WERNER REITERER – SCULPTURES

Posted on 2019-09-30

In his concepts, installations, sculptures and drawings, Werner Reiterer creates subversive realities that upend society’s rules and norms with flashes of acute criticism, irony and wicked humor. Behind the simple and deceptively casual title Sculptures lies a conceptual arrangement that connects the very different works on view in terms of content. A felt hat—epitome of a fading bourgeois lifestyle—has three holes cut into it. In a photo work the artist reveals its fatal function: the bourgeois version of a stocking mask destined to be used in a hold-up, a once proud marker of social respectability now indicating the bourgeoisie’s descent and ultimate absorption into the milieu of common criminals. This preposterous object symbolizes the increasingly precarious situation of various middle class groups and their growing criminal potential.

Opposite – Locked in!, 2014

Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2019

Loevenbruck
6, rue Jacques Callot
75006 Paris
France

www.loevenbruck.com

  

SABINE MORITZ – DEEPLY UNAWARE

Posted on 2019-09-30

The artist will premiere a body of large abstract paintings from 2019. The works on canvas are remarkable for their complex compositions, intense brushstrokes and vivid colours. Moritz’s new paintings immerse the viewer in an experience of intimacy and meditation.

Opposite – Sea King 98, 2017


Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2020

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

DAVID SMITH – FIELD WORK

Posted on 2019-09-30

The exhibition has been conceived as four chapters of work spanning over three decades (from 1933 to 1964) that aim to demonstrate Smith’s diverse visual language and multifaceted creative process. Curated by the artist’s daughters Rebecca and Candida Smith, co-presidents of the David Smith Estate, the exhibition situates itself between the drawn image and sculpted form to investigate the relationship between the two parallel practices. For Smith, drawing was a natural form of expression, often produced alongside sculpture making and he would intuitively switch back and forth as a crucible for thought and innovation.

Opposite – Rebecca Circle, 1961

Exhibition runs through to January 5th, 2020

Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Durslade Farm
Dropping Lane, Bruton
BA10 0NL
Somerset

www.hauserwirth.com

  

RON GORCHOV – AT THE CUSP OF THE 80s, PAINTINGS 1979–1983

Posted on 2019-09-23

The new exhibition will feature rarely seen works that Gorchov made more than a decade after he developed his unique method of working on a curved surface, which he began in 1966 and brought to fruition the following year with his first “saddle” paintings, a format he has continued to explore ever since.
By the close of the 1970s, Gorchov’s work had already been included in the Whitney Museum’s survey exhibition, Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six, and in two of its biennials, in 1975 and 1977, the year that Morris Kearse published a feature story on the artist in Artforum about his work.

Kearse wrote, “Gorchov set out to resolve the uncertainty in his own way.” His use of the shaped canvas “argues, as it were,
with flatness,” and while he “does not use paint as an illusory artifice, […] neither does he attempt to conceal allusions
to depth implied by the multiple layers in his work.”

Opposite – VIZIOSO, 1982

Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2019

Cheim & Read
23 East 67th Street
10065 New York

www.cheimread.com

  

ILSE D’HOLLANDER

Posted on 2019-09-23

This comprehensive overview, featuring both paintings and works on paper, will span the entirety of D’Hollander’s career, with many works being exhibited for the first time. Ilse D’Hollander created an extraordinary and highly resonant body of work which demonstrates a profoundly developed sense of color, composition, scale and surface. Through her use of subtle tones and pared down compositions, her work highlights the rich dialogue between representation and abstraction. D’Hollander drew inspiration from her surroundings in both Sin-Niklaas, Belgium, where she was born, and the small town of Paulatem, in the Flemish countryside, where she spent the last, highly productive years of her life. Her paintings allude to the material world, suggesting objects, interiors, rural vistas and vast horizons; nonetheless, these images remain resolutely abstract. Focused on the ways in which color and form are perceived, D’Hollander’s work reveals a masterful command of graphic composition and painterly touch.

Opposite – Untitled, 1994

Exhibition runs through to November 17th, 2019

Sean Kelly
5F, No. 28, Lane 78, Sec. 1, Jianguo N. Road
10491 Taipei
Taiwan

www.skny.com

  

GABRIEL SIERRA – MUSEUM HOURS

Posted on 2019-09-23

Museum Hours is the reconstruction of a small collective exhibition organized in the early 1970s by a group of unknown artists. All the works presented could be situated within the canon of Western modernism, whilst also strongly resonating with conceptual art and the current global political situation. The pieces in this project share the same dilemma: how to represent or interpret ideas from a dream world. Museum Hours also takes cues from writings
produced by Sierra in his personal dream journal, as well as on situations and characters from a novel yet to be published by the artist.

Opposite – Bruno Berry, Untitled, 1970

Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2019

kurimanzutto
gob. Rafael Rebollar 94 San Miguel Chapultepec
d.f. 11850 Mexico City
Mexico

www.kurimanzutto.com