Art : EXIT

BERNARD FRIZE – NOW OR NEVER

Posted on 2019-05-20

While regularly revisiting various moments of his past practice, Frize has never stopped exploring new concepts, inventing novel ways to paint (starting with the development, 10 years ago, of processes based on the creation of one painting by multiple people simultaneously), but he has also, since the mid-1990s, abandoned all recourse to what we summarize as “figurative art,” namely the representation of real and identifiable objects or images. It is only by accident or allusion, and by a natural predisposition of our vision, that we perceive this or that painting as evoking a stone, a curtain or a bookshelf. So much so that this action of expansion that first strikes us corresponds to another, of reduction or of disconnection. The paradox is far-reaching and leads immediately to the Frize’s conception of painting since the beginning, which is to constitute it of an ensemble of paradoxes, in other words of propositions contrary to common sense and expectation.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to August 14th, 2019

Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France

www.perrotin.com

AI: MORE THAN HUMAN

Posted on 2019-05-20

This major centre-wide ‘festival-style’ exhibition explores creative and scientific developments in AI, demonstrating its potential to revolutionise our lives. Bringing together artists, scientists and researchers, this interactive exhibition offers an unprecedented survey of AI with which you are invited to engage head-on.

Experience the capabilities of AI in the form of cutting-edge research projects by DeepMind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Neri Oxman; and interact directly with exhibits and installations from artists including Mario Klingemann, Massive Attack, Es Devlin and teamLab to experience the possibilities first-hand.

Opposite – What a Loving and beautiful World © teamlab

Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2019

Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

www.barbican.org.uk

RYAN GANDER – SOME OTHER LIFE

Posted on 2019-05-13

Some Other Life will feature new works—sculptures, installations, and a video—all articulated around the notion of illumination and enlightenment, both physical and metaphorical, notably through the use of neutral or middle grey, a tone that is perceptually about halfway between black and white on a lightness scale. Many of the exhibited works incorporate the use of rechargeable batteries for the storage of electricity that allow the works to function. In the artist’s own words: “Not only are many of the works conceptual timepieces unto themselves, but like our individual life cycles, they are quite simply running out. This relates to the mortality of the human condition and our anxiety around the influence we play in the world during our time here.”

Opposite – I… I… I…, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 15th, 2019

Esther Schipper
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com

BRENT WADDEN – BANKS / BARS

Posted on 2019-05-13

Canadian artist Brent Wadden presentw a new series of paintings in which he further interrogates his relationship to time. Brent Wadden has always been slightly outside the mainstream. After studying painting and drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in an age when most spent their time in front of a computer screen, he took an interest in weaving. He learned the trade from Travis Joseph Meinolf, an artist from San Francisco who was working in Berlin at the time. The connection with the Bauhaus school seems obvious, although Wadden’s curiosity was originally sparked by the quilt makers of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, well before he deepened his knowledge of the movement. The interest of his work lies essentially in the sectorisation
of different media, as he says himself: “to me, the Bauhaus movement seemed more based on notions of industrial design, while I was more focused on what it meant to weave. I actually continued to paint murals, or to mix both types of work in my first exhibitions, but I found it disturbing, so started to think about transforming weaving into what could be considered a painting.”

Opposite – Untitled, 2019

Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2019

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

www.alminerech.com

RODRIGO MATHEUS – CITY OF STARS

Posted on 2019-05-13

The exhibition City of Stars marks a major turning point in the artistic and conceptual practice of Rodrigo Matheus, who has been based in France for the last four years. The title comes from a brutalist architectonic complex called “La cité des Etoiles,” realized between 1976 and 1982 by Jean Renaudie (1925-1981), within the scope of revitalizing the city of Givors. Drawing inspiration from the French architect’s work, Rodrigo Matheus presents us with an immersive exhibition.

Rodrigo Matheus, imbued by Brazilian brutalist architecture, wished to create works that would fluctuate between an homage to and an interrogation on this architecture in France. In this exhibition, he reflects on the suburb as a space of social construction and creativity, dear to Jean Renaudie.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2019

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg
75004 Paris

www.nathalieobadia.com