The GalleriesNow Newsletter

The Week in Art
23-30 May 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Rodel Tapaya @ Jack Bell Gallery London		Vincenzo Agnetti @ Cardi Gallery Milan		Photographs @ Sotheby’s London
Ben Arpéa @ Fabienne Levy Lausanne		Chinese Paintings @ Christie’s Hong Kong		Adam Saks @ Meliksetian \| Briggs Dallas

Dallas

Saturday 27

Meliksetian | Briggs:
Adam Saks: Everything The Light Touches Is Your Kingdom
new paintings by the Danish-born, Berlin-based artist in his first solo exhibition in Texas – “I believe in nature as an all-encompassing experience”- Saks

opening reception

Dubai

Thursday 25

Perrotin Dubai:
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux

opens

Geneva

Thursday 25

Pace, Geneva:
JR: Women
the internationally renowned French artist’s first exhibition in Switzerland since 2008 showcases his “Women Are Heroes” project

opens

Hong Kong

Thursday 25

Sotheby’s Hong Kong:
Ancient Civilisations III – Neolithic Pottery including the Collection of Ronald W. Longsdorf
auction: Thu 25 – Wed 31 May
(viewing: Thu 25 – Wed 31 May)

auction starts

Sunday 28

Christie’s Hong Kong:
20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale
auction: Sun 28
(viewing: Thu 25 – Sun 28 May)

auction

Christie’s Hong Kong:
Post-Millennium Evening Sale
auction: Sun 28

auction

Monday 29

Christie’s Hong Kong:
20th Century Art Day Sale
auction: Mon 29
(viewing: Thu 25 – Sun 28 May)

auction

Christie’s Hong Kong:
21st Century Art Day Sale
auction: Mon 29

auction

Lausanne

Thursday 25

Fabienne Levy:
Ben Arpéa: As the days go by

opens

London

Tuesday 23

Bermondsey Project Space:
Madi Boyd: The Complexity of Touch
a tactile and immersive installation, designed to be explored through sight, sound, and, most importantly, touch

opens

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Alexandre da Cunha: Broken
new sculptures and works on paper, expanding the artist’s long-standing engagement with found objects, and encompassing ideas of redundancy, fragmentation and disrepair as generative and productive forces

private view

Thomas Dane Gallery:
Caragh Thuring: The Foothills of Pleasure
new landscapes adapting and recycling parts of one of her own paintings which references volcanic landscapes, together with a group of portraits of historical figures who were lovers and also lovers of volcanoes

private view

Unit London:
Rex Southwick: Topia
large-scale canvas works exploring the mid-century and desert modern architecture of the iconic Palm Springs

opens

Unit London:
London Calling
“an expansive vision of what it means to be an artist living and working in the UK capital today”

opens

Wednesday 24

The Artist Room:
Ania Hobson: Hotel
new paintings and drawings by Hobson alongside, for the first time, an animation as well as a physical comic “zine” of unseen drawings and narration

private view

Bermondsey Project Space:
Madi Boyd: The Complexity of Touch

opening reception

Hauser & Wirth:
Gary Simmons. This Must Be the Place
paintings and sculptures that explore race, class, and social stereotypes through popular culture

private view

Hauser & Wirth:
In Conversation: Gary Simmons and Ekow Eshun

talk

Patrick Heide Contemporary Art:
Thomas Müller: Recent Drawings
“Müller is not a colourist, but the considered introduction of colours makes their choice one of the essentials of the artist’s achievements that lifts his drawings to another dimension”

private view

Waddington Custot:
Picture This. Photorealism 1966–1985, pt.2
works from one of the largest and most important private collections of Photorealist art in the world, show comprehensively and publicly for the first time

opens

Thursday 25

Christie’s London:
Three Private Collections: Belgravia, Berkshire and Guernsey
auction: Thu 25
(viewing: Fri 19 – Wed 24 May)

auction

Gagosian Shop:
Andy Warhol’s Insiders
exhibition and shop takeover with works by Warhol alongside portraits of him by friends and collaborators including Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name

opens

GRIMM:
Charles Avery: The Nothing of the Day
Avery’s first exhibition at the gallery’s London space continues the near twenty-year examination of his imagined Island

opens

Jack Bell Gallery:
Rodel Tapaya: Can’t See the Forest for the Trees
“Tapaya draws from forests pregnant with folklore to convey a timeless environmental message: that it is not nature that belongs to man but man who belongs to nature” – Geronimo Cristobal

private view

Pi Artworks:
Tête-a-Tête
co-curated by Kayode Adegbola and Jade Turanli, a duo exhibition of the emerging Nigerian contemporary painters Cherry Aribisala and David Olatoye

private view

Pontone Gallery:
Chris Rivers: Portal
large-scale works where Rivers deploys the materiality of paint to make images of otherworldly landscapes

opens

rosenfeld:
Girjesh Kumar Singh: Life in the Rubble
sculptures made from scavenged bricks, exploring the human spirit and survival

private view

Stoppenbach & Delestre:
Maurice Estève (1904 – 2001)
thirteen watercolours form the centre of a monographic exhibition of Estève, mainly focusing on works on paper, alongside drawings, collage, paintings and signed, editioned lithographs

private view

Unit London:
Rex Southwick: Topia

private view

Unit London:
London Calling

private view

Friday 26

Parafin:
Aimée Parrott: Waterborne
new work by Parrott reflecting on ecological transformations, personal journeys, and shared perspectives through rhythmic forms and motifs

opens

Thaddaeus Ropac:
Alchemy
major works by some of the most influential artists of the post-war and contemporary periods, including Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Sturtevant, Emilio Vedova and Andy Warhol

opens

Saturday 27

Karsten Schubert Room 2:
Cathie Pilkington and Hettie Judah in conversation

talk

Tuesday 30

Richard Saltoun:
Florence Peake: Enactment
the queer, multi-disciplinary visual artist presents new installations, sculptures, canvases, and works on paper

opens

Los Angeles

Wednesday 24

Hauser & Wirth Downtown:
Thomas J Price. Beyond Measure
new sculptures that challenge societal norms, encouraging connection and analysing power dynamics

opens

Friday 26

Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood:
Frank Bowling. Landscape
in Bowling’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in West Hollywood, paintings that engage the art historical tradition of landscape painting and propel it into the present moment

opens

Milan

Wednesday 24

Cardi Gallery:
Vincenzo Agnetti: Tempo e Memoria
across the gallery’s London and Milan spaces, an exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist, poet and essayist, a central figure in 1960s Italian Conceptual Art

opens

New York

Tuesday 23

Sotheby’s New York:
Aboriginal Art
auction: Tue 23
(viewing: Sat 20 – Tue 23 May)

auction

Wednesday 24

Christie’s New York:
Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra – Selling Without Reserve
auction: Wed 24
(viewing: Sat 20 – Wed 24 May)

auction

Thursday 25

Christie’s New York:
Old Masters
auction: Thu 25
(viewing: Sat 20 – Wed 24 May)

auction

Hollis Taggart:
John Knuth: High Noon
“the works in High Noon are not only meant to draw attention to the plight of the [horseshoe] crab, but also to elevate them to the status of an icon” – Knuth

opening reception

Sotheby’s New York:
Master Paintings and 19th Century European Art Sale
auction: Thu 25
(viewing: Sat 20 – Wed 24 May)

auction

Friday 26

Galerie Buchholz:
Gili Tal: You May See Butterflies: Elephant Springs

opens

Paris

Tuesday 23

Christie’s Paris:
Photographies
auction: Tue 23 May – Tue 6 Jun
(viewing: Mon 22 May – Tue 6 June)

auction starts

Wednesday 24

Sotheby’s Paris:
Important Design
auction: Wed 24
(viewing: Sat 20 – Tue 23 May)

auction

Templon:
Will Cotton: Trigger
twenty years after his first exhibition in Paris, the New York painter continues to reflect on pop culture and American myths

opens

Templon:
Chiharu Shiota: Memory under the Skin
yarn sculptures and a large-scale woven installation exploring themes of clothing, memory, and existence

opens

Friday 26

Christie’s Paris:
Design
auction: Fri 26
(viewing: Mon 22 – Fri 26 May)

auction

A&R Fleury:
Sam Francis x Hans Hartung: Beyond Limits
an exhibition examining the similarities and approaches of these two great masters of post-war abstraction

opens

Stockholm

Thursday 25

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Stranger than Fiction
a group exhibition with Swedish and international artists exploring figuration and extraordinary themes in painting

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

Surface Works @ Galerie Max Hetzler London		Vincent Cy Chen @ Steve Turner Los Angeles		John Evans @ Gallery Henoch New York
Gregor Hildebrandt @ Almine Rech Paris		Hannes Mlenek @ Lukas Feichtner Galerie Vienna		The Chimera Complex @ Mai 36 Galerie Zürich