10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
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Feb 04, 2015
Charles Atlas: The Waning of Justice
at Luhring Augustine, Chelsea
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Feb 07, 15 - Mar 14, 15
Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce the opening of The Waning of Justice, a solo exhibition by the influential American film and video artist Charles Atlas. This will be Atlas鈥 second solo exhibition with the gallery; his first gallery exhibition, The Illusion of Democracy, was the inaugural show at our Bushwick space in February 2012. Atlas is a pioneering figure in film and video; for over four decades he has stretched the limits of his medium, forging new territory in a far-reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques. read more...
Pretty Raw: After And Around Helen Frankenthaler
at The Rose Art Museum
Waltham, MA, USA
Feb 11, 15 - Jun 07, 15
Pretty Raw takes the artist Helen Frankenthaler as a lens through which to refocus our vision of modernist art over the past 50 years. In this version, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, pleasure, and authorial control take center stage. Artists from the 1950s through the present work in a range of mediums, finding personal, social and political meaning in sheer, gorgeous materiality. read more...
Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life
at Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO, USA
Feb 07, 15 - Sep 20, 15
Thomas Cole is widely associated with the founding of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, and the Museum's collection includes fine examples of his work in that mode. In this exhibition, visitors will experience Cole's famous The Voyage of Life as well as studies and other works related to the allegorical series. Drawing from the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art in Utica, New York, the exhibition celebrates one of the major artistic achievements of this 19th-century American artist. read more...
Heinz Mack: ZERO & More
at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
London, UK
Feb 06, 15 - Apr 10, 15
Heinz Mack, co-founder of the ZERO movement and artist behind the striking The Sky Over Nine Columns installation shown in Venice in 2014, will be given a major solo exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London this winter. ZERO & More will feature a vibrant dialogue between iconic works from the artist's ZERO period (1950-60s), and new paintings and sculpture produced over the last five years. Formed in collaboration with Otto Piene, a fellow student at the Kunstakademie D眉sseldorf, the ZERO movement departed from the gestural language of European abstract expressionism and sought to reclaim an artistic purity from the ravages of the Second World War. read more...
Lynda Benglis
at The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield, UK
Feb 06, 15 - Jul 05, 15
In 2015, The Hepworth Wakefield presents the UK鈥檚 first museum survey of work by Greek-American artist and feminist icon Lynda Benglis. This highly anticipated exhibition will be the largest presentation of Benglis鈥 work in the UK, featuring approximately 50 works that will span the entirety of her prolific career to date.
Aged 73, Benglis is one of America鈥檚 most significant living artists. read more...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time
at Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, ON, Canada
Feb 07, 15 - May 10, 15
Jean-Michel Basquiat took the New York City art world by storm in the early 1980s and gained international recognition by creating powerful and expressive works that confronted issues of racism, identity and social tension. Although his career was cut short by his untimely death at age 27, his groundbreaking drawings and paintings continue to challenge perceptions, provoke vital dialogues and empower us to think critically about the world around us. Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time marks the first major retrospective of the artist's work in Canada and will feature close to 85 large-scale paintings and drawings from private collections and public museums across Europe and North America. read more...
Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection
at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Moscow, Russia
Feb 06, 15 - Apr 19, 15
Featured artists: Marina Abramovi膰, Yury Albert, Nika Autor (in collaboration with Marko Bratina, Ciril Oberstar and Jurij Meden (Obzorni拧ka Fronta/Newsreel front), Yury Avvakumov, Jo啪e Bar拧i, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Geta Br膬tescu, Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurtz, Olga Chernysheva, Chto Delat group, Lana 膶maj膷anin, Vuk 膯osi膰 (in collaboration with Alexei Shulgin and Andreas Broeckmann), Goran 膼or膽evi膰, Nu拧a & Sre膷o Dragan, Vadim Fishkin, Gyorgy Galantai, Gorgona, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu, Marina Gr啪ini膰 & Aina 艩mid, Dmitry Gutov, Jusuf Had啪ifejzovi膰, Tibor Hajas, Ibro Hasanovi膰, IRWIN, Sanja Ivekovi膰, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, Jaros艂aw Koz艂owski, Katarzyna Kozyra, Oleg Kulik, Zofia Kulik, Andreja Kulun膷i膰 (in collaboration with Ibrahim 膯uri膰, Said Muji膰, Osman Pezi膰), Vladimir Kupriyanov, KwieKul read more...
Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat
at Lunds Konsthall
Lund, Sweden
Feb 07, 15 - Apr 05, 15
Visionary French filmmaker Chris Marker (1921鈥2012) creates vivid film-essays that lace realism with science fiction and lyricism with politics. Changing his name, declining to be photographed or interviewed, Marker is both enigma and legend. His influence extends across art, experimental film and mainstream cinema: his 1962 masterpiece La Jet茅e was the basis of Terry Gilliam鈥檚 1995 Twelve Monkeys. A photographer and director of 60 films, Marker was an inveterate traveller - his camera was his eye. read more...
Dissonance, Transgressed Boundaries between Desire and Fear
at Percept Art
Mumbai, India
Feb 06, 15 - Feb 27, 15
Percept Art in collaboration with Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey hosts the exhibition Dissonance : Transgressed Boundaries between Desire and Fear curated by Isin Onol and Jesal Thacker, inviting four artists presenting diverse positions within the framework of the exhibition: Nezaket Ekici, Prajakta Palav Aher, Pinar Yoldas and Nita Tandon. Technology and science have been accelerating the growth of human capacity of ruling the globe with enormous vigour. read more...
Jeff Elrod
at Simon Lee Hong Kong
Central - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Feb 06, 15 - Mar 07, 15
Jeff Elrod makes large-format abstract paintings concerned with the relationship between hand-painted and digitally created mark-making. His practice is informed by the trajectory of late twentieth century abstraction and the emergence of sophisticated software and print technology. Many of his works are hybrid images which incorporate what he terms 鈥榓nalogue鈥 techniques using acrylic, tape, and spray paint, and 鈥榝rictionless鈥 digital drawings that originate using familiar programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop. read more...