Viewing articles from 2014/11

Heinrich Ehrhardt Gallery, San Lorenzo 11, Madrid 28004, Spain

Emanuel Seitz

Installation view

Seitz's paintings appeare to emerge from the background of the canvasses, gradually depositing ornamental elements, shadows, sparks, symmetries and duplications in the form of brilliant pigments.

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CCA Wattis Institute, Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries, 360 Kansas Street (between 16th & 17th Streets), San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Markus Schinwald

Markus Schinwald, installation view. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

“I’m not trying to rob people of their personalities, but to give objects personalities, too." Markus Schinwald reimagines the body at CCA Wattis.

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MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY

Xavier Le Roy: Retrospective

Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy

Le Roy’s choreography can seem at once elegant and weighted, elevated and foolish, and in this context they enclose their spectators within an active and dynamic aura. Review by Gemma Sharpe

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North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN)

The work of Paul Merrick

Commissioned by the North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), this is one of eight films that will be exclusively launched on the site over the next eight weeks.

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The Northern Charter, 5th Floor Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle NE1 6QE

Day Release

Day Release (2014)

‘Day Release’, an exhibition turned permanent installation at The Northern Charter, examines how idolatry can retain meaning as a historical framework of understanding and continue to influence contemporary image making. Review by Rebecca Senior

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Aspen Art Museum, 637 East Hyman Avenue Aspen, Colorado 81611

David Hammons Yves Klein/Yves Klein David Hammons

Installation view: David Hammons Yves Klein / Yves Klein David Hammons, 2014

An unprecedented coupling of two of the most significant artists of our time, David Hammons Yves Klein / Yves Klein David Hammons explores points of aesthetic harmony within two seemingly different practices.

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Nils Stærk, Ny Carlsberg vej 68, 1760 Copenhagen, Denmark

Darío Escobar: Unions and Intersections

Unions and Intersections, Installation view

For Escobar sports are signs of multinational brands and movements which have swept across the world and made any distinction between the local and the global impossible.

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North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN)

The work of Wolfgang Weileder

Commissioned by the North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), this is one of eight films that will be exclusively launched on the site over the next eight weeks.

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Rod Barton, 41-45 Consort Road, London SE15 3SS

Kenneth Alme: My Tarp Has Sprung a Leak

Kenneth Alme, My Tarp Has Sprung a Leak, installation view (2014)

An impending tangent runs through the exhibition as a whole - is there anything in this day and age that one cannot categorise and find recycled in pop-culture? Review by William Davie

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Galerie Chez Valentin, 9 rue Saint-Gilles 75003 Paris

Nicolas Moulin: Steppterm

Exhibition view Nicolas Moulin, “Steppterm” Valentin gallery, Paris

Steppterminal was conceived as an ensemble of hybrids between architectural fragment and autonomous sculpture. The series presents a set of ghost structures, without status or future, evoking a perpetual present—that of ruins, or unfinished construction, isolated in its own sovereign failure.

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