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Exhibition looks at the importance of light and how its treatment has evolved in Faroese art
PARIS.- From 14 January to 13 March 2022, the Maison du Danemarks arts space Le Bicolore, on the Champs-ÃlysÃ©es, in Paris, is hosting a major exhibition. As the sun bursts through looks at the importance of light and how its treatment has evolved in Faroese art of the 20th and 21st centuries via figurative and abstract artworks by IngÃ¡lvur av Reyni (1920-2005), Zacharias Heinesen (born in 1936), Hansina Iversen (born in 1966) and RannvÃ¡ Kunoy (born in 1975). In tandem with the exhibition, there will be a packed programme of accompanying events encompassing music, literature, cinema, design, gastronomy and folk art. Probably because, for centuries, their position on the fringe of the north Atlantic kept them relatively isolated, in the Faroe Islands, age-old customs have remained living traditions. Faroese society blends traditional and ... More

South African artist Kendell Geers opens an exhibition at Carpenters Worksop Gallery
PARIS.- From the Flash to the Flesh, something is dismantled in Kendell Geers. The spirit no longer describes a common inspiration; it calls towards phenomena that are difficult to explain, like a poltergeist a spirit that strikes. Once the spirit becomes flesh, the false merges with the true, the unity of reference breaks down. A space opens up to explore, to play with strangeness, false recognition and false perceptions disorders of identity. What is African art? Does it consist of tangible plastic similarities? Or even, to put it like Leopold Senghor, the first president of Senegal, does it express the unity of a spirituality, of a philosophy? On a support-mirror, an immense bronze sculpture: a woman without hands, whose forms echo the fabulous idea of an ancient African statuary that remains undefined. She is surrounded by eight bronze masks, placed ... More

Leading bookseller's private collection goes up for sale
NEW YORK, NY.- William Reese, a leading rare-book dealer who died in 2018, left his stamp on private and institutional collections across the country, representing major libraries at auctions and shaping the tastes of a generation of collectors who visited his appointment-only shop in New Haven, Connecticut. But there was another Reese trove that far fewer people got to see: his private library. Christies will be selling that personal collection in a series of auctions starting in May, in what it is calling the most significant sale of printed Americana in more than half a century and one of the most valuable single-owner book auctions ever. The collection, which is being sold in about 700 lots, carries a total estimate of $12 million to $18 million, which Christina Geiger, the auction houses head of books and manuscripts, described as conservative. Highlights ... More

Annet Gelink Gallery opens the group show 'Blindenzimmer'
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting the group show Blindenzimmer, with work by Yael Bartana, David Claerbout, Roger Hiorns, Meiro Koizumi, Rezi van Lankveld, Erik van Lieshout, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Wilfredo Prieto, Johannes Schwartz, Dick Verdult and Marijke van Warmerdam. Blindenzimmer explores the metaphorical circus of our current societal and political state, whose reality highlights both the sublime and the absurd of the human condition. Titled after Johannes Schwartz series of the same name, which documents the interiors of blind peoples homes, the show delves into the inwardness of this surreal moment. Looking at visitors under a mask of bright makeup, Dick Verdults Very Very Said welcomes them in the gallery space. With subtle irony, Verdult investigates the state of current events through the figure of the clown. Aware ... More

Towers rise over London's Brick Lane, clouding its future
LONDON.- Ornate English and Bengali typography adorns the signs of Taj Stores, one of the oldest Bangladeshi-run supermarkets in the Brick Lane neighborhood of East London. The signs evoke a part of the areas past, when it became known as Banglatown, and eventually home to the largest Bangladeshi community in Britain. But Brick Lanes future is looking very uncertain, said Jamal Khalique, standing inside a supermarket opened in 1936 by his great-uncle and now run by Khalique and his two brothers. Modern office buildings of glass and steel and a cluster of apartments and cranes tower above the skyline. New coffee shops, restaurants, food markets and hotels appear in the neighborhood each year. According to one study, the borough of Tower Hamlets, which contains Brick Lane, had the most gentrification in London from 2010 ... More

Kenechukwu Victor's first in-person solo exhibition with Thierry Goldberg opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Let there be Light, Let there be White, Kenechukwu Victors first in-person solo exhibition with the gallery, following his online solo exhibition this summer, Eziokwu (UndilutedTruths). The exhibition runs from January 15th through February 19th, 2022. Let There Be Light, Let There Be White continues Kenechukwu Victors passion for storytelling through portraiture. Utilizing a pallet of vibrant hues, Victor exposes personal perspectives on the realities of Nigerian life. His figures transcend from their surrounding environments, their lips and hair painted Victors signature white, alluding to the Nzu tradition symbolizing truth, purity, and peace. Each portrait functions as its own narrative, resulting in an exhibition that resounds in a cacophony of stories, memories, and experiences. Drawing influence ... More

signs and symbols opens its first solo exhibition of works by Adam Broomberg
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Glitter in My Wounds. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Adam Broomberg invites CAConrad and Gersande Spelsberg as his collaborators. The exhibition presents a selection of hand printed, photographic portraits of the trans activist and actress Gersande Spelsberg taken by Broomberg, accompanied by a sound piece featuring Spelsbergs voice and CAConrads poetics. Spelsbergs story of transitioning reflects on and questions the many toxic pre-existing conditions that shape contemporary gender roles, further informed by CAConrads poetry on confronting identities that had previously felt fixed and immutable. Adam Broomberg has long been fascinated by the binary positions of two photographers from the 20th Century the famous Weimar Republic photographer, August Sander, and ... More

Nara Roesler New York opens a retrospective of Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik
NEW YORK, NY.- Abraham Palatnik (19282020) is a monumental figure in Latin American art. Arguably the author of the earliest mechanical experiments with movement and color, giving him a pioneering position among practitioners of Op Art in the Americas, Palatnik is a complex creator who bridged technology and art, energy and color, function and ornament, nature and movement within his work. Born in Brazil to parents who emigrated from Ukraine at the beginning of twentieth century, Palatnik moved in his early childhood to Palestine, remaining there until 1948. Trained as an artist and engineer there, he began to work influenced by both the School of Paris and Modern Bauhaus-like ideas. But it was his experience at the National Center of Psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro, led by Nise da Silveira alongside peers such as Amir Mavignier ... More

New light installation near Old Street roundabout opens bright window to a dark future
LONDON.- At first glance, it looks like any ordinary high street shop but the signs in the window at 103 Murray Grove arent offering manicures or replacement phone screens. From interplanetary money transfer services to fast food made from insect protein, these garishly colourful signs flash and blink a hi-tech vision of the future rendered in low-tech LEDs. London-based visual artist and designer Simon the Last has taken over the entire front window of a retail unit near Londons Silicon Roundabout with his new work WE WILL STILL BE HERE / WILL WE STILL BE HERE. The eye-catching installation features 10 illuminated LED shop window signs arranged in a single shopfront and imagines which products and services might be available while-u-wait 50 years from now. It presents todays cutting edge technology as cheap, pedestrian ... More

Janet Rady Fine Art opens new online exhibition Carnivals of Clouds
LONDON.- Janet Rady Fine Art is presenting Carnivals of Clouds, a group exhibition of international artists, featuring Alice Macdonald, Beatrice Hassell-McCosh, Blessing Ngobeni, Iain Andrews, Jade van der Mark, Kerry Louise Bennett, Koshiro Akiyama, Lindsey Jean McClean, Orla Murray and Yann Leto. As the name of the exhibition suggests, Carnival of Clouds is inspired in part by Emily Dickinsons poem, Heaven has different signs to me, which comments on our boundless capacity for awe and wonder found in in human relationships, the natural world, and quotidian happenings in our surrounding environment. At once playful, imaginative and evocative, the works reflect the necessity of expression and the lived experience that resonates through us all, while also embodying a psychological tone. Bringing together ten artists from across ... More

Exhibition presents highlights from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection
MALIBU, CA.- Pepperdine Universitys Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art presents the exhibition The Cultivators: Highlights from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection, featuring masterful works of art, photographs, rare books, letters, and manuscripts that chronicle the achievements and contributions of African Americans over the last five centuries. Curated by Khalil Kinsey and Larry Earl, The Cultivators includes some of the collections signature objects, which have traveled the globe to more than 30 venues over the last 15 years, along with works that have never before been shown publicly. Marking the first hometown presentation of the Kinsey Collection since 2007, The Cultivators is on view at the Weisman Museum of Art from January 15 to March 27, 2022, and will be accompanied by a full slate of public programs, including ... More