Press release: Wellness – Fitness – Bedness – Sleepyness – Nothingness – Artness When… … moving is not in itself interesting but together with its consequences. … time thickens into the space. … fiction materializes into reality. … vision settles as fact. … the dream sharpens into objectivity. … resignation masks itself as self-irony. When
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Francesco Arena at NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona
Press release: The notion of history as a chain of events that make up the past, capable of being isolated and arranged in a historical narrative, fails to contemplate the movement of time of the historical process. Francesco Arena’s research is centred around ways of thinking about temporality, by revealing irruptions in the course of
Kentaro Kawabata at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Press release: Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Japanese artist Kentaro Kawabata. The exhibition of thirteen works, all produced in porcelain, are from four ongoing series. Six works titled “Knot Face” are large platter forms constructed with concentric ropes of soft porcelain, coiled outwards and upwards into a shallow bowl shape. The
Alice Tippit at Nicelle Beauchene, New York
Press release: Nicelle Beauchene is pleased to present Alice Tippit’s Long Red Moans, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing to explore the interpretations of visual language, Tippit’s latest body of work mines the psychology and susceptibility of reading the erotic in the everyday. Tippit’s painting style is graphic—pictures, signs, and symbols are
Kerry James Marshall at David Zwirner, London
Press release: David Zwirner is pleased to present Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting at the gallery’s London location. This will be the artist’s first exhibition of new work since his critically acclaimed retrospective, Mastry, and his second solo presentation with the gallery. Through its formal acuity, Marshall’s work reveals and questions the social constructs
Diane Simpson at Herald St, London
Press release: We often talk about an artist’s ‘body of work’. Diane Simpson’s work literally forms a body. It is a body of folds and creases – not in a flowing, painterly sense, but a teasing out of the architecture of fashions and interiors. It is a body of angles, at once weightless and industrial,
Carl Mannov at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
Press release: Sofa. Ponder that thing. A source for many a heated argument in the middleclass household. I have an old IKEA Karlstad sofa-bed myself. A sun-bleached charcoal cotton-thing—very uncomfortable. Carl Mannov once compared being seated in it to being slumped on a wooden bench. I got the sofa for free online four years ago.
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva at D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo
Press release: A dog with a remarkable tail, an unspeakable circus trick with microscopic organisms from outer space, a rainbow, a very uncomfortable but everlasting footwear, the last days of a tiny flea in a fictional world, a two-dimensional watermelon that looks like the moon as viewed from the side, the fountain of youth, a
Tobias Hoffknecht at A+B, Brescia
Press release: A+B presents the new solo show by Tobias Hoffkencht, German artist born in 1987 in Bochum; he graduated in Dusseldorf, where he currently lives and works. On Saturday the 6th of October opens his first personal show at the gallery, where there will be presented three original sculptures designed and created to perceptively
Martin Soto Climent at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Press release: It doesn’t matter that some things still remain here and even end here: here nothing begins. Therefore this word, this silence, this table, vase, your footsteps were strictly speaking never here. Everything is always somewhere else: there where it begins. ― Roberto Juarroz1 tr. by Mary Crow Today, more than ever, I feel
Sam Falls at 303 Gallery, New York
Press release: 303 Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition of new work by Sam Falls. Sublimating the natural world in works that both defy and embrace the basic functions of art, Falls’ works record specific moments in time as well as the infinite human impulse to commune with nature. For the series of
Channa Horwitz at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Press release: I feel that through chance comes structure, or that if chance plays out long enough it will become structure. That if we cannot see the structure in chance we are too close to see it. The theory behind my work is that through structure comes an apparent chance. If structure plays out long
Lygia Pape at Hauser & Wirth, New York
Press release: A founding member of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927 – 2004) valued art that favored the primacy of the viewer and his or her sensorial experience. Pape explored rich territory via the media of sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking, and installation, and cemented her reputation as one of the most significant Brazilian artists
Devon Dikeou at James Fuentes, New York
Press release: “There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts
Juliana Cerqueira Leite at Arsenal Contemporary NYC, New York
Press release: Arsenal Contemporary is pleased to present the Brazilian, Brooklyn-based artist, Juliana Cerqueira Leite’s first solo presentation in New York, Until Different. The exhibition opens 13 September and runs through 4 November, 2018. Juliana Cerqueira Leite reformulates physical presences and absences in the world and body, negating the mere reassertion of subjects and their
Jiří Kovanda at Black Cube, Denver
Press release: Kovanda will fly from Prague to Denver in September with only materials and no sense of the exhibition’s physical location August 27, 2018 – Denver, CO – Jiří Kovanda, an internationally recognized performance artist, is heading from Prague to Denver next month for his first American exhibition outside of New York City. But,
Julian Charrière at GASAG Kunstpreis 2018 – Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Press release: To mark his receipt of the GASAG Art Prize 2018, Julian Charrière (1987) is exhibiting a multimedia spatial installation that takes visitors under water in the Pacific Ocean. Seventy years after the United States began testing nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll, the artist set off on an expedition to an area rendered permanently