ROSA BARBA – DRAWING THE INFINITE

Posted on 2022-04-25

The presentation, which brings together two of her recent film installations and a selection of her sculptural works from the past decade, highlights Barba’s continuous engagement with the representational function of images and language as they are channeled through cinematic apparatuses.

For Barba, cinema is a sovereign and speculative instrument that critically questions the singular properties of space and time, opening up the boundaries of traditional perception. Barba challenges linear modes of presenting and organizing knowledge by reshaping and representing imagery from scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and geology, as well as cultural archives, through shifts in gesture, genre, as well as the decontextualization of information and documents. The films, installations, and sculptures in this exhibition situate her work between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, and an oscillating logic is put forth, one that reflects how information is processed and transformed.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 21st, 2022

Luhring Augustine Tribeca
17 White Street
NY 10013
New York

www.luhringaugustine.com

  

PAINT-BY-NUMBERS

Posted on 2022-04-25

Paint-by-Numbers is an exhibition that revolves around contemporary artists who take a conceptual approach to painting, often following non-established production methods such as painting with industrial fabrics, logotypes, graphic designs, the cross, LEGO bricks, smartphones, borrowed motifs, or simply an empty stretcher bar, thus raising the question: How can you hone painting down to its bare conceptual bones while keeping it pertinent? In 1962, Andy Warhol introduced a series of paintings based on the famous DIY art kit Paint-by-Numbers. Thereby he was countering the predominant style of abstract expressionism and its adoration of highly subjective gestures.
Warhol’s conceptual approach, by contrast, was detached, calculating, but painterly nonetheless.
Sixty years after Warhol’s brainchild, and when figurative painting is in high demand, the group show Paint-byNumbers gathers contemporary artists who follow Warhol’s legacy by painting from a conceptual angle and following instructions, resulting in the use of painting as a sheer vehicle. Applying multiple styles in parallel, often confounding abstraction and figuration, these artists reveal a penchant for appropriation and mimicry when impasto or brushstrokes are staged as a mere quotation of the look of painting.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2022

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Maag Areal
Zahnradstrasse 21
CH-8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.presenhuber.com

  

ETTORE SPALLETTI

Posted on 2022-04-18

On the ground floor, the visitor will be greeted by a metaphysical landscape composed of two sculptures, which appear to be suspended in the vast space: Colonna nel vuoto, 2019 and Ellisse, 2016. “In order to conduct a discourse on the appearance of the painterly substance and on its effect of reflection and emergence. Spalletti has utterly reduced the presence of volumes, whose formalization, producing a column or a parallelepiped, a cup or a bowl,depends on an elementary geometric development, which is tied to the figures of a square and a triangle, a circle and an ellipse” (Germano Celant). Spalletti made the first column in 1978: “I had in me this desire for verticality, but also the wish for an object that had crossed the whole period of art history and could be continuously recognizable in different moments”. The ellipse is a recurring geometric figure in the artist’s work: “the relationship with art means going to the studio every day, walking around inside, looking around. Suddenly becoming aware of a colour that approaches you, trying to stop it, develop a feeling for the shapes, think of the lines of geometry: horizontal, vertical, oblique, curved. To break geometry itself,
its stiffness, to fill it with a matter that, like smoke, breaks up into subtle dust particles”.

Opposite – Veduta dello studio dell’artista, Cappelle sul Tavo, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2022

Lia Rumma Gallery
Via Stilicone, 19
20154 Milan
Italy
T +39.02

www.liarumma.it

  

AUSTYN WEINER – HONEY HIGH

Posted on 2022-04-11

HONEY HIGH focuses on Weiner’s most recent works in oil on canvas which unite the opposing artistic qualities of the small drawings that she constantly produces during her travels and her previous large-scale paintings. In an extension of her diaristic habit of constant doodling, writing, photographing, and drawing, Weiner’s body becomes the brush, as her rigorous process steadily fortifies a direct channel from emotion to action. Standing out from the hyperreal figurative milieu of her generation, Weiner’s abstractions offer a perspective that is indicative of the times, imbued with visceral reactions to current events and the female experience.

Opposite – Bulletproof, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2022

KÖNIG GALERIE
412 Apgujeong-Ro
Cheongdam-Dong
Gangnam-Gu Seoul
South Korea

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

ALICE ATTIE – INFINITIES

Posted on 2022-04-04

Language and writing play a huge role in Attie’s visual works. She is also a poet and has published several volumes of poetry. Her works on paper are occasionally based on scientific and philosophical writings. In the works created during the classes of Professor Fred Neuhouser, on the subject of Jean-Jacques Rousseau from her Class Notes series, language acts as a reflexive structure, as the handwritten notes from lectures on the philosopher form long lines and change their direction, bump up against the margins, and bounce back. They enhance an increasingly dense network of thoughts and associations that lends philosophy, and its intellectual concepts, a visual form.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 21st, 2022

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.schwarzwaelder.at

  

MARK DION – THEATER OF EXTINCTION

Posted on 2022-03-28

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present Mark Dion: Theater of Extinction, an exhibition of new sculpture and drawings. Dion has shown with the gallery for over two decades, but this will be the artist’s first solo presentation in the Los Angeles space. The exhibition will include four new sculptural works and over a dozen new drawings, some among the largest Dion has produced to date.

Mark Dion uses his work to investigate systems of knowledge production and presentation, and to critique the underlying assumptions that determine how disciplines like science, geography, and art classify, organize, and display information. His large-scale installations and sculptural works often mirror the strategies and aesthetics of academic methodology or museum display, and they prompt viewers to consider how these institutions frame our understanding of the material presented, pointing to the social rather than innate construction of knowledge. To deconstruct the notion that the logic comprising these systems is immutable and authoritative, Dion often inserts irrational elements or other non sequiturs into the works, subverting the seemingly rational picture they present.

Opposite – Cabinet of Extinction, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2022

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1010 North Highland Avenue
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com