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The Week in Art
10-17 January 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Günther Förg @ Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris		Hamid Yaraghchi @ BEERS London		Aaron Johnson @ Almine Rech Shanghai
Lucas Blalock @ Galerie Eva Presenhuber Zürich		The Collector and the Art Dealer @ David Nolan Gallery New York		Anna Oppermann @ Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin

Berlin

Friday 13

Galerie Barbara Thumm:
Anna Oppermann: T.S.K.F.P.R.M.
a comprehensive exhibition of works from the conceptual artist’s estate

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45:
Karel Appel: Encounter in Spring and what follows
curated by Franz W. Kaiser, an exhibition of work by the experimental and innovative artist – who was also a founding figure of avant-garde group CoBrA – centred on a set of paintings produced from 1958 to 2006

opening reception

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Martin Kippenberger: Heute denken – morgen fertig, Werke der 80er und 90er Jahre aus Privatsammlungen und Fotografien von Wilhelm Schürmann und Andrea Stappert

opening reception

Beverly Hills

Thursday 12

Gagosian:
Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable
new paintings in Shaw’s first exhibition with the gallery – “the painting gives me the orders for what I need to do to complete it, and I have to obey” – Shaw

opening reception

Dallas

Saturday 14

Meliksetian | Briggs:
Bas Jan Ader: Thoughts unsaid…
the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new Dallas location is curated by David Quadrini and brings together Ader’s installations, films, photo works and ephemera, alongside early and never before seen paintings and works on paper

opening reception

Geneva

Tuesday 10

Bailly Gallery – Longemalle:
Yves Clerc: Muses

opens

Helsinki

Friday 13

Galerie Forsblom:
Emanuel Seitz
“although Seitz does not paint recognizable scenery, his paintings are reminiscent of abstract landscapes … for Seitz, it is vital that color reinforces form as intensely as possible”

opens

Galerie Forsblom:
Leena Nio: Comfort Place
“composition and cropping are essential parts of Nio’s recent works. Her new paintings are, as it were, tightly cropped portraits that appear to focus on something secondary”

opens

Galerie Forsblom:
Riku Mäkinen: Green Room
“Mäkinen invented his signature technique in the process of trying to find a way to push the seriality of printmaking in a more painterly direction. As always is the case in printmaking, chance plays a huge part in the result”

opens

Hong Kong

Thursday 12

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Chinese Art Online: A Private Asian Collection
auction: Thu 12 – Thu 19 Jan

auction starts

London

Tuesday 10

The Artist Room:
Eccentric Spaces
a group exhibition with works by Leonard Baby, Anderson Borba, William Brickel, Eiko Gröschl, Justin Rui Han, Martin Kippenberger, Graham Little, Iva Lulashi, Fleur Patrick and Francesco Pirazzi

opening reception

The Perimeter:
Joseph Yaeger: Time Weft
“the imagery I use is a protracted search to better understand myself; playing or putting on roles that might clarify an interior that is sort of naturally hidden, even from myself” – Yaeger

private view

Wednesday 11

Almine Rech:
José Lerma: Guerras Tibias
“Lerma’s recent hyper-painterly portraits are paradoxically austere. The copious amount of paint loaded onto each canvas counters the scant number of brushstrokes: only three to ten per piece.” – Antonia Pocock

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Alejandro Cardenas: RAVINE 23
“in his delicate crafting of apparently intimate scenes inhabited by humanoid beings, Cárdenas presents us with a new body of work that is eerily familiar as well as visually provocative” – Julián Sánchez González

opening reception

Bermondsey Project Space:
SKAPED: Community Artivism
a collective exhibition funded by the Foundation for Future London, developed over 3 months by Skaped’s young artivists coming together to create a space rich with empathy, creativity, compassion, and a desire to change society

opening reception

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street:
Anthony Daley
concurrently with his major presentation at Dulwich Picture Gallery, new large-scale paintings by Daley which expand on his responses to the Gallery’s Peter Paul Rubens work “Venus, Mars and Cupid”

private view

FOLD:
From The Rattle
“an attempt to reconnect with our inner desire for creation, as a response to a sound, as a source of intellectual exploration”

opens

Jack Bell Gallery:
Zhong Wei: Invalid Order Signature
new paintings created during 2022 in Beijing, when China’s “pandemic control period” was at its height – “when almost every day was filled with sad news from all over China” – Zhong Wei

opens

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Conscious Unconscious
six artists who explore the articulation of desire – Katarina Caserman, Héloïse Chassepot, Alexis Soul-Gray, Saskia Colwell, Li Hei Di and Zoe McGuire

private view

Thursday 12

Christie’s London:
Next at Christie’s

opens

David Zwirner:
Dan Flavin: colored fluorescent light
recreating Flavin’s 1976 exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York and Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Cologne, the gallery’s first presentation of the artist’s work in London offers a rare opportunity to experience his singular vision

opens

GRIMM:
Ciarán Murphy: this appear
new paintings by the Irish artist in his first exhibition at the gallery’s recently-opened London space

opens

Maximillian William:
Richard Maguire: What Happens to Remain Unsaid

opening reception

Pilar Corrias, Eastcastle St:
Let The Sunshine In

opens

Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Let The Sunshine In

opens

Zabludowicz Collection:
Invites: Molly Erin McCarthy
working across an interactive game space and 3D printed dioramas, the Plymouth-based artist responds to the landscape, folklore and history of Cornwall

opens

Friday 13

Modern Art Bury Street:
René Daniëls: Works on Paper
works on paper by Daniëls from between 1976 and 1987 trace the development of his practice from punk beginnings to a pointed critique of the commercial art world

opens

Saturday 14

BEERS London:
Hamid Yaraghchi: Let The Wound Lie Open
a new body of work by the Iranian painter, investigating the aesthetics of abject motifs and focusing on the human body as a symbol of beauty

private view

Tuesday 17

Bermondsey Project Space:
Sleeve Shock
following the 2022 Open Call, an exhibition responding to the concept, from the novel “Altered Carbon”, of “Sleeve Shock” or identity conflict

opens

Tiwani Contemporary at Cromwell Place:
Virginia Chihota: Chibereko Chakaramba Kuudzirwa (The Womb Refused To Be Told)
“these unique muralesque serigraphic works are a palimpsest of drawn, printed and densely layered compositions, that intersect the realms of her sub-consciousness and lived reality”

opening reception

Los Angeles

Saturday 14

Charlie James Gallery:
Glenn Hardy, Jr.: Who Am I If I Don’t Represent
the Maryland-based self-taught artist responds to negative visual language towards the Black American experience, producing paintings which can be considered acts of self-preservation through the cultivation of empathy

opening reception

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Mimi Smith: HEAD-ON
the pioneering artist’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast features sculptures, paintings, and drawings from the 1960s to the present – navigating womanhood, identity and history, and the use of her body as “the armature for a worn environment”

opening reception + talk

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Hugo Crosthwaite: CARAVAN
new paintings, sculptures, and videos drawing on Crosthwaite’s experience living on the US/Mexico-border – “we are defined by the stories that we tell ourselves … either real or imagined, to deal with difficult situations in our lives” – Crosthwaite

opening reception

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Janaina Tschäpe: Restless Moraine
new work in Tschäpe’s first solo exhibition in LA – layered abstract landscapes evocative of the natural world and suggesting growth, transition, and metamorphosis

opening reception

Steve Turner:
Brittany Miller: Before I Entered the Room, What Was I?
the New York-based artist presents new paintings conveying unresolved human dramas

opens

Steve Turner:
Shohei Takasaki: Hybrids
new paintings by Takasaki – “a reconciliation of muscle and mind with his process encompassing much personal reflection”

opens

Steve Turner:
Adam Linn: Edge Crush
the New York-based shows new paintings depicting stretched, twisted, condensed and collapsed domestic spaces which “aim to disrupt the heteronormative assumptions aligned with the idea of home”

opens

New York

Tuesday 10

Barbara Mathes Gallery:
Edda Renouf: A Selection of Paintings and Drawings from 1976 – 2019
comprehensively spanning more than forty years of the artist’s career, an exhibition exploring her commitment to meditative, lyrical abstraction alongside the experiments with process and material for which she is known

opens

David Richard Gallery:
Li Trincere: Hard Edge, Geometric Paintings: 1986 – 1990
the gallery presents two simultaneous exhibitions of the New York artist – the first, at the 526 W 26th St space, highlighting paintings dating from the late 1980s through the early 1990s

opens

David Richard Gallery:
Li Trincere: Hard Edge, Geometric Paintings: 2021 – 2022
the gallery presents two simultaneous exhibitions of the New York artist – at the 508 W 26th St space, the debut of new paintings from 2022, alongside recent paintings and drawings dating from 2020 to 2022

opens

Wednesday 11

Eva Presenhuber:
David Deutsch: Hurly-Burly
forty works across two spaces in the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the New York-based artist

opening reception

Fridman Gallery:
Jan Tichy: Infra Structures
three recent bodies of work continuing the artist’s exploration into the politics of light and his experiments with it as a material

opening reception

Thursday 12

Almine Rech:
Phyllis Stephens: The Movement of Material
new tapestries allude to Stephens’ passion for dance and movement, in the esteemed Atlanta-based quilter and visual artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery

opening reception

David Richard Gallery:
Li Trincere: Hard Edge, Geometric Paintings: 1986 – 1990

opening reception

David Richard Gallery:
Li Trincere: Hard Edge, Geometric Paintings: 2021 – 2022

opening reception

Helwaser Gallery:
Modern Muses
Post-war and Contemporary Masters including George Condo, Genieve Figgis, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Yayoi Kusama, Isshaq Ismail, Nicholas Party, and Andy Warhol

opening reception

Helwaser Gallery:
Veronique Cauchefer: Parisian Girls
“the artist’s imagination is an available reality accessible to inhabit. Familiar objects sit enthroned on a table and the interior invites you to settle in”

opening reception

Lehmann Maupin:
Robin Rhode: African Dream Root
new photographs, sculptures, installations, and wall paintings inspired by the Berlin-based artist’s research into visual and oral traditions of storytelling in his native Southern Africa

opens

Marian Goodman Gallery:
Andrea Fraser
a survey of Fraser’s work from the late 1980s to the early 2000s – alongside the NYC premiere of a new video installation – in the radical artist’s first exhibition with the gallery

opening reception

Peter Freeman, Inc.:
Back
spanning Pop art to the present, works “pushing into view the usually unseen, the hidden, or things thought unimportant” with David Adamo, Alvin Baltrop, Elisabetta Benassi, Arthur Jafa, Roy Lichtenstein, Adam McEwen, Catherine Murphy, Bruce Nauman

opens

Peter Freeman, Inc.:
Paul Anthony Harford: The Circus Animals’ Desertion
selected by Cecily Brown, an exhibition of works on paper in Harford’s first exhibition outside of the UK

opens

Petzel:
Hanne Darboven: Fin de Siècle – Buch der Bilder
a one-work exhibition capturing Darboven’s interest in weaving together computational procedure, historical and cultural artefact, and autobiographical documentation to explore the disconnect between subjective and objective perceptions of time

opens

Friday 13

David Lewis:
Ravi Jackson: Hardcore
Jackson’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery is named after Lil’ Kim’s first album and reimagines the Renaissance altarpiece as a shrine to figures in popular culture

opening reception

David Nolan Gallery:
The Collector and the Art Dealer: Jack Shear and David Nolan, A 20-Year Adventure with Drawings
works that the artist, curator, and President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation acquired building his drawing collection in collaboration with the gallerist

opens

Gagosian 976 Madison Avenue:
Roe Ethridge: American Polychronic
new photographs by Ethridge – “photography is like jujitsu. You’re taking whatever is coming at you, and doing something with it” – Ethridge

opening reception

HB381:
John Shea: standard, abstract
the American ceramic artist’s latest body of work “belongs with equal comfort to pottery, painting, sculpture, and installation art and yet – a free radical – it belongs exclusively to no one camp”

opening reception

Saturday 14

Perrotin New York:
Hans Hartung: Revenge
across all three floors of the gallery, an exhibition of paintings produced by the pioneer of “art informel” during his seminal period of experimentation in the 1970s

opens

Tuesday 17

Christie’s New York:
European Art
auction: Tue 17 Jan – Wed 1 Feb
(viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 January)

auction starts

Gagosian West 24th St:
Y.Z. Kami: Night and Day
new paintings from two bodies of work in the Iranian American artist’s first solo exhibition in the City since 2014

opening reception

Palm Beach

Thursday 12

GAVLAK:
T. J. Wilcox
video, drawings, and archival prints by the multidisciplinary artist, centered around a new film – “Wilcox’s work uses the effects of process to explore a sense of place and identity informed by the transience of time”

opening reception

Paris

Tuesday 10

Perrotin Matignon:
Salon Perrotin Matignon

opens

Thursday 12

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Günther Förg: Peintures sur Canson
mostly never shown before, twelve paintings on large sheets of Canson paper, all made at the very end of the twentieth century

opening reception

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Ernest Pignon-Ernest: De traces en empreintes
drawings juxtaposed with recent prints – some never previously exhibited – which combine Pignon-Ernest’s preparatory drawings and photographs of his public interventions on a single sheet

opening reception

Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon:
David Nash: Sculptures and papers
recent and minimal abstractions with rich colours by the British artist

opening reception

Tornabuoni Art:
A new artistic conception 1960
the gallery’s first exhibition of 2023 looks back to 1960 and the exhibition which brought together a group of artists including Alberto Biasi, Enrico Castellani, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni and Manfredo Massironi for the first time

opens

Friday 13

PARLIAMENT:
Navid Nuur: THE TENTEXT THEORY

opening reception

Saturday 14

Galerie Max Hetzler:
Distant Voices
with Ai Weiwei, Leilah Babirye, Simone Fattal, Adam Pendleton, four artists who explore exile, fight and resilience – “you always have to be aware that art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity” – Ai Weiwei

opening reception

Rome

Tuesday 10

Richard Saltoun:
Roman Allegories & Greek Mythologies
a landmark exhibition of two seminal series – one by pioneering American feminist artist Eleanor Antin and the other by the founder of “Metafisica”, Giorgio de Chirico

opens

Friday 13

T293:
Amina Toure-K: Behind the Scenes; Tales of a Dreamer
the first solo exhibition in Europe by the Ghanian artist explores the coping behavior of African diaspora populations in the US

opening reception

T293:
Numero Cromatico: The future will not wait for us ovvero il Futuro non ci aspetta
large-scale artworks from the Collective – “an exhibition, as well as an installation, an image, a path”

opening reception

Shanghai

Friday 13

Almine Rech:
Aaron Johnson: Day Is Night
“Johnson is reaching beyond the realm of painting, bringing into play the alchemy of paint while exploring and challenging the medium itself” – Saša Bogojev

opens

Almine Rech:
Justin Adian: Tipsy
“Adian continues to plumb this liminal territory with works that quite physically reside on a tilt, staunch in their sly and playful refusal to firmly alight on one side or the other” – Jessica Holmes

opens

Perrotin Shanghai:
Thilo Heinzmann
“for the past several decades Thilo Heinzmann has been creating paintings that visually challenge the viewers and conceptually question the nature and raison d’etre of this ancient art form in our contemporary society” – Kaimei Olsson Wang

opens

Perrotin Shanghai:
I Feel the Way You Feel
with works by artists including Iván Argote, Gabriel De La Mora, Lionel Estève, Zach Harris, Barry Mcgee, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Paola Pivi, Christiane Pooley, Claire Tabouret, Pieter Vermeersch, Bi Rongrong, Chen Tianzhuo, Chen Ke and Jin Ningning

opens

Vienna

Saturday 14

Galerie Ernst Hilger:
Hans Staudacher – selected works
works from 1960 to 2000 in an exhibition to mark Staudacher’s 100th birthday

opens

Zürich

Friday 13

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal:
Torbjørn Rødland: Old Shep
the Norwegian-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s new photographs address time, depicting people, plants, and things in moments of transition and disappearance

opening reception

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse:
Lucas Blalock: Potemkin Village
“with these new pictures, Blalock asks the viewer not just to contemplate the mechanisms of the photographic medium … but also the stage managed, facade-like nature of the artistic career itself” – Chris Wiley

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Boris Mikhailov @ MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris		Tursic & Mille @ Alfonso Artiaco Naples		Hans Hartung @ Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin
Jadé Fadojutimi @ Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo		Alina Kunitsyna @ Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer Vienna		Charlie Godet Thomas @ Colector Poniente San Pedro Garza García