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New York – Sanaa Gateja: “Rolled Secrets” at Karma Through August 18th, 2023

August 17th, 2023

Sanaa Gateja, Ripe (2022), via Karma
Sanaa Gateja, Ripe (2022), via Karma

This summer in New York, Karma presents Rolled Secrets, the first New York solo show dedicated to the work of Sanaa Gateja’s following the artist’s inclusion in the 58th Carnegie International. The artist, who transforms natural materials and post-consumer paper waste into complex, mosaic-like works, here continues his practice with a range of materials that include hand-rolled paper beads, cloth, and soaked and pounded strips of bark. Motivated by an innate sensibility of form, Gateja’s often monumental works oscillate between figuration and abstraction.  Read More »

New York – Song Dong: “ROUND” at Pace Through August 18th, 2023

August 16th, 2023

Song Dong, ROUND (Installation View), via Art Observed
Song Dong, ROUND (Installation View), via Art Observed

On view this summer at Pace Song Dong’s ROUND focuses on the artist’s practice over the past three years, placing ancient Chinese philosophy in a contemporary context and offering new understandings of ideas that figure prominently in his work. Song, who is one of the most important figures of the Conceptual art movement in China, blurs the boundaries between art and life in his interdisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and film. Here, the artist uses the circle as a mode of philosophical and graphical meditation, reflecting on culture, memory and time through a range of forms.  Read More »

New York – “Schema: World as Diagram” at Marlborough Chelsea Through August 11th, 2023

August 15th, 2023

Thomas Hirschhorn, Schema Art and Public Space (2016-2022), via Marlborough
Thomas Hirschhorn, Schema Art and Public Space (2016-2022), via Marlborough

This summer at Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea, the group show Schema: World as Diagram presents a dynamic and intricate series of investigations into lines of thought, diagrammatic modes of thinking, and the use of graphical and indexical modes of organization to present and obscure the process of thought and creation. Occupying two floors of the gallery, the exhibition brings together over 50 artists whose works engage in these themes.  Read More »

London – Klara Kristalova: “The Cold Wind and the Warm” at Lehmann Maupin Through September 9th, 2023

August 14th, 2023

Klara Kristalova, The Cold Wind and the Warm (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin
Klara Kristalova, The Cold Wind and the Warm (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin

This summer in London, Lehmann Maupin presents The Cold Wind and the Warm, an exhibition of new work by Klara Kristalova, dwelling on the artist’s figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate both aspects of the human body and elements of nature, and marking her first solo show in London.  Read More »

New York – “Distribuidx” at Lisson Gallery Through August 11th, 2023

August 11th, 2023

Distribuidx (Installation View), via Lisson
Distribuidx (Installation View), via Lisson

This summer, Lisson Gallery marks its entry into the string of group shows sprung up across the art world with a show that opens a dialogue between the work of artist Hélio Oiticica and a range of intergenerational artists with varying relationships to Latin America. The presentation is curated by César García-Alvarez, the Executive & Artistic Director of The Mistake Room in Los Angeles. Read More »

New York – Gilbert & George: “The Corpsing Pictures” at Lehmann Maupin Through August 18th, 2023

August 10th, 2023

Gilbert & George, BONE TIES (2022), via Lehmann Maupin
Gilbert & George, BONE TIES (2022), via Lehmann Maupin

This month at Lehmann Maupin’s New York exhibition space, artists Gilbert & George present a body of new works, unified under the title THE CORPSING PICTURES, and centering on concepts of death and humor in equal measure. The exhibition comprises a suite of richly colored pictures starring the artists themselves in various poses of alarm and resignation as bones encroach in intricate patterns over their faces and bodies. Employing their signature use of bold color and symmetrical composition, Gilbert & George confront the subject of mortality and life itself. Read More »

Pace to Represent Lawrence Weiner Estate in Asia

August 10th, 2023

The Lawrence Weiner estate is now represented in Asia by Pace. “Lawrence Weiner’s work redefined how art can communicate meaning,” Pace CEO Marc Glimcher said in a statement. “Language and material come together in his practice to create an experience that is somehow at once universal and unique. A giant of Conceptualism, Weiner offers the phenomenal, the radical, and the poetic in his work, and we are honored to bring it to our audiences to engage with it themselves.” Read More »

London – Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian: “Forms of Life” at the Tate Modern Through September 3rd, 2023

July 10th, 2023

Piet Mondrian, Evolution (1911), via Art Observed
Piet Mondrian, Evolution (1911), via Art Observed

This summer, the Tate Modern presents an exploratory show tracing convergences and divergences in the work of Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint. Taking the work of these two luminary twentieth century artists in concert, the show draws intriguing connections across phenomenology, experience, and abstraction, exploring how each artist used their craft to push deeper inquiries and explorations of the world they lived in.  Read More »

London – “To Bend the Ear of the Outer World” at Gagosian Through August 25th, 2023

June 20th, 2023

Oscar Murillo, manifestation (2020-2022), via Gagosian
Oscar Murillo, manifestation (2020-2022), via Gagosian

This summer at its Grosvenor Hill, London location, Gagosian presents To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, an exhibition of new and recent works by more than forty artists from the Americas, United Kingdom, and Germany. The exhibition has been organized by guest curator Gary Garrels, who, in collaboration with the artists, has selected a single painting by each, with most works presented here for the first time. This is Gagosian’s first exhibition to be sited across its two galleries in Mayfair, at Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street. Read More »

New York – Bob Thompson: “So let us all be citizens” at 52 Walker Through July 8th, 2023

June 19th, 2023

Bob Thompson, An Allegory (1964), via 52 Walker
Bob Thompson, An Allegory (1964), via 52 Walker

Marking its seventh exhibition downtown, 52 Walker has opened So let us all be citizens, an exhibition devoted to the short but fruitful career of Bob Thompson. Spotlighting the artist’s jazz-influenced style and consideration for color, line, and figuration—developed during a period when abstraction was the dominant trend in American art—this intimate exhibition pays homage to the friction Thompson generated between his proximity to and deviation from cited and canonical sources.

Bob Thompson, So let us all be citizens (Installation View), via 52 Walker
Bob Thompson, So let us all be citizens (Installation View), via 52 Walker

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