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Mark Handforth’s sculptures imbue the almost-invisible features of our lives – street lamps, road signs, fluorescent lights and fire hydrants – with formal properties that make them strange, larger than life and enigmatically off-kilter. They are meticulously crafted, but deliberately imperfect, often containing a wry humour and poetry in their references and arrangement in space.
Handforth’s objects collage elements together in alluring compositions; an early sculpture of a Vespa is covered in burning candles and becomes an altar; a street lamp is twisted into the shape of a five-pointed star, and a piece of drift wood is cast in concrete and juxtaposed with fluorescent lights. His works have both a sense of distortion and of the manipulation of the urban landscape – literally tied in knots – but also, often an archaic and poetic sensibility.
Opposite – Silver Forest, 2019
Exhibition runs through to September 13th, 2019
Modern Art
50-58 Vyner Street
E2 9DG
London
Focusing on portraiture and landscape and punctuated with still life, the selection of works on view repositions the vitality of moments past through paint applied to canvas. Mothers read bedtime stories; children eat breakfast, sit on laps, and play Chinese checkers; clouds hover over the surface of a cerulean blue lake; and potted plants are placed amongst a child’s toys or present themselves in paintings hung behind a sofa, upon which a young woman reclines in the company of a cat. These diaristic tendencies that characterize Avery’s oeuvre encapsulate a lifelong commitment to the process of painting itself.
Opposite – Triple Jump, 1999
Exhibition runs through to September 14th, 2019
Blum & Poe
19 E. 66th Street
NY 10065
New York
Clegg & Guttmann’s constant artistic research, which draws on the archives of history to give shape to complex ideas and concepts, recreates the context in which Modernism developed in Italy, and it does so with powerful emotional overtones on the three foors of the gallery. It examines a period of great scientifc discoveries and philosophical speculation, of social and political change, of rapid industrial progress, and of creativity in art and literature, but also of ideological uncertainties and the rise of populism – many aspects that overlap with what we see in the world today. “A hundred years after the birth of Modernism”, the artists explain, “we fnd ourselves in a state of profound uncertainty about what answers to give to the most fundamental questions of ethics, aesthetics and politics”.
Clegg & Guttmann’s “modernist” reconstruction appears in a choral visual format with texts, images, objects and sounds that go back to some of the great names of the time. It starts in 1890 with Segantini’s Divisionism and then moves on to Luigi Russolo’s Futurist sound experiments, to the literary experiments of Giovanni Papini and Italo Svevo, reaching all the way to the visionary mathematician Bruno de Finetti’s theory of probability in the 1930s.
Opposite – Apples in a Chrome Bowl, 2019
Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2019
Lia Rumma Gallery
Via Stilicone, 19
20154 Milan
Italy
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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Tal R’s new exhibition Beautiful Boy (Smukke Dreng) at Galleri Bo Bjerggaard consists of paintings, drawings and two films by Emma Rosenzweig. In the gallery’s west wing exhibition space, one is met with portraits of the people who occupy the painter’s home; the painter’s wife, his children and friends, along with still lives of the objects and things that the painter has picked up along the way; a Ukrainian goat, children’s toys and Chinese souvenirs. After nine years with hare glue and pigments, in this new exhibition Tal R has returned to the oil painting. There is great focus on detail and the paintings appear saturated in their abundance. The paintings have a slow quality and a calm, which gives the viewer the opportunity to linger on the motif and the detail. We experience Tal R’s wife and children resting in private moments with ornamental backgrounds. The boys, who show themselves to us in static poses. The still lives of objects found while travelling or in flea markets. While the paintings are made up of layer upon layer of paint, the fifty drawings in the corridor, in a contrast to this, show another kind of calm. The drawings are rooted in a variety of processes: some are sketches for the paintings, while others act as a study of the finished motif.
Opposite – Vertikalt øje, 2019
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2019
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Flæsketorvet 85 A
DK-1711 Copenhagen
Denmark
