MAYO THOMPSON – GO TO THE WINDOW

Posted on 2019-07-08

Mayo Thompson (b. 1944) is from Houston, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, CA. His formal education includes Garden of Arts Kindergarten until Holy Rosary Elementary School through fifth grade, then Moye Military School until high school at Cascia Hall College Preparatory School, from which he received a diploma in 1962. He went on to St. Thomas University, trying variously, off and on, in some cases simultaneously, Pre-Law, Creative Writing, English and American Literature, Philosophy, and Art History, before dropping out and starting a band with Frederick Barthelme in 1966 The Red Crayola, after the first album, spelled with a Kin the USA for legal reasons.

Opposite – Cessna 137, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 2nd, 2019

Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

DANA HOEY – DANA HOEY PRESENTS

Posted on 2019-07-08

Dana Hoey Presents, is a para fictional exhibition conceptualized, produced and directed by Hoey, in which the artist will show her own photographic work, the performance and sculpture work of Marcela Torres, and a live ladies Muay Thai fight night that will take place in a 20’ x 20’ boxing ring installed inside the gallery. The show, which challenges and confronts preconceived ideas and realities of feminism, combat, violence, self defense and the martial arts.

“During the run of Dana Hoey Presents, my role will be that of Svengali,” Hoey says. “Although I make work as a single subjective, expressive artist, I prefer to emphasize my position as a participant in a larger social construct.”

Opposite – Sweet Arena, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 2nd, 2019

Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.petzel.com

  

HERBERT BRANDL

Posted on 2019-07-01

New show by the Austrian Postwar & Contemporary painter Herbert Brandl.

Opposite – Ohne Titel, 2018

Exhibition runs through to September 28th, 2019

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

  

BEATRIZ GONZALEZ – FOUNDATION OF MOURNING

Posted on 2019-07-01

The installation Zócalo del Duelo (Foundation of mourning) by the Columbian artist Beatriz González (*1938 Bucaramanga, Columbia; lives and works in Bogotá) will be on show in the foyer of the gallery. Like a metre-high frieze several posters (typographic print on paper) with two repeating motifs will line the lower wall of the vestibule. At the same time these posters will be found at various locations in the city. The flatly applied, reduced colouring and the graphically strong, simplified contour lines lend the subject, as so often in González’s work, an appearance of deceptive banality. The concept of posters is reminiscent of her wall papers with which the artist has covered whole walls of institutions, such as at documenta 14 in Kassel. Such works take up key moments in the politically turbulent history of Columbia and, on the basis of the reproducible medium, make them into iconic symbols in the minds of those who see them.

Opposite – Zócalo del Duelo: Duelo con Celular, Duelo con Pañuelo…, 2018

Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2019

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse 21
8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.peterkilchmann.com

  

MARGARET RASPE – FRAUTOMAT

Posted on 2019-07-01

A number of mid-sized format works that were created in the context of the simultaneously issued photo book and which draw upon the artist’s three-month stay in India are on show. The motifs collected on the journey are fragmentarily dissolved from their actual narrative and are subjected to a very intimate creative process on the basis of her artistic repertoire. It is experimentation with the original subject of the picture and its photographic quality conceptually mixed with classical lithographic printing techniques. As in previous series such as Tehran North from 2015, Shahbazi is interested in how a journey and the encounters experienced can be perceived photographically without them being externally determined by the visual power of the culturally charged and often very overwhelming colourfulness of the locations. It is the making of collages without physical intervention: the snapshots, which often show anonymous individual people in architectonic space or in a landscape, are taken apart and reshaped, their colour taken out of them or reconfigured like a reset.

Opposite – Automatic Drawing 6, 1976

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2019

Amanda Wilkinson
1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
W1F 0SH
London

amandawilkinsongallery.com

  

RYAN GANDER – I SEE YOU’RE MAKING PROGRESS

Posted on 2019-06-24

The exhibition’s title ‘I see you’re making progress’ reflects Gander’s constantly evolving practice and career trajectory, while the works also display this evolutionary process – from the confines of the artist’s mind and studio, towards the boundless possibilities to learn and develop from the outside world.
A new work from 2019, View from the studio window (8th November 2017), depicts a hazy view of the world outside his workspace as it transitions from day to night throughout a 24-hour cycle. The animated screens behind the frosted glass approximate the exact light conditions and changing weather of that time and place – not to mention the gently swaying silhouettes of trees and the shadow of a chain link fence – all now transposed, seemingly impossibly, to an interior-facing gallery wall in Shanghai. Another windowpane appears in this show, this time one that has been white-washed and smashed, obscuring a hidden artwork never to be revealed, while also creating a new visceral abstract composition through the use of haphazard duct-taping.

Opposite – A Moving Object, or Triple bottom line, 2017

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2019

Lisson Gallery
2/F, 27 Huqiu Road
Huangpu District
200002 Shanghai
China

www.lissongallery.com