FRIEDRICH KUNATH – LIVE FOREVER

Posted on 2019-09-16

On nature’s comic indifference towards the human condition.
Drifters stranded on these landscapes connected by one singular horizon, balancing as though on a tightrope.
Balancing as ever between happy and sad, heaven and hell, silly and serious, history and the burden of it.
Idiocies of popular culture and the pathos of philosophy, the ambiguity of our existence.
The California sun is all I had for breakfast, and it sure did burn my mind…
Is the problem that we can’t see, or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?
These drifters are bit actors from a recurring cast. Homeless, although they are home.
Homelessness is the mission, being found is the game…I waited for you, but I never told you where I was.
The search for meaning and happiness and for cats to pet in a dirty alley on a rainy day when you’ve had too much and the weight seems insurmountable.
The end of all wanting is all that I wanted. The horizon just laughed back.

From his precipitous rise in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Friedrich Kunath has been making art that beautifully and lyrically combines the experience of the ordinary with the sublime.

Opposite – I Miss You Already, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2019

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

www.blumandpoe.com

  

NEIL BELOUFA – LA MORALE DE L’HISTOIRE

Posted on 2019-09-16

This is the story of a post-capitalist dehydrated camel who gets some young, dynamic fennecs to build a wall at the expense of the worker ants…
Like the fable that accompanies it (a text that is at once a literary object, a fictional story, and an allegory), Neïl Beloufa’s first solo exhibition at galerie kamel mennour is a stratified choose-your-own-adventure. Engaging the proteoform possibilities that characterise his practice, Beloufa has sketched out a number of propositions with a single movement and within a single space, as if he were layering layers on Photoshop, copy-pasting incompatible aesthetics and theoretical discourses. The exhibition, a postdigital Bride Stripped Bare, displays an instability of meaning that requires of the viewer that she change the paradigm under which she relates to the works, which is no longer an authoritarian and/or democratic and/or participative configuration, but rather requires that she adapt to the idea that meaning here, if there is any, is irreducible, malleable, and subjective.

Opposite – Applique #3, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 5th, 2019

Kamel Mennour
6, Rue Du Pont De Lodi
75006 Paris

www.kamelmennour.com

  

VOLUME FOUR, ISSUE NINE

Posted on 2019-09-11

Photography & Art content Paul Franco, Sophie Green, Keith Haring, Timothee Lambrecq, Jason Lee, Courtney MC, NASA.

Photography & Fashion content Hollie Fernando, Jens Ingversson, Quentin Jones, Kenneth Cappello, Jem Mitchell, Ben Parks, Michael Harrison Rudd, Hannah Scott Stevenson.

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NATASHA LAW – DELIBERATIONS

Posted on 2019-09-09

The act of putting on or taking off our clothes could not be more ordinary. We do it at least twice a day, every day – probably fifty thousand times over a lifetime. And yet to catch sight of someone else engaged in the same undertaking can be an extraordinarily intimate thing.

In Natasha Law’s paintings, women are either fully absorbed in the task at hand, or lost in their own private reverie. They are at their most vulnerable – alone, half-nude, aloof, unprepared for prying eyes – though to redress the balance their faces are almost always turned away, hidden by falling hair or an astutely placed elbow, even cut out of the frame altogether.

Opposite – Pink Skirt Flowers ii, 2016

Exhibition runs through to September 28th, 2019

Eleven
17 Gothic Road
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW2 5EH

elevenfineart.com

  

REBECCA HARPER – CONCRETE SHADOWS

Posted on 2019-09-09

These new works build and expand on themes that Harper has explored throughout her career, particularly ideas of displacement and nostalgia. Harper is interested in how we interact with the world around us, specifically connected to the ideas of transience and alienation. Says the artist: ‘The works contain deep echoes of a personal displacement and narrative. A storm brews, siblings drape on family trees, the figures journey from place to place much like some of my ancestors in exile.’
The subjects of her recent paintings are situated in what Harper describes as ‘middling space’: camping, tree climbing or mid-road trip. Although visually referencing the aesthetic of the classic British holiday snapshot, the initial wistfulness found in these scenes is disrupted by the precarious or temporary nature of the situations and settings. Says the artist: ‘In my work semi-fictional characters travel like chameleons, morphing through varied cultures and classes- taking on different guises in different places. I hope to highlight ideas around the notion of the relationships that exist between identity and displacement (the action of moving something from its place or position).’

Opposite – Trying to Travel the Spaces Between Us, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2019

Huxley-Parlour Gallery
3-5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE

huxleyparlour.com

  

HENRY MOORE AT HOUGHTON HALL

Posted on 2019-09-09

Curated by Sebastiano Barassi, the Henry Moore Foundation’s Head of Collections & Exhibitions, the exhibition will include several monumental outdoor pieces in the grounds of the house, as well as a selection of smaller works, models and etchings, which will be shown in the ground floor gallery spaces. There will also be sculptural interventions in the State Rooms, particularly in The Stone Hall. Highlights include many of Moore’s most celebrated works such as Large Reclining Figure 1984, The Arch 1963-69, Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae 1968-69 and Upright Motive No.8 1955-56.

Exhibition runs through to September 29th, 2019

Houghton Hall
Bircham Road
King’s Lynn
Houghton
PE31 6UE

www.houghtonhall.com