CAMILLA ENGSTRÖM – MANTLE

Posted on 2022-07-18

Engström’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, and sculpture, operating between colour-rich landscapes and figurative expression. For her exhibition in Berlin, Engström has created five new oil on canvas paintings that showcase her characteristic trippy, hallucinogenic palette and voluptuous curving forms in sorbet-coloured hues.
These new paintings dive deeper into the texture of landscape, abandoning the human form in favour of imaginary settings – brightly lit and undulating with Engström’s curvy lines. The resulting images are sunbathed, from a light source that emanates from somewhere outside the picture frame, as the sun as object is featured in all but one of the paintings. There is a warmth and quiet stillness in all of the works, reflecting Engström’s long-standing meditation practice. She refers to herself as a mostly self-taught artist, having previously studied fashion, making her way to the canvas mostly through drawing.

Opposite – You See You, 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2022

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

SKOPIA SUMMER EXHIBITION

Posted on 2022-07-18

Summer exhibition is a group show featuring pieces by: Silvia Bächli, Francis Baudevin, Erik Bulatov, Jean Crotti, Pierre André Ferrand, Franz Gertsch, Alex Hanimann, Thomas Huber, Robert Ireland, Christoph Rütimann, Pierre Schwerzmann, Franz Erhard Walther.

Opposite – Pierre Schwerzmann, Untitled, 2015

Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2022

SKOPIA
Vieux-Grenadiers 9
1205 Geneva
Switzerland

skopia.ch

  

DYLAN SOLOMON KRAUS – THE INEVITABILITY OF ALIGNMENT

Posted on 2022-07-11

In a new series of works for this exhibition, the artist depicts an eruption of clouds and planets, color and brushstrokes swirling with energy and commotion. In Genesis (2022), a cloud bursting from a dark sky brims with planets, stars and shapes – the moment just before creation is represented as a cloud of pure potential. Despite pursuing cosmic themes, the works are also defined by a quality of humour, which the artist explains as “because to imagine creation is impossible, and so to try to depict the unimaginable and contain it in a little canvas is comedy”.

Opposite – Genesis, 2022

Exhibition runs through to August 18th, 2022

Peres Projects
The Shilla Seoul Hotel
249 Dongho-ro
Seoul
South Korea

peresprojects.com

  

TOMOKO OBANA AND TORU OTANI

Posted on 2022-07-11

Tomoko Obana and Toru Otani do not know each-other, however their artistic procedures are neighborly, relishing delight in cartographic compositions, found forms and in rich color; earthy to Victorian from the hands of Obana, and from Old World towards Fauve in the hands of Otani.

For her vitrine sculptures, Tomoko Obana collects vintage, industrially produced wares such as water and perfume bottles, jugs, bud vases and more. She makes a mold of these found objects by which she produces one hundred casts; ten each of ten different types of clay slip, kiln fired with various woods, amounting to one-hundred unique “ash glazed” iterations. The artist contemplates the nuances of sooty and dappled surfaces of her objects and settles on arrangements which may, in the Western canon, resemble the paintings of Giorgio Morandi, but which, for the artist, give a nod to the aesthetic disciplines of Japanese Ikebana flower arrangements or dry, rock gardens.

Opposite – Toru Otani, Game Board for a Game of Unburnable Stones and Tigers, 2015

Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2022

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

www.nonaka-hill.com

  

BARRY MCGEE – EVERYDAY SUNRISE

Posted on 2022-07-11

Taking inspiration from his native San Francisco, as well as the places he has resided in throughout his artistic career, McGee constructs site-specific installations that evoke his playful investigations into space and the unending dialogue between art and life.

Opposite – Untitled, 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 8th, 2022

Perrotin
Seoul 1F 5 Palpan-Gil
Jongno-Gu Seoul
South Korea

www.perrotin.com

  

NIKOLAI ISHCHUK – TILT/SHIFT

Posted on 2022-07-04

The title of the show, referencing the perspective control techniques of architectural photography, derives from a small series of geometric drawings made by Ishchuk in 2013-14 that precipitated subsequent work and to which the artist recently found himself returning. They resemble optical diagrams, only here bouncing lines refract into interlocking isometric volumes, suggesting multiple possible perspectives. The shapes in his drawings vibrate with a subtle jitter visible in the shading, made up of a myriad of small parallel pen strokes. Two of these drawings and one diptych are included as these investigations of the line, mark-making and demarcation were a precursor of works in the rest of the exhibition.

Opposite – ARCADIA (6), 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2022

Marshall Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave. #A6
Los Angeles
CA 90404

marshallgallery.art