10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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22 Jun, 2016
Blackness in Abstraction
at Pace New York (510 West 25th Street)
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Jun 24, 16 - Aug 19, 16
Pace Gallery is pleased to present Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today. Blackness in Abstraction is on view from June 24 to August 19, 2016 at 510 West 25th Street, with an opening reception on Thursday, June 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. read more...
Ragnar Kjartansson / The National: A Lot of Sorrow
at The Art Institute of Chicago
Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Jun 23, 16 - Oct 02, 16
Icelandic artist and musician Ragnar Kjartansson鈥檚 often intensely durational performance-based works manifest a rare synthesis of pathos and humor. A Lot of Sorrow is both a music video and an extended concert film, in which Brooklyn-based band the National performs its three-and-a-half minute ballad 鈥淪orrow鈥 on repeat for six hours. The band鈥檚 music and lyrics frequently conjure notions of romantic suffering and melancholy鈥攖hemes common to Kjartansson鈥檚 emotive, theatrical work. read more...
Material Issue
at Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Louisville, KY, USA
Jul 01, 16 - Sep 25, 16
Artist include: Emma Amos, David Adamo, Lisa Alvarado, Cory Arcangel, Radcliffe Bailey, Sarah Briland, Susan Collis, Tacita Dean, Ben Durham, Adrian Esparza, Mike Goodlett, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Toyin Ojih Odutola "You begin with the possibilities of the material." - Robert Rauschenberg The inaugural exhibition in KMAC's newly renovated space will articulate the museum's new mission to connect people to art and creative practice. read more...
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today
at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Brunswick, ME, USA
Jun 25, 16 - Oct 23, 16
With a title that plays on Robert Rauschenberg麓s infamous 1961 portrait of Iris Clert鈥揳 telegram that simply states, 鈥淭his is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so鈥濃攖his major groundbreaking exhibition examines the rise and evolution of symbolic, abstract, and conceptual portraiture in modern and contemporary American Art during the past century. Featuring nearly seventy-five works by leading American innovators from Gertrude Stein, Marsden Hartley, and Alfred Stieglitz, to Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono, and Eleanor Antin, to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Glenn Ligon, and L. read more...
Grear Patterson: True Romance
at Marlborough Contemporary
London, UK
Jun 24, 16 - Jul 23, 16
Marlborough Contemporary is pleased to present True Romance, a solo exhibition of new works from the New York-based artist Grear Patterson, which appropriates its title from the cult 1993 film. Patterson鈥檚 mixed media works present stylised sunsets, alongside auditory and visual recreations of the Tony Scott directed picture. The exhibition explores pop-culture, imagery and processes of perception, recurrent motifs of the artist鈥檚 output. read more...
Stephen Sutcliffe: Twixt Cup and Lip
at The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield, UK
Jun 25, 16 - Oct 02, 16
Stephen Sutcliffe is an award-winning British filmmaker and video artist who was born in Harrogate and raised in Wakefield. This major solo exhibition in The Calder* - our contemporary art space opposite the main gallery - will include a newly commissioned video installation based on the play, The Contractor (1969) by the Wakefield-born playwright and novelist, David Storey. Storey鈥檚 work has long been an inspiration for Sutcliffe and the exhibition will complement A Tender Tumult: The Art of David Storey. read more...
Jim Dine: I Never Look Away
at Albertina Museum
Vienna, Austria
Jun 24, 16 - Oct 02, 16
Jim Dine ranks alongside figures such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as one of the celebrated stars of American pop art. And the Albertina is showing 60 fascinating self-portraits as a representative selection from the 80-year-old artist鈥檚 generous donation to the Albertina that presents Dine in a great number of his many facets. The self-portraits, which Dine began painting in the 1950s, serve to catalyse an independent, intense, and surprising dialogue with the artist and his output. read more...
Mika Rottenberg
at Palais de Tokyo
16e - Paris, France
Jun 23, 16 - Sep 11, 16
For her second solo show in France, nearly ten years after an initial exhibition at La maison rouge (Paris) in 2008, Mika Rottenberg (born in 1976, in Buenos Aires) has chosen to revisit several of the video installations that consolidated her international reputation. The show will feature NoNoseKnows (2015) - lauded at the 56th Venice Biennale - Bowls Balls Souls Holes, (2014), SEVEN (2011) and Squeeze (2010), while presenting a selection of recent and new works specially produced for the exhibition. read more...
facing
at Galerie Koal
Berlin, Germany
Jun 23, 16 - Jul 30, 16
Can the human body become abstract? Can the nonconcrete evoke sensuality? In its juxtaposition of nude images and non-figurative photographs facing questions the relationship between abstraction and materiality. The show traces this central motif throughout twelve decades of photographic history. The selection made by artist Ingo Mittelstaedt and Stephan Koal includes iconic images by L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy, Robert Mapplethorpe and Herlinde Koelbl as well as exceptional works by less well-known artists. read more...
Vasan Sitthiket: V40
at Yavuz Gallery
Singapore, Singapore
Jun 25, 16 - Jul 19, 16
Yavuz Gallery is proud to present V40, a solo exhibition by one of Thailand鈥檚 most internationally acclaimed activist-artists Vasan Sitthiket. V40 represents the artist鈥檚 meaningful self-reflection on his illustrious career thus far. The exhibition looks back upon his controversial career; works that have brought and highlighted difficult realities to the Thai and international public, covering themes ranging from corruption, homelessness, farmer鈥檚 rights, nuclear power and sexual desire. V40 is a rare collection of drawings, sculptures, prints, paintings and installations that Sitthiket has produced over his 40-year journey, including works that have never been exhibited before. read more...