PABLO RASGADO – TIMESCAPE

Posted on 2021-10-18

Timescape is a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Pablo Rasgado that features three monumental paintings that the artist has been working on since 2015. Each consists of twentyfive to thirty painted passages that Rasgado has removed from public walls around the world including Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, New York, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina, cities where he has worked for extended periods of time, and Mexico City, where he lives. The sections will be installed side-byside to produce a single work that spans more than sixteen feet in width and six years in time. In utilizing the Renaissance technique of strappo to extract painted passages in public space (originally developed to move frescoes from one location to another), Rasgado has created a new painting that functions as a literal
landscape of the various source cities. By foregoing allegory or representation, Rasgado assembles a work that is both a record of specific instances of time, place and circumstance and also an evocative image with multiple readings.

Opposite – Timescape 1, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 20th, 2021

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

HERMANNI KEKO – RAY TRACING

Posted on 2021-10-18

Hermanni Keko’s (b. 1987) new exhibition is named Ray Tracing, alluding to an analog apparatus for perspective drawing invented by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Dubbed Dürer’s door, the device uses threads to transfer three-dimensional objects onto a flat surface by emulating the path of light from the object to the viewer’s eye. The Dürer’s door reference makes a broader metaphoric statement about Keko’s exhibition, for he applies the method in reverse, intuitively tracing rays from the eye back to the object. Keko’s fuzzy, conceptual rays acquire a variety of shapes and forms as he inscribes them on his canvas. The lines dance upon the canvas as the hook that holds together the floating compositional elements, which the artist describes as existing in a state of flux, constantly unfurling in temporary guises of form and color, ever-changing and regrouping in new configurations. This state of flux is like a metaphor for human life and the way our selfhood and personality are constantly moving and changing, whether compelled by inner forces or external exigencies.

Opposite – The Thread, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2021

Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland

www.galerieforsblom.com

  

JULIAN SCHNABEL

Posted on 2021-10-18

Since the late 1970s, Julian Schnabel has sought to transform the possibilities of painting, through the use of unconventional materials, chance-based processes, large formats, gestures and charged pictorial grounds. His works marked a departure from painting as conventionally understood and were pivotal in the reemergence of painting in the United States, with his infuence still visible today.
Featuring eleven new works, all painted with a large Japanese calligraphy brush, in a visceral red ink, the exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler sees the artist experimenting with liquids, how things dry, and the power of the artist’s mark—how images come out of other things: ‘There’s always been this investigation’, he explains, ‘into how the paint sits on the surface and how to get a certain kind of painted reality to coexist with another one.

Opposite – The Second Version of the Tower of Babel II, 2020

Exhibition runs through to October 30th, 2021

Galerie Max Hetzler
Goethestraße 2/3
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com

  

SARAH SZE

Posted on 2021-10-11

In Sarah Sze’s new paintings, scaled to Victoria Miro’s Gallery II space, the artist incorporates a wealth of painted and collaged elements and traces of multiple image-making mediums, laying bare the narrative of the studio and the developmental arcs that occur within and between the works. In recent years the American artist has returned to painting, the medium in which she first trained. These new wall-based works continue the artist’s decades-long exploration of the ways in which the proliferation of images – printed in magazines and newspapers, gleaned from the Web and television, intercepted from outer space, and ultimately imprinted on our conscious and unconscious selves – fundamentally changes our relationship to physical objects, memories, and time.

Opposite – Double Take Apparition, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 6th, 2021

Victoria Miro
16 Wharf Road
N1 7RW
London

www.victoria-miro.com

  

LEAH GUADAGNOLI – LOVE LIES BLEEDING

Posted on 2021-10-11

Guadagnoli, who joined Hollis Taggart’s contemporary program in May 2020, is widely recognized for her distinctive threedimensional wall-based constructions that seamlessly blend the vocabulary of painterly abstraction with the physicality of sculpture. Love Lies Bleeding captures Guadagnoli’s evolution from the hard-edged lines of architecture and kitschy patterns of ‘80s interiors that have long inspired her to more organic forms articulated in bold, bright fields of color. The transition marks an important expansion of the artist’s visual lexicon and a new freedom and openness in her practice.

Opposite – Glow (In the Dark), 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 13th, 2021

Hollis Taggart
521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor
NY 10001
New York

www.hollistaggart.com

  

DANH VO

Posted on 2021-10-11

Danh Vo examines how cultural values, conflicts and traumas are constructed and inherited through work inspired both by his own experiences as well as historical and political events. When he was a child, Vo’s family fled Vietnam and settled in Denmark. His family’s assimilation to European culture and the political events that precipitated their flight from Vietnam are intertwined in his artistic practice; Vo’s work illuminates the interwoven strands of private experience and collective history that shape our sense of self.

Opposite – untitled, 2020

Exhibition runs through to October 18th, 2021

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com