FLORIN KOMPATSCHER – ROKOKO TINTS

Posted on 2021-10-04

ROKOKO Tints comprises paintings from the years 2018 until 2021, that fill up the exhibition space in a baroque manner. For his show in Vienna, Florin Kompatscher designed two new installative interventions together with the extension of the “red kitchen”. In his painting, the artist has always been generating bizarrely aesthetic dream worlds that are impossible to narrow down stylistically. The form appears to emerge from the subconscious and to hark back to surrealism, while the atmospheric dissolving of colour is reminiscent of impressionism. Especially in the new work series, the serene playfulness of the composition comes across very dynamic and also cheerful in the choice of colours.

Opposite – ROKOKO 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2021

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Seilerstätte 7
1010 Vienna
Austria

www.galeriethoman.com

  

RENÉ DANIËLS

Posted on 2021-10-04

René Daniëls began his career exhibiting in the Netherlands in the late 1970s and gained international attention in the early 1980s when his work was shown widely in Europe and the United States. It was at this point that he became identified as a leading artist of his generation, recognised for his unique approach to the medium of painting that was driven by conceptual rather than painterly concerns, and brought together references to art history, literature, and wider cultural sensibilities. Since then, he has been considered one of the foremost Dutch painters within his field and has gone on to significantly influence subsequent generations. In 1987 Daniëls experienced a brain haemorrhage and was unable to continue to work until recent years. As a result, the majority of the limited number of existing works by Daniëls was made before 1987.

Opposite – Untitled (RD-S032), 1985-1987

Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2021

Modern Art
7 Bury Street
SW1Y 6AL
London

modernart.net

  

NICOLÁS GUAGNINI – HEADS AND TORSOS

Posted on 2021-10-04

The exhibition consists of two series of small oil paintings; one of hyper-stylized heads and another of torsos. These new works spring from psychedelic drawings Guagnini produced over the last 18 months, before translating the motifs into oil paint on canvas.

Opposite – Torso 6, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 30th, 2021

Bortolami Gallery
55 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

bortolamigallery.com

  

YAN BING – SUDDENLY, EVERYTHING BECAME CLEAR

Posted on 2021-09-27

Profoundly influenced by his growth experience in the rural area of northwestern China, Yan Bing’s works revolve around the simplest daily objects and refine them on a spiritual level. The exhibition title comes from a sentence attributed to the Russian writer Anton Chekhov; echoing this wonderful and mysterious sentence. The exhibition is inspired by a journey the artist went on this year. He returned to Gansu alone in spring but deliberately bypassed his hometown. During the nearly fifty days of field walk, Yan Bing started from a river, from east to west, tracing his early memories along the way. At the same time, the artist was perceiving his inner transformation and relief, which results in his new work.
Wild vegetables and wastelands are the core images in Yan’s new body of work. Different from the dignified and gloomy atmosphere in his previous paintings, this series of works are made lighter and broader, aiming to shape the will and dignity of life in the dimness and broadness. As Yan Bing said, “I walked into a new spiritual world at my old haunt. The new feelings and insights took me through the original cognition backward, like walking out of
a cloud shadow. Suddenly, everything became clear.”

Opposite – Wild Vegetable Seekers, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 17th, 2021

ShanghART
West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555 Longteng Avenue
Xuhui District
200232 Shanghai

www.shanghartgallery.com

  

TACITA DEAN

Posted on 2021-09-27

The exhibition unfolds around a new body of work made in association with ‘The Dante Project,’ commissioned by The Royal Opera House in London to create new designs for The Royal Ballet, which will premiere in October 2021. Centered on Dante’s Divine Comedy, with new music by Thomas Adès and choreography by Wayne McGregor, the ballet is structured in three parts: Inferno; Purgatorio; and Paradiso. Dean represents these three realms of Dante’s journey in an inspired odyssey through various mediums and means of representation, with works that move from drawing to photography and film; from negative to positive, representation to abstraction, and monochrome to color.

Opposite – Purgatory (2nd Cornice), 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
10019 New York

www.mariangoodman.com

  

CORNELIA PARKER – BEING AND UN-BEING

Posted on 2021-09-27

Since March 2020, the London-based artist and fincreasingly urgent crisis of climate change. Culminating in a new three-screen video installation, this body of work is a deep exploration into our understanding of the personal within a collective consciousness of emergency, portraiture, mortality, revenge, mourning and memory.

Opposite – Ghost Notes: Bitter/Sweet, 2021

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2021

Wilde
37 Angensteinerstrasse
CH – 4052 Basel
Switzerland

wildegallery.ch