ALLORA & CALZADILLA – SENSING

Posted on 2025-12-01

Puerto Rico–based artists Allora & Calzadilla navigate the porous boundary between the embodied, organic perception of living beings and technology’s typically externalized, digital, and therefore apparently “objective” measuring systems. Through paintings derived from seismic data and sensor-responsive glass sculptures, Allora & Calzadilla sound out what it means to sense in environments increasingly dominated by sensing technologies in the service of extractive logics. At the same time, their practice draws attention to the subtle, often ineffable textures of somatic experience, decentralized flows of emotion, intuition, and memory, that remain irreducible to metrics. By foregrounding what challenges technical capture, Sensing engages viewers in the eco-poetic entanglements of material reality, destabilizing the boundaries of quantified perception and illuminating the mysterious bonds of matter and signal.

Opposite – Lightbound, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2026

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com

  

SEAN SCULLY – TAPESTRY

Posted on 2025-12-01

The exhibition titled ‘Tapestry’ brings together four distinct bodies of work, each rooted in a deep engagement with the emotional potential of abstraction. It begins with a series of recent pencil-on-paper drawings, intimate in scale and delicately rendered. Alongside these are a number of hand-woven tapestries, produced in collaboration with master craftsmen at Mourne Textiles, where the drawn line is translated into fibre, texture, and weight. These are shown in conversation with new, large-scale paintings from the Stack series, shown here for the first time, these works merge drawing, painting and spray paint to create layered, muscular works that hover between architectural weight and painterly gesture. Completing the exhibition is a selection of new oil-on-copper paintings, smaller and more modest in scale but expansive in rich colour and emotional depth.

Opposite – Translation of Drawing 1.24.24, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 24th, 2026

Kerlin Gallery
Anne’s Lane
South Anne Street
Dublin 2 Dublin
Ireland

www.kerlingallery.com

  

MARIO GARCÍA TORRES – OILS

Posted on 2025-12-01

Inspired by specific episodes in Mexico’s recent 20th-century history, García Torres constructs a narrative plot that gives rise to a reflection on the idea of theatre, the concept of spectacularisation and the modes of enjoyment generated by both. It is an opportunity for the artist to reflect on elements deeply rooted in the culture of his country at that time and strongly characterising its public life.

The series of oil paintings produced for his exhibition constitute the artist’s first approach to this technique, a desire to engage with figurative painting, proceeding in parallel with a very personal investigation into the concept of “truth” in the representations he has chosen, into the ideas of reality and imagination, into the boundary between true and false, a series of connotations that conceptually resonate with and closely reflect the cultural and social tradition of his native Mexico.

Opposite – Ironed Argument, 2025

Exhibition runs through to February 14th, 2026

Galleria Franco Noero
via Mottalciata 10/B
10154 Torino
Italy

www.franconoero.com

  

ENCOUNTERS: GIACOMETTI X MONA HATOUM

Posted on 2025-11-27

The Barbican pairs Giacometti and Hatoum to reveal how the human body and the systems around it share the same uneasy terrain.

The Barbican’s new exhibition, Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, feels like walking into a psychic collision, as it brings together Hatoum’s mix of new and existing works with her own selection of Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures, staging an arresting dialogue between two artists separated by nearly a century yet united by a shared impulse to show the human condition stripped raw.

Hatoum, whose practice has long confronted themes of displacement, marginalisation and systems of social and political control, drags Giacometti’s wiry haunted figures straight into her installations, sparking a sometimes jolted conversation across generations.

The metaphorical cage reoccurs like a nightmare, Giacometti’s skeletal frames that look like the bare outline of a trap opposing Hatoum’s deceptive structures that radiate hostility whilst taking the form of the furniture of everyday life. Together their works poke at how architecture and entrapment can shape how the viewer senses frailty.

This is where the pairing holds power, though opposing, both artists meet in the land of vulnerability. Giacometti gives you a single fragile body. Hatoum gives you the systems closing in around it. Together they create this atmospherical uncanny pressure, a contemporary type of dread that brings with it an eerie sense of familiarity.

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum is on view at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, until 11th January 2026.

Words – Celeste Aurora Mae

www.barbican.org.uk

  

SPENCER SWEENEY – PAINT

Posted on 2025-11-24

Sweeney cites jazz as having sparked his love for improvisation, which he interweaves with references to pop culture and art history in nudes, portraits, and self-portraits. Resonating with the spirits of artists from Henri Matisse to Giorgio de Chirico and American painter Bob Thompson, his images embody a Neo-Expressionist verve while repeating signature motifs, and are characterized by their juxtaposition of direct emotional appeal with a freewheeling exploration of the creative process. In a complement to his painting practice, Sweeney transforms gallery spaces into studios and stages, conjuring dynamic “atmospheres” in conjunction with figures from various disciplines, including Lizzi Bougatsos, with whom he cofounded the New York noise-art group Actress.

Opposite – Kama on Halloween, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2025

Gagosian
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central Hong Kong

gagosian.com

  

JERRY ZENIUK – NEW PAINTINGS

Posted on 2025-11-24

Color is essential in the painting of Zeniuk. According to Zeniuk colors are not only carriers of emotion, but their interaction reflects social and human relationships in general as well. His recent canvases use different colored circles or dots or forms to create color interactions that create a specific pictorial space. They float on a whitish-grayish colored or raw canvas, that suggest space, occupied with light. The edges of these dots are in some cases sharp, in other vague and atmospheric. They are brought into a harmonious equilibrium and have a strong spatial effect. ‘Beauty’, philosophically and visually, is the ultimate goal in the paintings. Zeniuk became known in the seventies, when he participated at the Fundamental Painting show in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1975. Since then his paintings developed from a monochrome plane, in which several colored layers have been put on top of each other, towards compositions of contrasting color planes next to each other.

Opposite – Untitled, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

Slewe Gallery
Kerkstraat 105-A
1017 GD Amsterdam
The Netherlands

slewe.nl