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Chinese art now - two exhibitions at Gagosian

The Week in Art
21-28 February 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Nancy Spero @ Galerie Lelong & Co. New York		Haroon Mirza @ Lisson Gallery London		Chloé Delarue @ Galerie Frank Elbaz Paris
François Ristori @ Mamco Geneva		Fredy Solan: Impossible Objects @ Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer Vienna		Nobody’s Appendage: Unapologetically Free @ Rele Los Angeles

Berlin

Saturday 25

Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Rüdiger Carl and Sven-Åke Johansson. Reading in honour of Martin Kippenberger

special event

Geneva

Wednesday 22

Mamco:
General Idea
drawings by the 1960s Toronto art collective, showing their distinct artistic vision and unique notions of authorship

opens

Mamco:
Ian Burn
a survey exhibition of works from 1966 to his death in 1993, tracing the activist, trade-unionist, journalist, art critic, curator, art historian – and self-described “ex-Conceptual artist” – and his journey from Australia via London to New York

opens

Mamco:
François Ristori
curated by Julien Fronsacq, an exhibition of works produced in the 1970s, showing a predilection for gestural abstraction, with a limited palette of colors and a regular brush stroke to achieve uniform coverage

opens

Mamco:
Pictures & After
curated by Lionel Bovier and Julien Fronsacq, works drawn from the museum’s collection highlight the “Pictures Generation” of the 70s and 80s, comparing their approach with those of younger Swiss artists

opens

Hong Kong

Tuesday 21

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Modern Discoveries
auction: Tue 21 – Tue 28 Feb

auction starts

Wednesday 22

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Contemporary Discoveries | Down the Rabbit Hole
auction: Wed 22 Feb – Wed 1 Mar

auction starts

London

Tuesday 21

Bermondsey Project Space:
TOUGHNESS AND TENDERNESS
“a probe into the waltzing tension between toughness and tenderness”

opens

Ordovas:
Tête
a Cycladic marble head, a wooden Guro mask, and an exceptional limestone head by Modigliani

opens

Wednesday 22

A.I.:
eye, i, you
a group exhibition with Fiona Ones, Elizabeth Gabrielle Lee and Camilla Bliss

opens

The Artist Room:
Leonardo Devito: Piccolo Testamento
combining autobiographical allegory with religion and literature, Devito’s work provides narratives explored through sequences of paintings

private view

Bermondsey Project Space:
TOUGHNESS AND TENDERNESS

private view

Hanina Fine Arts:
PROTEAN: Art & Architecture in Post-War France
exploring the integration of art and architecture fuelled by André Malraux’s 1% policy

opens

Hayward Gallery:
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons
the first major survey of the internationally acclaimed British artist, featuring his psychologically charged and atmospheric installations

opens

rosenfeld:
Shiva Ahmadi – The Courage of Eve
the first UK solo exhibition of the Iranian artist, whose work is inspired by the world of Persian miniatures and upholds a strong critique of the current political situation in her homeland

opens

Thursday 23

Annka Kultys Gallery:
Sasha Stiles
the Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher’s first solo exhibition with the gallery probes the intersection of text and technology

opening reception

Bartha Contemporary:
Sasha Holzer
carved wood reliefs in the London artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery

private view

Lisson Gallery:
Haroon Mirza: |||
centered on the so-called “Holy” or “Divine” frequency of 111 Hz, new installations by Mirza incorporate light, moving image, sound, sculpture, and a living ecosystem, to provide an experience that permeates the entire gallery

opening reception

Simon Lee Gallery:
In conversation: Jennifer Higgie and Donna Huddleston

talk

Saturday 25

BEERS London:
Deborah Segun: Where is my mind?
the title of the exhibition comes from a strong need of being at one with mind and body – a life-long search for harmonious balance within one’s self. In other words, a continuous journey toward self-realization

private view

Monday 27

Omer Tiroche Gallery:
Colour is Light on Fire: Sam Francis Works on Paper
this mini survey in celebration of the centennial of the artist’s birth, aims to examine Francis’ pioneering and innovative exploration in the use of colour

private view

Robilant+Voena, London:
Alighiero Boetti Mappe
bringing together six embroidered maps, all from private collections, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see these extraordinary works that are an iconic part of Boetti’s oeuvre

private view

Skarstedt:
Andy Warhol
nine late paintings – from between 1976 and 1986 – highlighting the iconic series which defined the final, and one of the most prolific, decades of Warhol’s life

private view

Tuesday 28

Bermondsey Project Space:
Buoyed
for one night only – “a watery exploration of queer bodies and a queer exploration of water bodies”

opening reception

Christie’s London:
20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Wed 22 – Mon 27 February)

auction

Christie’s London:
The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Wed 22 – Mon 27 February)

auction

David Zwirner:
Josef Albers: Paintings Titled Variants
an exhibition focusing on Albers’s breakthrough Variant/Adobe series, inspired in part by the art, architecture, and landscapes that he encountered during visits to Mexico and the American Southwest

opens

David Zwirner:
Black Mountain College: The Experimenters
works from a group of artists whose careers developed around the renowned liberal arts school that in the 1930s and 1940s became, as the writer Amanda Fortini recounts, “the site of a genius cluster”

opens

Mazzoleni:
OLD BOND ROOM: works from the Mazzoleni collection

opens

Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Gerasimos Floratos: Compass

opens

Los Angeles

Saturday 25

Rele:
Nobody’s Appendage: Unapologetically Free

opens

New York

Wednesday 22

Sotheby’s New York:
On the Road: Photographs by Robert Frank from the Collection of Arthur Penn
auction: Wed 22
(viewing: Sat 18 – Tue 21 February)

auction

Sotheby’s New York:
A Life in Art: Sculpture from The Mallin Collection Part I
auction: Wed 22
(viewing: Sat 18 – Tue 21 February)

auction

Thursday 23

Franklin Parrasch Gallery:
Ali Dipp: American Craft
in her first exhibition with the gallery, Dipp creates paintings on denim with thread to explore the evolution of America’s self-representation, setting the backdrop with her hometown of El Paso

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth 69th Street:
Winfred Rembert. All of Me
the gallery’s first exhibition of the late American artist is an immersive tribute to his life and artistry, with more than forty works made in his signature medium of carved, tooled and painted leather, including several never before seen

opens

Lehmann Maupin:
Tony Oursler: mAcHiNe E.L.F.
new work by Oursler, a pioneering figure in new media since the 1970s who explores popular culture through a diverse combination of multimedia projects, immersive environments, outdoor installations, dolls, ghosts, and bots

opens

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Nancy Spero: Woman as Protagonist
works on paper by the New York-based artist who foregrounded women’s experiences while challenging systems of authority and subverting aesthetic conventions

opening reception

Sean Kelly Gallery:
Candida Höfer: Heaven on Earth
curated by award-winning architect Toshiko Mori, an exhibition spanning nearly thirty years of Höfer’s career

opening reception

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Larry Sultan: Pictures from Home
“I want to measure how a life was lived against how a life was dreamed” – Sultan

opens

Yancey Richardson Gallery:
Mitch Epstein: Recreation
this exhibition of Epstein’s iconic photographs of the US at leisure in a pre-selfie, pre-digital era presents a late 20th-century America seeking fun and relaxation

opens

Friday 24

Eva Presenhuber:
Weiss Falk: Found Refined Refound
fellow Swiss gallery Weiss Falk presents a group show – with Timothée Calame, Klara Lidén, Lorenza Longhi, Daniele Milvio, Sveta Mordovskaya, and Urban Zellweger – each developing a unique approach to the object trouvé

opening reception

Saturday 25

James Cohan, 48 Walker St:
Bill Viola
important early large-scale installations by the pioneering video artist – “I want to look so close at things that their intensity burns through your retina and onto the surface of your mind” – Viola

opens

Paris

Thursday 23

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Hiba Schahbaz: Love Songs
in her first solo show with the gallery Schahbaz’s work – made with paper, black tea, water-based pigments and oil on linen – depicts women’s bodies, creating a space for herself and other women to tell their stories and reclaim their histories

opening reception

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Philippe Segond: Secrets et autres
“comprehending Segond’s work means being transported into a dreamlike world formed of successive layers, covered, uncovered; it invites us to wander around, to weave in and out of his universe… as one would in a dream that makes no sense” – Olivia Putman

opening reception

Almine Rech, Turenne:
Joe Andoe
“since the late ‘70s I have fancied myself a landscape painter, and a painter of the things that hang around on the landscape” – Andoe

opening reception

Almine Rech, Matignon:
Ha Chong-Hyun
“I believe we cannot allow the West to name a Korean creation. It is indeed a somewhat unfamiliar name to us, but the works we do and the name Dansaekhwa share a certain tone and character” – Ha

opening reception

Galleria Continua:
Nikhil Chopra in conversation with Kathy Alliou

talk

Saturday 25

Galerie Frank Elbaz:
Chloé Delarue: TAFAA – SYCAMORE RABBIT (Give ‘Em The Love Tonight II)
Delarue’s first solo show with the gallery presents installations and sculptures giving substance to the sensitive ambiguities of this world affected by its own replication

opening reception

Rome

Tuesday 28

Richard Saltoun:
decentering in Ceramics
curated by Giulia Pollicita, an exhibition of eight female artists that celebrates the symbolic, political, social, and identitarian power of ceramics

opens

Tokyo

Saturday 25

Taka Ishii Gallery:
Goro Kakei
the gallery’s first solo show by the postwar Japanese sculptor features sculptures and oil paintings created from the 1970s to the 2000s

opens

Vienna

Thursday 23

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Frauke Dannert: Traumfragmente
created in a process of reproduction and deconstruction, destabilizing spatial regularities and alienating the original objects, collaged works on paper, alongside a wall painting specially conceived for the exhibition and a video

opening reception

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Fredy Solan: Impossible Objects
inspired by the idea of transforming and exploring the limits of painting, Solan revisits the Vanitas-Still Life theme, which he interprets under the idea that “all objects have a source of light within”

opening reception

Lukas Feichtner Galerie:
Albana Ejupi: There’s beauty within your nakedness

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Faces and Figures @ Skarstedt Paris		John Ahearn – Rigoberto Torres @ CJG2 Los Angeles		Gahee Park @ Perrotin Tokyo
Franco Ndiba @ Jack Bell Gallery London		Karel Appel @ Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin		Kirk Hayes @ Sean Horton (Presents) New York