10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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04 Sep, 2013
Katya Grokhovsky: Bodybeautiful
at Galerie Prot茅g茅
New York, NY, USA
Sep 05, 13 - Oct 10, 13
Bodybeautiful highlights a narrative of the grotesque in the feminine ideal and presents the body as an absurd counterpart to the mind. The title, culled from the beauty pages of women's fashion magazines, relates to the artist鈥檚 use of her own body as a medium and to her critique on the representation and relentless sexualization of the feminine. Presenting works in video, collage, drawing, performance and post-performance sculpture - ephemera, Bodybeautiful explores and emphasizes the "ridiculous" qualities inherent in the female existence. read more...
Dawoud Bey
at Rena Bransten Gallery
Union Square - San Francisco, CA, USA
Sep 05, 13 - Oct 19, 13
The Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by Dawoud Bey titled The Birmingham Project that will run through September and October, 2013. Portraits in The Birmingham Project commemorate the four girls killed on September 15th, 1963 when the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed and the two boys killed later that same day in a separate incident of racial violence. read more...
James Magee
at Kirk Hopper Fine Art
Dallas, TX, USA
Sep 06, 13 - Oct 12, 13
James Magee comes to Kirk Hopper Fine Art in the midst of a long and notable career in sculpture, painting, film, video, and environmental installation, some of which Dallas had the opportunity to experience in his 2010 exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center Magee is perhaps best known for his massive, ongoing project of thirty years, The Hill: a largely secret, almost solitary endeavor in the vast plains of West Texas. Four identical buildings鈥攅ach 40 feet long, 20 feet wide and 17 feet high, connected by causeways in a cruciform layout鈥攕it on a promontory rising above 2,000 acres of rocky desert. read more...
Yuken Teruya: New Work
at Pippy Houldsworth
London, UK
Sep 06, 13 - Oct 05, 13
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present a body of new work by internationally renowned Japanese artist Yuken Teruya. Transforming the detritus of consumerism into beautifully crafted works of art, Teruya uses unfamiliar materials in a way that elevates details typically overlooked in quotidian life. For this exhibition, Teruya will continue his Notice Forest series by fabricating a new line of luxury shopping bags, including Chanel, Godiva, Graff, Maison du Chocolat, Cartier and Tiffany & Co. read more...
Jose D谩vila: Das muss der Ort sein
at Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Sep 07, 13 - Nov 02, 13
Jose Davila's practice is to re-interpret works of modernist and minimalist masters by transforming the fundamental ideas of art-historical or architectural masterpieces. In his series of cut-out assemblages, D谩vila is challenging our cultural memory by removing the central subjects of photographic reporductions of iconic artworks and buildings. read more...
Brazil am Main
at Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Sep 07, 13 - Oct 12, 13
鈥淏razil am Main鈥 presents a selection of three brazilian artists, Renata Egreja, Carolina Ponte and Leonardo Ramadinha. They belong to a new generation that has been everywhere, experienced many things and made their own choices without denying their national roots. read more...
Brent Wadden
at Sorry We鈥檙e Closed
Brussels, Belgium
Sep 06, 13 - Oct 31, 13
The rise of technology has necessitated a return to ritual. Computers and word processors operate only in the world of numbers and rationality. The human experience is basically irrational. Keith Haring, 1984. Somewhere at the end of the world on the far edge of the rocky coast: a post-industrial wasteland, the coal dust has dissipated from fields which are finally green with grass. Brent Wadden is part of a group of young artists that have gone against the grain of their own generation and have decided to take their time to make things themselves, in effect rejecting contemporary society 虂s general state of impatience. read more...
Xing Xing: Wang Keping, Huang Rui & Ma Desheng
at Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
11e - Paris, France
Sep 03, 13 - Sep 21, 13
Initiators of contemporary art in Beijing in the 80鈥檚, founders of the 鈥淕roup of Stars鈥, Hang Rui, Wang Keping and Ma Desheng get together on the occasion of a unprecedented exhibition at the Magda Danysz Gallery. Interpreting Man as much as Nature, wood carvings, metal works or paintings of these two internationally recognized artists are complementary. read more...
Blind Adam
at The Breeder Projects, Athens
Athens, Greece
Sep 08, 13 - Sep 30, 13
The Breeder is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Blind Adam, as part of the fourth edition of Remap KM. Using black wool yarn Blind Adam creates a hand knotted universe of miles and miles of thread. A procedure that started mechanically in 2007 has now evolved in a solid art practice that includes wall based works, sculptures and installations. Blind Adam has retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition that constricts the visual field resulting in visual impairment. read more...
Ay艧e G眉l S眉ter: Motion
at Pg Art Gallery
Istanbul, Turkey
Sep 04, 13 - Sep 29, 13
Ay艧e G眉l S眉ter鈥檚 first solo exhibition, titled 鈥楳otion鈥 will be held at Pg Art Gallery between September 4 and September 29. In the experimental works that will be presented in the exhibition S眉ter delves into the concepts of movement, light, color and time through new media techniques and the use of interactive structures. The initial idea behind the exhibition took the form of questions such as 鈥淗ow can interactivity could be designed without using any software? read more...