ERIC NATHANIEL MACK – OBDURATE SPACE

Posted on 2024-07-08

Galleria Franco Noero is pleased to present Obdurate Space, the second solo exhibition of Eric Nathaniel Mack with the gallery in Torino. For the occasion, the artist has conceived a new series of works that tie in with the architecture and environment of the gallery’s outdoor garden space, a former industrial site on Via Pollone: this location, which is only a few meters away from the exhibition space on Via Mottalciata and has now become its outdoor counterpart.
The exhibition brings together a body of works that focus on some of the themes most dear to the artist. From his most recognizable richly textured compositions through the assemblage of textiles mounted on metal stretchers whose colors and prints serve as a palette, favoring and emphasizing their sculptural presence through the addition of elements such as space and volume, and so doing, in a continuous effort to synthesize painting with sculpture.

Opposite – HEM, 2024

Exhibition runs through to September 21st, 2024

Galleria Franco Noero
Via Pollone 10/A
10154 Torino
Italy

www.franconoero.com

  

HERBERT W. FRANKE – ILLUMINATING THE INVISIBLE

Posted on 2024-07-01

ILLUMINATING THE INVISIBLE pays tribute to Franke’s unique combination of creative and scientific pursuits, each informing the other. Indeed, the impulse toward aesthetic innovation guided Franke much more than any consideration of traditional notions of artistic beauty. As early as 1953, Franke put the photographic camera to groundbreaking ends, using the device to record forms and structures that exist in the world as such, but are “invisible” to the human eye – they can be detected solely with the aid of technology. By employing scientific equipment – x-rays, microscopes, oscilloscopes, among others – Franke essentially turned the medium away from its traditional application as a method for depicting things that were already there. As early as 1957, Franke published a visionary book “Kunst und Konstruktion” already in pursuit of “the fusion between technical and artistic processes”. He wrote: “I firmly believe that a process does not lose its ability to instill wonder when we succeed in uncovering some of the laws and connections that determine it. Not wanting to know the explanation of something even though it can easily be learned amounts to willfully deceiving oneself.” With his photographic artworks, he not only wanted to shed light on the fantastic, but invisible structures in nature as well, uncovering the underlying, hidden beauty of mathematics and algorithms.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to September 1st, 2024

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

TWILIGHT IS A PLACE OF PROMISE

Posted on 2024-06-24

Esther Schipper is delighted to present Twilight is a Place of Promise featuring the work of 19 international artists born between 1895 and 1996. The exhibition offers a perspective on the politics of image-making—personal, social, political, historical—taking painting and the artists’ diverse approaches to the practice as its focus. It is partisan in its polysemy, insistent only on the confluence of nuance and power.

Opposite – Hélène Delprat, Fausse déclaration II, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 24th, 2024

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.estherschipper.com

  

ZILLA LEUTENEGGER – RIEN DE LOURD

Posted on 2024-06-17

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to announce Rien de lourd, a new solo exhibition by Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger. Zilla is one of the artists who has established video as an artistic medium in Switzerland in the 1990’s and she has made a name for herself internationally especially through the poetic finesse of her video works. Zilla has taken this year’s Summer Olympics in the French capital as an opportunity to create new works that playfully explore the theme of sport and in particular, movement in space. The artist explores discipline and exhaustion with familiar ease and creates contrasting images. Eleven monotypes, in which the drawn female figure takes centre stage, two video installations and ceramic works can be seen in the gallery in the rue des Arquebusiers.

Opposite – Poids (359 gr), 2024

Exhibition runs through to September 21st, 2024

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.peterkilchmann.com

  

GEORGES MATHIEU: 1960-1970

Posted on 2024-06-10

Perrotin Seoul is pleased to present the first exhibition of Georges Mathieu (1921-2012) in Korea. The artist is considered a leading figure in lyrical abstraction, the post-war European art movement which emphasized improvisational and spontaneous expression. This exhibition focuses on a selection of paintings from the 1960s and 70s, exploring Mathieu’s aesthetic of performative and stylistic brushwork.

Opposite – Tamatia, 1979

Exhibition runs through to August 24th, 2024

Perrotin
Seoul Dosan Park
10 Dosan-Daero 45-Gil
Gangnam-Gu Seoul
South Korea

www.perrotin.com

  

HERE, WHERE, THERE?

Posted on 2024-06-03

Here, Where, and There? brings together four emerging Chinese artists, Cai Zebin, Chen Yingjie, Hou Zichao, and Tseng Chien-Ying, who work by creating unique spatial constructions and expressions on canvas, roaming real and fictional, digital and cosmic spaces, bringing the viewer along for a trip through the multiverses of art.

Opposite – Cai Zebin, The Song of Chimera 2, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2024

Almine Rech
27 Huqiu Road, 2nd Floor
200002 Shanghai
China

www.alminerech.com