PIERO MANZONI – MATERIALS OF HIS TIME

Posted on 2019-02-18

Curated by Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo, director of the Piero Manzoni Foundation in Milan, this exhibition focuses on Manzoni’s revolutionary approach to unconventional materials through the exploration of what he dubbed ‘Achromes’ – paintings without color. Over 70 ‘Achromes’ will be on view, comprised of such materials as sewn cloth, cotton balls, fiberglass, synthetic and natural fur, straw, cobalt chloride, polystyrene, stones, and more. The exhibition situates Manzoni as a peer of such artists as Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, whose experiments continue to influence contemporary art-making today. ‘Materials of His Time’ will also present, for the first time, the items on a wish list Manzoni outlined in a 1961 letter to his friend Henk Peeters: a room all in white fur, and another coated in fluorescent paint, totally immersing the visitor in white light.

Opposite – Achrome, 1961

Exhibition runs through to April 7th, 2019

Hauser & Wirth
901 East 3rd Street
90013 Los Angeles

www.hauserwirth.com

  

NIELE TORONI

Posted on 2019-02-18

Niele Toroni has been working since 1967 with a precise methodology that involves creating a sequence of imprints on a variety of supports. The imprints are made by a no. 50 brush and 30 cm apart. Each one is the place of an epiphany, revealing a constant metamorphosis of the artist’s action over time.

“Niele Toroni has been repeating his brush imprints in time and space. But it is never the same thing because the same is the same is the same, and it is obstinately dissociated from bring identical. The pleonasm becomes a battery: the energy of iteration and the open structure. It is not the ups and downs of the artist’s soul that are the inhibitors of identity, but rather the places where the method is rendered explicit. Having rid itself of the dead wood of all judgments of value and all historical connivance, the practice of true painting is the constant: it finds the essence of each work by reference to its own essence. The world is not reduced to two dimensions, as would normally be the case in a picture, but painting is a given situation and thus becomes an open structure, freely reconceivable in everything.” (Harald Szeemann, 1991).

Opposite – Impronte di pennello n. 50 a intervalli di 30 cm, 1989

Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2019

A arte Invernizzi
via D. Scarlatti 12
20124 Milan
Italy

www.aarteinvernizzi.it

  

FREDRIK SODERBERG – I STEPPED INTO AN AVALANCHE

Posted on 2019-02-11

Söderberg is well known for his intimate and monumental drawings and watercolor paintings on paper; meticulously executed figurative works referencing art history, philosophy and literature, and flowing atmospheric abstractions imbuing spirituality and existential queries. The new abstract paintings in this exhibition are executed with oil paints on canvas, composed from geometrical figures in a subdued palette contrasted with saturated brighter elements. Built slowly layer by layer, they have obtained an intense presence and ethereal sacred beauty, but also a lingering melancholy.

I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul
Leonard Cohen, 1971

Opposite – Den sanna knuten, 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019

Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway

galleririis.com

  

JOHN KORNER – LIFE IN A BOX

Posted on 2019-02-11

A painter of erudite, questioning canvases in which topical content is tackled with various degrees of abstraction and metaphor, John Kørner has developed a wide-ranging practice that speaks beyond the boundaries of the painted image to include installations that transform the viewer’s experience of three-dimensional space. He is celebrated for his ongoing ‘problems’ – egg-shaped forms that appear in his paintings and as sculptures created in a variety of materials, sizes and colours, which allude not to specific problems per se but to the nature of problems as they emerge, are represented and comprehended in the world.
The title of this exhibition, the Danish artist’s fifth solo show at the gallery, refers to the things, physical, emotional, conceptual, that constrain us and the ways in which we attempt to outrun or overcome them. The accelerated pace of contemporary life is a conceptual touchstone across the two- and three-dimensional elements on view, which draw on ideas of altered states and the sublime in nature while investigating the aesthetics and codes of sport as both a competitive pursuit and a galvanising spectacle. For Kørner a social aspect is key, and the exhibition is conceived to invite camaraderie and participation, as well as alter notions of momentum and scale, as viewers move through the gallery space.

Opposite – Leaving the sun, 2018

Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2019

Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road
N1 7RW
London

www.victoria-miro.com

  

LINDER – EVER STANDING APART FROM EVERYTHING

Posted on 2019-02-11

This is Linder’s first solo exhibition in London since 2011, and includes previously unseen and new photomontage works as well as a series inspired by Ithel Colquhoun’s ‘Mantic Stain’ technique. Linder’s exhibition at Modern Art coincides with her current project ‘Bower of Bliss’ at Southwark Station, commissioned by Art on the Underground, and follows her recent exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary and Chatsworth House.
Following on from these large-scale and public projects, the exhibition marks a return to an intimate scale, as well as to her on-going concern with complicating commercially rendered expectations of normative gender roles. Here, she presents a series of collisions between portrayals of claustrophobic domestic interiors and clichéd representations of the ‘outdoors’. The sexually liminal and covert spaces behind closed doors are turned public.

Opposite – The Model 2, 2015

Exhibition runs through to March 16th, 2019

Stuart Shave/Modern Art
4-8 Helmet Row
EC1V 3QJ
London

modernart.net

  

HANNAH EPSTEIN

Posted on 2019-02-04

Steve Turner is pleased to present Hannah Epstein’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Do You Want A Free Trip To Outer Space? in which she will introduce Superchill, the title character in her new comic strip. With hooked rugs, video animations and a video game that visitors may play, Epstein has created an immersive environment that represents contemporary anxiety and a possible antidote.
Epstein describes herself as “a feminist folklorist of the Internet Age” who in past works has created hooked rugs that depicted Internet memes and monsters. With Superchill, Epstein has created a new superhero, one who is not endowed with save the world powers like Superman or the like. Instead, Superchill’s special power is her ability to stay calm while everyone else is freaking out.

Opposite – Big Blue Alien, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2019

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la