Curated by Haifa Bint-Kadi, “Across Imaginary Boundaries” opened this evening (September 7) at the Riverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers Public Library (1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, New York) and will be on view until December 14, 2023. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Yonkers Public Library's Riverfront Art Gallery hosts a…
HIS HANDS SWAY back and forth as if he is conducting an invisible orchestra. They rarely touch his instruments, which spill across the limestone floor in a tangle of wires and electronic panels; activated by motion sensors, their ethereal sounds echo through the hall. Tarek Atoui is mesmerizing to watch, unusually so for an artist who began his career as a DJ almost three decades ago, and as the sun finally sets behind the vaulted clerestory windows of Luxembourg’s Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean a cathedral-like space designed by I. M. Pei his performance crescendoes to a rumbling climax.