JENNI HILTUNEN – TEARS ARE MY BUTTERFLIES

Posted on 2024-08-05

Gender stands front and center in the oeuvre of Jenni Hiltunen. She portrays female figures that mirror her personal experiences and her existence in the body of a girl and woman. Over the years, her personal life has crept into her art to a growing degree, not directly as autobiography or self-portraiture, but through the depiction of her inner reality. Some of the characters in her paintings represent the artist and her friends and loved ones, while others are imaginary or fictive characters, like proposals for possible realities.
Hiltunen’s art is by no means limited solely to dealing with gender themes. Her paintings are always multi-layered receptacles of multiple narratives, and it is ultimately up to the viewer to add the final interpretation. For Hiltunen herself, light and color are just as important as the subject and thematic content. Her brilliant command of color can be regarded as one of her stylistic hallmarks.

Opposite – Hurrying Forward (Hommage à Warhol and Mourao), 2024

Exhibition runs through to September 22nd, 2024

Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland

www.galerieforsblom.com

  

LARS-GUNNAR NORDSTRÖM – CENTENARY

Posted on 2024-07-29

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lars-Gunnar Nordström (1924–2014), a pioneer of Finnish post-war abstract art. To mark the occasion of the centenary, Galerie Forsblom takes pride in presenting an exhibition spanning many decades of his career. Nordström’s paintings and sculptures celebrate the universal properties of form, color and line, fusing these elements in meticulously planned order and carefully orchestrated harmonies. His compositions are distinctive for their dynamism, precision, and perfect command of color. His visual lexicon has the immaculate equilibrium of a mathematical formula. The mathematical character of his compositions also finds expression in their inherent spatiality, which stands as a distinctive hallmark of Nordström’s highly recognizable Concretist painting style.

Opposite – Sommitelma (sini-valko-musta), 1950-luku

Exhibition runs through to September 22nd, 2024

Galerie Forsblom
Galerie Forsblom Yrjönkatu 22
00120 Helsinki
Finland

www.galerieforsblom.com

  

SPENCER FINCH – SUNSET IN A CUP

Posted on 2024-07-22

The exhibition evokes specific moments, places and events by recreating colour and light gathered using scientific instruments or personal observations. Titled after Emily Dickinson’s poem “Bring me the sunset in a cup”, Finch presents works that celebrate and explore iterations of sunlight, and not least, sunset, with a suite of new photographs, works on paper, a light sculpture, and a seminal video installation from 2007.

Opposite – Spring Haiku (Bamboo Grove, Arashiyama), 2024

Exhibition runs through to September 28th, 2024

Galerie Nordenhake
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
SE-113 30 Stockholm
Sweden

nordenhake.com

  

ELIZABETH GLAESSNER – HEAD GAMES

Posted on 2024-07-15

Elizabeth Glaessner often begins a new painting with a pour of oil paint. As it pools on the surface of her canvases, it becomes something to which she can react; she pushes, spreads, layers, builds up, or wipes away paint to create mysteriously ethereal figures that consume her compositions. Industrial brushes, handles, and squeegees are all implements to shift paint into full, leggy figures, typically nude. Bright, saturated colors meet more muted or earth tones; facial features and other minute details emerge through a
convergence of formal relationships. These figures are often depicted in moments of movement or transition (perhaps swinging a club, floating in a body of water, mid-embrace, or looking and merging with their own reflections.) Glaessner’s process, like the figures she comes to depict, is about transformation.

Opposite – Head Games, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024

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

www.victoria-miro.com

  

ERIC FISCHL – BATHERS

Posted on 2024-07-15

A programme of collaborations between the digital producer Vortic and a guest creator, Artist Projects reconsiders traditional modes of creation through technology. Each project is a unique collaboration – a standalone exploration and expansion of an individual’s practice. With access to state-of-the-art technology, from mixed reality to CGI and AI, participating artists are able to experiment in an alternate medium, creating new works entirely or re-envisioning existing motifs in a digital environment. Eric Fischl’s creative collaboration with Vortic began in 2022 and is the first time the artist has worked with virtual reality.

Opposite – Three Women by Pool, 2023

Exhibition runs through to September 17th, 2024

Victoria Miro
Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994
30124 Venice
Italy

www.victoria-miro.com

  

ISABELLA DUCROT – BAD FLOWERS

Posted on 2024-07-15

sabella Ducrot is obsessed with beauty that can be found in even the most mundane of everyday objects. Her works are like praise songs, seemingly light but cutting to the essence of life itself. Ducrot uses both textiles and paper as a medium, which she has collected from her travels throughout Asia. The material, its flaws and qualities, become part of the image and are presented as pure matter that needs no further embellishment. Flower still-lifes, landscapes, loving couples, garments – these are Ducrot’s themes – simple, yet all-encompassing.
It is this certain innocence inherent in to her practice, which allows Ducrot’s works to speak for themselves.

Opposite – Pots with green frame III, 2023

Exhibition runs through to August 24th, 2024

Galerie Gisela Capitain
St. Apern Straße 26
50667 Cologne
Germany

www.galeriecapitain.de