ISA GENZKEN – AUßENPROJEKTE

Posted on 2018-12-17

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, the artist will show an installation of models of projects for outside, conceived by her until now. Alongside these, the artist will present a selection of earlier and new works that have an explicit and referential connection to these projects.
The exhibition also announces the upcoming catalogue of Isa Genzken’s projects for outside, to be published in early 2019 as the first volume of a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s works.

Isa Genzken’s projects for outside were first shown by the artist in model form in the Central Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and in the 2016 solo exhibition Models for Outdoor Projects at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.

Opposite – U-Bahnhof Duisburg, 1992

Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2019

GGalerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

ALFREDO JAAR – LAMENT OF THE IMAGES

Posted on 2018-12-17

Ten years after the public intervention Domanda, Domanda in the streets of Milan and It Is Difficult, a major individual exhibition at Hangar Bicocca, Alfredo Jaar returns to Milan with a rigorous and poetic solo display on all three floors of the gallery.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2019

Lia Rumma Gallery
Via Stilicone, 19
20154 Milan
Italy

www.liarumma.it

  

JEREMY SHAW – I CAN SEE FOREVER

Posted on 2018-12-10

I Can See Forever is a pseudo-documentary set approximately 40 years in the future. It is presented as an episode of a documentary television series about “The Singularity Project”– a failed government experiment that aimed to create a harmonious synthesis of human and machine. The film exposes the story of the only known survivor, 27 year-old Roderick Dale. Born with an 8.7% Machine DNA biology and uninterested in the virtual reality-trappings of his time, Dale has committed himself to a life immersed in dance. During his unique, virtuosic activities, he claims to be able to “See Forever” – a multi-layered and contentious term that he defines as the ability to transcend to a digital plane of total unity while maintaining a corporeal physical presence. His rather hermetic life is devoted to studying ballet, modern, and various subcultural styles of dance on television. Candid scenes of a solitary Dale traversing empty civic spaces confirm the fact that ordinary denizens prefer to privately absorb themselves in The Unit – an advanced virtual reality device that has replaced spiritual experience in humans.

Opposite – Representative Measurements ( Control/Love/Ectasy ), 2008 – 2015

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2019

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

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

JOHN CAGE – RYOANJI

Posted on 2018-12-10

Uniting John Cage’s influential practice as a composer and visual artist, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London will present an installation devoted to his celebrated Ryoanji series from the early 1980s, inspired by the rock garden at Ryōan-ji (“Temple of the Peaceful Dragon”), a Zen Buddhist temple that Cage first visited in Kyoto, Japan in 1962. This installation of 11 Ryoanji drawings and 15 recordings of his Ryoanji compositions for various instruments focuses on how Cage expressed his ideas and the garden’s sensibility in both his audio and visual interpretations.

Opposite – Where R = Ryoanji (3R/17), 1992

Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2019

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Ely House
37 Dover Street
W1S 4NJ London

www.ropac.net

  

EVAN HOLLOWAY – OUTDOOR SCULPTURE

Posted on 2018-12-10

Over the last 20 years Evan Holloway’s revisionist take on the modernist sculptural lexicon has become an indelible feature in the Los Angeles cultural imagination. He synthesizes compositional and conceptual rigor with a passion for handmade things, creating a body of work driven by intuition and the meanings resulting from the methods, restrictions, and possibilities of materials. His sculptures retain a democratic openness and accessibility even as they address specific art historical legacies and readily lend themselves to esoteric readings.

Outdoor Sculpture is Holloway’s first exhibition to consist solely of objects conceived for outdoor installation. Though they require intensive planning and fabrication, the open-air settings for which they are intended are necessarily less predictable than white-walled galleries. Holloway thereby reimagines the ephemerality and provisional quality of his earlier work, which often included performative elements or unorthodox materials, in a more expansive register and at a larger scale. As he confronts technical issues of size, visibility, and durability that come along with the possibility of placing objects in the landscape, his forms have evolved in a variety of ways; the exhibition showcases a diverse range of sculptural languages, each of which addresses a different set of questions regarding form and signification.

Opposite – 28 Incense Sticks, 2018

Exhibition runs January 12th through to March 2nd, 2019

David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W. Edgewood PL.
CA. 90019
Los Angeles

davidkordanskygallery.com

  

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG – SPREADS 1975-83

Posted on 2018-12-03

The large-scale Spreads (1975–83) encapsulate many of Robert Rauschenberg’s best-known motifs and materials. Twelve key works from the series―the largest of which stretches to over six metres wide―will go on view at Ropac’s London gallery from 28 November 2018. An integral series of paper collages from the same period will also be exhibited, incorporating fabrics and techniques that relate to the Spreads series.

One of the most influential artists of the post-war period, Rauschenberg revolutionised the picture plane with his hybrid painting-sculptures, created through the innovative inclusion of everyday objects―what he called “gifts from the street”. These Combines (1954–64) marked a watershed moment in the history of post-war art, redefining and expanding the boundaries of what could be considered an artwork.

Opposite – Untitled (Spread), 1982

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2019

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Ely House
37 Dover Street
W1S 4NJ
London

www.ropac.net