Named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2016, the building has moved into modern times with at least one Airbnb unit and the rooftop exhibition space, which has previously hosted interventions by Alex Israel, Daniel Buren, and Felice Varni. Now, Arsham has combined his two loves with the site-specific exhibition “Le Modulor du Basketball” at MAMO (Marseille Modulor), a project space on top of La Cité Radieuse, a Marseille apartment building designed by Corbusier in 1945. The American artist and designer has long been a fan of legendary architect Le Corbusier, to whom he paid tribute with his 2019 editioned India Lounge Chair V, and the sport of basketball, even before he was named creative director of the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2020. Daniel Arsham: “Le Modulor Basketball” at MAMO (Marseille Modulor) in Marseille, FranceĬelebrated for his stylish sculptures of decaying technological devices and crumbling cultural artifacts, Daniel Arsham makes art that looks as though it was just discovered in an archeological dig. Some of the works in the show are based on Iannone being controversially censored in group shows in Europe, while other pieces are visual narratives that tell the tales of her lovers such as The Heroic Performance of Pastor Erik Bock, a painting on wood that depicts clusters of nudes in a free-love setting with an embedded video of her then Danish mate delivering an hour-long sermon on Christian love and community.ģ. Highlighting her works on paper, including her graphic novels, which she was making long before that art form became popular, the survey also features key works from her ongoing oeuvre. Inspired by sexually explicit Japanese woodcuts, Greek vases, and Tantric imagery, the Berlin-based octogenarian was often censored in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, but is now being honored with an exhibition presenting six decades of her art at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, which is arguably the most sexually liberated nation in the world.
“Dorothy Iannone” at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, DenmarkĪ self-taught American artist who’s lived and worked in Europe since 1967, Dorothy Iannone is best known for her naïve portrayals of erotic love. Inside a kitschy Apollo Kithara statue with an animatronic snake holds center court, while Koons’ painted bronze Nike Sneakers, which are fit for a king, dangle from a nail nearby.Ģ. Approaching the slaughterhouse, you can catch your reflection in the artist’s Gazing Ball Tripod, which is watched over by attendants in togas who guard the project space’s entrance. Greeting you as you arrive at the foundation is the 45-foot-high, motorized Apollo Wind Spinner, which simulates the sort of sun-with-a-face symbol associated with Louis XIV, aka the Sun King, but this up-to-date version spins in situ.
The conceptual presentation honoring Apollo, the Olympian god of the arts, is centered around four new works by the iconic American artist. “Jeff Koons: Apollo” at the DESTE Foundation Project Space in Hydra, Greeceįeaturing this summer’s most popular sculpture on social media, Jeff Koons has captured headlines again with his enigmatic “Apollo” exhibition at the DESTE’s Project Space in a former slaughterhouse on the car-free Greek island of Hydra.
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