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The Week in Art |
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Diary: openings, events, auctions |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
LGDR & Wei: Embodiment a rotating exhibition of works from leading artists exploring identity politics, desire, and reflection in the contemporary world – the first chapter showcasing never-before-seen “demi-god” paintings by Ghanaian artist Emmanuel Taku |
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Simon Lee Gallery: William Mackinnon: Modern Family new paintings by Mackinnon imbued with a new sense of growth and direction, in his first solo show in Hong Kong |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Axel Vervoordt Gallery: Tsuyoshi Maekawa a solo exhibition showcasing Maekawa’s boundless investigations on materiality from the 1950s until today, with paintings made from tactile fabrics such as burlap, hemp cloth, and gunnysack |
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Perrotin Hong Kong: Koak: The Driver announcing its collaboration with the San Francisco-based artist, new paintings and sculpture in Koak’s first solo presentation in Asia |
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Hove |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Maureen Paley Morena di Luna: Esther Pearl Watson: An Apparent Brightness “I find for myself one constant: I cling to gratitude for the small things I have learned during the pandemic and hope that we can overcome our worst nature to build something brighter for the future” – Esther Pearl Watson |
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Kensington |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Pazo Fine Art: The Spaces In Between an exhibition curated by Paul Corio with geometric works by Don Voisine and Ruri Yi referencing an entire lineage of 20th-century modernism and minimalism |
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Tuesday 17 | |||||||||
Bermondsey Project Space: Everything Is Made Of Light Mark Kasumovic, Mary O’Neill, Matthew Pell and Isabella Streffen question, challenge, and converse with notions of the “unrepresentable” within our contemporary culture |
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Gazelli Art House: GAZELL.iO: Brendan Dawes: Moments Spent with Others |
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Wednesday 18 | |||||||||
Bermondsey Project Space: Everything Is Made Of Light |
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JGM Gallery: Anne Athena: Materialising The Unseen |
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The Mayor Gallery: Billy Apple®: Rainbows 1965 working with the artist’s wife, the gallery restages Apple’s 1965 exhibition – with original neon sculptures, a rare semi-circular print, and Plexiglas objects – presented together for the first time since the original exhibition |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
Gazelli Art House: Perle Fine: A Retrospective a retrospective exhibition spanning the career of the pioneering artist – the first dedicated to the artist in the UK – encompasses a range of historic works from the early 1940s to the late 1980s |
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Friday 20 | |||||||||
Gazelli Art House: GAZELL.iO: Brendan Dawes: Moments Spent with Others the inaugural solo show by the artist explores the beauty behind moments that may initially seem insignificant, and how the concept of time and space is connected to the captivating feeling of interacting with others |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
BEERS London: Peter Matthews: Shape Shifter Matthews’ exhibition features hybrid paintings made from both the Atlantic coast of Cornwall and the Pacific coast of Peru, as well as sculpture and a video documenting his practice |
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Monday 23 | |||||||||
Omer Tiroche Gallery: Everything Must Go! with Auerbach, Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Chun Kwang Young, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Georges Mathieu, Joan Miró, Kohei Nawa, Serge Poliakoff, Ed Ruscha, Graham Sutherland, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Bartha Contemporary: Hadi Tabatabai: Recent Works |
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Lugano |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
Cortesi Gallery: Tiziana Lorenzelli: Naturalismo Cosmico curated by Vera Canevazzi, an exhibition which transforms the gallery’s spaces into a universe of shiny, metallic installations |
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Milan |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
A arte Invernizzi: Michel Verjux. Découper plier éclairer: des corps et du vide? investigating the concepts of void, place and space, Verjux shows – for the first time – sculptures made with folded sheets of stainless steel with semi-circular slits |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Il Ponte Casa d‘Aste: Modern and Contemporary Art auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Fri 20 – Sun 22 May) |
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Tuesday 17 | |||||||||
Christie’s New York: Stewards of the West: The Knobloch Collection auction: Tue 17 (viewing: Sat 14 – Mon 16 May) |
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Christie’s New York: American Art auction: Tue 17 (viewing: Sat 14 – Mon 16 May) |
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David Lewis: Mary Beth Edelson: A Celebration |
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LGDR 89 Street: Marina Adams: What Are You Listening To? “Adams makes rigorous explorations of color and form that situate her squarely in the tradition of New York School painting, with its emphasis on gesture, spontaneity, and improvisation” |
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Sotheby’s New York: Modern Evening Auction auction: Tue 17 (viewing: Fri 6 – Thu 19 May) |
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Wednesday 18 | |||||||||
David Richard Gallery – Uptown: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe: Paintings from 2009 to 2022 geometric abstraction and post-minimalist paintings in Gilbert-Rolfe’s first solo exhibition in NYC in a decade, and his debut with the gallery |
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Sotheby’s New York: Modern Day Auction auction: Wed 18 (viewing: Fri 6 – Tue 17 May) |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
Berry Campbell Gallery: In Conversation: Nanette Carter and Cheryl R. Riley |
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Galerie Buchholz: Anne Imhof: AVATAR |
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Petzel: Dana Hoey and Caitlin Cherry: Hello Trouble two artists, from different generations, unveil markedly different yet related takes on the problem of how to best represent femininity, in an exhibition addressing the subject of the great American West |
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Sotheby’s New York: Contemporary Evening Auction auction: Thu 19 |
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Sotheby’s New York: 19th Century European Art auction: Thu 19 – Thu 26 May (viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 May) |
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Sotheby’s New York: The Now Evening Auction auction: Thu 19 (viewing: Fri 6 – Thu 19 May) |
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Sotheby’s New York: Master Paintings and Drawings Part II auction: Thu 19 – Thu 26 May (viewing: Sat 21 – Wed 25 May) |
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Tina Kim Gallery: Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Noon Lim’s approach to media is psychic, her works “track down the disappeared and the invisible” through a state of being “fluid, disappearing, and invisible” – Namsee Kim |
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Friday 20 | |||||||||
Sotheby’s New York: Contemporary Day Auction auction: Fri 20 (viewing: Fri 6 – Thu 19 May) |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Nancy Grossman: My Body |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Gagosian West 24th St: Nam June Paik: Art in Process: Part One “there is no way to know in advance, because life has no ‘fast-forward’ or ‘rewind’ buttons. So, you go step by step, and if you make a mistake you try to correct it with another” – Paik |
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Sotheby’s New York: The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collection auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Sat 21 – Mon 23 May) |
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Wednesday 18 | |||||||||
Christie’s Paris: Michelangelo’s First Nude: A Drawing Rediscovered auction: Wed 18 (viewing: Fri 13 – Wed 18 May) |
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Christie’s Paris: Maîtres Anciens – Dessins, Peintures, Sculptures auction: Wed 18 (viewing: Fri 13 – Wed 18 May) |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
Bigaignon: Catherine Balet: Endless going back and forth from painting to photography, Balet presents four very large triptychs, each representing a season, punctuated by smaller formats symbolizing the inter-season |
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Perrotin Matignon: Mark Ryden: Animal Secrets |
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Skarstedt: Martin Kippenberger: De Lumière et Sentiments the first major exhibition dedicated to Kippenberger in France since 1996 – paintings from his prominent Fred the Frog series in dialogue with six of his urban lamp sculptures |
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Friday 20 | |||||||||
Galerie Lelong & Co.: Jaume Plensa: Noir & Blanc an exhibition across all four Parisian spaces of the gallery – in the rue de Téhéran space, pure white marble portraits contrast with others in black granite in a sort of chess game |
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Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon: Jaume Plensa: Noir & Blanc an exhibition across all four Parisian spaces of the gallery – in the Av. Matignon space two portraits of young women have been carved out of earthen-hued alabaster blocks covered with white paint |
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PARLIAMENT: Yohan Hàn: Momsalpuli |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Perrotin Matignon: Mark Ryden: Animal Secrets |
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Sunday 22 | |||||||||
Bigaignon: Bucolic brunch |
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Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Christie’s Paris: Photographies auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Sat 21 – Mon 23 May) |
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kamel mennour: Une collection hollandaise |
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Sotheby’s Paris: Important Design auction: Tue 24 (viewing: Wed 18 – Mon 23 May) |
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Rome |
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Tuesday 17 | |||||||||
Richard Saltoun: Bice Lazzari: Modernist Pioneer a museum-scale exhibition of the pioneering abstractionist in her first major retrospective in Rome in over 10 years |
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Sag Harbor |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Mark Borghi: Maureen Dougherty: What are you looking at? “either with a question mark or exclamation, the viewer is impugned to engage. What are you looking at? Am I the voyeur, the judgment, or the redeemer?” |
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Salisbury |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
New Art Centre: Anthony Caro a major exhibition of large-scale sculpture by Caro dating from the 1970s to the 2000s, set within the landscape at Roche Court |
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Shanghai |
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Friday 20 | |||||||||
Almine Rech: Leelee Kimmel: Night Ride Kimmel’s first solo show in China – “there’s a sort of restless athleticism in Kimmel’s abstractions: we imagine the painter engaging in the most passionately direct way with her materials” – David Rimanelli |
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Almine Rech: Joe Andoe: Chinatown Andoe’s first solo show in China – and his first exhibition focused on this subject specifically – presents a series of galloping horses painted in various shades of red |
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Tokyo |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Perrotin Tokyo: Hans Hartung presented with Fondation Hartung-Bergman, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Hartung |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing |
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Basel |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Gagosian: David Reed: Losing and Finding | |||||||||
Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16: Thomas Struth | |||||||||
Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45: Thomas Struth | |||||||||
Bucharest |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Anca Poterașu Gallery: Zoltán Béla: One Day Together | |||||||||
Thursday 19 | |||||||||
Bartha Contemporary: Stephan Baumkötter: Recent Works | |||||||||
Friday 20 | |||||||||
Robilant+Voena, London: Sunneva Ása Weisshappel: New Work | |||||||||
Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Annka Kultys Gallery: Cecilia Fiona: Weightless are the Hearts of the Trees | |||||||||
Cob Gallery: Cat Roissetter: Rural Scenes | |||||||||
Flowers Gallery, Cork Street: Victoria Crowe: Resonance of Time | |||||||||
Karsten Schubert Room 2: Sarah Kogan: Warp | |||||||||
Michael Werner Gallery, Mayfair: Per Kirkeby – Geological Messages: Paintings from 1965-2015 | |||||||||
Pangolin London: Curve and Form | |||||||||
Pi Artworks: Matt Ager: FEELS2NICE | |||||||||
Simon Lee Gallery: Georg Karl Pfahler | |||||||||
Skarstedt: Take a Picture Make a Picture | |||||||||
Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.: Karen Kilimnik: Early Drawings 1976–1998 | |||||||||
Thaddaeus Ropac: Rosemarie Castoro: Working Out | |||||||||
Sunday 22 | |||||||||
A.I. Gallery at Cromwell Place: Rituals & Rebirths | |||||||||
Saatchi Yates: Kottie Paloma | |||||||||
The Photographers’ Gallery: Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Everyday Theatre | |||||||||
Thursday 19 | |||||||||
parrasch heijnen gallery: Tony DeLap and His Circle | |||||||||
Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Steve Turner: Claire Whitehurst: Follow the Moon | |||||||||
Steve Turner: Ania Hobson: Playing With Fire | |||||||||
Steve Turner: Shadi Al-Atallah: Waters That Never Quench | |||||||||
Sunday 22 | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth: Gary Simmons. Remembering Tomorrow | |||||||||
Melbourne |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Tolarno Galleries: Danie Mellor: redux | |||||||||
Thursday 19 | |||||||||
David Richard Gallery – Chelsea: Thornton Willis: A Painting Survey. Six Decades: Works from 1967 – 2017 | |||||||||
Friday 20 | |||||||||
David Richard Gallery – Uptown: Dee Shapiro’s “Redrawn and Redressed”, Re-presenting Classic Female Nudes | |||||||||
Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Hollis Taggart: Irene Monat Stern and Jan Peter Stern: Lyrical Modernism | |||||||||
Yancey Richardson Gallery: John Divola: Swimming Drunk | |||||||||
Saturday 21 | |||||||||
LGDR: Carolrama Coralarma Claromara Arolcarma Coralroma Ormalacra Carmarola | |||||||||
Perrotin Secondary Market: Jason Boyd Kinsella: The Impermanent State of Being | |||||||||
Sunday 22 | |||||||||
David Zwirner: Lucas Arruda: Assum Preto | |||||||||
Galleria Continua: Paloma Vauthier: Metanova | |||||||||
Tuesday 24 | |||||||||
Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin: Anselm Kiefer: Hommage à un poète | |||||||||
Rome |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
T293: Hannah Beerman: Sunspots and Underpants | |||||||||
Sag Harbor |
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Thursday 19 | |||||||||
Mark Borghi: Michi Itami: A Movement in Print | |||||||||
Tokyo |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Taka Ishii Gallery: Hirofumi Toyama: 1, 2 | |||||||||
Trento |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Boccanera: Gabriele Grones. Conversazioni | |||||||||
Saturday 21 | |||||||||
MEYER*KAINER: Amelie von Wulffen | view VR ▶ | ||||||||
Zürich |
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Saturday 21 | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth: Seventy Years of The Second Sex | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth: François Morellet. Neons | |||||||||
Hauser & Wirth Bahnhofstrasse 1: John Chamberlain. Reclaimed | |||||||||
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