NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN – MISFITS

Posted on 2021-05-17

For two decades, Nairy Baghramian has been conducting rigorous formal and conceptual research, investigating the relationship between architecture, object and the human body. In her reflection on the political potential of the sculptural form, she focuses on the importance of the physicality of the work, which embodies ideas and theoretical assumptions through its specific formal, material and presentational features.

Opposite – Misfits M, 2021

Exhibition runs through to July 24th, 2021

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com

  

LA BOHÈME

Posted on 2021-05-17

To celebrate his gallery’s 30th anniversary in 2016, Alfonso Artiaco invited artists, collectors and friends in San Carlo to the opening night of La Bohème. The famed Puccini opera, created in 1896, depicts four artists (a poet, a painter, a musician and a philosopher) who live in Paris in a garret overlooking rooftops, under very frugal circumstances that at heart are only the décor for the passionate life they decided to spend on the margins. Living differently with an unshakeable joie de vivre, carefree and a little bit outlandish, driven by their art day by day, in one word, they are magnificent.

The exhibition curated by Eric Troncy at Alfonso Artiaco gallery is built on the tremendous suggestive power of that term, La Bohème, and celebrates artists for their capacity to conjure up whimsy and fantasy. Wackiness is a classic attribute of contemporary artworks, but whimsy is more rare, a fantasy within which freedom, childlike wonderment, unencumbered creativity and an abundance of mischief toward formal and social conventions find plenty of room to be expressed.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2021

Alfonso Artiaco
Piazzetta Nilo 7
80134 Napoli
Italy

www.alfonsoartiaco.com

  

SARAH ENTWISTLE

Posted on 2021-05-17

Sarah Entwistle (b. 1979) works across multiple forms and often with found ready-mades to develop sculptural arrangements that recall interior still-lives.
These assemblages take their visual and conceptual cues from the informal archive of her late grandfather, architect Clive Entwistle (1916-1976) a manipulative figure whose numerous female lovers were drawn into often masochistic dynamics. In her first solo exhibition in Berlin Entwistle continues with the practice of spoliation in its expanded form, of borrowing and adaptive re-use of material from earlier constructs.

Her extended practice, a form of inter-generational processing both literal and metaphysical, is presented here through the accumulation and assembly of sculptural elements, video, figurative sketches, and woven tapestries. A collection of metal offcuts, industrial scrap, and crushed steel shelving units sit in still-life together with hand woven tapestries, ceramics and lighting elements that allude in scale, form, and composition to a domestic interior arrangement. A recurring motif of hands, seen as the conduits for caring and the cat’s paw knot as the allegorical structure of inter-generational exchange are explored in the video work, The dupe of another, and in figurative studies on paper.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2021

Galerie Barbara Thumm
Markgrafenstrasse 68
D-10969 Berlin
Germany

bthumm.de

  

ALICE ANDERSON – HYPERLINKS

Posted on 2021-05-10

Alice Anderson’s oeuvre hybridises the worlds of technology and ancestral cultures. Her works include sculptures, paintings and drawings generated through dance-performances, each with ritual at their essence. For this exhibition, Alice Anderson presents performative works created through repetitive gestures, some coupled with rapid breathing (the technique of hyperventilation), which gives her access to a state of modified consciousness.
This pairing puts forward the body as a vehicle of humanity within the contemporary world propelling towards a technological-wholeness; and the ancestral culture of the Kogi people from Sierra Nevada in Colombia, who exist in cosmic harmony with their environment. Kogi concepts, rituals and ecological combats have framed Alice Anderson’s reflections upon this change in civilization.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2021

König Galerie
259-269 Old Marylebone Road
Winchester House
NW1 5RA
London

www.koeniggalerie.com

  

DJORDJE OZBOLT – SING ME A SONG

Posted on 2021-05-10

Sing Me a Song, brings together a suite of eight recent paintings, a group of work chosen for its unifying format of small icon boards, a format he has constantly returned to over the years. Ozbolt imports these boards from his native Serbia were they are used for traditional, religious iconography, for him this is both a deliberate reference but also useful springboard for departure. During lockdown Ozbolt decided to sand down some of his older works on these boards, in doing so he was presented with an unexpected backdrop from which to re-start, these cloudy and monochromatic backdrops can be seen in many of the new paintings.

Opposite – High Anxiety, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2021

Herald St
43 Museum St
WC1A 1LY
London

www.heraldst.com

  

UGO RONDINONE – A SKY . A SEA . DISTANT MOUNTAINS . HORSES . SPRING .

Posted on 2021-05-10

“The title of the exhibition a sky . a sea . distant mountains . horses . spring . reads simultaneously as a stage direction and a checklist of archetypes that take into account the watery, fluctuating state of life as it is lived, complete with the fullest range of emotions, desires and dreams. As in dreams, they are visible signs for something invisible. Taken together, they define the intersection of symbolism and spirituality.”

Ugo Rondinone, 2021

Opposite – baltic sea, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2021

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
W1B 5QN
London

www.sadiecoles.com