MAGALI REUS – X I I

Posted on 2022-10-10

Kerbside construction waste skips are transfigured as domestic fruit bowls in Magali Reus’ photographic series ‘Landings’. Pertly animated fruit and sliced cabbage slivers graze among heaped rubble, plaster dust, exhausted paint tubs, scraps of peeled wallpaper and splintered floorboards. Not some chance apparition of a discarded lunchtime kebab, this vegetal script, between semantic meaning and ornament, spells out the months of the Gregorian calendar.

Opposite – What Grows (Flowers, Flowers), 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 16th, 2022

The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY
London

theapproach.co.uk

  

ISH LIPMAN – THE LOOMING NIGHT

Posted on 2022-10-03

Titled after three paintings that follow his protagonist on a journey to an unknown destination, The Looming Night, is a meditation on this protagonist’s constant pursuit of the horizon line, which is something that only exists in the distance of these paintings. Up close they lose that soft longing, but in the distance they loom large. “It hinges on surrealism but it stays just enough in this world and as a result it’s more unsettling,” says Lipman. “I want to leave enough space to let people get lost in them.”

Opposite – In the Old House, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022

Praz-Delavallade
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

RICHARD HAMILTON – A LITTLE BIT OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN FOR…

Posted on 2022-10-03

New Richard Hamilton exhibition.

Opposite – Self-portrait, 19672022

Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2022

Galerie Buchholz
17 East 82nd Street
NY 10028
New York

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

WANGARI MATHENGE – PERSPECTIVES

Posted on 2022-10-03

The Kenya-born artist creates powerful paintings confronting issues regarding the visibility of the black female in the context of both the traditional African patriarchal society and the Diaspora.
In her work, Mathenge uses loose, expressive, bright saturated brushstrokes to present intimate images of figures in domestic spaces. Her subjects, mostly women, are surrounded by everyday objects that act as markers of time, location, and culture. The canvases display images of the artist herself and relatives in poses of relax or contemplation, evoking a sense of leisure and yet also defiance: they are captured in ordinary moments, often gazing at the viewer with great self-possession, sprawled across the sofa and lost in thought. Family pictures pinpoint individual narratives, while the brightly patterned East African kanga fabric and the recurring statuette of a Masai celebrate a wider inheritance.

Opposite – They Said He Was A Dandy But What Do I Know Of A Jogging Daddy I, 2022

Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2022

Monica De Cardenas
Via Francesco Viganò 4
20124 Milan
Italy

www.monicadecardenas.com

  

DIMENSIONS

Posted on 2022-09-26

Dimensions, a group exhibition featuring new and recent paintings by three contemporary artists: Paige Beeber, Emilie Duval, and Rachel MacFarlane.The exhibition features selections of their paintings, which are united in their spatial explorations.

Opposite – Paige Beeber, More to Follow, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2022

Hollis Taggart
330 Pequot Avenue
CT 06890
Southport
USA

www.hollistaggart.com

  

MADSAKI – THE NIGHT IS LONG THAT NEVER FINDS THE DAY

Posted on 2022-09-26

Having accrued much success and accolades from a painting practice that undermines the dichotomy of high art and low art, MADSAKI’s visual resources range from the classics throughout art history to newspaper images and pop culture icons while he “upgraded” spray paint as a fine art medium. MADSAKI was on the outlook for a new direction and perspective in his works. The title of exhibition, taken from a passage in Shakespeare’s seminal tragedy, Macbeth, conveys MADSAKI’s visual translation of the current global situation from his viewpoint.

Opposite – Untitled, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2022

Perrotin
3/F, 27 Huqiu Road
Huangpu District
200002 Shanghai
China

www.perrotin.com