TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ

Posted on 2019-12-23

Merging the conceptual and the material within her Dark Earth series, Fernández sculpts raw charcoal into sumptuously textured, abstracted images that challenge conventional notions of landscape art traditions. These panoramic landscape scenes expand and contract to suggest ancient mountain ranges, bodies of flowing water, subterranean minerals, radiant skies, and the immensity of the cosmos. Fernández’s sense of the landscape suggests not only the physicality of the land, but also the history of human beings who have carefully cultivated it, or abused it, and the subsequent erasure that continues to shape our present-day perceptions of the people and places around us. Elaborating on ideas of the traditional “figure in the landscape,” Fernández uses
the reflective quality of the golden metal to prompt viewers to consider their own role in this system, as their gaze is returned and distorted within this constructed landscape, and to reexamine their place in the eroded physical and psychological spaces produced by centuries of dominant colonialism.

Opposite – Dark Earth (Glory), 2019

Exhibition runs through to January 4th, 2020

Lehmann Maupin
501 W 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.lehmannmaupin.com

  

WHITE MOUNTAINEERING X DANNER

Posted on 2019-12-23

White Mountaineering and Danner have reunited once again for two new iterations of chunky suede boots — featured are black and brown colorways tweaked with nuanced functional details.

At the top of the shoes, smooth leather wraps around the padded collars that have been slightly minimized for a sleeker finish. The lateral sides come with a lockable zipper that runs diagonally through the upper body.

whitemountaineering.com

  

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

Posted on 2019-12-16

No one’s ever really gone… Rey’s journey continues and the Skywalker saga concludes…..

In theatres December 19th, 2019

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VALIE EXPORT – THE 1980 VENICE BIENNALE WORKS

Posted on 2019-12-16

A pioneer in film, video and installation art, with a career spanning close to five decades, VALIE EXPORT has produced one of the most significant bodies of feminist art in the post-war period. Awarded this year’s Roswitha Haftmann Prize, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the visual arts, EXPORT’s groundbreaking films and performances throughout the 1960s and 70s introduced a new form of radical feminism to Europe and were among the most revolutionary – and definitive – statements of their time.
Marking a key moment for the internationally acclaimed artist, The 1980 Venice Biennale Works will present EXPORT’s innovative multimedia installation from the 39th Venice Biennale. Originally shown alongside Maria Lassnig in the 1980 Austrian Pavilion, EXPORT’s installation embodies the fierce and fearless interrogation of oppressive power structures and hierarchical systems of control at the heart of the artist’s practice.

Opposite – Einkreisung, 1976

Exhibition runs through to January 25th, 2020

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Ely House
37 Dover Street
W1S 4NJ
London

www.ropac.net

  

ALEX KATZ

Posted on 2019-12-16

In the large canvases that Alex Katz calls Splits, a single subject is painted from different angles and repeated in sequence. The images are cut or “split”, as if taken by a camera. They are inspired by the new possibilities that the smartphone offers to take pictures easily, and thus sum up the paradigms of a contemporary world influenced by photography, cinema and the mass media.
Alongside the paintings we will show four preparatory cartoons: large drawings made by the artist to enlarge the images and transfer them onto canvas with the same technique that Raphael and the Renaissance artists used to transfer the outlines of their frescos to the walls. We will also present a number of drawings from the 1960s to the present, made in pencil or charcoal, and individual oil sketches on panel. The entire creative process will thus be visible, from the drawing through an oil study and a cartoon until the final oil painting.

Opposite – Susanne 5, 2016

Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2020

Monica De Cardenas
Chesa Albertini | Via Maistra 41
CH-7524 Zuoz
Switzerland

www.monicadecardenas.com

  

TANIA FRANCO KLEIN – PROCEED TO THE ROUTE

Posted on 2019-12-16

The color is red and the woman is ready. The color is blue and the phone is ringing. The American Dream is a fiction and so are these photographs by Tania Franco Klein.
“My main character is emotion” she says. But her subjects, the women Franco Klein builds into character studies, like figures in film stills, seem beyond emotion. They have seen too much. They see too much. They are ready for a change, to press beyond the sheath of solitude, to make the most of their time, which is all the time they have left. When they are not performing, they are not visible. And when they are not visible, the sun is setting.
In her recent photographs, Franco Klein appears to take up the mantle of the masters: the archetypes of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills and the Hollywood lighting of Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s Hustlers, the shocking colors of William Eggleston and the mysterious, glossy poses of Jimmy DeSana.

Opposite – Car, Window (Self-portrait), 2018

Exhibition runs through to January 18th, 2020

Rose Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue
B-7Los Angeles
90404 CA

www.rosegallery.net