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| The Week in Art 7-14 December 2021 |
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Brussels |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Almine Rech: Amanda Wall: Butterflies “Wall’s paintings have a wet quality that is somewhere in the field of gloss. The sheen in her work has depth. This is the point. There is that sheen depth in the portrait of a figure’s face” – Lauren Fournier |
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| Almine Rech: Paul de Flers: Take Shelter “herds of timeless, non-descript people populate an image heaving with a sense of melancholy and alienation. A herd of animals moves, communicates, and connects” – Diana Campbell Betancourt |
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| Almine Rech: Szabolcs Bozó: Busójárás (Carnival) “marvelous characters populate the canvases of Bozó’s paintings. A panoply of monsters and spirits alternately charm and unsettle their viewers as they gaze from limpid eyes or bare their sharpened teeth” – Jessica Holmes |
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| Almine Rech: Edgar Plans: The Wall “with a naïve mix of Street Art and children’s book illustration (a nod to the bold tags of teenagers), Edgar Plans presents us with an aesthetic that is both raw and childlike” – Milena Oldfield |
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Geneva |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| Pace, Geneva: Little Things: Part II the second part of an exhibition bringing together miniature artworks by thirty-nine artists, spanning painting, photography, textile, sculpture and video |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Bonhams: Fine Chinese Paintings auction: Thu 9 (viewing: Sun 5 – Wed 8 December) |
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| Tuesday 14 | |||||||||
| Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Contemporary Showcase: Anime Go auction: Tue 14 – Tue 21 Dec |
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| Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Mapping Modernities auction: Tue 14 (viewing: Tue 7 – Mon 13 December) |
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| Tuesday 7 | |||||||||
| Bonhams, Knightsbridge: 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design auction: Tue 7 (viewing: Sat 4 – Mon 6 December) |
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| Sotheby’s London: The Hamilton Aphrodite auction: Tue 7 (viewing: Fri 3 – Tue 7 December) |
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| The Artist Room: Kristy M Chan: Totally Not predominately working with densely applied oil and oil stick, Chan’s paintings are a visual archive of intense personal interactions situated amongst the fleeting dynamism of the city |
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| Unit London: Teiji Hayama: I link, therefore I am Hayama develops the themes of his previous exhibition to convey society’s ever-growing obsession with celebrity and digital culture through an enhanced caricatural visual language |
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| Unit London: Transformations a diverse group of artists who embody the seismic cultural and social shifts of the past year in a historic IRL and URL exhibition of NFTs |
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| Wednesday 8 | |||||||||
| Bonhams, New Bond Street: Old Master Paintings auction: Wed 8 (viewing: Sun 5 – Wed 8 December) |
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| Richard Saltoun: Virtual Reading Group: On Hannah Arendt: Truth and Politics |
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| Sotheby’s London: Old Masters Evening Sale auction: Wed 8 |
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| Thaddaeus Ropac: Rachel Jones: SMIIILLLLEEEE |
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| Thaddaeus Ropac: Miquel Barceló: Ceramics |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Bonhams, Knightsbridge: Prints and Multiples auction: Thu 9 (viewing: Sun 5 – Tue 7 December) |
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| Cristea Roberts Gallery: Discovery and Invention: The Early Graphic Works of Josef Albers almost fifty works on paper – all directly from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation – in the first major survey of early graphic works by Albers |
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| Grove Square Galleries: Arcadia focusing on humanity’s relationship with nature and our evolving ideal of a perfect world, a group exhibition that examines how this highly subjective concept has evolved |
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| Pilar Corrias, Savile Row: Kat Lyons: Early Paradise |
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| Shapero Modern: Lost Photographs of The Beatles |
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| Sotheby’s London: 19th & 20th Century Sculpture auction: Thu 9 – Wed 15 Dec |
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| Sotheby’s London: European & British Art auction: Thu 9 – Wed 15 Dec |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| Annka Kultys Gallery: Jukka Virkkunen “I work with un-stretched canvases that are larger than my physical self or the arena I make paintings in. Twisting and folding the canvas leaves marks of this process on the painting” – Virkkunen |
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| Pontone Gallery: Chris Rivers: Odyssey “these paintings are romantic. They describe euphoric states. The title of the exhibition, ‘Odyssey’, directly refers to a long journey, where perceptions are challenged and consciousness altered” |
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| Sotheby’s London: Contemporary Art | London auction: Fri 10 – Thu 16 Dec (viewing: Sat 11 – Thu 16 December) |
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| South London Gallery: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 across both gallery spaces, this exhibition of 75 emerging and early career artists, selected by Hew Locke, Tai Shani and Michelle Williams Gamaker through open submission, returns for the fourth consecutive year |
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| South London Gallery Fire Station: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 across both gallery spaces, this exhibition of 75 emerging and early career artists, selected by Hew Locke, Tai Shani and Michelle Williams Gamaker through open submission, returns for the fourth consecutive year |
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| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| MAMOTH: The Glass Bead Game |
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| Nicoletti Contemporary: Mary Hurrell: Buoy |
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| Tuesday 14 | |||||||||
| Bermondsey Project Space: Jenny McIntosh: Votive Pieces “as a painter my work consists of solitary heads and singular bodies with no intended narrative. As a sculptor working with marble and its singular qualities, once again singular pieces are free carved into being” – McIntosh |
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| Bonhams, Knightsbridge: Collections. Including: The Contents of Stanley House, The Estate of the Late John Schaeffer, The Estate of the Late Dame Diana Rigg auction: Tue 14 (viewing: Sat 11 – Mon 13 December) |
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| Tuesday 7 | |||||||||
| Bonhams: The Collection of Amalia de Schulthess Online auction: Tue 7 – Tue 14 Dec |
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Milan |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Sotheby’s Milan: Contemporary Art Online auction: Thu 9 – Wed 15 Dec |
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| Tuesday 7 | |||||||||
| Bonhams: The Collection of Amalia de Schulthess auction: Tue 7 (viewing: Thu 2 – Mon 6 December) |
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| Findlay Galleries: Noah Landfield – Ephemeral Cities “in this current body of work, I’ve been thinking about and around the concepts of magic, ephemerality, materiality and alchemy. These terms each have a lot in common with painting in general” – Landfield |
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| Sotheby’s New York: BERTOIA: The Sonambient Barn Collection auction: Tue 7 (viewing: Fri 3 – Tue 7 December) |
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| Wednesday 8 | |||||||||
| Sotheby’s New York: PROUVÉ x BASQUIAT: Art and Design from the Collection of Peter M. Brant and Stephanie Seymour auction: Wed 8 (viewing: Fri 3 – Tue 7 December) |
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| Sotheby’s New York: Important Design auction: Wed 8 (viewing: Fri 3 – Tue 7 December) |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Galerie Buchholz: Lutz Bacher: The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview organized by Galerie Buchholz and the Estate of Lutz Bacher |
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| Sotheby’s New York: The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman auction: Thu 9 – Thu 16 Dec (viewing: Sat 11 – Wed 15 December) |
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| Sotheby’s New York: Contemporary Art auction: Thu 9 – Fri 17 Dec (viewing: Thu 9 – Wed 15 December) |
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| Sotheby’s New York: The Collection of Douglas S. Cramer auction: Thu 9 – Thu 16 Dec (viewing: Thu 9 – Wed 15 December) |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| GRIMM: Rosalind Nashashibi: Darkness and Rest gathering together works created following Nashashibi’s 2020 residency at the National Gallery in London, this exhibition is the largest ever dedicated exclusively to the artist’s painting practice |
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| GRIMM: Arturo Kameya: En esa pulga se mezcla nuestra sangre / In that flea, our blood mixes Kameya’s work examines the plasticity of history, revisiting events and narratives through perspectives that are at times contradictory, and through the lens of the personal memories of his upbringing in Lima, Peru |
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| Tuesday 14 | |||||||||
| Bonhams: Modern Decorative Art + Design auction: Tue 14 (viewing: Wed 8 – Mon 13 December) |
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Palm Beach |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| Lévy Gorvy: Nature Loves to Hide a collaboration with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel focusing on the manifold ways in which established and emerging artists address nature and landscape |
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| Wednesday 8 | |||||||||
| Sotheby’s Paris: Collection de Monsieur & Madame Robert Schmit | Œuvres choisies – Session I auction: Wed 8 (viewing: Sat 4 – Wed 8 December) |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Galerie Vallois: That’s All Folks ! (for 2021) works by artists including Pilar Albarracín, John Baeder, Gilles Barbier, Julien Berthier, Blutch, Alain Bublex, Robert Cottingham, Gilles Elie, Erró, Steve Gianakos, Duane Hanson, Gregor Hildebrandt, Taro Izumi… |
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| kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Huang Yong Ping, Shen Yuan: Is Paris Burning? 2019 |
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| kamel mennour, r. du Pont de Lodi: Huang Yong Ping, Shen Yuan: Is Paris Burning? 2019 |
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| Sotheby’s Paris: Arts d’Asie auction: Thu 9 (viewing: Sat 4 – Wed 8 December) |
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| Tuesday 14 | |||||||||
| Sotheby’s Paris: KARL, Karl Lagerfeld’s Estate Part II auction: Tue 14 |
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Sag Harbor |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| Mark Borghi: Tony Walton: A Christmas Carol never-before-seen artwork by the multiple award-winning director, production designer, and costume designer – the first time Walton’s work has been offered for sale in more than 60 years |
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Shanghai |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| Almine Rech: Rudolf Polanszky: Apeiron “what is free in a work of art, is only the moment in which it is not yet comprehended” – Polanszky |
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St. Moritz |
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| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| Hauser & Wirth: Maria Lassnig & Cindy Sherman curated by Peter Pakesch, the first exhibition bringing together the work of the renowned Austrian and ground-breaking US artists – exploring the role they both played in the development of discussions around identity, gender, and the body |
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Sydney |
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| Wednesday 8 | |||||||||
| Bonhams: Asian Art auction: Wed 8 (viewing: Thu 2 – Tue 7 December) |
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Zürich |
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| Tuesday 7 | |||||||||
| Sotheby’s Zürich: The Swiss Fine Art Sale auction: Tue 7 – Tue 14 Dec |
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| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16: Raphaela Simon | |||||||||
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Bucharest |
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| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| Anca Poterașu Gallery: Anetta Mona Chisa: Temporal Parts | |||||||||
| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| Brun Fine Art: Arturo Vermi in the Space-Time Continuum | |||||||||
| Nahmad Projects: NIGHT | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
| Olivier Malingue: IN ABSENTIA | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| Addis Fine Art: Ermias Kifleyesus: Cascade of Knowledge | |||||||||
| Bermondsey Project Space: Clive Jackson & Sonia Martin: Painterly Prints | |||||||||
| Bermondsey Project Space: Courtney Bae: Forgetting Recollection | |||||||||
| Cardi Gallery: Marco Tirelli | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
| Luxembourg + Co.: Giosetta Fioroni: Alter Ego | |||||||||
| Sunday 12 | |||||||||
| Hayward Gallery: Gerhard Richter: Drawings, 1999 – 2021 | |||||||||
| Hayward Gallery: Mixing It Up: Painting Today | |||||||||
| Newport Street Gallery: Richard Estes: Voyages | |||||||||
| Whitechapel Gallery: Phantoms of Surrealism | |||||||||
| Thursday 9 | |||||||||
| HOSTLER | BURROWS: Matter at Hand: Ten Artists in Denmark | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| Almine Rech: Genieve Figgis: Immortal Reflection | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
| Skarstedt 79th St: KAWS: SPOKE TOO SOON | |||||||||
| Monday 13 | |||||||||
| SculptureCenter: Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry | |||||||||
| SculptureCenter: Diane Severin Nguyen | |||||||||
| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| Tolarno Galleries Viewing Room: Rosemary Laing: poems for recent times | |||||||||
| Monday 13 | |||||||||
| Galerie Barbara Thumm Viewing Room: New Viewings: Alex Schweder | |||||||||
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Palm Beach |
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| Sunday 12 | |||||||||
| Pace, Palm Beach: Adam Pendleton: Paper | |||||||||
| Saturday 11 | |||||||||
| Almine Rech, Turenne: Dr. Esther Mahlangu | |||||||||
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Rome |
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| Friday 10 | |||||||||
| T293: Michelle Uckotter: Stairwells Ephemera Etcetera | |||||||||
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Shanghai |
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| Sunday 12 | |||||||||
| Studio Gallery: Liu Jiadong: Heaven And Earth Will Pass Away | |||||||||
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