JULES DE BALINCOURT

Posted on 2020-07-06

This latest series of abstract landscapes, initiated over a year ago and finalised during the first half of 2020, express a desire for both physical and emotional escape. Mixing intimate and large formats, many of these paintings convey the soothing presence of nature and manifest the need for a shelter far from the world we live in. Created while Jules de Balincourt was splitting his time between Costa Rica, where he has been living partially for the past 20 years, and Brooklyn, where he has spent the last few months in lockdown, the paintings result from a personal reflection on the possibilities of isolation.
The title of the exhibition ‘There are more eyes than leaves on the trees’ derives from a vernacular Costa Rican proverb, which conveys the notion that as isolated as you may be, everyone is always aware of your doings, even in a small fishing village lost in the jungle. It also suggests the debate surrounding the human domination of nature in a world quickly undergoing ecological collapse.

Opposite – City People and Country Roads, 2020

Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2020

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Marais
7 rue debelleyme
75003 Paris
France

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WATER ALWAYS MOVES ON

Posted on 2020-07-06

Divided into three parts, this eclectic selection connects artworks by six artists with different backgrounds and practices. It brings together the classical and the new, moving from paintings with digital aesthetics and classical subjects such as nudes and vanitas themes to paintings whose style evokes Piero della Francesca or Paul Klee.
Various artistic movements are reinterpreted, such as Chris Succo’s ultra-contemporary take on New-Expressionism, Christian Hidaka’s playing with boundaries, Anthony Miler’s surrealism, or the artificial realism of César Piette’s paintings. The theme of clothing recurs throughout art history: the fold recalls the fundamental subject of drapery in painting and sculpture. Charlotte Beaudry’s skirts, scarves, and jeans are another way to treat three-dimensionality and curved lines.

Opposite – Gioele Amaro, W:A:M:O, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2020

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

www.alminerech.com

  

TALA MADANI – THE DOOR

Posted on 2020-07-06

The online exhibition debuts Madani’s newest video animation, which tells a charged, satirical tale brimming with formal, visual experiments in less than three minutes.
One-on-One: Tala Madani, The Door is the gallery’s sixth in a series of Online Viewing Room exhibitions dedicated to a single artwork. One-on-One presentations utilize enhanced editorial content to provide an in-depth look at artists’ practices and specific objects in their oeuvres.
These exhibitions include statements from the artists, art-historical and cultural references, sound and video media that enrich the experience of viewing the work, as well as suggestions for further exploration.

Opposite – The Door, 2019 (still)

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2020

Praz-Delavallade
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris
France

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

GUY YANAI

Posted on 2020-06-29

Guy Yanai’s paintings are characterized by bold colors, simplified shapes, and a flattened depth of field. In his work, the banal is reduced to geometric segments in a stripping away of references to the tangible world in favor of a visual experience that is more akin to digital imagery—using Google Street view as a reference for a landscape for example. He often chooses everyday objects and spaces as his subjects, flattening and abstracting them in a way that seems removed and objective. Yanai has cited numerous sources of inspiration—from old, modern, and contemporary masters to digital imagery, television and advertisements—and his simplified representations may serve as a way to condense and organize the multitude of data we receive in reference to any person, place, or thing into concise representations with tight compositions.

Opposite – Diana, Princess of Wales, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2020

Praz-Delavallade
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris
France

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

MAGALIE GUÉRIN – q p

Posted on 2020-06-29

Magalie Guérin writes:
‘Abstraction seems related to memory somehow; a felt memory as opposed to an image memory perhaps. […] How does abstraction relate to time?’ Answer: through repetition. These works ‘started as twins but ended as distant cousins. Still, same family’. She continues, elsewhere, as follows: ‘In my latest body of work, I’m doing something somewhat similar because I’m repeating marks across multiple canvases. I’ll be working on, let’s say, four paintings simultaneously and doing the exact same painterly mark on all of them.’ Auto-plagiarism, but with a difference. What should we call this? Names and titles are difficult – too abstract. To un-title (be un-titled, un-entitled) is to see ‘properly’, or rather to be seen in its own seeing. So what do we call this? ‘Commensalism’? ‘Chain-painting’? Why not ‘entanglement’ (too trendy?); ‘reciprocal determination’ (too retro?); ‘interpenetration’ (toxic?); or ‘inter-pictures’, ‘chiasmic pictures’, resonance, symbiosis, endosmosis…?

Opposite – Untitled (res 7.1), 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2020

Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London

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DANIEL RICHTER – SO LONG, DADDY.

Posted on 2020-06-29

Celebrated for his riotous compositions of tangled limbs, his fantastical landscapes and his prescient depictions of socio-political events, Daniel Richter’s newest paintings are populated by dynamic, writhing bodily forms that appear to levitate and collide, animated by vivid colouration and heavy black outlines. These large-scale works are influenced by Greek mythology, in particular the flaying of the satyr Marsyas, who was punished for his act of hubris in challenging Apollo to a contest of music.

Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2020

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Villa Kast
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

www.ropac.net