DANIEL BOYD – DREAM TIME

Posted on 2024-10-27

With his unique pictorial language, Daniel Boyd seeks to “de-locate our visual perception from a single entry to one of multiplicity” by directing our gaze toward narratives obscured by empire and oppressive cultural framework. Taking as his subject landscapes, historical representations, and portraits linked to his own personal history, heretofore invisible, as well as iconic figures rarely depicted in the visual arts, Daniel Boyd continues to transmit and transpose his cultural and artistic traditions while expanding our collective imagination.

The title of the exhibition responds to “dreamtime,” the term given by early European anthropologists to define what they understood to be the mythology behind the natural order of things for most Australian Aboriginal groups, proposing a reductive vision of their cultures, which are both highly diverse and interconnected by complex narrative networks. Boyd, who is of plural origins (descended from indigenous Australians and South Sea islanders), splits the term dreamtime into binary opposites (Dream Time), allowing the uncontrollable nature of a dream to be freed from the European linear and controlled perception of time.

Opposite – Untitled (NIIDT), 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2024

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

JAMES TURRELL – PATH TAKEN

Posted on 2024-10-21

Almine Rech Paris is pleased to announce its 12th exhibition in 3 decades with James Turrell organized by the gallery. A new light piece from his ongoing Glassworks series started in 2004 will be on view.

I’ve always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is colored, the way light rains off people with auras and things like that… We don’t normally see light like that.
But we all know it.
– James Turrell

Opposite – Path Taken, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2024

Almine Rech
18 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France

www.alminerech.com

  

KENJIRO OKAZAKI – METTERE A NUDO / AEON MUTTERED

Posted on 2024-10-21

Kenjiro Okazaki’s artistic oeuvre often explores the fundamental principles of form and creation, transcending the boundaries of specific genres. He perceives diverse subjects—such as painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—as interchangeable and translatable, while still preserving their unique characteristics.
This particular approach is evoked in the exhibition title, a perfect anagram conceived by the artist. “Mettere a nudo” meaning “to lay bare” or “to reveal the truth,” in Italian, reflects the human desire to break the seals covering the world and know its ultimate limits. The noun “Aeon”, etymologically meaning “life” or “vital force” in English, is often translated as “timeless” or “for eternity”. In correspondence to the first part, yet in contrast, the expression implies the emergence of endless murmuring or chatter, suggesting a continuous flow of words or thoughts that persists eternally.

Opposite – But in truth, the first creatures were driven from the sea. They fled. That’s why so many of us get seasick. A mudskipper crawled onto the beach, raising its head. “Look,” he said, beholding the vast expanse. “Thousands of miles of flat nothing.” Fis, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024

galerie frank elbaz
66 rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

www.galeriefrankelbaz.com

  

ANDREW CRANSTON – THOUGHTS FROM UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS

Posted on 2024-10-21

Comprising a new body of his book cover paintings, this is Cranston’s
second show with Modern Art and first solo exhibition in Paris. This group of paintings continues the artist’s
ongoing and daily studio practice of painting on hardback book covers. Each cover acts as a portal or
window to multiple histories, here calling upon influences ranging from Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave
Caillebotte’s ‘floor scrapers’, and the artist’s own memories.

Opposite – I tell you I am dead, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2022

Modern Art
3 Place de l’Alma, 2nd floor
By appointment only
75008 Paris

modernart.net

  

JINGZE DU – TRUE COLORS

Posted on 2024-10-14

The first part features forty-three mostly small-scale paintings that depict animals precisely painted in black, white and shades of gray. These works are composed of thin layers of paint meticulously applied with an array of brushes. Viewers often assume that Du uses an airbrush and are always astonished to learn that he does not. Instead, he only uses age-old techniques that he learned as a child prodigy in Yantai, China. These sweet images of cats, dogs, pigs, goats,
rabbits, monkeys, ducks and other animals are installed throughout the main gallery, each one vying for our attention, love and possible adoption.
However, True Colors has a second room of paintings which completely changes the mood. They are loose adaptations of famous paintings from the past and include Manet’s The Execution of Emperor Maximilian; David’s The Death of Marat; Goya’s The Third of May 1808 and Vermeer’s Woman Holding A Balance. They are also painted in shades of gray, black and white, however in contrast to the animals, they are composed of loose gestural brush strokes which obscure most of the source image. With one exception, Du chose paintings that depict historical events notable for their violence, with one outlier: the Vermeer, wherein science and reason are highlighted. Through Du’s juxtaposition of animal and human, precise and loose and adorable and horrible, he suggests a world view that is more than black and white.

Opposite – Seal, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

GRACE SCHWINDT – WHEN A BODY BECOMES A LANDSCAPE

Posted on 2024-10-14

The exhibition features a dynamic interaction of newly conceived paintings and earlier sculptures in glass, ceramics, and bronze. Following the great success of Schwindt’s premiere in Zurich, the Paris exhibition represents a continuation and new perspectives on Schwindt’s engagement with trauma, injury, and the acceptance of

these through strategies of tenderness and touch. Inspired by literary critic Edward W. Said, Schwindt advocates for direct human encounters rather than intellectual understanding of cultures from a distance. She seeks to disrupt narratives on humans and bodies based on concepts of separation, instead promoting a history shaped by immediate touch. In doing so, she describes how, beyond our cultural influences, we are inextricably connected to nature, and this primal imprint is fragile and in need of protection. Even though the rational penetration of the mysterious and unstoppable metamorphoses of all life remains hidden from us, this very circumstance opens infinite possibilities for coexistence.

Opposite – Perfect Fragments, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2024

Galerie Peter Kilchmann
11 Rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Paris

www.peterkilchmann.com