HENRY MOORE AT HOUGHTON HALL

Posted on 2019-09-09

Curated by Sebastiano Barassi, the Henry Moore Foundation’s Head of Collections & Exhibitions, the exhibition will include several monumental outdoor pieces in the grounds of the house, as well as a selection of smaller works, models and etchings, which will be shown in the ground floor gallery spaces. There will also be sculptural interventions in the State Rooms, particularly in The Stone Hall. Highlights include many of Moore’s most celebrated works such as Large Reclining Figure 1984, The Arch 1963-69, Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae 1968-69 and Upright Motive No.8 1955-56.

Exhibition runs through to September 29th, 2019

Houghton Hall
Bircham Road
King’s Lynn
Houghton
PE31 6UE

www.houghtonhall.com

  

LATIFA ECHAKHCH – SEVERAL TIMES

Posted on 2019-09-02

en-foot brick wall appears to have had a chunk bitten off the top and a very large hole drilled through the middle. The cut-out brick circle and missing corner are presented nearby on the gallery floor, provoking one to question if what is missing is just as or more important than what remains. Elsewhere, three oversized pear shapes have been mechanically carved from solid brick cubes. Similar to the wall, two round holes have been cut through one of the pears. In a contradictory combination, Hopf challenges our habitual views of the world by representing this easily bruised, perishable fruit in one of the most sturdy, long-lasting building materials.

Opposite – Several times, you’re so cool, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2019

Dvir Gallery
67 rue de la Régence
1000 Brussels
Belgium

dvirgallery.com

  

JUDITH HOPF – ALIFI

Posted on 2019-09-02

Comprised of three different sculptural series––Walls, Tongues, and Pears––the works on view further Hopf’s practice of employing everyday construction materials and common manufacturing processes to investigate the social dynamics of the contemporary built environment and its influence on human behavior.
Fluctuating between the sculptural and the architectural, the Walls and Pears on view are an extension of Hopf’s recent series of large red brick works. In the front gallery, a six-by-seven-foot brick wall appears to have had a chunk bitten off the top and a very large hole drilled through the middle. The cut-out brick circle and missing corner are presented nearby on the gallery floor, provoking one to question if what is missing is just as or more important than what remains. Elsewhere, three oversized pear shapes have been mechanically carved from solid brick cubes. Similar to the wall, two round holes have been cut through one of the pears. In a contradictory combination, Hopf challenges our habitual views of the world by representing this easily bruised, perishable fruit in one of the most sturdy, long-lasting building materials.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 5th, 2019

Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
NY 10011 New York
USA

www.metropictures.com

  

RINUS VAN DE VELDE – THE VILLAGERS

Posted on 2019-09-02

Rinus Van de Velde presents his first large-scale film project after two years of preparation, the 40-minute movie, entitled The Villagers. Alongside the movie, a number of new charcoal drawings are on display, along with color drawings and three sets from the movie. As a whole, it is a comprehensive installation allowing the viewer to enter the universe of the artist.
In recent years, Van de Velde has increasingly evolved into a “total artist”. He constantly creates a tension between fiction and reality through the use of different media such as drawings, sculptures, installations and now film as well. One could say that the move to the medium of film is an almost logical evolution in the works of Van de Velde, characterized by their highly narrative nature. In his drawings, the artist often depicts landscapes or scenes that are reminiscent of movies. They appear to be temporary snapshots, like individual images taken from a longer cinematic story. This narrative aspect is further reinforced by the addition of text, as a kind of subtitle: literary accounts add an aspect to the depicted events.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2019

Tim Van Laere Gallery
Jos Smolderenstraat 50
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

www.timvanlaeregallery.com

  

ALBRECHT SCHNIDER

Posted on 2019-08-26

The selection of works focuses on new pictures, some of them created with this exhibition in mind. A few carefully chosen early works provide a fascinating insight into the ongoing development as well as the intrinsic constancy of his diverse output over nigh on four decades. The exhibition has been curated by Beat Wismer in close collaboration with the artist.
Albrecht Schnider’s visual art has evolved between the two divergent poles of drawing and painting. Or rather, it has charted a course from free and spontaneous drawing, as a starting point, towards the execution of painted of images with a truly iconic radiance. The drawings and paintings are polar opposites. The drawings are created with the greatest possible freedom and autonomy, whereby all compositional or design intent is secondary and each line is created with the greatest possible immediacy, flowing directly from the hand, in the spirit of écriture automatique. Such an approach to drawing does not involve the abstraction of some external object, but is more a case of finding form through thought-free execution.

Opposite – Untitled, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 26th, 2019

Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland

www.mai36.com

  

DAVID NASH – TREES

Posted on 2019-08-26

As a major retrospective of his work comes to an end at the National Museum of Cardiff, the British sculptor and artist David Nash presents a collection of pastels and charcoals with trees as their theme. Demonstrating great interest for the landscapes and nature that surround him, David Nash works mostly with wood. He explores the very essence of trees, their materials and their symbolism, in their natural environment. Mostly known for his sculptures, often using burnt wood, David Nash is working in 2D here, producing simple forms with a strong expressive force. Having started his career as an artist and painter, David Nash accords great importance to colour, related to details he observes in the landscapes. Here, red and black are the dominant colours in his works on paper.

Opposite – Red Tree, 2018

Exhibition runs through to October 5th, 2019

Galerie Lelong & Co.
13, rue de Téhéran
75008 Paris

www.galerie-lelong.com