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The Week in Art
21-28 Nov 2023

Openings, events, auctions

Shiryū Morita / Machiko Ogawa @ galerie frank elbaz Paris		Richie Culver & Hannah Perry @ Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer Vienna		Winter Interlude @ Christophe Guye Galerie Zürich
Pope.L @ South London Gallery London		Larry Zox @ Berry Campbell Gallery New York		Tous les jours @ Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris

Basel

Thursday 23

Gagosian:
Nan Goldin: Full Moon
an exhibition of video and large-scale photographs by Goldin – “that’s been my relationship to the world and what I’ve been photographing since I was fifteen” – Goldin

opening reception

Bruton

Monday 27

Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG

tour

Helsinki

Friday 24

Galerie Forsblom:
Heikki Marila: Paintings
this new exhibition by the leading Finnish contemporary artist is themed around the trope of flowers

opens

Galerie Forsblom:
Emma Helle: Walking Lake, Burning Heart
in Helle’s latest sculptures human figures stand motionless in the landscape, benevolently protecting and caring for everything around them

opens

Hong Kong

Wednesday 22

Christie’s Hong Kong:
Cultured Legacy: Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Chang Shiu Sig and Tung Shui Wah Collection
auction: Wed 22 Nov – Wed 6 Dec
(viewing: Sat 25 – Thu 30 November)

auction starts

Tuesday 28

Christie’s Hong Kong:
Post-Millennium Evening Sale, a Collab with Jay Chou
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Sat 25 – Tue 28 November)

auction

Christie’s Hong Kong:
20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale
auction: Tue 28
(viewing: Wed 15 – Tue 28 November)

auction

London

Tuesday 21

Hamiltons:
Mario Testino: Gone Wild
an exhibition of exclusive, new photographs of animals – from Kenyan lions to rare birds in Brazil – by the internationally renowned photographer, shown at the gallery for the first time

opens

Pace, London:
Paulina Olowska: Squelchy Garden Mules and Mamunas
Olowska’s debut exhibition since joining the gallery showcases paintings, collages, film, and sound installation across the entirety of the Hanover Square space

opening reception

Shapero Modern:
Rory Hutton: Gardening in Linocut
limited edition linocuts inspired by history, gardens, opera and antiques, celebrate Hutton’s love of gardens

opening reception

Sotheby’s London:
Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
auction: Tue 21
(viewing: Fri 17 – Tue 21 November)

auction

South London Gallery:
Pope.L: Hospital
”Hospital is that sensation of lying on your back on a stretcher in a hallway staring at the veins in the ceiling above while it stares right back” – Pope.L on his first solo exhibition at a London institution

opens

South London Gallery Fire Station:
Pope.L: Hospital
”Hospital is that sensation of lying on your back on a stretcher in a hallway staring at the veins in the ceiling above while it stares right back” – Pope.L on his first solo exhibition at a London institution

opens

Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.:
Peter Fischli David Weiss
an exhibition of famous works, centrally important to Fischli and Weiss’ practice

opening reception

Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.:
Keith Arnatt: Eden 69–89
an exhibition focussing on work from 1969 to 1989, with photographs taken around his home on the Welsh borders alongside physical interventions, proposals and jokes

opening reception

Wednesday 22

Almine Rech:
Amanda Wall: Femcel
“Wall navigates the path between disassociation and transcendence, peeking into the gestalt of the sexless sex objects, the zeitgeist of the post-postmodern woman” – Alexis Schwartz

opening reception

Almine Rech:
Inès Longevial: Pourfendue
“Longevial paints faces and bodies traversed by silence, inhabited gracefully and modestly by vast fields of color. Creating reliefs and furrows in flesh reddened by the sun or tinged with blue in the morning” – Eva Pion

opening reception

Michael Werner Gallery:
Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand
an exhibition of paintings from the 1980s and 1990s by the American musician, poet, and painter famous by his stage name Captain Beefheart – “the way I keep in touch with the world is very gingerly” – Van Vliet

private view

Sotheby’s London:
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
auction: Wed 22
(viewing: Fri 17 – Tue 21 November)

auction

Victoria Miro:
Stephen Willats: Time Tumbler
curated with Jelena Kristic, and to mark Willats’ eightieth birthday, an exhibition by the pioneering British conceptual artist with new works alongside seminal examples from the 1970s

private view

Thursday 23

Alice Amati:
Rafal Topolewski: Interludes
in Topolewski’s first solo show with the gallery, recent paintings which “evoke the hallucinatory quality of dreams and the sensation of things half-remembered or forgotten”

private view

Arusha Gallery:
Helen Flockhart – In Elysian Fields
new paintings by Flockhart “verdant, fantastical paeans to that particularist genre of British myth making centered on pastures, mountains and divinity”

opening reception

Carl Kostyál:
Matthew Palladino: Down From The Mountain
large-scale works on paper in two distinct themes, the world of organic natural plant-based forms, and that of intricate, dream-like interiors

private view

Parafin:
Tania Kovats: as above so below
drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects exploring the natural world from the artist, curator, teacher and author

opens

Sim Smith Gallery:
Stellatundra

opening reception

Stephen Friedman Gallery:
The Place I Am
celebrating the global breadth of the gallery’s programme, new and previously unseen paintings, sculptures and works on paper in a group show of gallery artists

private view

The Sunday Painter:
The Reactor

opening reception

Tiwani Contemporary:
Miranda Forrester: Arrival
Forrester’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Cork Street, London, focuses on the domestic intimacy of the anticipation of her newborn baby and the growth of her family

opening reception

Friday 24

ATLAS Gallery:
Cornucopia
rare and valuable works by some of the greatest names in photography

opens

Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square:
Fiona Tan, Footsteps

opens

Shtager&Shch:
The Song of Psyche: Corners of a Soul’s Otherworlds: Nicola Turner, Edward Bekkerman
“the dialogue of seemingly opposite, albeit intuitional, dreamscapes … The juxtaposition of difference, however, is a key to the the uncharted territories of imagination, where the lines between reality and fantasy blur” – Denis Maksimov – Gupta

private view

ZÉRUÌ:
Bloody Lipstick, Blooming Dirt
an exhibition curated by Indira Béraud & Marco Galvan, with Aléa, Henry Kitchner & Meryl Yana

opening reception

Saturday 25

Cob Gallery:
Chinaza Agbor: Kindness and Hospitality from a Foreigner
the debut UK solo exhibition of painting and sculpture by the Texan-Nigerian artist

opens

Tiwani Contemporary:
Miranda Forrester: Arrival

talk

Zabludowicz Collection:
All Crescendo, No Reward

tour

Sunday 26

Zabludowicz Collection:
All Crescendo, No Reward

tour

Milan

Wednesday 22

Sotheby’s Milan:
Contemporary Auction
auction: Wed 22
(viewing: Fri 17 – Tue 21 November)

auction

Thursday 23

Christie’s Milan:
20th/21st Century Milan Online Sale
auction: Thu 23 Nov – Tue 5 Dec

auction starts

New York

Wednesday 22

Berry Campbell Gallery:
Larry Zox: Gemini
twenty paintings and works on paper from 1963 to 1969 by the important Color Field painter

opens

Palm Beach

Wednesday 22

GAVLAK:
Andrew Brischler: Self Portraits
“the pictures buzz with a kind of anticipatory energy and propulsiveness, in part because they capture such moments of frisson but also because they represent a new body of work and an exciting new direction for Brischler” – Danny Kopel

opens

Saturday 25

Findlay Galleries Palm Beach:
Isabelle de Ganay
works by the acclaimed French impressionist

opens

Paris

Tuesday 21

Christie’s Paris:
The Exceptional Sale, Including masterpieces from the Rothschild Collections
auction: Tue 21
(viewing: Tue 14 – Tue 21 November)

auction

Sotheby’s Paris:
Important Design
auction: Tue 21
(viewing: Fri 17 – Mon 20 November)

auction

Thursday 23

Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Antoni Tàpies: Les Armes d’Éros
a dozen paintings on wood and canvas – assemblages of various objects and materials emblematic of Tàpies’s work

opening reception

Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon:
Nalini Malani: The Human Stain
works by Malani, widely considered to be a pioneer of video art in India, exploring violence, the feminine, and the politics of national identity

opens

Saturday 25

Art: Concept:
Richard Fauguet: Pipeshow
“if there is one thing Richard Fauguet has got us used to, it’s his use of puns and set phrases in the names of his exhibitions, which, in an area of art where seriousness reigns supreme, can be disconcerting”

opening reception

Galerie Chantal Crousel:
Tous les jours
a group exhibition curated by Eva Svennung

opening reception

galerie frank elbaz:
Shiryū Morita / Machiko Ogawa
an exhibition with works by Morita and Ogawa, organized in collaboration with Shibunkaku

opening reception

Perrotin Marais:
Shim Moon-Seup
paintings, drawings and sculptures in his first solo exhibition in Paris – “Nature is too strong. It shouldn’t express itself unchanged. You have to work on it and with it, but gently. This is the role of the sculptor” – Shim Moon-Seup

opens

Tuesday 28

Christie’s Paris:
Contemporary Art – online sale including “A Lifetime Collection”
auction: Tue 28 Nov – Fri 8 Dec
(viewing: Fri 1 – Fri 8 December)

auction starts

Stockholm

Saturday 25

Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Jeff Olsson: Oh No
an installation of drawings from the last few of years – “the content of the drawings almost always takes place at night … Darkness can bring danger and discomfort, but there is also a kind of poetic potential in the indeterminacy” – Olsson

opening reception

Vienna

Thursday 23

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer:
Richie Culver & Hannah Perry
“Perry’s and Culver’s practices express sorrow, grief, and loss, but with those more optimistic ideals such as love, communication, and world building”

opening reception

Zürich

Thursday 23

Christophe Guye Galerie:
Winter Interlude
a group exhibition presenting a unique selection of works attuned to the season

opening reception

Fabian Lang:
Xiao Guo Hui: Le Théâtre du Paradis
Xiao’s largest solo exhibition to date, and his first one in Switzerland

opening reception

Don’t miss: exhibitions closing

John Caple @ John Martin Gallery London		Arte moderna e contemporanea @ Tornabuoni Arte Milan		Picasso, Miró, Calder @ A&R Fleury Paris
Rosalind Nashashibi @ Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo		Break Time @ Gallery Chosun Seoul		John Hultberg @ Anita Shapolsky Gallery New York