A Visual Novel or VN is a digital semi-interactive narrative game. The narrative is paced at your own discretion.
Opposite – The Hard Way, 2022
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2022
Galerie Buchholz
Neven-DuMont-Str. 17
50667 Cologne
Germany
Kennedy Doig’s working process typically begins with photographs. Using a basic iPhone camera as a pocket notebook, a sketch pad, or a visual diary to document the sights and events of daily life, the artist later returns to these snapshots, breaks them apart, and collages the locations and characters together into timeless memory scenescapes. A long and laborious time is spent on each composition—drawing, etching, and then painting the same subject over and over again to break away from the original source material and disturb the easy accessibility of conventional realism. What results are images that are less direct and more mysterious in ways undeniable yet barely perceptible, gently veering in and out of the surreal in a subtle play of Magic Realism.
Opposite – Train with Shane, 2018-2019
Exhibition runs through to August 19th, 2022
Baert Gallery
1923 S Santa Fe Avenue
CA 90021
Los Angeles
“The original concept behind Chapeau! was as a sequel of sorts to the Shoo Sho that Julie Curtiss curated last year–riffing on the notion of an elegant hat shop downtown, and also playing with the congratulatory French phrase. But as I began to organize the artist list, news of the leak from the Supreme Court broke and my intention with the exhibition shifted. I started thinking about the many different hats women are expected to wear–and particularly had to wear over the past few years in the exacerbated chaos brought on by the pandemic. Now, overturning one of the last bastions of a woman’s autonomy in this country is a startling reality–forcing us into taking on even more, and in increasingly frightening ways.
Brigitte Mulholland
Opposite – Son De Bajo Color, 2016
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2022
Anton Kern Gallery
WINDOW
91 Walker Street
10013 New York
Does the same body cohere across different times or is it different bodies every time? Let’s imagine body building as a constructivist or poetic calling – ongoing, hysterical. Digestion requires special organs in order to absorb and break down the various things and experiences that life brings our way. Mentally and materially, every time. Somewhere between the heart and the genitals, a stomach is summoned, and connected to this a mental intestine. And a smiley face. Henrik Olesen seems to call forth a fresh body right here in the dead-end of a certain masculine modernity we may never be fully done with. Sculpture and painting are reactivated for diagrammatic purposes, meaning they don’t show bodies so much as elaborate the means of plugging in and connecting the desired parts in a given space and time. No figures here, only the opening of a sort of virtual construction site where another, actual body might already
be forming: “my organs” for whomever.
Opposite – Monument after Anthony Caro, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 20th, 2022
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany
Cranston’s show at Modern Art includes large-scale paintings made with distemper and oil on linen and smaller works painted on hardback book covers. These paintings appear like fragments, capturing and preserving an illusion for us in an expansive world of their own. Each canvas offers a glimpse into the heart of a densely packed scene, guiding our attention through the oblique contours of Cranston’s storytelling. Most of the paintings are scenes of domesticity, private spaces beckoning the viewer’s curiosity inward. Abandoned tables, empty chairs and barren chambers pull the brakes on our attention, first lulling, then tuning our perception to the fabric of dreamlike domains. What emerges is compelling and uncanny: a frail child hanging off sky-high branches, a cat reclining on freshly painted floorboards or a faceless figure meeting our gaze. The question of narrative casts its shadow as we feel the distance between us and the heart of action, tripping up and trying, quickly, to catch on. The work asks, without ever quite revealing, whether these are moments of foreboding or earnest reflection.
Opposite – Island Years, 2022
Exhibition runs through to October 1st, 2022
Modern Art
7 Bury Street
SW1Y 6AL
London
For her solo debut in China, the New York-based artist Joanna Pousette-Dart presents 10 new paintings at Lisson Gallery Shanghai. These new works, created specifically for the exhibition, feature paintings that continue to explore the curvilinear format, which are a means of expressing her perceptions of the natural world and have become signature elements of her work. By melding all the components of a painting into an active and dynamic interplay between shape, form, line and colour, the paintings suggest the sense of flux, movement and ambient light one encounters in nature.
Opposite – Untitled, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2022
Lisson Gallery
2/F, 27 Huqiu Road
Huangpu District
200002 Shanghai
China
