STANLEY WHITNEY

Posted on 2020-05-04

The exhibition features works produced in Italy and the United States.

Whitney’s vibrant abstract paintings unlock the linear structure of the grid, imbuing it with new and unexpected cadences of color, rhythm, and space. Deriving inspiration from sources as diverse as Piet Mondrian, free jazz, and American quilt making, Whitney composes with blocks and bars that articulate a chromatic call-and-response within each canvas.

Whitney has spent decades experimenting with the seemingly limitless potential of a single compositional method, loosely dividing square canvases into multiple registers. The thinly applied oil paint retains his active brushwork and allows for a degree of transparency and tension at the borders between each rectilinear parcel of vivid color. In varying canvas sizes, he explores the shifting effects of his freehand geometries at both intimate and grand scales as he deftly lays down successive blocks of paint, heeding the call of each color.

Opposite – That’s Rome, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 26th, 2020

Gagosian
Via Francesco Crispi 16
00187 Rome
Italy

gagosian.com

  

CACHE – FROM B TO Z

Posted on 2020-05-04

A group exhibition featuring Birdhead, Chen Wei, Chen Xiaoyun, Ding Yi, The Grand Voyage – Guo Xi & Zhang Jianling, Han Feng, He Wei, Lynn Hershman, Hu Jieming, Hu Liu, Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing, Jiang Pengyi, Li Shan, Liang Shaoji, Liang Yue, Lin Aojie, Liu Weijian, Liu Yi, Liu Yue, Lu Lei, Nabuqi, Ouyang Chun, Shao Yi, Shen Fan, Shi Qing, Shi Yong, Sun Xun, Melati Suryodarmo, Tang Maohong, Xu Zhen®, Yan Bing, Yang Fudong, Yang Zhenzhong, Yu Youhan, Zhang Ding, Zhang Enli, Robert Zhao Renhui, Zhao Yang.

Opposite – Yu Youhan, Playing Sports, 2018

Exhibition runs through to June 12th, 2020

ShanghART
West Bund, Bldg.10, 2555 Longteng Avenue
Xuhui District
200232 Shanghai
China

www.shanghartgallery.com

  

CHRIS HOOD

Posted on 2020-05-04

Chris Hood’s paintings depict layered arrangements of images set against fields of stained color, scattered landscape vignettes, picturesque vistas, “clip art”-style icons and simplified central figures. Painted from behind as opposed to from the front, Hood works in a reverse layering process, as each layer dries it seals the surface, blocking the successive layers from penetrating the canvas. The imagery appears to fracture, double, and dissipate amongst the surfaces. Drawn from an archive of personal photographs, self-portraits, advertising imagery and anatomical studies, the figures that Hood paints seem to be in a trancelike state — dreaming, sleepwalking, or hypnotized, suggesting that the disparate images that make up the compositions may be organized by dream logic or governed by a series of undetermined associations.

Opposite – Split Cave, 2019

Exhibition runs through to May 19th, 2020

Praz-Delavallade (Online Viewing Room)
5 rue des Haudriettes
75003 Paris
France

www.praz-delavallade.com

  

RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER

Posted on 2020-04-27

Among the most influential Brazilian artists working today, Rivane Neuenschwander’s practice explores the roles of chance, order, control, collaboration, and emotion through a wide range of perspectives and materials. Employing external elements — such as social interaction and natural processes — the artist has developed a unique language to produce complex ideas and experiences. Drawing specifically upon the legacy of Brazilian conceptualism, folk literature, and popular culture, Neuenschwander’s work examines language, nature, geography, and time as they relate to history, fear, and anguish. Widely known for her use of an ephemeral lexicon, the artist probes social interactions through an acute political lens.

Central to this exhibition is the artist’s ongoing research of psychological spectrums and how fear, sexuality and violence influence our culture and politics. While the works on view stem from the current political landscape in Brazil, their impetus traces universal truths and global political trends.

Opposite – Trópicos malditos, gozosos e devotos 14, 2020

Exhibition runs through to June 6th, 2020

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street
New York
NY 10011

www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

  

RHIZOME 4/7 – WORKS ON PAPER

Posted on 2020-04-27

The fourth node of the Capitain Petzel Rhizome series centers itself around the art of drawing. The works presented here transcend the idea of the sketch or first draft, resulting in autonomous, creative articulations on paper and in many cases, occupying seminal positions in the artists’ practices. Works from Andrea Bowers, Isabella Ducrot, Stefanie Heinze, Maria Lassnig, Tobias Pils, Seth Price and Amy Sillman.

Opposite – Maria Lassnig, Der Hai in der Yps [Ybbs], 1998

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2020

Capitain Petzel (Online Viewing Room)
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
Germany
T + 49 30

www.capitainpetzel.de

  

YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WE KNOW

Posted on 2020-04-27

Sometimes a title is enough. I admit I came to this one unconsciously, without originally realizing it was cribbed from a 2005 movie of the same name. The movie consists of several plots that revolve around the intertwined lives of a number of characters. Once I realized my title also constituted a dose of plagiarism—or better put, an homage—I decided to keep it. We are all intertwined as never before; we are also isolated like never before. Our state of limbo is caused by a plague that, in normal times, we’d describe as resembling a bad movie.

The simple idea of being able to invoke different voices—you, me and everyone we know—serves as a pretext for this exhibition: a show that is 100% virtual and that deals with both intimacy and isolation, the current obligation to engage in social distancing, but also the acute need to nurture personal and professional ties. Putting together this show is different from organizing a normal exhibition. It requires greater faith, generosity and introspection, because it also requires one pose and answer, at least partially, a basic question: how do we invoke the possibilities of art to trigger ideas, stories, conversations, emotions, feelings and mental states amid this global pandemic to reflect on our external and internal realities?

Christian Viveros-Fauné. Brooklyn, April 9th 2020

Opposite – Señal de Abandono 39, 2019

Exhibition runs through to May 3rd, 2020

Sabrina Amrani
Madera, 23
28004 Madrid
Spain

sabrinaamrani.com