MARTINA KLEIN – PERMANENT CHANGES

Posted on 2022-08-29

Martina Klein makes monochrome canvases, which are most of the time not just hanging on the wall, but they stand against the wall or stand free in space, like an object. According to Klein the composition is not made in the painting itself but occurs in the space, within the relation of other paintings. The various monochromes make a choreography of colour planes that defines the space and gives it character. She builds up her painting with several layers of self-made recipes of paint. Adding more pigments to the oil, gives the painting a radiant effect. Her specific use of colours and the way of painting gives her work an extra quality. Recently she cuts the canvases loose of the stretchers, so that they hang partly free form their support.

Opposite – Untitled (Red), 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2022

Slewe Gallery
Kerkstraat 105-A
1017 GD Amsterdam
The Netherlands

slewe.nl

  

JOSEPH KOSUTH – TABULA RASA (14 TIMES)

Posted on 2022-08-22

In this recent series, Kosuth appropriates text from George Orwell’s 1948 dystopian novel 1984, a story which is a tragic illustration of what the world would be without the freedom to think and evaluate truth. Orwell’s unanswered question is mediated through Kosuth’s signature use of neon, toggling back and forth between languages and colors, demanding an answer of the viewer.

Opposite – Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) #1, [Chinese], 2018

Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2022

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.alminerech.com

  

GREGOR HILDEBRANDT

Posted on 2022-08-22

Exploring aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of obsolete recording media, Hildebrandt constructs his visual vocabulary through the usage of vinyl records, audio and videotapes. His creation is always very personal, imbued with a multitude of references drawn from music, cinema, art, and literature he enjoys. Hildebrandt’s monumental collages and architectonic landscapes build up a visceral experience, a song sung in silence. In his own words, they become “a memorial to different songs that are important to me.”

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2022

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

www.perrotin.com

  

JAVIER CALLEJA

Posted on 2022-08-22

It’s a little know fact that Javier Calleja’s emblematic characters evolved through experimentation with drawings and the use of non-traditional materials. Starting from the minimalist concepts in which simple pictorial elements were often contrasted against concise textual components, the work was from the beginning consciously revolving outside of traditionally set parameters. In particular, it was the two drops of water resting on a paper surface that prompted the artist to start working with oversized watery eyes, building his entire artistic universe from such a primordial base. And as if continuing the mitosis-like expansion, the new body of work that the Malagan artist is developing is shifting the focus outwards from the protagonist itself, attributing the surrounding elements with similar, almost principal qualities.

Opposite – This is my big night, 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2022

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.alminerech.com

  

AYAN FARAH – PERADAM

Posted on 2022-08-15

Farah’s works are an alchemy of substances applied on canvas, linen, hemp, and silk. She uses materials such as forest ash, clay, cloud-seeded water, indigo, mud, rust, and marigold to create dyes that are sometimes subdued in sunlight and fixed in vinegar.

The construction of her fabrics is dictated by available material and often includes off-cuts from earlier works, accumulatively stitched together into patchworks that contain the stories of their making. Farah’s practice is self-sufficient in that her works are generated from pre-sourced materials, home-grown pigments and fundamental environmental factors such as sunlight rather than automated processes or global supply chains.

Opposite – Omen, 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 24th, 2022

Galerie Nordenhake
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
SE-113 30 Stockholm
Sweden

nordenhake.com

  

TUE GREENFORT – EQUILIBRIUM

Posted on 2022-08-15

The exhibition counters this idea of EQUILIBRIUM with all manner of dynamics. At the entrance, an organic wheat field grows, MONOCULTURE (2022) opening the space and time of the exhibition onto those specific to agriculture. On the adjoining wall are grafted ears of corn and stalks of wheat, CROPS (2022) immortalized as delicate bronze castings, set directly into the Brutalist plaster of the former church. The grains are rare, ancient varieties that come from the Kerkow estate in the Uckermark region of surrounding Brandenburg. Greenfort worked there together with farmers who are committed to the preservation and recultivation of ancient crops.

Opposite – Iinstallation view

Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2022

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com