JOHANNA DUMET – LA VIE EN ROUGE

Posted on 2021-11-01

Berlin‘s legendary Paris Bar is the setting for Dumet‘s most recent series of works named LA VIE EN ROUGE, which gave the exhibition its title. In PARIS BAR (2021), a large-scale painting in oil on canvas, Dumet copies Martin Kippenberger‘s famous 1991 painting of the same title in its original size, though she exchanges the artworks hung on the wall in the painting with her personal favourites. Alongside modernist masters such as Henri Rousseau and Henri Matisse, there are also works by a younger generation of artists, such as a sculpture by her partner Manuel Wroblewski and two of her own paintings. She also selects works by Karl Horst Hödicke, Joseph Beuys, Danny Fox, Tal R, Conny Maier, Navot Miller, David Shrigley, Jonathan Meese, and Julian Schnabel, whom she met at Paris Bar. Following Daniel Richter, whose copy of Kippenberger’s painting can currently be seen in Paris Bar, Dumet is the first female painter to bring this particular motif into our time.

Opposite – That evening I smoked in the Paris Bar, 2021

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2021

König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

JAN-OLE SCHIEMANN – LES FLEURS DU MAL À LA TÊTE

Posted on 2021-11-01

Jan-Ole Schiemann’s gestural abstractions and poetic exits bear witness to oscillation: from figurative to abstraction, cut-ups to hazy mists, cartoonish to existential, tumbling carefree kinetics to the political. Undeniably, Schiemann’s approach is different: he asks the canvas to deal with everything and nothing at the same time. It’s this psychological splitting, this spirited, layered approach that erupts boldly, unshrinkingly in collage, reminding us that our perception of depth is very much within our control.

Opposite – Les fleurs, la peur et le réfrigérateur, 2021

Exhibition runs through to December 4th, 2021

Almine Rech
20 rue de l’Abbaye
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.alminerech.com

  

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE – FINALLY MEMORY YIELDS

Posted on 2021-11-01

On the ground floor, three new Indian-ink drawings of trees will be exhibited for the first time: Finally Memory Yields, Not Everywhere But Anywhere and An Argument Mired in Nostalgia are among the largest trees ever created by Kentridge and will be displayed in his forthcoming Royal Academy solo exhibition. The trees within his practice were born of two memories and misassociations; a friend describing creating a Tshirt for a companion, heard by William “as a tree search”; and his father representing Nelson Mandela, Albert Luthuli and others in the South African Treason Trial of 1956-1961, which his son misconstrued as “trees and tiles.”

Opposite – An Argument Mired in Nostalgia, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

ADAM PENDLETON – DRAWINGS

Posted on 2021-10-25

In his paintings, drawings, and other works, Pendleton uses letters, words,drips, splatters, sprays, and collected images as primary materials. His work is a kind of continuous writing, in which language and gestural marks are recorded, transposed, and overwritten. Blurring the edges between modes of viewing and reading, between representation and abstraction, and between painting, drawing, and photography, Pendleton’s work is a visual philosophy of incomplete postulates. In 2008, he began to articulate his work through the idea of Black Dada, a visual project and ever-evolving inquiry into the relationships between blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde.

Opposite – Untitled (Who Is Queen), 2021

Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2022

Galerie Max Hetzler
57, rue du Temple
75004 Paris

www.maxhetzler.com

  

WIM DELVOYE

Posted on 2021-10-25

Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Wervik, Belgium. He lives and works between Ghent, Belgium and Brighton, UK. Delvoye appropriates and diverts art-historical styles and motifs to sublimate trivial yet rather unconventional objects, or sometimes even living subjects. Perhaps best known for naturalizing tattooed pigs in China, or mechanically replicating the digestive system to produce real feces within exhibition spaces, his very eclectic and subversive practice spans a wide range of mediums, including drawing, sculpture and installation.
Constantly oscillating between antagonistic realms such as the sacred and the profane, or the local and the global, he sarcastically confronts the various myths that feed our contemporary society from religion to science and capitalism via unexpected hybridization. Whether he twists the inkblots of Rorschach psychological tests into sleek bronze idols or cement trucks into laser-cut steel neo-gothic cathedrals, most of his works implement expert craftsmanship along with high technology. Wim Delvoye’s ever-shifting, conceptual-adjacent aesthetics further question the commodification of art by strategically and provocatively escaping any attempt of definitive categorization or labeling.

Opposite – Rimowa Classic Flight Multiwheel 971.52.00.4, 2014

Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2022

Wilde
24 Rue du Vieux-Billard
CH – 1205 Geneva
Switzerland

wildegallery.ch

  

REFIK ANADOL – MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS: NATURE DREAMS

Posted on 2021-10-25

MACHINE HALLUCINATIONS: NATURE DREAMS, designed specifically for KÖNIG GALERIE, comprises three novel aesthetic approaches to a vast photographic dataset of nature: A giant data sculpture displaying machine-generated, dynamic pigments of nature titled NATURE DREAMS, four new series of data paintings, and WINDS OF BERLIN, a site-specific, public art projection on the tower of ST. AGNES which will be created based on environmental real-time data collected from the city.

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2021

König Galerie
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com