2017 February : EXIT

FERNANDA GOMES

Posted on 2017-02-27

Alison Jacques Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition by renowned Brazilian artist Fernanda Gomes. Showing the most recent pieces of her investigation on painting, she will continue working in the gallery space for three weeks prior to the exhibition opening, using it as an extension of her studio. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, developing research that has been ongoing for over 30 years.

Fernanda Gomes’ work reveals a renewed focus on painting, questioning not only what defines a painting, but also what constitutes a painting exhibition and how we can experience it. The artist will compose and create dialogues between various autonomous pieces made of canvas, wood and paint. While colour may at first appear to be absent, by the exclusive use of white paint, the work challenges us to observe the subtle spectrum that informs our perception of colour. While recalling the geometry and modulated surfaces in the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement of the 1960s, her work references the hundred-year-old history of the monochrome and abstraction.

Opposite – Untitled, 2017

Exhibition runs through to March 15th, 2017

Alison Jacques Gallery
16 – 18 Berners Street
London
W1T 3LN

www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

CASSILS – PHANTOM REVENANT

Posted on 2017-02-27

Illustrating the limits of endurance and empathy, interdisciplinary artist Cassils produces potent evidence of unseen violence while questioning the act of witnessing in contemporary media culture. The exhibition and its title, Phantom Revenant, speaks to the double invisibility of LGBTQI+ people across the world and the ways this violence is archived in public consciousness. Cassils exposes this timely concern through three works that aggressively bring cyclical forms of oppression, disregarded histories, and haunting realities to the forefront.

Challenging the audience’s ability to see while bringing an invisible history into focus, the performance Becoming An Image (2013–present) is a body-intensive attack on a 2,000 pound clay block. Performed in total darkness, Cassils is visible only through the flash of a camera that momentarily illuminates the scene and sears the assault into the viewer’s retinas as an afterimage. The corresponding sounds of physical exertion and exhaustion break through the darkness as abrupt reminders of Cassils presence. The camera’s flash not only illuminates Cassils’s confrontation, but the audience surrounding their assault as well. Cassils’s performance implicates each viewer as participant and turns the act of viewing into an ethical dilemma. This visceral exchange between the artist, audience, and clay monolith archives–through the act of collective witnessing and accumulated strikes upon the clay–an insistence of being seen.

Opposite – Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 4 (Edgy Woman Festival, Montreal), 2013

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2017

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha
Nebraska
NE 68102

www.bemiscenter.org

RYAN MCGINLEY – EARLY

Posted on 2017-02-27

The photographs on view in this exhibition were made by Ryan McGinley in New York City from 1999 to 2003, a period defined by hopelessness for many Americans – synonymous with the onset of the Bush Era, 9/11 and its aftermath. These vérité images, which pre-date his famed “road trip” series, capture the exploits of the artist’s social circle, members of an outlaw creative community based in New York’s Lower East Side. This body of work – a significant addition to the legacy of American subculture photography forged by the likes of Peter Hujar, David Wojnarwicz, Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Nan Goldin – is characterized by McGinley’s idiosyncratic admixture of hopefulness and self-awareness, as well as his unembarrassed disclosure of the melodrama of youth, its inextricably intertwined joy and heartbreak: the artist shows us his debauched, frequently naked friends, laughing and weeping, taking drugs and having sex, tagging walls and pissing off roofs.

Most of McGinley’s subjects are themselves artists, many of them highly recognizable: his childhood friend, the painter Dan Colen; Kunle Martins, better known by his graffiti moniker Earsnot; the late photographer and multi-media collagist Dash Snow, a close compatriot and frequent subject. The photographs vibrate with the synergistic charge of creative community, occupying the interstices between artists and their output; Early illuminates the multi-discursive genesis of much art-making.

Opposite – Dash (Manhattan Bridge), 2000

Exhibition runs through to April 1st, 2017

Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
New York
NY 10013

www.teamgal.com

LOGAN

Posted on 2017-02-27

Set in the future of 2024, Logan and Professor Charles Xavier must cope with the loss of the X-Men when a corporation lead by Nathaniel Essex is destroying the world leaving it to destruction, with Logan’s healing abilities slowly fading away and Xavier’s Alzheimer’s forcing him to forget. Logan must defeat Nathaniel Essex with the help of a young girl named Laura Kinney, a female clone of Wolverine.

In theatres March 1st, 2017

logan

DANCER

Posted on 2017-02-27

Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal ballet’s youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of self-destruction by stardom – his talent more a burden than a gift.
Here is an unprecedented look into the life of a complex young man who has made ballet go viral. Urban rebel, iconoclast, airborne angel, Sergei is transforming the shape of ballet as we know it.
But virtuosity comes with a high price. How can you be free to be yourself when you are ballet’s ‘hottest property’?

In theatres March 10th, 2017

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VICEROY’S HOUSE

Posted on 2017-02-27

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.

In theatres March 3rd, 2017