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Ragna Bley joins Pilar Corrias

November 26, 2021

Pilar Corrias announces the worldwide representation of Ragna Bley.

Bley (b. 1986, Uppsala, Sweden) is an artist based in Oslo, working with painting, sculpture, text and performance. She explores the oscillation between the familiar and alien, looking to narratives within biology, literature and science-fiction.

Bley’s colours vacillate over the surface and seep into the canvas, intermixing like currents and creating infinite possibilities of grouping and regrouping form. Through this process, Bley traverses the relationship between abstraction and representation. The artist creates layers and transparencies that hint at familiar shapes and organic matter, though the visual associations that arise from Bley’s paintings are completely individual - and may at times resemble forms that are imperceptible to humans. Certain areas of the artist’s canvases are painted, while some are left bare, alluding to the instability of images, and more broadly, to the slippages between our frameworks of understanding.

Photo: Lars Petter Pettersen

Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Camille Henrot

November 19, 2021

Hauser & Wirth has announced that the gallery now represents artist Camille Henrot, in collaboration with kamel mennour and König Galerie.

Henrot (born 1978, Paris, France) is recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary art. Over the past twenty years, she has developed a critically acclaimed practice, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and film, which is informed by a playful research process. Inspired by literature, second-hand marketplaces, poetry, cartoons, social media, self-help, and the banality of everyday life, Henrot’s work captures the complexity of living as both private individuals and global citizens in an increasingly connected and over-stimulated world.

Weaving personal stories as well as political issues into her work, the Henrot explores the ambivalence of interpersonal relations in the face of global issues. Her latest major body of work, System of Attachment, looks at our human developmental needs for attachment and separation and the origin of language. A recent exhibition ‘Mother Tongue’ pointed to the changeable, hopeful, rebellious, melancholic, or resigned position that we face amidst the overwhelming expectations of the present moment. Caught between rational systems and intuitive knowledge, Henrot’s works delve into our increasing disposition toward dependency – on technology, information, or belief systems – to unparalleled effects.

Marc Payot, President, Hauser & Wirth, commented, ‘We are honored and delighted to announce our representation of Camille Henrot, an artist whose work is uncanny, powerful, and often so beautiful in the way it reveals the complexity of our relationship with the systems of knowledge we human beings have created and now grapple with. Camille is a pioneer. She is fearless in her effort to get to the bottom of what makes us all tick in the 21st Century and in her ability to locate connections between technology and our deepest humanity, an imperative that places her alongside such greats as the late Nam June Paik, Pierre Huyghe, and Pipilotti Rist, all of whom have been part of our history at Hauser & Wirth. We look forward to exploring the world with her, and sharing Camille’s findings through her
wonderful art with ever-wider and more diverse audiences.’

photo: Maria Fonti

The death has been announced of Jimmie Durham

November 18, 2021

The death has been announced of sculptor, essayist and poet Jimmie Durham.

Durham began working as a sculptor in the 1960s, co-forming both the “Draga” group which looked at the public accessibility of art and the “Incomindios” organisation to support the Indians of the Americas - he would eventually go on to be a full-time organiser in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and director of the International Indian Treaty Council, representing it at the United Nations.

In the 1980s he returned to art and began to exhibit internationally, including at the Whitney Biennial, Documenta, the ICA in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, and Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts. Durham was awarded the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement in 2019.

Always an activist as well as an artist, Durham said “I did leave home deliberately and have been accused of not being part of any Indian community, and that’s certainly a correct accusation. I’m not, don’t want to be. But I think when I came to Europe this time, in ’94, I stopped being any special kind of human being ... I could never be any nationality, not of the Cherokee nation or any other nation ... These days, it sounds stupid to say I’m a citizen of the world. I don’t think I am a citizen, I think I’m a homeless person in the world, and I like to be that way.”

Etel Adnan passes away, aged 96

November 15, 2021

Etel Anan, the noted artist, poet and essayist, has died aged 96.

Born in Beirut to Syrian and Greek parents, Adnan spent much of her life in France, the US and the Lebanon and was originally known as a writer before turning to painting in her 30s - and achieving widespread acclaim.

Notable exhibitions by Adnan include “The Weight of the World” her first solo show in the UK, at the Serpentine Galleries in 2016, “Leporellos” at Galerie Lelong in Paris and “Déjeuner au soleil” at Galleria Continua San Gimignano.

Photo: Simone Fattal

The Photographers’ Gallery launches 50th Anniversary Fundraising Auction

November 12, 2021

As part of its 50th Anniversary celebrations and special events, The Photographers’ Gallery is delighted to announce the sale of a series of exceptional works donated by prominent contemporary photographers at auction in November. The money raised will help support the future of the Gallery.

When Sue Davies set out to create the UK’s first public gallery of photography in a former Covent Garden café 50 years ago, photography as an art form was hugely undervalued in Britain. Virtually no opportunities existed for photographers to exhibit in public or commercial spaces, the medium was largely shunned by the major institutions and the auction world in Britain had not yet ‘discovered’ photography.

The last five decades have seen photography evolve from the margins of institutional recognition to becoming one of the most influential and democratic forms of contemporary art. Simultaneously, with the rise of new digital technologies and the recent proliferation of image-led networks, photography has become even more ubiquitous and democratised for people across the globe as a tool for both creativity and communication.

The Photographers' Gallery is immensely proud of the role it has played in this transformation, particularly in the UK, by exhibiting some of the world's most ground-breaking and celebrated photographers and providing a dedicated space where photographic debate and learning through and with photography can flourish.

By taking part in the online auction and bidding on these works, you will help secure the future of The Photographers’ Gallery at this pivotal moment in our history – by allowing us to continue to stage our ground-breaking exhibition programme, as well as carry out our many education activities and provide support to both established and emerging talent.

Saatchi Yates opens a temporary space in Turin

November 5, 2021

This November, Saatchi Yates are pleased to announce the opening of their first international temporary space in Turin, Italy. As part of a broader programme of temporary spaces across the world, this exhibition marks the first official event abroad after a year focused on growing locally in London. Coinciding with the internationally acclaimed art fair Artissima, finally reopening at the beginning of the month, Saatchi Yates will celebrate November in the city of Turin and the wonderful, secret history of art in the city. Saatchi Yates will present a group exhibition creating a dialogue between three artists who have explored the lines between abstraction and figuration in a 500sqm gallery space in Via Gobetti 12, right in the heart of the city. The exhibition will include works by two emerging artists represented by Saatchi Yates: Jin Angdoo (Yeoju, South Korea, b. 1981), already shown in the London gallery as part of Allez la France! and Kottie Paloma (Los Angeles, b. 1974), American painter to whom the gallery will dedicate a retrospective in March 2022. Alongside them, a selection of works by Post-War German master A.R. Penck creates a dialogue between the three artists’ spanning cave art, graphic symbols and graffiti.

Allie Card joins Lehmann Maupin as Senior Director

November 2, 2021

Allie Card joins Lehmann Maupin from Metro Pictures, where she has worked since 2001, most recently holding the position of Senior Director. She brings over 20 years of experience managing and advancing the careers of leading artists, including Trevor Paglen, Louise Lawler, Sara VanDerBeek, André Butzer, Olaf Breuning, and Jim Shaw, among others.

“Lehmann Maupin is committed to carefully developing its artists’ careers over time, seeking out the next generation of artists, and amplifying their voices on a global scale. I recognize the strong emphasis the gallery places on the nurture and care of its artists. This is a core tenet that I carry over from my time at Metro Pictures.”

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October 29, 2021

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Annka Kultys Gallery now represents László von Dohnányi

October 27, 2021

László von Dohnányi was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1990. He lives and works in London. He received a MFA in painting from RCA in June 2021.

His first solo exhibition The Shadow Hand, opens at ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY tonight. Displayed will be ten new works in oil that mediate on digital forms translating to traditional media and how technological developments become the animating force of culture.

Skarstedt inaugurates new Paris gallery with an exhibition of recent paintings by Eric Fischl

October 18, 2021

Skarstedt is delighted to announce the inauguration of the new Paris gallery, renovated by Jacques Grange, at 2 Avenue Matignon with My Old Neighbourhood, the exhibition of recent paintings by Eric Fischl, opening on 18th October and remaining on view until 4th December 2021.

In My Old Neighborhood, Fischl stages moments of human interactions set outdoors, on daylit sidewalks and front yards of suburban streets. One of the central themes in the artist’s oeuvre, the vision of American suburban life has fuelled some of his most resonant and provocative works. Here, Fischl’s protagonists are sharing moments of improbable intimacy and proximity in the public space - the realm, distinct from the sense of privacy permeating the artist’s earlier explorations of the other side of the American Dream. Engaged in personal reflections, the characters appear exposed, as if driven to the street by an unknown force. Houses and cars form a grid-like backdrop of angular colour fields yet look unused and detached from the scenes unfolding in the foreground.

Constructing inexplicable emotional tension, Fischl’s poignant compositions portray mundane scenes of a residential neighborhood which border on the sense of emergency.

Karsten Schubert London announces representation of British artist Kirsten Glass

October 15, 2021

Through her work Glass invites us to look at an enchanted world, to step into ritual and reconnect with folklore, animism and magic. For Glass, painting allows for a transmutation of ideas and emotions, finding connections between the material and the imaginary and always hinting at the unknown.

The gallery has been working with Glass since her solo exhibition Swimming Witches in Room 2 in October 2020. The accompanying catalogue essay by Cathy Lomax remarked that the paintings 'draw us in with their alluring surface, their sprinklings of glitter and patches of intense colour, while also confounding us with their resonating layers of meaning'.

This announcement precedes the gallery's forthcoming solo presentation of Kirsten Glass's work at EXPO CHICAGO in April 2022.

Annka Kultys Gallery announces representation of Kate Bickmore

October 11, 2021

Kate Bickmore is an emerging artist (b. Albany, New York, 1993) presently living in London whose practice currently focuses on creating florascape paintings in oils.

Bickmore graduated from the MFA painting program at the Royal College of Art in London in 2019. She received her BA (honours, summa cum laude) in Studio Art from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY in 2015, following a semester studying abroad at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2014. Her show In Season at ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY marks Bickmore’s first exhibition at a commercial gallery.

Kate Bickmore takes one of the most classical subjects of painting – flowers – and gives new life to otherworldly creatures in a unique style and scale. They are uncomfortably alien and beautifully human all at once. Flowers are typically considered pretty decorative objects on the receiving end of our gaze, but Kate makes the viewer feel as if they are watching and wanting us. Possibly even making their own plans…
— Jonathan Travis

Axel Vervoordt Gallery now represents Shen Chen

October 8, 2021

Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to announce representation of New York and Shanghai-based artist Shen Chen (b. 1955, Shanghai). Opening on 16 October, the artist’s inaugural exhibition will be held at the Hong Kong space, featuring twelve paintings created between 2009 and 2021. Shen will be the first Chinese artist in the gallery’s roster and his first European solo exhibition with the gallery is planned for 2022 at Kanaal.

Throughout his career, Shen has emphasised the artistic process and materials in his practice. In recent years, he has mainly applied the Western medium of acrylic paint in a way that is reabsorbed through his training and knowledge of the qualities of ink. Painting with the canvas on the floor, he adopts a physical and introspective gesture of layering brushstrokes onto the canvas. Incorporating the flow of his qi (breath movement and energy), Shen paints each brushstroke vertically and by doing so, forms a horizontal marking of where the brushes end and begin again. What emerges from the canvas is a transformative, ever-changing, and endless space. With subtle tonal gradation and nuances, Shen’s works bear stylistic influences of paintings from the Color Field movement of the 1940s and 50s in New York. Yet, his practice is rooted in an innate philosophical mode of thought from his training in traditional Chinese ink painting.

In a disciplined act of repetition, Shen adds depth to the canvas with layers of paint, completing each work only when he feels his qi has left and when he has reached emptiness into the void. His works are temporal, where reciprocating layers of dialogue emerge in each brushstroke between opacity and translucence.

Mariano Ferrante unveils site-specific commission at Centro Cultural Córdoba, Argentina

October 6, 2021

Art Projects International is pleased to announce that a monumental site-specific work “Monocromía en cuatro colores Nro 2” by Mariano Ferrante was recently unveiled to celebrate the re-opening of the Centro Cultural Córdoba, one of the most important cultural institutions in the second largest city in Argentina.

Prominently displayed and installed on the interior walls and ceiling of the expansive Centro Cultural Córdoba complex, this newly commissioned work measures 240 square meters and features Ferrante’s signature layered geometric diamond patterns, created from the juxtaposition of four different colors, similarly found in his “Monocromo” paintings. Currently, Ferrante’s Monocromo paintings are the focus of a solo exhibition entitled “Monocromo” at Art Projects International in Tribeca, New York.

“Monocromía en cuatro colores Nro 2” transforms both the interior and exterior spaces, complementing the sculptural quality and structural design of this architecturally remarkable building. Ferrante’s richly colored work contrasts the raw, exposed concrete ceiling of both the subterranean auditorium and exhibition space, and the work’s repeated patterns of four colors also appear in the environs of the building’s public courtyard entrance, actively engaging visitors, connecting the external space and foreshadowing the inspired interior space.

“Monocromía en cuatro colores Nro 2” is part of the public commission project curated by Santiago Bengolea and presented along with another site-specific work by Leila Tschopp.

Pace inaugurates new London location with exhibitions by Mark Rothko and Torkwase Dyson

October 4, 2021

Opening on Friday 8 October, the gallery’s new home at 5 Hanover Square will present an exhibition of paintings on paper by Mark Rothko and a multi-media installation and series of performances by Torkwase Dyson, commissioned for Pace Live. Designed by Jamie Fobert Architects, the new space has completely transformed the interior architecture of the existing building to incorporate flexible galleries across two floors. The levels will be connected by a feature staircase rendered in black steel, integrating the entire space and allowing for dynamic presentations and installations.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery pays tribute to George Wein (1925-2021)

October 3, 2021

“Today, on what would have been his 96th birthday, we honor the memory of jazz impresario George Wein (1925–2021), a pioneering jazz producer, musician, patron of the arts, and advocate for equality who changed many lives through his wholehearted belief in art and artistry. A dear friend, mentor, and trusted gallery advisor, George encouraged, challenged, and inspired us.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery had a long and personal relationship with George and we remember and celebrate his kindness and spirit. In a recent letter to Michael Rosenfeld on the occasion of the gallery’s 30th anniversary, he wrote: “30 plus years ago, by chance I walked into a brownstone building on the Upper East Side. There was a sign outside that said: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. That was the day I met you. And to say it changed my life, is putting it mildly.”

We are just a few of the many so fortunate to have known this legend and witness his love for the arts. George is best known for conceiving and organizing the Newport Jazz Festival, first staged in 1954. The early success of the festival sparked a career renaissance for George, who spent the following decades organizing jazz festivals across the globe. The Newport Jazz Festival has since become known as a primary site of jazz history, staging important performances by the likes of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others. Wein was also a dedicated jazz pianist, briefly studying with Teddy Wilson and performing at his festivals and other venues with small groups usually billed as the Newport All-Stars.

In 2006, his philanthropy enabled The Studio Museum in Harlem to establish the prestigious Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize in honor of George’s late wife, a longtime Trustee of the museum and ardent supporter of living artists. The award has since advanced the careers of such contemporary luminaries as Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon, Derrick Adams, Gary Simmons, Simone Leigh and, most recently, Cauleen Smith. And like these recipients, George, too, received many awards and honors throughout his life, including induction into the French Legion of Honor in 1991, a DaCapo Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for Cultural Innovation in 1999, being named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2005 and a Trustees Award for lifetime achievement from the Recording Academy in 2015. He also was honored by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton at White House jazz concerts in 1978 and 1991. In 2015, he received a Grammy Honorary Trustee Award for his innovations in music production and presentation.

Today, in remembrance of George Wein, we encourage you to read his 2003 autobiography Myself Among Others: A Life In Music and listen to his music.”

The Sunday Painter announces launch of new “Gertrude” initiative

September 23, 2021

Brought to you by The Sunday Painter Gallery founders Harry Beer, Tom Cole and Will Jarvis, Gertrude is an innovative new art platform with the aim of broadening the demographic that can live with art via an art subscription service.

Subscribers can choose art, have it delivered direct to their home to live with for a period, and then return or purchase. In turn this also brings greater sustainability to the lives of contemporary artists living and working today.

Initially launching in London, there are currently 25 international artists listed on the platform including Cynthia Daignault, Hannah Knox, Ansel Krut, Helena Foster, Sara Naim and Nicholas Pope - with plans to grow both the geographical and artistic coverage.

Gertrude is named in reference to Gertrude Stein, one of the most significant art patrons of the twentieth century. Stein was ahead of her time in promoting some of the most important artists of the era, in particular Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne and Braque.

The non-ownership subscription model will plug into the existing infrastructure of the art world, taking works otherwise destined for storage and bring them into the homes of art lovers for a fraction of the cost of buying, and in doing so generate a consistent revenue for artists and galleries and allow customers both transparent information and affordable access to some of the best contemporary art being made today.

For the customer, all artworks are available for £50/month. For the artist, once just one work is subscribed to, we are offering monthly payments ranging from £150/month to £300/month for a 12 month period.

Gertrude officially launches on 27th September and are offering a limited number of free subscriptions to any work for three months - use the promo code tspgert at checkout.

David Gill Gallery now represents Barbara Nanning

September 22, 2021

Barbara Nanning was born in The Hague in 1957 and following her studies at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam she initially made a name for herself in the international art scene with unusual unique ceramic works. After that, she began working in glass under a commission from the National Glass Museum and the Royal Leerdam Crystal. This inspired a passion for the material and her artistic career took a new direction. From the beginning of her career as a ceramicist, Nanning has always pushed the boundaries of her profession and she was one of the first artists to use paint pigments instead of glaze. For Nanning, nature with its manifold, and widespread world of shapes and colours, is an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration. Her works are filled with contradictions uniting amorphous and rigid structures, liberty and constraint, manual perfection and the use of unexpected materials.

She studies crystals, jellyfish, flowers and micro-organisms with a particular fascination with form, structure and geometry. Her work arises in species and families as is fitting from the natural world which inspires them. In 2009 she began working on the Eternal Spring collection, an installation with objects made of milky white opal glass depicting the awakening nature in spring. The installation includes snow-white branches that protrude from walls, tables and floor objects, from knots of willows or from corals. Some of these objects, including those created with the cast of an ancient pollard willow, are monumental in scale.

Walter Storms Galerie to open third location in Munich

September 18, 2021

On September 24, 2021, Walter Storms Galerie will open a new exhibition space at Amalienstrasse 22 in Munich, thus maintaining three locations in the Bavarian capital in the future. The permanent exhibition in the new gallery is dedicated to the print work of Günter Fruhtrunk (1923- 1982), one of the most important representatives of German constructivist-concrete post-war art. Walter Storms Galerie has owned Fruhtrunk's estate since 2014 and in the same year founded the Günter Fruhtrunk Gesellschaft together with collectors and friends of the artist with the aim of preserving, promoting and protecting the artist's legacy.

The new premises between Theresienstrasse and Oskar-von- Miller-Ring are located in the middle of Munich's Kunstareal, which with its unique combination of art and culture is one of the most important cultural locations in Europe. In the colourfully designed exhibition space, visitors can now learn about the life and work of Günter Fruhtrunk, browse through his favourite books and listen to music from his records. From the gallery, one can see the Munich Art Academy, where Fruhtrunk successfully taught until his death.

Gagosian announces new Paris gallery and three Alexander Calder exhibitions

September 17, 2021

Gagosian is pleased to announce the opening of a new location in Paris this October. Situated at 9 rue de Castiglione, in the 1st arrondissement, the space is part of the historic Hotel Lotti development, built in 1910. The location is steps from Place Vendôme, where Leo Castelli and René Drouin opened the storied Drouin Gallery in 1939, and within walking distance of the Musée du Louvre, Musée de l’Orangerie, and Musée d’Orsay.

The architectural design of the gallery was led by Rémi Tessier and features elevated ceilings and 15.5-meter windows that provide a view of the gallery’s interior from the historic arcades.

To mark the opening of the new gallery, Alexander Calder’s monumental sculpture Flying Dragon (1975) will be installed in Place Vendôme as part of FIAC Hors les Murs, which presents artworks in emblematic public spaces throughout the city.

The inaugural exhibition at rue de Castiglione will underscore the unique visual language of Flying Dragon, presenting diverse archival materials related to the sculpture and its original maquette, alongside additional works from 1975.

Selected works will also be presented at the rue de Ponthieu gallery to further emphasize Calder’s visual vocabulary and the interplay between nature and abstraction, stillness and motion, and monumentality and ephemerality in his practice.

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