had a mind for pastiche, pulling from sources as heterogeneous as ancient Egyptian mythology and the paintings of Édouard Manet, to the modernist architecture of Paul R. Williams, family albums and The Jerry Springer Show (1991–2018).

Aug 14, 2024 | sothebys.com | Christoper Alessandrini |Christopher Alessandrini

Since 2019, the Celine Art Project has invited contemporary artists – including Kim Yun Shin, Simone Fattal, Mimosa Echard, Ma Qiusha and Kim Dacres – to collaborate with the respected fashion house via site-specific installations and acquisitions that illuminate the dynamic relationship between art and fashion. Soon after joining Celine as Creative Director in 2018, Hedi Slimane launched the Celine Art Project.

Jun 28, 2024 | frieze.com | Christopher Alessandrini

City, night: a classic boudoir scene, bathed in warm light. A young man, naked and unbothered, lounges on bunched cobalt sheets, a red full moon visible through a sliver of window. Within this private idyll, Kyle Dunn’s Sea Bell (2024), a chilly game of predator and prey unfolds. Framed over the bed is an image of a heron, a fish caught in its beak; above the youth’s chest an inexplicable frog leaps into the air with balletic precision, lunging towards a moth.

Mar 4, 2024 | frieze.com | Christopher Alessandrini

There is no formula for beauty, no reliable unit of measure. But there are suggestions of some underlying logic in Graham Little’s Untitled (Sunflower Head) (2022), an austere vanitas of a decaying sunflower blossom, its seed-heavy face puckered and dry, stippled with greening rot. Beside it rests a rodent’s skull and the exposed circuitry of a spent machine, half-hidden under a clean white sheet. The image is lean as a riddle.

Jun 30, 2023 | metmuseum.org | Christopher Alessandrini

The artist Volker Hermes spends hours searching museum websites for his next subject. A society woman in a flamboyant headdress might catch his eye, or a princely young man trying too hard to impress. For the last decade, Hermes has used digital-imaging software to manipulate classic portraits from museum collections around the world. The result is his popular photocollage series Hidden Portraits. In these beguiling, enigmatic compositions, the decorative exacts its revenge on vanity.