OMELETTE PAPIER

Posted on 2022-01-10

Capitain Petzel is pleased to present omelette papier, a group exhibition of works that engage with the medium of paper in a variety of modes.

Artists included – Karla Black, Andrea Bowers, Joe Bradley, Isabella Ducrot, Jadé Fadojutimi, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Anna Gaskell, Georgia Gardner Gray, Stefanie Heinze, Charline von Heyl, Sanya Kantarovsky, Maria Lassnig, Marcel Odenbach, Pieter Schoolwerth, Mikołaj Sobczak, Barbara Steppe, John Stezaker, Hiroki Tsukuda and Nicola Tyson.

Opposite – Hadi Fallahpisheh, Cats Remembering Things, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 5th, 2022

Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
Germany

www.capitainpetzel.de

  

EMI KURAYA – LONG VACATION

Posted on 2022-01-10

The lockdown environment seems to have pushed Emi Kuraya to her limits, and her new works show that she has nevertheless managed to get out of her house, seeking to confront the unknown. Always halfway between a lucid approach and the exploration of her own unconscious, the young artist provokes an encounter with the other, whether it is premeditated or born by happenstance…

In Lovers, Kuraya portrays a couple by the seashore, painted from a photo-booth image she found on the ground, while she was going to a beach to look for a new point of view on the bay of Suruga… Photography imposed itself on her, and so, for the first time, the 26-year-old woman tried to paint a male figure. “Boys don’t just represent the opposite sex for me, they are the absolute unknown. That’s why I wanted to start drawing portraits of boys, something I had never dared to do before: I needed to explore this territory.”

Opposite – Lover, 2021

Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2022

Perrotin
807, 8/F, K11 Atelier Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Hong Kong

www.perrotin.com

  

BERNARD FRIZE – COME TO ME AGAIN

Posted on 2022-01-10

Perrotin New York is pleased to present Come to Me Again, an exhibition of twenty works by Bernard Frize, taking over two floors of the gallery. For four decades, Bernard Frize has been developing his signature style of process-oriented abstraction. As an artist he explores the bare minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic, instead focusing on an industrial approach to making art. Working in series, he conducts experiments, exploring all the possible visual outcomes of preconceived protocols. While each series records the peculiar dynamics of a predetermined technique, his vibrant abstractions also allow for chance.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to February 19th, 2022

Perrotin
130 Orchard Street
NY 10002 New York
USA

www.perrotin.com

  

JAVIER MARTIN – LIGHTS APPROPRIATION

Posted on 2022-01-03

This exhibition encourages self-reflection. Martin uses sophisticated visual elements to stimulate the viewers curiosity, to let them question what may be hidden behind the lights and what blinds us.
Through excellent artistic skills Martin combines painting and collage in order to detect the transformation of the natural daylight, and places it in a powerful battle with the artificial light. He takes us on a journey from poetic sunsets to sunrises, dark night skies and graceful twilights, and creates new allegories of natural light. These works allow us autocritical questions: How strong is the blindness that comes from favoring unimportant things? Is a clear sight hindered by something or are we intentionally covering our eyes?

Opposite – Blindness Timeless Light 3, 2021

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022

PULPO GALLERY
Obermarkt 51
82418 Murnau am Staffelsee
Germany

www.pulpogallery.com

  

ANNE-MIE VAN KERCKHOVEN

Posted on 2022-01-03

Zeno X Gallery presents the retrospective exhibition Placenta Saturnine Bercail by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951 in Antwerp). Historical and new works illustrate her forty-year collaboration with Zeno X Gallery. A substantial publication presenting an overview of all her exhibitions in the gallery with images from the archive will be released to coincide with this exhibition.
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has collected a large database of images of women in various stages of undress. The poses, gazes, attributes and camera angles are usually very stereotypical. These clichés are occasions for her to connect the underlying meanings of the images with other, sociopolitical dimensions of society. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven likes to look for the tension between word and image. Since images of women are regularly used to sell certain goods, Van Kerckhoven got the idea to also sell abstract ideas or concepts by juxtaposing them with images of women: “As my alter ego ‘HeadNurse’, I took ninety-six female images from my database and connected them with words from texts on internal self-organization, thermodynamics and knowledge representation. Through the systematic use and reuse of images of women – from the first nude magazines to the sexual revolution– I activated a five-step alchemical process, starting from thinkers in the baroque to Nietzsche.”

Opposite – Spiegel (Mirror), 1987

Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2022

Zeno X Gallery
Godtsstraat 15
2140 Antwerp
Belgium

www.zeno-x.com

  

WANG KEPING – METAMORPHOSES

Posted on 2022-01-03

Metamorphoses, Wang Keping’s site-specific exhibition, unveils the artist’s most recent body of work: a group of eight majestic, fire-patinated cypress-wood sculptures. This never-before-seen corpus is the product of three years of work, marking a creative renewal in the life of the 73-year-old sculptor, since moving to his Vendée studio in the spring of 2019.

Located between the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean and the national forest of Longeville, an old naval warehouse has been transformed into a creative hearth, allowing Wang Keping to work on a new scale and to carve his sculptures out of very large logs – century-old cypress and oak trees – in a hand-to-hand struggle, where human manipulation is measured up against the power of nature.

Opposite – Léda et le Cygne, 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 12th, 2022

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
91, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris
France

www.nathalieobadia.com