NIKKI MALOOF – ASPECTS OF DAILY LIFE

Posted on 2025-09-22

Meditation on the finality of things and the beauty of nature, evocation of the fleeing of time and a tool of revelation of the world, the haiku offers in a few words a melancholic and concise image, both sweet and bitter, whose fall invites an unexpected humour. While poetic references regularly inhabit Nikki Maloof’s painting, such as to Robert Lowell’s poem Skunk Hour, where one of her previous paintings borrows the title, her recent works have something of this Japanese art of the ellipse. In her painting Flounder (2024), the fish are placed one on top of the other, immobilized in the derision of suspended time, eyes open in astonishment at being there and yet no longer being there, bringing to mind the verses of Matsuo Bashō, grand master of the haiku: In the spring that goes away/The birds scream/The eyes of the fish in tears.

Opposite – Flounder, 2024

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2025

Perrotin
1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi
Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo
Japan

www.perrotin.com

  

JOHAN CRETEN – TREMORE ESSENZIALE

Posted on 2025-09-22

The exhibition unfolds as an instinctive flow, born from the urgent need to give form to an experience that traverses body, matter, and history. Creten’s works do more than inhabit space: they reveal its inherent instability, as if the ground itself was quickened by an invisible pulse. The title gestures toward this very condition, suggesting tremor as both a formal and existential principle, a subtle vibration that resonates within the material and within the viewer’s perception.
Central to the exhibition is the series Odore di Femmina, which explores the delicate tension between attraction and repulsion, desire and apprehension. By shaping clay – primordial, moist, fertile – Creten conjures flowers that are at once fragile and disquieting, capturing the paradox of impurity transformed into the sublime. In these works, sculpture functions as a ritual of transformation, where impermanence and renewal are inscribed in the gestures of molding, building, and letting collapse. Employing a metonymic language, the artist allows the flower to evoke the feminine, conceived as a space of desire, mystery, and sacredness. While the classical elegance of the forms and the meticulous craftsmanship of the petals attract the eye, it is their inherent fragility that imparts true force – a delicate equilibrium between radiance and transience.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2025

Alfonso Artiaco
Piazza dei Martiri 58
80121 Napoli
Italy

www.alfonsoartiaco.com

  

HÉLIO OITICICA

Posted on 2025-09-15

In the first major exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to the art of Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980), Lisson Gallery presents a selection of the artist’s seminal compositions, including vibrant gouaches, and dynamic suspended sculptures, and a rare oil painting. Highlighting the formative years of Oiticica’s career, the exhibition charts his trajectory from early geometric abstraction to immersive environments that transformed the viewer’s experience with art and space.

Opposite – Spatial Relief Amarelo 22, 1959/2012

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025

Lisson Gallery
1037 N. Sycamore Avenue
90038 Los Angeles

www.lissongallery.com

  

ROSS BLECKNER – IT USED TO BE

Posted on 2025-09-08

The title of the exhibition implies a contemplation of things past and transitory states – what lingers at the threshold between form and void, presence and absence, of what used to be. It primes us for an experience that is at once elegiac and reflective, exemplary of the artist’s delicate approach to painting and the construction of images.

Opposite – Shadow Weight, 2024

Exhibition runs through to October 18th, 2025

Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
Germany

www.capitainpetzel.de

  

TIEMAR TEGENE – MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO’S THE DARKEST OF THEM ALL?

Posted on 2025-09-01

Entitled Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Darkest Of Them All?, the exhibition presents recently created monoprints which, contrary to what the definition of a print suggests, are all unique, multi-layered works. This exhibition not only provides insight into the experimental nature of Tegene’s work through her reinvention of the technique, but also tells personal and universal stories of identity and memory.

Opposite – The Black Queen, 2025

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2025

AKINCI
Lijnbaansgracht 317
1017 WZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

akinci.nl

  

HAYLEY TOMPKINS – SURROUNDINGS

Posted on 2025-08-25

For surroundings, Hayley Tompkins brings together a new suite of acrylic paintings on wood panels, incorporating them into an installation with painted sticks and fabric pieces. These transfigured common objects and gestural, abstract paintings mix a dreamlike quality with a sense of the ordinary. Tompkins’ exhibition title provides no specifics or location, and instead suggests an ever-changing set of circumstances, conditions and possibilities; both a position unique to each person and a shared set of coordinates for seeking commonalities and sympathies with others. In this way, the title speaks to the act of installing the works to create a temporary environment for the viewer.

Opposite – A Choice of Sky, 2025

Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2025

The Modern Institute
14-20 Osborne Street
G1 5QN Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com