UNMASKED

Posted on 2022-01-31

Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition in Venice of works by Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Chantal Joffe, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel and Celia Paul.
Seeing faces and communicating unspoken emotions and thoughts via facial expression has never seemed more significant than now, after nearly two years of a pandemic which has made mask-wearing an essential aspect of everyday life. In these works, a number of which have been created especially for the exhibition, artists convey the myriad nuances of human countenance: the warmth of a friend’s smile; the pursed lips of a toddler; the resolute gaze of a self-portrait…

Opposite – Nicholas, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2022

Victoria Miro
Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994
30124 Venice
Italy

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JULIEN CECCALDI – GOURMANDISES

Posted on 2022-01-31

Working in painting, sculpture, and comic books, Julien Ceccaldi explores a set of archetypal characters that morph and develop in different iterations of themselves. Influenced by the Shōjo manga genre — which focuses on romantic relationships and heightened emotions, Ceccaldi portrays characters as yearning or aspiring in some form or another: for love, sex or success. Attention or affirmation is sought through different means, and Ceccaldi’s world tends to be split into two polarised types of being: hulking, muscular, glowing bodies – aloof targets of sexual and romantic desire – and the unnoticed, exhausted other in this unrequited dyad. Through compositions framing the gaunt, almost repulsive, figure as a lead protagonist, the artist hints at the grace and nobility lying underneath their off-putting traits.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

Modern Art
4-8 Helmet Row
EC1V 3QJ
London

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SUZANNE JACKSON – IN NATURE’S WAY…

Posted on 2022-01-31

For her first exhibition at The Modern Institute, Savannah-based artist Suzanne Jackson presents a new body of sculpted paintings. Jackson’s life’s work is multifaceted; spanning five decades, Jackson has excelled as a painter, poet, dancer, teacher, curator and theatre designer. Breaking away from the structure of stretched canvas or paper, Jackson re-examines the medium and abstraction as a genre.

Opposite – P.K. Blossoms, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 19th, 2022

The Modern Institute
14-20 Osborne Street
G1 5QN Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com

  

RICHARD HUGHES – PAPERWORK

Posted on 2022-01-24

Richard Hughes’ practice primarily centres on the transformative effect of time on a place or an object via deterioration, or how it can be transubstantiated into a dissimilar situation.
At The Modern Institute’s Brick Space Richard Hughes presents works on paper for the first time. During the UK lockdowns Hughes began re-exploring the medium, making use of rudimentary materials and limited space. The initial sketches began as proposals for potential sculptures, works to be made when the limitations were lifted, but they soon evolved into works that held their own footing. Unconsciously they illustrated a collected mindset pondering something greater than the self that can be enhanced from isolation, feeling the vastness illustrated through the minutiae of the everyday.

Opposite – Three Ball Surprise, 2022

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2022

The Modern Institute
Bricks Space
1 Aird’s Lane
G1 5HU Glasgow
Scotland

www.themoderninstitute.com

  

DIETER ROTH – 2 PROBLEME UNSERER ZEIT

Posted on 2022-01-24

After a first solo exhibition in 1989, this is the second exhibition with Dieter Roth (1930-1998) at Galerie Buchholz.

Opposite – Entenjagd, 1971-1972

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2022

Galerie Buchholz
Neven-DuMont-Str. 17
50667 Cologne
Germany

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

ZEITGEIST

Posted on 2022-01-24

Galleri Nicolai Wallner is pleased to present Zeitgeist—a group exhibition introducing the works of Anna Kristine Hvid Petersen, Emilie Imán, Eva Helene Pade, J.G.Arvidsson, Martin Aagaard Hansen and Oliver Bak. There is an undeniable part of our nature that drives us to understand, to process, to categorise, to make sense of our world and our position in it—to contextualise how we belong, what we do and who we are. The idea of the zeitgeist, and of trying to define the zeitgeist as it happens, can be interpreted as an extension of this very human quality.

Opposite – Tezeta/Memories, 2021 – 2022

Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2022

Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Glentevej 47 – 49
DK-2400 Copenhagen
Denmark

nicolaiwallner.com