YAN PEI-MING – AGAINST THE LIGHT

Posted on 2020-10-19

Yan Pei-Ming’s new series of works explore the complexities of current global developments and their multilayered impact, on a societal as well as a personal and emotional level. While in recent years Yan Pei-Ming’s practice has been characterised by his engagement with the works and legacies of other painters, including Gustave Courbet, this exhibition marks the artist’s return to the self. Created during the last few months, the self-portraits and still-lifes of this exhibition are pervaded by feelings of constriction and solitude experienced during the artist’s confinement. In these diverse paintings, Yan Pei-Ming examines the unprecedented inner conflicts of the present moment in an intimate and piercingly direct way.

Opposite – Self-portrait with Mask, 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2020

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Villa Kast
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

www.ropac.nett

  

RICHARD TUTTLE – THESTARS

Posted on 2020-10-19

Titled TheStars, Tuttle’s new body of sculptures for Modern Art were made during the summer of 2019 at his home and studio in Mount Desert, Maine. The works are small in scale, each sculpture’s spontaneous construction belying an unparalleled potency and elegance. As such, TheStars bears a clear resemblance to some of Tuttle’s early work from the 1970s, such as his iconic Rope Piece (1974), which came to typify his bold approach to scale. As well as in their size, the modest, simple materials employed in TheStars share the same essence characteristic of the sculptural language used throughout Tuttle’s career. Made predominantly from plywood, paint, paper and metal wire, each work sits atop its own hand-made shelf, annotated by Tuttle with its particular title, and secured to the wall with a single nail. Thus in scale, material and formal arrangement, TheStars marks a new stage in the continued evolution of Tuttle’s distinctive vocabulary whilst also reflecting something of its origins. This new series – like all Tuttle’s work – remains deeply sensitised to the interplay between the most granular, material experiences and a sense of an immense, perhaps cosmic, ambitious unknowability.

Opposite – I’m Thinking Of How The Winter Looks, 2019

Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2020

Modern Art
7 Bury Street
SW1Y 6AL
London

www.modernart.net

  

JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE – IMPLICITES & OBJETS

Posted on 2020-10-19

Galerie Chantal Crousel will host a new exhibition by Jean-Luc Moulène which will present abstract figures and human figurations jointly, in volume. In
this exhibition the artist will show an ensemble of unseen concrete sculptures recently produced at the artist’s studio and developed in a tension between body and objects. “What is the role of artists? I’m almost certain that our job is to create figures. But what is a figure? Simply put, it’s a thread that forms a complete loop. Basically, it is a territory, a surface, but one that is defined by its edges, which are closed. This makes the circle the
figure. Without claiming to be a historian, it seems to me that what we remember from the various moments of art relates precisely to figures, which appear and disappear. It was most probably a social and political—or even religious—form of pressure that, at a certain point in time, led to an identification of figure and figuration.” Jean-Luc Moulène

Opposite – Nature Morte – Le Buisson, 2020

Exhibition runs through to November 28th, 2020

Galerie Chantal Crousel
10, rue Charlot
75003 Paris
France

www.crousel.com

  

LINDA STARK – HEARTS

Posted on 2020-10-12

Over the course of three decades, Los Angeles-based Linda Stark has produced a body of painting in which material experimentation and concentrated symbolic energy go hand in hand. The work is visionary, open, and suffused with an unlikely combination of humor and pathos; at the same time, it represents one of the most sustained investigations of the mutable potential of paint—as both a physical medium and a site of rich cultural discourse, in contemporary art.

As the exhibition’s title suggests, the paintings in Hearts frequently address varied iconographies associated with this most resonant of forms. Hearts occupy the literal and figurative centers of human and animal life, but they also appear in a wide range of social and narrative contexts. Emphasizing the sculptural qualities of paint as much as its visual or color-based ones, Stark creates objects that refle­­ct the multivalent potential of the heart as vessel and beacon, biological organ and mystical source. In so doing, she reveals a broad array of interests, notable for their historical depth and up-to-the-minute urgency alike.

Opposite – Feminist (with pool), 2011

Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2020

David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W. Edgewood PL.
CA. 90019
Los Angeles

www.davidkordanskygallery.com

  

UGO RONDINONE – NUNS + MONKS

Posted on 2020-10-12

The recent sculptures nuns + monks by Ugo Rondinone take their rightful place in the continuity of a narrative introduced by the artist thirty-two years ago. A narrative composed of chapters that would never cease to interact with one another throughout a trajectory made up of intertextual questions, back-and-forths, survivals, displacements, and reinventions of shapes and attitudes, or of interrogations that are constantly being renegotiated. This narrative originated in 1988 with the death of Manfred Kirchner, then Ugo Rondinone’s partner, from an AIDS-related illness. ‘In the midst of the AIDS crisis, I turned away from my grief and found a spiritual guard rail in nature, a place for comfort, regeneration and inspiration. In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and the profane, the mystical and the secular vibrate against one another.’

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 17th, 2020

Esther Schipper
Potsdamer Strasse 81E
10785 Berlin
Germany

www.estherschipper.com

  

RITA ACKERMANN – MAMA ’20

Posted on 2020-10-12

In this exhibition, Hungarian-born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann presents her latest body of work, a continuation of her Mama series – consisting of automatic drawings and paintings on canvas which reveal her persisting interrogation of line, color and form.

This new suite of paintings on both canvas and paper, feature figures and motifs which rise to the surface only to dissolve and reappear elsewhere again. In Ackermann’s Mama series, repeated imagery is often combined with vivid swathes of color, giving her work a complex visual component that oscillates between abstraction and figuration. Her images are the product of automatic lines and gestures, a subconscious unfolding of form.

Opposite – Mama, Skirt on Fire, 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 18th, 2020

Hauser & Wirth
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
Switzerland

www.hauserwirth.com