RICHARD DEACON – HOUSE & GARDEN

Posted on 2019-02-04

House & Garden includes new photographs, ceramics and sculpture from the past year, exploring relationships between these materials and processes. The exhibition represents recent innovations in Deacon’s thinking about sculpture, considering the relationship of image to surface, object making to the pictorial, and sculpture to the plinth, all notions that have been present in his work and are at the nexus of his steadfast interest in a multiplicity of modes of production.

Opposite – Home & Away #4, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2019

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
10019 New York
USA

www.mariangoodman.com

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RAPHAELA SIMON – STERNE

Posted on 2019-02-04

Simon’s ladies, fashionably dressed and with golden rings on their fingers, the glass of champagne right at hand, describe a crowd
usually encountered at exhibition openings – a cigarette in the mouth, sunglasses covering the face, purse and costume in matching colours. Simon makes figures out of various fabrics in an elaborate and detailed manner. The hair is accurately composed of pieces of textile, polished nails are applied to the fingertips and visible seams mark distinctive facial features.
For the first time Raphaela Simon presents a selection of these fabric figures together with new paintings. Simon’s canvases are defined by clear and simple compositions. Structures and forms are being constantly repeated, colours such as light blue, white and black carry like a thread through her entire work.

Opposite – Rosa Frau, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2019

Galerie Max Hetzler
Bleibtreustraße 45
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com

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URS FISCHER – IMAGES

Posted on 2019-01-28

In Fischer’s work, images emerge from an odd liminal space between the real and the imagined, between what does, and could, exist. Over the past year, he has been creating paintings digitally, inventing things, rooms, and spaces using color and light. On a screen, as opposed to paper or canvas, Fischer is able to paint with light itself—moving illuminated pixels around, juxtaposing clean lines and gradients, and reflecting on the subtle atmospheric changes across day and night, summer and winter, Los Angeles and New York.
Silkscreened onto aluminum panels, the paintings in this exhibition—vertical compositions broken up into multiple rectangular passages—take on the scale of modern abstraction, yet they all describe imaginary interior and exterior worlds. Windows appear often: one glows behind a gauzy white curtain, looking onto swaying palm trees; another reflects a sunrise or sunset, with a still life on a table barely visible through fingerprints on the glass; and another frames a building across the street, where nine more windows reveal smeared and fragmented California views.

Opposite – Glow, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 9th, 2019

Gagosian
456 North Camden Drive
CA 90210
Beverly Hills

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TOMÁS SARACENO

Posted on 2019-01-28

This exhibition tells stories from the perspective of the web—which is not separate to the spider, but a material extension of its senses and thoughts, an assemblage that can be thought of as a spider/web. These hybrid webs, woven together by different species of spiders, become a figure of interspecies solidarity and embodied cognition. They invite us to consider the impossibility of differentiating the individual being from the web of life in which we are entangled, triggering a sentient reflection on perceiving worlds through the worlds and bodies of the others, just as the spiders in the hybrid web would be able to sense vibration traveling through the web of another spider. The silk of semi-social spiders forms an integral, cerebral, and literal web through the gallery spaces, making tangible the
invisible recursive relations between earthly geometries and the greater cosmos.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to March 2nd, 2019

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

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SANDRA BLOW – THE LATE WORKS

Posted on 2019-01-28

The exhibition will feature eleven large-scale works, made in paint and collage, which testify to her skill as a colourist and her instinctive use of material. The works in the exhibition were made between 1972 and 2005, the year before the artist’s death. Throughout her career, Blow’s works incorporated tactile materials including sand, ash, plaster, wire and sacking, but it is her late works in which the artist’s expert handling of both colour and form is most evident. It is in the last decades of the artist’s life, too, that she began to produce paintings on a monumental scale – canvases in the exhibition range in scale up to 10 feet in width.

Throughout her career, the central concerns in Blow’s work remained constant: abstract form, light, space, texture and rhythm. The coastal Cornish landscape became one of the greatest sources of inspiration in her later career after she moved from London to St Ives in 1994.

Opposite – Untitled, c. 1975

Exhibition runs from February 13th – March 9th, 2019

Huxley-Parlour Gallery
3-5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE

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ADAM MCEWEN

Posted on 2019-01-21

Expanding his practice into more prosaic, but also more challenging, territory. The works unpack and activate McEwen’s signature graphite sculptures, which are here mounted on rough plywood faced with aluminum and coated with an image of the subjects of the sculptures themselves.

The objects present in McEwen’s assemblages are so ubiquitous one’s associations are likely to go beyond the physical or aesthetic. Banal, familiar, verging on the outdated and abject, they are nonetheless freighted—differently for each viewer—with the charge of recognition. Here, shot in the artist’s studio using materials at hand as backdrop, items that were used by McEwen for the purposes of creating precise, digital models for their graphite doppelgängers—a thermostat, a hotel door handle with card reader, a Styrofoam food tray—return and compete as subjects in two dimensions. Shifting moments, captured under the flash of an iPhone, are reduced to halftone transparencies and layered in vibrating triads of reds, violets and acid greens.

Opposite – Stalker, 2019

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2019

Petzel Gallery
35 E 67th Street
NY 10065
New York

www.petzel.com

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