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Artist spotlights, reviews, insights, and art world news from our team.

 

Stezaker/Tremlett at Artvisor, London

Stezaker/Tremlett at Artvisor, London

“Walls, sculptures and drawings can talk and tell stories, they can echo.” – David Tremlett “There is something very odd, even unnerving about cutting through a photograph. It sometimes feels like I am cutting through flesh.” – John Stezaker We are pleased to announce a two-person exhibition of leading British artists John Stezaker and David Tremlett curated by Piero Tomassoni, held at Artvisor in London from May to September 2023.. David Tremlett, Spaces #1, 2023 John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his provocative collages and conceptual use of photography and found images. Having begun his career in the early 1970s, he became...

Thiago Rocha Pitta. Seeds at DauLang, Seoul

Thiago Rocha Pitta. Seeds at DauLang, Seoul

We are pleased to announce Thiago Rocha Pitta. Seeds, the artist’s first solo exhibition in South Korea, hosted at DauLang Gallery in Seoul. Rocha Pitta (b.1980, Brazil) is an artist renowned for his multimedia practice that intertwines themes from nature, politics, and the history of art. With Seeds, Rocha Pitta continues his career-long exploration of natural phenomena through six new watercolours, meant to act as an initial planting of ideas that will germinate and bloom with the production of a larger-scale exhibition in 2024. Homage to JMW Turner, Heritage, and The Silence reference previous series by the artist expressed through...

Giulio Paolini at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome

Giulio Paolini at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome

Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia at Palazzo Carpegna, Rome The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome presents Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia. Conceived by Marco Tirelli and curated by Antonella Soldaini, the exhibition features six unpublished works specifically created for Palazzo Carpegna. The artist’s thought-provoking conceptual works combine diverse media – painting, photography, and sculpture, to create poetic and introspective spaces. Giulio Paolini, A come Accademia, partial view of the exhibition, 2023, The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, IT © Andrea Veneri Paolini is a prominent Italian artist often associated with the Arte Povera movement. Although he took part...

a painting from the Hermann Nitsch retrospective

Hermann Nitsch at Pace Gallery, New York

Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965–2020 On 16 March 2023, Pace Gallery New York will open a retrospective of the Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022). The exhibition, entitled Hermann Nitsch – Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965–2020 is a celebration of the artist’s contributions to the avant-garde and a testament to his enduring legacy. The retrospective initially began as a collaboration with the artist, however, after his passing last April, the solo exhibition became a way to honour the completion of one of Nitsch’s final projects. Hermann Nitsch, Schüttbild, 1992 © Hermann Nitsch Foundation Nitsch was an interdisciplinary...

Francesco Jodice. West, at Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse

Francesco Jodice. West, at Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse

The WEST project by the Italian artist Francesco Jodice (b. 1967, Naples) is the subject of an exhibition curated by Matteo Balduzzi at the Galerie Le Chateau d’Eau, a public art space in Toulouse, France. With the WEST project, Jodice tells the story of the rise and fall of the American economic model and its image, investigating the origins of the current crisis of the liberal model over a period between the beginning of the Gold Rush (1848) and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008). Begun in 2014, WEST consists of three long journeys through a few of the states...

Highlights from Singapore Art Week

Highlights from Singapore Art Week

With the opening of the inaugural edition of ART SG at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore has established itself as a global art hub by bringing together galleries, artists, and institutions from all over the world. ART SG is part of the 11th edition of Singapore Art Week (SAW), where over 130 events were presented across the island. SAW also showcased S.E.A. Focus, in collaboration with Art Basel, which highlighted Southeast Asian contemporary art, and the seventh edition of the Singapore Biennale, which runs until 19 March 2023. ART SG With a reported attendance of 42,000 visitors, ART SG bills...

From the Nineties to the Noughties: Paul Jenkins in London

From the Nineties to the Noughties: Paul Jenkins in London

A collection of works produced in the 1990s and early 2000s by the American artist Paul Jenkins are the subject of a significant solo exhibition at the Ronchini Gallery in London. ‘Paul Jenkins: Works on Canvas from the Nineties and Noughties’ opened on 23 November and highlights the multiformity of acrylic paint as a medium. Jenkins, who lived in New York City as a contemporary of Pollock, Rothko, and Motherwell, is recognised for his method of pouring luminous layers of paint as a foundation for his abstract works. The exhibition comes following a major presentation at the Tampa Museum of...

Review of William Kentridge at the Royal Academy, London

Review of William Kentridge at the Royal Academy, London

One of the Royal Academy’s most impressive exhibitions in recent years, William Kentridge is a testament to his standing as one of the most important artists of our time. Throughout the show, the artist’s versatility, breadth and insightful approach to every medium he works with shine through. More than six years in the making, this is Kentridge’s largest exhibition in the UK. It continues a chronology of monumental single-artist retrospectives that the RA has held over the past few years, including those of Antony Gormley and Anselm Kiefer. It also coincides with the 35-year survey William Kentridge: In Praise of...

Art Business: Up-to-the-Minute at Christie’s Education, with Piero Tomassoni

Art Business: Up-to-the-Minute at Christie’s Education, with Piero Tomassoni

Christie’s Education is set to hold a two-day programme on the latest art world developments from 16 November to 17 November. Piero Tomassoni and other speakers will discuss the most recent developments in the art world, and provide insights on a wide range of topics relevant to today’s art professionals and scholars. Tomassoni’s segment will focus on the recent art market and curatorial trends, their origins and where we may be headed next. This lecture comes as an introduction to more in-depth courses on the art market that Piero Tomassoni and Nico Epstein will lead in the spring and summer of...

‘Giuliana Balice 1974-75’ at Atelier Coldefy, Paris

‘Giuliana Balice 1974-75’ at Atelier Coldefy, Paris

The exhibition Giuliana Balice 1974-75, organised by Zuecca Projects in collaboration with Fondazione Tomassoni, was inaugurated in October at the Atelier Coldefy in Paris, on the occasion of Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. This solo show is the first episode of an extensive project about the convergence between art and architecture. Throughout the history of art, art and architecture have always been closely tied. During the Renaissance, the figure of the artist, of the architect, and of the theorist was often one and the same, as in the case of Leon Battista Alberti, Vasari, and Michelangelo. This close tie...

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