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it all began with a pivotal incident that that was created when the human souls left Angeles. in the last year alone Palladino
took place on the island of Delos and which Delos is filled with mythological animals and exhibited at the Documenta 14 international
drafted the physical and cultural journey that figures originating from legends, set up just exhibition in Kassel and before that at MoMA
followed. in mythology, Delos was initially an two kilometres of present day Delos. Ps1. in september, Peter McDonald will
undeclared floating island that spoke, which During the same period, Maja Djordjevic exhibit his colourfully painted compositions
accepted its name and static location in order from Belgrade will present her works, which depicting scenes from our everyday life such
to become the birthplace of the ancient deities are reminiscent of digitally rendered doodles. as social gatherings and gym classes. Does that
Apollo and Artemis. however, during the Djordjevic has participated in many international sound a little too simple? the people in his
Peloponnesian War, the city-state of Athens exhibitions and art fairs. Among the artists works are not exactly depicted as human, as
enforced a cleansing of the island, removing hosted in July will be Matthew Palladino, they have large colourful balloons instead of
the dead and exiling its locals. thus, gradually, who creates paintings, sculptures and designs heads and faces. through his art, McDonald
Delos was transformed into a place where both that represent complex images. his reliefs wants to make as many viewers as possible
death and birth were absent in equal measure. look like modern hieroglyph inscriptions and happy and Mykonos is the right place to do
nature itself came into conflict with humanity plastic-packaged mass consumption products that. After all, he paints his protagonists in
and its decisions. Who was the winner in this at the same time. through his designs on social gatherings where they are having fun
contest? through a fragmented, almost surreal paper Palladino presents the audience with interacting with one another. During the same
narration, the exhibition focuses on the corrosive watercolours, a medium often overlooked in month Despina Stokou, who lives and works
relationship that has existed between humanity contemporary art practices. in August, hosted in Los Angeles, will speak, through her work,
and nature over the centuries. Works from sculptor and performer Raul De Nieves will about idealism, feminism and the tradition
a variety of media are exhibited (paintings, rock the boat with his personal visual practices, of great painters of the past. her works are
videos, sculptures, and neon), which, all which are based on his childhood in Mexico usually dominated by the use of one colour
together and each in its separate way, use light where he was taught sewing and crochet. his on which there is fragmented use of excerpts
and colour to strengthen the narrative of the works are filled with beads, thread and other from texts. these texts are usually composed
exhibition; to externalise the questioning of sparkly – while also low-cost – materials. he from words that the artist borrows from public
political authority throughout all those years uses them to make his “surrounding scenery”, discourse and stand as a direct reaction to
and even at present; and to protest western through which, as he explains, he studies distracting channels of communication. her
societies and the way in which they were the joy and sadness of life together as one. work can already be found in great public
formed. there is no human presence in the Works of his have already been purchased and private collections such as the Deutsche
works exhibited. traditional landscapes and for the permanent collections of the Whitney Bank collection, the schwartz Collection at
Apollonian sunsets fill the space and compose Museum of American Art in new york and harvard, and the Zabludowicz in London
an imaginative universe. A surreal landscape the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los and turin.

«Lions to me symbolize bravery», Cara Delevingne
Shot in real conditions by David Yarrow
dAnCIng gOddEssEs
Left: Kenny Scharf, Toungerama - Acrylic on linen with powder-coated aluminum frame. Discover more on Youtube and on tagheuer.com/cara
Right: Erik Parker, Triple Double Falls - Acrylic on canvas.
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