JOSEP GRAU-GARRIGA

Posted on 2019-01-21

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. On this occasion, the gallery will exhibit a group of tapestries, spanning the artist’s long career, with the earliest dating from the 1970s and more recent works dating from the 2000s. Four decades of creation during which Josep Grau-Garriga, who died in 2011, developed his own visual language, while at the same time revolutionizing the art of tapestry. The exhibition will also include a series of drawings by the Catalonian master, whose pictorial work is relatively unknown, in comparison with his woven work, with which his name has become synonymous. The joint presentation of these two bodies of work—a rare event indeed—reveals the fertile emulation between the two media.

Opposite – Després d’un bon dinar (Après un bon repas), 1972

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2019

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
8 rue Charles Decoster
1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.nathalieobadia.com

  

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Posted on 2019-01-21

A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime. Based on the novel written by James Baldwin.

In theatres February 8th, 2019

www.bealestreet.movie

  

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL

Posted on 2019-01-21

From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY), comes ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment. When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past – she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world she’s grown to love.

In theatres February 1st, 2019

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PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI’S BIRDS

Posted on 2019-01-21

In Nice, France, a seagull drifts before a clouded seascape, spattered with tones of silver and gray. In a 1999 photograph captured in Delhi, India, a flock of birds desert a craggy branch en masse. Sammallahti’s photographs that paint the bird as the protagonist ultimately reflect the artist’s own fascination with flight, and his itinerant life as a traveler.

Over the course of his storied career, Sammallahti has expressed a profound curiosity for nature and the animals who inhabit it. By turns whimsical and lyrical, the artist photographs the world as a means of understanding his surroundings, and of feeling himself a part of it.

Opposite – Nice, France, 1997

Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2019

Nailya Alexander Gallery
41 East 57th Street
Suite 704
New York
10022 NY

www.nailyaalexandergallery.com

  

LAUREN WELLES – NYC: FROM BEACH TO STREET

Posted on 2019-01-21

Lauren Welles is a freelance photographer and former corporate attorney who left an unfulfilling, 16-year career, to follow her passion for photography. She is attracted to ideas and stories that display our commonalities as people; she believes that, as human beings, we are much more alike than we are different. One of her greatest joys is to make candid photographs of people, in which a single frame can tell a multitude stories.

Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2019

The Half King Photography Series
505 West 23rd Street
New York
10011 NY

www.halfkingphoto.com

  

RACHEL COBB – MISTRAL

Posted on 2019-01-21

The work presents a portrait of Provence and the legendary, sometime hurricane-strength wind that funnels through the Rhône Valley to the south of France. What began as fascination became a twenty-year photographic project. Cobb set her camera on an elusive force that has shaped the landscape and people of the region. The Rhône Valley wind has been the center of myth and legend and of art and writing. Invisible to the naked eye, it affects everyone in its path. This includes Cobb who manages to trace the contours of the wind by capturing its impact on the people, landscape and culture of France.

Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2019

Leica Gallery San Francisco
463 Bush Street
San Francisco
94108 CA

gallery.leicastoresf.com