PAULINE BAZIGNAN – BATAILLE

Posted on 2021-07-05

Rather like a writer facing the blank page, Pauline Bazignan is also haunted by the prospect of leaving her mark on the immaculate surface of a new canvas. If she does indeed take up arms and enter the struggle, it is only so that the meaningful and intimate relationship she has established with her subject can come to life at the heart of this virgin territory. Her approach aims to tame the space and provide it with the lines that will become emotions and, in an almost indescribable manner, express the artist’s soul. Bazignan battles to leave apparent the traces of her dominion which, as the painting advances, become a motif in their own right amidst the recurrent corolla motif embodied by paint runs and the explosion of expressive effervescence that gradually takes over the entire canvas. The artist’s trademark compulsive all-over approach leads to a dense, but paradoxically airy entanglement; each painting is like a palimpsest with successive flows of paint that create one drip and run after another.

Opposite – 4.08.2020-26.02.2021, 2021

Exhibition runs through to July 17th, 2021

Praz-Delavallade
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003
Paris

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

KIKO KOSTADINOV X YAMANTAKA EYE

Posted on 2021-07-05

Kiko Kostadinov has joined forces with Japanese multi-disciplinary artist YAMANTAKA EYE for a unique apparel capsule that celebrates the latter’s trademark BOREDOM prints.

kikokostadinov.com

  

PIXY LIAO – YOUR GAZE BELONGS TO ME

Posted on 2021-07-05

Pixy Liao is exemplary of a new generation of photographic artists experimenting with the possibilities of portraiture in depicting modern partnership. Her works emerge from personal experiences and her own intimate spaces, challenging conventional socio-cultural ideas of gender constructions and questions of nationality in a globalized world.

Your Gaze Belongs to Me is part of an ongoing, long-term project called Experimental Relationship. The project began when Liao, a Shanghai native, met a Japanese musician in 2006 while studying at university in Tennessee. This first museum solo exhibition of Pixy Liao’s work is arranged thematically, and includes more than 50 works from two series, Experimental Relationship, and the outgrowth series For Your Eyes Only, as well as individual video and sculptural works that Liao is showing together for the first time.

Opposite – After Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, Experimental Relationship series, 2019

Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2021

Fotografiska New York
281 Park Ave South/22nd
New York
NY 10010

www.fotografiska.com

  

FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTAYS

Posted on 2021-07-05

This exhibition will feature masterworks from the photography collection that were made by artists whose careers and personal lives were sidelined, ignored, or impacted by their gender, race, sexuality, or nationality. From Margins to Mainstays will illustrate how the canon of photography has changed since the medium first began being shown in museums in the 1940s, with particular emphasis on rectifying the small percentage of women and artists of color historically acquired by and displayed in public collections. The exhibition will include works by Berenice Abbott, Lotte Jacobi, Carrie Mae Weems, Lee Miller, Cornelius Marion Battey, James Van Der Zee, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Opposite – James Van Der Zee, American, 1886–1983, Kate and Rachel Van Der Zee, Lenox, Massachusetts, 1909

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2021

Museum Of Fine Arts St. Petersburg
255 Beach Dr NE
St. Petersburg
FL 33701

mfastpete.org