YOUNG-JUN TAK | EFREMIDIS | ARTFORUM | CRITICS’ PICK

YOUNG-JUN TAK | EFREMIDIS | ARTFORUM | CRITICS’ PICK

Stereotypes about modern Germany have long centered on the allure of the Autobahn and its license for limitless speed. In the exhibition “Wohin?” (Where to?), Young-jun Tak disseminates and rearranges this trope in order to dismantle the popular constructs of German national identity. [ read …

LUCIO FONTANA | GALERÍA HELGA DE ALVEAR | ARTFORUM | CRITICS’ PICK

LUCIO FONTANA | GALERÍA HELGA DE ALVEAR | ARTFORUM | CRITICS’ PICK

In 1946, Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) declared that conventional forms of representation had been exhausted. The following year, the artist founded Spatialism, a movement that dispensed with the traditional emphasis on illusion and illustration and instead condensed light, time, and space into a minimal gesture—in Fontana’s …