HENK VISCH – THERE WERE NO EMPTY CHAIRS

Posted on 2021-03-08

This exhibition forms a bridge between Los Angeles and Madrid, two cities separated by some 9,400 km or 5,800 miles, representing two very different cultures united by the same language, Spanish is the mother tongue for about half the population of that major North American creative centre. The artistic contribution of the community of Latin-American origin goes back to Mexican muralist movement of the 1920s, and its socio-political approach in turn inspired the Chicano art of the 1970s. The strong radicalism of these movements, both so prolific, has continued to this day as a large group of artists carries on the fight to give visibility to an identity that is almost unknown and even ignored in Spain.

Opposite – Return, 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021

Tim Van Laere Gallery
Jos Smolderenstraat 50
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

www.timvanlaeregallery.com

  

WILLIAM BUCHINA – LOW INFORMATION SETTINGS

Posted on 2021-03-08

The discovery, examination, and reimagining of a vast array of visual and conceptual references is essential to Buchina’s creative process. His works meld seemingly disparate figures, places, and scenarios into Surrealist-style compositions, offering viewers hints at a narrative trajectory only to leave the trail unfinished or abruptly shifting in a different direction. Produced with the line precision of graphic novels and the bold, flat monochromatics of Pop art, Buchina’s paintings and works on paper are filled with rich detail that compels active viewing and invites personal interpretation.
The open-ended nature of Buchina’s work takes on particular meaning in his two latest series, Scenery and Low Information Settings—the latter of which also gives the exhibition its name, as he draws on the news cycles and happenings that have captivated and divided our nation and the world in recent years. Indeed, Low Information Settings was inspired by Buchina’s reading on a recent conflict in a remote mountainous region, which a news report referred to as a “low information setting” or an area where access to news and outside information is limited. For Buchina, this idea offered a dynamic contrast to places like the United States, where access to content is not only easy but overwhelming, but where misinformation and mistrust of institutions have equally proliferated to detrimental effects.

Opposite – Low Information Settings #2

Exhibition runs through to April 24th, 2021

Hollis Taggart
521 W 26th Street, 1st Floor
NY 10001
New York

www.hollistaggart.com

  

THILO HEINZMANN – MY TIME YOUR TIME OUR TIME TIME

Posted on 2021-03-08

On view are paintings that combine the compositional elements from various series from his past practices, pigment paintings, Tacmo, Aicmo, and polystyrene paintings with glass, in a new way for the first time.
The chromatic intensity of loose pigments, the reflections of broad brushstrokes, the traces of speedily inscribed hand movements, and the luminosity of sprinkled colored glass vibrate in overlapping layers to form a polyfocal visual space. A significant voice in a generation of German painters scrutinizing the medium and its history, Heinzmann is known for his inventive, precise work that is driven by an inquiry into what painting can be today. Using a diversity of materials, from chipboard, Styrofoam, porcelain, aluminum, to nail polish, resin, pigment, fur, cotton wool, and hessian, the artist has for the last twenty-five years worked on developing new paths and a unique visual language in his practice.
The works in the main room of the gallery are characterized by his consistent and subtle approach to light, tempo, composition and color. Although each painting exists in its own right, the rhythmic sequence of their presentation facilitates the idea of a garden, a landscape, in which a figure appears and disappears. Its imagined presence activates the pictorial space, which thus becomes a stage.

Opposite – O.T., 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 20th, 2021

Perrotin
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-Ku
106-0032 Tokyo

www.perrotin.com

  

LXS ANGELINXS

Posted on 2021-03-01

This exhibition forms a bridge between Los Angeles and Madrid, two cities separated by some 9,400 km or 5,800 miles, representing two very different cultures united by the same language—Spanish is the mother tongue for about half the population of that major North American creative centre. The artistic contribution of the community of Latin-American origin goes back to Mexican muralist movement of the 1920s, and its socio-political approach in turn inspired the Chicano art of the 1970s. The strong radicalism of these movements, both so prolific, has continued to this day as a large group of artists carries on the fight to give visibility to an identity that is almost unknown and even ignored in Spain.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2021

Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
General Arrando, 40
28010 Madrid
Spain

www.javierlopezferfrances.com

  

MIMOSA ECHARD – NUMBS

Posted on 2021-03-01

I woke up with pop music in my head again.

A certain very influential LA-based stylist is actually just weaponised serotonin or whatever.

The other day, as she appeared through the window, I wondered whether she knew to what extent the soft folds of her back revealed the shape of her spine, disfigured from so many years sloped in the same position.

From this angle, I couldn’t help but wonder whether her lower vertebrae had become damp or spongy, or whether the blood had dammed in her lower back. I wasn’t sure whether this was a form of new life that I couldn’t comprehend, or just another weapon upgrade.

Since then, I’ve let her numb my brain every morning. When I talk to people about it they just say that you need to be careful with how you share and show your holes, and that you should learn to draw the line between hard and soft. But all I want is the complete exteriorisation of the world. I want everything to have a face, and only a face.

I don’t really have an image of the blood in mind. I don’t think it’s photographic. It’s already there.

I mean I’m not even sure we’re talking about images anymore, or just different kinds of chemicals leaking from different kinds of trays.

Aodhan Madden

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com

  

RONI HORN – RECENT WORK

Posted on 2021-03-01

Roni Horn has spent the past four decades questioning accepted notions of identity and meaning, thwarting closure and opening up new possibilities of perception through her expansive body of work across mediums. Beginning 23 February, ‘Roni Horn. Recent Work’ will present the artist’s latest achievements in the realm of drawing, a medium she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’

Here, intricate works on paper extend Horn’s masterful use of mirroring and textual play to explore the materiality of color and the sculptural potential of the medium. Her preoccupation with language permeates these works; scattered words read as a stream of consciousness spiraling across the paper. In addition to pieces from her series Wits’ End Mash and Yet, the exhibition will present for the first time LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020), (2019 – 2020), a new large-scale installation comprised of more than 400 individual works on paper, the result of a daily ritual of art making undertaken by Horn for a span of fourteen months.

Opposite – LOG (March 22, 2019–May 17, 2020), 2019-2020

Exhibition runs through to April 10th, 2021

Hauser & Wirth
548 West 22nd Street
10011 New York
USA

www.hauserwirth.com