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From new openings to shows to catch before they close, we round up the exhibitions to see around the world this month

The Space Between, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

MARCH 07, 2019-APRIL 20, 2019

Elinor Carucci's photograph for a short story by Kristen Roupenian published the New Yorker

Life is a constant chain of human relationships, some amorous, some amicable, some chaotic, some deeply unsatisfying. These phases of connection, or lack of, are perfectly communicated in Julie Saul Gallery’s new group exhibition, showing the work of 27 different artists. The Space Between, refers to both the physical joining of couples as well as the passage of time that unifies them or causes them to drift apart. The works are immediately impactful, often with no need for commentary, conveying intimate moments, erotic embraces, ferocious arguments, and deeply uncomfortable silences. Works include Zanele Muholi’s activist photography that brings light to the Black LGBT community, a blue surrealist pencil drawing by Zachari Logan, and Elinor Carucci’s kissing couple that went viral when illustrating the New Yorker’s Cat Person.

Mickalene Thomas: Femmes noires, AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

NOVEMBER 29, 2018-MARCH 24, 2019

Mickalene Thomas, Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe: Les trois femmes noires (detail) (2010) 

In the artist’s first large-scale solo show in Canada, Mickalene Thomas has created an ode to Black womanhood, showing an alternative perspective from monolithic representations. Her collages are bright, bold and moving, celebrating Black women and drawing inspiration from art historical movements like Impressionism, Cubism, Dada and the Harlem Renaissance. Through a Black queer feminist perspective, the exhibition brings to light issues regarding race, gender, sexuality, representational politics and Black celebrity culture. developed in partnership with AGO and the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans.

Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

JANUARY 23, 2019-APRIL 14, 2019

Lucio Fontana, Spacial Concept, Expectations (1959) 

Curated by Iria Candela, this retrospective of Italian artist Lucio Fontana examines the career of one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Widely known for his Cuts series of slashed canvases, the exhibition will also feature his lesser known, but equally powerful, abstract sculpture. It’s the first major Fontana retrospective in the United States in over 40 years, and will be the final show held at the Met’s  Marcel Breuer’s granite alcazar on Madison Avenue, which it has occupied since the Whitney moved downtown, in 2015.

Willi Siber : Alchemy, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

FEBRUARY 28, 2019-APRIL 06, 2019

Will Siber, Alchemy 

​In his latest solo exhibition, German artist Will Siber is presented as a “virtual alchemist”, molding materials into altered states. His work consists of 3D, brightly-colored shapes that seem anthropomorphic and blur the lines of pictures and sculpture. His works visually inspire joy and creativity in the viewer, with their bright colors, jelly-like textures and suggestions of movement. While they’re “non-narrational”, their unusual forms and juxtapositions open them up to a variety of interpretations.

The Courtauld Collection : A Vision for Impressionism, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

FEBRUARY 20, 2019-JUNE 17, 2019

Edouard Manet, Un Bar aux Folies Bergére (1882) 

The exhibition presents the collection of the British entrepreneur and art patron Samuel Courtauld, and hasn't been shown in Paris for the past 60 years. The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism brings together some 110 works, including Manet's Un Bar aux Folies Bergére (1882),  Van Gogh's Autoportrait à l’oreille bandée (1889), and Gaugin's Nevermore (1897). It features some of the greatest French paintings from the end of the 19th century and from the very beginning of the 20th century. Featured works are mainly conserved in the Courtauld Gallery or in different international public and private collections. 

Giorgio Andreotta Calò: CittàdiMilano Mariana Castillo Deball: Point, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan

FEBRUARY 14, 2019-JULY 21, 2019

Installation shot from Giorgio Andreotta's show at HangarBicocca

This exhibition focuses on the sculptural practice of Giorgio Andreotta Calò, one of the most highly regarded Italian artists of his generation. The show displays a variety of his works created since 2008, in dialogue with each other and all as part of one landscape. His use of material is symbolic, from classical bronze or wood to caranto clay, the submarine layer beneath the city of Venice. His works are often site specific, with materials linking to international issues on the use of raw materials and themes of socio-ecological change.

21 MARCH 2019, 6-8PM 

David, Abstract Landscape (2018) 

Into the Wild is a multimedia exhibition, created and curated by artists with learning disabilities and autism. Works include sculpture, collage, painting, and video, all responding to the theme of the natural world. The show is part of Artbox London, an organization that helps artists create, exhibit and sell their work. Free to attend, exhibited works will be up for sale after the one-night event.

Oscar Rejlander: Artist Photographer, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, LA

MARCH 12, 2019-JUNE 09, 2019

Oscar Gustaf Rejlander, Non Angeli sed Angli (Not Angels but Anglos), after Raphael's Sistine Madonna (1854-1856) 

Oscar Rejlander was one of the most influential and first-ever photographers to exist, known for helping elevate photography into a recognized art form. He experimented with ground-breaking techniques, collaborated with Charles Darwin, and influenced the work of Victorian greats like Lewis Caroll and Julia Margaret Cameron. In the first major retrospective of Rejlander, the show brings together a rare selection of his work while shining light on new research.

MARCH 14, 2019-MAY 4, 2019 

Tim Ellis, Construction X  (2018) 

Tomorrow’s Harvest shows the work of artist Tim Ellis, comprising relief sculptures, cast busts, paintings and drawings all centered on a tented structure displaying furniture. Published as one of Thames and Hudson’s 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Ellis’ work centers around the idea “that a Being has a primeval desire to want to belong to something greater than oneself.” Exploring spirituality and society, he considers instances where objects from one culture come in contact with another. The work is his third solo exhibition at FOLD, and the first to ever make direct reference to some of the characters that inhabit his works and installations.

Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

AUGUST 31, 2018-MARCH 31, 2019

Peelatchiwaaxpaash / Medicine Crow (Raven) (2014), Wendy Red Star.  Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Booklyn Museum. Copyright of Wendy Red Star

A 1989 Guerrilla Girls poster states: “You’re seeing less than half the picture without the vision of women artists and artists of color." Brooklyn Museum of Art have based an exhibition on this, using over 100 works from their collection to explore artist’s who have responded to feminism and intersectionality. Works by 50 artists are shown from over the last century, following the history of feminism World War One to #MeToo, exploring ongoing political issues like gender, race, and class.

Hockney - Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

MARCH 1, 2019-MAY 26, 2019

David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven). Copyright the artist. Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle 

David Hockney's on a mission against 'perspective.' In the short film which introduces this exhibition, the Bradford-born painter says 'perspective is strangling space.' Hockney thinks that the learned techniques of vanishing points are an illusion which has tainted people's view of real-life nature, and so his landscapes give up the compositional norms of foreground and background to try and give a vast, nuanced, but immediate view of the natural world.

Many of the techniques he uses to do this were learned from Vincent Van Gogh, and this exhibition draws surprising and rewarding parallels between the two. How much did Van Gogh's impasto influence Hockney's iPad paintings? The case is stated here eloquently and vibrantly. In a subtle curatorial turn, the exhibition as a whole has a queitly drumming undertone of environmental concern aligned with explorations of human mental health. Don't miss it.

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