AUSTYN WEINER – HONEY HIGH

Posted on 2022-04-11

HONEY HIGH focuses on Weiner’s most recent works in oil on canvas which unite the opposing artistic qualities of the small drawings that she constantly produces during her travels and her previous large-scale paintings. In an extension of her diaristic habit of constant doodling, writing, photographing, and drawing, Weiner’s body becomes the brush, as her rigorous process steadily fortifies a direct channel from emotion to action. Standing out from the hyperreal figurative milieu of her generation, Weiner’s abstractions offer a perspective that is indicative of the times, imbued with visceral reactions to current events and the female experience.

Opposite – Bulletproof, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2022

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

www.koeniggalerie.com

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ALICE ATTIE – INFINITIES

Posted on 2022-04-04

Language and writing play a huge role in Attie’s visual works. She is also a poet and has published several volumes of poetry. Her works on paper are occasionally based on scientific and philosophical writings. In the works created during the classes of Professor Fred Neuhouser, on the subject of Jean-Jacques Rousseau from her Class Notes series, language acts as a reflexive structure, as the handwritten notes from lectures on the philosopher form long lines and change their direction, bump up against the margins, and bounce back. They enhance an increasingly dense network of thoughts and associations that lends philosophy, and its intellectual concepts, a visual form.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 21st, 2022

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at

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MARK DION – THEATER OF EXTINCTION

Posted on 2022-03-28

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present Mark Dion: Theater of Extinction, an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings. Dion has shown with the gallery for over two decades, but this will be the artist’s first solo presentation in the Los Angeles space. The exhibition will include four new sculptural works and over a dozen new drawings, some among the largest Dion has produced to date.

Mark Dion uses his work to investigate systems of knowledge production and presentation, and to critique the underlying assumptions that determine how disciplines like science, geography, and art classify, organize, and display information. His large-scale installations and sculptural works often mirror the strategies and aesthetics of academic methodology or museum display, and they prompt viewers to consider how these institutions frame our understanding of the material presented, pointing to the social rather than innate construction of knowledge. To deconstruct the notion that the logic comprising these systems is immutable and authoritative, Dion often inserts irrational elements or other non sequiturs into the works, subverting the seemingly rational picture they present.

Opposite – Cabinet of Extinction, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2022

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

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DAISUKE FUKUNAGA – BEAUTIFUL WORK

Posted on 2022-03-21

The exhibition is Fukunaga’s first solo exhibition outside of his native Japan.

The artworks on view feature “the worker” in active and passive states, always with a pleasant expression.

In the gallery’s large space, the exhibition’s namesake work, Beautiful Work is a frontal portrait of a pert person, perhaps a chambermaid preparing to clean up after others. Compositionally echoing Edouard Manet’s Un bar aux Folies-Bergere, Fukunaga’s ready subject contrasts to the weariness of Manet’s barmaid. In the same room, Crawler in the City is a self-portrait of the artist as a lone Google mapper, while Dance casts cart-pushing co-workers in an homage to Matisse’s icon of euphoric choreography.

Opposite – Beautiful work, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2022

Nonaka-Hill
720 N. Highland Ave.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.nonaka-hill.com

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VERA LUTTER – FRAGMENTS OF TIME PAST

Posted on 2022-03-14

In response to an editorial commission—her first—from the New York Times Magazine, Lutter visited the Acropolis and Plato’s Academy in Athens, and the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounio in August 2021, braving the extreme heat and wildfires that threatened Greece that summer. Given the lengthy exposure times of her photographs, individuals passing through the sites have left no visible traces in the images, while the blurring of windswept trees contrasts with the unchanging solidity of the architecture. Employing the durational aspects of her medium—as opposed to the theoretical instantaneity of “the decisive moment”—and eschewing darkroom manipulation or digital alteration, Lutter engages with the fundamentals of photography.

Opposite – Temple of Athena, Acropolis: August 25, 2021, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2022

Gagosian
22 Anapiron Polemou Street
11521 Athens
Greece

gagosian.com

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EXIT ISSUE 44 S/S 2022 SOUGWEN CHUNG

Posted on 2022-03-04

Internationally renowned, Sougwen Chung’s artistic practise uses software, sound, light and space to address the closeness between person-to-person and person-to-machine communication. Hand-drawn and computer-generated marks allow Chung to investigate the relationship between the physical and digital world.

A former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab and a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration, Chung was selected in 2019 as the Woman of the Year in Monaco for achievement in the Arts & Sciences.

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