ALBERT OEHLEN – NEW PAINTINGS

Posted on 2024-03-25

Oehlen’s images are divided, repeated, and distorted to conjure a new pictorial narrative. His original source is reimagined; it is at times decipherable, and at others annihilated. The subject of these paintings is, arguably, unimportant; it is the act of transferring images into a new state that is now significant. The result is sometimes a regular, repeated composition that follows from one section to the next. Yet in other paintings, he chooses much more irregular twists and turns, filled with different possible shapes and endings. There is no barrier between abstraction and figuration, improvisation and control, only the endless potential of the medium.

Opposite – Untitled, 2023

Exhibition runs through to May 11th, 2024

Gagosian
20 Grosvenor Hill
W1K 3Qd
London

gagosian.com

  

ZHANG YINGNAN – MELTING

Posted on 2024-03-25

This presentation is comprised of 11 new paintings, all made within the last year, showcasing the Beijing-based artist’s near-photorealist take on architecture of interior spaces, always devoid of human subjects. Melting, also known as erosion, is a process in which solid objects gradually change to liquid states. This process can occur in various different materials, such as melting icebergs, rocks, and metals. These processes are important parts of the natural cycle of matter and energy and have a significant impact on the formation and evolution of ecological systems as well as on the survival and development of both humans and nature.

Opposite – Dizziness

Exhibition runs through to April 12th, 2024

KÖNIG GALERIE
412 Apgujeong-Ro
Cheongdam-Dong
Gangnam-Gu Seoul
South Korea

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

MARY LOVELACE O’NEAL – HECHO EN MÉXICO—A MANO

Posted on 2024-03-25

A unique and dynamic force in American art since the 1960s, Lovelace O’Neal has developed a singular visual vocabulary that is at once acutely personal and profoundly political. Drawing on a broad range of influences—from Minimalism to Abstract Expressionism—Lovelace O’Neal parses worldly themes of race and gender while remaining fully immersed in conceptual and metaphysical investigations of joy, exuberance, nature, and the sublime. The artist’s body of work—which includes paintings, prints, and drawings—reconciles the intimate and the monumental, the minimalist and the expressionist, personal narrative and collective mythology. Often working on a grand scale, Lovelace O’Neal is renowned for her keen sensitivity to color and unexpected use of materials. Her practice moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction: the suggestion of figures and architecture often lurks just beneath vivid, painterly surfaces while enigmatic—often inscrutable—titles hint opaquely at narratives that are never revealed.

Opposite – LOOK OUT FOR ME FRANCIS, 2021-2023

Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2024

Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

marianneboeskygallery.com

  

GIANGIACOMO ROSSETTI – CABBAGE FIELD

Posted on 2024-03-18

Taking its title from an 1873 Camille Pissarro painting once seen as ‘vulgar’ for foregrounding the lowly cabbage plant, Cabbage Field imbues moments of everyday urban life with an auratic stillness.

While trying to abandon any metaphysical subject and adhere to the realist tradition—by portraying ordinary scenes without mediation—Rossetti was nevertheless led astray. His attempts at realist representation here are disrupted by mundane fabrications. The characters that populate his paintings, those dear to him, gaze past one another, isolated despite their physical proximity. The result is a mirror-like world where intentions are shaped by impulse and desire.

Opposite – The Connoisseur, 2024

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2024

Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York

greenenaftaligallery.com

  

CHUNG EUN-MO

Posted on 2024-03-18

In the paintings of Chung Eun-Mo – whether it be the irregular shapes as in the earlier works, or in the regular, circular or rectangular format – the color can be seen as a combination of “light, weight and pleasure”. It becomes the substance to give luminosity and build harmonious relationships. Composed of planes of color and light shifting softly, Chung’s works present a sensitive geometry differing from the normative order of Minimalist art; sometimes they overflow beyond the boundaries of the canvas to extend onto the walls and transform the real space.

Opposite – Embrasure, 1994

Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2024

Monica De Cardenas
Via Francesco Viganò 4
20124 Milan
Italy

monicadecardenas.com

  

RENÉE LEVI – LÉSÉDY

Posted on 2024-03-18

Painting is Renée Levi’s natural vocabulary. In his exhibitions, the artist deploys it so that we can make a physical and poetic experience of it. For her, the time of the exhibition, this scene, this strange space offers an impulsive and dazzling moment. There is no point in looking for stories and narrative logics, they have been deliberately reduced. It’s about experiencing intensity, its color and its structure together.

As in all her exhibitions, Renée Levi shares with us here a poetic architecture in a place. The frames of the paintings reverse the perception we have of them. For a time, they are a means of densifying our understanding of its medium and its scope. Renée Levi’s paintings become limit moments in the thought of painting. If his works will perhaps abandon this state when they simply hang on the wall again, here they play on their own balance to gain a foothold in our common space.

Opposite – Lésédy P, 2024

Exhibition runs through to May 10th, 2024

Galerie Mezzanin
63, rue des Maraîchers
CH-1205 Geneva
Switzerland

galeriemezzanin.com