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The Week in Art
31 Aug – 7 Sep 2021
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Gallery News
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Diary: openings, events, auctions
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Basel
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Geneva
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London
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| Tue 31 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Flip the Script: Tim Nathan & Good Governance Institute
an exhibition of Nathan’s photographs, forming the first week of the Institute’s 2021 Festival of Governance, fusing photography with knowledge, art, music and culture
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Hauser & Wirth Savile Row: Phyllida Barlow
large-scale sculpture and works on paper by Barlow, who has challenged the conventions of sculpture for more than fifty years
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| Tue 31 |
Lévy Gorvy, 40 Albemarle St: Lari Pittman: Dioramas
a suite of new paintings by the acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist that reflect on the continued political and personal resonance of the past
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| Wed 1 |
Bonhams, New Bond Street: The Studio of Stella Shawzin (an auction without reserve)
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| Thu 2 |
Almine Rech: Eric Croes: Always On My Mind
“to enjoy Eric Croes’ giants, we must observe them close up, walk around them, smell them. Give synesthesia a try. Confront their presence. We enter their heads and a whole new world opens its arms to us” – Boris Bergmann
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Almine Rech: César Piette: Homework
high-resolution paintings of hyper-plastic reality, feeling like eye candy at first, but with a complexity of concept that makes them a sweet food for thought
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Maximillian William: Tom Atton Moore: Hannibal’s Pond |
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Modern Art Helmet Row: On Leaving
with Forrest Bess, Andrew Cranston, Lois Dodd, Andreas Eriksson, Anna-Bella Papp, Eleanor Ray, Carol Rhodes, Frank Walter and Matthew Wong
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| Fri 3 |
Alison Jacques: Sophie Barber: How Much Love Can a Love Bird Love, Can a Love Bird Love a Love Bird
the new paintings in Barber’s first exhibition at the gallery are about affection, attraction, memory, love and the way certain images attach themselves to us for reasons more profound than subject matter alone
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Alison Jacques: Graham Little
a solo exhibition of new work by Little, asking what it is to live in relation to oneself, one’s companions, one’s era, and to the felt qualities of the physical world
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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Angela Heisch: Burgeon and Remain
Heisch’s first UK solo exhibition – paintings on a new, large scale, developing the artist’s abstracted visual language with imagery that holds conflicting ideas of stillness and growth
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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Zarouhie Abdalian: Con Sordino |
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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Angela Heisch: Burgeon and Remain
Heisch’s first UK solo exhibition – paintings on a new, large scale, developing the artist’s abstracted visual language with imagery that holds conflicting ideas of stillness and growth
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| Sat 4 |
South London Gallery: I’m Yours & You’re Mine, Stay Curious – The House Of Do Your Own Thing
for two days only, an immersive, interactive exhibition with art and performances – produced by the group of young artists and supported by Heart n Soul
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| Mon 6 |
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac: Megan Rooney: BONES ROOTS FRUITS
“Rooney’s figures are at once specific and amorphous, friendly and threatening, powerful and injured – as though their outwards forms have struck a bad bargain with the darker registers of the world” – Emily LaBarge
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| Tue 7 |
Sotheby’s London: Made in Britain
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| Tue 7 |
Sotheby’s London: This is Tomorrow: Works from the David Ross Collection
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| Tue 7 |
Bastian: Sommergäste: Rewind Collective
a single work exhibition – a unique digital work and accompanying NFT by the anonymous digital feminist art group – honouring overlooked women and minorities throughout the centuries who have blazed a trail for others to follow
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| Tue 7 |
Bermondsey Project Space: Gemma Holzer & Phoebe Stringer: Secret Lab
in an exhibition verging on installation, works curated to simulate the experience of wandering into a hidden fantasy laboratory
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Flowers Gallery, Cork Street: Mind’s Eye: Terry Frost and Carol Robertson |
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Gazelli Art House: David Diao: Traces of Modernism
Diao’s first solo exhibition in the UK includes historical works that demonstrate a drastic turn in his artistic career
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| Tue 7 |
Gazelli Art House: Gillian Ayres, Ian Davenport, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin and Bridget Riley
an exhibition of British abstract painting, looking at how motion, rhythm and energy are expressed using line, colour and form
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| Tue 7 |
Unit London: Joshua Hagler: The Living Circle Us
“at once dream-like and intensely physical, Hagler’s painterly meditations on life, love, death and landscape could not be more timely as visual poems addressing existence in today’s troubled world” – exhibition curator David Anfam
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Unit London: Esther Janssen: Silence
for Janssen, paradox lies at the heart of all things and her works reflect this notion, presenting opposing ideas and frequently toeing the line where counterparts meet
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Melbourne
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Milan
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New Orleans
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| Fri 3 |
ESTELLA: James Mongrain: Venetian Vessels
Mongrain reinterprets Venetian tradition, pulling on the renowned glass heritage to encapsulate the style and skill of these time-withstanding methods
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New York
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| Wed 1 |
David Richard Gallery: Michael Namingha: Altered Landscapes
in his first solo exhibition with the gallery, the Native American artist from Northern New Mexico shows new photography-based works addressing climate change and manmade alterations to the landscape with images from two specific locations in New Mexico
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Halsey McKay Gallery: Hilary Pecis
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| Fri 3 |
Halsey McKay Gallery: Spirits in the Material World
with David Kennedy Cutler, Alex Dodge, Corey Escoto, Naotaka Hiro, Matt Kenny, Robyn O’Neill, Sarah Peters, Jim Shaw and William Villalongo
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| Tue 7 |
Menconi + Schoelkopf: Marin in the White Mountains
70 years after he became the first American to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, Marin’s status as a pioneer in American modernism and abstraction is becoming more widely recognized
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| Tue 7 |
Sotheby’s New York: Sculpture from the Collection of Martin and Faith-Dorian Wright
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Paris
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| Tue 31 |
Lévy Gorvy: Enrico Castellani | Sculpture
aluminium cast wall sculptures by Castellani form the first presentation in France of the sculptures that preoccupied the late Italian master during his later years
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| Wed 1 |
MASSIMODECARLO, Pièce Unique: Nate Lowman
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| Fri 3 |
Galerie Chantal Crousel: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: La chambre humaine et la planète close
Gonzalez-Foerster takes over the gallery for her first solo exhibition, part of a cycle of three “visions”
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| Fri 3 |
MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Mari Katayama: Home Again
across a variety of media, this exhibition brings together works made since 2009 along with Katayama’s recent photographic series – shown in Europe for the first time
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| Sat 4 |
Almine Rech, Turenne: Ewa Juszkiewicz: Bloom, and Ever Springing Shade
large-scale oil paintings of braided hair and vegetation including buds, fresh leaves, or fallen leaves and dry grasses that are mutating in different ways – harking back to portraiture during the Ancien Régime
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Almine Rech, Turenne: Erik Lindman: Balke (Prélude)
new paintings dedicated to the early 19th century Norwegian Romantic painter Peder Balke, whom Lindman describes as a fellow “bricoleur”
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David Zwirner: Andra Ursuţa: Void Fill
new cast-glass sculptures and photograms in the Romanian-born, New York-based artist’s debut solo presentation with the gallery, and first solo exhibition in France
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Galerie Frank Elbaz: Michael Horsky: Schläfrige Aneignung
the first solo exhibition in Paris by Vienna-based artist
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais: Robert Mapplethorpe: Intérieur Jour, curated by Jean-Marc Bustamante
“It is these moments that I have brought together in an intimate space of the gallery. The viewer becomes the recipient, the stakeholder, the protector of this intimacy created by the artist for rare and timeless works” – Bustamante
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais: Martha Jungwirth: Recent Paintings
“My pictorial reality is charged with passion, a language tied to the body, to dynamic movement. Painting is a matter of form, and then it receives a soul – through me” – Jungwirth
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kamel mennour: Bertrand Lavier: La Bocca / Haier, 2005
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kamel mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi: Bertrand Lavier: Nouveaux tableaux, 2005
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kamel mennour, r. Saint-André des arts: pascALEjandro: L’androgyne alchimique
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Semiose: Amélie Bertrand: Super-Cannes |
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Semiose: Aneta Kajzer: Heavy Water |
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Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Marais: Paul Wallach: Yielding Place
this new solo exhibition by Wallach continues the artist’s three previous solo exhibitions in the gallery with recent works made in the light – and shadow – of the world events that have taken place since the pandemic began in 2020
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Shanghai
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Lisson Gallery: Hélio Oiticica: HO in Motion
Oiticica’s first exhibition in China is an introduction to the artist’s practice, presenting pivotal works from throughout his career
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| Fri 3 |
Almine Rech: Kenny Scharf: Earth
“it is for this reason that when the beings in Scharf’s paintings cast their innocent yet sinister gaze outside of the frame, the viewer not only experiences a fairy-tale-like pleasure but also fear and the uncanny” – Lu Mingjun, curator
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Tokyo
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Vienna
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| Thu 2 |
Galerie Ernst Hilger: Anton Henning: Vienna Suite No. 1, 2021 [viːˈɛnə ˈswiːt] |
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Lukas Feichtner Galerie: All You Need is Art
with Albana Ejupi, Behruz Heshmat, Richard Kaplenig, Xenia Hausner, Raphael Pohl, Martin Pohl, Arnulf Rainer, Hannes Mlenek, Hermann Nitsch, Niki Passath, Marielis Seyler and Zsolt Tibor
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Sat 4 +
Sun 5 |
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Focus On: Jared Ginsburg. Stills
Ginsburg uses painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance to explore alternative modes of knowledge production and transfer, recognizing art as a tool and a means to test and probe the world
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Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Rachel Maclean: i´m 2 happy! curated by Phoebe Cripps
“The game is late-stage capitalism, and its appetite is insatiable. Consume or be consumed. Feed yourself, and your dreams. Achieve true happiness by sustained success. Rate yourself, and survey everything you purchase and consume” – Cripps
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| Sat 4 |
MEYER KAINER: CAMOUFLAGE
an exhibition curated by Zdenek Felix, with works by George Condo, Gelatin, Rachel Harrison, Klára Hosnedlová, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Kris Lemsalu, Francis Picabia, Pieter Schoolwerth, Anna Uddenberg and Franz West
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Vin Vin: curated by 2021 – Eureka! curated by Francesco Tenaglia |
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| Sun 5 |
Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer: Rachel Maclean: i´m 2 happy! curated by Phoebe Cripps
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Zürich
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| Thu 2 |
Christophe Guye Galerie: Jun Ahn: On Gravity |
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Lullin + Ferrari: Franziska Furter: Landscape with Landscape |
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Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal: Pat Steir & Ugo Rondinone: waterfalls & clouds
shown alongside new large-scale paintings by Steir, the final three of 20 sculptures, each named after one word from Rondinone’s self-written poem “we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our golden faces look twisted and shiny”
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Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse: Steven Shearer: Working from Life
“A new subgenre is slowly but surely establishing itself in the nebulous nether regions of Steven Shearer’s art” – Dieter Roelstraete
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing
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Antwerp
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Berlin
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Geneva
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Hong Kong
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Hove
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Lausanne
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London
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Naples
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New York
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Online
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Paris
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Southport
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Zürich
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