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Sophia Loeb joins Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

August 30, 2023

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to announce representation of Brazilian painter and sculptor Sophia Loeb, and the opening of her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Todos os Seres são de Todos os Seres (All Beings are of All Beings), on 8 September.

Growing up in Brazil, Loeb spent much of her childhood in nature, developing an acute understanding of and humility towards her place in the natural order, an experience that challenged anthropocentric understandings of ecology and philosophy. Through her painting, Loeb conceives of an alternative reality in which violence towards the natural world is exchanged for compassion, and in which the ephemeral cycle of natural phenomena is allowed to run its course through processes of healing, reprogramming and reconstruction.

Sophia Loeb (b. 1997, Sao Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in London. She received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and earned her BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Loeb has been included in group exhibitions at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023); Galerie Marguo, Paris (2023); Spread Museum, Entrevaux (2021); and Lamb Gallery, London (2018), amongst others. She has participated in residencies at the School of Visual Arts, New York and Kaaysa Arte Residência, Brazil.

photo: Bijanka Bacic

Gagosian announces global representation of Tetsuya Ishida

August 24, 2023

In association with the artist’s estate, Gagosian has announced the global representation of Tetsuya Ishida.

Active for only a decade, Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005) produced a compelling body of work imbued with a profound sense of alienation and emotional isolation from the contemporary world. Coming of age during the 1990s, an era of nationwide economic malaise known as Japan’s “Lost Decade”, he made art that conveys anxiety, estrangement, and hopelessness.

Ishida’s meticulously detailed, surrealistic paintings and graphic works often include characters that resemble the artist or surrogates for him, presented as anonymous students or white-collar salarymen enmeshed in absurd, nightmarish scenarios. Merging human anatomy with the features of animals, machines, and objects, they form incisive allegories that dramatize and critique dehumanizing social and technological forces.

Over the past decade, Gagosian has played a vital role in introducing Ishida’s work beyond Japan, beginning with the gallery’s 2013 exhibition in Hong Kong, his first outside his native country. Nick Simunovic, senior director of Gagosian in Asia, notes: “I was first introduced to Ishida’s work more than fifteen years ago and was immediately captivated. We were fortunate to organize the very first exhibition of his paintings outside of Japan in Hong Kong in 2013, and the reaction was extraordinary, leading to his work being shown around the world. Ishida produced just over two hundred works during his lifetime, and we are truly honored to be presenting more than eighty paintings in New York on the fiftieth anniversary of his birth.”

To inaugurate the relationship, the gallery will present this fall the most comprehensive exhibition staged outside Japan of the artist’s work, and his first ever exhibition in New York. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, “Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self” opens September 12 at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street.

 
Tetsuya Ishida was born in Yaizu, Japan, in 1973, and died in Sagamihara, Japan, in 2005. Solo exhibitions include Sumpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (2006); Canvas of Sadness, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan (2007); CB Collection, Tokyo (2007); Self-Portraits of Ourselves, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo (2008); and Notes, Evidence of Dreams, Ashikaga Museum of Art (2013, traveled in Japan to Hiratsuka Museum of Art; Tonami Art Museum, Toyama; and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art through 2014); Saving the World with a Brushstroke, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2014–15); and Self-Portrait of Other, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2019, traveled to Wrightwood 659, Chicago). Ishida’s work was also included in the 4th Yokohama Triennale (2011), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), and 56th Biennale di Venezia (2015).

 
photo: © Tetsuya Ishida Estate

Brussels Gallery Weekend returns for its 16th edition

August 22, 2023

Brussels Gallery Weekend is coming back from September 7th to 10th, taking place in the heart of Ixelles, in the historic building of D'Ieteren. The 16th edition promises to be filled with innovation and fresh energy. The goal is to offer a captivating program, with a focus on the quality of content and the characteristic diversity of the Brussels contemporary art scene, in collaboration with the 45 participating galleries and the 14 institutions of the OFF Program. Furthermore, exhibition Generation Brussels returns for its 6th edition under the expert curatorship of Sam Steverlynck.

Brussels Gallery Weekend, a longstanding ambassador of the Brussels art scene for over 15 years, continues to showcase the dynamic spirit, exceptional craftsmanship, and extraordinary talents that transcend our borders every year. The highly anticipated 2023 edition will feature a diverse selection of 45 participating galleries, complemented by the presence of 14 institutions highlighted in the Off Program.

Participating Galleries
Alice Gallery, Almine Rech, Ballon Rouge, Baronian, Belgian Gallery Brussels, Bernier / Eliades, C L E A R I N G, Claes Gallery, Damien & The Love Guru, dépendance, EDJI Gallery, ESTHER VERHAEGHE-Art concepts, Frédérick Mouraux Gallery, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Galerie DYS, Galerie Greta Meert, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Gallery Nosco, Gladstone Gallery, Harlan Levey Projects, Hopstreet Gallery, Irène Laub Gallery, Jan Mot, KIN, LMNO, Mai 36 Galerie, MARUANI MERCIER, Meessen De Clercq, Mendes Wood DM, Michel Rein, Montoro12 Gallery, Mulier Mulier Gallery, NINO MIER, Nosbaum Reding, QG Gallery, Pierre Marie Giraud, rodolphe janssen, Sorry We're Closed, Stems Gallery, TEMPLON, Waldburger Wouters, Xavier Hufkens

OFF Program
argos, Art et marges Museum, Contemporary Art Collection of the National Bank of Belgium, Contretype, Fondation CAB, Garage Cosmos, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, La Cambre, La Loge, MIMA, Royal Museums of Art and History, Société, TheMerode, WIELS

Angela Flowers 1932 – 2023

August 14, 2023

Flowers Gallery has announced the death of gallery founder Angela Flowers at the age of 90.

Angela was a staunch supporter of contemporary art and artists, who pioneered an original and distinctive path through the British art scene for more than five decades.

The first Flowers gallery opened in 1970, on Lisle Street in London, above the Artists International Association (AIA), a cooperative of artists who offered the space rent-free in exchange for commission. Derek Hirst, Jeff Nuttall, Penelope Slinger, Ian Breakwell, Jeanne Masoero and Nancy Fouts were among the first artists shown in the space, and she also presented the first solo exhibition by Tom Phillips in the initial year. She also included Postcard Show, for which Angela commissioned original works of art to be made into postcards by artists including Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake.

The following year the gallery moved to Portland Mews in Soho, and then to Tottenham Mews in 1978, where it remained for ten years. In 1988 the gallery added an east end venue, Flowers East in Hackney, which was at the time the largest commercial gallery space in London.

By 1989 her son Matthew Flowers, who had worked at the gallery since 1975, became Managing Director.

Brice Marden dies, aged 84

August 11, 2023

The death has been announced of the artist Brice Marden.

“Brice Marden was one of our greatest American artists, whose achievement in continuing and extending the tradition of painting has long been recognized and celebrated the world over. He was a painter of rare insight into the pleasure and poetry of his medium; always dedicated to gesture, chance, substance—the elemental matters of art. Brice and Helen have been friends of mine for many years, and it has been an honor to share his masterful work with an international audience. This loss is profound, and he will be missed.” - Larry Gagosian

Marden died on Wednesday at home in Tivoli, New York and his death was announced by his daughter Mirabelle Marden - “He was lucky to live a long life doing what he loved” she said, adding that her father had continued painting until Saturday.

photo: Mirabelle Marden

Stephen Friedman Gallery opens new London space

August 8, 2023

Stephen Friedman Gallery has announced the first exhibition in their new London gallery at 5–6 Cork Street, W1.

“Free The Wind, The Spirit, and The Sun”, a new exhibition by the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, one of the gallery’s longest represented artists, will run from 6 October to 11 November 2023.

The exhibition includes a group presentation of paintings, sculptures, mixed media pieces and works on paper by African artists, and artists from the African diaspora, curated by Shonibare. Some of these artists participated in Shonibare’s residency program at Guest Artist Space Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria - the Shonibare-initiated non-profit, facilitating international cultural exchange and developing creative and research practices through residencies and collaborations. 

Described as a “celebration of nature” by Shonibare, the exhibition comprises a vibrant body of sculptures, masks and quilts, taking inspiration from the spirit of dada.

Iwona Blazwick announced as Curator for the 18th Istanbul Biennial

August 3, 2023

Iwona Blazwick was announced today as the Curator of the 18th Istanbul Biennial, running from 14 September to 17 November 2024.

Announcing the appointment, Görgün Taner, General Director of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), said “We are delighted that Iwona Blazwick has accepted our invitation to curate the 18th Istanbul Biennial. Her depth of experience and her long association with the Biennial make her an ideal choice to lead the team for 2024.”

Iwona Blazwick OBE is a curator, writer and art historian. She was Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London from 2001-2022 having previously been at Tate Modern and London’s ICA. She inaugurated both the Tate Turbine Hall and Whitechapel Gallery commissioning programmes.

The Istanbul Biennial has hosted over 1,200 artists and artist collectives - and made use of more than 100 venues in the city - since its founding in 1987. The Biennial works on an exhibition model to enable a direct dialogue between artists from diverse cultures and the audience.

The 18th Istanbul Biennial opens to the public on 14 September 2024, with the professional preview held on the 12th and 13th September.

Iwona Blazwick, Curator, Istanbul Biennial 2024 and Bige Örer, Director, Istanbul Biennial - photo: Salih Üstündağ, courtesy of IKSV

Stephen Friedman artists Jeffrey Gibson, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA to participate at La Biennale di Venezia, 2024

August 2, 2023

Stephen Friedman announces that gallery artists Jeffrey Gibson and Yinka Shonibare CBE RA will participate in La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.

Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States and Yinka Shonibare CBE RA will be participate in the Nigerian pavilion.

Gibson is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent and as such will be the first Indigenous artist to represent the US solo in the 129-year history of the Biennale. The exhibition is also the first to be co-commissioned and co-curated by a Native American curator - Kathleen Ash-Milby, Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum and a member of the Navajo Nation - working with Louis Grachos, Phillips Executive Director of SITE Santa Fe, and the independent curator Abigail Winograd.

Nigeria will present a national pavilion and exhibition titled “Nigeria Imaginary”, curated by Nigerian-British curator Aindrea Emelife. The presentation will explore different viewpoints and ideas, memories of and nostalgia for Nigeria - both cross-generationally and inter-geographically. Emelife explains that “Nigeria Imaginary looks at the many Nigerias that live in our minds: the Nigeria that could be and is yet to be”. With contributions by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Onyeka Igwe, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Abraham Oghobase, Precious Okoyomon, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and Fatimah Tuggar.

La Biennale di Venezia, the 60th International Art Exhibition, runs from April 20 - November 24, 2024 in Venice, Italy

Pace announces representation of Pam Evelyn

July 28, 2023

Pace is pleased to announce A Handful of Dust, its debut exhibition of work by British artist Pam Evelyn, who is now represented by the gallery. On view from September 6 to 30, the exhibition will span two floors of Pace’s London gallery, with a suite of new paintings made over several months between London and Cornwall. Evelyn’s recent exhibitions include The Reason for Painting, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK and New British Abstraction, Centre for International Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada. Evelyn also works with MASSIMODECARLO in Italy.

Working alone, often in periods of intense focus, Evelyn’s process is a relentless cycle of renewal as she articulates her distinctive visual language in countless applications of oil paint, before scraping back and reiterating her gestures once again. She considers the raw linen canvas an unstable surface into which paint sinks and rises in unpredictable ways, leaving her grappling to rebuild and dismantle in equal measure until the composition emerges. The ghostly echo of previous forms reverberates through the finished piece, inviting close and prolonged looking to reveal the painting’s diaphanous intricacy over time.

Evelyn’s approach to paint is akin to a sculptor’s use of clay. She maintains its malleability and fluidity over at least six months in order to intuitively respond to the demands of the viscous material. Indeed, Evelyn considers her role to be more witness than painter, explaining, “Instead of dictating what the painting should be, I place myself in a position where the painting tells me where it’s going and I have to react. For me it’s a very surprising way of making a painting and I like the challenge, I like the unexpected.” In works such as Deluge (2023), a complex web of forms, gestures, and marks surges across the two panels, imbuing the painting with a sense of urgency and precariousness. Evelyn also layers a variety of glazes over the oil paint, harnessing light and shadow to create a luminous quality in the painting’s surface.

Pam Evelyn is a painter, living and working in London. Her expansive, abstract canvases are densely layered, richly textured meditations on nature, the body, and materiality. Evelyn’s intuitive approach to painting translates her experience of the world onto the canvas, creating complex compositions that brim with life.

photo: © Pam Evelyn and Michael Brzezinski

Yooyun Yang Joins Stephen Friedman Gallery

July 27, 2023

Yooyun Yang’s atmospheric paintings are set at nighttime, following her interest in night as a liminal space that offers respite from the repetition of a daily routine. Objects are fundamental to Yang’s work, with motifs of blinds, curtains and railings frequently appearing. By repositioning them through her otherworldly gaze, Yang emphasises how the familiarity of our environment can become uncanny, with objects becoming increasingly unfamiliar the more we pay them attention. A hazy, cinematic quality pervades the work, suggestive of the paintings’ photographic origins.

Cloaked in darkness, the paintings explore the emotional states of Yang’s subjects, conveying feelings of existential anxiety and solitude through the nocturnal ambience of the works. Frequently concealing her subjects’ faces, Yang uses shadow and composition to create distance between the viewer and the subject, articulating the sense of isolation common in what she describes as this ‘age of anxiety’.

Yang paints on hanji paper, traditional Korean handmade paper made from mulberry tree bark, building up layers of diluted acrylic to control the intensity of the colour. Speaking of her paintings, Yang said ‘I want my works to be like a thorn in your mind that pricks from time to time, or like a very gentle fever.’

Yang’s first UK solo exhibition “Passing Time” opened at Stephen Friedman Gallery in June 2023.

Yang lives and works in Seoul, Korea. Born in 1985, Yang studied Oriental Painting at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul. The artist has had multiple solo exhibitions in Seoul including at Chapter II; Amado Art Space/Lab; Gallerylux; OCI Museum of Art and Ccot+Incubator. She has also had solo exhibitions at Gallery Bundo in Deagu and Gallery SoSo in Paju. In 2023 Yang is included in a group exhibition at Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan. In 2022 Yang was included in the 58th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and in 2021 in the 8th Chongkundang Yesuljisang at Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul. The artist has also been included in group exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju and Arko Art Center, Seoul. She has carried out residencies at Korea National University of Arts, Seoul; Chapter II, Seoul; Studio White Block, Cheonan; Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan-si and Incheon Art Platform, Incheon.

Art Basel appoints Bridget Finn Director of Miami Beach fair

July 24, 2023

Bridget Finn has been appointed Director of Art Basel’s Miami Beach show, and will begin in September this year.

Based in New York, Finn will steer the American edition of Art Basel, overseeing the team, managing and expanding the fair’s network of galleries, collectors, and artists in the Americas, and working with Miami and South Florida’s museums, institutions, and cultural partners.

Before joining the eponymous Detroit - her home town - gallery Reyes | Finn, Finn directed the contemporary art program at Mitchell-Innes & Nash and worked at Anton Kern Gallery. She also co-founded the Detroit-wide exhibition platform Art Mile Detroit in 2020, serving dozens of local galleries, institutional non-profits, museums, and artist-run spaces

As part of a gallerist collective, she established the collaborative curatorial project space Cleopatra’s in New York, which later operated a Berlin location, working collaboratively with hundreds of artists and cultural producers for a decade. Before that, Finn served as the Director of Strategic Planning & Projects at Independent Curators International, developing projects and formats in partnership with leading galleries, museums, auctions houses, corporations, and philanthropic organizations to deliver contemporary art programs to broad public audiences.

Finn will lead the 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. She joins Art Basel alongside the recently appointed Maike Cruse, Director, Art Basel in Basel; Clément Delépine, Director, Paris+ par Art Basel; and Angelle Siyang-Le, Director, Art Basel Hong Kong.

photo: Nick Hagen

David Zwirner now represents Sarah Michelson

July 17, 2023

David Zwirner is pleased to announce the representation of British-born, New York–based choreographer, dancer, and artist Sarah Michelson, who will develop a residency program for dance artists in partnership with the gallery.

Since the late 1990s, Michelson has come to be known for choreographic work that engages notions of process, physicality, immediacy, and impermanence. Drawing from personal and dance history, her formally rigorous, incisive, often humorous performances defy genre in their expansive interrogation of dance, situational context, and the roles of choreographer and dancer; artist and audience.

Michelson’s scrupulously prepared performances are experienced as fleeting, singular events, defying easy legibility or reproducibility. Her work moreover examines the possibilities afforded by questioning, problematizing, and challenging what dance is and can be, while evincing a devotional commitment to dance and the efforts of its performers and the broader dance community.

In October 2021, Michelson performed Oh No Game Over, a new, durational multimedia work at David Zwirner’s 519 West 19th Street location in New York. Presented to the public over the course of five days, the work incorporated painting, digital projections, sound, and radical interventions in the architecture. Oh No Game Over was developed over the course of several months, while Michelson used the gallery as a working studio space in preparation for the performance. She will present new work at the gallery’s Los Angeles location in early 2024.

In addition to elaborating her own dance practice, Michelson will oversee and develop a residency program at David Zwirner, inviting dancers to work in and perform at the gallery’s spaces.

Michelson stated, “I am happy and nervous to announce that I am joining the David Zwirner gallery. The gallery, David, Thor, and the whole team have been so damn kind and supportive about my dance making in this context, and I am on a huge learning curve, but honestly am deeply excited about this next step and honored. One thing that is very important to me as I make this move to work with the gallery—who are so open and responsive—is to help develop a platform in which other dance artists can have access to this structure in the way I have had. More on this soon—here goes y’all.”

Thor Shannon, a director at the gallery who will work with Michelson, has said, “I first saw Sarah Michelson’s work at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, where the beauty and toughness of her work Devotion Study #1—equal parts elegance and anarchy—astounded me. I've followed her legend ever since. Her dances have a mythic 'blink and you miss them' guerilla quality—when they happen, you show up, or else miss them forever. Sarah and her work have together taught me so much about what it means to live in a human body, in its concomitant strength and fragility. Her dances are simultaneously uncompromising and generous in ways that only the best art can be. I am beyond excited to support her work and the work of other dancers in this new paradigm.”

David Zwirner has stated, “Dance has played such a decisive role in the history of twentieth-century art, and continues to inform contemporary art practices. And yet, rarely have choreographers received real-time support from the commercial art world. That support has come from nonprofit spaces, performance venues, and institutions, which have brought the dance world’s radicality to a broader audience, and corrected historical omissions when it comes to the work of dancers and choreographers. The temporal and ephemeral quality of dance stands in stark contrast to our social-media-saturated world, and it has proven to be one of our most vital art forms. Without a doubt, Sarah is one of the most exciting choreographers of her generation, and I am so honored to be working with her and, through her, to be able to support and promote dance artists in this new partnership.”

image: © Sarah Michelson

CHANEL and M+ announce new three-year partnership

July 13, 2023

M+ museum in Hong Kong today announces a three-year partnership with CHANEL, whose first-ever partnership with a cultural institution in Hong Kong signifies their commitment to the support of local cultural institutions with a global impact.

CHANEL becomes M+’s Major Partner and will support a lead curatorial position - CHANEL Lead Curator, Moving Image - to enhance M+’s programmes. The partnership will also cover selected M+ Cinema programmes including “Rediscoveries”, a recurring series featuring forgotten gems and restored classics, and “Afterimage”, showcasing works by some of today’s most important video artists and experimental filmmakers.

Additionally, the partnership will assist in two new projects - “M+ Restored”, a new film restoration programme to preserve Hong Kong’s cinematic heritage - and the Asian Avant-Garde Film Circulation Library, the first and only research and collection-building initiative of its kind in Asia.

Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, says: “We are delighted that CHANEL, renowned for its influence over the global spheres of creation and visual culture, shares a united vision with M+ to preserve film culture and nurture moving image practices, and more importantly, support arts and cultural innovators to advance new ideas and greater representation. CHANEL’s generous support is instrumental in pushing the boundaries of M+’s curatorial endeavours in moving image and promoting the vitality of our rich film heritage to the global audience.”

Yana Peel, Global Head of Arts & Culture, CHANEL, said: “We are honoured to partner with M+ on their pioneering curation and preservation of moving image to inspire creativity, foster new ways of thinking, and celebrate Hong Kong Cinema. Through CHANEL’s long-standing cultural commitment and our major new partnership with M+, we hope to create opportunities for an emerging generation of moving image artists from Hong Kong and the region to imagine the next.”

Silke Schmickl, CHANEL Lead Curator, Moving Image, M+, says: “We are immensely grateful for CHANEL’s support towards our multifaceted and pioneering moving image activities. The partnership allows us to kick off two important initiatives to research and preserve the work of some of Asia’s most significant film artists, and present them within pertinent contemporary curatorial frameworks of international moving image culture.”

photo: Kevin Mak

Frieze acquires The Armory Show, New York, and Expo Chicago

Frieze has announced the acquisition of New York’s Armory Show, as well as an agreement to acquire EXPO CHICAGO.

The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, however it is understood that the fairs, two of the longest-running in the US, will continue to operate under their existing brands and with their current teams.

“These are both iconic, historic fairs with deep roots into their communities. It was a wonderful opportunity for us to invest further in the US art scene and play a bigger role,” said Simon Fox, chief executive of Frieze, adding, “Through this deal we’re respecting the existing art fair calendar, and hopefully giving even more compelling reasons for people to visit Chicago in April and New York in September.”

Nicole Berry, the Armory Show’s executive director added: “It affords us in the future opportunity to collaborate, innovate and grow in ways we haven’t been able to in the past … we are an established brand with deep roots in New York City.”

Expo Chicago president and director Tony Karman calls Frieze’s involvement “a significant boost [which] increases our ability to be more impactful and successful on behalf of our visitors”.

Frieze was founded as a magazine in 1991 by Amanda Sharpe and Matthew Slotover, had its first fair in 2003 in London, expanding to New York in 2012, and to Los Angeles in 2019. It is now part of IMG, the sports, fashion, events and media network.

The Armory Show was started in 1994 by the dealers Colin De Land, Pat Hearn, Lisa Spellman, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris, is held every fall and attracts crowds of 65,000.

EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, was founded by Tony Karman in 2012, and in 2023 hosted 170 galleries from 36 countries, attracting over 32,000 visitors.

photo: Justin Barbin

Gathering announces representation of Emanuel de Carvalho

July 7, 2023

Gathering is delighted to announce the representation of Emanuel de Carvalho.

'Emanuel’s refined and piercingly contemporary paintings astutely comment upon the complex world we inhabit, perfectly exemplified by neurosystem I, 2023, currently on view as part of Support Structures. We particularly look forward to Emanuel’s first solo exhibition at the gallery in spring 2024. It's a real pleasure to embark on this journey with such a wonderful artist and person.'
- Alex Flick, Founder & Director, Gathering

Emanuel de Carvalho’s practice reflects on moral and societal codes and how these relate to psychophysical perceptive responses. Drawing from an academic background in visual processing studies and the phenomenological interpretation of imagery and sound, de Carvalho uses painting, sculpture, installation, and sound, to examine our ways of seeing and perceiving in the current zeitgeist. Through his work, he aims to challenge and question the structures of vision, presenting an alternative perspective that extends beyond conventional notions of representation. His compositions incorporate two fundamental elements—flesh and chiasm—derived from the insights of phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty. The intersection (chiasm) of bodies and objects (flesh), prompts individual responses that are a direct reflection of our ideological perceptions.

photo: © Grey Hutton, 2023

Timothy Taylor now represents Alicia Adamerovich

June 29, 2023

Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce representation of American artist Alicia Adamerovich, in collaboration with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.

Adamerovich works at the intersection of painting and sculpture, engaging a distinctive visual language of biomorphic abstraction that reflects the landscape of the subconscious. Drawing on the conceptual lineage of the Symbolists and Surrealists, her compositions offer a vision of reality beyond the material realm, inviting metaphysical interpretation.

A solo exhibition of new work by the artist will be presented at Timothy Taylor’s New York space in fall 2024.

photo: Mara Corsino

Hauser & Wirth announces representation of artist Daniel Turner

June 28, 2023

Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now represents artist Daniel Turner, in collaboration with Galerie Allen in Paris.

Based in New York, Turner works with sculpture, painting and installation to transfigure everyday materials, objects and environments into provocative new manifestations. On the surface, the artist’s work suggests the stark lines, industrial fabrication and simple geometric forms associated with minimalism. However, Turner merely employs this aesthetic to challenge the notion that raw materials are fundamentally meaningless, conditional and interchangeable. His practice is driven by the conviction that physical matter inherently carries meaning—that objects are imbued with the emotional, psychological and historical context for which they were made and in which they were used.

Turner has removed and recontextualized objects from such diverse spaces as pharmaceutical labs, medical facilities, civic centers and decommissioned cargo ships. He has cast the contents of a waiting room into a series of solid bars, burnished the remnants of a psychiatric facility onto both walls and specially coated canvases, and even stained a gallery floor with the liquified remains of a cafeteria’s tables and chairs. Using the physical processes of combustion, oxidation and disintegration, he probes the connections between the metallurgical and the metaphysical, investigating the sensory links that exist between materials and their geographical locations, cultural associations and human interactions.

Marc Payot, President, Hauser & Wirth, commented, ‘Given our longstanding dedication to the medium of sculpture, we are especially delighted to welcome Daniel Turner to the gallery. His work, which is rooted in deep material study, unleashes the potential of seemingly familiar everyday objects by refashioning them into something entirely new and uncanny. His art is both conceptually rigorous and profoundly soulful. And the magnetism it exerts makes him a natural peer of modern and contemporary sculptors in our program, from such historical figures as David Smith, John Chamberlain and Eduardo Chillida, to today’s pathbreakers like Monika Sosnowska, Larry Bell, Roni Horn and others. We look forward to sharing Daniel’s work and ideas with new audiences internationally.’

Turner’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will open in 2024.

photo: Aurélien Arbet

Klimt’s last great portrait sets new auction record at Sotheby’s

Ahead of the evening's star lot going under the hammer and setting a new European record for an artwork, the London summer sales opened with The Now Evening Auction, offering both established collectors and new audiences the opportunity to secure works by the art stars of the present and future. Among them, Adrian Ghenie, Mark Bradford and Caroline Walker, whose evocative and serene Red Sky Morning found a new buyer at £457,200. Addressing the outstanding demand for young and emerging artists from the figurative to the abstract, the sale saw auction records for Arthur Jafa and Michel Majerus, in an auction that goes from strength to strength.

Following the Now sale, The Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction opened to a crowded sale room, abuzz with anticipation and assembled under the watchful eye of Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan). Appearing on the market for the first time in thirty years, the atmosphere reflected the rarity of the occasion.

Found on the easel in his studio at the time of his death, the captivating depiction of a nude figure reveals Klimt exploring a new approach to colour and form, resulting in a masterpiece by an artist at the height of his powers. After a ten-minute bidding battle between four clients on the phones and in the room, the painting soared to £85.3 million, setting a new auction record for a work of art in Europe, and also for Gustav Klimt. The result is also the second highest price for any portrait ever sold at auction.

Against the backdrop of a city-wide celebration of portraiture, heralded by the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, the sale included a dedicated sequence of works surveying this genre through the ages, and placing the portrait centre stage. Face to Face presented a journey through more than 100 years of art history, celebrating not only the great masters of the 20th Century, but equally the innovators of the present day.

Tom Eddison, Senior Director of contemporary art, explains: “While the human image has been democratised in our age of iPhones and selfies, the tradition of portraiture runs deep and across many centuries”. Works by Lucian Freud, Kerry James Marshall and Leonor Fini displayed the breadth of creative dynamism in a discipline that has long captivated artists, from Rembrandt to Banksy.

- Mariko Finch

A short walk to celebrate Portrait Mode in London

June 21, 2023

For the past three years the UK’s National Portrait Gallery, just off Trafalgar Square in London, has been closed to the public while it undergoes a major transformation. This month it finally reopens, returning to the City with a complete re-presentation of the Collection, as well as a significant refurbishment which covers both the building itself as well as new public spaces.
 
To celebrate the much-anticipated reopening, a special Portrait Mode programme is taking place across the City, with galleries and institutions staging special events and special exhibitions in honour of the Portrait Gallery’s re-birth.

To help navigate everything that’s going on, GalleriesNow has created a special GalleriesNow x Portrait Mode map, and below we have also put together a walk in the west end to take in three of the highlights on offer, three exhibitions that give a fantastic survey of Portraiture today.
 

 

Portraits from Chatsworth @ Sotheby’s, London

We start out at auction house Sotheby’s, who have a special loan exhibition as well as a truly landmark auction and talks programme.
 

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire with Lady Georgiana Cavendish, by Joshua Reynolds

The exhibition is Portraits from Chatsworth, which provides an opportunity to see a remarkable selection of works, collected and commissioned by the Devonshire family over five centuries. Featuring Dutch, British and Italian masters from Rembrandt to Reynolds, and extending through to the twentieth-century giant Lucian Freud, many of the portraits - perhaps unsurprisingly - feature members of the Devonshire family, adding an extra level of interest and connection to this most personal of art forms. (You can take a virtual visit of the exhibition here).

The talks programme includes an in-depth look at Portraits from Chatsworth with the Director of the National Portrait Gallery and Trustee of the Chatsworth House Trust, Nicholas Cullinan talking to Bella Freud, Lucian Freud’s daughter - watch online here. There is also an examination of portraits and the zeitgeist in the panel discussion “Capturing the Moment: Fashion, Portraiture and Taste”. And finally historian Simon Schama, Eleanor Nairne, curator at Barbican Art Gallery in London, and Sotheby’s Europe chairman Helena Newman discuss “Facing Now: Why Portraits Still Matter”.
 

Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) @ Sotheby’s, London

Sotheby’s promises another highlight in their offering of the remarkable star attraction in this season’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction [read more about what happened at the auction here]. Gustav Klimt’s “Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan)” has been described as “Klimt’s Phoenix” - the painting was still on an easel in his studio at the time of his unexpected and untimely death in 1918, and despite being his last portrait it shows a talent that was still in the process of evolving.

Billed as one of the finest and most valuable works of art ever to be offered at auction in Europe, “Lady with a Fan” is nevertheless only the highlight of a equally remarkable opening to the auction - titled Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture, with other works including those by Magritte, Monet, as well as post-war masters Hepworth, Auerbach, and Twombly, and late twentieth-century stars Basquiat, Richter and Sherman.
 

Portrait Mode @ Omer Tiroche Gallery, London

Meanwhile, Omer Tiroche Gallery - just around the corner from Sotheby’s in Conduit Street - has a special exhibition to celebrate both portraiture and the new Portrait Gallery. Covering over one hundred years of portrait works, the exhibition includes pieces by artists including Frank Auerbach, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Kees van Dongen, Jean Dubuffet, Zeng Fanzhi, Lucian Freud, Yoshitomo Nara, Julian Opie, and Richard Prince. (We have a virtual visit of the exhibition here).

The Omer Tiroche exhibition provides a survey guide to the continued fascination, and importance, of portraiture itself, exposing how it has evolved over the ages from overwhelmingly formal, status-driven and flatteringly idealised to embracing an appetite for realism and contemporaneity.
 

Drawn: 30 Portraits @ Ordovas, London

Continuing on around one more corner we come to Ordovas in Savile Row, whose exhibition Drawn: 30 Portraits takes advantage of the Portrait Gallery events to combine a celebration of the portrait with the second in their series of exhibitions looking at techniques and mediums in twentieth-century and contemporary art - following the first iteration Stitched in 2022. (There is a virtual visit of the current exhibition here).
 

Frank Auerbach: Head of William Feaver

Ordovas brings together artists spanning almost a century - from a Matisse study of c.1924 all the way through to a 2023 work by Glenn Brown - including Alberto Giacometti, Maggi Hambling, David Hockney, Henry Moore and Paula Rego to delve into the highly personal nature both of drawing and of portraiture in general.

Included in the exhibition are three Picasso etchings, hung on the first wall they are widely considered to be amongst his most important prints and are rarely seen together. The three were executed in 1937 against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War and carry the literally lachrymose title “La femme qui pleure”.

Finally, returning to Sotheby’s for the final destination in our walk, you can stop for refreshments at their cafe, which is currently exhibiting across its walls Modern Goddesses. Referencing “Yevonde: Life and Colour”, part of the Portrait Gallery’s re-opening programme, society magazine Tatler commissioned Luc Braquet to photograph contemporary members of “society” in Yevonde’s dream-like style, paying homage to the pioneering London photographer and her redical use of colour in the 1930s.

And don’t forget to download your copy of the GalleriesNow x Portrait Mode map - here!

 

Inge Mahn, 1943-2023

Galerie Max Hetzler announces the death of the German artist Inge Mahn at the age of 79.

Mahn passed away on Monday, 19 June, in the early morning. For over five decades, Inge made sculptural and performative works which placed people, things and spaces in new relations to each other. She based her works on objects of everyday life, which she playfully and poetically transformed into new spatial forms, creating a universe of unimagined possibilities.
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In tiefer Trauer geben wir den Tod der Künstlerin Inge Mahn im Alter von 79 Jahren bekannt. Sie ist am Montag, dem 19. Juni, in den frühen Morgenstunden verstorben.

Mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte lang schuf Inge Mahn skulpturale und performative Arbeiten, die Menschen, Objekte und Räume in neue Zusammenhänge setzten. Ausgangspunkt ihrer Arbeiten waren die Gegenstände des alltäglichen Lebens, die sie spielerisch und poetisch in neue räumliche Formen verwandelte und so einen Kosmos von ungeahnten Möglichkeiten schuf.

photo: Holger Niehaus

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