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Simon Lee Gallery announces representation of German artist Werner Büttner

December 2, 2020

Werner Büttner is renowned for drawing out deeper layers of meaning from quotidian life that at first glance seem banal. His canvases and collages depict a tragi-comic reality, confronting social norms with both irony and satire, while retaining a firm grip on the history of painting.

Work by Büttner will be on view in the gallery’s upcoming OVR: Miami presentation this December. Simon Lee Gallery’s first exhibition of Büttner’s work will take place at the London gallery in March 2021.

Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch present The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions

December 1, 2020

Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website, live from 30 November 2020 to 9 January 2021. The Future dares to speculate on what the coming years may have in store. Given the heightened political, economic, and environmental uncertainties of our current moment, this undertaking could hardly be more complex.

Marian Goodman Gallery to host a webinar on John Baldessari‘s Catalogue Raisonné

Taking place on Thursday 10 December at 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 9pm GMT, the conversation will feature panelists David Salle, Artist; Hannah Higgins, Art Historian/Professor, Intermedia & Avant-Garde Art and Culture, University of Illinois at Chicago; David Platzker, Art Historian & Curator/President, Specific Object and Simon Johnston Graphic Designer/Professor, Graphic Design, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, moderated by Patrick Pardo, Editor, John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné

South London Gallery announces new dates for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020

November 27, 2020

The annual open submission exhibition returns to the SLG for the third consecutive edition, and is set to open on 13 January 2021. With over fifteen hundred applications each year from emerging artists, the show offers a preview of some of the most exciting practices of the next generation. This year’s panel of guest selectors are internationally renowned artists Alexandre da Cunha, Anthea Hamilton and Linder.

The artists selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 are: Sangbum Ahn, Ned Armstrong, Paul Barlow, Alexandre Canonico, Chen Si-zuo, Nicole Coson, Gabriella Davies, Lúcás Dillon, Ufuoma Essi, Jake Grewal, Clara Hastrup, Nimmi Hutnik, Lily Kemp, Maria Mahfooz, Zethu Zizwe Ruby Maseko, Rene Matić, Cat McClay and Éiméar McClay, Liam Mertens, Edwin Mingard, Kimie Minobe, Karabo Monareng, Pablo Paillole, Jung Min Park, Anne Carney Raines, Anika Roach, Jung Yun Roh, Shamica Ruddock, Sophie Ruigrok, Kirsty Sim, Anna-Rose Stefatou, Orfeo O’Leary Tagiuri, Giorgio van Meerwijk, Ahren Warner, Ashleigh Williams and Charlie Yetton.

Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Sophie Barber

November 26, 2020

Born in 1996 in St Leonards-on-Sea and working in the nearby town of Hastings, Sophie Barber is a painter who draws directly from the world around her, reproducing natural and man-made visual fragments in an attempt to preserve and process their forms. Gathering and positioning tents, birds, dens and word games on monumental block-colour canvases, she creates surreal, folk-like compositions that are less depictions of her native Sussex coast than distillations of the impression it leaves. Barber’s debut exhibition will open in London in September 2021.

Il Ponte Casa d‘Aste publishes catalogues ahead of the upcoming Modern and Contemporary Art sales

November 25, 2020

Taking place on 15 and 16 December 2020, the auctions will kick off with works by Italian modern masters including Alighiero Boetti, Enrico Castellani and Paolo Scheggi, as well as iconic pieces by Karel Appel, Sam Francis and Hans Hartung. Highlights from the 16 December auction include Andy Warhol‘s 1975 "Ladies and Gentlemen" silkscreens and contemporary art by Banksy, Agostino Bonalumi and Gabriel Orozco.

Hauser & Wirth announces representation of the François Morellet Estate

November 24, 2020

François Morellet (1926 – 2016), a prolific self-taught painter, sculptor, and installation artist, developed a radical approach to geometric abstraction during a career spanning more than six decades. His object-based paintings, neon and architectural installations, and site-specific works explored the creative potential of kinetic and pre-established systems, challenging the viewer’s understanding of perception and the physical picture plane. Working primarily with basic geometric forms, Morellet was committed to a methodology of rigorous objectivity and personal detachment.

The gallery's international representation of the artist will be in collaboration with the Paris-based gallery, kamel mennour. An exhibition of the Morellet’s work will be presented in New York in January 2021.

Richard Saltoun now represents Barbara Levittoux-Świderska

November 20, 2020

One of the most important textile artists in Poland, Barbara Levittoux-Świderska transformed tapestry from flat decoration into avant-garde installation. Born in Warsaw, Levittoux-Świderska came to prominence in the 1960s when textiles entered mainstream contemporary art. Like fellow Polish textile artists Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jolanta Owidzka, Levittoux-Świderska followed the Eastern European tradition, incorporating locally sourced materials and rural practices to improvise new textile art-making methods and forms, continuing a distinctly Polish and politically-charged weaving tradition.

Her work is currently included in the gallery's group exhibition 'Our inheritance was left to us by no testament' and will be presented virtually as part of Art Basel Miami Beach's Online Viewing Room (2–6 December 2020).

Gagosian spotlights Jeff Wall, as part of its Artist Spotlight series

November 19, 2020

From his pioneering use of backlit color transparencies in the 1970s to his intricately staged scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life, literature, and film, Jeff Wall has expanded the definition of the photograph, both as object and as illusion. His pictures range from classical reportage and the direct contemplation of natural forms to elaborate constructions and montages, usually produced at a large scale traditionally identified with painting.

Yesomi Umolu appointed Director of Curatorial Affaris and Public Practice at Serpentine

November 18, 2020

Under Yesomi Umolu’s direction, the Serpentine will develop editorial and educational content for exhibitions, events and other curatorial initiatives, aimed at making Serpentine programmes more inclusive and accessible to all audiences, both physical and digital. Umolu will take up the role in January 2021.

Yesomi Umolu is currently Director and Curator, Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago, where she leads an ambitious programme of international contemporary art. Umolu also teaches courses in contemporary visual art and spatial practices as lecturer in the humanities division. The creation of this new position is at the head of the Serpentine’s efforts to centre audience experience and civic engagement in its curatorial mission.

Annka Kultys Gallery announces the representation of Gretchen Andrew

November 16, 2020

Gretchen Andrew is a self-proclaimed Internet Imperialist artist.  Best known for her playful hacks on major art world institutions, Andrew’s current practice involves actively reprogramming the artificial intelligence underlying the global internet. Gretchen Andrew was born in 1988 in Los Angeles.  She trained in London with the artist Billy Childish from 2012-2017.  The artist will have her first exhibition, Other Forms of Travel, at the gallery’s London new exhibition space in February 2021. Her work is currently on view in Future News at the Monterey Museum, US marking the artist’s first solo museum exhibition.

Almine Rech now represents Huang Yuxing

November 12, 2020

Almine Rech has announced the representation of Chinese contemporary artist Huang Yuxing in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom, and his inaugural solo exhibition at Almine Rech Brussels in June 2021. Huang Yuxing (b. 1975, Beijing) is widely recognized among his generation for his dexterous ability to create paintings that reflect and preserve the process of their creation.

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Zabludowicz Collection supports an online exhibition of works made during the pandemic to raise funds for vulnerable women

Originally scheduled to go on display at the Collection's London hub this month, the artworks will now be for sale online from 11 November to 25 December 2020, with proceeds going directly to Women + Health, a Camden based health charity that helps isolated and vulnerable women, including those who are survivors of domestic violence and rape, to overcome their multiple health challenges. A special online launch event will take place on 11 November at 7pm, including talks by art historian Frances Borzello, psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach, and Zabudowicz Collection Director Elizabeth Neilson. The online exhibition is curated by Frances Borzello, and Women + Health trustees Cass Wedd and Lesia Haliv.

Gagosian announces representation of Ewa Juszkiewicz in the United States and Hong Kong

November 6, 2020

Through meticulous technique and an acute sensitivity to color, Juszkiewicz engineers strangeness without compromising the aesthetic harmony of the images from which she works. Classical in method but subversive in intent, her paintings eerily deconstruct ideals of feminine beauty and other societal clichés. Juszkiewicz’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view through the storefront windows of Gagosian Park & 75, New York, twenty-four hours a day from 17 November, 2020.

The Museum + Gallery of Everything present an exclusive talk and screening on Hilma af Klint

November 3, 2020

Taking place on Friday 6 November at 7pm GMT, The Museum + Gallery of Everything invite you to an exclusive talk and screening of Beyond the Visible - the documentary on Swedish mediumistic artist, Hilma af Klint. A conversation with Iris Müller-Westermann - original curator of the Hilma af Klint retrospective - along with the film's director, Halina Dyrschka, will precede the screening. The conversation will recall the origins of the discovery of the oeuvre of Hilma at Klint, and the process of bringing it into the public consciousness. It will also discuss the phenomenal success of subsequent exhibitions in London and New York and how that popular fame has impacted the genre.

Sélavy by Di Donna presents a Fall Salon

On view through December 12, 2020, The Fall Salon: Icons Through the Ages features masterworks of art, design, and antiquities spanning from 2600 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

This is the second presentation from Sélavy by Di Donna, a shoppable online salon of art and design with a storefront vitrine in Southampton, New York. The Fall Salon is available to explore and purchase instantly online and in person at 30 Jobs Lane in Southampton.

Maria Lassnig Prize 2021 awarded to Atta Kwami

October 29, 2020

The Maria Lassnig Foundation and the Serpentine Galleries announced today, 29 October, that the 2021 Prize has been awarded to UK-based Ghanaian artist Atta Kwami, known for his paintings, murals and kiosk-sculptures that are conceived as expanded three-dimensional paintings, incorporating his signature use of colour and abstract painting style. The artist will receive a major grant and a project with Serpentine Galleries, the institutional partner for the 2021 Maria Lassnig Prize.

Awarded biennially to a mid-career artist in association with an international institutional partner, Atta Kwami is the third artist to be granted the Maria Lassnig Prize, following Cathy Wilkes, in partnership with MoMA PS1, New York (2017), and Sheela Gowda, in partnership with Lenbachhaus, Munich (2019).

Atta Kwami’s project with Serpentine – a comprehensive monograph publication and a public art commission – will be launched in 2022.

Daniel Crews-Chubb joins Timothy Taylor

October 28, 2020

Crews-Chubb (b. 1984, Northampton, England) is known for his vibrant collage-based works, which deconstruct symbols, archetypes and motifs taken from over a millennium of Western and Eastern painting, craft and sculpture.

Visually echoing the labyrinthine accretions of art history, Crews-Chubb hand-paints layered surfaces composed of canvas and fabric, encrusted with heavy impasto, charcoal drawing and graffiti. His work frequently challenges the traditional vocabulary of classical painting, as in his solo presentation Flowers with the gallery at Frieze Online in May, which featured savagely torn paintings of flowers inspired by van Gogh's Sunflowers series.

Modern Art announces representation of Justin Caguiat

October 27, 2020

Caguiat’s idiosyncratic style is informed by varied fields including science fiction literature, the baroque-folk hybrid aesthetic of early Filipino Catholic Santos, 60s psychedelia, les Nabis, Ukiyo-E, urban graphic art and the historical legacy of Manga. In scale and format his paintings can be read like murals and landscapes, and while not narrative, have a reverential or devotional purpose akin to a fresco. Born in 1989 in Tokyo, Japan, Caguiat now lives and works in New York City.

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