HERMANN NITSCH

Posted on 2019-04-22

The focus of the Innsbruck exhibition is on painting. In coordination with the big Hermann Nitsch exhibition at the Vienna Albertina, which opens on May 16, 2019, and dedicates no less than twenty rooms to the artist’s paintings, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck presents multi-coloured works, e.g. from the 70th action performance, which took place at our Vienna gallery in 2014. As a smaller revision of the museum exhibition, the Innsbruck show concentrates on painting in acrylics, while the Albertina also includes earlier works in oil. At a closer view, a thin grounding in a reddish brown hue can be made out beneath the paint in some of the works in both mediums. This colour film is reminiscent of the traces that the blood leaves on the canvas which is another integral part of the artist’s technical repertoire, and especially in the Orgien Mysterien Theater is generously deployed. Moreover, in the production of his paintings, the artist resorts to ritual acts. It is not by chance that the pastose application, the pouring and splashing of paint evokes associations with a sacrificial ceremony. The ritual is of greater importance than the result, as it were. Nitsch’s painting is firmly rooted in actionism, performance, in multi-mediality.

Opposite – Schüttbild, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2019

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

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ARIN DWIHARTANTO SUNARYO – ARGO

Posted on 2019-04-22

Arin is first and foremost a painter, dedicated to pushing the medium’s boundaries with innovative techniques. His dynamic compositions are inspired as much by his homeland, as by Japanese manga, comic books and science fiction. Arin’s broad and far reaching interests, inspirations and techniques have resulted in a diverse body of work – the common thread is a proud celebration of and dedication to the medium and act of painting.

Argo, which translates from Javanese to ‘mountain’, is the culmination of Sunaryo’s most recent experience and exploration of the mountains of Indonesia. The mountainous region of Bandung where the artist also lives and works, is a significant feature of the landscape of the country, symbolising Javanese culture, spirit and identity.

Opposite – Ajanabh, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2019

Simon Lee Gallery
12 Berkeley Street
W1J 8DT
London

www.simonleegallery.com

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TUNGA

Posted on 2019-04-22

Tunga was one of the most important and influential Brazilian artists of his generation, and he expressed himself through an extremely eclectic variety of media and artistic languages, ranging from drawing to sculpture, to installation, photography, performance, film, video, and writing. The works on show in this exhibition are of great symbolic impact. Some of them have never been exhibited before and are being presented for the first time. The focus is on the processes and references that were most dear to the artist, and on the works he created during the later years of his career, prior to his untimely death. They range from the more intimate scale of drawings and small sculptures to the power and majesty of a large installation of vast scope.

Opposite – Untitled (Morphological), 2014

Exhibition runs through to June 20th, 2019

Galleria Franco Noero
Piazza Carignano 2
10123 Torino
Italy

www.franconoero.com

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