GIANGIACOMO ROSSETTI – CABBAGE FIELD

Posted on 2024-03-18

Taking its title from an 1873 Camille Pissarro painting once seen as ‘vulgar’ for foregrounding the lowly cabbage plant, Cabbage Field imbues moments of everyday urban life with an auratic stillness.

While trying to abandon any metaphysical subject and adhere to the realist tradition—by portraying ordinary scenes without mediation—Rossetti was nevertheless led astray. His attempts at realist representation here are disrupted by mundane fabrications. The characters that populate his paintings, those dear to him, gaze past one another, isolated despite their physical proximity. The result is a mirror-like world where intentions are shaped by impulse and desire.

Opposite – The Connoisseur, 2024

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2024

Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York

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CHUNG EUN-MO

Posted on 2024-03-18

In the paintings of Chung Eun-Mo – whether it be the irregular shapes as in the earlier works, or in the regular, circular or rectangular format – the color can be seen as a combination of “light, weight and pleasure”. It becomes the substance to give luminosity and build harmonious relationships. Composed of planes of color and light shifting softly, Chung’s works present a sensitive geometry differing from the normative order of Minimalist art; sometimes they overflow beyond the boundaries of the canvas to extend onto the walls and transform the real space.

Opposite – Embrasure, 1994

Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2024

Monica De Cardenas
Via Francesco Viganò 4
20124 Milan
Italy

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RENÉE LEVI – LÉSÉDY

Posted on 2024-03-18

Painting is Renée Levi’s natural vocabulary. In his exhibitions, the artist deploys it so that we can make a physical and poetic experience of it. For her, the time of the exhibition, this scene, this strange space offers an impulsive and dazzling moment. There is no point in looking for stories and narrative logics, they have been deliberately reduced. It’s about experiencing intensity, its color and its structure together.

As in all her exhibitions, Renée Levi shares with us here a poetic architecture in a place. The frames of the paintings reverse the perception we have of them. For a time, they are a means of densifying our understanding of its medium and its scope. Renée Levi’s paintings become limit moments in the thought of painting. If his works will perhaps abandon this state when they simply hang on the wall again, here they play on their own balance to gain a foothold in our common space.

Opposite – Lésédy P, 2024

Exhibition runs through to May 10th, 2024

Galerie Mezzanin
63, rue des Maraîchers
CH-1205 Geneva
Switzerland

galeriemezzanin.com

  

KATHARINA WULFF – GUTEN MORGEN, DU SCHÖNE

Posted on 2024-03-11

Katharina Wulff’s solo exhibition features mostly enigmatic portraits. Each individual stands alone against backdrops of displaced architecture that look as much social realist as it does redolent of film and theatre sets. While some portraits were inspired by the work of GDR photographers such as Sibylle Bergemann, most are the products of invention. Creating an inside and an outside, as well as a threshold one must pass, Wulff has hung her compositions on either side of Moroccan handcrafted, cedar, interior screens. These in-built sculptures divide the gallery space in two and were fabricated by traditional artisans in Marrakesh where
the artist now lives. The exhibition, enlivened by cross-currents, has both a concrete part—attaching to real people, histories and tension-laden contexts—and then another abstract unfixed overlaid part, which speaks to the unruly imaginary and the seductive agency of art.

Opposite – Untitled, 2020/24

Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2024

Galerie Neu
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany

www.galerieneu.net

  

ANA MANSO – MENSTRUUM

Posted on 2024-03-11

Led by a conscious being, who believes they can legitimately manipulate a series of techniques and subjects, we can understand the act of painting (by which we mean making a painting) as one of many processes of sedimentation in nature. However, what we might call a framed geochemical micro-event loses all its inherent relevance where the nature of painting emerges in the sensory phenomenon of sight. In this optical oxymoron (the painting), the settled surface is presented as inevitably diaphanous in its own opacity; the painting refuses to be
simultaneously object and image – ‘a painting is a magic stone,’ as Ana Manso once said.

Opposite – ouro vermelho, 2024

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2024

Pedro Cera
Rua do Patrocínio, 67 E
1350-229 Lisbon
Portugal

www.pedrocera.com

  

BRETT GOODROAD – RAINY

Posted on 2024-03-11

Brett Goodroad (b. 1979) lives and works in Prescott, Arizona. Recent solo exhibitions include Cushion Works, San Francisco (2024, 2021, 2017); Greene Naftali, New York (2022; in collaboration with Cushion Works, curated by Hilton Als); ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2022); Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2019; 2015); and Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, U.K. (2018). Significant group shows include Karma, New York (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2019, 2018); and The Drawing Center, New York (2014), among others.

Opposite – Ponderosa, 2023

Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2024

Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York

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