NANCY LORENZ – STATES OF MATTER

Posted on 2021-11-15

This recent body of work, which centers on the artist’s ongoing interest in the fundamental elements that compose our universe, explores the four states—solid, liquid, plasma, and gas—with alchemical aspirations. The result is an existential reflection on the materiality of our world that bridges the conventional categories of fine art, craft, and design.

Opposite – Gold Pour Box, 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2021

GAVLAK
1700 South Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 440
CA 90021
Los Angeles

www.gavlakgallery.com

  

JOHN GOLDING – ONLY HUMAN

Posted on 2021-11-15

Although Golding was a distinguished abstract painter, he is probably more famous as an art historian, critic and curator. His paramount success in the field of art history has tended to overshadow his achievements as an artist, but it was on the latter front that Golding based his career and for which he wished to be remembered. He enjoyed considerable success as a painter, exhibiting both nationally and internationally throughout a career that spanned over half a century. As an artist, he is perhaps best-known for his large canvasses of the 1970s and beyond, many of which are held in esteemed public collections. These works are carefully constructed works of lyrical abstraction, they exude colour and radiance, dynamism, and expression. Given these brightly hued celebrations of abstract painting, it is surprising to consider the anguished nudes and nuanced darkness that characterise Golding’s early work, a time heavily influenced by his background in Mexico. ‘Only Human’ presents a group of oil paintings and smaller works on paper that explores this extraordinary period of transition, with its undertones of sexuality and investigations into the ambivalence of the human body.

Opposite – Torso, c. 1963

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2021

The Mayor Gallery
21 Cork Street
First Floor
W1S 3LZ London

www.mayorgallery.com

  

MAGNUS PLESSEN – HOPE LOVE HELIUM

Posted on 2021-11-15

‘Hope Love Helium’, the title of Magnus Plessen’s most recent series of paintings, references both the human condition and the process of nuclear fusion that powers the sun. The images are imaginative responses to the ineffable dynamics of affection and connection, as well as the not entirely unrelated process by which stars have transformed hydrogen into helium and, eventually, all the elements in the universe.

As in Plessen’s earlier work, these images defy conventional notions of realism and abstraction, figure and ground. They show painted traces of the paper templates and the adhesive tape used to plan their compositions, along with outlines of the stretcher bars that suggest an uncanny ‘reversal’, as if, as the artist says, their brushstrokes mark a direct encounter with reality. Thematically, however, they are the creative responses to new, quantum theories of nature’s structures and energies.

Opposite – Untitled (Fig. 24), 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2022

White Cube
25-26 Mason’s Yard
SW1Y 6BU
London

www.whitecube.com

  

LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN

Posted on 2021-11-08

The artist himself conceived this project before his untimely passing, with a selection of works that span his entire career. It covers all his various periods, illustrating the continuity of his ideas with regard to the visual and conceptual issues that interested him throughout his life. The notions and intuitions of the initial period of his artistic career came about and acquired concrete form as they mixed in with his personal experiences, and with his desire to enter into a world far removed from us in both time and space. This became reality in the second half of the 1970s, when he lived with the Yanomami people in the remotest part of the high Orinoco, on the border between Brazil and Venezuela.

Opposite – Caimán, Nariz Blanca, 1989 – 2010

Exhibition runs through to February 19th, 2022

Galleria Franco Noero
via Mottalciata 10/B
10154 Torino
Italy

www.franconoero.com

  

GENIEVE FIGGIS – IMMORTAL REFLECTION

Posted on 2021-11-08

Figgis presents the history of painting as an ongoing conversation, reworking, reimagining and re-contextualising the content and composition of historic works in a very personal way. Rococo painters such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher are recurrent visual references. She creates what she describes as “cover versions” of their work. There is a clear delight in the artist’s process of recreating the narratives, fashion, interiors and characters in her source paintings. Yet like a new version of a play or a film, Figgis imbues these painted scenes with her own personality. Everyone version becomes a unique take on the original, with its own sense of meaning. The artist gets to insert herself within the work and take part,
rather than observe from a distance. She gets to step inside the world that fascinates her, and takes the viewer with her

Opposite – Reflection, 2021

Exhibition runs through to December 11th, 2021

Almine Rech
39 East 78th Street
NY 10075
New York

www.alminerech.com

  

HOLGER ENDRES – LA NEIGE ET LE GRAND POULET

Posted on 2021-11-08

The Cité internationale des Arts scholarship from the state Baden-Wuerttemberg lead artist Holger Endres, from november 2020 to april 2021, into a paris, which was fully halted by the known events. Instead of an overwhelming creative life a quiet and repressed life prevailed. Holger Endres spoke with Simone Kraft about his time in a different Paris and this experience will affect him and his work.

Opposite – La neige I, 2021

Exhibition runs through to December 22nd, 2021

Galerie Bernd Kugler
Burggraben 6 / II (Hörtnaglpassage)
A – 6020 Innsbruck
Austria

www.berndkugler.at