Dennis Osadebe: When Power Plays @ GR Gallery, Context Art Fair, Miami

As we regain our momentum, or better said, our step with an art world reopening and the fair seasons blossoming once again, we look at power. Power struggles are not new, but the way we look at agency and the powerful has changed so dramatically over the last two years that it’s hard not to rethink how artists would respond. NYC-based GR Gallery will be heading to Miami for Context Art Fair with this conversation on their minds, bringing together a body of work by Lagos, Nigeria-based painter Dennis Osadebe titled, When Power Plays. And, just as the times we live in, When Power Plays does question “the connection between art, authority, play, and prestige.” 

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A Chunky Bronze Logo Wraps Around the Corner of a Prague Art Museum

All images courtesy of Studio Najbrt

A column of metallic type scales the former Zenger Transformer Substation in Prague, melding the historic venue with the visual identity of the new art institution housed in its space. Conceived by the Czech Republic-based Studio Najbrt, the uniquely positioned logo wraps vertically around the corner of the Kunsthalle Praha building and is based on a typeface by German designer Jan Tschichold, who created it in the 1930s around the time the station was built. Construction involved modeling the hinged letters in paper and modifying the forms to account for the central bend, a lengthy process you can see more of Studio Najbrt’s Instagram. Continue reading