Tschabalala Self’s first solo institutional exhibition in Europe, Make Room, will present new and recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Curators Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim introduce the exhibition as presenting works where the relationships between the masculine and the feminine are expressed with domestic figures and poses alternating between light and shadow.
The Schirn is dedicating a large survey exhibition to Ugo Rondinone that will showcase key paintings, sculptures, and video works by the renowned Swiss artist. The exhibition LIFE TIME combines fundamental themes that have shaped the work of the conceptual and installation artist for the past 30 years: time and transience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture.
Wyatt Kahn discusses his Public Art Fund exhibition, Life in the Abstract, with Roger Clark for NY1. Life in the Abstract is Kahn's first public art exhibition, comprising seven new monumental sculptures fabricated in Cor-Ten steel. Each sculpture juxtaposes components adapted from Kahn’s abstract canvas paintings with “readymade” items from his domestic life.
Karen Kilimnik's exhibition, Early Drawings 1976 – 1998, is reviewed by Johanna Fateman for Goings On About Town in The New Yorker. Fateman writes, "The diverse works on view are unified by the artist’s inimitable hand and wry humor—and by their lustrous gilt frames, which strike the perfect note of irony, fantasy, and understated camp."
Artist Louisa Gagliardi recently spoke to Louisa Elderton about her large-scale painting for the 2022 edition of Art Basel Unlimited. Gagliardi describes the work in reference to an atmosphere of “opening random doors and observing whatever scenes hide behind them. That’s what I want the work to feel like. Sometimes you open a door to an empty room that has a peaceful stillness, but it’s still eerie because of the potential for activation...”
Organized by Public Art Fund, Life in the Abstract is Wyatt Kahn’s first public art exhibition, comprising seven new monumental sculptures fabricated in Cor-Ten steel. Each sculpture juxtaposes components adapted from Kahn’s abstract canvas paintings with “readymade” items like eyeglasses, clock, comb, hand, foot, and other elements from his domestic life.
The Musée d’arts de Nantes invited Angela Bulloch to design an exhibition specifically for the museum's atrium. Undeterred by the monumentality of the space, the artist integrated her work into its architecture pursuing a practice of blending light, color, video, and sound. Bulloch drew on the legacy of the conceptual art of the 1960s, while also incorporating digital technologies to produce work that appeals to the senses.
Ugo Rondinone's solo exhibition, burn shine fly, at Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice is the subject of a feature by Stephanie Bailey on Ocula Magazine. The feature discusses how Rondinone's artworks reflect on common experiences of love and loss, particularly in relation to works by the late John Giorno.
On the occasion of the 59th La Biennale di Venezia, the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista hosts a major solo exhibition of work by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, entitled burn shine fly. Curated by Javier Molins, burn shine fly presents both iconic works by Rondinone as well as a new body of work created specifically for this exhibition.
Adam Pendleton will participate in the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept. Established in 1932 to chart developments in art of the United States, the Whitney Biennial is the longest-running exhibition of its kind. A constellation of the most relevant art and ideas of our time, the 2022 exhibition will be the Biennial’s eightieth edition.