WALTON FORD – AQUARELLE

Posted on 2021-05-31

Ford is known for his monumental and extremely detailed watercolours depicting wild animals. His works expand upon the visual language and narrative scope of traditional natural history painting. Infuenced by historical sources such as the illustrations of John James Audubon (1785-1851), who gained popularity with his life-sized drawings of birds, the artist creates works of a unique luminosity in watercolour, gouache, and ink.
Drawing from a variety of sources, including scientifc illustrations, historical events, underground comics, literature, flms, and myths, he creates unique, surreal stories with a spark of black humour.

Opposite – Detested, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 14th, 2021

Galerie Max Hetzler
Bleibtreustraße 45
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.maxhetzler.com

  

JOHN DILG – FLIGHT PATH

Posted on 2021-05-31

John Dilg’s paintings feel like landscapes rather than being such.

Dilg paints metaphors and abstractions using what he calls a mental archive of essential visual forms, drawing on memory and tonalities of color and the sensations they can convey to create an enthralling, symphonic whole that emphasizes stillness and the continuum of time.

The subjects of these works are not the objects that occupy the paintings but the representation of a moment in time in itself.

Used as visual analogs, the shapes and hues in the paintings become the framework to depict the world at large and create the narratives inside the paintings.

Opposite – Improvements, 2020

Exhibition runs through to July 21st, 2021

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
39 Great Jones Street
NY 10012
New York

www.presenhuber.com

  

AI WEIWEI – MARBRE, PORCELAINE, LEGO

Posted on 2021-05-31

Marie Denis has always worked on metamorphoses. Those that the time and her taste for paradox impart to materials, those that the artist brings to plants, since nature is at the center of her work. She explores different techniques to fix the images of an ephemeral world on more or less conventional supports.

For this exhibition, the artist invites us to dive into her plant universe using the technique of printmaking in an “unorthodox” way. She also presents a series of “masks” resulting from the sensations experienced during the confinement.

Opposite – I Can’t Breathe, 2019

Exhibition runs through to August 7th, 2021

Galerie Max Hetzler
57, rue du Temple
75004 Paris

www.maxhetzler.com

  

MARIE DENIS – ALMA HERBARIUM

Posted on 2021-05-24

Marie Denis has always worked on metamorphoses. Those that the time and her taste for paradox impart to materials, those that the artist brings to plants, since nature is at the center of her work. She explores different techniques to fix the images of an ephemeral world on more or less conventional supports.

For this exhibition, the artist invites us to dive into her plant universe using the technique of printmaking in an “unorthodox” way. She also presents a series of “masks” resulting from the sensations experienced during the confinement.

Opposite – Magnet Post-it® 5, 2021

Exhibition runs through to July 24th, 2021

Galerie Alberta Pane
47 Rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris
France

www.albertapane.com

  

CHEN XIAOYUN – SHIFTING TIMES, MOVING IMAGES

Posted on 2021-05-24

The second instalment in the series of screenings presents Chen Xiaoyun (b.1971), who works primarily with video and photography, as well as other mediums such as painting, sculpture, and installation. Entering the field of contemporary Chinese video art in its second phase, Chen is part of the shift from the initial ‘concept and installation’ approach of video art into a more diversified practice, when ‘new media art’ and ‘experimental clips’ began to rise in popularity and acceptance in the early 2000s.

Known for the poeticism in his early video works, Chen turned towards a more powerful and succinct visual language in the mid-2000s. Two of the works shown as part of the screening, FIRE-3000KG (2009) and Night/2.4KM (2009), features students burning a truck of books and migrant workers in a silent march respectively, examining the socio-political condition through the lens of a collective state of being. Chen’s casting of non-professionals to perform conceptual gestures is in contrast to Zhu Jia’s use of scripted acting and stage sets.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to July 4th, 2021

ShanghART
9 Lock Road, #02-22, Gillman Barracks
108937 Singapore
Singapore

www.shanghartgallery.com

  

HEIKKI MARILA

Posted on 2021-05-24

This year marks the 30-year career anniversary of Heikki Marila (b. 1966), who ranks among Finland’s leading contemporary artists. It is only fitting, then, that he should celebrate his jubilee by revisiting a theme that has figured prominently in his oeuvre: floral motifs. Marila painted his first floral compositions over a decade ago, and it was for these early floral pieces that he received the coveted Carnegie Award. His early paintings drew inspiration from the extravagant opulence of the 17th century Dutch still life genre, and the same can be said of his recent paintings, too, although they reflect not only on history but also comment on contemporary society. While adhering to the same genre, Marila has revitalized his technique in a way that invites wholly fresh interpretations.

Opposite – Kukat LXXVIII, 2021

Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2021

Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland

www.galerieforsblom.com