Daily Diary

24 March 2023

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Cologne

auction starts

Modern & Contemporary Auction, Part II

@ Sotheby’s Cologne

auction: Fri 24 - Thu 30 Mar

(viewing: Wed 22 - Mon 27 March)

Helsinki

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Tuukka Tammisaari: Bit of a Pickle

@ Galerie Forsblom

“Tammisaari’s highly recognizable visual idiom has grown even richer in his recent paintings, which exude a sincere spirit of joy and free creativity”

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Sami Lukkarinen: Borderland

@ Galerie Forsblom

pixelated portraits painted with a palette knife, using an artificial intelligence system to analyze donated photographs

London

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Juliette Sturlèse

@ Annka Kultys Gallery

in the first UK solo exhibition of this French artist, new abstract paintings which experiment with paint texture while combining artificial grass, bees wax and imaginary French landscapes and gardens

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Poppy Jones

@ The Artist Room

an exhibition of works by Jones following her inclusion in the gallery’s inaugural group exhibition

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Johanna Billing: Each Moment Presents What Happens

@ Hollybush Gardens

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Angela Heisch: Low Speed Highs

@ Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

a series of large-scale paintings and works on paper in which the artist’s signature organic shapes and movement are the subject

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Mai-Thu Perret: Do not think at all about good and bad

@ Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

a new ceramic sculpture of scattered apples by the Swiss artist in the gallery’s micro project space

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Mario Dellavedova: Sense Exercises / Sans Exercice

@ Sprovieri

“the artist's conceptual work juxtaposes artefacts, furniture, textiles and everyday objects”

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Frauke Eigen

@ ATLAS Gallery

a retrospective of over twenty years of the German artist’s photography

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Polly Apfelbaum: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’

@ Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square

private view

Frida Orupabo: Things I saw at night

@ Modern Art Helmet Row

in her first solo exhibition with the gallery, including collages, sculptures and videos, Orupabo combines fragments of bodies of Black women to imagine new narratives of subjectivity denied by colonial legacies

Los Angeles

opening reception

Caroline Wong: A Many-Splendoured Thing

@ Rusha & Co.

in Wong’s debut solo exhibition in the US - presented in collaboration with Sabrina Andres - paintings and drawings influenced by her Malaysian-Chinese origins and upbringing in London explore the bonds of friendship and the culinary delights

opening reception

Erick Medel: Mariachi

@ Rusha & Co.

Medel’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery celebrates mariachi performers while documenting everyday life for himself, his family, and his community of Mexican-Americans

Munich

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Chris Succo: White Paintings | Spark Paintings

@ Walter Storms Galerie

in his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Düsseldorf-based Succo is showing new works created especially for this presentation

New York

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Arturo Kameya: Los Ovnis

@ GRIMM

new works by the Peruvian-born, Amsterdam-based artist explore alienation and otherness

Paris

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Tomi Ungerer: Tomi The Alchemist - The Magnum Opus

@ Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

Ungerer’s art draws from alchemy and metamorphosis, transforming people and objects into strange beings - death is a recurring theme, seen as a starting point for transformation towards perfect union

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Le corps de l’autre

@ Mennour, 5 r. du Pont de Lodi

curated by Christian Alandete, with works by Laure Albin Guillot, Carole Douillard & Babette Mangolte, Louise Bourgeois, Camille Claudel, Leonor Fini, Camille Henrot, Annette Messager, Alice Neel, Orlan, Judit Reigl, Germaine Richier

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Judit Reigl: Female figure in man

@ Mennour, 6 r. du Pont de Lodi

marking the centenary of the birth of Reigl, a series of works from the 1960s to the 1990s, a period notable for the appearance of anthropomorphic figures in a body of work hitherto uncompromisingly abstract

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Gina Pane: Préliminaire

@ Mennour, r. Saint-André des arts

the gallery’s fifth exhibition of Pane’s work focuses on the pictorial and graphic investigations she undertook in the period running from her student years at the Beaux-Arts de Paris (1961-1964) up until 1969-1970

Zürich

opening reception

Louisa Gagliardi: A Moment’s Notice

@ Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal

Gagliardi’s first solo exhibition reflects existentialism, playing with blurred borders and dichotomies, while offering illusion and portrayals of possibility, questioning reality and our place in the world

talk

Louisa Gagliardi and Mohamed Almusibli in conversation

@ Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing today

London

Antigone: Women in Fibre Art

@ Richard Saltoun

a group show focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, shown alongside rare works by two other pioneers, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ewa Pachucka, as well as new work by Anna Perach and Egle Jauncems

Lugano

Contrasti. Da Alighiero Boetti a Giuseppe Santomaso

@ Cortesi Gallery

investigating different artistic practices, including sculpture, painting and photography

Milan

Contrasti. Da Alighiero Boetti a Giuseppe Santomaso

@ Cortesi Gallery

investigating different artistic practices, including sculpture, painting and photography