10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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Aug 24, 2016
Jessica Stockholder: The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room
at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Chelsea
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Aug 25, 2016 - Oct 01, 2016
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is delighted to present Jessica Stockholder: The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room on view in our Chelsea gallery from August 25 through October 1, 2016. This will be the gallery’s third solo exhibition with the artist. Please join us for an opening reception Thursday, September 15, 6-8 pm. read more...
Angela Washko: The Game
at TRANSFER
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
Aug 27, 2016 - Oct 08, 2016
TRANSFER is please to present 'The Game: The Game', the gallery's first solo exhibition with Angela Washko, including a special soundtrack by Xiu Xiu. ‘The Game: The Game’ is an immersive installation and platform to experience the first chapter of a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists) through the format of a dating simulator. In the game these pick-up gurus attempt to seduce the player using their signature techniques taken verbatim from their instructional books and video materials. read more...
Yinka Shonibare MBE
at Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT, USA
Sep 01, 2016 - Dec 11, 2016
The contemporary British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare is best known for his explorations of the legacies of colonialism through sculpture, installations, film, and photography. This display, which coincides with the Center’s exhibition Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, will focus on Shonibare’s interest in the British historical figure Admiral Lord Nelson, whom he uses as an emblem of Britain’s imperial history. An important feature of Shonibare’s work is the consistent use of colorful, wax-printed cotton fabrics, which are associated with Africa but originated in Indonesia and Holland, a product of global trade and imperial markets. read more...
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Sep 01, 2016 - Jan 08, 2017
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art questions and explores the complex and contested space of the American South. One needs to look no further than literature, cuisine and music, to see evidence of the South’s profound influence on American culture, and consequently much of the world. This unprecedented exhibition addresses and complicates the many realities, fantasies and myths that have long captured the public’s imagination about the American South. read more...
Renato Nicolodi
at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
Sep 01, 2016 - Oct 22, 2016
Renato Nicolodi’s hermetic and deterring, brutalist and classicistic sculptures are based on what he himself likes to call archetypical forms of architecture. His theatres, squares, palaces, bunkers, staircases, gates, temples, halls, basilicas, ministries of power, ramparts and stadiums are ahistorical universalia; they never refer to existing buildings. They are almost always shells of an impenetrable dark space, a void. read more...
Monet. Beyond Impressionism
at Ordrupgaard
Charlottenlund - Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 24, 2016 - Dec 04, 2016
Ordrupgaard is proud to present its major autumn exhibition featuring one of the greatest figures in art history – Claude Monet. The exhibition will be the first in Denmark to accentuate the legendary series paintings with famous motifs as the city’s bridges and cathedrals, the water lilies of the artist’s garden and the yellow haystacks. It was specifically with The Series Paintings that Monet pioneered his fellow impressionists to work with more abstract motifs. read more...
Heikki Marila: Paintings
at Galerie Forsblom
Helsinki, Finland
Aug 25, 2016 - Sep 25, 2016
Ranking among Finland’s most renowned contemporary artists, Heikki Marila (b. 1966) mines the subject matter of his paintings from history. His new exhibition opening at Galerie Forsblom casts a glimpse back at Finland’s tentative first steps as an independent nation and the dark years of the Civil War. With Finland celebrating the first centenary of its independence next year, Marila pauses to reflect on the theme of memory and suppressed traumas, both on the collective and private level. read more...
Robert Polidori: 1986 - 2016 Remembering Chernobyl
at Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
3e - Paris, France
Aug 27, 2016 - Oct 08, 2016
Remembering Chernobyl, a photo exhibition dedicated to the work of Canadian artist Robert Polidori in tribute to the thirty years of the nuclear disaster in Ukraine on 26 April 1986. Through a course of twenty-two works, the artist presents a panorama of urban and natural environments closely affected by the explosion of reactor number 4 leading to the spread of a colossal amount of radioactive elements in the atmosphere. Having obtained a special dispensation, Robert Polidori was allowed to enter the nuclear exclusion zone in 2001, established at the time by the Soviet army, which extends over an area of 2600 km2 including the town of Pripyat, built in 1970 to house the employees of the nuclear power plant. read more...
Leung Chi Wo: Press the Button
at Blindspot Gallery
Central - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Aug 27, 2016 - Sep 10, 2016
A book launch cum exhibition of Leung Chi Wo’s art book, Press the Button (2016), published by OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen. Limited to an edition of 50, the individually numbered box set includes an 88-page paperback and 54 hand drawings, with texts by Leung Chi Wo, curator of the exhibition Carol Yinghua Lu, art critic Anthony Leung Po Shan and curator Qu Chang. All original drawings published in the book will be exhibited from the day of the launch for two weeks. read more...
Today Tomorrow Yesterday
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Sep 01, 2016 - May 31, 2017
Drawn entirely from the Museum’s Collection, Today Tomorrow Yesterday considers the impact of the past and the influence of history on artistic practice today. From contemporary interpretations of ancestral stories to the continuing effects of early to mid-twentieth-century avant-garde ideas, each room presents a different perspective on the history of the present. The title, Today Tomorrow Yesterday, is an adaptation drawn from The Prophet, a book of 26 prose poetry essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. read more...