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In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes a solo exhibition by photographer David Molander depicting hyperrealist urban landscapes, a mix of cultures embodied through textile by artist Virgil Marti in MATRIX 167, an examination of the role of photography in the Mass Observation archive in Mass Observations: This Is Your Photo, a curious musical installation by Yuri Suzuki inviting its visitors to participate and compose their own sounds, and Beauty Without Clamour?, a retrospective of the evolution of the Nu genre in the Russian photography.

David Molander: Urban Zoom
at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Soho - New York, NY, USA
Aug 03, 13 - Aug 30, 13

Urban Zoom is a solo exhibition by contemporary artist and photographer David Molander. The exhibition presents a series of hyperrealist works that go beyond the surreal and expressionistic to depict contemporary urban and social landscapes, including events related to the Occupy Wall Street Movement in September 2011 through a site-specific photographic installation on the Acconci/Holl façade.  The works depict various urban landscapes in New York and Stockholm: an accident on the Lower East Side, the loneliness of the Gowanus Canal, the psychedelic view of a nightclub in Stockholm. read more...

Scot Sothern: A New Low
at Drkrm
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aug 03, 13 - Aug 31, 13

drkrm presents A NEW LOW, a gritty, full color photographic journey though the motels and back alleys of street prostitution.  A NEW LOW will be on display August 3rd through August 31st with an opening reception Saturday, August 3rd starting at 7pm. During the opening Mr. read more...

Virgil Marti / MATRIX 167: Ode to a Hippie
at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, CT, USA
Aug 01, 13 - Jan 05, 14

Philadelphia-based artist Virgil Marti will be featured in MATRIX 167 opening in the summer of 2013. For twenty years, the artist’s sculpture and textile-based installations engage with high and low culture and, in particular, with the ornamental excesses of interior design, including baroque chandeliers, garish fabric pillows, faux-fur and chintz banquettes, and flocked black-light wallpaper. In addition, Marti has taken on curatorial projects. read more...

Eric G. Thompson: Breaking Through with Light
at Matthews Gallery
Santa Fe, NM, USA
Aug 02, 13 - Aug 15, 13

If you were to come upon one of Eric G. Thompson’s scenes in real life, it would be as quiet as the paint on his canvases. Whether he’s creating a landscape, a portrait or a still life, the contemporary realist chooses the most serene subject matter. It’s in this muted, glowing space that he aims to make a bold statement about the bustle of the modern world. read more...

Isaac Layman: Funeral
at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Portland, OR, USA
Aug 01, 13 - Sep 21, 13

Known for large format, hyperreal images of objects from his everyday life, this new body of work includes photographic constructions as well as curated objects. The seemingly minimal yet painstakingly created works in Isaac Layman’s Funeral allow for intense contemplation on the nature of loss and the details of existence. A medicine cabinet, a porcelain sink, a cutting board: each piece is in a sense a vision of emptiness, what is left when life is gone. read more...

Mass Observations: This Is Your Photo
at The Photographers' Gallery
London, UK
Aug 02, 13 - Sep 29, 13

Mass Observation: This is your photo offers an examination of the role of photography in the Mass Observation Archive. Mass Observation (MO) was founded in 1937 as a radical experiment in social science, art and documentary. Its founders aimed to create a new kind of realism in response to the economic and political conditions leading up to World War II, aiming to create an ‘anthropology of ourselves’ through artistic means and by collecting anecdotal evidence from people’s everyday lives and experiences. read more...

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at The New Art Gallery Walsall
Walsall, UK
Aug 03, 13 - Nov 24, 13

He Tried to Internalise Everything is from the 1990s series Internal Affairs, a group of glass-walled cells containing everyday objects such as tools, clothing and furniture arranged in scenes that suggest a human presence. Hirst was inspired by a 1990 crime-thriller film in which a Los Angeles police department sets up an independent body to look into their own affairs. Collectively, the cells tackle themes of claustrophobia and breathlessness, as well as the anxieties caused by modern medicine. read more...

Gabriel Orozco
at The Fruitmarket Gallery
Edinburgh, UK
Aug 01, 13 - Oct 18, 13

Gabriel Orozco (born Jalapa, Veracruz, 1962) is one of the foremost international artists of our age. Rising to prominence in the early 1990s, he has developed a consistently innovative practice, making work which not only captures the imagination but also powerfully engages with key material and conceptual issues of what it is to make art now. His practice encompasses photography, painting, sculpture and installation, creating some of the most iconic images of recent contemporary artsuch as the modified Citroen DS La DS (1993), the series of photographs of pairs of yellow scooters Until You Find Another Yellow Schwalbe (1995), and the chequerboard skull Black Kites (1997). read more...

Yuri Suzuki: Looks Like Music
at Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Luxembourg
Aug 03, 13 - Aug 26, 13

Looks Like Music is an installation by Yuri Suzuki centered around his sound piece Colour Chaser: a miniature robot that detects and follows a black line while reading crossing coloured lines and translating this data into sound. Visitors are free to draw on paper and simultaneously compose music, thus creating a large scale picture and a sound piece at the same time. read more...

Beauty Without Clamour?
at The State Russian Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 01, 13 - Sep 30, 13

The exhibition presents the development of the so-called Nu (Nude) genre in the Russian photography from the 1900s till the beginning of the 21th century. The exposition will bring together about 100 works, connected with the depiction of naked woman nature in the creative oeuvre of Russian authors who worked in their native land and in emigration.Arutunov and the others. read more...