JOSH SPERLING – CHASING RAINBOWS

The exhibition brings together a number of new works by the New York-based artist: composites—or shaped canvases and plywood panels—a series of monochrome canvas reliefs, and a large-scale installation. Sperling’s dynamic clusters of brightly colored forms blur the lines between painting and sculpture, image and object. Though each shaped canvas is distinct, it relies on other forms in the field for compositional coherence and energy. Often asymmetrical and happily off-kilter, a cluster is always satisfying in its surprising arrangement.
In Poppycock (2017), three ovals compete for prominence in the center of the composition, shuffling and re-shuffling before settling into a makeshift pile. A maroon arch buttresses them, cradling them into stillness. These snaking forms—“squiggles”—appear throughout Sperling’s work and act, alternately, as instigators and appeasers of movement: the maelstrom of forms that characterizes Sperling’s work. To execute a single “squiggle,” sheets of plywood are laid on top of each other, resembling a topographical model, before they are covered in canvas and painted over in Sperling’s signature palate of saturated, sometimes clashing colors. The ridges of the wooden armature, visible through the canvas, add sculptural contrast to Sperling’s interest in flatness—of color, of form.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2018

Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

www.perrotin.com

GIOVANNI OZZOLA – FALLEN BLOSSOM – WHISPERING

Ozzola is a multidisciplinary artist; his work involves the public through diverse sensory and cognitive experiences. Photographic images, sculptural objects, and video installations are experienced by the viewer in their essential nature and express an ability to communicate with people’s emotional memory.

The work of Giovanni Ozzola demonstrates the irrefutable signs of his endless research and observation. The importance of light, its presence or absence, as it reveals and hides landscapes, objects and (more rarely) people, enlightening the uniqueness of every instant. In his favourite subjects we recognize recurrent and cyclical themes: Time, Nature, and the furtive intervention of human beings; doors and windows, broken walls and cracks that open up to the view of a perfect intimidating seascape or the undulating motion of the desert. Sceneries at the mercy of temporary and transitory climates, such as: a sunset, a distant storm,
the imminent approach of the night, and calima. Night visions of rivers, shrubs and flowers, garages, bunkers and wrecked houses covered by graffiti, tormented love messages on walls coloured by mould and lichens.

Minimalist spaces where the Light and the Darkness are protagonists in a composition of essential elements, perhaps clandestinely present or passing by; buildings undergoing construction whose gaze is alone and silent whilst facing the outside, towards the sky, towards the sea, towards the wind…

Exhibition runs through to Febuary 27th, 2018

Galleria Continua
Dashanzi Art District 798 #8503
2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst.
100015 Beijing
China

www.galleriacontinua.com