The Week in Art 3 Dec - 17 Dec 2019

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OPENINGS - AUCTIONS - EVENTS

Berlin

Thu 5

FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph: Paule Hammer

private view

Hong Kong

Fri 6

Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Mr. Doodle Invades Sotheby’s Selling Exhibition

opens

London

Tue 3	Delfina Foundation: Workshop: Hydrogen Utopia?	special event
Tue 3	The Mayor Gallery: Congo the Chimpanzee: The Birth of Art artist and zoologist Desmond Morris is selling his private collection of paintings and drawings by Congo the chimpanzee, with whom he famously worked, observing the ape’s interest in creating “art for art’s sake”	opens
Tue 3	Sotheby’s London: Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art	auction
Tue 3	Sotheby’s London: Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art	auction
Wed 4	Bonhams London, New Bond Street: Old Master Paintings	auction
Wed 4	Sotheby’s London: Old Masters Evening Sale	auction
Wed 4	Sotheby’s S\|2 Gallery: The Blazing World a diverse exhibition of artworks which draw on themes of science-fiction, utopia, ritual and the fragility of human hope and existence	opens
Thu 5	Delfina Foundation: Workshop: AIR_MORPHOLOGIES	special event
Thu 5	Hayward Gallery: Bridget Riley	special event
Thu 5	Sotheby’s London: Old Masters Day Sale	auction
Thu 5	South London Gallery: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019 works by 45 emerging artists presented across both the Main Gallery and Fire Station locations	private view
Thu 5	South London Gallery Fire Station: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019 works by 45 emerging artists presented across both the Main Gallery and Fire Station locations	private view
Thu 5	Whitechapel Gallery: Rachel Pimm: Aggregation	performance
Fri 6	Hayward Gallery: Bridget Riley	special event
Fri 6	Laure Genillard Gallery: The Locked Room. Four Years that Shook Art Education, 1969-1973 curated by Rozemin Keshvani - imagine being accepted into one of the world’s most prestigious art schools to find yourself locked in a room where no one would speak to you. This is exactly what happened to 27 students at St Martin’s School of Art	private view
Sat 7	Hayward Gallery: Bridget Riley	special event
Sat 7	Serpentine Galleries: Christodoulos Panayiotou: Dying on Stage at Conway Hall, WC1R 4RL	special event
Sun 8	Zabludowicz Collection: Invites: Fay Zmija Nicolson	special event
Tue 10	Sotheby’s London: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art	auction

Los Angeles

Tue 3

Hauser & Wirth: Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971

special event

New York

Wed 4	David Richard Gallery: Tadaaki Kuwayama: Construction / Material significant paintings and installation artworks from 1965 to 1999 by the New York-based artist	private view
Tue 10	Leila Heller Gallery: Nick Moss: Steel Shapes Moss uses a blowtorch and unique patinas to test the limits of color on various shaped steel canvases welded together, recalling modernist tropes such as color-field painting, hard-edge abstraction, and assemblage	private view

Palm Beach

Mon 9

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Mia Fonssagrives Solow: Robots / Femmebots

the renowned sculptor’s latest work

opens

Paris

Wed 4	MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Harley Weir: Walls the British photographer’s first solo exhibition in France - a new project based on time spent at the Israel-Palestine border	opens
Wed 4	MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Zone Grise / The Land in Between this major exhibition explores Schulz-Dornburg’s practice through the lens of three overarching themes prominent in her work - boundaries and borders, architecture and the built environment, and the human impact on the environment and landscape	opens
Wed 4	MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Tommaso Protti: Amazônia photographs that portray life in the modern-day Brazilian Amazon, where social and humanitarian crises overlap with the ongoing destruction of the rainforest	opens
Wed 4	Sotheby’s Paris: Arts d’Afrique et d’Amérique	auction
Wed 4	Sotheby’s Paris: Art Contemporain Evening Sale	auction
Wed 4	Sotheby’s Paris: Oceania	auction
Thu 5	Sotheby’s Paris: Art Contemporain Day Sale	auction
Sat 7	Semiose: Guillaume Dégé: Un grain de moutarde	private view
Tue 10	Sotheby’s Paris: Arts d'Asie	auction

Somerset, UK

Thu 5

Hauser & Wirth Somerset: Symposium: Positioning Sculpture

special event

St. Moritz

Tue 3

Robilant + Voena, St Moritz: In Memoriam: Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019)

classic subtly-coloured sculptures and paintings by the revered and celebrated “painter of light”

opens

Vienna

Tue 10

Dorotheum: 19th Century Paintings and Watercolours

auction

Zürich

Wed 4	Hauser & Wirth Maria Lassnig: Zarter Mittelpunkt / Delicate Centre	special event
Fri 6	Hauser & Wirth Maria Lassnig: Zarter Mittelpunkt / Delicate Centre	special event
Sat 7	Lullin + Ferrari: Narration and Performance	private view

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EXHIBITIONS CLOSING

Bucharest

Sat 7

Anca Poterașu Gallery: Olivia Mihălțianu: Cette histoire n'est pas fantastique

London

Sat 7	Luxembourg & Dayan: Reconstructing Cezanne: Sequence and Process in Paul Cezanne’s works on paper
Sat 7	kamel mennour: Valentin Carron: Allô, Allô Alluvium
Sat 7	Hales: Hew Locke: Where Lies the Land?
Sat 7	JGM Gallery: Habitat: Artists making furniture, or things that might be confused as furniture
Sun 8	Whitechapel Gallery: The Film London Jarman Award

New York

Tue 3	Findlay Galleries: Henrik Simonsen: Botanically
Thu 5	Leila Heller Gallery: Arthur Carter in conversation with Modern Masters
Sat 7	David Zwirner 19th St: Jason Rhoades: Tijuanatanjierchandelier
Sat 7	Sean Kelly Gallery: Laurent Grasso: OttO
Sat 7	Yancey Richardson Gallery: David Hilliard: Just So
Sat 7	Yancey Richardson Gallery: Mary Ellen Bartley: Reading in Color

Reykjavík

Sat 7

i8 Gallery: Yui Yaegashi

Seoul

Sun 8

Gallery Hyundai: Tomás Saraceno

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