ROKUBEY KIYOMIZU – VIII CERAMIC SIGHT

Posted on 2023-07-17

Rokubey Kiuomizu VIII’s sculptures on view span from 1993 to 2023, revealing an impressive morphology, from floor-bound works to tabletop-sized sculptures that invite intimate and contemplative viewing. Glazed with matte blacks or pearly whites, each sculpture exploits a wide range of tonal shifts in light and shadow. This is further augmented by Kiyomizu’s invariable use of negative space that co-structures each work through soft contours cut into their angular chassis, revealing a tense interplay between curves and right angles. With titles such as “Structure of Memory,” or “Tower of Memory,” Rokubey Kiuomizu VIII
alludes to the “memory” of clay as a recorder of human manipulation and chemical conversion, but also to the sculpture itself as a metaphorical container of human memories or consciousness. In a pyramidal work, “Memories of the Future 22”, it alludes to memories of a future that have already occurred—hinting at a science-fictional dimension.

Opposite – LINK 96, 1996

Exhibition runs through to September 16th, 2023

Nonaka-Hill
720 N. Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.nonaka-hill.com

  

SHOLTO BLISSETT – ARBOREAL

Posted on 2023-07-10

In Blissett’s practice, the idea of “landscape” does not only describe a motif or genre. It also refers to a historically constructed concept to be dissected, and a visual tool through which to reflect on the relationship between humankind and nature. His work, at first glance imbued with a serene simplicity, stands at the crossroads between his love for landscape painting, his university training in geography, and his experience of nature while strolling or fishing in his native English countryside. These various lenses through which Blissett contemplates landscape give depth to his approach. Informed by both observation and research and executed in a simultaneously naturalistic, fantastic, and resolutely painterly way, his imaginary, uninhabited biomes investigate how societies
perceive, construct, and mythologize the natural world.

Opposite – Arboreal I, 2023

Exhibition runs through to September 29th, 2023

Peres Projects
Piazza Belgioioso 2
20121 Milan
Italy

peresprojects.com

  

MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY IN ASPEN 2023: PART II

Posted on 2023-07-03

An exhibition featuring The Haas Brothers, Sarah Meyohas and Celeste Rapone.

Opposite – Sarah Meyohas, Light Speculation #2, 2023

Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2023

Marianne Boesky Gallery
616 East Hyman Ave
CO 81611 Aspen
USA

marianneboeskygallery.com

  

MAUREEN DOUGHERTY – BORROWED TIME

Posted on 2023-06-26

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maureen Dougherty traveled to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where she joined a colleague to collaborate on a documentary film project. She had planned to be away from New York for about a month. The ensuing lockdown instead kept her in Pittsfield for more than two years. A longtime abstract painter, she found a small room that she could use as a studio and began to make meditative ink drawings at five o’clock each morning. These drawings would incrementally develop into figurative imagery, taking her art in a wholly new direction.
The artist has noted that “painting is like a clock, it has a sense of time.” It can move forward or, as in the works of Nicolas Poussin, it can stop and become eternal. She believes that our times call for a form of anti-fascist “degenerate” art — a perception that has intuitively led her to freely improvise on appropriated images from the OnlyFans porn hub. These paintings, focusing on lips, eyes, tongues, and teeth, on masked
faces and bodies glomming onto one another, underscore the lengths that a human being often needs to go, in an alienating and polarized society, simply to feel alive.

Opposite – BOXER, 2023

Exhibition runs through to September 16th, 2023

Cheim & Read
547 West 25 Street
10001 New York
USA

www.cheimread.com

  

CHRISTOPH WEBER – FACING THE TECHNOSPHERE

Posted on 2023-06-19

In order to represent what eludes attempts to picture or imagine it, Christoph Weber employs materials from three different spheres that overlap in the world of our lived experience: concrete as the global building material that shapes the human-made technosphere; fossil rock as the material of the earth’s crust, the so-called lithosphere; and various mixtures of beeswax as a material representation of the biosphere. For his fourth solo exhibition, Weber has created a dense system of references to the horizons of meaning inscribed within these materials. On display are two groups of current works, the first of which symbolizes the direct confrontation of the three spheres, while the second attempts to feel its way toward the calculation of complex transformations.

Opposite – Mark, 2023

Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2023

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at

  

JOËLLE TUERLINCKX – SUMMERTIME

Posted on 2023-06-12

With Summertime, Joëlle Tuerlinckx draws us into the warm haze of summers past. Oscillating between precision and playfulness, her new sculptures and collages combine rational geometry with an oneiric longing for tomorrow’s horizons. Wind and sun enter an open window in the gallery as if the outdoors was pushing for emotional space. We step over ‘dislocated’ drawings made from flat brass and aluminium plaques. These fine floor works connect to the series of Collages d’Atelier on the walls of the gallery. In one set, Tuerlinckx combines a computer-generated outline with a Chute d’Atelier. A small painting in monochrome scarlet is placed face-down, its pigment barely visible but for coloured stains that have seeped out to its edges. With others, the painted remnant is substituted by a picture postcard of a sunset or seascape.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to September 23rd, 2023

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at