LEO AMINO – THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE

Posted on 2020-07-27

Taking its title from phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s eponymous 1964 book, The Visible and the Invisible will feature work from throughout Amino’s career, including sculptures made in synthetic resin, acrylic, wood, and wire. The works illustrate how Amino investigated transparency and the dynamics of perception, articulating space, light, and color through geometric and biomorphic sculptural form. The selection of “refractionals” on view speak to Amino’s unorthodox “minimalism,” which he understood not in terms of aesthetic polemic but in relation to his readings in phenomenology. As part of a practice of “phenomenological reduction,” a stripping away of received scientific and psychological assumptions, Amino deployed transparency in order to pose the question of the interdependency of subject and object through an optics of encounter, interpenetration, and absorption.

Opposite – Refractional #73, 1971

Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2020

David Zwirner
537 West 20th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.davidzwirner.com

  

DAVID SHROBE – WALK THE AIR

Posted on 2020-07-27

Walk the Air, is a solo exhibition by New York-based David Shrobe that features new assemblage paintings that were made in the last several months. During that time Shrobe has found solemnity and inspiration from his family and the Black Lives Matter movement. The works are mostly made from repurposed everyday materials sourced from his Harlem neighborhood; Shrobe disassembled furniture, separated wood from fabric and recombined them as supports for and elements in his paintings.

Opposite – Shaded by Trees, 2020

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

  

ORTAMIKLOS – 6 ACTS OF CONFINEMENT

Posted on 2020-07-27

OrtaMiklos: 6 acts of confinement, is the first US solo exhibition of the French and Danish creative duo. In 6 acts of confinement, OrtaMiklos debuts a new body of work divided into six discrete scenes with each act representing a different emotional response to this current moment in time.

“It’s during a moment of lockdown that the mind wants to escape. Perhaps it escapes into forms that appear to be unknown, the same as where we feel our future is going,” says OrtaMiklos.

The show will feature collaborations and a curated selection of works with artists including Bráulio Amado, Coady Brown, Salomé Chatriot, Sarah Faux, Jānis Melderis and Reginald Sylvester II creating a multidisciplinary experience. Since many of OrtaMiklos’ ideas begin in guerrilla performances, the additional objects are conceived as props for an intuitive theater of making, utilizing ad hoc sculpting and coloring processes. Through explosively energetic and imaginative objects, OrtaMiklos draw from a wide variety of references, such as body movements and contortion, graffiti, and animation.

Opposite – Floating Night Coffee Table, 2020

Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2020

Friedman Benda
515 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York

www.friedmanbenda.com

  

CHRISTINE FORRER

Posted on 2020-07-20

Christina Forrer’s vibrant weavings and works on paper explore and excavate conflict as the essence of all relationships, between humans, animals, and the natural world at large. Fairy tales, children’s books, European folklore, Hollywood animation, and 20th century painting and design are some of the myriad influences that Forrer mines and incorporates into her entirely singular style and practice.
In her recent artist’s book, Forrer forges a connection between literature and her creative process, most notably exorcised through her prodigious drawing process. The publication features drawings and details of weavings, as well as notes and doodles populating the margins of The Murder of a Buttercup, a 1913 short story by the German novelist Alfred Döblin that depicts the internal struggles of a shopkeeper after a violent encounter with a flower.

Opposite – Limited edition artist’s book, 2019

Exhibition runs through to September 30th, 2020

Luhring Augustine – Online Viewing Room
Chelsea
531 West 24th Street
NY 10011 New York

www.luhringaugustine.com

  

LORNA SIMPSON – SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Posted on 2020-07-20

The exhibition features new works from the artist’s Special Characters series, alongside a selection of her recent paintings and photographic collages. In addition to building upon themes that are essential to her practice, including the nature of representation, identity, gender, and race, Simpson incorporates imagery of the natural world, universal elements that transcend human presence. By repurposing and reconfiguring found images – a signature source in her work – Simpson creates her own highly distinctive visual terrain that offers a potent response to American life today.

Opposite – Then Comes Thunder, 2020

Exhibition runs through to September 30th, 2020

Hauser & Wirth
15-16/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
999077 Hong Kong

www.hauserwirth.com

  

MADE IN FRANCE

Posted on 2020-07-20

Through the exhibition “Made in France” Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to emphasise its commitment to the French artistic scene. Featuring Giulia Andreani, Jeremy Demester, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Tursic & Mille.

Opposite – Demonstrationsbild II, 2020

Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2020

Galerie Max Hetzler
57, rue du Temple
75004 Paris
France

www.maxhetzler.com