JAN-OLE SCHIEMANN – LES FLEURS DU MAL À LA TÊTE

Posted on 2021-11-01

Jan-Ole Schiemann’s gestural abstractions and poetic exits bear witness to oscillation: from figurative to abstraction, cut-ups to hazy mists, cartoonish to existential, tumbling carefree kinetics to the political. Undeniably, Schiemann’s approach is different: he asks the canvas to deal with everything and nothing at the same time. It’s this psychological splitting, this spirited, layered approach that erupts boldly, unshrinkingly in collage, reminding us that our perception of depth is very much within our control.

Opposite – Les fleurs, la peur et le réfrigérateur, 2021

Exhibition runs through to December 4th, 2021

Almine Rech
20 rue de l’Abbaye
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.alminerech.com

  

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE – FINALLY MEMORY YIELDS

Posted on 2021-11-01

On the ground floor, three new Indian-ink drawings of trees will be exhibited for the first time: Finally Memory Yields, Not Everywhere But Anywhere and An Argument Mired in Nostalgia are among the largest trees ever created by Kentridge and will be displayed in his forthcoming Royal Academy solo exhibition. The trees within his practice were born of two memories and misassociations; a friend describing creating a Tshirt for a companion, heard by William “as a tree search”; and his father representing Nelson Mandela, Albert Luthuli and others in the South African Treason Trial of 1956-1961, which his son misconstrued as “trees and tiles.”

Opposite – An Argument Mired in Nostalgia, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

ADAM PENDLETON – DRAWINGS

Posted on 2021-10-25

In his paintings, drawings, and other works, Pendleton uses letters, words,drips, splatters, sprays, and collected images as primary materials. His work is a kind of continuous writing, in which language and gestural marks are recorded, transposed, and overwritten. Blurring the edges between modes of viewing and reading, between representation and abstraction, and between painting, drawing, and photography, Pendleton’s work is a visual philosophy of incomplete postulates. In 2008, he began to articulate his work through the idea of Black Dada, a visual project and ever-evolving inquiry into the relationships between blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde.

Opposite – Untitled (Who Is Queen), 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2022

Galerie Max Hetzler
57, rue du Temple
75004 Paris

www.maxhetzler.com

  

WIM DELVOYE

Posted on 2021-10-25

Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Wervik, Belgium. He lives and works between Ghent, Belgium and Brighton, UK. Delvoye appropriates and diverts art-historical styles and motifs to sublimate trivial yet rather unconventional objects, or sometimes even living subjects. Perhaps best known for naturalizing tattooed pigs in China, or mechanically replicating the digestive system to produce real feces within exhibition spaces, his very eclectic and subversive practice spans a wide range of mediums, including drawing, sculpture and installation.
Constantly oscillating between antagonistic realms such as the sacred and the profane, or the local and the global, he sarcastically confronts the various myths that feed our contemporary society from religion to science and capitalism via unexpected hybridization. Whether he twists the inkblots of Rorschach psychological tests into sleek bronze idols or cement trucks into laser-cut steel neo-gothic cathedrals, most of his works implement expert craftsmanship along with high technology. Wim Delvoye’s ever-shifting, conceptual-adjacent aesthetics further question the commodification of art by strategically and provocatively escaping any attempt of definitive categorization or labeling.

Opposite – Rimowa Classic Flight Multiwheel 971.52.00.4, 2014

Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2022

Wilde
24 Rue du Vieux-Billard
CH – 1205 Geneva
Switzerland

wildegallery.ch

  

REFIK ANADOL – MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS: NATURE DREAMS

Posted on 2021-10-25

MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS: NATURE DREAMS, designed specifically for KÖNIG GALERIE, comprises three novel aesthetic approaches to a vast photographic dataset of nature: A giant data sculpture displaying machine-generated, dynamic pigments of nature titled NATURE DREAMS, four new series of data paintings, and WINDS OF BERLIN, a site-specific, public art projection on the tower of ST. AGNES which will be created based on environmental real-time data collected from the city.

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2021

König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

PABLO RASGADO – TIMESCAPE

Posted on 2021-10-18

Timescape is a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Pablo Rasgado that features three monumental paintings that the artist has been working on since 2015. Each consists of twentyfive to thirty painted passages that Rasgado has removed from public walls around the world including Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, New York, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina, cities where he has worked for extended periods of time, and Mexico City, where he lives. The sections will be installed side-byside to produce a single work that spans more than sixteen feet in width and six years in time. In utilizing the Renaissance technique of strappo to extract painted passages in public space (originally developed to move frescoes from one location to another), Rasgado has created a new painting that functions as a literal
landscape of the various source cities. By foregoing allegory or representation, Rasgado assembles a work that is both a record of specific instances of time, place and circumstance and also an evocative image with multiple readings.

Opposite – Timescape 1, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 20th, 2021

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la