Press release: The work of Alexandre Lavet has the particularity of fading into its environment, of avoiding any spectacular effects, while refusing all the same to disappear completely. If, since the 1960’s[3] a not negligible number of artists have chosen to put an end to their artistic practice in the face of the system of
David Hanes at Open Forum, Berlin
Press release: Ice was the nature of his game. Seen as leagues of corridor, mazes of shadow. Walls that flick away like supersonic butterflies made of shade. Beyond them, the illusion of infinite space. Black ice. Don’t think about it. Black ice. Too many stories; black ice. Frost that kills. Black ice. Illegal, but then
Alfredo Aceto at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin
Press release: Turin is a city that trains your skill in looking at things from far away, things in movement. When workday routine and pressure begins clutching at your throat, you go down to the Po and stroll along its bank, watching it flow. There by the river, attempting to catch your breath, your eyes
Lee Kit at Hara Museum, Tokyo
Press release: This autumn, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art will present Lee Kit ‘We used to be more sensitive.,’ the first exhibition to be held at a Japanese museum by the Hong Kong-born and Taipei-based artist. Born in 1978, Lee Kit creates works that constantly explore the expressive potential of painting. These include a
Julian Stair at Corvi-Mora, London
Press release: “Equivalence” explores archetypal domesticity through the contrast of scale, allowing the familiar to be experienced as pure form. Reciprocity, give and take, the sensory and social rituals enacted through our engagement with ceramic pots are the starting point for Stair’s phenomenological investigation of the tactile and the transcendent, the visual and the visceral.
Morgan Fisher at Bortolami Gallery, New York
Press release: 6 x 6 x 6 x 2 is a painting in multiple parts on two facing walls. The origin of the work was my visualizing two panels separated by a space with the edges on either side of the space jagged, like saw teeth or notches. The irregular edges make us see the
Tony Cragg at Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Press release: Buchmann Galerie is delighted to announce an exhibition featuring new sculptures and drawings by Tony Cragg. In the front exhibition space, a monumental sculpture from the new work group Skulls, measuring 240 x 227 x 172 cm, makes a powerful impression with its complex interlock of internal and external spaces. The entire volume
Anahita Razmi at Carbon.12 Gallery, Dubai
Press release: On the occasion of the Gallery’s tenth anniversary, Carbon 12 is proud to present Anahita Razmi’s Take Me to Your Leader. An alien lands its spacecraft on the earth. It addresses the first thing it presumes to be an inhabitant of this planet, which is sometimes a stone, sometimes a cat, a bottle
Alisa Baremboym at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Press release: Alisa Baremboym’s first solo exhibition at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Between States, continues the investigation of themes long seen in her work. Focused on creating transitional moments of “becoming”, and applying a wide array of materials: ceramics, steel, gelling agents, silk, and cables, with unlikely partners such as vinyl, plastic, and crude-oil by-product, her
kennardphillips at EXILE, Vienna
Press release: With the exhibition Americas Greatest Hits the London-based artist duo kennardphillipps are responding to the rise of right-wing populism, not just in Austria but around the globe. The fragility of democracy and the dangerous undercurrents of current political speech and institutional violence stand at the center of this exhibition produced specifically for, and
Tom Volkaert at Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta
Press release: This very space, right where you stand, a 9-year-old Tom Volkaert walked into The Fritchle Garage and secured a job as a breaker boy in 1898. It was the glory years of the “Automotive Age” and car parts for makers like Nash, Hudson, and American Motors were arriving daily in Atlanta via a
Shimabuku at Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Press release: The real world is not an object – it is a process.[1] John Cage’s thinking has profoundly influenced and moved a whole generation of artists and has participated in defining conceptual art. In the exhibition tout le monde in 2015, we presented a work by William Anastasi entitled Sink (1963-2010). This work, a
The Great Archipelago at Kayu, Bali
Press release: Kayu is pleased to present “The Great Archipelago,” its eighth project, which consists of an international group exhibition including contributions by Arahmaiani, Ashley Bickerton, Dora Budor, Marco Cassani, Rafram Chaddad + Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fendry Ekel, Michal Helfman, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Rochelle Goldberg, Filippo Sciascia, and Entang Wiharso. The exhibition is part of the first
Karl Holmqvist at dépendance, Brussels
Press release: dépendance is pleased to present ‘One Child per Household’, gallery artist Karl Holmqvist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition evolves in several parts: three pieces of second hand furniture – two sofas and one chaise longue – have been reupholstered in a recently produced woven wool fabric in six different
Mike Goldby at SIBLING, Toronto
Press release: I usually come downtown to the Financial District to clear my head. I’ll sit in Commerce Court in the summer and watch the pigeons groom themselves in the fountain while a teller tans on lunch break. Or on a cooler day, like today, I’ll sit in the Dineen at the CIBC building, drink
Dayanita Singh at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York
Press release: Callicoon Fine Arts is pleased to present a special project by Dayanita Singh. The project marks a significant step towards realizing the artist’s long-standing desire to offer her “book objects” for sale in a pop-up shop or bookstore setting, staged here in the gallery. The book objects are publications by Singh, often made
Ivens Machado at Andrew Kreps, New York
Press release: Andrew Kreps Gallery, in collaboration with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Acervo Ivens Machado, is pleased to announce the first exhibition of the work of Ivens Machado in the United States. Emerging in the 1970s as part of a generation of artists that succeeded the Neoconcrete movement, Machado’s early career was set against