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FÃ¡bio Menino's first solo exhibition in the United States opens at Jupiter Contemporary
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Jupiter Contemporary is presenting Low Battery, FÃ¡bio Meninos first solo exhibition in the United States, featuring new and never-before-seen paintings that compel a consideration of the relationship between our functional needs and material desires by foregrounding the aesthetic appeal, streamlined design, and seductive advertisements of utilitarian objects. Sourcing product imagery from the internet, and the Google shopping platform in particular, Menino chooses objects to feature in his paintings largely based on their quotidian utility, but also on their design and the way in which advertisements aestheticize, and perhaps even nullify, functionality. Taking formal cues from artists such as Vija Celmins, Wayne Thiebaud, and even Haim Steinbach. Ferro de Passar Roupa (Clothes Irons), 2022, for example, depicts ... More

First solo exhibition in Austria by Rebecca Warren opens at The Belvedere 21
VIENNA.- Having achieved international renown with her sculptures, collages and vitrines, Rebecca Warren has been among contemporary arts most prominent protagonists for more than twenty years. The Belvedere 21 presents the first solo exhibition in Austria by this seminal British sculptor. Stella Rollig, General Director of the Belvedere: At a time of rising interest in figurative representations in the visual arts, Rebecca Warren stands out as a pioneer and role model. The home of Fritz Wotrubas estate offers an appropriate frame of reference for this highly topical perspective in sculpture. Rebecca Warren makes sculptures, assemblages, and constructions in a wide variety of materials. Her distinctive and complex oeuvre, blending tradition with the quotidian, seriousness with frivolity, mastery with mismatch, has embodied her attitudes ... More

Museum of the African Diaspora expanding its Emerging Artists Program with grant from IMLS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco has recently been awarded one of 33 Museum Grants for African American History and Culture from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The two-year grant will support the expansion of MoADs signature Emerging Artists Program (EAP), a juried competition that selects four local Black artists per year for a solo exhibition at the Museum. Since 2015, EAP has been an incubator for Black Bay Area emerging artists who are at critical junctures in their careers, providing them with financial and professional support to help promote their work, better establish their careers, and expand their visibility. Since EAP was established, MoAD has worked with 20 emerging artists, the majority of whom have gone on to successful careers. The IMLS funding allows MoAD ... More

Galerie Chantal Crousel presents "Mona Hatoum Performance Documents, 1980-1987/2013"
PARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel is hosting Mona Hatoums newest solo exhibition in its second space at 5 rue de Saintonge, with a presentation of the major installation Performance Documents, 1980-1987/2013. This important work comprising photographs, sketches, drawings, notes, descriptions and videos, brings together rare archive material from a strategic and early point in Hatoums career when she created performance in both a gallery setting and outside, on the streets. Hatoum's performances are particularly striking since they are both dramatically visual and emotionally and politically engaged, characteristics which underpin all of her work thereafter. In these works we see themes that the artist returns to many times in her sculptures, installations and works on paper, with particular focus on the body, issues of gender and notions ... More

Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in Shanghai
SHANGHAI.- Almine Rech Shanghai is presenting Farah Atassi's third solo exhibition, on view from July 16 to July 23, 2022. The society of the spectacle. The performance is over, or perhaps it is yet to begin. Farah Atassi's dancers are at rest, sometimes even asleep, on a stage with a half-open curtain, not for some ballet but for other art forms. Indeed, in the center of a space lined entirely with an impeccable grid that plays almost hypnotically with the reclining dancer's striped costume, striped paintings emerge from the decor, while on the ground a frame seems to be waiting to become an abstraction. These intersecting lines in Sleeping dancer 3 reveal other crossings, other encounters those of painting, dance, and theater. This singular dialogue occurs again on the stage of Dancer on stage 2: next to some striped paintings strewn on the floor, the dancer, ... More

Remai Modern hosts most comprehensive presentation of works by Tino Sehgal in Canada
SASKATOON.- This summer at Remai Modern, visitors are invited to experience a distinctive exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Tino Sehgal. Through selected works that span the breadth of his practice, the museum plays host to what Sehgal calls constructed situations ephemeral art experiences activated through encounters between the museum visitor and the individuals enacting his work. Sehgal is a leading international figure working in the realm of live arts. His work invites audiences to reconsider the way art is produced, presented, and received. Remai Modern presents three works by the artist, all of which include contributions by people in the community. Two of the projects, Yet untitled and This Situation (solo), will be enacted by local dancers and thinkers. The third project, This Success/This Failure, features children ... More

Dutch pavilion at the 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition; winner of the Golden Bee Award
MILAN.- The 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition is now open to the public, with the Dutch pavilions Have we met? promoting new ways for understanding our planet as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans and other animals. The view that the earth exists solely for human exploitation must be radically rethought to confront todays environmental crises. Have we met? therefore examines what attitudes, tools and technologies are necessary to recalibrate the relationship between humans and non-humans. An urban area in Rotterdam, a regenerative farm in the Netherlands rural east, and an abandoned North Sea oil rig: these three ecologically diverse sites help to explore the possibilities for interspecies relationships. While nature studies traditionally rely on quantitative data, human experience is usually assessed by qualitative means; ... More

PHI announces winners of the International Architecture Competition for PHI Contemporary
MONTREAL.- After 11 months of rigorous development, the International Architecture Competition is now complete. The winning architectural firms Kuehn Malvezzi + Pelletier de Fontenay will pursue the mandate to develop their proposal and realize the architectural design of PHI Contemporary, transforming the site into a new cultural hub for Old Montreal. Berlin-based architectural practice Kuehn Malvezzi and Montreal-based firm Pelletier de Fontenay will work as a consortium to realize the design of PHI Contemporary. They collectively share more than 30 years of experience within the cultural and public spheres, bringing together a sophisticated knowledge of the museum domain and a critical understanding of built heritage. PHI begins this new chapter with the architects to transform four heritage buildings and an adjacent lot, located at the ... More

'T' Space opens an exhibition of new works by Arlene Shechet
RHINEBECK, NY.- T Space is presenting Couple of an exhibition of new works by Arlene Shechet. Following Shechets recent solo presentations in Hong Kong and LA, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to experience Shechets works in the Hudson Valley where the artist lives and works. The main installation consists of three sculptures, each executed in a different material: carved wood with steel, cast iron, and glazed ceramic. Together, the works reveal the breadth of Shechets practice and her mastery of diverse mediums. Shechets works typically require heavy-lifting and involve serious materials yet are characterized by creative spontaneity and an effortless combination of disparate elements, often in precarious arrangements. Employing texture, color, materiality, and physical humor, Shechets sculptures synthesize the logic of painting, ... More

Enchantingly Real: Bernardo Bellotto at the Court of Saxony
DRESDEN.- This retrospective celebrates the Venetian artist Bernardo Bellotto (17221780) three hundred years after the artists birth. Bellotto, who, like his uncle and teacher Antonio Canal, went by the name Canaletto, is considered one of the eighteenth centurys most important painters of the town scenes known as vedute. To this day, his paintings offer us a unique insight into the architecture and everyday life of the baroque period. The roughly 140 exhibits on show in the GemÃ¤ldegalerie Alte Meister paint Bellottos life and works in a fresh light, focusing on the milestones of his career as an artist. Following his early days in Venice, Bellotto moved to Dresden in 1747, where he painted large-scale vedute for the Saxon Prince Electors, for Frederick Augustus III King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania and for the latters prime minister ... More