PAULO MONTEIRO

Posted on 2019-10-28

Monteiro continues his ongoing reconciliation of the dual forms of painting and sculpture by constructing a narrative between them. Continuously exploring the margins and limits of shape, Monteiro utilizes negative space as a medium in order to make his paintings feel like sculptures, and his sculptures feel like paintings. His palette oscillates between predominantly cool and warm tones, dark blues and a variety of reds that at once create an interlocking depth and almost strident contrast;
his whites and greys offer a tactility akin to that of his drawings.

Opposite – Untitled, 2019

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2019

Mendes Wood DM
60 East 66th Street, 2nd floor
NY 10065
New York

mendeswooddm.com

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TRANSFORMER – A REBIRTH OF WONDER

Posted on 2019-10-28

The title of the show is borrowed from American ‘beat’ poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “I Am Waiting” – his celebrated commentary on the problems in American society and the need for a better life, the rebirth of a new wonder. The mood of the poem is a call for a change of consciousness.

Jefferson Hack said: “The artists in ​Transformer​ look deeply into the present and see the future. Each artist is a powerful mediator of their community and culture, using storytelling, poetics, and ritual to author new narratives and expand our field of vision. They are world-makers, inviting us to access altered states of consciousness as we step beyond reality into a series of highly authored, staged environments.”

Transformer​ welcomes the diversity of voices that come with an exploration of identity, representation and self-image and considers how coming together, sharing, bonding, taking action, building alliances and showing compassion is shaping the future to connect and affect change.

Exhibition runs through to December 8th, 2019

180 The Strand
London
​WC2R 1EA

thevinylfactory.com

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STERLING RUBY – ACTS + TABLE

Posted on 2019-10-21

In an oeuvre spanning sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, video, and garments, Ruby continually returns to themes of societal and art historical friction, generating feelings of anxiety and agitation by contrasting clean lines and recognizable objects with coarse and uncanny forms. ACTS + TABLE lays out Ruby’s critique of the authoritarian, exclusionary ideological underpinnings of Minimalism. He begins with familiar shapes valued by the Minimalists—simple tables and rectilinear blocks—but subverts them by defacing their smooth surfaces and exposing their physical means of production.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 14th, 2019

Gagosian
6–24 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JD

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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JOCKUM NORDSTROM – THE ANCHOR HITS THE SAND

Posted on 2019-10-21

Expanding on the characteristic motifs and imaginative spirit that have come to define the artist’s broader oeuvre, Nordström’s light and shadow environments employ a cast of objects within a fantastical and psychologically charged environment that is at once vaguely familiar, evocative, and meditative. They are encountered by the viewer through a veil composed of semitransparent paper (in fact, the same paper used to create his collages); behind which cutouts of buildings, trees, and animal and human forms—recurring motifs in the artist’s work—are suspended between the ceiling and floor by rotating wire mobiles that are illuminated by color wheels, animating the surface of the paper in a whimsical play of light and shadow.

Opposite – Farväl/ Farewell, 2019

Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2019

David Zwirner
24 Grafton Street
W1S 4EZ
London

www.davidzwirner.com

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JUTTA KOETHER – EARLY WORKS 1982-1992

Posted on 2019-10-14

Galerie Buchholz is pleased to announce an extensive exhibition of early works by Jutta Koether from the years 1982 to 1992, on both floors of our Berlin gallery. Since “Warmer Stern”, the first solo exhibition by the artist at our Cologne gallery in 1996, this is the eighth solo exhibition by Jutta Koether with Galerie Buchholz.
On the first floor of the Berlin gallery we will present an overview of Jutta Koether’s small-format paintings from the early 1980s, leading up to her monochromatic red paintings from the late 80s.
On the second floor we will show a complete reconstruction of Jutta Koether’s “Massen – Malerei und Versammlung” (“Masses – Painting and Assembly”), from the beginning of the 1990s, a painting installation which was produced by the artist for an exhibition at Generali Foundation in Vienna in 1991.

Opposite – Massen, 1991

Exhibition runs through to January 25th, 2020

Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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