10 Exhibitions Opening This Week, From Madrid to Mexico City
Exhibitions opening in New York, San Francisco, Detroit, London, Nottingham, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, Basel, and Mexico City
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May 17, 2017
Athanasios Argianas: reading machines moving machines
at On Stellar Rays
Lower East Side - New York, NY, USA
May 21, 2017 - Jun 25, 2017
On Stellar Rays is pleased to announce the gallery’s third solo exhibition by Athanasios Argianas, reading machines moving machines. Argianas presents a new series of Clay Pressings, wall-based relief works created through a process synonymous with their title, whereby the artist presses objects directly into clay to make a mold. Casts are then made in brass, chrome, marble powder, or synthetic resins. read more...
Compose Decompose Recompose
at Jules Maeght Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
May 18, 2017 - Jul 31, 2017
Jules Maeght Gallery is pleased to announce Compose Decompose Recompose, an exhibition of photography curated by Luc Sokolsky that draws on the manipulation by the artist’s hand and mind rather than the technical aspects of the camera. Exploring the diverse possibilities of collage, bacteria, artificial lighting, sensor tampering and more, the exhibition brings together the work of Dean Bentley, Glen Cheriton, Wolfgang Ganter, Cait Molloy, and Jackson Patterson. For these five artists, photography is a method rather than a medium, a tool used to capture an imagined or created image, rather than one that is solely seen. read more...
99 Cents or Less
at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Detroit, MI, USA
May 19, 2017 - Aug 06, 2017
A major group exhibition of ninety nine artists based in the United States, 99 Cents or Less addresses Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy–the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the history of the United States. Four years after a federal judge approved Detroit’s bankruptcy-exit plan the city’s financial present and future are still in flux. This exhibition is a reflection on the realities of a city that was once one of the country’s wealthiest and most diverse. read more...
Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975
at Hauser & Wirth, London
Mayfair - London, UK
May 19, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017
Hauser & Wirth London presents ‘Philip Guston. Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975’, an exhibition devoted to the late artist’s satirical drawings of the 37th President of the United States: Richard Nixon. Co-curated by Sally Radic, of The Guston Foundation and Musa Mayer, the artist’s daughter, the show features over 180 works depicting Nixon and his cronies, including Guston’s infamous Poor Richard series and over 100 additional drawings. It is a reconfiguration of the presentation first shown at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2016 and reviewed to great critical acclaim – Apollo magazine: ‘a body of work that has both historic specificity and biting, contemporary relevance’. read more...
Lara Favaretto: Absolutely Nothing
at Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham, UK
May 20, 2017 - Aug 28, 2017
This summer, Nottingham Contemporary presents a major solo exhibition by Lara Favaretto. Favaretto’s exhibition, her largest to date in the UK, will bring together pivotal pieces spanning two decades of her practice, along with recent works and a major public commission. The Italian artist’s work addresses sculpture’s mutability and monumentality, often testing its relationship to time; failure, futility and disappearance become generative processes. read more...
Xu Zhen: Civilization Iteration
at Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne)
3e - Paris, France
May 18, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017
Perrotin Paris is proud to present Civilization Iteration, the first solo exhibition of Chinese artist Xu Zhen with the gallery, which will showcase Xu’s important series of works since 2013 when he started a brand in his own name. Iteration refers to the way of achieving a desired result through repeated feedback. The exhibited series shows how an artist, amidst increasing globalization and networking of art, can approach the future of art with his own formula. read more...
Emily Roysdon: scenic, say
at Kunsthalle Lissabon
Lisbon, Portugal
May 20, 2017 - Sep 02, 2017
Kunsthalle Lissabon presents scenic, say, the first solo show in Portugal by Stockholm-based American artist Emily Roysdon, taking place from May 20th to September 2nd, 2017. Queer history and social space have always interested Emily Roysdon generating an interdisciplinary working method with projects taking the form of performances, photographic installations, print making, texts, videos, curating and collaborations. Her notions about what it is ‘unseen in time’ and the politics of transitions had recently formed Uncounted, a site-specific project that has unfolded over several years through a series of related questions and visual vocabulary. read more...
Rosa Barba: Solar Flux Recordings
at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Madrid, Spain
May 17, 2017 - Aug 27, 2017
Rosa Barba (Agrigento, Italy, 1972) is a Berlin-based visual artist and film-maker who predominantly bases her work on the use of celluloid and filmic devices, in both materiality and concept. Her pieces imply discontinuities, paradoxes and dialectic turns which are born in between the process of image creation and its metaphors. Mediums such as film, sculpture, installation and the written text come together to engender contradiction, the irony in a conceptual universe that transcends reality. read more...
Richard Serra: Films and Videotapes
at Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Basel, Switzerland
May 20, 2017 - Oct 15, 2017
Richard Serra (b. San Francisco, 1938) is one of the most influential artists working today. He is best known for the monumental steel outdoor sculptures he has made since the 1970s; several of these have sparked public controversies—including in Basel, where his sculpture Intersection on Theaterplatz is a striking sight in the urban fabric. The structures and sculptures Serra creates elicit complex aesthetic experiences that speak forcefully to our relationship with our surroundings—be it the built urban environment or a landscape—and our perception of the world. read more...
Monika Sosnowska: Wall
at Kurimanzutto
Mexico City, Mexico
May 20, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017
kurimanzutto is pleased to present the second exhibition by Polish artist Monika Sosnowska in the gallery. Returning to Mexico she will present a series of new sculptures that reproduce and transform specific architectural elements found in her native Warsaw. Sosnowska looks to architecture as the source material for her work, analyzing 1960s and ‘70s socialist buildings from Poland where she grew up under the communist Eastern Bloc, and where she continues to live today. read more...