Reflecting on a career spanning six decades, ‘A Confession of My Sins’ brings together over 50 new paintings and works on paper created by Georg Baselitz over the past year.
Opposite – Blaue Augen Rehe (Blue Eyes Deer), 2023
Exhibition runs through to June 16th, 2024
White Cube
144-152 Bermondsey Street
SE1 3TQ
London
World Leader Pretend is an exhibition of new painting, sculpture and installation by Venezuelan-American artist Alex Da Corte. It is Da Corte’s first exhibition in Milan since Devil Town at Gió Marconi in 2015, and his first exhibition in Italy since the 2019 Biennale di Venezia. The artist has been the subject of recent survey exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. Da Corte was the 2023 Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome
Opposite – The Phantom Menance, 2024
Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2024
Giò Marconi
via Tadino 20
I-20124 Milan
Italy
Using paint as a means to engage with his environment, Trevor Shimizu’s work has always taken its cues from whatever subject is “at hand” – a sentiment famously attributed to impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. Over the past several years Shimizu’s environment has changed. Whereas his earlier work reflected the roles taken up and activities that filled his life in New York City, his recent paintings are a means of processing his life and studio now oriented away from the metropolis and situated on the Hudson River. His current landscape paintings, as such, are made with and through his various modes of contact – both psychic and physical – with his surroundings.
Recalling the interminable interest in, for example, the changing light of the scenery that drove the work of the Hudson River School painters, Shimizu’s recent works are preoccupied with the limitlessness of material possibilities in the landscape, or the working through of different colour combinations on the canvas. On their large scale, and painted ambidextrously, Shimizu’s technical approach to these works is embodied; the physical act of painting evident in their construction. In this way his recent work is influenced as much by the corporeal performativity of abstract expressionism as it is the choreographic and conceptual performance practices of the post-war period.
Opposite – Roses, Dahlias, Daffodils, 2024
Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2024
Modern Art
4-8 Helmet Row
EC1V 3QJ
London
Reproductions is an investigation around the subterraneous ways in which feminism crosses the most important currents of creative thinking of our time. Comprising of new and already existing works by Claire Fontaine, this exhibition creates a tension and a dialogue between the clear line of influence of Marcel Duchamp within the work of Claire Fontaine and her specific use of quotation, appropriation and hijacking. The word ‘reproductions’ evokes at the same time realistic representations in art, copies of existing artworks, the perpetuation of the same thing and the act of giving life to another being. Playing on this polysemy Claire Fontaine created two new neon works: Power (2024) where the word ‘soft’ before ‘power’ has been barred. ‘Soft power’ described by Wikipedia as ‘the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power)’ recalls the cultural strategies used by both United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War in their foreign politics through tokenism, while adopting strong internal repression of dissidence. Cancel (2024) polemically refers to cancel culture and its dangers of historical revisionism caused by the systematic exclusion and erasure of the culprits of political incorrectness.
Opposite – CONSENT (Green), 2020
Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2024
Mennour
47, rue Saint-André des arts
75006 Paris
France
In 1958, Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014) visited an exhibition by Jean Degottex (1918-1988) at Kléber Gallery in Paris which featured a series of paintings strewn with signs reminiscent of Far Eastern calligraphy. Heidsieck has begun a new stage of poetic experimentation for the voice that he called the poème-partition [score-poem]. Inspired by Degottex’s paintings, he dedicated eleven of these poems to the painter, which he sent to the artist, in what was to be the first gesture in a long friendship. From as early as his first poetry collection in 1955, Sitôt dit, Heidsieck was interested in ‘extracting the poem from the page’ and ‘projecting it physically into space.’ In this, he was inspired by the sound revolution that Pierre Boulez was bringing to classical music. His poems were conceived not to be silently read but rather heard, spoken by the author in public or in recordings, inaugurating a field of ‘sound poetry’ that, together with Henri Chopin, he would become one of the chief proponents of.
Opposite – Horsphère Rouge, 1965
Exhibition runs through to June 1st, 2024
Mennour
6, rue du Pont de Lodi
75006 Paris
France
Known for her daring exploration of space, power, and identity, Monica Bonvicini stands as an important figure in the contemporary art landscape. With a career spanning over three decades, Bonvicini’s work embodies a profound dialogue between architecture, gender, and social constructs. Her installations, sculptures, and conceptual pieces serve as powerful reflections on the intersections of politics, sexuality, and human experience. Bonvicini!s oeuvre is characterized by its fearless engagement with materials, often incorporating industrial elements to craft environments that provoke both visceral and intellectual responses. She navigates the boundaries between the public and private spheres, revealing the latent tensions that lie beneath the surface of
our built environments.
Opposite – Off the Grid (rage), 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2024
Galerie Gisela Capitain
St. Apern Straße 26
50667 Cologne
Germany
