Bortolami will present Of Two, Naotaka Hiro鈥檚 second solo exhibition with the gallery. Hiro continues his dialectical approach to mark-making, working across canvas, wood, and bronze.
These days it is hard to distinguish reality from fiction as endless streams of manipulated images distort and deceive with an unholy alliance of fabricated form and false meaning.
Drawing from pioneering art spaces in the Middle East, the African continent, as well as West and South Asia, each exhibition鈥攁nd a comprehensive program鈥攊s placed in dialogue with Dubai鈥檚 vivacious art and cultural landscape.
Art Dubai opened to VIPs on Wednesday with all the familiar trappings of a global art fair鈥擵IPs in sunglasses, polished presentations, branded lanyards, and an ocean of champagne.
In "Impersonal Unity Tools" at Bortolami, the Mexican artist challenges the canon of Western painting to explore the psychology of the ideologies embedded in materials and methods of presentation.
On view in the upstairs gallery at Bortolami, Enzo Shalom鈥檚 paintings 鈥 modest in image and muted in palette 鈥 carry a quiet intensity that has felt rare among young New York painters in recent years.
That the eleven non-representational paintings on view in Enzo Shalom鈥檚 solo show hang in a room that Bortolami Gallery refers to as 鈥淭he Upstairs鈥 seems uncannily resonant.