SARAH VERBEEK – BODILY FLUIDS

Posted on 2017-10-16

Trained as a classic figurative painter Verbeek’s move towards abstraction was, as she says herself, a necessary development. The urgency of this development remains at the heart of her work. As such, her paintings can be called explorative transfers from abstraction into figuration. Objects morph into hairy, bubbly surfaces, legs or arms woven into each other, silhouettes of undefined objects floating atop each other. However spontaneous Verbeek’s flow of shapes and figures seems, what we see is well thought out, re-cycled and re-thought for a period of time. Shapes appear and reappear as shadows or silhouettes in new paintings or within the same painting itself.

In Sarah Verbeek’s work three dimensional and two dimensional forms overlap. Dimensions dissolve, shapes half blocking out what seems to be laid in the painting’s background. As a matter of fact, Verbeek’s surfaces work on several layers, flowing from background to foreground and back again. As such they are subversively avoiding to state what is more or less important.

Opposite – Untitled, 2016

Exhibition runs through to October 21st, 2017

Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016PL Amsterdam
Netherlands

www.annetgelink.com

  

DAVID LAMELAS – THE OTHER SIDE

Posted on 2017-10-16

This exhibition is concurrent with Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America and marks the artist’s third solo presentation with the gallery, and his first at the Los Angeles space.

Born in Argentina in 1946, Lamelas has been an iconic international figure in conceptual art for over fifty years. He immigrated to London at twenty-one, and in the early 1970s began living and working part-time in Los Angeles. During this period he broadened his focus on conceptual film, while expanding his practice of sculptural works and performance.

For this exhibition Lamelas presents a reconceptualization of (Untitled) Falling Wall, initially conceived of in 1993, and a brand new sculpture, Walls Are Meant for Jumping (2017), derived from a sketch created by the artist in 1967. These site-specific installations simultaneously address the nomadic nature of Lamelas’ life, enabled by adaptability to varying place and context, and recurring themes of time and duration.

Opposite – Falling Wall, 2017

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2017

Maccarone
300 South Mission Road
CA 90033
Los Angeles

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CHRIS MARTIN – PARIS TAZ

Posted on 2017-10-09

Most of the recent works presented in the gallery were produced in the artist’s studio in the Catskill Mountains, three hours’ drive from New York City. Inspired by the lush slopes basking in fickle light, Chris Martin experienced there moments that complemented the “inner landscape” whose contours are sketched by his childhood memories of the region. In this environment, the artist experiences singular, profound and unconstrained moments that are one of numerous senses that may be given to the term Temporary Anonymous Zone, or TAZ, invented in 1991 and made popular by «ontological anarchist» Hakim Bey. As either an intimate, fleeting moment or large-scale public demonstration of which the mere mention might provoke its disappearance, a TAZ must escape the realm of res publica to succeed in extricating itself from the predeterminism decreed by contemporary society as a means of ensuring common acceptance of the temporary as a stroke of luck rather than an obstacle to happiness.

Opposite – Summer Heat, 2017

Exhibition runs through to November 25th, 2017

VNH Gallery
108 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris

www.vnhgallery.com

  

FRIEZE LONDON 2017 HIGHLIGHTS

Posted on 2017-10-06

Frieze London 2017 Highlights: Solo and Curated Gallery Presentations, Live Performance, Talks, Projects, Music and Film

The 15th edition of Frieze London takes place from 5–8 October, with a Preview Day on Wednesday, 4 October.

More than 160 leading galleries from 31 countries will showcase ambitious presentations by international emerging and established artists, enhanced by a curated non-profit programme of artist commissions, films and talks.

New for 2017, Ralph Rugoff (Hayward Gallery, London) will curate Frieze Talks for the first time, exploring artists’ response to an age of ‘alternative facts’, with speakers and performers including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Nástio Mosquito.

The 2017 fair will also feature a new themed gallery section devoted to the legacy of radical feminist artists, organized by Alison M. Gingeras (independent curator); and curator Ruba Katrib (SculptureCenter, New York) will co-advise on the Focus section dedicated to emerging galleries. Frieze London 2017 once more coincides with Frieze Masters and Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park, together forming the heart of Frieze Week, the most significant week in London’s cultural calendar.

Photography – Lo Harley

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ART AND FASHION: CURATING FASHION

Posted on 2017-10-03

Frieze Academy presents, for the first in a series of fashion-themed Academy events, the subject of Art + Fashion will be explored in terms of the theoretical and practical challenges when a designer’s life and inspiration is curated within the context of an art institution – with reference to recent and historic exhibitions.

Jo Ellison, fashion editor of the Financial Times, formerly Features Director of British Vogue will host a discussion about the different forms curating takes in the fashion industry, with reference to recent hit exhibitions such as Balenciaga, Rei Kawakubo, House Style and The Vulgar.

Judith Clark is a curator and exhibition-maker based in London. She is currently Professor of Fashion and Museology at London College of Fashion, UAL, where she teaches on the MA Fashion Curation. Since setting up her gallery in 1997, Clark has curated 40 exhibitions of dress.

Jo Ellison is the Financial Times Fashion Editor, formerly Features Editor of British Vogue.

Katharine Hamnett has worked for over 30 years as a designer, and just last year relaunched her label.

11 Oct 2017
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Ace Hotel London Shoreditch
100 Shoreditch High Street
E1 6JQ
London

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JAN FABRE – MASKERS

Posted on 2017-10-02

This project brings together some of Fabre’s sculptural work that explores the theme of self-portraits, both as a form of enquiry into human nature and as an attempt to represent and liberate the various personalities that make up a person’s identity.
When looking at ourselves in the mirror, do we really see ourselves? We may think we are able to seize our own image, but it’s not something we are truly able to do. The human body is in a constant state of transformation. The many faces we possess change inexorably over the course of time. Jan Fabre explores the elusiveness of “self” in his Chapters I-XVIII (2010) series of gilded bronze and wax statues – busts in which the artist portrays himself with the addition of animal attributes. The metamorphosis of man into animal and of animal into man is a key feature in all Fabre’s work. Here, in amongst the horns and ears from a multitude of species, the artist assembles a kind of anthropomorphic bestiary in which the perfection of anatomical details and a number of coloured elements conceal meanings that straddle the autobiographical and the symbolic.

Opposite – Chapter IV, 2010

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2017

MAGAZZINO
via dei Prefetti, 17
00186 Rome
Italy

www.magazzinoartemoderna.com