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Wednesday
Apr242013

Six Artists to Watch in 2013

Jesper Just, Artist“This untitled photograph of a mysterious merry-go-round aglow in the midst of pitch blackness is representative of Jesper Just's filmic oeuvre that often cultivates a dreamlike atmosphere in which the viewer is given few clues in order to decipher the film's events. The photo is a still from Just's Performa 05 Commission, entitled True Love Is Yet to Come, presented as the opening night of the first Performa biennial in 2005.”

Danish artist Jesper Just is but one of a group of artists who are “about to go stratospheric this year, with prominent exhibitions or other star turns poised to make them household names (in the art world, at least).”

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