YUKIE ISHIKAWA

Posted on 2018-08-13

This exhibition features an ongoing series of highly intricate and complex compositions entitled Impermanence. This body of work was conceived in 2012, as Ishikawa meditated on the ever-shifting appearance of the landscape outside her large studio windows. She began to alter the pictorial structure of paintings from previous decades, retouching or reworking compositions that had once seemed complete. No longer facing a blank canvas, she responds to the “given conditions” of the existing painted surface, adding new layers of lines and grids, some with sand mixed into the paint, and some incorporating the tentai technique. This retouching is not intended to damage, destroy, or deny the given conditions, but to generate a new pictorial meaning within the colors and painted forms on the surface. The lower layer now interacts with the superimposed layer in form, color, and texture. The combination of pigments in the stripes produces an optical color mix. As Ishikawa puts it, “I would like to make paintings that simultaneously contain a variety of unique relationships among disparate elements while the various structural components within the painting exist as independent entities.”

Opposite – Impermanence – Columbine, 2014

Exhibition runs from September 1st – October 20th, 2018

Blum & Poe Tokyo
1-14-34 Jingumae
Shibuya
Tokyo 150-0001
Japan

www.blumandpoe.com

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MARILYN MINTER

Posted on 2018-08-13

Since the 1980s, Minter has been at the forefront of the ongoing dialogue surrounding depictions of women in art and media with her raw, honest, and at times explicit paintings and photographs of women. By pushing the boundaries of beauty and glamour imagery, Minter exposes the double standards that influence women’s identities and presents brazen alternatives to the depictions of women that we consume daily.

Minter gained notoriety during the 1990s, at the height of what was known as “the culture wars” in the United States, a period of extreme political correctness that led to art censorship. Not surprisingly, Minter became a target on both sides of the divide—both for being provocative and for working outside of dominant feminist ideology at the time. Steadfastly, Minter continued her work, going on to develop her signature style of hyperrealistic paintings, eventually earning institutional recognition and art critical praise for her traveling retrospective, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, starting in 2015 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and leading up to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, in 2017. In recent years, Minter has been celebrated for her subversion of beauty standards and cultural ideals that relate to women, as well as her lifelong activism that has benefitted and brought attention to major political issues.

Opposite – Indigo, 2018

Exhibition runs from August 10th – October 27th, 2018

Lehmann Maupin
407 Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Hong Kong

www.lehmannmaupin.com

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LEON WUIDAR – INVENTAIRE

Posted on 2018-08-13

Regularly exhibited for 60 years in Belgium and Europe, and present in many public collections in Belgium, Léon Wuidar is one of the few Belgian artists who has, throughout his life, persevered in the path of constructive or concrete abstraction. At the dawn of his 80 years, he finally began to receive the recognition he deserved and was rediscovered by a new generation of international collectors and artists.
Léon Wuidar often quotes as sources of inspiration both his childhood in Liége during and just after the war, as well as architecture and his friendship with Charles Vandenhove. The title of the exhibition: INVENTAIRE comes from the text-poem written by Wuidar for the catalog that we will publish in September
and which will be offered to the visitors of the exhibition.

Opposite – Le rince-oeil, 30 mars 69, 1969

Exhibition runs from September 1st – October 20th, 2018

Rodolphe Janssen
Rue de Livourne 35 Livornostraat
B-1050 Brussels
Belgiumn

www.rodolphejanssen.com

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