CHRISTINA FORRER – CHELSEA

Posted on 2019-03-18

Forrer’s turbulent compositions display psychological spaces in which stylized figures clash and embrace, at times simultaneously. Figures are interlocked – now attacking, now attacked.

On the occasion of the exhibition, the gallery will publish an artist’s book by Forrer. Twenty copies of the book will each include a unique drawing by the artist to form a separate limited edition.

Opposite – Tongues, 2018

Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2019

Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.luhringaugustine.com

  

URS FISCHER – SIRENS

Posted on 2019-03-18

Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to announce the exhibition SIRENS with new paintings and sculptures by Urs Fischer in both its Berlin locations Bleibtreustraße 45 and Goethestraße 2/3.

In the Goethestraße space, Urs Fischer presents a new series of landscape paintings: simple form and color intertwined with still images from classic cinema.

In Bleibtreustraße, a microcosm of small-scale sculptures, poetic vignettes, pivoting around a pond nestled in vegetation, rhythmically disrupted by a single drop landing in its center.

Opposite – Red Mountain, 2018

Exhibition runs through to April 12th, 2019

Galerie Max Hetzler
Goethestraße 2/3
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com

  

ZAO WOU-KI – INKS AND WATERCOLOURS (1948-2009)

Posted on 2019-03-11

The exhibitions devoted to Zao Wou-Ki at kamel mennour in Paris and London revolve around inks and watercolours produced between 1948 and 2009: a panorama of fifty works with the ultimate spotlight on the creative liveliness of the artist’s final working decade. The choice of 1948 was not random: this was the year of Zao’s migration from China to Paris. Educated in the privileged, scholarly environment of a family whose origins could be traced back to the Song dynasty (960–1279), the budding artist who began his studies at the art school in Hangzhou in 1935 first came into contact with European painting as a teenager.
His situation, then, was nothing if not paradoxical. Exposed to two age-old but diametrically opposed cultures – Chinese and European – he was nonetheless out of phase during the 1930s and 1940s: the little information that reached him regarding the kind of Western art that would now be described as hyper-contemporary was strictly rudimentary and his two immediately postwar points of reference were Matisse and Picasso.

Opposite – Sans titre (Paris septembre), 2007

Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2019

Kamel Mennour
47, rue Saint-André des arts
75006 Paris
France

www.kamelmennour.com

  

CHRISTINE HILL – ATTENTION ECONOMY

Posted on 2019-03-11

The identity of today’s artists has developed over the past century into a highly condensed tautology – artists are in who makes art. At Hill’s hand, the artist’s hand transforms any suitable subject or material into a work worthy of creative contemplation.

Attention Economy reveals a turn inwards in Hills practice. During the 26-day exhibition, Hill presents two unpublished drawings in DIN A4 format each day. In doing so, the artist focuses on a selection of contemporary reflections and ideas, which she presents in turn on a specially made podium, allowing careful study. In Hill’s typical drawing style, the drawings, which are reminiscent of loose notebook pages, deal with honors – literature, cultural heritage, politics, memory – as well as profane themes – radio commentaries, interpersonal negotiations, housework, Netflix oversupply.

Opposite – Small Business Chromatic Contemplations (2), 2013

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2019

Galerie EIGEN + ART
Spinnereistraße 7. Halle 5
04179 Leipzig
Germany

www.eigen-art.com

  

ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS – PENDING SCULPTURES

Posted on 2019-03-11

Abraham Cruzvillegas (b.1968, Mexico City) presents a set of sculptures that explore the various themes, techniques and materials that come to embody his artistic inquiries. Cruzvillegas’ new project sees the artist producing a hanging garden that works at the direct intersection of three core components, identity, collaboration and material re-appropriation. Cruzvillegas’ exhibition examines the creative synergy and potential that is at stake within this triangulation, and the chaotically delicate lines that separate these.
Identity construction is a focal point in Cruzvillegas’s explorations and run throughout the artist’s new presentation at kurimanzutto. The artist takes his own and his family’s biography as reference points, producing sculptures and combining natural life that express his preoccupation with origin, sociability, resilience, and the creativity of individual peoples within the context of their built communities.

Opposite – Escultura pendiente 1, 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2019

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

www.kamelmennour.com

  

GETA BRATESCU – THE POWER OF THE LINE

Posted on 2019-03-04

The exhibition features an important body of works from the past decade, during which time Brătescu focused predominantly on working with the line as a structuring principle. The exhibition was conceived over the last year in conjunction with the artist and in close collaboration with Marian Ivan and Diana Ursan of Ivan Gallery. For the duration of the exhibition, two film works will be screened in the centre of the gallery space giving insights into the immersive creative process of this remarkable artist.

Opposite – Marker-art, 2013

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2019

Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
W1S 2ET
London

www.hauserwirth.com