JÓNSI

Posted on 2019-11-11

What is the shape of sound? What does it feel like? Can we smell it? How does it move through your body and what kind of sensations does it trigger? These are the questions that are posed by Jónsi in his first exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles. Best known for producing distinctive musical sounds ranging from hypnotic ambient incantations to driving sonic waves as a member of the band Sigur Rós, Jónsi has expanded his artistic practice over the past few years in a series of collaborations with visual artists such as Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, Merce Cunningham and most recently the artist and composer Carl Michael von Hausswolf with whom he formed the musical duo Dark Morph. In the wake of these collaborations, Jónsi’s most recent solo aesthetic explorations have resulted in a series of immersive installations that sculpt with sound as they ask us to meditate on the liminal threshold between our bodies and the world around us.

Opposite – Hvítblinda (Whiteout), 2019

Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2020

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles

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ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO – AQUI E AGORA

Posted on 2019-11-11

The show, which occupies two venues in via Stradella, encompasses photographic, sculptural, and video works from several decades of the Italian-born Brazilian artist’s multifaceted practice. The exhibition acts as a survey through the structures of poetic signifiers that weave threads across Maiolino’s unmistakable visual language.

Aqui e Agora, determines a point in time, a present, in which the artist’s decades-long practice composes a vocabulary that is agile, dense, and distinctive. Through the interpretation of feminine daily imagery and in reaction to the oppressive dictatorship and censorship in Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s, Maiolino’s work combines poetic and understated gestures with urgent and politically charged actions: the freedom of expression she has conquered across multiple media has allowed her to develop simultaneous and potent visual languages.

Opposite – High Tension, 1974

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2020

Galleria Raffaella Cortese
via a. stradella 7-1-4
20129 Milan

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ANDRO WEKUA

Posted on 2019-11-04

Known for the multidisciplinary nature of his practice, Wekua has created a series of paintings and sculptures that continue his career-long exploration of the liminal space between objectivity and subjective interpretation. In works that are redolent with the artifacts of an ambiguous and undefined history, Wekua presents a series of tableaux that reveal themselves to us as emotionally familiar in spite of the artist’s gestures of obfuscation and his conscious disavowal of the formal tropes of narrative.

Using collage and assemblage as metaphors for the cognitive machinations that transform lived experience into reflection, the exhibition features a group of paintings that redeploy imagery recurrent throughout Wekua’s oeuvre. Silkscreened onto aluminum and subsequently overpainted—often gilded with silver leaf—images of palm fronds, photographic portraits, dolphins, and sections of wrought iron fence present themselves as sites of contemplation analogous to traditional icons. The artist’s continual reconfiguration of the images that define his visual lexicon indicates a compulsion to reorder the past in a search for alternative outcomes, in spite of the futility of ever finding satisfaction.

Opposite – Paging Me, 2019

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2019

Gladstone Gallery
515 West 24th Street
NY-10011
New York

www.gladstonegallery.com

  

ILONA NÉMETH, LUCIA TKÁČOVÁ – TIME SOLIDIFIES ELSEWHERE

Posted on 2019-11-04

Time Solidifies Elsewhere is an exhibition originally conceived for the site of the Jozef Kollár Gallery in Banská Štiavnica. It is an assembly of objects of diverse nature and designation, that have accumulated within the building of GaJK over the past decades. Ilona Németh and Lucia Tkáčová chose to work with objects which, despite not being artworks, inhabited the exhibition spaces, ambiguous in their placement and purpose. These objects, perceived as materialised deposits of time, embody the recent history of the GaJK building, as well as the human decisions that shape it.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2020

SODA gallery
Školská 10
81107 Bratislava
Slovakia

www.sodagallery.sk

  

ANA MENDIETA – SOURCE

Posted on 2019-11-04

Originally trained as a painter, Mendieta soon turned to filmmaking and photography, and later drawing and sculpture, in her short yet extremely prolific career. Themes central to the artists’s multifaceted practice, such as those of birth and motherhood, play a key role in the films on view at the gallery. These works illustrate a transition from Mendieta’s early use of the human body in her actions to the body’s replacement with earth and nature itself in her later work.

Opposite – Source, 1975

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2020

Galleria Raffaella Cortese
via a. stradella 7-1-4
20129 Milan

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GIANGIACOMO ROSSETTI – BONES OF THE MEN

Posted on 2019-10-28

In Bones of the Men Giangiacomo Rossetti exhibits, amongst other things, paintings of himself. He embeds his own image—and those of some of the people in his life—in a medley of compositions crediting Renaissance masters, Arnold Böcklin and the Pre-Raphaelites. By repainting these thoroughly studied subjects, the artist claims their ownership. Irreverence settles in. Rossetti reconfigures these acclaimed compositions by inhabiting them with his own presence, with his own image. Half-heartedly, his audacity is covered up behind smears of adulation. This is precisely where Rossetti departs from the classical master copy. This is where he rips off the cord.

Opposite – Go on give it to the madman! He went mad because he ate the brains of cats like a wolf!, 2019

Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2020

Mendes Wood DM
13 Rue des Sablons / Zavelstraat
1000 Brussels
Belgium

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