JAMES TURRELL

Posted on 2020-02-28

James Turrell’s recent Constellation works, the focal point of this exhibition, are the culmination of Turrell’s lifelong pursuit. Generating what the artist has called “spaces within space,” these luminous portals are instruments for altering our perception; gazing into them results in the slow dissolution of the boundaries of the surrounding room, enveloping the viewer in the radiance of pure color. Fusing the temporal, sensuous, and illusory qualities of his projection works and architectural installations, the Constellations synthesize several aspects of Turrell’s practice. Unlike his early projection pieces, however, they are not about generating an illusion; instead, they greet the viewer with the actual materiality of light, what Turrell calls “the physical manifestation of light, which we have trained our eyes too readily to look through rather than to look at.”

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2020

Pace Gallery
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET

www.pacegallery.com

  

KAWS SHARE

Posted on 2020-02-25

SHARE will be available, Tuesday February 25th at 12:00pm (Noon) Eastern Standard Time.

kawsone.com

  

NORMAN BLUHM – SPACE TIME CONTINUUM, 1950S TO 1990S

Posted on 2020-02-24

Over the course of his life, Bluhm engaged with and developed a spectrum of styles and approaches, staying true to his own artistic instincts and eschewing the creative trends of the moment. While his work would go through several critical transformations, his paintings and works on paper are consistently recognized for their sumptuous and intuitive use of color and line, which evoke incredible sensations of movement and energy.
Space Time Continuum is the theory of the universe’s three space dimensions and one time dimension. As the title of the Hollis Taggart exhibition, it addresses the painter’s creation as a dimensional record of his life, emotions, and thoughts, as well as the passage of time as he matured.

Opposite – Madame Buddha, 1988


Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020

Hollis Taggart
521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor
NY 10001
New York

www.hollistaggart.com

  

JAMIL HELLU – TOGETHER

Posted on 2020-02-24

Together presents a survey of works by Jamil Hellu, who, for the last decade, has developed a distinct visual vocabulary addressing the intersections of cultural lineages and queerness. Comprised of photographs and video installations, the exhibition highlights Hellu’s recurring uses of self-portraiture to activate a contemporary dialogue about the implications of cultural heritage on queer narratives. Throughout his work, Hellu creates forms of representation based on queer visibility, inverting the role of the photographer as he himself is also one of his subjects.

Opposite – 100 Years of Solitude, 2014

Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020

SF Camerawork
1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco
CA 94103

sfcamerawork.org

  

PAOLO VENTURA – AN INVENTED WORLD

Posted on 2020-02-24

The exhibition of Ventura’s magical photographic works, “An Invented World”, spans six series made over the last decade and will provide the most comprehensive overview of the renowned Italian artist’s oeuvre on the West Coast to date, including the debut of new works.

Paolo Ventura (b. 1968) has been referred to as one of the art scene’s most interesting storytellers with his timeless and charmingly enigmatic works. Widely known for his elaborate narrative series acted out by the artist and his family, the whimsical allegories touch upon many facets of the human condition within life-size diorama cityscapes, reminiscent of war-time Italy, which are constructed entirely by the artist. By creating fictional worlds as stage design, the artist is able to physically inhabit the stories of his imagination.

Opposite – Behind the Walls #4, 2011

Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020

Galerie XII
6150 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90048

galeriexii.com

  

LUCAS BLALOCK – INSOLUBLE PANCAKES

Posted on 2020-02-24

Blalock’s photographs, if we can call them such, are all self-portraits. In fact, they each start from the same set of five 4×5 negatives taken within a few moments of each other. These compressed and re-combined slices of time repeat but not wholly – as if the tape of the moment were being played back over and over again to an unexpected variety of effects. There is something a little flat-footed about the staging of this image (or these images) of the artist flailing in a chair – shadow boxing or daemon fighting – but it acts as a kind of scaffolding that supports a bevy of bizarre and baroque interventions. Like an early 20th century Spiritualist photograph of supernatural presence these pictures present a material world haunted by another. With those predecessors in mind, which point to a wide-eyed belief in otherworldly dimensions as much they speak about the way pictures intersected with technology, meaning and experience in the last century, we might ask what exactly Blalock is drawing here. What new relationships is he creating? How might we consider these weird hybrid pictures?

Opposite – #4 Divney (Popeye), 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 21st, 2020

Rodolphe Janssen
Rue de Livourne 32 Livornostraat
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.rodolphejanssen.com