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galerie frank elbaz presents a Holiday Selection of works by gallery artists
December 8, 2020
Featuring works in a wide range of mediums, sizes and budgets, the seasonal selection can be viewed online and at the galleries in Paris and Dallas
A sculpture by Sheila Hicks to place on a bookshelf or above a fireplace; A TIME drawing by Mungo Thomson; A joyful Bernard Piffaretti painting; A poetic multilayered photograph by Tbilisi born Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili; A neon snowflake titled White Devil by Blair Thurman, A souvenir from Rock Creek by Davide Balula; A portrait of a skater in the streets of 1986 New York by Ari Marcopoulos; A storyboard drawing by William Leavitt; A small toner pigment work by Leo Chesneau; Or a sweet autoportrait by Madeleine Roger-Lacan... is what our Christmas dreams are made of.
Dia Chelsea to reopen in April 2021 with new commissions by Lucy Raven
Following a two-year-long expansion and renovation, Dia Chelsea will reopen in April 2021 with an exhibition of newly commissioned work by American artist Lucy Raven. The culmination of a four-year engagement with Dia, Raven’s two installations will fill both galleries at Dia Chelsea. The expanded and upgraded space unites Dia’s three buildings on West 22nd Street.
The Gallery of Everything announces Camden Art Centre Instagram takeover
December 4, 2020
Starting from today (4 December), and continuing for the next four days, The Gallery of Everything is broadcasting a temporary takeover of the Camden Art Centre Instagram account in support of - and inspired by - The Botanical Mind. The Gallery will be sharing exclusive posts and stories, presenting such artists as Emery Blagdon, Marian Spore Bush, Minnie Evans, Guo Fengyi, Anna Hackel, Hector Hyppolite, Hilma af Klint, Josef Kotzian, Emma Kunz, Paul Laffoley, František Pecka, Janet Sobel, Scottie Wilson, Adolf Wölfli, Anna Zemánková and Henriette Zéphir.
Simon Lee Gallery announces representation of German artist Werner Büttner
December 2, 2020
Werner Büttner is renowned for drawing out deeper layers of meaning from quotidian life that at first glance seem banal. His canvases and collages depict a tragi-comic reality, confronting social norms with both irony and satire, while retaining a firm grip on the history of painting.
Work by Büttner will be on view in the gallery’s upcoming OVR: Miami presentation this December. Simon Lee Gallery’s first exhibition of Büttner’s work will take place at the London gallery in March 2021.
Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch present The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions
December 1, 2020
Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website, live from 30 November 2020 to 9 January 2021. The Future dares to speculate on what the coming years may have in store. Given the heightened political, economic, and environmental uncertainties of our current moment, this undertaking could hardly be more complex.
Marian Goodman Gallery to host a webinar on John Baldessari‘s Catalogue Raisonné
Taking place on Thursday 10 December at 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 9pm GMT, the conversation will feature panelists David Salle, Artist; Hannah Higgins, Art Historian/Professor, Intermedia & Avant-Garde Art and Culture, University of Illinois at Chicago; David Platzker, Art Historian & Curator/President, Specific Object and Simon Johnston Graphic Designer/Professor, Graphic Design, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, moderated by Patrick Pardo, Editor, John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné
South London Gallery announces new dates for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020
November 27, 2020
The annual open submission exhibition returns to the SLG for the third consecutive edition, and is set to open on 13 January 2021. With over fifteen hundred applications each year from emerging artists, the show offers a preview of some of the most exciting practices of the next generation. This year’s panel of guest selectors are internationally renowned artists Alexandre da Cunha, Anthea Hamilton and Linder.
The artists selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020 are: Sangbum Ahn, Ned Armstrong, Paul Barlow, Alexandre Canonico, Chen Si-zuo, Nicole Coson, Gabriella Davies, Lúcás Dillon, Ufuoma Essi, Jake Grewal, Clara Hastrup, Nimmi Hutnik, Lily Kemp, Maria Mahfooz, Zethu Zizwe Ruby Maseko, Rene Matić, Cat McClay and Éiméar McClay, Liam Mertens, Edwin Mingard, Kimie Minobe, Karabo Monareng, Pablo Paillole, Jung Min Park, Anne Carney Raines, Anika Roach, Jung Yun Roh, Shamica Ruddock, Sophie Ruigrok, Kirsty Sim, Anna-Rose Stefatou, Orfeo O’Leary Tagiuri, Giorgio van Meerwijk, Ahren Warner, Ashleigh Williams and Charlie Yetton.
Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Sophie Barber
November 26, 2020
Born in 1996 in St Leonards-on-Sea and working in the nearby town of Hastings, Sophie Barber is a painter who draws directly from the world around her, reproducing natural and man-made visual fragments in an attempt to preserve and process their forms. Gathering and positioning tents, birds, dens and word games on monumental block-colour canvases, she creates surreal, folk-like compositions that are less depictions of her native Sussex coast than distillations of the impression it leaves. Barber’s debut exhibition will open in London in September 2021.
Il Ponte Casa d‘Aste publishes catalogues ahead of the upcoming Modern and Contemporary Art sales
November 25, 2020
Taking place on 15 and 16 December 2020, the auctions will kick off with works by Italian modern masters including Alighiero Boetti, Enrico Castellani and Paolo Scheggi, as well as iconic pieces by Karel Appel, Sam Francis and Hans Hartung. Highlights from the 16 December auction include Andy Warhol‘s 1975 "Ladies and Gentlemen" silkscreens and contemporary art by Banksy, Agostino Bonalumi and Gabriel Orozco.
Hauser & Wirth announces representation of the François Morellet Estate
November 24, 2020
François Morellet (1926 – 2016), a prolific self-taught painter, sculptor, and installation artist, developed a radical approach to geometric abstraction during a career spanning more than six decades. His object-based paintings, neon and architectural installations, and site-specific works explored the creative potential of kinetic and pre-established systems, challenging the viewer’s understanding of perception and the physical picture plane. Working primarily with basic geometric forms, Morellet was committed to a methodology of rigorous objectivity and personal detachment.
The gallery's international representation of the artist will be in collaboration with the Paris-based gallery, kamel mennour. An exhibition of the Morellet’s work will be presented in New York in January 2021.
Richard Saltoun now represents Barbara Levittoux-Świderska
November 20, 2020
One of the most important textile artists in Poland, Barbara Levittoux-Świderska transformed tapestry from flat decoration into avant-garde installation. Born in Warsaw, Levittoux-Świderska came to prominence in the 1960s when textiles entered mainstream contemporary art. Like fellow Polish textile artists Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jolanta Owidzka, Levittoux-Świderska followed the Eastern European tradition, incorporating locally sourced materials and rural practices to improvise new textile art-making methods and forms, continuing a distinctly Polish and politically-charged weaving tradition.
Her work is currently included in the gallery's group exhibition 'Our inheritance was left to us by no testament' and will be presented virtually as part of Art Basel Miami Beach's Online Viewing Room (2–6 December 2020).
Gagosian spotlights Jeff Wall, as part of its Artist Spotlight series
November 19, 2020
From his pioneering use of backlit color transparencies in the 1970s to his intricately staged scenes of enigmatic incidents from daily life, literature, and film, Jeff Wall has expanded the definition of the photograph, both as object and as illusion. His pictures range from classical reportage and the direct contemplation of natural forms to elaborate constructions and montages, usually produced at a large scale traditionally identified with painting.
Yesomi Umolu appointed Director of Curatorial Affaris and Public Practice at Serpentine
November 18, 2020
Under Yesomi Umolu’s direction, the Serpentine will develop editorial and educational content for exhibitions, events and other curatorial initiatives, aimed at making Serpentine programmes more inclusive and accessible to all audiences, both physical and digital. Umolu will take up the role in January 2021.
Yesomi Umolu is currently Director and Curator, Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago, where she leads an ambitious programme of international contemporary art. Umolu also teaches courses in contemporary visual art and spatial practices as lecturer in the humanities division. The creation of this new position is at the head of the Serpentine’s efforts to centre audience experience and civic engagement in its curatorial mission.
Annka Kultys Gallery announces the representation of Gretchen Andrew
November 16, 2020
Gretchen Andrew is a self-proclaimed Internet Imperialist artist. Best known for her playful hacks on major art world institutions, Andrew’s current practice involves actively reprogramming the artificial intelligence underlying the global internet. Gretchen Andrew was born in 1988 in Los Angeles. She trained in London with the artist Billy Childish from 2012-2017. The artist will have her first exhibition, Other Forms of Travel, at the gallery’s London new exhibition space in February 2021. Her work is currently on view in Future News at the Monterey Museum, US marking the artist’s first solo museum exhibition.
Almine Rech now represents Huang Yuxing
November 12, 2020
Almine Rech has announced the representation of Chinese contemporary artist Huang Yuxing in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom, and his inaugural solo exhibition at Almine Rech Brussels in June 2021. Huang Yuxing (b. 1975, Beijing) is widely recognized among his generation for his dexterous ability to create paintings that reflect and preserve the process of their creation.
Zabludowicz Collection supports an online exhibition of works made during the pandemic to raise funds for vulnerable women
Originally scheduled to go on display at the Collection's London hub this month, the artworks will now be for sale online from 11 November to 25 December 2020, with proceeds going directly to Women + Health, a Camden based health charity that helps isolated and vulnerable women, including those who are survivors of domestic violence and rape, to overcome their multiple health challenges. A special online launch event will take place on 11 November at 7pm, including talks by art historian Frances Borzello, psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach, and Zabudowicz Collection Director Elizabeth Neilson. The online exhibition is curated by Frances Borzello, and Women + Health trustees Cass Wedd and Lesia Haliv.
Gagosian announces representation of Ewa Juszkiewicz in the United States and Hong Kong
November 6, 2020
Through meticulous technique and an acute sensitivity to color, Juszkiewicz engineers strangeness without compromising the aesthetic harmony of the images from which she works. Classical in method but subversive in intent, her paintings eerily deconstruct ideals of feminine beauty and other societal clichés. Juszkiewicz’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view through the storefront windows of Gagosian Park & 75, New York, twenty-four hours a day from 17 November, 2020.
The Museum + Gallery of Everything present an exclusive talk and screening on Hilma af Klint
November 3, 2020
Taking place on Friday 6 November at 7pm GMT, The Museum + Gallery of Everything invite you to an exclusive talk and screening of Beyond the Visible - the documentary on Swedish mediumistic artist, Hilma af Klint. A conversation with Iris Müller-Westermann - original curator of the Hilma af Klint retrospective - along with the film's director, Halina Dyrschka, will precede the screening. The conversation will recall the origins of the discovery of the oeuvre of Hilma at Klint, and the process of bringing it into the public consciousness. It will also discuss the phenomenal success of subsequent exhibitions in London and New York and how that popular fame has impacted the genre.
Sélavy by Di Donna presents a Fall Salon
On view through December 12, 2020, The Fall Salon: Icons Through the Ages features masterworks of art, design, and antiquities spanning from 2600 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
This is the second presentation from Sélavy by Di Donna, a shoppable online salon of art and design with a storefront vitrine in Southampton, New York. The Fall Salon is available to explore and purchase instantly online and in person at 30 Jobs Lane in Southampton.
