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1 week ago | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
By MARK BLOCH, May, 2025Is the earliest example of a fictional world Plato’s mythical city and lost civilization from “Ancient Athens” in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantis in 360 BC? Dante's Divine Comedy, begun in 1308 AD, conjures up more recent worlds constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis--everything between Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels and the country Freedonia in Duck Soup, the 1933 Marx Brothers film.
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2 months ago | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
Dasha Bazanova, Lise Ellingsen, Sarah Fuhrman, Chunbum Park, Mary Tooley Parker, Ryan Schroeder, Zak Vreeland SurroundingsFebruary 21 - March 4, 2025SPACE77637-39 Clinton St., New York, NY, 10002By MARK BLOCH, March 2025 A group show of objects and paintings called “Surroundings” at SPACE776 features seven youngish New York artists: Dasha Bazanova, Lise Ellingsen, Mary Tooley Parker, Sarah Fuhrman, Zak Vreeland, Chunbum Park, and Ryan Schroeder.
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2 months ago | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
“Modern Medieval”Shiri Mordechay and Pablo Garcia Ivy Brown GalleryJanuary 23-February 23, 2025By MARK BLOCH, February 2025Perhaps a bit Medieval, Pablo Garcia’s sculptural works also conjured up the later Baroque period, an era which was literally named after “a deformed pearl,” when heavy-handed artists regularly overdid ornamentation on fluted, gilded, scalloped and molded surfaces.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
By MARK BLOCH, December, 20242024 has been the year of the Surrealist Centennial. André Breton published his Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. I did not want this year to end without giving a shout out to, yes, Breton, but also to Mr. Kurt Seligmann who I would like to nominate to be the new King of Surrealism, pointing the way forward, as it enters its second century.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
Messages: Overt-CovertBill Pangburn, Renee Magnanti, Jose Camacho Paris Koh Fine Arts October 30th through November 30th, 2024Curated by Thalia VrachopoulosBy MARK BLOCH, December 2024This elegant show tells three art-maker’s stories, weaving tales by conveying coded missives to the viewer—and toward each other. They have done so with words, but also without them; direct and eye-catchingly, but also by hanging back a bit in the shadows, inviting closer readings.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
By MARK BLOCH, October 2024Since 2016, the Archivio Conz, with its approximately 5,000 objects by over 200 artists, has been based in Berlin and is now being presented to the public for the first time after eight years of cataloging and digitization. The exhibition Holy Fluxus - The Francesco Conz Collection shows Fluxus as a global network of individuals and consciously deals with the location - St. Matthäus Church in Berlin. It shows the parallels and inspirations between art and church.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
cultbytes.com | Mark Bloch
The inflatable Christopher Columbus “doll” installed in the back of the Tribeca-based gallery Ghostmachine goofily puffs itself up in the gallery’s crowded back corner, confidently sticking out its giant chest to lord sternly over its surroundings as it climbs toward the ceiling. The larger-than-life 15-foot plastic effigy billows out a bloated but familiar narrative of the triumphant conquistador who will always win. Before it quickly deflates. The message is clean.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
JACDOThe Day I Walked Through The DoorLichtundfireMAY 30 to JUNE 22, 2024Curated by Elga WimmerBy MARK BLOCH June 2024Lichtundfire and curator Elga Wimmer presented The Day I Walked Through The Door, a solo exhibition by the self-taught artist JACDO, also known as Jacques Dominique Joachim, who was born in 1965. JACDO lives and works in Le Mans, France now, but he hails from the Caribbean island of Martinique.
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May 17, 2024 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
ROBERT C. MORGANLonestar is Given to Love David Richard GalleryApril 24 – May 24, 2024 By MARK BLOCH, May 15, 2024The strict horizontal and vertical blocks and columns of color in the debut of Robert Morgan’s “Landscape” series, is supplemented by the similar works from his “Loggia” series facing them and two from his “Distance” cycle on the other two walls.
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May 13, 2024 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Mark Bloch
Regina Hann: “Coexistence”Riverside GalleryHackensack, NJApril 27 to May 4, 2024By MARK BLOCH, May 12, 2024The Korean American artist Regina Hann likes to say that when the coral reefs recover, only then will mermaids return to the Earth, symbolizing a complete regeneration of nature and ecological coexistence. Then on a less mythological note, Hann became very serious and explained to me that corals, like us, are animals.
