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Ten Exhibitions to See this Week

Our pick of this week's must-see new shows worldwide, featuring Cy Twombly in Athens and a new, immersive installation at MoMA

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May 26, 2017

Ten Exhibitions to See this Week
 


Projects 106: Martine Syms
at The Museum of Modern Art
Midtown - New York, NY, USA
May 27, 2017 - Jul 16, 2017

Projects 106: Martine Syms at The Museum of Modern Art Projects 106: Martine Syms, the first US solo museum exhibition by Martine Syms (b. 1988, Los Angeles), is an immersive installation including photographs and staged objects, and centering around a new feature-length film, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice Shot on location in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice follows three protagonists—Mrs. Queen Esther Bernetta White, Girl, and WB (“whiteboy”)—as they navigate dramas of surveillance, moving between watching, being watched, and remaining unseen. read more...

 


Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until..
at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Culver City - Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 27, 2017 - Jul 01, 2017

Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until.. at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to announce Edgar Arceneaux’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will feature the Los Angeles premiere of "Until, Until, Until…," the artist’s first theatrical work, which was commissioned for the 2015 Performa Biennial in New York. Both the play and the objects included in" Until, Until, Until…" are oriented toward themes of audiences and trauma, migration and displacement, erasure and reformation. read more...

 


Walter De Maria: Surface Waves
at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
May 27, 2017 - Feb 04, 2018

Walter De Maria: Surface Waves at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art A pioneering artist who worked at the intersection of Land art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Walter De Maria (1935–2013) used geometry and mathematics to create artworks that test the limits of sensory perception. In Walter De Maria: Surface Waves, the Bay Area native makes his SFMOMA debut with his first sculpture to enter the museum’s collection, an arresting floor piece known as Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 (1986). Consisting of massive, precisely honed polygonal rods polished to a shine so lustrous that they appear liquid, the work can be shown in three distinct configurations, all of which will be presented during the course of the exhibition. read more...

 


John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night
at Pérez Art Museum Miami
Downtown Miami - Miami, FL, USA
May 26, 2017 - Jan 14, 2018

John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night at P茅rez Art Museum Miami This exhibition presents the work of John Dunkley (b. 1891, Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica; d. 1947, Kingston), widely considered to be one of Jamaica’s most important historical artists. John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night will include paintings from the 1930s and ‘40s alongside a smaller selection of carved-wood and stone sculptures. Dunkley’s paintings are defined by their distinctive dark palette, detailed imagery—often landscapes––and psychologically suggestive underpinnings. read more...

 


Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History
at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
National Mall - Washington D.C., DC, USA
May 24, 2017 - Sep 10, 2017

Markus L眉pertz: Threads of History at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution The Hirshhorn will celebrate the pioneering early works of Markus Lüpertz (b. Liberec, Czech Republic, 1941), one of the most influential contemporary German artists, with an in-depth exploration of his groundbreaking paintings from the 1960s and 1970s. Lüpertz is internationally recognized as a leading figure in Neo-Expressionism, a movement that emerged as a major force in the late 1970s and 1980s. read more...

 


Ana Mendieta: Metamorphosis
at Alison Jacques Gallery
Fitzrovia - London, UK
May 25, 2017 - Jun 24, 2017

Ana Mendieta: Metamorphosis  at Alison Jacques Gallery Alison Jacques Gallery presents the gallery's second solo exhibition by Cuban-born artist, Ana Mendieta (b. 1948 Havana, Cuba; d. 1985 New York City, NY). This is the first solo show of Ana Mendieta's work in the UK since her retrospective Traces, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal at the Hayward Gallery in 2013. This exhibition focuses on the themes of metamorphosis and transformation in Mendieta's work, from her early performances at the University of Iowa in the 1970s, to her later sculptural work in the first half of the 1980s. read more...

 


Adam Pendelton: shot him in the face
at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead, UK
May 27, 2017 - Sep 10, 2017

Adam Pendelton: shot him in the face at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art American artist Adam Pendleton’s exhibition titled shot him in the face occupies the Ground Floor gallery at BALTIC with one large-scale gesture—a wall that diagonally cuts across the exhibition space. The first sentence from the poem Albany by poet Ron Silliman functions as the exhibition’s point of departure. Pendleton appropriates the opening words of the text — "If the function of writing is to ‘express the world'" — and transforms it into monumental work spanning the entirety of the constructed wall. read more...

 


Rashid Johnson: Stranger
at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
Bruton, UK
May 27, 2017 - Sep 10, 2017

Rashid Johnson:  Stranger at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to present ‘Rashid Johnson. Stranger’, following the artist’s two-month long residency at the gallery. Rashid Johnson employs a wide range of materials and images to explore themes of art history, literature, philosophy, and personal and cultural identity. His exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset unfolds throughout the entire gallery, with a combination of painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing, all completed during his residency. read more...

 


Cy Twombly
at Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Athens, Greece
May 25, 2017 - Jul 29, 2017

Cy Twombly at Gagosian Gallery, Athens Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of Cy Twombly’s photography, to coincide with “Divine Dialogues” at the Museum of Cycladic Art. Curated by Nikolaos Stampolidis from the Cycladic Art Museum and Jonas Storsve, curator of the recent Twombly retrospective at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, “Divine Dialogues” will show Twombly’s work alongside classical antiquities. The gallery exhibition comprises more than twenty photographs of natural subjects—tulips, strawberries, cabbages, lemons—taken in Rome and Gaeta between 1985 and 2008, and a bronze sculpture. read more...

 


Luigi Ghirri: Works from the 1970s
at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Shibuya-ku - Tokyo, Japan
May 27, 2017 - Jun 24, 2017

Luigi Ghirri: Works from the 1970s at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present “Works from the 1970s”, a solo exhibition of works by Luigi Ghirri from May 27 to June 24. From the early 1970s until 1992, when he passed at 49, Ghirri used color photographs to explore metaphysical images. Over two decades, he produced an outstanding body of work characterized by unique chromatic and spatial sensibility. The first solo exhibition of Ghirri’s works at Taka Ishii Gallery will focus on his works of the 1970s, an important period in the development of his oeuvre. read more...


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Related Artists

Luigi Ghirri
Italian, 1943 - 1992

Walter De Maria
American, 1935 - 2013

Ana Mendieta
Cuban, 1948 - 1985

Martine Syms
American, 1988

Cy Twombly
American, 1928 - 2011

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