GIORGIO GRIFFA – LUCE BUIO

Posted on 2022-09-26

Giorgio Griffa is primarily known for his painted canvases that are nailed directly to the wall — unprimed, unframed and unstretched — the majority of which are executed in a luminous palette of desaturated colours. The canvases are folded when not exhibited, which creates visible creases that become a vital part of the work. At first glance, it is hard to differentiate the paintings of fifty years ago with those made recently. A closer study of the oeuvre, however, reveals the existence of eleven major cycles, ranging from the Segni primari [primary marks] series of 1967 to the latest Dilemma paintings. Each corpus has a start date, but not an end. Furthermore, certain works belong to more than one cycle, as different creative trajectories intersect and merge into each other. As the artist himself asserts, the cycles co-exist side by side, being neither stages of progress nor regression, but simply continuous variations of ‘becoming’.

Opposite – Notoignoto, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2022

Xavier Hufkens
44 rue Van Eyck | Van Eyckstraat
1000 Brussels
Belgium

www.xavierhufkens.com

  

IDRIS KHAN – THE PATTERN OF LANDSCAPE

Posted on 2022-09-19

For the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Sean Kelly, Los Angeles is pleased to announce The Pattern of Landscape, a new body of work by Idris Khan. The show features large scale paintings, bronze sculptures, watercolors on paper, and photography. The exhibition is notable for a series of profound developments in Khan’s work which incorporates both music and text for the first time.

Opposite – The ponds – mine, 2022

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2022

Sean Kelly
1357 N Highland Ave
CA 90028
Los Angeles

www.skny.com

  

MAI-THU PERRET – PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN

Posted on 2022-09-19

In her solo exhibition “Portrait of a woman”, the Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret presents new ceramics, textile works and works on paper that open up a frame of reference from mythology, art history as well as arts and crafts. Her works are characterised in particular by an actualisation of the numerous references, which can be read as a feminist counter-narrative, questioning symbolic, utilitarian and gender-specific material values.

Opposite – Space is the place III, 2020

Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2022

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

  

DREW DODGE – PROCHECY

Posted on 2022-09-19

Dodge carefully applies lustrous brush strokes to transform a desert wasteland into a lush, majestic and spiritual setting that enables him to process the past and imagine a future in one scene. He hopes to create an environment rich with queer symbolism that suggests a sense of belonging and freedom. The animal skull that appears in each painting is a malleable symbol that offers different interpretations depending upon the setting within which it has been placed. According to Dodge, “the skull tantalizes the figures and encourages them to look inward to find the same core that the skull represents.”

Opposite – Memory, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

LUCA SÁRA RÓZSA – NAKED MAMMALS

Posted on 2022-09-12

Naked Mammals, is the American debut solo exhibition for Budapest-based Luca Sára Rózsa that features recent paintings that depict unclothed humans within nature. As the artist describes it, “nature plays a different role within the philosophical approaches developed in the East and the West. Eastern philosophies attest to a balanced juxtaposition, the yin and yang of nature, whereas the Western approach is organized upon a hierarchy, with man on the top and everything else lined up below in order to serve him. The figures in my paintings are mammals who have eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, expelled from Paradise, where they are fully exposed to their fate, at times facing it with resignation, while at other times seeking and questioning its meaning.”

Opposite – Human herd, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2022

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

DARREN BADER – WONTHS EVERY FEW MONCE

Posted on 2022-09-12

JLG died last week. He was old (I’m not young). I’ve largely refrained from reading the obits/tributes because I want to continue to regard him and his preternatural gifts as I do (or prefer to): word and image, word and image, word and image, word and image, word and image, word and image—their confluence and dissonance (their never-to-be-consonant), their hauntings and their bliss. Spectac(u)larity.

I finished reading The Recognitions a few days before. It couldn’t but bring to mind persistent thoughts from my mid-aughts: (don’t) pity the artist who wishes to speak with new voice in this vast, decades-old organism of global cultural exchange—its audacious optimism, its shipwreck of meaning across countless shores—that artist was born decades late.

Postmodernism, as it was once quasi-commonly called. Not that (fairweatherly) fashionable, frequently-Francophonic facet of it fashionably denigrated in the conservative press, nor the ghoulish neoliberalism and/or late capitalism dogging many on the left. Rather [I reverently write]: the righteously quixotic embrace of everything—the utopia and vertigo of information, of exuberant semiotic superabundance, insatiable maw of manic (panoptic) panoply, sublimely fanciful farce.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2022

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
W1B 5QN
London

www.sadiecoles.com