| Moderna Museet Malmö opens Tilpo and Per Wizén | | Michele Ciacciofera opens third solo exhibition with Michel Rein | | albertz benda presents Felipe Pantone's second show with the gallery | 
Tilpo, Legend, 2016 Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet.
MALMO.- Tilpo is the common pseudonym for the painter Hans Eriksson and the set designer Hanna Aihonen. Together, the artist couple create stories that open up new ways of looking at the world. Their imaginative paintings turn the familiar inside out and tear up boundaries between reality and visions. With few exceptions, the works in this exhibition are from the last few years, and some are brand new. During the first weekend of the exhibition, Tilpo will also create a large painting on site in the museum before a live audience. Hans Eriksson studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm from 1981 through 1986, and for decades he has been regarded as an artists artist. Hanna Aihonen Eriksson has extensive experience of work in the theatre world and acts as a co-creator in these paintings. Their work together on this exhibition and on other artistic projects is part of a collaboration that has been going on for twenty years. In their paintings, the ... More | | 
Eternal ephemera, 2019. Found wooden stick, stainless steel fork, aluminum can, acrylic, spray paint, fire painted stainless steel, bâton en bois trouvé, fourchette inox, canette aluminium, acrylique, peinture spray, inox peint à feu, 150 x 29 x 19,5 cm (59.06 x 11.42 x 7.48 in.) unique artwork.
BRUSSELS.- Michel Rein Gallery is presenting Michele Ciacciofera's third solo exhibition after: Time in territories of life (2020) and The Library of encoded time (2019). His first solo exhibition in Belgium is entitled "Step into Life of Maybe", which refers to a possible world, the life of the "maybe" or the "can be", a world other than the one we are confronted with or even subjected to. The works draw this alternative, between the animal world, the environment in the broad sense and the human world, without distinction between the parts, beyond the nature-culture separation, but rather in a hybridity without hierarchy, where man can become the carer. The figure of the open eye appears in many of the works, as a critical awareness beyond the ordinary gaze. The theme of cosmic ... More | | 
Felipe Pantone: Metallic Contact, albertz benda, NY. April 7-May 14th, 2022. Photo: Thomas Mueller.
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting Felipe Pantone: Metallic Contact, the artists second show with the gallery, on view from April 7 to May 14, 2022. Pantones practice is rooted in the visual language of the virtual world, expressed through an exacting approach to physical material. He brings together the precision of high-tech manufacturing tools with the immediacy of spray paint and the direct intervention of the artists hand: such as combining manually applied enamel with digital UV paint. With each body of work, Pantone continues to develop his language of abstraction that addresses the ways in which our lives are mediated through technology. The artist fuses his interest in Op art and Kinetic art which encourage viewers to reflect on their perception of space and movement with his inventive approach towards contemporary technologies. Pantones latest body of work evokes the gleaming, streamline ... More |
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| Parrasch Heijnen presents 'Tony DeLap and His Circle: Friends, Colleagues and Students' | | Mitchell Fine Art opens an exhibition of Aboriginal and Contemporary artworks | | MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome opens Cinzia Ruggeri's first restrospective | 
Installation view.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting "Tony DeLap and his Circle," a scholarly view of DeLap's six-decade long career marked by the sustained and wide-ranging impact he and his oeuvre have had on generations of artists. This exhibition includes works by: Peter Alexander, Bas Jan Ader, Vija Celmins, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Marcia Hafif, Donald Judd, Craig Kauffman, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Bruce Nauman, Deborah Remington, Alexis Smith, and Frank Stella. We developed this exhibition with concerted cooperation and curatorial assistance from both the Estate of Tony DeLap and DeLap's longtime friend, the noted art historian Barbara Rose (b. 1936-d. 2020). Rose promoted DeLap's work and wrote the lead essay for his 2014 monograph (pub. Radius Books). Her input on this project prior to her death in December 2020 was invaluable, as she and the gallery jointly sought to develop a greater global understanding of DeLap ... More | | 
Julie Mununggurr, Untitled Lorrkon. Acrylic on hollowed wooden log, 125 x 11 cm.
BRISBANE.- A group exhibition of Contemporary and Aboriginal artworks highlighting the classic palette of black and white is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from May 3rd. Showcasing visually striking monochromatic themed paintings, drawings and artefacts, the exhibition celebrates artworks where the spectrum of colour is reduced to a minimum. Aboriginal artists featured, such as Lily Kelly Napangardi and Kay Rubuntja Napurrula, have seldom deviated from a monochromatic palette in their artistic practice. In contrast, a focal point of the exhibition is a painting by Angelina Ngale from the Utopia region in Central Australia, who has rarely restricted her use of colour in such a way. The exhibition features an exciting mix of Gallery represented artists including Kim Wilson, Jeff Makin, Min-Woo Bang, Peter Hudson, Carlos Barrios, Margaret Loy Pula, Mirra Whale, David Hayes ... More | | 
Cinzia Ruggeri, Cinzia Says
Exhibition view. MACRO, 2022.
ROME.- Cinzia says
is the first major retrospective on artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942-2019), an unconventional figure who moved freely between different disciplines. Her life and versatile practice were animated by the desire to redefine the formal and functional status of elements of everyday life: from apparel to accessories, from furnishings to lighting. Cinzia Ruggeri was capable of creating a world based on an imaginative, provocative, elegant, and never predictable imaginary. With a continuous semantic metamorphosis, she investigated the expressive and behavioural potential of objects, as well as the architectural and social dimensions of the human body. As a tribute to one of the protagonists of Italian creativity, the exhibition aims to offer as broad and complete a vision as possible of her career, thanks to in-depth research conducted in collaboration with Archivio Cinzia Ruggeri ... More |
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| Museum Tinguely presents "Anouk Kruithof: Universal Tongue" | | Descanso Gardens debuts immersive art experience, Your (Un)Natural Garden by Adam Schwerner | | Landmark exhibition of Dubai-based artist trio opens at The NYUAD Art Gallery | 
Installation view.
BASEL.- Dance is a universal language. It is a means of communication, but also a form of self-expression, self-realization, and individual and collective empowerment. It brings together people of all ages and backgrounds and forges a sense of community. By dancing, we celebrate life in all its manifold facets. In a wide-ranging research project called Universal Tongue (2018), Dutch artist Anouk Kruithof has been studying dance as a worldwide cultural phenomenon sedimented in YouTube videos and clips, and together with her team of 50 helpers has compiled some 8,800 films. The result is a video installation, each of whose eight channels choreographs a four-hour-long selection of the most diverse dance styles for solo dancers, pairs, and groups. The films are accompanied by a four-hour-long music compilation drawn from the found film footage. The diverse modes of expression in this kaleidoscope of virtuosity, joie de vivre, and ritual enactment make it at once touchin ... More | | 
All the Bells at Your (Un)natural Garden © Descanso Gardens.
LA CAÃADA FLINTRIDGE, CA.- Descanso Gardens announces the debut of an innovative, immersive art experience by provocative artist, Adam Schwerner. Your (Un)natural Garden which runs April 16, 2022Jan. 8, 2023, invites you to experience art in the garden like youve never seen or felt before. Schwerners work in the Sturt Haaga Gallery, Boddy House, and throughout the landscape will intrigue your senses and demand your participation. Were so excited to be partnering with Adam Schwerner to present Your (Un)Natural Garden, said Juliann Rooke, Executive Director, Descanso Gardens. We love his aesthetic which combines art and landscape to create multi-layered experiences that spark discussion and challenge your perceptions. Its fascinating to see how the Gardens inform and inspire his work. My work deals with many different concepts, said Schwerner. Societal, psychological, e ... More | | 
Installation view of Parthenogenesis: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian at The NYUAD Art Gallery. Photo: John Varghese.
ABU DHABI.- The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery opened its doors to its Spring 2022 exhibition titled Parthenogenesis: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian. Comprising several major new bodies of work, Parthenogenesis marks the artist trios first solo show at a UAE institution. Ramin, Rokni, and Hesam, originally from Iran, have adopted the UAE as their home. They are known for their immersive, surreal projects, performances, paintings, and animations, which have exhibited internationally, at multiple biennials and major museums (including Liverpool, Sydney, and Toronto biennials, and Kunsthalle Zurich, ICA Boston, MACBA Barcelona, and a forthcoming project at the Hayward Gallery, London). Speaking together about their practice, the artists said: Our work is about generosity and celebration, to embrace other people as an answer to the challenges ... More |
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| Celeste Rapone's first solo show with Marianne Boesky Gallery opens in New York | | Sabrina Amrani opens an exhibition of works by Gabriela Bettini | | Bo Bartlett Center presents a survey of Contemporary artist couples | 
Celeste Rapone, Purist (detail) 2022, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches, 76.2 x 66 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Nightshade, Celeste Rapones first solo show with the gallery. For this exhibition, the artist debuts a group of nine paintings. In her newest body of work, Rapone continues to examine the potential of painting through the human form. Drawing inspiration from her native New Jersey, Rapone seeks to communicate both personal and collective feelings of anxiety, longing, and nostalgia experienced in contemporary life. Nightshade is the artists first solo exhibition in New York and is on view May 4 June 11, 2022, at the gallerys 507 West 24 Street location. Rapones works focus on the figure, often centering on women protagonists whose bodies impossibly contort and twist up to the confines that Rapone creates within the painting, or at other times capturing a tender exchange between a pair of figures. Rapone produces her works without preliminary drawings, gradually ... More | | 
Installation view.
MADRID.- The origins of capitalism in Latin America are directly linked to European colonialism in the region. This colonialism has taken on many forms, ranging from the 16th-century botanical expeditions in the Caribbean to the mining industry found in present-day Bolivia. They are comparable because both represent a monopolizing and usurious zeal sustained by a history of violence, resulting in the decimation of natural resources of the area. Similarly, the use and abuse of human beings, practices deeply rooted in slavery and trade of Africans and local people under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, reappear in the theft of babies during the dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the second half of the 20th century. Gabriela Bettini explores the historical relationship between colonialism and neoliberalism through a study of her own biography, marked by the Argentinian military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Secondary Roots represents a journey between the past and the present, between the natural env ... More | | 
Rosa Loy, Versuch (At tempt). Courtesy the artist and Lyles & King, New York. Image: Charlie Benton.
COLUMBUS, GA.- "COMPETERE is a survey of Contemporary artist couples who are individually a vital part of the current New York art scene. This exhibition explores the concerns of artist couples while also comparing and contrasting the variety of artmaking approaches and choices related to gender, location, and context. The Latin word competere means to strive together. It is the root of the English word competition. Whereas competition suggests rivals, one faction determined to overcome the other competere means two equals striving for the betterment of both. In America, we are unaccustomed to such self-effacing practices. We are dog-eat-dog, everyone out for themselves. Yet, Art, unlike sports, politics, technology or industry, is a more benevolent enterprise. Within the artistic community, artists work in the privacy of their studios, all the while, keeping an eye on what other artists are doing, often feeding off a shared synergy to inform their own ... More |
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 Ron Galella, a celebrity-hounding photographer, dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Ron Galella, the freelance photographer who relentlessly pursued Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis until a judge barred him from taking her picture; who pestered Marlon Brando until Brando broke his jaw; and who, for better or worse, helped define todays boundary-challenged culture of celebrity, died Saturday at his home in Montville, New Jersey. He was 91. The cause was congestive heart failure, said Geoffrey Croft, a family spokesperson who edited Galellas most recent book, 100 Iconic Photographs : A Retrospective. Galella was called a creep, a stalker and worse when he began shooting pictures of celebrities in the 1960s, before mass circulation magazines such as People and Us made the presence of paparazzi such as him ubiquitous and a full generation before phone came ... 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More  Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents photography from The Walther CollectionDUSSELDORF.- How are cultural and historical processes of transformation reflected in the medium of photography? With more than 500 photographic works from Africa, its diaspora, and Europe, the exhibition Shifting Dialogues. Photography from The Walther Collection traces the development of photography as a history of transnational parallels and contradictions: showcasing the beginnings of ethnographic images during the colonial era, self-determined studio photographyand politics of self-fashioningfrom the 1940s onwards, and the potent visual activism practiced by a constituency of contemporary artists in the present. The photographic and lens-based media artworks assembled here systematically reveal the ambivalentand shiftingrelationship between image and self-ima ... More  Southern Vermont Arts Center presents Exhale: A Multisensory Art ExperienceMANCHESTER, VT.- Southern Vermont Arts Center will present Exhale: A Multisensory Art Experience opening in SVACs Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum on Saturday, May 7, 2022. A closing reception with some of the participating artists will be held on June 11 from 2-4 p.m. The last two years have seen a hypervigilance around the simple act of breathing. Our breath is simultaneously a dangerous vehicle through which the virus is passed, a coping strategy to alleviate stress, and a tool for healing lung function for those whove had Covid-19. Given all that weve been through, its time for a monumental, collective exhale. Exhale: A Multisensory Art Experience brings together seven artists working across a variety of media: audio, sculpture, paintings, drawings, video, animated sequences, and i ... More  Cape Ann Museum presents vibrant contemporary work by Judi RotenbergGLOUCESTER, MASS.- In time for spring, the Cape Ann Museum hosts an exhibit of the vibrant, large scale works of Judi Rotenberg. Life-long Rockport summer resident and highly-respected gallery owner, Rotenberg has spent 40 years creating vivid, colorful floral still life paintings that capture the fragility and strength of life. Her works are on view from April 30 to July 3 at the Museum at 27 Pleasant St., in Gloucester. Judis work could not come at a more important time as spring returns to Cape Ann and re-awakens the region with color and hope, said Oliver Barker, Director of the Cape Ann Museum. Her paintings are electric and so inspiring, and we are delighted to exhibit her joyful, beautifully-crafted works. Daughter of the late American Impressionist painter and longtime Cape Ann resident ... 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More  New book release: Michael in Black by Nicole MillerNEW YORK, NY.- Michael in Black by Nicole Miller (2022) focuses on a single sculptural work by artist and filmmaker Nicole Miller: Michael in Black (2018). The publication coalesces images of Millers work alongside newly commissioned texts and visual artworks by a cast of other artists and writers, as well as republished texts and existing artwork recontextualized through the publications subject. The original sculpture Michael in Black is a bronze cast of Michael Jacksons kneeling figure, poured from a mold made directly from his body circa 1987. This charged object comprises myriad aspects of performance, celebrity, and image: the objecthood of the performer, the potency and perversity of objects, death, grief, and editing. This sculpture is an outlier in Nicole Miller's largely video and installation-center ... More  Frederick Holmes & Co to open an exhbition by abstract painter Elise WagnerSEATTLE, WA.- From May 5 through May 31, 2022, Frederick Holmes & Co will present a featured exhibition of works by nationally renown abstract painter Elise Wagner (b. 1966, Jersey City, New Jersey). The first featured exhibition since 2019 in Seattle of Wagners abstract compositions in wax and oil, some with under layers of collagraph prints on paper, ELISE WAGNER: TIPPING POINTS showcases the artistic perspective on the science of our changing planet, and convergence of opposites. More than a dozen encaustic paintings and a 55 x 55 abstract work form the centerpiece of the exhibition. Begun in 2020, these works are described by author and art critic Richard Speer, "Elise Wagners sumptuous paintings inhabit the shared space between abstraction, landscape, cartography, astro ... More  Solo exhibition of mixed media works by Scott Andresen to open at Octavia Art GalleryNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery will present a solo exhibition of mixed media works by Scott Andresen. Andresens work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the work hovers between two-dimensional abstraction and physical representation, each piece goes through separate phases of construction, destruction and reparation. This theme became central to his work when he was involved in a serious accident over a decade ago and had to put his body through the same stages that his work went through, in the hope that what comes from the process is stronger than what came before. The exhibition title, Gather Up Worn Edges, comes from a line in the C.K. Williams poem Invisible Mendin ... More  Exhibition of seminal paintings by the late British artist Clyde Hopkins on view at Upsilon GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Upsilon Gallery is presenting an exhibition of seminal paintings by the late British artist Clyde Hopkins (1946-2018) titled Chaunticlere: Paintings from the 1980s, on view from April 22 to June 11, 2022. Presented in cooperation with the artists estate, this group of works places enormous value on emotional spontaneity, instinctive creation and scale in response to political and social issues in the wake of Thatcherism. This exhibition marks the first showing of Hopkins artworks with Upsilon Gallery in New York. Stylistically linked to many of the most important art movements of his time, Hopkins legacy is his large and diverse body of work, expressing both abstraction and early referents to representation in imaginative, surprising and lyrical ways. Throughout his life and career, Hopkins dre ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Karel Appel died May 03, 2006. Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 - 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in the museum of Great Samo and MoMA. In this image: Karel Appel, "Portrait of Rudi Fuchs". Photo: Bram Saeys.
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