AUSTIN MARTIN WHITE – FAMILIAR DYSPHORIA

Posted on 2023-08-14

Petzel is pleased to announce representation of artist Austin Martin White, with his first solo exhibition, Familiar Dysphoria, opening September 13th at Petzel’s Upper East Side location. In collaboration with Petzel, Derek Eller Gallery will simultaneously show an exhibition of White’s work, titled Lost in the Sauce, opening September 8th.

Opposite – misguidance (After de Ibarra), 2023

Exhibition runs through to November 4th, 2023

Petzel Gallery
520 W 25th Street
NY 10001
New York

www.petzel.com

  

JULIA BORNEFELD – SUSTAINED GESTURES

Posted on 2023-08-07

In addition to the titular film work (in cooperation with Luca Formentini and Michael Beyer), new figurative sculptures as well as ink works on canvas and paper will be shown. Sustained gestures plays with the contradiction of unstable equilibrium, triggered by a slight change in the position of the body left to itself.

Opposite – temporale II, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2023

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

  

FARRELL HUNDLEY – CHORUS

Posted on 2023-08-07

Chorus,a solo exhibition of Farrell Hundley, a collaboration between William Farrell and Elliott Hundley. This marks the LA-based design duo’s first collaboration with the gallery and their debut presentation in Los Angeles. Through their practice, the pair explores mythological symbolism from ancient civilizations. The works on view are allegories that meditate on the rise and fall of empiresand the poetic power of these fragmented narratives. The exhibition title, Chorus, refers to “the first group characters in traditional Greek plays and stories that set the stage of the storythat’s to come,” states Farrell.
Rejecting notions of an idealized form, this exhibition debuts new typologies for the duo and their largest scaled works to date. Through their signature technique of lost-wax casting, the pair has honed their distinct visual vocabulary by uniting discordant objects and furnishings. Reflecting on human evolution and adaptation, imagery of branches and twigs is a key component to their work.

Opposite – Set Floor Lamp, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2023

Friedman Benda
8260 Marmont Lane
CA 90069
Los Angeles

www.friedmanbenda.com

  

LAUREN QUIN – SALON REAL

Posted on 2023-08-07

“Salon Real” is the opening sequence to a series of knots. One inferred meaning of this phrase connotes the original Paris Salons and the reactionary Salon d’Automne. These traditional exhibition forums united and established a throughline for the canonical discourse forged by generations of artists, Fernand Léger and Marcel Duchamp among them, whose influences have elliptically swayed pictures composed by Quin.
Resisting a stable, fixed definition, the poetic word pairing conjured by the artist describes a method of determination through synchronicities. Self-aware as models for visual indulgence, the paintings—like the exhibition’s title—scavenge, pluck, and layer symbols, forms, mediums, and gestures from throughout art history. Like a back-logged inventory of visual culture, imagery, styles, and colors are reinvented, layered,
and combined to staggering effects.

Opposite – Solar Hole, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 10th, 2023

Blum & Poe
1-14-34 Jingumae, Shibuya
150-0001 Tokyo
Japan

www.blumandpoe.com

  

FABRIC WORKS

Posted on 2023-07-31

‘Fabric Works’ brings together a selection of artworks by a cross generational group of artists from the gallery’s program who have used textiles to push the limits of their respective mediums. Contemporary works by Phyllida Barlow, Frank Bowling and Pipilotti Rist are displayed alongside modern masters, including Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Piero Manzoni and Fausto Melotti. The painterly works on view are sewn, patched and haptic, eliciting fundamental questions about the cross-fertilisation of sculpture and painting. Sculptural pieces display unconventional elements of pliability, familiarity and intimacy, challenging associations about the materiality of sculpture.

Opposite – Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2002

Exhibition runs through to September 9th, 2023

Hauser & Wirth
Via Serlas 22
7500 St. Moritz
Switzerland

www.hauserwirth.com

  

HONOR TITUS – ADVANTAGE IN

Posted on 2023-07-24

In an oeuvre marked by its immediacy and range, Titus draws on architectural, cinematic, musical, sporting, and literary sources (he has described approaching his subjects as if through the eyes of an “unexpected confidante” such as The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway). Through this compound perspective, he reframes formal social traditions for an inquiring contemporary audience, additionally underscoring the cultural significance of depicting people of color in the contexts of leisure and luxury.

This holds demonstrably true in the tennis motif. In the tellingly titled Prosperity (all works 2023), Titus depicts a Black ball boy standing in front of a deep-blue backdrop emblazoned with the art-deco Rolex crown logo (otherwise known as the Rolex coronet), his raised arm suggesting a gesture of triumph.
Second Serve details the powerful musculature of a player’s arm as she swings her racquet overhead. And in Charles, Between Games, a player is shown relaxing on a courtside bench, sipping a well-earned cuppa. While these paintings seem to cast an eye back to simpler times in their celebration of countryclub joie de vivre, they remain connected to the present moment, and echo Titus’s painterly intentions of bucking the viewer’s expectations.

Opposite – Members Only, 2023

Exhibition runs through to September 16th, 2023

Gagosian
456 North Camden Drive
CA 90210 Beverly Hills

gagosian.com