FEDERICO TOSI – VENTO FORTE

Posted on 2021-08-09

The project stages, through a series of about forty terracotta sculptures, the consequences of a shocking event of unspecified nature. We perceive it as a strong wind that overwhelms everything in its path: we see it ripple the blades of grass and run into the trees until they bend. In a progression that is gentle at first, then dizzying, it shakes the daily life of citizens, their animals and the objects that surround them. It gains strength until it runs over cars, cranes and trucks. A second later an entire city is hit: buildings and skyscrapers crumble… while pizzas from restaurants fly away.

Opposite – Vaso caduto, 2021

Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2021

Monica De Cardenas
Chesa Albertini | Via Maistra 41
CH-7524 Zuoz
Switzerland

www.monicadecardenas.com

  

DAVID LEGGETT – WE GOT FOOD AT HOME

Posted on 2021-08-09

This solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based David Leggett features recent paintings that continue his use of pop culture imagery, bright colors and soft materials to prompt discussion on topics such as race and class that are often difficult to confront. He combines text composed of letters cut from felt with cartoon images to invite viewers in so that they might take a closer look and ask serious questions. According to Leggett, “I leave things open so as not to pick a side. Other artists that make political work often want to convince the viewer of their view. I have no interest in that.”

Opposite – Quit shouting those rerun songs at me, 2021

Exhibition runs through to September 11th, 2021

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
os Angeles

steveturner.la

  

MARK BRADFORD – MASSES AND MOVEMENTS

Posted on 2021-08-09

For his first exhibition in Spain the artist presents an installation of globe sculptures, a site-specific wall painting, and a suite of new canvases based on a sixteenth-century map of the world thought to feature the first use of the name ‘America’ in print. ‘Masses and Movements’ extends across seven gallery spaces. Integral to the exhibition is a new social engagement project that Bradford is collaborating on to bring arts education to immigrant communities and a display that highlights the global immigration crisis. Continuing his career-long exploration of the systems that oppress marginalised populations, Bradford’s newest exhibition features work rich in both formal and allegorical complexity, reasserting the importance of abstraction to understand the world we live in and confirming his place among the most important artists working today.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2021

Hauser & Wirth
Isla del Rey (Illa del Rei)
Mahon Menorca
07700 Balearic Islands
Spain

www.hauserwirth.com

  

NATSUYASUMI – IN THE BEGINNING WAS LOVE

Posted on 2021-08-02

Natsuyasumi: In the Beginning Was Love is a group exhibition with the ideals of Summer Vacation as it’s muse. Presenting works by eleven contemporary artists working in Japan, the dense variety of images may resemble someone else’s phone camera roll after a summer well spent with family and friends, good times, good food and good drink (perhaps a little too much drink).

Participating artists are Masaya Chiba, Cobra, Motoyuki Daifu, Koichi Enomoto, Daisuke Fukunaga, Nanami Hori, Kyoko Idetsu, Ulala Imai, Yusuke Saito, Takuro Tamayama, Tadanori Yokoo.

Opposite – Koichi Enomoto, Light in August, 2021

Exhibition runs through to September 11th, 2021

Nonaka-Hill
720 N. Highland Ave.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.nonaka-hill.com

  

CORITA KENT – HEROES AND SHEROES

Posted on 2021-08-02

Centered on Kent’s series of the same title made between 1968 and 1969, the exhibition marks the first time heroes and sheroes has been exhibited in New York in its entirety.

In the summer of 1965, following the Watts Uprising in Los Angeles, Kent reproduced the front page of the Los Angeles Times within her work my people. While in previous years, Kent had appropriated text from consumer and mass culture, my people is the first example of Kent using appropriation as a direct response to the socially charged events of her time. The paper’s headlines were rotated and partially obscured by a swath of red, in which Kent handwrote a text attributed to Maurice Ouellet, a priest and civil rights activist who participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches earlier that year. Ouellet’s words form a rebuttal to the paper’s racially charged headlines describing the Uprising as a “Blood Hungry Mob.” In response, Ouellet’s quote reads: “Youth is a time of rebellion. Rather than squelch the rebellion, we might better enlist the rebels to join that greatest rebel of his time-Christ himself.”

Opposite – road signs (part 1 and 2), 1969

Exhibition runs through to August 13th, 2021

Andrew Kreps Gallery
22 Cortlandt Alley
10013
New York

www.andrewkreps.com

  

HÅVARD HOMSTVEDT

Posted on 2021-08-02

The exhibitions comprice new paintings in a varity of formats, executed with oil and pumice on aluminum panels, and sculptures buildt with discarded materials from the painting process.
His paintings have been characterised by their textile-like surfaces and thoroughly executed canvases, rich in materiality. He has simultaneously worked with multifaceted sculptural expressions, surreal painted bronze busts, idiosyncratic silhouette figures and reliefs intertwined with paintings in ambitious installations. Sculptures and paintings with a crafted treatment span the gamut from ‘high’ to ‘low’ in art, and also points to his interest in finding methods of rendering felt impressions rather than reality.

Opposite – Ekkokammer, 2020-2021

Exhibition runs through to August 21st, 2021

Galleri Riis
Arbins gate 7
NO-0253 Oslo
Norway

galleririis.com