ANDY WARHOL – FROM “THE HOUSE THAT WENT TO TOWN”

Posted on 2019-07-29

In the early 1950s, Andy Warhol collaborated with the young author Ralph Thomas (Corkie) Ward on a small number of illustrated and self-published books. Their first joint publication was “A Is an Alphabet” from 1953, a collection of 26 loose pages that combine a silhouette by Warhol with a verse by Corkie. Each of Corkie’s texts describe an encounter between an animal, whose name begins with the letter of the alphabet to which it is assigned, and a human figure (or pair of figures) drawn by Warhol on the top half of the sheet.
Warhol executed his drawings in the blotted line technique, which had become his first signature style and with which he made a name for himself as an illustrator within the New York publishing world.

Opposite – Kissing Couple, ca. 1954

Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2019

Galerie Buchholz
17 East 82nd Street
NY 10028 New York
USA

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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MILTON AVERY – THE LATE PORTRAITS

Posted on 2019-07-22

Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery’s life. Characterised by economy of touch and luminescence of colour, the works on view see the artist apply a lifetime of experience to cherished subjects and motifs.

Opposite – Two Poets, 1963

Exhibition runs through to September 8th, 2019

Victoria Miro Gallery
Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994
30124 Venice
Italy

www.victoria-miro.com

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ALMA ALLEN

Posted on 2019-07-22

This is a showcasing of work made after the artist’s recent relocation from Joshua Tree, CA, to Tepoztlan, Mexico. The pieces continue the compulsive and prolific explorations of a singular sculptor with a recognizable and idiosyncratic visual sensibility, who creates psychologically charged forms in stone, wood, and bronze.
In talisman-like handheld objects in silver and bronze, and in large-scale forms contoured from 500-pound burls of wood and slabs of stone, Allen’s works are exacting in their fluidity. These nonreferential forms at once evoke the familiar and the nameless, drawn from the trauma and willfulness that have marked the artist’s life and his own specificities of resonance and recollection. In Allen’s sculptures, and in their intimations of squeezing and stabbing and smoothing, is a distillation of visceral pains and pleasures: of a clenching or a letting go or opening one’s eyes to the sun after a nap. How the action of sculpting becomes the sculpture itself is apparent in Allen’s work, the result of a physical acting out, punctuated by its recurring themes of organs and violence. Many of the works present a single minimal motion, carved and polished over the course of many months.

Opposite – Not Yet Titled, 2017

Exhibition runs through to August 17th, 2019

Blum & Poe
2727 South La Cienega Boulevard
90034 Los Angeles
USA

www.galeriebuchholz.de

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HERMAN AGUIRRE – TEJIDO

Posted on 2019-07-22

Tejido (Tissue), is a solo exhibition by Chicago-based Herman Aguirre that consists of new paintings inspired by ordinary objects in his home that have strong sentimental value: family photographs, linens, articles of clothing belonging to him and his wife, a bouquet of flowers and other souvenirs. Aguirre delicately builds up his works so that they represent the fragility of life and of malleability of memory.

Opposite – Viento y sol, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 24th, 2019

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038 Los Angeles
USA

steveturner.la

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SHIRANA SHAHBAZI – NEW GOOD LUCK

Posted on 2019-07-15

A number of mid-sized format works that were created in the context of the simultaneously issued photo book and which draw upon the artist’s three-month stay in India are on show. The motifs collected on the journey are fragmentarily dissolved from their actual narrative and are subjected to a very intimate creative process on the basis of her artistic repertoire. It is experimentation with the original subject of the picture and its photographic quality conceptually mixed with classical lithographic printing techniques. As in previous series such as Tehran North from 2015, Shahbazi is interested in how a journey and the encounters experienced can be perceived photographically without them being externally determined by the visual power of the culturally charged and often very overwhelming colourfulness of the locations. It is the making of collages without physical intervention: the snapshots, which often show anonymous individual people in architectonic space or in a landscape, are taken apart and reshaped, their colour taken out of them or reconfigured like a reset.

Opposite – Kandalama, 2019

Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2019

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse 21
8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.peterkilchmann.com

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BIANCA BONDI – MOTHS DRINK THE TEARS OF SLEEPING BIRDS

Posted on 2019-07-15

Bianca Bondi has chosen an enigmatic title, inspired by a scientific study that a particular moth’ species had developed the ability to drink the tears of sleeping birds1. If nothing in the show directly illustrates this surprising observation, the choice of words however illustrates Bianca Bondi’s impulse to enrich her work with natural sciences and stories as well as religious culture, esoteric or magical. The movement of the bird’s tears when ingested by the moth correspond to a recurring analogy in the artist’s works: the idea of passage, the mutation of matter and its circulation.

Opposite – Have you accepted Christ as your personal savior? I…, 2019

Exhibition runs through to July 27th, 2019

VNH Gallery
108 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris

vnhgallery.com

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