JOSEP GRAU-GARRIGA

Posted on 2019-01-21

Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. On this occasion, the gallery will exhibit a group of tapestries, spanning the artist’s long career, with the earliest dating from the 1970s and more recent works dating from the 2000s. Four decades of creation during which Josep Grau-Garriga, who died in 2011, developed his own visual language, while at the same time revolutionizing the art of tapestry. The exhibition will also include a series of drawings by the Catalonian master, whose pictorial work is relatively unknown, in comparison with his woven work, with which his name has become synonymous. The joint presentation of these two bodies of work—a rare event indeed—reveals the fertile emulation between the two media.

Opposite – Després d’un bon dinar (Après un bon repas), 1972

Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2019

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
8 rue Charles Decoster
1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.nathalieobadia.com

  

AMAR KANWAR – SUCH A MORNING

Posted on 2019-01-21

The show features his latest film Such a Morning, a modern parable about two people’s quiet engagement with truth. The work premiered at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017 is showed here along with seven installations of letters composed of video and light projections on paper. Searching for a way to re-comprehend the difficult times we are living in, Kanwar asks “What is it that lies beyond, when all arguments are done with? How to reconfigure and respond again?” Such a Morning unlocks a metaphysical response to our contemporary reality as it navigates multiple hallucinations between speech and silence, fear and freedom, democracy and fascism. In the 85-minute film, a famous mathematician at the peak of his career unexpectedly withdraws from his life and retreats to the wilderness to live in an abandoned train carriage.

Opposite – Such a Morning, 2017 (film Still)

Exhibition runs through to March 7th, 2019

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

CAROLE BENZAKEN – LA-BAS…TOI

Posted on 2019-01-14

In her nearly thirty years of rummaging through image feeds in search of snapshots, Carole Benzaken has methodically developed a polysemous and homogenous body of work, while also allowing heterogeneous ramifications to form. The artist questions the sheer profusion and speed at which these images constantly assault us, provoking a feeling of satiation, despite a visual multiplicity that is never quenched.
At the Bourg-Tibourg gallery, Carole Benzaken will present the series Greffes (Grafts), eight paintings of identical format, in which the chromatic variations shift between acid green and the sweetest of pinks. The subject of the work is hidden by the paint, to the point that it is impossible to recognize it, concealed as it is by the fluctuations in speed. A few vertical lines alone mark the frenetic horizontality, punctuating the artist’s unfettered brushstrokes. Eloquently verbal and musical (“I paint like I speak,” says the artist), these paintings take the viewer on a frantic race through space and time.

Opposite – Germe rouge 3, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2019

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

www.nathalieobadia.com

  

CATHERINE GOODMAN – EVE

Posted on 2019-01-14

Goodman was artist-in-residence at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from January to May 2018 and many of the works in the exhibition were made during her residency. Her practice includes expressionistic landscapes, vigorous sketches, experimental collages and portraits; central to her process is the act of drawing from observation, whether from life, objects or the great masters and their works. She has travelled extensively, working for many years in India and the Mediterranean landscape.
The exhibition is titled ‘Eve’ and the majority of works are vibrant, colourful, landscape based painting occupying the Threshing Barn, Workshop and Pigsty galleries. Goodman describes her residency in Somerset as ‘a quiet, contemplative setting where the idea for this garden grew.’ Although not explicitly representing the ‘Garden of Eden’, these energetic paintings incorporate rich, rural habitats, often with female figures or children merging into the landscape. All of the artist’s paintings begin with drawing from life, which is fundamental to her practice. Whilst on the residency in Bruton, Somerset, Goodman set up and took part in regular life drawing sessions. It was from these sessions that the figure of Eve emerged and subsequently features in several of her paintings.

Opposite – Departed Presence, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 6th, 2019

Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Durslade Farm
Dropping Lane, Bruton
BA10 0NL
Somerset

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DANA SCHUTZ – IMAGINE ME AND YOU

Posted on 2019-01-14

Imagine Me and You depicts strange terrain where clouds hover like rocks, ground is composed of jawbones, and mountains suspend writhing histories and political dilemma. Here, characters travel in groups or pairs, their features pocked and marred by exterior forces or molded by interior psychic malady. Alone and often monstrous, they struggle to inhabit their own image. Their figuration is informed by their task at hand and own felt sensation—a fishlike runner tries to escape her body on an endless treadmill, a lecturer giving a Ted Talk feels her face as she shapes it, and a multi-limbed painter tries to hold up her studio and canvas while the walls tumble in an earthquake.

The surfaces of Schutz’s new paintings are layered and built up with thick impasto. Figures become walking palettes as paint, daubed and squeezed straight from the tube, create scars, wounds, nipples or noses. Other times, the paint is sculpted, as in the painting Bat, molding it as an imprint of an iconoclast’s weapon that has swiped across the character’s face.

Opposite – Painting in an Earthquake, 2019

Exhibition runs through to February 23rd, 2019

Petzel Gallery
456 W 18th Street
New York
New York 10011

www.petzel.com

  

MARTIN CREED – TOAST

Posted on 2019-01-07

Hauser & Wirth London proudly presents an exhibition by Martin Creed entitled ‘Toast’ which includes new sculpture, painting, drawing, tapestry, video, live action and music. Creed has become known for hugely varied work which is by turns uncompromising, entertaining, shocking and beautiful.

Opposite – Work No. 3071, Peanut Butter On Toast, 2018

Exhibition runs through to February 9th, 2019

Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
W1S 2ET
London

www.hauserwirth.com