TITUS KAPHAR – EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS

Posted on 2024-09-30

The semi-autobiographical Exhibiting Forgiveness stars André Holland as Tarrell Rodin, an accomplished painter whose life is upended by an unexpected reunion with his father, La’Ron (John Earl Jelks), a recovering addict who hopes to rebuild a relationship with his estranged son. Tarrell, now an active and loving father and husband, is skeptical despite the encouragement of his mother. Written and directed by Kaphar, Exhibiting Forgiveness follows his documentary shorts Shut Up and Paint (2022, shortlisted in the Documentary Short Film category of the 95th Academy Awards) and The Jerome Project (2016)—the latter of which was inspired by a painting series initiated in 2014 exploring the artist’s relationship with his own estranged father. Exhibiting Forgiveness is a direct, though fictionalized, extension of The Jerome Project.

Opposite – “Some things can’t be worked out on canvas”, 2023

Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2024

Gagosian
456 North Camden Drive
CA 90210
Beverly Hills

gagosian.com

  

RICHARD HAWKINS – FEATURING 13 FLAMBOYANT FIENDS

Posted on 2024-09-23

The title of the exhibition refers, partly, to the appearance of monsters and their familiars in my 3 sequences of new videos. There may or may not be 13 fiends – it just seemed a better sounding number in the otherwise alliterative collection of F-words.

Opposite – Kafka’s Birthday, 1988

Exhibition runs through to October 12th, 2024

Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30
10719 Berlin
Germany

www.galeriebuchholz.de

  

OLIVIA BAX – HANDRAILING

Posted on 2024-09-23

In this new series, Olivia Bax explores the relationship between material and form in response to the New Art Centre’s gallery space. It is an apt setting for her ongoing interest in the linear and the solid, the interior and the exterior.

Her sculpture is unexpected in every way, from its playful compositions to its unconventional materials – paper pulp, chicken wire, household paint. Welding metal armatures and assembling protruding limbs, she pushes us to consider different perspectives. The title of the exhibition is indicative of the exploratory process behind her work; ‘Handrailing’ is a term used in rock climbing or orienteering to move through or along a space. This resonates with Bax in her process of making and taking a work from one stage to the next.

Opposite – Great Catch, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 10th, 2024

NewArtCentre
Roche Court
East Winterslow
Salisbury
SP5 1BG

www.sculpture.uk.com

  

BRENT WADDEN – ASLSP

Posted on 2024-09-23

Brent Wadden constructs the surface like a weaver, yet approaches it like a painter and refers to his weavings as paintings. He started out in oil, the materiality of his early painted works somehow reminiscent of textiles, and it is this similarity that ignited his departure into the realm of fibres. Intricate weaving panels are sewn and mounted on canvas, then stretched and framed, as one would a painting. The way form and colour emerge and take up space in the composition is similar to large swathes of paint or well blended brushstrokes, but singular in that the physical structure of his works is at once the surface, as well as the material that covers it. Boundaries between mediums are blurred, and hierarchies among disciplines are dismantled. Brent Wadden’s woven paintings seem to reconcile a formally trained hand with a hand that touches out of curiosity.

Opposite – Untitled, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 16th, 2024

Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82
10243 Berlin
Germany

peresprojects.com

  

KASSOU SEYDOU – BETWEEN THE TWO

Posted on 2024-09-16

The works conceived by Kassou Seydou for this exhibition constitute a new corpus in the artist’s last decade of creation. They are both a continuation of his research and inaugurate a new technique of representation.

Opposite – Hyenas Dress Up as Lambs, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2024

MESTRE PROJECTS
South Ocean Blvd, The Honeycomb Building
New Providence Nassau
The Bahamas

www.mestreprojects.com

  

REINHARD MUCHA – BEFORE THE WALL CAME DOWN / LENNEP

Posted on 2024-09-16

For decades, Mucha’s celebrated multifaceted practice has delved into themes of collective memory, history-making, and structures of power. His insightful examinations of cultural systems, particularly those related to the complex history of his native Germany, call forth critical conversations surrounding institutions and politics of display. Composited by Mucha with a formal rigor that nods to Minimalism, his assemblages of raw materials and found objects – wood, aluminum, flooring, footstools, carpenter rulers – elude explicit reading or meaning. The arrangement is the beginning: abstracted and recontextualized from their original functions, the materials are elevated and transformed in this new condition that releases their latent nostalgic, intellectual, and narrative potential. Mucha’s “history and memory boxes” (Hans-Jürgen Hafneri)* are vessels with networks of references that speak not only to his own biography, but also that of the collective history and culture.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 19th, 2024

Luhring Augustine Chelsea
531 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.luhringaugustine.com