Press release: Isaac Julien’s visionary ten-screen film installation Lessons of the Hour explores the incomparable achievements of America’s foremost abolitionist figure. After escaping slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass gained celebrity on the abolitionist circuit as an extraordinary orator, becoming the most photographed American of the 19th century. Julien’s project is informed by some of Douglass’s
Ghislaine Leung at Essex Street, New York
Press release: Flags, 2019 All internal doors painted gloss black. Toons, 2019 All internal walls painted gloss white. Company, 2019 Two gift wrapped model offices. Love Radio USA, 2019 The internet radio station Love Radio USA played on a small battery powered digital radio. Commonwealth, 2019 The work Commonwealth is Domain, Empire, Estate, Kingdom, Nation
Robert Heinecken at Rhona Hoffman, Chicago
Press release: “This kind of photograph must be looked at more intensely than one is used to looking at photographs. The meaning is probably not on the surface or necessarily associated with the subject matter. It may be operating on completely unfamiliar levels. It may not even seem understandable. The photograph in this context is
Paul Pfeiffer at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
Press release: carlier | gebauer is pleased to present Incarnator, Paul Pfeiffer’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Pfeiffer’s Incarnator series expands from the artist’s internationally acclaimed eponymous video, which is further brought to life through a series of life-sized sculptures. All sculptures were produced during the artist’s six-month residency at Bellas Artes Projects in
Mary Mito at Downs & Ross, New York
Press release: For more than a half-century, Mary Mito (b. 1944, Hartford, CT; lives and works in New Mexico and New York) has rendered permeable interfaces between constructed and natural environments with a singular continuity of attention. While her rarely exhibited paintings are most often compelled by a relentless descriptive force conveying vast tracts of
Anna-Bella Papp at Modern Art, London
Press release: Modern Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Anna-Bella Papp. This is Papp’s third solo show with the gallery. Anna-Bella Papp’s exhibition at Modern Art features a series of new individual sculptures that, consistent with her characteristic format, are hand-sculpted, tablet-like forms made from fired clay, presented on
Javier Arbizu at Ángeles Baños, Badajoz
Press release: An almost unreachable point of reference. As difficult as trying to reach the horizon, that always distant line. Or as trying to decipher the thoughts of the other, from which surprisingly we will never get to know its unfathomable depth. The unknown to be revealed. How to decode the work of an artist
Gilles Furtwängler at Alpina Huus x Arsenic, Lausanne
Press release: The expression “Un Peu Squeeze” was used by Elise Lammer to suggest a lack of time before a deadline, a rather typical situation when working on an art exhibition. A clumsy “frenglism” or “franglais”, the title conveys a sense of general confusion, not only through the misuse of an English word by a
“Discoteca Analitica” at FRI ART, Fribourg
Press release: Discoteca Analitica reassesses the emergence of multimedia experiments in the Sixties based on the range of early varieties of discotheque. The exhibition offers an immersive experience bringing together Californian counter-culture, pop and psychedelic movements, and pioneers of radical Italian architecture. It is based on unpublished archives and original works. They reveal how music,
Jef Geys at Air de Paris, Paris
Press release: In 1998, Jef Geys travelled to Lisbon, hometown of the legendary fado singer Amália Rodrigues (1920–1999), who holds a fascination for him. During his brief «rest and relaxation» stay he took dozens of photographs: not at all your standard tourist stuff, but over and over shadows cast on pavements and walls. The same
Coco Young at Princess, New York
Press release: Every day except for Sundays You would hear the merry Lavoir Women scrubbing, whitening, laughing The green water From the neighboring hill Still hides the echo Of their gossiping thrill I sit by its side The cold stone is as smooth as a mirror I can almost see my reflection Or is she
Kim Hiorthøy at STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
Press release: Kim Hiorthøy is a man of principles. Kim reads. Kim has opinions. Kim thinks that contemporary art requires compromises to succeed. He might be right, but he may also opt out in favour of doing one or several other things instead. I can not. Kim is envious of me because I solely work
Philip Seibel at Soyuz, Pescara
Press release: Objects from our daily lives, poor materials, objet trouvé, but also fetishes that, when contaminated with the cold rigor of artificial elements, lose their original functions to rediscover the generating power of their memory. Objects that become images, sculptures, experience, time and thus read in the present the signs of their own past.
David Casini at Car Drde, Bologna
Press release: On his second solo exhibition at the gallery, David Casini presents a series of unpublished sculptures on the theme of landscape. His native Tuscany is the centre of his world but instead of its panoramic views known all over the world he focuses on places where the gaze does not usually stop, the
“Tempo Elastico” at CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
Press release: Sunrays strain to pierce the thick layer of stratus covering the Swiss Plateau in these early weeks of the year. Soon it will be two o’clock in the afternoon and the large pic-ture window facing north lets in just enough light to make us hesitate about turning on the tubular lighting. At the
“A Fatal Attraction” at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Press release: On Black Friday, 2011, at the onset of the sales season, the outdoor brand Patagonia runs an advertisement in the New York Times that apparently discourages its potential customers with the slogan: Don’t buy this Jacket. Showing one of their best-selling jackets – cut out against a clean, white background – next to
Vajiko Chachkhiani at Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto
“In his new exhibition at Scrap Metal in Toronto, his first in North America, the Tbilisi-based artist deconstructs the idea of home and belonging in various ways, going far beyond images of a literal house. They Kept Shadows Quiet (2018), the eponymous installation commissioned especially for this exhibition, consists of two “interrogation chambers” installed side