ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT, during Berlin Gallery Weekend’s mostly digitized preview days, Hannes Schmidt of Schiefe Zähne and I were about thirtieth in the queue for chili cheese fries, which we were to bring back to the gallery where Richard Sides was putting finishing touches on “The Matrix,” an exhibition he made about being immersed in a technological world of uncertain boundaries. The show includes a crude cardboard homage to Spot, a robot dog offered by Boston Dynamics to the tune of $75,000. Killing time during the long wait for provisions facing a 10 p.m. curfew, most of the nearby restaurants
The Drawing Center opens Ebecho Muslimova s first solo museum exhibition
Ebecho Muslimova, Fatebe Phantom Cage, 2020. Enamel and oil paint on Dibond aluminum, 96 x 144 in. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Maria Berheim, Zürich and Magenta Plains, NY. Photo by Matt Grubb//Object Studies.
NEW YORK, NY
.- For Ebecho Muslimovas first solo museum exhibition, the artist presents Scenes in the Sublevel, a site-specific installation that includes ten large-scale mixed-media drawings. Muslimova (b. 1984, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia) is known for her pen and-ink drawings and large-scale paintings that feature her bold and uninhibited cartoon alter ego, Fatebe. Her latest body of work takes up The Drawing Centers downstairs gallery as the stage for Fatebes intrepid misadventures.