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The Week in Art 14-21 Jan 2020
the best exhibitions, events, previews, auctions
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Berlin
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Edinburgh
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London
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| Tue 14 |
Karsten Schubert Room 2: Air Signs: Brian Griffiths & Frank Kent
the first exhibition in the gallery’s Room 2 and the first showing in London of the collaborative work of Griffiths and Kent
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| Tue 14 |
Massimo De Carlo: Wang Yuyang: The Moon Landing Project |
private view |
| Tue 14 |
Whitechapel Gallery: In the Eye of Bambi: ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art Selected by Verónica Gerber Bicecci
the latest in the Whitechapel’s series of exhibitions organised in partnership with ”la Caixa” Foundation
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| Tue 14 |
Whitechapel Gallery: Rachel Pimm: Plates
“You enter a shifting landscape. The tectonic plates are moving beneath you. What can you hear?”
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| Wed 15 |
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Alex Israel: Always On My Mind
Israel addresses the effortless visual gloss that twenty-first-century image culture and social media demand of their participants
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| Wed 15 |
Timothy Taylor: Alex Katz
illustrating the immense power of a craft honed for over seventy years, Katz’s latest paintings are a return to his most significant themes in the form of impressionistic natural landscapes and masterly depictions of his lifelong muse, Ada Del Moro
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| Thu 16 |
Alice Black: Twilight of the Idols
a group exhibition which explores the theme of Apollonian & Dionysian duality through a contemporary art lens
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| Thu 16 |
Annely Juda Fine Art: Lesley Foxcroft: Works for 2020
Foxcroft uses simple and everyday materials to make works that are sculptural in nature, yet often wall mounted and very much rooted in their surroundings, responding to the corner of a room, ceiling or floor
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| Thu 16 |
Camden Arts Centre: Vivian Suter: Tin Tin’s Sofa
presenting finished works as an immersive cacophony - suspended, overlapping and environmental - Suter’s streaked and soaked canvases, swathed in colour, form a permeable membrane between nature and civilization
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| Thu 16 |
Camden Arts Centre: Athanasios Argianas: Hollowed Water
new film, sculpture and musical works that emerge from Argianas’ interest in redundant technologies and the traces of Modernism found in unthought-of places
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Camden Arts Centre: Introductory Talk with Vivian Suter and Athanasios Argianas |
talk |
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Gagosian Davies St: Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities
an exhibition spanning the five decades of Artschwager’s career, and his first in London since 2003, conceived specifically in response to the Davies Street gallery space
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| Thu 16 |
Galerie Max Hetzler: Louise Bonnet: New Works
known for her portraits of voluminous bodies, Bonnet presents the weight of human stresses and emotions in physical form
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| Thu 16 |
The Photographers’ Gallery: Curator Tour: Feast for the Eyes |
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Sprovieri: Art & Language: Picasso’s Guernica in the Style of Jackson Pollock (Essay II)
employing multiple media such as texts, installations and music, Art & Language questions the essence and role of the art object and its authority, as well as the role of art institutions, artists and audiences
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| Thu 16 |
Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.: Peter Fischli David Weiss: Should I paint a pirate ship on my car with an armed figure on it holding a decapitated head by the hair?
a concise overview of the artists’ extraordinary transformations of the commonplace in the form of three seminal works from throughout their collaborative career
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| Thu 16 |
Zabludowicz Collection: Invites: Laurence Owen
new wall-based, multi-media sculptures that operate as enigmatic and mysterious objects, alluding to fragmented details of human anatomy, mechanical systems and forms that recur throughout nature
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| Thu 16 |
Zabludowicz Collection: No horizon, no edge to liquid
curated by MA students, the exhibition explores the concept of cultural hybridity as a space in which cultures meet: where bridges are built between societies through the processes of communication, negotiation, and translation
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| Fri 17 |
Hayward Gallery: London Contemporary Orchestra – Rushes |
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| Sat 18 |
Hayward Gallery: Bridget Riley: Painting and Perception |
talk |
| Tue 21 |
Whitechapel Gallery: Carlos Bunga: Something Necessary and Useful
in his first major UK commission Bunga creates monumental structures out of everyday materials to propose architecture as transitory and corporeal
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| Tue 21 |
Whitechapel Gallery: Artists' Film International: Rhea Storr, Vika Kirchenbauer, Yu Gou
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Milan
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New York
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| Tue 14 |
Perrotin: Erró
a full survey of the artist’s career, particularly his commitment to collage as a process and essential antecedent to his celebrated signature, and singular, paintings
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Perrotin: Jesper Just: Corporealités
a new large-scale sculptural installation by the Danish artist, composed of a series of LED sculptures programmed with a new multi-channel video work alongside a spatial intervention into the gallery’s first floor
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Simon Lee Gallery: João Penalva
two new series of work based on photographs taken at the São Carlos National Theater in Lisbon, Portugal, that explore the physical mechanics of theatrical fictions and illusions
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| Wed 15 |
ACA Galleries: Track Work: One Hundred Years of New York City’s Subway
the exhibition showcases an array of artists’ interpretations over the last century and demonstrates how the subway exemplifies the diversity and community that defines New York as a city
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Almine Rech: Vaughn Spann: The Heat Lets us Know We're Alive
the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery features a selection of new abstract and figurative paintings
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private view |
| Thu 16 |
Blain|Southern: Mircea Suciu: Universal Fatigue
fragments of appropriated and found imagery provide the subjects for new paintings that demonstrate a relationship between representation and abstraction
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private view |
| Thu 16 |
David Zwirner 19th St: Noah Davis: Black Boy Scout |
private view |
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David Zwirner 20th St: Stan Douglas: Doppelgänger |
private view |
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Lisson Gallery W 24th St: Roy Colmer: Doors
the first-ever comprehensive presentation of Colmer’s monumental photographic project
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private view |
| Thu 16 |
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents an exhibition inspired by the landmark traveling museum exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
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private view |
| Fri 17 |
David Zwirner 20th St: Yun Hyong-keun |
private view |
| Fri 17 |
Fergus McCaffrey: Japan is America Performance & Panel Discussion |
special event |
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco |
talk |
| Sat 18 |
Halsey McKay Gallery: Christian Little: Well Maintained
in his first solo exhibitions with the gallery Little calls into question the idea of maintained appearances with paintings that allude to, yet are removed from, the “real world”
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| Sat 18 |
Halsey McKay Gallery: Colby Bird: Unavoidable Blemishes
this show marks four years of isolated art production by Bird, who has spent the last five years in the town of Coxsackie, New York
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Paris
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| Thu 16 |
Gagosian: Blanc Sur Blanc
working in different contexts and with different ends in mind, the artists in this exhibition find unexpected power and substance in what appears at first to be an absence or lack
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private view |
| Fri 17 |
MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie: Manon Lanjouère: Ask The Dust
inspired by the world of theatre, Lanjouère uses staging to make fiction into a subject for observation
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Almine Rech: Peter Saul: Art History is Wrong
thousands of kilometres from the epicentre of Pop Art, a movement he affirms he does not belong to, while sharing its themes, Saul offers a more critical dimension, questioning both consumerist and imperialist models
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Almine Rech: Sally Saul: Hideout
Saul’s background in literature gives her a deep and original feel for a wide range of subjects, from animals she is particularly fond of, owls and other birds to more conceptual subjects, confinement and gender
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private view |
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Galerie Max Hetzler: Robert Grosvenor: New Works
the two sculptures displayed in this exhibition, both untitled and created in 2019, are the result of a prolonged process of construction with industrial materials, shaped by hand
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Rome
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Gagosian: Y.Z. Kami: Night Paintings
with their soft edges and shimmering biomorphic patterns, Kami's paintings limn the boundaries between the earthly and the sublime
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San Francisco
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Vienna
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| Thu 16 |
Galerie Meyer Kainer: Nicolas Ceccaldi: Knock knock |
private view |
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Galerie Meyer Kainer: 1. COLOR 2. HOLE AND 3. JOKE
tracing the emergence of the modern understanding of working on paper in multiple senses: as an autonomous form of expression, an index of the artist’s style, an object of aesthetic contemplation, and an epistemological tool
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Zürich
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| Thu 16 |
Hauser & Wirth: Zhang Enli: New Paintings
a series of paintings that reflect on the artist’s progression to looser and freer brushwork, expressing his own emotive intuition
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Hauser & Wirth: David Zink Yi: Rare Earths
rooted in process-based abstraction and the alchemic possibilities of the artist’s materials, the exhibited bodies of works represent a point of departure from previous ceramic sculptural pieces as the artist’s new aesthetic diverges from figuration
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Beirut
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Humlebæk
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London
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Los Angeles
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Milan
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New York
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Oxford
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Paris
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Salisbury
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Seoul
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