The title of the exhibition refers, partly, to the appearance of monsters and their familiars in my 3 sequences of new videos. There may or may not be 13 fiends – it just seemed a better sounding number in the otherwise alliterative collection of F-words.
Opposite – Kafka’s Birthday, 1988
Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2024
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
In this new series, Olivia Bax explores the relationship between material and form in response to the New Art Centre’s gallery space. It is an apt setting for her ongoing interest in the linear and the solid, the interior and the exterior.
Her sculpture is unexpected in every way, from its playful compositions to its unconventional materials – paper pulp, chicken wire, household paint. Welding metal armatures and assembling protruding limbs, she pushes us to consider different perspectives. The title of the exhibition is indicative of the exploratory process behind her work; ‘Handrailing’ is a term used in rock climbing or orienteering to move through or along a space. This resonates with Bax in her process of making and taking a work from one stage to the next.
Opposite – Great Catch, 2024
Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2024
NewArtCentre
Roche Court
East Winterslow
Salisbury
SP5 1BG
Brent Wadden constructs the surface like a weaver, yet approaches it like a painter and refers to his weavings as paintings. He started out in oil, the materiality of his early painted works somehow reminiscent of textiles, and it is this similarity that ignited his departure into the realm of fibres. Intricate weaving panels are sewn and mounted on canvas, then stretched and framed, as one would a painting. The way form and colour emerge and take up space in the composition is similar to large swathes of paint or well blended brushstrokes, but singular in that the physical structure of his works is at once the surface, as well as the material that covers it. Boundaries between mediums are blurred, and hierarchies among disciplines are dismantled. Brent Wadden’s woven paintings seem to reconcile a formally trained hand with a hand that touches out of curiosity.
Opposite – Untitled, 2024
Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024
Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin
Germany
The works conceived by Kassou Seydou for this exhibition constitute a new corpus in the artist’s last decade of creation. They are both a continuation of his research and inaugurate a new technique of representation.
Opposite – Hyenas Dress Up as Lambs, 2024
Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2024
MESTRE PROJECTS
South Ocean Blvd, The Honeycomb Building
New Providence Nassau
The Bahamas
For decades, Mucha’s celebrated multifaceted practice has delved into themes of collective memory, history-making, and structures of power. His insightful examinations of cultural systems, particularly those related to the complex history of his native Germany, call forth critical conversations surrounding institutions and politics of display. Composited by Mucha with a formal rigor that nods to Minimalism, his assemblages of raw materials and found objects – wood, aluminum, flooring, footstools, carpenter rulers – elude explicit reading or meaning. The arrangement is the beginning: abstracted and recontextualized from their original functions, the materials are elevated and transformed in this new condition that releases their latent nostalgic, intellectual, and narrative potential. Mucha’s “history and memory boxes” (Hans-Jürgen Hafneri)* are vessels with networks of references that speak not only to his own biography, but also that of the collective history and culture.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2024
Luhring Augustine Chelsea
531 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York
Working across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, print, textiles, sculpture, and furniture, Tal R questions our conceptions and presumptions about our surrounding reality. Through his own systematization of the world, with what he calls his “artist mathematics”, he tries to understand the physical world he sees before him and the abstract objects he knows by thought alone. When you approach the works by Tal R you will usually find something very concrete and figurative. Something you can describe to someone on the phone, using simple words. Then, at a closer look, you’ll discover something awkward – something sticky. It is as if you would walk a staircase. Suddenly there is a missing step and you are in mid-air. Something that looked playful and happy at one moment can have a weird other reading. It can turn into something disturbing, even uncanny. Like a dream, his works break down the conventional concepts of space and time and reveal certain aspects of human nature that other disciplines cannot. “That is what makes art so important for society,” according to the artist, “because it is the “ghost” in the machine.”
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024
Tim Van Laere Gallery
Palazzo Donarelli Ricci
Via Giulia 98
00186 Rome
