LXS ANGELINXS

Posted on 2021-03-01

This exhibition forms a bridge between Los Angeles and Madrid, two cities separated by some 9,400 km or 5,800 miles, representing two very different cultures united by the same language—Spanish is the mother tongue for about half the population of that major North American creative centre. The artistic contribution of the community of Latin-American origin goes back to Mexican muralist movement of the 1920s, and its socio-political approach in turn inspired the Chicano art of the 1970s. The strong radicalism of these movements, both so prolific, has continued to this day as a large group of artists carries on the fight to give visibility to an identity that is almost unknown and even ignored in Spain.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2021

Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
General Arrando, 40
28010 Madrid
Spain

www.javierlopezferfrances.com

  

MIMOSA ECHARD – NUMBS

Posted on 2021-03-01

I woke up with pop music in my head again.

A certain very influential LA-based stylist is actually just weaponised serotonin or whatever.

The other day, as she appeared through the window, I wondered whether she knew to what extent the soft folds of her back revealed the shape of her spine, disfigured from so many years sloped in the same position.

From this angle, I couldn’t help but wonder whether her lower vertebrae had become damp or spongy, or whether the blood had dammed in her lower back. I wasn’t sure whether this was a form of new life that I couldn’t comprehend, or just another weapon upgrade.

Since then, I’ve let her numb my brain every morning. When I talk to people about it they just say that you need to be careful with how you share and show your holes, and that you should learn to draw the line between hard and soft. But all I want is the complete exteriorisation of the world. I want everything to have a face, and only a face.

I don’t really have an image of the blood in mind. I don’t think it’s photographic. It’s already there.

I mean I’m not even sure we’re talking about images anymore, or just different kinds of chemicals leaking from different kinds of trays.

Aodhan Madden

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com

  

RONI HORN – RECENT WORK

Posted on 2021-03-01

Roni Horn has spent the past four decades questioning accepted notions of identity and meaning, thwarting closure and opening up new possibilities of perception through her expansive body of work across mediums. Beginning 23 February, ‘Roni Horn. Recent Work’ will present the artist’s latest achievements in the realm of drawing, a medium she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’

Here, intricate works on paper extend Horn’s masterful use of mirroring and textual play to explore the materiality of color and the sculptural potential of the medium. Her preoccupation with language permeates these works; scattered words read as a stream of consciousness spiraling across the paper. In addition to pieces from her series Wits’ End Mash and Yet, the exhibition will present for the first time LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020), (2019 – 2020), a new large-scale installation comprised of more than 400 individual works on paper, the result of a daily ritual of art making undertaken by Horn for a span of fourteen months.

Opposite – LOG (March 22, 2019–May 17, 2020), 2019-2020

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

Hauser & Wirth
548 West 22nd Street
10011 New York
USA

www.hauserwirth.com

  

JONATHAN MONK – NOT ME, ME, NOT ME

Posted on 2021-02-22

The main work is a single installation, An Ensemble, which fills a large area in the gallery space. An Ensemble is composed of many of Monk’s existing works spanning the last twenty-five years, including sculptures, paintings, and neons.

The paintings are stacked up on the floor, leaning up against a wall. Some are partially covered up, others entirely covered up. The sculptures and neons are on the floor directly in front of them, installed tightly together, with intention. The space around each piece is too small to weave through them, yet open enough to be able to appreciate the pieces on their own.

Opposite – An Ensemble (2021)

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

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

nicolaiwallner.com

  

ROSA BARBA – SELECTED WORKS

Posted on 2021-02-22

Rosa Barba engages within the medium of film through a sculptural approach. In her works, Barba creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship.

Questions of composition, physicality of form and plasticity play an important role for the artist as Barba examines the industry of cinema and its staging vis-à-vis gesture, genre, information and documents. Her film works are situated between experimental documentary and fictional narrative. They often focus on natural landscapes and human-made interventions into the environment and explore the relationship of historical records, personal anecdotes, and filmic representation, creating spaces of memory and uncertainty.

Opposite – Stellar Populations, 2017

Exhibition runs through to March 10th, 2021

Esther Schipper (Online Viewing Room)
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com

  

MALIA JENSEN – NEARER NATURE

Posted on 2021-02-22

This body of work is the culmination of Nearer Nature Project, a two-year endeavor which grew out of the artist’s desire to explore our complex relationships with the natural world and with one another. Beginning in early 2019, Jensen carved six sculptures from livestock salt licks and installed them in carefully selected wild places across the state of Oregon. Over a year, eighteen motion-triggered cameras monitored the sculptures and the surrounding landscape, recording not only wildlife but also the dissolution of the carved salt and the changing seasons.

Using an intricate filing system and working closely with an editor, Jensen’s trove of wildlife footage was compiled into a six-hour video entitled Worth Your Salt, displayed on three monitors in the gallery. Comprised of thousands of 30-second clips captured by the trail cameras, the video features four quadrants of sequential footage on each monitor, evoking the grid of closed-circuit surveillance.

Opposite – Foot, 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2021

Cristin Tierney
219 Bowery, Floor 2
NY 10002
New York

www.cristintierney.com