DABSMYLA – THINGS THAT CAN’T BE SEEN

Posted on 2018-10-29

Husband-and-wife visual artist duo, DABSMYLA employ a shared design language that dictates subject matter, positioning, color theory and perspective. With this established framework and unspoken set of rules—strengthened by over a dozen years of working together simultaneously—their singular goal is to tell an expansive story that is wholly unique to their own experiences.

With THINGS THAT CAN’T BE SEEN, DABSMYLA have reached beyond the world where their characters have lived in the past, and created plausibly realistic situations and settings connecting to these invisible energies and entities.

Exhibition runs through to November 11th, 2018

8070 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles
CA 90048

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JOSÉ PARLÁ – ECHO OF IMPRESSIONS

Posted on 2018-10-29

Echo of Impressions features a series of new large abstract paintings and sculptural pieces drawing on key and recurring themes in Parla’s practice including the urban space, human markings, and calligraphy. The title refers to both the physical impressions left around the city by time and passers-by and the inspirations and experiences, which imprint on our psyche. The mood associated with particular locations and scenes is reflected in Parla’s choice of paints, private observations are conveyed in bold brushstrokes, while personal narratives are transcribed in gestural calligraphies. Each layer represents a memory now preserved, each line and shape charting an event of note.

Parla’s lifelong dialogue with the urban subconscious, the tempo and flow of the streets, and musical and literary inspirations all come together in a celebration of color and form in Echo of Impressions. His artworks evoke stories of immigrant roots, city wanderings and human encounters, which reference personal histories while also leaving room for his viewers to find their own stories.

Opposite – Time Engraved in Names, 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2018

Ben Brown Fine Arts
12 Brook’s Mews
London
W1K 4DG

www.benbrownfinearts.com

  

ANDRE BUTZER – 1 EIS BITTE! (1999)

Posted on 2018-10-22

The first dedicated exhibition of the artist’s seminal “Science-Fiction-Expressionism” series in the UK, 1 Eis Bitte! (1999) features works from 1999 – 2000 and one large-scale painting from the “N-Bilder” (“N-Paintings”) dated 2011.

The exhibition title 1 Eis Bitte! (1 Ice Please), is taken from one of the paintings included and can be seen as referencing Butzer’s first solo show at Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin in 2003 – Chips und Pepsi und Medizin (Chips and Pepsi and Medicine). Whilst both titles are playful in their casual spoken nature, Butzer wryly critiques commodity aesthetics through the allusion to products of mass consumption and branded identities. At the same time, aware of the contradictions at play, Butzer lures in the viewer through his deliberate use of bright colours and enlivened compositions.

Opposite – Eis, bitte!, 1999

Exhibition runs from November 13th – February 8th, 2019

Galerie Max Hetzler
41 Dover Street
W1S 4NS
London

www.victoria-miro.com

  

YAYOI KUSAMA – THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE

Posted on 2018-10-22

Throughout her career, Yayoi Kusama has developed a unique and diverse body of work that, highly personal in nature, connects profoundly with global audiences. Continuing to address the twin themes of cosmic infinity and personal obsession, the new works in this exhibition are testament to an artist at the height of her powers as she approaches her 90th birthday. Paintings from the artist’s celebrated, ongoing My Eternal Soul series are on view at Gallery II, Wharf Road. Joyfully improvisatory, fluid and highly instinctual, the My Eternal Soul paintings abound with imagery including eyes, faces in profile, and other more indeterminate forms, including the dots for which the artist is synonymous, to offer impressions of worlds at once microscopic and macroscopic.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2018

Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road
N1 7RW
London

www.victoria-miro.com

  

GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON – RAWHIDE DOWN

Posted on 2018-10-22

Titled “Rawhide Down” – after the code used on March 30th 1981 by secret service agents to signal that Ronald Reagan had been shot by John Hinckley Jr. – the show consists of paintings depicting state leaders and political figures who have been the subject of assassinations and assassination attempt by shooting. These figures of authority have been shot by assassins (or would be assassins) for reasons that exist on multiple points on a scale of rationality and mental illness. Einarsson’s portraits are based on idealized images, appropriated from various cartoons, of each of the state leaders. Despite coming from different historical eras and countries and to some extent ethnic backgrounds the faces blend together to a kind of non identifiable middle-aged powerful Caucasian man, a non specific face of (perceived) repressive power. With the distance added by the secondhand depiction through a found image and the cartoonish flatness of the way the paint is applied, the paintings are intended not as portraits-as-psychological-study. They are less about the character depicted and more about what these characters represent to the person who goes to the step of making the decision to assassinate them. These portraits become less about an individual person and more about how this powerful public figure is perceived by the world at large and by the shooter in particular – an abstraction away from humanity that would presumably be necessary in order for the shooter to pull the trigger.

Opposite – Real Name: Ronald Reagan, 2018

Exhibition runs through to October 27th, 2018

STANDARD (OSLO)
Waldemar Thranes Gt 86 C
N-0175 Oslo
Norway

www.standardoslo.no

  

FRIEZE 2018

Posted on 2018-10-15

The 16th edition of Frieze London closed on Sunday 7 October, having brought together ambitious presentations by 160 international galleries in The Regent’s Park. A new two-day Preview as well as expanded VIP programming into the weekend, resulted in record attendance of top tier collectors from the United States to South America, Europe and Asia, and sales being made throughout the week.

Indicative of the fair’s convening power, Frieze London 2018 saw an increase in museum presence, including strong representation from international institutions. The inaugural Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze was launched, alongside the return of two major acquisition funds with Tate and Contemporary Art Society, demonstrating Frieze’s long-standing collaboration with leading institutions. Also new for 2018, the Frieze Debate brought together a panel of global museum directors for a free live event and recorded broadcast, in collaboration with BBC Radio 3.

Photography Lo Harley

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