Petah Coyne’s Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird) Exhibited in You Know Who at Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Turkey

Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), 1997-98. (Photo: Wit McKay. Courtesy of the artist)

Renowned American artist Petah Coyne’s Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), is currently shown in You Know Who, an exhibition curated by Selen Ansen and Brigitte Pitarakis at the Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition showcases works of over 45 artists and explores the connection between Byzantium and the contemporary art through the theme of supernatural and their effects on human emotions, behaviors, and artistic production.

Untitled #922 (The Strange Bird), created in 1997-98, is an example of the hair and taxidermy works Coyne made in the late 1990s that explore a dark fantasy world populated by animals. Tangled in web of woven black hair, the once recognizable silhouettes of the taxidermied birds have been reimagined as a fantastic, amalgamated creature, whose web, reminiscent of black Irish lace and dust bunnies, crawls out toward viewers

Petah Coyne is scheduled to have her new solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, in May 2023.

Rona Pondick’s Monkeys and Head in Tree on View at Belvedere Museum

Rona Pondick, detail from Monkeys, 1998-2001, Stainless steel, Edition of 6 + 1 AP, 41 1/4 x 66 x 85 1/2 in (104.77 x 167.64 x 217.17 cm)

Rona Pondick, detail from Head in Tree, 2006-08, Stainless steel, Edition of 3 + 1 AP, 105 x 42 x 37 in (266.7 x 106.68 x 93.98 cm)

Installation view of Head in Tree

Installation view of Monkeys

American artist Rona Pondick’s metal sculptural work Monkeys was on display in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere since September. Monkeys, created during 1998-2001, shows several monkeys playing around, while some body parts appear in human forms. The hybrid form of human and monkey reveals suffering among playfulness, demonstrating the artist’s artistic style during this creative period.

In the meantime, Rona Pondick’s Head in Tree is also included in the exhibition Grow: The Tree in Art at the Lower Belvedere. The exhibition is curated by art historian and curator Miroslav Haľák, focusing artworks related to trees to demonstrate the complex connection between human beings and the ecology as well as the various roles trees play in it. Pondick’s Head in Tree, created during 2006-2008, combines the tree form and a human head cast from the artist’s own. It responds to the human-tree hybrid form in art and mythologies, and the complicated relationship between human subjects and flora and fauna in the natural world.

On the exhibition opening on Sept. 22, over 600 VIP guests gathered in the Marble Hall where Pondick’s Head in Tree was on display, enjoying the artist’s artistic creation.

Photo: Johannes Stoll

Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides Series on View at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders

Installation view of Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides series (Courtesy of the artist)

Renowned German contemporary artist Peter Zimmermann’s Travel Guides series is currently on view in the exhibition, Bibliomania: The Book in the Art, at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Germany. The exhibition incorporates artworks of multiple forms and media such as painting, drawing, photography, film, installation, and artist’s book, exploring the importance of the paper-based medium of “book” in this age of digital media, as well as rethinking and recreating the role “book” plays in contemporary societies.

 The Travel Guides series marks the beginning of Zimmermann’s use of epoxy. Graduated from art school and started creating conceptual art in the 1980s, Zimmermann imitates and enlarges book covers to challenge the interaction between one’s perceptions and feelings, including one’s experience of interpreting these paradoxical artworks. This series also became the first milestone in Peter Zimmermann’s career as a professional artist.

Franziska Fennert’s project, Monumen Antroposen, expected to finish on December 2022.

Left: Computer simulation of Monumen Antroposen (Courtesy of the artist); Right: Group photo of Franziska Fennert’s team and visitors from German Embassy of Indonesia at the site of Monumen Antroposen (Courtesy of the artist)

Artist Franziska Fennert’s project, Monumen Antroposen, is expected to finish on December 2022. Funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, the Monumen Antroposen is a project directed by artist Franziska Fennert and accompanied by artist Iwan Wijono, curator Ignatia Nilu, and architect Dhoni Yudhanto. The project aims to construct an enormous architectural complex which takes up to 6000m2 public land 100 meters away from the main dump site of the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia with discarded low-value plastic pressed into stones. According to Fennert, the project attempts to create a circular system for especially plastics and used material in general, and becomes a center for makers, artists and changes to the society.

Rona Pondick’s “Wallaby” and “Cat” on View at Nassau County Museum of Art

Rona Pondick 作品〈小袋鼠〉（Wallaby）、〈貓〉（Cat）於拿騷美術館展出（照片由藝術家提供）

Leading American contemporary artist Rona Pondick, is scheduled to have her sculpture works exhibited at four major art institutions across the US and Europe in the latter half of 2022. The first exhibition will be “Other Worlds Than This: The Supernatural” in Art at the Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, in which her two sculptural works “Wallaby” and “Cat” joins a number of artworks related to the otherworldly possibilities. The artist is also giving a talk on her artistic career since the mid-1980s.

Marks and Sparks: Drawings and Words by Brad Darcy Arrives in Taiwan for the First Time

布萊德．達西手工版畫書《標記與星火》封面、內頁照（照片由藝術家提供）

Marks and Sparks: Drawings and Words by Brad Darcy is an artist book created by American artist Brad Darcy. The book is limited to 50 editions, with the cover painted by the artist. The book includes a selection of 76 drawings created between 2017-2020, each of them created under 60 seconds. Different from his first artist book published 5 years ago, Marks and Sparks also has 26 short poems that mark the sparks Brad Darcy sees in his artistic career, demonstrating the unique literary sensitivity of the artist.

June 9th to Sept. 9th, Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández exhibition at W Glass Project Space, Hsinchu

The Conceptual artist, Ariamna Contino & Alex Hernández represented Cuba in Venice Biennial uses their excellent paper-cutting technique and white paper to reflects issues regarding to environment, war, and drugs. Although the works look purely white, they suggest the strong social engagement of the artist. In creating a hypothetical dialogue between the artist and Mother Nature, artists seem to bridge the highly conceptual politics of the creative process with the ethical considerations of our exceedingly literal environment. They give a voice to the once silent earth, questioning the morality of draining its reservoir of resources in the artist's quest to enlighten society and enrich its culture. From June. 9th to Sept. 9th, Nunu Fine Art collaborates with W Glass Project Space to bring the series of works by Contino and Hernandez to Hsinchu.

American artist Rona Pondick will exhibit in five major art institutions in the second half of the 2022

American leading artist Rona Pondick will exhibits her early works "Monkeys", "Head in Tree" in Lower Belvedere and Upper Belvedere, two of the most privilege art space in Austria. The work "Wallaby" will be in "The Supernatural in Art" group exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY. From July 23 to November 6th, 2022. Pondick's recent development "Color Sculptures" has been drawing enormous attention in the contemporary scene. Both Zuckerman Museum of Art in Georgia and Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY will include her color sculptures in both museums exhibitions.

Ari Bayuaji “ Weaving the Ocean” at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore. 5th July - 26 August 2022

Born in 1975 in Indonesia, Ari Bayuaji currently lives and creates in Montreal and Bali. The “Weaving the Ocean” project put environmental sustainability into practice, Bayuaji hired local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. This inspiring and touching project has conceived peaceful and heart-warming works, which captured the seascape of Bali. This project will be opened on July 5th at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore after the exhibited in Taipei, Bangkok and Montreal.

Northern European artist Siri Kollandsrud joins the group show “t₀ – en ny era” at Dunkers, Sweden

Siri Kollandsrud joins the group show “t₀ – en ny era” at Dunkers in Sweden. The exhibition is to explore the rebirth era after the pandemic and survey how human culture and art have been impacted. Kollandsrud's creative inspiration originatles from the observation of life visually and spiritually, while using her boundless vision to navigate the new world. Her works in this group show define the new era of human life.

American sculptor Roma Pondick’s interview with the magazine ODDA

Rona Pondick is a well-known American sculptor, and the topic of her works revolves around her personal experience of physical imprisonment and freedom of mind. She is known for her hybridized, metaphorical, and shifing approaches to the human body. During the conversation with the famous magazine ODDA, Pondick shares her intenpreiation of time and reficcts on varied aspects of human nature, explaining her view on our world being.

Peruvian Artist Ana Barboza attends the 23rd Biennale of Sydney themed “rivus”

Ana Barboza and Rafael Freyre present “Water Ecosystem” at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, exploring the relation of contemporary habitat and natural environments through a practice that combines architecture, visual art, and weaving. The installation “Water Ecosystem” celebrates the symbolic role of water in Peru's diverse wetland ecosystems and cultural heritage. Ana Barboza and Rafael Freyre take inspiration from ancient canal systems created by pre-Colombian societies. The multisensory installation combines natural elements with traditional and contemporary technologies. Visitors are invited to walk through the wetland to experience this water ecosystem.

Ana Teresa Barboza Join the 15th Cuenca Biennial

Ana Teresa Barboza is going to participate in the 15th Cuenca Biennial. This year, the biennial revolves around three axes: ancestral and traditional knowledge, critical ecofeminism or ecofeminisms and futuristic scenarios, searching for the solution of the ecosocial crisis, and achieve another possible world from a different perspective. Ana Teresa Barboza will join the other participating artists to present their works with environmental elements, showing their care for the carth and the constantly evolving organic process of the human being.

Petah Coyne Added to Collection of “National Academy of Design”

Petah Coyme's early black sand sculpture “Untiled #697” (1991) is now part of the Naional Academy of Design's pemanent collection. Founded in NewYork City in 1825 by renowned artists Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, and others. lt aims to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition. To date the National Academy of Design had elected 8,000 works from talented artists, including Petah Coymes “Untitled #697”, which presents beauty and fragile imagery alluding to death and decay.

Rona Pondick Added to Collection of “Walker Art Center”

“Wallaby” had recently been collected by Walker Art Center, one of the most-visited modem and contemporary art muscums in the United States. Walker Art Center is once lumber baron T. B. Walker's private collecti tion. Since he invited the public to visit his collection in 1879, it evolved into the Walker Art Center. This work will be joining other works by top artists such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Yoko Ono, and Kara Walker in this collection.

Ana Teresa Barboza: Rimac Seguros Collection

Congratulations to Ana Teresa Barboza’s work “Historias del Rímac”, to be collected by Rímac Seguros, the oldest insurance company in Peru. In “Historias del Rímac”, Barboza re-weaves the territories, presenting how water articulates the soils we inhabit. In this work, the artist uses natural yarns and local plants as dyes from the Andes of Cuzco and Lambayeque. Through integrating materials from regions and communities, Barboza interweaves the power between the artist and territories. 

Mr. Lin’s Mobile Museum: Artwork × Health Facility

In the project “Mr. Lin's Mobile Museum: Artwork × Health Facility,” through our assistant, artworks are donated to hospitals in Taiwan by our collector. Recently, we have finally completed the third donation of this project. Jui Chien Hsu’s work “Ten Folds×2” has been donated to Changhua Christian Hospital. Now sitting in Changhua Christian Hospital, “Ten Folds×2” gives off an atmosphere of healing, bringing warmth to the people suffering from illness.

Hsu Che-Yu: Hong Kong M+ Museum Collection

Focusing on the world’s foremost collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture, M+ Museum will be opened this November. M+ has been collecting works from artists, designers, and architects since 2012. Though rooted in Asia, its collection examines from a global perspective and aims to discover and record diverse contemporary cultures and techniques. Recently, M+ has included Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu's “Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun” into its collection. Inspired by writer Huang Guo-Jun’s work Microphone Test, awards-winning artist Hsu Che-Yu uses fiction in place of reality to discuss death and collective memories in this work. 

Kao Ya-Ting Features at Chiayi Art Museum

Chiayi Art Museum’s current exhibition “A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest” is curated by Tsai, Ming-Chun, and Chen, Hsiang-Wen, aims to look back at the history and discuss the relationship between forests and cities. Chen, Hsiang-Wen said, “We can see how artists see the forest industry, for example, through their thought of how a log becomes a timber or issues regarding deforestation in Taiwan.” Featured in this exhibition, Kao Ya-Ting had used the renowned sea of clouds in Alishan as the theme and utilized various image materials for “Sea of Clouds in Alishan.” Through the process of repainting oil on canvas and collaging the image of the sea of clouds, Kao used her restrained contours and colors to create the sea of clouds in her eyes and the cultural context contained in the forest.

Environmental sustainability project of artists-"Weaving The Ocean" by Ari Bayuaji

This 6-minute short clip elaborates how artivism brings the community together.

Living and creating in Montreal, Canada, Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji accidentally discovered a large number of plastic ropes tangled in the roots of mangroves near the coast in Sanur, Bali. Thus, he developed “Weaving the Ocean” project, weaving plastic rubbish into art with local residents in Bali.

Besides putting environmental sustainability into practice, Ari employed local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. The works created in the project “Weaving the Ocean,” the colors are the original colors of the plastic threads. Regardless of the limited color choice, Ari composed settle and gentle color tone in these abstract works.

Through the "Weaving the Ocean” project, step by step, Ari leads the people in Bali to use the substantial power of art to change this town. “I have been sending messages to fellow Balinese about what we can do when business from tourism is no longer available. The answer is to be found in nature,” said Ari Bayuaji.