KAROLINA JABŁOŃSKA – JARRED KITCHEN

Posted on 2025-10-27

On view are sixteen newly commissioned oil paintings executed on canvas and wood. The presentation is accompanied by an essay by the curator and researcher Mėta Valiušaitytė; the following is an excerpt from her comprehensive text, available at the gallery and online. In Jarred Kitchen, Karolina Jabłońska stages encounters with food preparation: cutting, storing, displaying.

Her new series explores the paradoxes of preservation, turning the kitchen into a stage where humor, memory, and the female body and labor converge. The large canvases submerge the viewer: monumental female heads, painted on two-meter supports, draw one into a world of giantesses. When their eyes are not closed, their gazes are watchful, yet distant, as if estranged from their domestic surroundings. The smaller works lead viewers into the intimacy of a pantry. Glass jars are filled with pickled cucumbers, beetroots, and red berries––but amid them float fragments of human bodies.

Opposite – Woman on Fire, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

Esther Schipper
16 place Vendôme
75001 Paris

www.estherschipper.com

  

FABIEN MÉRELLE – ARBRE SENTINELLE

Posted on 2025-10-20

As always, Mérelle surprises with drawings of exceptional finesse, where reality and imagination intertwine with perfect fluidity. It all begins with the tree: “The tree is the beginning of everything, and from this tree I mimic nature.”

At times, his universe leaves the page to take shape in sculpture – a tangible extension of his drawing, where body, nature, and moment come together once again.

In Arbre sentinelle, the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, Mérelle turns his gaze to a vanishing place: the island of Oléron, a small islet off the Atlantic coast, where he spends summers with his family. Only the trees remain there, silent witnesses of a retreating landscape. The artist draws deep inspiration from it, as he does from the Loire landscapes that surround him daily, near Tours. The Loire, with its floods and ebbs, evokes for him a blank page to be filled. As he says (and repeats), “Water has the last word” – it always reclaims its rights, reminding us of both the fragility and permanence of the landscape.

Opposite – Danser, 2025

Exhibition runs through to November 29th, 2025

Keteleer Gallery
Pourbusstraat 3 – 5
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

keteleer.com

  

CHLOÉ DELARUE – TAFAA – OBSCENE TEARS

Posted on 2025-10-20

Titled TAFAA – OBSCENE TEARS, the exhibition brings together a constellation of recent works that extend the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the reconfiguration of affect and its evolving modes of manifestation. Through Delarue’s sustained engagement with materiality, persistence, and trace, the exhibition also opens new formal and conceptual trajectories.
Operating within the TAFAA matrix, Delarue’s practice interrogates the accelerating automation of systems and their infiltration into the domains of human perception and affects. Within this expanded framework, she develops distinct subseries some ongoing, others singular, each probing specific facets of this entangled terrain between the technological and the affective, the artificial and the organic, the collective and the personal.

Opposite – TAFAA – DAISY CHAIN – (Unnecessary Doubt), 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 27th, 2025

Galerie frank elbaz
66 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France

galeriefrankelbaz.com

  

GABRIEL OROZCO – PARTITURAS

Posted on 2025-10-20

For his newest exhibition, Gabriel Orozco will present a selection of works created between Paris, Mexico and Tokyo. The series Partituras (Scores) began with piano improvisations, of melodies played and recorded, then transcribed into musical notation that progresses into drawings and sketches, then to paintings on tempera.

Opposite – 17 de Mayo 2025, Paris, 2025

Exhibition runs through to November 22nd, 2025

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com

  

KEN PRICE – PRIMAL, PHYSICAL, SENSUAL

Posted on 2025-10-13

Early in his career, Price made a series of innovative ceramic cups, often adorned with snails or frogs, or emerging from rock-like bases. The title of the exhibition is taken from a statement Price made about this work that speaks to the most fundamental aspects of his influential, five-decadelong career: “I just like the cup. I think it’s a real kind of primal idiom. When you use a cup, it’s right in your hand, and you actually put it to your mouth and drink warm liquid from it. That is very primal, physical, and sensual, and is representative of sensual life.”
Price found a powerful source of inspiration in nature, from the erupting volcanoes seen in his frequent travels to Hawaii, to the spectacular desert landscapes of his home in Taos, New Mexico. Beginning with the cups in the 1960s, then the specimen rocks of the 1980s, and finally the later, biomorphic sculptures for which he is best known, the exhibition highlights how Price synthesized these forms together with everyday objects and the human body. The sculptures and drawings on view, “seduce and enlighten,” as the critic Roberta Smith has written of his work.

Opposite – Droop, 2002

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2025

Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

matthewmarks.com

  

R. CRUMB – TALES OF PARANOIA

Posted on 2025-10-13

In his works of the last several years Crumb reflects on life in his eighties and his sixty-year career as well as themes of personal and mass paranoia during these times of social and political unrest. Crumb’s most mordant attacks are, as always, reserved for himself and show him contending with his own manic anxieties in a humorous and insightful manner.

The new works in this exhibition represent Crumb’s first extensive solo comic work in over two decades, marking an impressive late-career resurgence. Many of these incisive, introspective, and formally adventurous illustrations were made for the artist’s forthcoming publication, Tales of Paranoia.

Opposite – I’m Afraid, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

David Zwirner
616 North Western Avenue
CA 90004
Los Angeles

www.davidzwirner.com