JAMES TURRELL

Posted on 2020-02-28

James Turrell’s recent Constellation works, the focal point of this exhibition, are the culmination of Turrell’s lifelong pursuit. Generating what the artist has called “spaces within space,” these luminous portals are instruments for altering our perception; gazing into them results in the slow dissolution of the boundaries of the surrounding room, enveloping the viewer in the radiance of pure color. Fusing the temporal, sensuous, and illusory qualities of his projection works and architectural installations, the Constellations synthesize several aspects of Turrell’s practice. Unlike his early projection pieces, however, they are not about generating an illusion; instead, they greet the viewer with the actual materiality of light, what Turrell calls “the physical manifestation of light, which we have trained our eyes too readily to look through rather than to look at.”

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2020

Pace Gallery
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET

www.pacegallery.com

  

NORMAN BLUHM – SPACE TIME CONTINUUM, 1950S TO 1990S

Posted on 2020-02-24

Over the course of his life, Bluhm engaged with and developed a spectrum of styles and approaches, staying true to his own artistic instincts and eschewing the creative trends of the moment. While his work would go through several critical transformations, his paintings and works on paper are consistently recognized for their sumptuous and intuitive use of color and line, which evoke incredible sensations of movement and energy.
Space Time Continuum is the theory of the universe’s three space dimensions and one time dimension. As the title of the Hollis Taggart exhibition, it addresses the painter’s creation as a dimensional record of his life, emotions, and thoughts, as well as the passage of time as he matured.

Opposite – Madame Buddha, 1988


Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020

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

www.hollistaggart.com

  

URI ARAN – HOUSE

Posted on 2020-02-24

Uri Aran’s artwork contends with and confounds rigid notions of meaning. He posits that an object or word’s legibility is not inherent, but rather conditional, its comprehensibility reliant on context. Rather than mediating our perception of meaning, he opens things up, allowing language to breathe, to bleed; the pictorial becomes material becomes linguistic, then cycles back again. Our encounters with his work are unstable and unpredictable, taking place within semantic cracks and deficiencies, failures of direct expression.

Aran has called his new show at GBE House, seeming initially to turn the gallery itself into an allegory for a domestic space. But this literal transposition does not track. The title does draw out certain homely elements in the show, but it also generates dissonance. As we experience the show, “house” begins to unfold, its multiple meanings weaving in and out of clarity, overlapping with and separating from one another.
The artist has a decidedly unfixed relationship to media, combining aspects of sculpture, video, painting, drawing, and installation, ignoring the traditional formal constraints of each. Regardless of their material inconsistency and lack of discernable subject matter, the show’s works have a strong sense of unity, even interconnectivity. Written language provides a philosophical structure: Aran has created something like a vocabulary or alphabet, albeit an inscrutable one.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to April 5th, 2020

Gavin Brown’s enterprise
439 W. 127th Street
10027 New York

www.gavinbrown.biz

  

LINDERISM

Posted on 2020-02-24

A new solo exhibition of work by Linder.

Most well known for her photomontage, this exhibition explores the diverse range of Linder’s practice. It explores Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder.

Through the use of the Kettle’s Yard Archive, Linder also approaches Helen Ede’s elusive presence in Kettle’s Yard. Linder reinstates Helen through the creation of ‘House of Helen’, a brand of products available in the shop. A series of new commissions engage all five senses and see Linder staging interventions in all areas of Kettle’s Yard.

Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954 and was an active figure in the punk and post-punk music scenes. Probably best known for the album covers which she created, her photomontages often combine everyday images taken from fashion or home magazines with images from pornography.

Opposite – Untitled, 2015

Exhibition runs through to April 26th, 2020

Kettle’s Yard
University of Cambridge
Castle Street
Cambridge
CB3 0AQ

www.kettlesyard.co.uk

  

JOHN MILLER – THE COLLAPSE OF NEOLIBERALISM

Posted on 2020-02-17

John Miller has been exploring notions of identity, economics, and social class throughout his forty-year practice. His latest exhibition concerns, among other things, a sense of everyday malaise and life’s petty annoyances. It features a series of large-format photographs, two installations, and a video work titled Toll Free.
Mannequins are an iconic theme in this show. Miller characterizes them as simple anthropomorphized clothing racks that can nonetheless prompt unnerving degrees of identification. Miller’s current photographs, installations, and videos insert these figures into familiar, even normalizing, scenarios that underscore their function as objects of desire onto which we, as both spectators and consumers, project a miasma of fleeting trends and fashions. These projections convey not only the sphere of popular culture but also the expectations of artworks operating within it.

Opposite – Consent (Manufactured), 2019

Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020

Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.metropictures.com

  

ESTHER STOCKER – LOVING IMPERFECTLY

Posted on 2020-02-17

Esther Stocker is internationally renowned for her paintings and installations made in an abstract and geometrical perspective, the two genres being closely related to each other. The artist’s installations are three-dimensional projections of her paintings, exclusively made with a limited palette of black, grey and white. Could they be described as spatial, sculptural paintings or rather as pictorial spaces?

“In this exhibition, I want to combine sculptures with paintings. They are structural works with interruptions in geometry, more precisely: systems that show both order and disorder.
I want forms to become free of our expectations. It’s as if we were “constrained” by the things we know and this condition can restrict the space we give to our imagination. I am looking for undefined, vacant, “open” and free points.”

Opposite – Untitled, 2020

Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020

Galerie Alberta Pane
47 Rue de Montmorency
75003 Paris
France

www.albertapane.com