GIOVANNI ANSELMO

Posted on 2022-01-17

From the end of the 60’s Anselmo drew inspiration from natural events and from the energy that arises from them, being one of the earliest founders of the Arte Povera movement.
His radical research combines materials of different nature in continuous dialogue or conflict, making the forces that animate the work of art almost tangible, manifesting themselves through the effects on the surrounding world.
This dualism translates into a continuous tension between visible and invisible, between power and act, between finite and infinite. Organic and inorganic, natural and technological, lightness and heaviness are just some of the dialectical couples in the work of the artist. In those couples the energy inherent in the material is blocked in that moment in which opposite phenomena collide and are zeroed out.
The exhibition presents a selection of representative works of the artist in a path dated from the end of the ‘60s to nowadays.

Opposite – Particolare, 1972/2013

Exhibition runs through to March 5th, 2022

Alfonso Artiaco
Piazzetta Nilo 7
80134 Napoli
Italy

www.alfonsoartiaco.com

  

MARCUS JAHMAL – MINING

Posted on 2022-01-17

Jahmal is a self-taught painter, born and raised in Brooklyn, with familial roots in Louisiana and Texas. Jahmal’s paintings are surreal, symbological narratives that exist as documents of our current moment, yet also embody a mythological timelessness. The title, Mining, takes on a number of meanings—mining for materials like silver or gold; mining for oil (a particularly personal meaning as his great grandmother owned an oil well in Texas); Also, the notion of mining within one’s own psyche. The heavy use of black oil paint references this idea throughout each of the paintings, and the work is charged with an intuitive sense of image and color to evoke the ways in which the personal belies larger implications of the universal and the mysterious.

Opposite – Silver Disappearance, 2021

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022

Anton Kern Gallery
16 East 55th Street
10022
New York

www.antonkerngallery.com

  

PAUL SPENDIER – SEASONAL DEPRESSION

Posted on 2022-01-17

At first glance, the space suggests a picturesque holiday image that evokes our collective desire for wellness. But on closer inspection, the sterility of the landscape, manifesting itself in steel, branchwood, and plastic, resembles a rather dystopian imitation thereof—what is authentic about this natural environment anyway? Seasonal Depression unfolds, dismantles, and reconnects our ironclad notions of the binary oppositions natural-artificial, individual-collective, and real-authentic.

The discourse around our current era, the Anthropocene, addresses the irreversible intervention of humans in their environment that has been fuelled by capitalism and colonialism. However, the notion of a pristine nature has always been fallacious: “The evolution of our “selves” is already polluted by histories of encounter; we are mixed up with others before we even begin any new collaboration”, writes Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing in The Mushroom at the End of the World. The cherry tree placed in the centre of the space loses its ability to change, which humans take over from now on. Thanks to magnets and screw caps, it is dead easy to take the tree apart using the building-block concept, just to put it back together again according to individual preferences. Here, nature is completely subjected to the visions of the rational homo oeconomicus who wants to conquer and dominate it, while at the same time does not want to recognise himself as part of it. The cherry tree rests on a pedestal made of stainless steel, which uproots it from its surroundings and turns it into an aestheticised reminder of the illusion of unruly nature. When trying to capture a piece of nature in a certain moment, any possibility of symbiotic collaboration is denied, which ultimately results in the subjugation of the environment.

Opposite – Schlafendes Flugzeug (orange gezeichnet), 2021

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Seilerstätte 7
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

  

OMELETTE PAPIER

Posted on 2022-01-10

Capitain Petzel is pleased to present omelette papier, a group exhibition of works that engage with the medium of paper in a variety of modes.

Artists included – Karla Black, Andrea Bowers, Joe Bradley, Isabella Ducrot, Jadé Fadojutimi, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Anna Gaskell, Georgia Gardner Gray, Stefanie Heinze, Charline von Heyl, Sanya Kantarovsky, Maria Lassnig, Marcel Odenbach, Pieter Schoolwerth, Mikołaj Sobczak, Barbara Steppe, John Stezaker, Hiroki Tsukuda and Nicola Tyson.

Opposite – Hadi Fallahpisheh, Cats Remembering Things, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 5th, 2022

Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
Germany

www.capitainpetzel.de

  

EMI KURAYA – LONG VACATION

Posted on 2022-01-10

The lockdown environment seems to have pushed Emi Kuraya to her limits, and her new works show that she has nevertheless managed to get out of her house, seeking to confront the unknown. Always halfway between a lucid approach and the exploration of her own unconscious, the young artist provokes an encounter with the other, whether it is premeditated or born by happenstance…

In Lovers, Kuraya portrays a couple by the seashore, painted from a photo-booth image she found on the ground, while she was going to a beach to look for a new point of view on the bay of Suruga… Photography imposed itself on her, and so, for the first time, the 26-year-old woman tried to paint a male figure. “Boys don’t just represent the opposite sex for me, they are the absolute unknown. That’s why I wanted to start drawing portraits of boys, something I had never dared to do before: I needed to explore this territory.”

Opposite – Lover, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2022

Perrotin
807, 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Hong Kong

www.perrotin.com

  

BERNARD FRIZE – COME TO ME AGAIN

Posted on 2022-01-10

Perrotin New York is pleased to present Come to Me Again, an exhibition of twenty works by Bernard Frize, taking over two floors of the gallery. For four decades, Bernard Frize has been developing his signature style of process-oriented abstraction. As an artist he explores the bare minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic, instead focusing on an industrial approach to making art. Working in series, he conducts experiments, exploring all the possible visual outcomes of preconceived protocols. While each series records the peculiar dynamics of a predetermined technique, his vibrant abstractions also allow for chance.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to February 19th, 2022

Perrotin
130 Orchard Street
NY 10002 New York
USA

www.perrotin.com