MEL ZIEGLER – ACTIVATED ARTIFACTS

Posted on 2019-06-24

For this exhibition, Ziegler presents a new work entitled Hooks, taken from a larger series called 10×10’s. Consisting of a geometric grid of vintage and antique hat hooks, viewers are encouraged to leave their own hats thus transforming the work from its original form. The piece bears many hallmarks of Ziegler’s practice such as an encyclopedic approach to collecting, participatory elements, and a deep reverence for socially imprinted antique artifacts. Additionally, it references Ziegler’s pervading interest in seriality, a quality often attributed to minimal art of the 20th Century, and a distinct influence during the genesis of both his and Ericson’s work.

Opposite – Installation view of 1000 Portraits, 2018

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2019

Perrotin
130 Orchard Street
NY 10002
New York

www.perrotin.com

  

CLAUDIA COMTE – BUNNIES AND ZIGZAG

Posted on 2019-06-24

Bunnies and ZigZag presents new sculptural work and a monochromatic vinyl wall painting that snakes through the gallery. Comte’s work draws together
architecture, design, nature and popular culture through motifs and patterns that morph in space. The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s fascination with mutating forms that oscillate between the material and the digital. As a starting point for her work, Comte often begins with wood sourced from sustainable forests in her hometown of Grancy, Morges. Her hand-carved sculptures retain the marks and inflections of her signature tool – the chainsaw – one not known for its precision, but rather for its expediency and force. This approach links Comte’s work to her wider interests in forest ecology and biodiversity, which she evokes through play, connection and touch.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to June 29th, 2019

Galerie Joy de Rouvre
2, rue des Vieux Grenadiers
1205 Geneva
Switzerland

www.galeriejoyderouvre.ch

  

JEAN-MARIE APPRIOU

Posted on 2019-06-17

Appriou’s sculptures appear archaic, evoking mythology and forms of primitive art, while crafted from the very contemporary material of aluminum.

On this occasion, four cast aluminum Cypress trees will be placed on Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s roof terrace, creating an open-air installation overlooking the city of Zurich. Appriou’s work often refers to the Symbolists, and here he is referencing Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead. Cypress trees carry the weight of the space between life and death, earth and sky. Their silhouettes are as gracious as they are haunting.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to July 20th, 2019

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Maag Areal Zahnradstrasse 21,
CH-8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.presenhuber.com

  

CHRISTIAN FOGAROLLI – IL CORPO D’ARIA

Posted on 2019-06-17

Christian Fogarolli’s project Il corpo d’aria is based on these premises and presents some works that investigate the relationship between instrument, body and soul in the spaces of the Alberta Pane Gallery in Paris.
The works attempt to explore some contemporary issues and problems in relation to the body and the mind, which are elements scientifically considered as a simple organic mass that can be modified, cured and redeemed. The research represents an evolutionary phase and is coherent with the artist’s entire path based on a contemporary vision of illness, deviance and treatment approaches.
The project on display leads to a critical view of the body, seen as a simple organism and often reduced to the categories of today’s natural sciences, such as biochemistry and genetics. The installations and the photographic works, which have been specially created, have been conceived starting from these thoughts and in reference to how science, by definition, denies itself as a consequence of the birth of new premises. This implies a constant loss of meanings to the detriment of causes towards a utopian truth.

Opposite – Handle with care 3, 2019

Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2019

Galerie Alberta Pane
47 Rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris

www.albertapane.com

  

KATHRYN ANDREWS – CIRCUS EMPIRE

Posted on 2019-06-17

Andrews’ work explores histories of dominance and ways in which latent or normalized social power structures influence culture. Her sculptures and 2-D works often incorporate the images and artifacts of hegemonic cultural production, such as mass media, commercial products, advertising, the entertainment industry, as well as citations from canonical Western art history. Andrews employs the strategies of pop art and minimalism to interrogate these modes of production, in an effort to highlight how aesthetics, namely image presence and materiality, are used to influence perception and, in turn, consumption tendencies.

Opposite – Encounter, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 4th, 2019

König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

GUILLAUME BRESSON

Posted on 2019-06-10

Considered to be one of the most singular French painters of his generation, Guillaume Bresson presents a group of recent paintings realized in his New York studio. These attest to the evolution of his work from hyperrealistic street scenes to more imaginary territories. Via a system of representation derived from the teachings of Italian Renaissance and French Classicism, Guillaume Bresson portrays contemporary subjects—his striking depictions of society shift toward a form of oneiric lyricism, which, rather than rejecting the social world, transfigures it.

The corps-a-corps, a constant theme in Guillaume Bresson’s oeuvre, is presented across a variety of settings that are more or less identifiable, more or less familiar or abstract: suburbia, a laundromat, the domestic environment of a kitchen, snowy woods that recall Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s wintry landscapes, a stormy sea.

Opposite – Sans titre, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 29th, 2019

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri
75004 Paris

www.nathalieobadia.com