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TweetFrancesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation details how the artist came into her creative voice and her singular approach to photography at a notably young age. This exhibition demonstrates Woodman’s virtuosity in formation, the creative impulses that yielded a distinctive voice, and also a more nuanced understanding of the context in which she worked and which is featured so prominently in her photographs from this time. Ranging from portraits in her studio/apartment in college to self-portraits in the bucolic Colorado landscape in which she was raised, these works capture Woodman’s hallmark approach to art-making: enigmatic, rigorous, and poignant, all at once. The exhibition will also include select photographs of Woodman made by George Lange during this period. Taken together, Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation will offer a nuanced and in-depth study of this formative period in the development of this most adept artist.
Opposite – Untitled photograph, circa 1975-1978
Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2020
The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver)
1485 Delgany Street
Denver
CO 80202
The present exhibition was developed through consultation with several Voodoo masters (Vodounnon). An oracle gave the artist twenty-one words. These words, such as sun, moon, arrow or cross, are all symbols that populate the works to activate the world of spirits. Stirred by invisible forces, Demester’s paintings embrace the infinite metamorphoses of this cult, through their intense colourism and their exploration of primordial energies.
Demester’s works are presented along with art objects from his own collection, created in Ouidah, which bear witness to several aspects of the Voodoo journey. The Voodoo art objects take various forms and continually evolve in response to the fluctuations of the Western market, which can be felt in the availability of certain fabrics or in clothing fashions. Voodoo, an ancestral force, embodies in all materials – it dominates life.
Opposite – Le pouvoir de Lissa, 2020
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2020
Galerie Max Hetzler
Bleibtreustraße 45
10623 Berlin
Germany
Ryan Travis Christian’s visual language is unmistakable: his compositions display dense layers of graphite, and their obsessive pencil lines delineate high-contrast graphic fantasies, hypnotic geometric patterns, characters out of pop culture moving in slow motion in hazy, surreal landscapes. They are inspired by old political caricatures and satirical cartoons, the traditional hand-drawn animation of the 1930s (especially the work of Ub Iwerks), the Chicago Imagists of the late 1960s (the artists who made up the group Hairy Who), 1980s pop culture, videogames, advertising.
BANG BANG PLAY takes us into a black-and-white world of drawings that are not animated but are full of movement, presenting stories that are strange, violent, chilling, sexual; existentialist allegories, sometimes despairing, deeply fascinating, figures that are outwardly cheery against a background revealing danger, seductive and banal at the same time.
Opposite – BANG SOON, 2019
Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2020
Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
General Arrando, 40
28010 Madrid
Spain
The silhouette sports a sleek retro mold, embellished with a series of lush suede panels, full-grain leather, and breathable mesh fabrics. A woven “NB” patch logo is stamped at the top of the white tongue, complemented by tonal laces. Contrasting the yellow palette of the body is a light gray heel counter, printed with “CdGMAN” branding, while New Balance’s “N” logo is sewn over the suede-tinged sidewalls, sitting atop a thin two-toned midsole that comes in orange and white, accompanied by a light beige gum outsole.
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Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.
In theatres April 8th, 2020
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