DAVID LEGGETT – WHY YOU REALLY MAD?

Posted on 2020-06-22

Why you really mad?, is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based David Leggett which features paintings and works on paper from the last few years that utilize a comic style to deal with serious subjects like racial injustice and police brutality alongside lighter ones like art history and pop culture.
While he makes his works accessible with colorful depictions of Bart Simpson, Fat Albert, Alfred E. Newman and other somewhat familiar blobby characters coupled with catchy phrases, he does so to get you in. Once there, you will have to face the more difcult issues that are part of every work. The question in the title is Leggett’s, one he poses to anyone who might take ofense at his work.

Opposite – You can do what you wanna do, 2017

Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

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JONGSUK YOON – APRIL MAI 사오월

Posted on 2020-06-22

The more you explore Jongsuk Yoon’s paintings, the more you realize that her pictures have grown larger and bolder over the years, while continuing to evade comprehension. Their dry, floating colors and their linear and painterly all-over structure transforms them into diaphanous phenomena that seem briefly to condense, only to dissolve in the next moment into individual markings, lines, fields, and subtle moods of color and form.
The strange, resonating inability to place these pictures can be partially explained by the artist’s biography. Jongsuk Yoon was born in Korea in 1965. Her father ran a gallery for traditional Asian ink painting. She left her home country in 1995, when she was almost 30 years old, to study in Germany, among other places at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf under Fritz Schwegler. For a long time, she has been at home in two worlds, never feeling entirely at home in either. After exploring conceptual ideas in complex knitted pictures at the beginning of her career, she began to focus entirely on drawing and painting. Since that time, her work has been located within a structural inbetween space in which not only line and plane, colors and black and white, as well as abstraction and narrative elements, but more importantly also the traditions of Asian and European landscape painting encounter each other and mingle.

Opposite – Spring, 2020

Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

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PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU – BOSSA BOSSA

Posted on 2020-06-22

Bossa Bossa brings a series of recent works to our exhibition space, along with works created in situ, constituting an immersive installation that embodies the work of an artist who defines himself as an explorer. The phrase used in the title means “victory, victory” and refers to a cry of celebration and encouragement shouted by African migrants when they succeed in crossing the fences that separate them from Europe, a cry that is answered and repeated by those who remain on the other side of the barriers.

A self-taught artist, Jean Appolinaire Tayou abandoned law studies to dedicate himself to art and adopted his parents’ first names, giving them a feminine form by adding a final “e” in order to distance himself ironically from the importance given to authorship and the assigning of masculine and feminine roles, a shift that can also be applied to any reductive attempt to interpret specific geographical or cultural origins.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2020

Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
Guecho, 12 B
28023 Madrid
Spain

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ANDRÉ BUTZER

Posted on 2020-06-15

Since 2018, André Butzer resides in California and continues his elementary explorations of colour, light, and pictorial scale. Yet, everything seems to be “seen anew”. His paintings virtually reinvent themselves. Some of them are now even titled again, often in the form of basic words such as “Pistachios”, “Barber Shop”, and “Lunch”. Everyday things, places and activities from which the mosaic of an American experience gradually forms itself.
Central to the selection of five recent paintings and one work on paper is English Muffins. In its visual abundance, the painting is just as overwhelming as it is ravishing. It encompasses the entire chromatic spectrum. Every hue, every state of colour is incorporated into this painterly simultaneity of escalation and serenity. Butzer keeps what is abstract and what is corporeal, what disintegrates and what assembles in a precarious balance.

Opposite – Untitled, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2020

Galerie Max Hetzler
Bleibtreustraße 15/16
10623 Berlin

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RICHARD GORMAN – DALKEY 2

Posted on 2020-06-15

dalkey 2 is the second part to the exhibition by Richard Gorman that began in early March but was quickly interrupted by Covid-19. All of these paintings were made by Richard while he was cocooning in his studio in Dublin during ‘lockdown’.
In dalkey 2, Gorman continues with his personal take on the ’emotional geometry’ for which he has become celebrated in the past two decades. Approached with a lightness of touch, the works carry a renewed sense of movement and immediacy: angular, interlocking blocks of colour seem to spiral outwards, while radial shapes pirouette on their axis.

Opposite – Victor Victor, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2020

Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane
South Anne Street
Dublin 2 Dublin

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GEORG BASELITZ – YEARS LATER

Posted on 2020-06-15

This exhibition is focused on a set of thirteen large oil paintings that Baselitz made using a “contact-printing” technique related to the one applied in his series, What if… (2019), which was exhibited at Gagosian San Francisco earlier this year. To create each new black-and-gold painting he uses a stencil to render inverted figures on blank canvas, painting just the panel’s background to generate bold negative silhouettes. Against this ground he presses a black canvas, lifting this second support to produce an image distinguished by a slightly softer look than those made more directly. The hybrid result not only stresses medium over image, but is also distinguished by an element of unpredictability that bespeaks freedom and vitality. In a single painting in pink, the figures are rendered without a stencil as positive images.

Opposite – Madame Demoisielle weit weg von der Küste, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2020

Gagosian
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central
Hong Kong

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