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Pierre Soulages, 1919-2022
October 27, 2022
LGDR has announced the passing of Pierre Soulages, who died at the age of 102 on Wednesday.
“It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the passing of our dear friend and artist Pierre Soulages. The most significant and internationally recognized artist of his time in France, he was 102 years old. Our thoughts and most sincere condolences are with Colette Soulages, the artist’s wife and partner of 80 years, as well as his family, friends, studio, and Alfred Pacquement, president of the Musée Soulages. We have been immensely privileged and honored to work closely with Soulages for nearly two decades. While to most, he is known as the painter of black, we hope he will forever be remembered as the painter of light. Soulages was a prolific creative force—a painter, sculptor, and draftsman—who approached his work not only with skill and intuition, but also with conceptual, philosophical, and alchemical rigor. He forged a career remarkable for its openness to reinvention and its longevity. Through his astonishing body of work, Soulages beckoned us to look at art with incisiveness, curiosity, and wonder. He leaves a legacy of influence that can be felt throughout generations of artists and around the world. We are so grateful to have shared in the gift of his and Colette’s friendship, and his artistic collaboration and breathtaking work.”
“Saying goodbye to Pierre Soulages is saying goodbye to not only an incredible artist, but a man of exceptional generosity, kindness, and intelligence. It has been an honor knowing him, working for him, and being one of his many ambassadors in the art world. He leaves an indelible mark on 20th-century art.”
— Dominique Lévy, Co-Founder, LGDR
photo: Pierre Soulages, 2019 © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Sandra Mehl for The New York Times
Rodney Graham, 1949-2022
October 25, 2022
It has been announced that Rodney Graham died on 22nd October at age 73.
The Vancouver based artist and musician was celebrated for large-format cibachromes where he playfully assumed the roles of various characters: ageing ’70s rocker, ’30s photo-booth owner, ’50s abstract painter, and disgruntled sous chef.
From the 1980s, Graham expanded his diverse oeuvre to encompass photography, painting, sculpture, film, video and music. As actor, performer, producer, historian, writer, poet, sound engineer and musician, Graham’s art examined the complexities of Western culture through strategies of disguise, as he shifted seamlessly into different roles and characters.
Photo: Sven Boecker
GalleriesNow Paris Gallery Map
October 21, 2022
We are delighted to announce that our first Paris Gallery Map is out now.
Available in galleries across the city, or to download here.
The Paris edition is published alongside our seasonal gallery maps in London, New York and Los Angeles.
Almine Rech announces opening of new U.S. flagship in Tribeca, New York City
October 19, 2022
Almine Rech is pleased to announce plans for a permanent expansion in New York’s downtown Tribeca neighborhood opening in 2023, marking the gallery’s new flagship location in the U.S. Housed within a 134-year-old landmarked building recently renovated by Pritzker prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, the 10,000 square foot space is situated at 361 Broadway (Franklin St./Broadway). The original Almine Rech location in New York will remain active on the Upper East Side.
“Since we opened in New York in 2016, over 20 US-based artists have joined the gallery. We needed to increase the range of opportunities we could offer them locally. Tribeca was already on our radar since we started considering an expansion but, ultimately, it was feedback from our artists that solidified our location choice." - Paul de Froment, Managing Partner, New York.
"We were looking for a beautiful, adaptable and dynamic large new space downtown." - Almine Rech.
"The gallery's scale will provide amazing possibilities for our artists. We trust they will take advantage of the venue to produce some of their most ambitious exhibitions to date." - Ethan Buchsbaum, Senior Director, New York.
Almine Rech maintains additional locations in Paris, Brussels, London and Shanghai.
Haegue Yang awarded the 13th Benesse Prize
October 18, 2022
Galerie Chantal Crousel wishes to congratulate Haegue Yang as the winner of the Benesse Prize. The 13th Benesse Prize was presented in collaboration with Singapore Art Museum, the organizer of Singapore Biennale 2022.
This distinction offers the artist the admiration and the financial means to pursue her life’s work, along with a commission to create an artwork to be exhibited at Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan, or the opportunity to have her works collected at the Site.
Yang’s practice spans a wide range of media, from paper collage to performative sculpture and large-scale installations, often featuring everyday objects, in addition to labor-intensive woven sculpture.
photo: Cheongjin Keem
GAVLAK announces representation of Taha Heydari
October 17, 2022
Born to a religious family in Tehran, Iran during a time of war and upheaval, Taha Heydari makes paintings that engage with the ways in which ideology manifests in lived experience. A member of the generation that emerged following the 1978 Islamic Revolution, Heydari deploys various modes of mark-making as a way to reveal and deconstruct the binaries which shaped his identity: East and West, body and soul, past and future. Troubling the stability of the systems which produce and uphold these oppositions, his large-scale paintings are composed of a chaotic dance between machine-like grids and bodily gestures. Drawing from Iranian history and modern pop culture, his extensive digital archive serves as a point of departure for Heydari’s imaginative environments in which contradictory forces collide.
After spending the first twenty-eight years of his life in Iran and then moving to the United States, Heydari has closely observed the correlation of everyday mundanities and more palpably oppressive forces in the omnipresence of ideological order on both sides of the globe. As a way to perform a kind of autopsy on his own place within those systems, and on the larger social fabric itself, Heydari engages with the representation of rupture and conflict.
Heydari’s work will be presented at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, and he will have a solo exhibition at GAVLAK Palm Beach in January 2023.
Thomas Dane Gallery awarded the 2022 Frieze Stand Prize
October 13, 2022
The gallery was awarded the Main Stand Prize for their presentation curated by the artist Anthea Hamilton. The booth is an evolution of her signature approach to exhibition making, seen most recently in her show at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, which brings together different disciplines such as fine art, design, and museology, blurring the lines and boundaries between walls, floor, furniture, and artworks, to create a complete environment for the booth.
List of artists:
Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alexandre da Cunha, José Damasceno, Anya Gallaccio, Luigi Ghirri, Anthea Hamilton, Mumtaz Karimjee, Barbara Kasten, Rita Keegan, Phillip King, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jean-Luc Moulène, Magdalene A. N. Odundo, Dana Schutz, Amy Sillman, Caragh Thuring, Nancy Willis
Shoair Mavlian appointed the new Director of The Photographers’ Gallery
October 10, 2022
The Photographers’ Gallery is delighted to announce that Shoair Mavlian has been appointed as its new Director. Currently Director at Photoworks, Shoair will take up the post in January 2023.
As Director of Photoworks, Shoair leads the strategic vision and artistic direction of the organisation including exhibitions, biennial festival, commissions, learning and engagement, publishing and digital content.
Shoair will take up TPG’s reins following the recent launch of its new, permanent outdoor exhibition space, Soho Photography Quarter, which will feature a new display of large-scale works by Gideon Mendel from November 2022. The Autumn season exhibitions are Chris Killip, retrospective and An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection, both open until 19 February 2023. The internationally renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize will return to TPG on 3 March 2023, exhibiting work by the four shortlisted artists for 2023.
Matthew Stephenson, Chair of Trustees, The Photographers’ Gallery said:
“On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I’m thrilled that Shoair Mavlian will lead The Photographers’ Gallery in its next chapter. As Director of Photoworks, Shoair has shown her commitment to commissioning new work, opening up photography to new audiences and activating debate about the power and relevance of photography today. This valuable experience coupled with an ambitious vision for the future of TPG, will ensure the Gallery continues to showcase the very best of international photography and inspire future generations. I have no doubt that Shoair will bring passion and drive to lead TPG and build on the exceptional legacy of departing Director Brett Rogers. In her 16 years leading TPG, Brett has tirelessly championed photography for all and made TPG one of the most dynamic, relevant and exciting cultural spaces in London today.”
Richard Saltoun now represents the Estate of Romany Eveleigh and Jan Wade
October 6, 2022
Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to represent the Estate of Romany Eveleigh and African Canadian artist Jan Wade.
The gallery will debut Eveleigh and Wade’s work in the UK at the upcoming editions of Frieze Masters and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair respectively.
Romany Eveleigh’s work stands out for her uncompromising sign-based vocabulary rooted in a minimalist aesthetic, which places painting in a philosophical dimension. Born in London in 1934, Eveleigh spent most of her life in Rome, where she married the photojournalist Anna Baldazzi and was introduced to the radical feminist movement led by the lesbian activist Michèle Causse, the artist's most prominent supporter. Working in relative solitude, Eveleigh approached art-making as a form of contemplative mark-making, borrowing techniques and materials from the world of writing and printing.
For her UK debut at Frieze masters, Richard Saltoun Gallery will present a solo booth showcasing the artist’s most important bodies of work, including the Pages series (1972-1974). Richard Saltoun Gallery will represent the Estate of Romany Eveleigh in collaboration with Galerie Bellemare Lambert, Montreal, Canada.
Drawing on her Southern-American roots and African diasporic spiritual practices, Jan Wade's work explores Black post-colonial identity, ethnicity, and spirituality. She produces paintings, textiles and a mixed-media works that feature slogans and symbols - like the cross, guns and money - and are made entirely from found or readymade objects, and recycled materials.
Wade’s formative years were heavily influenced by her local African Methodist Episcopal Church, slave cultures and spiritual practices, the civil rights movement, and Southern US Black culture and aesthetics. Her work stems from personal experience but seeks to articulate a new understanding of her ancestors’ traumas and the discrimination they themselves suffered. Reflecting where she came from and who she is, Wade’s unique artistic journey is marked by empowerment, hope and radical joy.
Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Allison Katz
September 29, 2022
Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now represents artist Allison Katz, in collaboration with Gió Marconi, Milan, Antenna Space, Shanghai and dépendance, Brussels.
Allison Katz (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada) has over the last decade emerged as a pioneering voice in contemporary painting, achieving critical acclaim for her genre-defying works which embrace the mutability of images and explore the tensions between what is conveyed and what is perceived. Her practice is rooted in a personal, biographical approach to found imagery and art historical references, combined with irreverent wit, wordplay and humor. From cocks (the bird) and cabbages, to self-portraits and bodies in pieces, Katz’s vivid and idiosyncratic emblems call into question painterly subjectivity and selfhood, as well as the slippery nature of meaning. Her precisely made works shift in style, technique and materiality, often rejecting formal categorization to develop a practice that examines the conventions of the medium, the myths surrounding the role of the artist and that of the exhibition.
Architectural interventions are an integral part of Katz’s practice; her highly considered spatial environments combine paintings, posters and ceramics to produce unique encounters and perspectives. She creates a flow of subtle choreography in alignment with the imagery depicted. By engaging with site-specific conditions, Katz compels the viewer to create connections between her disparate works, giving way to poetic order amidst a proliferation of visual references. Recent works and exhibition titles have alluded to such networks of connection and communication more literally, whether in reference to bodily arteries and the circulation of blood, the canals and systems of transportation in Venice, or the transmutation of an object as it moves from sculpture to photography to painting. Her canvases are, as Katz explains, ‘active locations’ with ‘possible entrances and exits,’ calling attention to the multiple layers of consciousness that reside in a painting’s surface and subject.
Katz’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, featuring new work by the artist, will take place in autumn 2023 in Los Angeles. Early next year, Katz will participate in an artist’s residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.
photo: Eva Herzog
Sylvie Patry joins kamel mennour as the gallery’s Artistic Director
September 28, 2022
Kamel Mennour is pleased to announce the appointment of Sylvie Patry as the gallery’s Artistic Director.
With more than twenty years of experience in the art world behind her, Sylvie Patry has formerly held leading positions in top institutions including the Musée d’Orsay, where she has until now been the Deputy Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs, and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, where she acted as Gund Family Chief Curator/Deputy Director for Collections and Exhibitions — a rare appointment for a French curator.
She notably oversaw developing The Barnes Foundation towards its current configuration, while keeping up a close dialogue with past and present artists.
As kamel mennour’s Artistic Director, Sylvie Patry will contribute to the conception of new projects, strengthening and expanding the gallery’s development in the cultural, contemporary, and publishing spheres. With her many working partners around the world, Sylvie Patry will broaden the gallery’s global influence.
She will begin her new role at kamel mennour on December 2022.
photo: Archives kamel mennour
Bernar Venet joins Perrotin
September 26, 2022
Perrotin is pleased to announce the representation of Bernar Venet. The gallery will exhibit one of his large sculptures at its booth at Paris+ par Art Basel at the Grand Palais Éphémère this October before organizing a major exhibition dedicated to his work in its three Paris spaces in the Marais and Avenue Matignon in March 2023.
“Bernar Venet is a renowned pioneer of Conceptual Art; his work has long been exhibited around the world and is highly regarded by a wide range of art connoisseurs. It is a great privilege for us to embark on this new adventure with him and we are very proud to offer him the space for his much-anticipated return to Paris. We intend to continue promoting his work at the highest level.” Emmanuel Perrotin
“It’s a real honor to represent Bernar Venet, whose demanding and powerful work has traversed the major artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. His prolific production never ceases to amaze us, and we are delighted to showcase it.” Tom-David Bastok and Dylan Lessel
“Committing to Perrotin gallery, to Emmanuel, Dylan, and Tom-David, is a crucial decision for me, opening a new chapter in my career full of dynamism, shared enthusiasm, risk-taking in my current projects, and confidence in my future work. I trust them completely, and the projects for autumn and spring will reflect this.” Bernar Venet
photo: © Laura Stevens
The Artist Room now represents Kristy M Chan
September 22, 2022
The Artist Room is pleased to announce representation of Kristy M Chan (b.1997) who lives and works in London.
Kristy M Chan’s paintings explore how environments form our sense of self. Born in Hong Kong and now living in London, previous works have dissected the uncanny and alienating sense of displacement one can experience when navigating between Eastern and Western cultures.
Chan’s assertive, dynamic and energetic paintings synthesise together dissonant, adventitious and sometimes surreal junctures she experiences, while simultaneously conjuring the dizzying cadence of contemporary life. Chan has likened the instinctive process of juxtaposing tones and textures as similar to the Japanese flower-arranging process Ikebana; which promotes the concept of negative space as of equal importance to positive space.
Rooted in autobiographical narratives, her paintings, which she names ‘stolen realities’, all depart from unexpected encounters she finds significant – often resonating with her for extended periods before ultimately inspiring a new work. ‘Whenever I'm painting,’ she recently explained. ‘The subject arrives from the emotions that I associate with certain events or experiences.'
Binge, her second solo exhibition with The Artist Room, will take place in October 2022.
Galleria Continua announces representation of Carlos Cruz-Diez
September 20, 2022
A major protagonist of contemporary art, all-round and social artist, and pioneer of kinetic art, Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) was an undisputed master of colour. Throughout his career, he experimented with and developed a large number of researches that remain emblematic of his artistic language.
Carlos Cruz-Diez defined himself first and foremost as a painter, listening to the profound societal changes happening around him, in Venezuela and in the world. From the beginning, he was interested in the invention of a new work, requiring the constant search for unconventional techniques and technologies, which would come to play a key role in his approach. From 1994, this placed him in the avant-garde of the digital revolution that would follow, allowing the public to create unique, computer-assisted works from his characteristic palette.
He figures among the most prolific artists of his time in the urban space. His works are designed to reach a large audience and to be part of everyday life. As a result, several hundred of his creations can be found scattered across the globe, occupying spaces that have since become iconic such as Caracas airport in Venezuela, or Place du Venezuela in Paris. In France, they are an integral part of the cultural heritage of cities like Clermont-Ferrand, Cambrai, Villetaneuse or La Roche-sur-Yon. Even today, his works lend a special glow to the façades of Prada stores in Asia, part of an homage paid to him by the brand.
GALLERIA CONTINUA will present iconic and unpublished works of Carlos Cruz-Diez in the upcoming highlights of international contemporary art: Frieze Masters in London (12-16 October) and Paris+ par Art Basel (20-23 October) – including in particular a monumental work never before shown to the public as part of the “hors-les-murs” circuit in the Jardin des Tuileries.
Gideon Appah joins Pace Gallery
September 16, 2022
Pace Gallery announce the representation of Gideon Appah, known for his dreamlike and enigmatic paintings, drawings, and mixed media works often exploring Ghanaian history and popular culture.
Born in Accra, where he continues to live and work, Appah interlaces visual fragments from modern-day Ghana with his own imagination in the fantastical figurative scenes that make up his paintings. Drawing from childhood memories, family photographs, dreams, newspapers, comic books, Ghanaian cinema, and other sources, Appah forges idiosyncratic compositions that balance deeply personal, introspective themes with lingering ambiguities.
Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Pat Steir
September 15, 2022
Hauser & Wirth is honored to announce worldwide representation of renowned American artist Pat Steir.
Among the great innovators of contemporary painting, with a lifelong commitment to drawing and printmaking, Steir first came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. By the late 1980s, her inventive approach to painting – the rigorous pouring technique seen in her ‘Waterfall’ works, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricism – attracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in both visual and literary realms, Steir’s storied five-decade career continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration and experimentation.
Steir’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth and first show in New York since 2017, ‘Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls’ will open on 10 November 2022 at the gallery’s 22nd Street location. The presentation will span the building’s entire ground floor space with a series of vibrant new large-scale paintings. A program of performances celebrating the new work is planned to accompany the exhibition.
LGDR welcomes multidisciplinary artist Lina Iris Viktor
September 14, 2022
LGDR is delighted to announce that the gallery is now working with Liberian-British multidisciplinary artist Lina Iris Viktor.
In London, Viktor’s work is on currently on view in the gallery’s exhibition Rite of Passage: Lina Iris Viktor with César, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, and Yves Klein through October 29, 2022, and in the group exhibition In the Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery through September 18, 2022.
Viktor’s first solo exhibition with LGDR will debut in Paris in 2023.
The artist currently lives and works between Naples and London. Her distinct visual language has achieved critical acclaim for its deft mingling of disparate materials and methods to activate diasporic histories and mythologies. Viktor’s work, which merges performance, painting, and sculpture, and photography, often incorporates water gilding with 24-karat gold, an ancient technique she has deployed over the past decade to embed ‘layers of light’ into the surfaces of her work, as displayed in the celestial effects of her ongoing Constellations series (2016–ongoing).
Viktor’s influences range from African symbolism found in both ancient Egypt and contemporary Mali, to classical astronomy and European portraiture. Her works involve philosophical commentary that addresses both the physical and spiritual realms, and an expansive approach to the use of black. Viktor’s lexicon employs color as a conduit: lustrous gold to summon spiritual transcendence harkening back to funerary traditions of antiquity; ultramarine in reference to South American, Indian, and North African aesthetics (as well as the “Blue Room” of her former studio); and black as an evocation of the limitlessness of being, of reclamation, and of universality—the “materia prima” and primordial source of life.
The Armory Show’s Carla Acevedo-Yates tells us her top 10 must-see exhibitions
September 9, 2022
The Armory Show's Carla Acevedo-Yates talks to us about her selection process for this year's Focus section and tells GalleriesNow her top 10 must-see exhibitions on during the fair.
The selection process for this year’s Focus section consisted of two different methodologies: a personal invitation to galleries who represent artists that I am interested in and whose work aligns with my concept for the section; and unsolicited submissions by galleries which I reviewed and assessed in relation to the themes and the other artists already selected.
For me it was very important to have a diversity of voices and perspectives, and a wide array of mediums and approaches. Artists were not chosen because of their ethnic, racial, or geographic identifications. There are Latinx, Latin American, Caribbean, Black diaspora, African, and other artists whose work dialogues under a Global South conversation, for lack of a better term. The overarching concept that unites the work of these artists relates to what I consider to be our preconceived notions of the landscape as something naturally occurring, when it is in fact constructed, socially, politically, and culturally. In all the works included in the section, the landscape is simultaneously physical, personal, and geographic, where a range of historical and cultural processes collide. What I am calling South-South ecologies within this context is precisely this collision of intersectional issues surrounding the environment, which includes race, gender, and power relations.
GRIMM - Claudia Martínez Garay: Ghost Kingdom
Hutchinson Modern - Juan Sánchez
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery - William T. Williams: Tension to the Edge, A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper 1968–1970
Peter Freeman, Inc. - Fernanda Gomes
ProxyCo Gallery - Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Sean Horton (Presents) - Nyugen E. Smith: Bundlehouse: Just When You Thought It Was Safe
Instituto de Visión - Nohemí Pérez
Photo: Carla Acevedo-Yates, Photo by Maria Ponce. Courtesy of The Armory Show.
Awol Erizku now represented by Sean Kelly
September 2, 2022
Awol Erizku’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses photography, sculpture, painting, and installation to shape a visual language which operates at the intersection of image making and a wider cultural context. Utilizing visual language from African and Black American cultures, Erizku’s work rejects Eurocentric notions of beauty and art history in favor of building his own unique Afrocentric aesthetic, one he refers to as “Afro-esotericism.” Rather than convey any singular entity or narrative, he explores the intersections of ancient mythology, diasporic tradition, and contemporary culture, through his symbolic constellation of images spanning a diverse breadth of media. Often incorporating hip-hop and Trap vernaculars as a springboard for making new connections and meanings, Erizku draws on multiple aesthetic sources including African art, assemblage, realism, conceptual art, and performance. By taking an all-encompassing approach to object and experience making, Erizku weaves alternate narratives that interrogate art history, philosophy, linguistics, and artistic inclusion. On joining the gallery Erizku said, “I’m incredibly excited to work with Sean Kelly and his diverse gallery program.”
Sean Kelly states, “We purchased our first piece by Awol Erizku many years ago for our family collection when he was a student at Cooper Union. We have been close to him and followed his career attentively since that time. We are delighted to welcome him to the gallery and to represent his powerful, engaging, and thought-provoking body of work.”
