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The Week in Art
28 February – 7 March 2023 |
Openings, events, auctions |
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Berlin
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| Friday 3 |
Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16: Jinn Bronwen Lee / André Butzer alongside the exhibition at the Goethestraße space a double exhibition of the two artists’ paintings in dialogue |
opening reception |
Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45: Thomas Struth: Unbewusste Orte / Unconscious Places a comprehensive look at Struth’s streetscape photographs, with more than thirty, mostly analogue black and white, photographs from the very beginning of his artistic career |
opening reception |
Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3: André Butzer: Kirschmichel paintings and drawings by Butzer, shown in conjunction with the double exhibition of paintings by the artist and Jinn Bronwen Lee at the Bleibtreustraße 15/16 space |
opening reception |
| Saturday 4 |
Capitain Petzel: Eddie Martinez: Supernature drawing inspiration from a wide-range of sources, from popular culture to Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, the Brooklyn-based artist has his first solo exhibition at the gallery |
opening reception |
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Dallas
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| Saturday 4 |
Meliksetian | Briggs: Meg Cranston. A Line Has Two Sides |
opening reception |
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Dubai
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| Tuesday 28 |
Perrotin Dubai: Jeremy Demester: XXI the first solo exhibition in Dubai of the French-Beninese artist, gathering unveiled works |
opens |
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London
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| 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 |
Christie’s London: Contemporary Edition: London auction: Tue 28 Feb – Tue 14 Mar (viewing: Tue 7 – Mon 13 March) |
auction starts |
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 |
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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” |
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Mazzoleni: OLD BOND ROOM: works from the Mazzoleni collection |
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Omer Tiroche Gallery: Colour is Light on Fire: Sam Francis Works on Paper in celebration of the centennial of the artist’s birth, works from four pivotal decades of his career – “colour is light on fire. Each colour is the result of burning, for each substance burns with a particular colour” – Francis |
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Pilar Corrias, Savile Row: Gerasimos Floratos: Compass |
opens |
| Wednesday 1 |
Almine Rech: Mehdi Ghadyanloo: The Untold Stories Ghadyanloo’s paintings combine minimalist themes with a surrealist aesthetic |
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Almine Rech: Paul de Flers: Black Island “de Flers’ paintings convey a lost paradise, with a stormy, intoxicating atmosphere. By means of merging colors and blurry edges, the scenes propose the viewer as witnessing an intimate moment, through a window misted with memory” – Milena Oldfield |
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Christie’s London: Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale auction: Wed 1 (viewing: Wed 22 – Tue 28 February) |
auction |
Sotheby’s London: The Now Evening Auction auction: Wed 1 (viewing: Wed 22 February – Wed 1 March) |
auction |
Sotheby’s London: Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction auction: Wed 1 (viewing: Wed 22 February – Wed 1 March) |
auction |
| Thursday 2 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Is It Funny Yet? a one day exhibition by Georgie Earnshaw – “a collection of satirical, autobiographical, pieces exploring sexual harassment. Expect drag mug shots, bejazzling and a voyeuristic video installation” |
opening reception |
Christie’s London: Prints and Multiples auction: Thu 2 – Thu 16 Mar (viewing: Tue 7 – Thu 16 March) |
auction starts |
Lisson Gallery: Julian Opie: OP.VR@LISSON/London new works, including the UK premiere of a virtual reality experience – the first time the gallery has presented a VR work – as well as a fast-paced dance sequence, life-size and large-scale portraits, and landscapes and architectural works |
opening reception |
Galerie Max Hetzler: Rinus Van de Velde Van de Velde’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and in the UK – “I depict a life I never had. For me, daydreaming is more important than what happens in reality. After all, you can experience so much more in your mind than you can in reality” |
opening reception |
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art: Mind & Materials works by Marc Vaux, Roman Opalka, Andrea Gregson, John Wigley, Lee Maelzer, Peter Abrahams, Mathew Weir, David Connearn and Michael Roberts in an exhibition curated by Roberts |
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Simon Lee Gallery: Serge Attukwei Clottey: Crossroads in his inaugural exhibition with the gallery, new and recent multidisciplinary work by Clottey exploring the relationship between his Ghanaian identity and Western culture |
private view |
Simon Lee Gallery: Helena Foster: To See Beyond Seeing new paintings on canvas, paper and copper by the Nigerian born, London based artist explore unconscious fate in everyday reality |
private view |
Sotheby’s London: Modern & Contemporary Day Auction auction: Thu 2 (viewing: Wed 22 February – Wed 1 March) |
auction |
Thomas Dane Gallery: Lynda Benglis “[looking at the work] we experience something in our bodies that is proprioceptic; we experience it in our whole body – you feel what you see and you are ‘charged’. It’s an exchange of energy” – Benglis |
private view |
| Friday 3 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Not The Minor Character this one day exhibition by Tabitha Rose Owen and Jess Routley – “an invitation to unsaid things; imagined, confessed, desired, remembered, or ignored” |
opening reception |
Christie’s London: Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale auction: Fri 3 (viewing: Wed 22 February – Thu 2 March) |
auction |
Luxembourg + Co.: Balthus: Under the Surface the first exhibition of Balthus in the UK since the 1968 Tate Gallery retrospective, focuses on his engagement with “surface” as both a material and a psychological quality |
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Modern Art Bury Street: Richard Tuttle: Village V the first of two consecutive exhibitions forming a large-scale solo presentation of both new and historical work by Tuttle restages one of his installations exploring the relation between sculpture and drawing |
private view |
Pilar Corrias, Eastcastle St: Ian Cheng |
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| Saturday 4 |
GRIMM: Close curated by Russell Tovey, an exhibition of works by Ellen Altfest, Jean Claracq, Lenz Geerk, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Ulala Imai, Fiza Khatri, Xie Lei, Aubrey Levinthal, Jean Nipon, Paula Siebra, Hugh Steers, Alexandria Tarver and Salman Toor |
opens |
| Tuesday 7 |
Unit London: Tyler Hobbs: Mechanical Hand Hobbs’ first solo exhibition with the gallery reveals another side of his practice – paintings on canvas and works on paper alongside characteristic digital pieces |
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Unit London: Within + Without twelve contemporary artists – working within the historically gendered mediums of textiles and ceramics – explore powerful representations of our inner and outer worlds |
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Los Angeles
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| Saturday 4 |
CJG2: Patrisse Cullors and noé olivas: Freedom Portals work by the two Los Angeles-based artists – collaborators and practitioners of the West African Ifá religion – “is equal parts devotional and metaphorical in nature and should be viewed in response to the contemporary moment” |
opening reception |
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Munich
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| Thursday 2 |
Walter Storms Galerie: INVENTUR II: Tim Freiwald new works by Freiwald in the final part of this changing exhibition |
opening reception |
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New York
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| Tuesday 28 |
David Richard Gallery: James Kelly: Seven Decades of Painting: From Bay Area Abstract Expressionism to New York’s Downtown Scene a survey of the artist’s lifelong commitment to painting |
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David Richard Gallery: Robert Swain: The Perception of Color new paintings by the New York-based artist, organized in pairs related to each other by size, compositional arrangement and color pallets, to examine the perception and understanding of color |
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| Wednesday 1 |
Christie’s New York: Latin American Art Online auction: Wed 1 – Tue 14 Mar |
auction starts |
Christie’s New York: Modern Collector: Design, Tiffany Studios, and Property from a Pacific Island Connoisseur auction: Wed 1 – Wed 15 Mar |
auction starts |
Petzel: KP Brehmer: Welt im Kopf [World in Mind] curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, this is Brehmer’s first solo presentation in the US since 1976 and features seminal and previously unexhibited artworks, including drawings, prints, paintings, films, and objects |
opens |
| Thursday 2 |
Christie’s New York: The Collection of Thomas & Doris Ammann: Online auction: Thu 2 – Tue 14 Mar (viewing: Fri 3 – Thu 9 March) |
auction starts |
Peter Freeman, Inc.: Matt Mullican: Sunday, August 9, 1908 a new series of paintings and drawings – “I was interested in depicting / The parts of that world that / Support life in the pictured world” – Mullican |
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| Friday 3 |
Galerie Buchholz: Marcus Behmer |
opening reception |
David Richard Gallery: James Kelly: Seven Decades of Painting: From Bay Area Abstract Expressionism to New York’s Downtown Scene |
opening reception |
HB381: Jakob Jørgensen: Take Root new monumental steel sculptures by the Danish contemporary artist and designer |
opening reception |
Perrotin New York: Nikki Maloof: Skunk Hour new paintings and drawings in the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery – “Maloof’s paintings are a vision of the world as seen through the eyes of a singular artist’ – Gabrielle Schwarz |
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Perrotin New York: Sophia Narrett: Carried by Wonder Narrett’s first exhibition with the gallery – the debut of slow and meticulous embroidery, often interrogating experiences of womanhood and made in response to the increasingly fast pace of contemporary media |
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Perrotin New York: JR: Les Enfants d’Ouranos JR’s newest series explores the tensions between the visible and invisible – images of children impacted by global conflict and living in refugee camps, instilled with transcendence and the opportunity to command influence and create a new world |
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Sotheby’s New York: Modern Discoveries auction: Fri 3 – Thu 16 Mar (viewing: Sat 4 – Tue 14 March) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s New York: Contemporary Discoveries auction: Fri 3 – Wed 15 Mar (viewing: Sat 4 – Wed 15 March) |
auction starts |
| Saturday 4 |
David Richard Gallery: Robert Swain: The Perception of Color |
opening reception |
Fergus McCaffrey: Reinhard Pods: Works from 1979 – 2022 |
opens |
James Cohan, 52 Walker St: Shinichi Sawada: Messengers spanning two decades of work, an exhibition of sculptures by the self-taught ceramicist – organized in partnership with Jennifer Lauren Gallery |
opening reception |
James Cohan, 52 Walker St: Simon Evans™: Room to Live text-based collages of poetic handwritten phrases, drawings, and images often scavenged from the detritus of everyday life, created by Simon Evans™ – the collaboration between artists Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan |
opening reception |
| Tuesday 7 |
Christie’s New York: Art of Collecting: A Pacific Island Connoisseur of Art and Design auction: Tue 7 (viewing: Fri 3 – Tue 7 March) |
auction |
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Paris
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| Thursday 2 |
David Zwirner: Franz West an exhibition surveying sculptures, works on paper, and installations produced between the late 1970s and early 2000s, including a significant and rarely seen group of early Passstücke (Adaptives) |
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| Saturday 4 |
Galerie Max Hetzler: William N. Copley: AUTOEROTICISM: Paintings from 1984 and related works “through the iconography of Parisian imagery, and the car, Copley plays a game of multiple pictorial dimensions and presents a series of stories happening simultaneously, using an inventive compositional technique of painting pictures within pictures” |
opening reception |
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Rome
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| 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 |
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| Friday 3 |
T293: Isabella Ducrot: Il Miracoloso three religiously-themed and bigger-than-life works on paper alongside six small-scaled variations of the Descent of the Holy Spirit – “the connection with the divine … happens also inside the gallery” |
opening reception |
T293: Bianca Walker: Communion house paint on drop cloth paintings explore the history of colonization and whiteness as opposed to the “other” in the first solo exhibition in Europe by the New-Orleans based artist |
opening reception |
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Stockholm
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| Saturday 4 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson: Tommy Hilding: Inversion “Hilding’s paintings portray an ambivalence and rootlessness that exist in our time. He challenges chronology and reverses concepts with a language that is playful yet urgent” |
opening reception |
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Vienna
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| Thursday 2 |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber: Peter Fischli David Weiss: Polyurethane Objects three of the polyurethane installations that are a hallmark of their work – “we can say that the ordinary object that escapes conscious notice, although we use it everyday, captures our attention in the context of a museum and acquires new meaning” |
opening reception |
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Zürich
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| Wednesday 1 |
Fabian Lang: Sarah Dwyer: Off Kilter Dwyer’s first solo exhibition in Continental Europe – “there is a refusal to come down either side of the abstraction- figuration fence because I enjoy the confused middle-ground where there is potential for suggestion, deception and cheekiness” – Dwyer |
opening reception + talk |
| Saturday 4 |
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse: Verne Dawson: Fête Galante “what first struck me about Verne Dawson’s recent paintings – having followed his work for years – is an increased sense of painterly freedom” – Barry Schwabsky |
opening reception + talk |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing |
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Berlin
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| Saturday 4 |
Galerie Barbara Thumm: Anna Oppermann: T.S.K.F.P.R.M. |
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Galerie Barbara Thumm: Tegene Kunbi |
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Galerie Bastian: Wim Wenders – TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER |
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Bucharest
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| Tuesday 28 |
Mobius Gallery: Andrei Costache: Honey Drops Tripping Through My Veins |
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Hong Kong
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| Saturday 4 |
Gagosian: Uncanny Valley |
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London
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| Tuesday 28 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Buoyed |
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| Thursday 2 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Is It Funny Yet? |
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| Friday 3 |
Annely Juda Fine Art: Sigrid Holmwood: A Terrible and True History |
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Annely Juda Fine Art: Roger Ackling: The Edge of Things |
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Bermondsey Project Space: Not The Minor Character |
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John Martin Gallery: Neale Howells |
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| Saturday 4 |
Claas Reiss: Hannah Beerman: Call me if you get lost |
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Claas Reiss: Konstantinos Argyroglou: Re-touching Memory |
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Cristea Roberts Gallery: Image as Protest: Joy Gerrard & Paula Rego |
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Cristea Roberts Gallery: Between Before and After |
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Darren Flook: Marcus Cope: Got Reason |
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Gathering: Wynnie Mynerva: Bone of my Bones, Flesh of my Flesh |
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JGM Gallery: Gurrutu: The Art Of Mulkun Wirrpanda |
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Lehmann Maupin: Beneath the Surface |
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Pangolin London: Jon Buck: Patterns of Change |
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Timothy Taylor: Antoni Tàpies |
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Unit London: Mauro C. Martinez: RateMySetup |
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Workplace: Laura Lancaster | Rachel Lancaster: Cadence |
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| Sunday 5 |
Maureen Paley: Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit |
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Maureen Paley Studio M: Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit |
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Pontone Gallery: Through the Mind’s Eye: an Anthology |
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Los Angeles
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| Saturday 4 |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Hugo Crosthwaite: CARAVAN |
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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Mimi Smith: HEAD-ON |
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Sean Kelly Gallery: Janaina Tschäpe: Restless Moraine |
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Madrid
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| Saturday 4 |
Badr El Jundi: MOTHERS |
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Melbourne
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| Saturday 4 |
Tolarno Galleries: Wanapati Yunupiŋu: Ṉilŋṉilŋ (the spark) |
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Naples
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| Saturday 4 |
Alfonso Artiaco: Maria Thereza Alves: An Accounting |
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New York
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| Friday 3 |
Helwaser Gallery: Modern Muses: Selected Paintings |
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Helwaser Gallery: Veronique Cauchefer: Parisian Girls |
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| Saturday 4 |
Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue: Cy Twombly |
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Lehmann Maupin: Alex Prager: Part Two: Run |
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Lisson Gallery: Future Shock |
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Lisson Gallery W 24th St: Future Shock |
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Marian Goodman Gallery: Cerith Wyn Evans: …no field of vision |
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Petzel: Samson Young: Frames and Variations |
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Palm Beach
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| Friday 3 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Robert Natkin – Veil on the Infinite |
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| Sunday 5 |
GAVLAK: Taha Heydari: Loom |
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Paris
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| Saturday 4 |
Bigaignon: Chair de Temps |
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Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu: Hurly-burly |
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Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu: James Turrell: Confidences |
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Galerie Lelong & Co.: Ernest Pignon-Ernest: De traces en empreintes |
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Galerie Lelong & Co.: Günther Förg: Peintures sur Canson |
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Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon: David Nash: Sculptures and papers |
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PARLIAMENT: Navid Nuur: THE TENTEXT THEORY |
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Semiose: The Minotaur’s Daydream |
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Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais: Bob Colacello: It Just Happened, Photographs 1976-1982 |
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Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais: David Salle: Tree of Life. This Time With Feeling |
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Daily Diary New VRs Bookshop |
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