Marv Recinto

London

Writer, Critic and Editor at Freelance

Too illiterate for twitter, but doctoralling at @thecourtauld, formerly editing at @artreview_

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The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in June 2024

Jun 4, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto |Oliver Basciano |Nirmala Devi

From Gavin Jantjes in London to The Blak Infinite in Melbourne, our editors on what they’re looking forward to this monthBasel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: The song is the call and the land is callingCopenhagen Contemporary and the Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 13 June–20 OctoberWisps of breathing are barely audible between the crunching of footsteps over terrain – perhaps soil or gravel.
Documenta 16 to proceed without Code of Conduct for artistic director

May 9, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

Documenta 16 has announced it will proceed with its next edition in 2027, but without installing a code of conduct for its artistic director. This was among the recommendations set out by Documenta’s appointed expert advisory panel, following the previous iteration’s antisemitism controversy. The exhibition’s past artistic directors recommended a six-member finding committee comprised of international curators to search for its 16th iteration.
Blaise Mandefu Ayawo, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise elder, 1969-2024

May 9, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

Blaise Mandefu Ayawo of Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, a collective of plantation workers from the Democratic Republic of Congo that is representing the Netherlands at this year’s Venice Biennale, has died at 55. The artist and eight other members of CATPC travelled to Venice to install and open their exhibition, but Mandefu Ayawo was hospitalised for two weeks before passing away at Venice’s Ospedale dell’Angelo.
Frank Stella, American postwar pioneer, 1936-2024

May 7, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

American artist Frank Stella has died aged 87, following a battle with lymphoma. Stella was a leading artistic figure in America’s postwar period, pioneering the minimalist artistic movement. The artist’s early Black Paintings (1958–60) – large canvases of geometric pinstripes made from black enamel paint – are often cited by art historical sources as among the first minimalist artworks and were included in Dorothy C.
Mark Salvatus, With a Wayfinder

Apr 16, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

Relaxation is a State of Mind at The Drawing Room, Manila attempts to mark a path through the chaos of urban lifeDespite the title of the show, one doesn’t feel very relaxed standing in this long corridored exhibition space filled with Mark Salvatus’s paintings, collages and installations of rice bags and tripods.
An Art-History of Lowriders

Mar 19, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

A show by Mario Ayala, rafa esparza and Guadalupe Rosales at SFMoMA, Sitting on Chrome, celebrate Chicano culture’s resilience and creative prosperityThis three-person exhibition comes at an auspicious time. In October of last year, California’s governor signed a bill into law that would lift the state’s lowrider ban and welcome cruising back on the streets by the beginning of 2024.
Yong Soon Min, Korean American artist, 1953-2024

Mar 14, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

Yong Soon Min, the Korean American artist whose works addressed the Asian American experience, has died at 70, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles announced. Born in Bugok, South Korea in 1953, Min immigrated with her family to California in 1960 and obtained her BFA, MA and MFA at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1981, the artist moved to New York where she ‘cut her political teeth’, according to her website.
The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in March 2024

Mar 1, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto |Nirmala Devi

From Whitney and Sydney Biennial to March Meeting in Sharjah, our editors on what they’re looking forward to this monthWhitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real ThingThe Whitney, New York, 20 March–11 AugustThe initial announcement of the lead curators two years ago already signalled some of the scope of the biennial, with Chrissie Iles a more institutional voice and Meg Onli, who had been curator at LA’s Underground Museum, a more millennial perspective.
Wattis Institute CCA appoints new director and chief curator

Feb 28, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

Daisy Nam has been appointed director and chief curator of the California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Nam comes from Ballroom Marfa, where she has been director since 2022 and curated exhibitions such as Guadalupe Maravilla: Mariposa Relámpago (2023), Tongues of Fire (2023), and Kenneth Tam: Tender is the hand which holds the stone of memory (2022).
Future Greats 2024: Derek Tumala

Feb 15, 2024 | artreview.com | Marv Recinto

Selected by Marv RecintoA transparent cube confining a glowing yellow orb is suspended above endless sand dunes. To one side, a few green plants that sprout from the sand lead to a reflective black column jutting into the ominous grey sky; just ahead, a half-buried billboard reads, in Tagalog, ANG KRISIS NG KLIMA AY KRISIS NG KULTURA (‘The crisis of climate is a crisis of culture’).