DANA HARGROVE

Posted on 2024-02-19

Fresh off her two recent artist residences in Iceland and North Carolina, Enclosure will be Hargrove’s fifth exhibition with Bridgette Mayer Gallery. The title is derived from the 18th and 19th century Enclosure Movement in England, which forcibly privatized public and communal British land. The work in Enclosure explores our world’s changing landscape in the face of capitalism, industrialization, and environmental threats. Hargrove’s colorful and abstracted landscape paintings blur the distinction between natural and constructed environments, creating a portal to lead viewers from the built world to the untamed wilderness. As a Scottish American artist and frequent world traveler, Hargrove is well-attuned to the underlying narratives found in natural and industrialized landscapes globally and over time.

Opposite – Wild Acres, 2023

Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2024

Bridgette Mayer Gallery
709 Walnut Street, 1st Floor
Philadelphia
PA 19106

www.bridgettemayergallery.com

  

ETIENNE CHAMBAUD – PRISM PRISON

Posted on 2024-02-12

Etienne Chambaud works across a wide spectrum of media, exploring the categories we impose on experiences, objects, and disciplines. His works, installations and exhibitions destabilize our notions of what art is and can be, how an artist conceptualizes and produces a work, and the form, function, and history of the exhibition. In 2022 the artist had a major solo exhibition at LaM, in Villeneuve-d‘Ascq, France. Chambaud’s work was included in the Okayama Art Summit 2019, curated by Pierre Huyghe.

Opposite – Mirror, 2024

Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2024

Esther Schipper
6, Noksapyeong-daero 46ga-gil, Yongsan-gu
04345 Seoul

www.estherschipper.com

  

TAO HUI – WE, ENTERTAINMENT

Posted on 2024-02-05

Tao Hui is best known for his immersive video and flm works that play on the storytelling tropes of cinema and television, as well as the narrative formats of social media channels. Spanning a variety of media, We, Entertainment is divided into four distinct sections that together represent both a personal psychological
journey and an examination of the broad societal implications of identity as it relates to gender, class, ethnicity, and cultural biases (fuelled, for example, by dichotomies of urban/rural, North/ South). As Tao‘s work makes clear, media emerges as a powerful force in this dynamic of contested identities, both as a destabilizing and normative infuence, but also with liberating and even restorative potential.

Opposite – The Fall (Green), 2022

Exhibition runs through to February 10th, 2024

Esther Schipper
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com

  

ANNE BUCKWALTER – DOUBLE DUSK

Posted on 2024-01-29

Anne Buckwalter paints realms of the subtly unexpected. As minutely detailed as they are charmingly mysterious, her paintings are visual delights that draw the viewer into the dainty homes of strangers, whose strangeness reveals itself, one detail at the time.

Opposite – Two Moons, 2023

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024

MASSIMODECARLO
Pièce Unique
57 Rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France

www.massimodecarlo.com

  

Posted on 2024-01-22

Almine Rech is pleased to announce Caligothek. Drawing inspiration from the Latin term “caligo,” which refers to fog, mist, and dimness of sight, Bitzer’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery comprises a site-specific intervention on the façade of its Turenne location and a series of dynamic double-sided paintings. The exhibition title hints at the elusive nature of perception, where the present moment remains veiled in ambiguity, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on what lies beyond.

Opposite – Word cannot express-feelings I suggest, 2024

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024

Almine Rech
64 rue de Turenne (front space)
75003 Paris
France

www.alminerech.com

  

DAVID HOMINAL – COSMOS SUITE

Posted on 2024-01-15

For his seventh exhibition at Mennour, Swiss artist David Hominal (born in 1976) is showing a recent series of paintings under the title Cosmos suite. They are based on a body of work commissioned to the artist in the summer of 2023, which itself echoed the older series Sunflowers (made during a residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2010), Hands (2019), No titre 2021 (2020), and Feuilles mortes Still Life (2021).
Hominal has taken the flowers in the garden he keeps next to his Berlin studio as his subject, freely grafting together the traditions of expressionism and figuration. His garden is a necessary daily retreat, as much a place of cultivation and meditation as a theme in his work. These paintings, in which oversized cosmoses appear to spill over a few seeds, have been made from videos in which Hominal has often preferred a flow of images to static shots.

Opposite – Cosmos, 2024

Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2024

Mennour
6, rue du Pont de Lodi
75006 Paris
France

mennour.com