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Julião Sarmento
THE INVISIBLE SHOW – GROUP SHOW
From September 26, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Edifício-sede da, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Rua Arco do Cego, 50 , 1000–300 Lisbon, Portugal
The Invisible Show seeks to map these situations, based on the project with the same title presented by the curator Delfim Sardo in Spain and Israel, in 2007, only now in an enlarged version. Taking us back to modernist artists such as Raoul Hausmann, Luigi Russolo, Marinetti or Kurt Schwitters, the exhibition includes works by António Dias, James Lee Byars, Bruce Nauman, Luisa Cunha, Joan Jonas, Gonçalo Barreiros, Michael Snow, Julião Sarmento, Juan Muñoz and Gavin Bryars, Ricardo Jacinto, among many others.
Julião Sarmento
RED LIGHT: SEXUALIDADE E REPRESENTAÇÃO NA COLEÇÃO NORLINDA E JOSÉ LIMA – GROUP SHOW
From September 26, 2020 to March 14 , 2021
Centro de Arte Oliva, Rua da Fundição, 240, 3700-119 S. João da Madeira, Portugal
RED LIGHT presents a selection of works from the Norlinda and José Lima art collection, having in common the approach to sexuality, declined in multiple themes, both presented in a complement of counterpoint and in a discordant confrontation : the representation of the body, male and female nudity, eroticism, fantasy, desire and pain, object and subject, pleasure and domination, places of female representation, male gaze, voyeurism, exhibitionism and self-representation in art.
Jan Fabre
REAL UTOPIAS – GROUP SHOW
From September 25 to November 30, 2020
Maison R&C - 224 rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille, France
The European Nomadic Biennal, Manifesta is presenting a new Fall exhibition: Real Utopias. Conceived around works that all focus on the imagination of a place that has not been constructed yet, utopia – is a place that does not exist, where other worlds are imagined. All these imaginary constructions participate in transforming the reality. Paintings, video, drawings, multimedia works and sculptures will reveal the common aspirations and experimental approach of different generations of artists who imagine new ways of occupying space, be it physical, imaginary or corporeal.
Julião Sarmento
PROJECTOMAP 2010–2020. MAPA OU EXPOSIÇÃO – GROUP SHOW
From September 24, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Museu Coleção Berardo, Praça do Império, 1449-003 Lisboa, Portugal
Initiated in 2010, ProjectoMAP, “MAP” as an acronym for Map of Artists of Portugal, is a curatorial, research and mapping project for the universe of contemporary art in Portugal. Each artist is invited to suggest two names of central artists in their artistic and / or personal universe, and it is from this direct nomination that the map develops exponentially.
Julião Sarmento
FEAST. FURY. FEMINA – GROUP SHOW
From September 23, 2020 to January 25, 2021
maat — Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Av. Brasília, Belém, 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal
The exhibition Feast. Fury. Femina – Works from the FLAD Collection marks the Luso-American Development Foundation´s 35th anniversary. It is the largest exhibition ever organized using the Foundation´s collection. It is comprised of 228 pieces by over 60 Portuguese artists, it evokes the performative dimension inherent to contemporary artistic practices and highlights the feminine dimension, demanding a renewed gaze on the History of Art.
Gregory Crewdson
LE MAUVAIS OEIL – GROUP SHOW
From September 19 to January 10, 2021
FRAC Auvergne, 6 Rue du Terrail, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Major photographer Gregory Crewdson takes part in the exhibition “The Evil Eye”, held at the FRAC Auvergne. The exhibition, based both on the female figure of the Oracle and on the prediction and signs of a global collapse, is an artistic reflection on the state of our contemporary world. The evil eye, an archaic figure of anathema, finds its most diverse variations in this exhibition.
Abdelkader Benchamma
UN AUTRE MONDE///DANS NOTRE MONDE – GROUP SHOW
From September 19, 2020 to March 14, 2021
FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, 503 Avenue des Bancs de Flandres, 59140 Dunkerque
Abdelkader Benchamma takes part in the exhibition « UN AUTRE MONDE/// DANS NOTRE MONDE » held at the FRAC Nord-pas de Calais.The exhibition proposes to discover the fantastic realism, a major movement of the counterculture of the 1960s, through the works of contemporary artists who question the dominant knowledge and hybridize scientific and esoteric knowledge. Extravagant, hermetic, sensual, the works summon the survival of traditional, mythical or magical cultures. They invite to probe the altered states of consciousness, the limits of our sensory perceptions, the hidden codes of nature and the undecipherable laws that govern the cosmos.
Chiharu Shiota
PUSH THE LIMITS – GROUP SHOW
From September 7, 2020 to March 11, 2021
Fondazione Merz, via Limone 24, 10141 Turin, Italy
PUSH THE LIMITS is a project that investigates how art takes itself to the limit to move the horizon of thinking, perception and speech ever further in order to introduce new elements. The guest artists take this opportunity to reaffirm the urgency of unleashing the infinity of possibles.
Omar Ba
Billie Zangewa
GLOBAL(E) RESISTANCE – GROUP SHOW
From July 29 to January 4, 2021
Centre Pompidou, Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris
The exhibition ‘Global(e) Restitance’ reveals for the first time, more than sixty artists reunited for the last century around the question of “resitance”, including Senegalese Omar Ba and South African artist Billie Zangewa.
The exhibition that collects many work from many different medium and countries, questions the theoretical and esthetical relationship between politics and art. The idea of resisting, studied through the handling of politic as well as art for activism, as always been experienced by artists under oppression and inequalities.
Kehinde Wiley
PEINTRE DE L’éPOPéE – SOLO SHOW
From July 10 to Novembre 01, 2020
Centre d'art La Malmaison, 47 Boulevard de la Croisette, 06400 Cannes
From July 10th to November 1st 2020, the Centre d’Art de La Malmaison on the Croisette welcomes one of today’s most sought after international stars, the American artist Kehinde Wiley. The Centre d’Art la Malmaison unveils over 20 epic works, representative of the vast vocabulary that has guided the artist’s work for more than a decade. Drawing his inspiration from the Old Masters, from Titian and Gainsborough to Van Dyck and Ingres, Wiley presents a uniquely political and aesthetic perspective, making visible history’s invisible figures, allowing the viewer to engage with the notions of perception as it pertains to power and place.llKehinde Wiley has traversed the world since 2006 as part of his The World Stage series, whereby organizing local studios and utilizing street casting of denizens from the favelas of Rio to the cramped streets of New Dehli. He uses chance encounters with young Black and brown men and women to create Baroque portraits, brimming with the vestiges and fanfare of the Old Masters. Kehinde Wiley is a descendent of that long line of portraitists. He offers reinterpretations of traditional easel painting vernacular, instilling power and prestige onto the young men and women who are rarely viewed as such.llDelving into the issues of racial and sexual identity, Kehinde Wiley’s works create unexpected conversations where art history and Black culture emerge fluidly. The artist brings to the forefront those who have historically been banished from the halls of power and the access found therein. His politically charged work is an investigation of race, representation, privilege, and excess. They are an indictment on history and who determines its definition.llThrough this majestic retrospective, the first in France, one can fathom how a vast body of work can both question and participate in the Western art historical canon of portraiture. Kehinde Wiley invites us, we Europeans, to rediscover a painting whose artistic intensity we have, perhaps, forgotten at a time when the continent is experiencing an identity crises that is continuously evolving. Welcoming such a monographic exhibition to Cannes, Kehinde Wiley materializes the international aspirations the city has regarding the importance of contemporary art.
