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Iván Navarro
IVáN NAVARRO : BIFOCAL
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE BUENOS AIRES, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA November 15, 2019 - March 1, 2020
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires presents BIFOCAL, a solo exhibition of the internationally recognized Chilean artist Iván Navarro. In collaboration with Revolver Galería (Buenos Aires and Lima), Templon Galerie (París), Galería Isabel Aninat (Santiago de Chile) and Luciana Brito Galeria (SãIno Paulo), the show will feature a selection of more than fifteen artworks, including neon sculptures and audio-visual installations. Navarro’s work seeks to explore the aesthetic and political dimensions of electricity through perceptual alterations stimulating the spectator in a sensorial and psychological way. Thereby, the artist achieves to reinvent everyday objects to criticize power institutions and ponder about Chilean history.
Gérard Garouste
MEETING WITH GéRARD GAROUSTE, A MAJOR FIGURE IN FRENCH PAINTING – CONFERENCE
GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCE Wednesday 13/11 at 6:30 pm
Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, co-curator of the ongoing Greco exhibition in Paris, interviews Gérard Garouste, a major figure in French painting and great admirer of the Spanish master, at the Grand Palais as part of the “Greco à deux voix” series of talks.
Gérard Garouste questions the origins of our culture, ancient masters’ heritage and the myths. His paintings are in turn disturbing and joyful, populated by different characters sometimes close to those of Greco. Spanish painting, of which he loves the strength, the colours, the profusion of blacks and the mystical side, had a fundamental role in his decision to become a painter.
Chiharu Shiota
INTERNAL LINE – SOLO SHOW
JAPAN HOUSE, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Until February 2020, Japan House – São Paulo is presenting Chiharu Shiota’s new work, Internal Line. Inspired by Japanese folklore, the work refer to the legend saying that a red thread tied to the finger of a newly born child runs from the heart to fingertips and intertwines with others’ thread, connecting them to each other.
Chiharu Shiota
LIFELINES – SOLO SHOW
CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - January 27, 2020
Chiharu Shiota’s body of work is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition Linhas da Vida (Lifelines), on view this fall at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – São Paulo.
The exhibition presents seminal works by the artist, including The Key in the Hand (2015) and the brand new work Além da Memória (2019), inspired by the diversity of the Brazilian people and the historical architecture of the CCBB-SP.
Francesco Clemente
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: WORKS 1978–2018 – SOLO SHOW
THE BRANT FOUNDATION ART STUDY CENTER, NEW YORK, USA From 12/11/2018 to 01/04/2019
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is pleased to announce a survey of works by Francesco Clemente, on view from November 12, 2018 through March 2019. The exhibition brings together a concise but comprehensive selection spanning 40 years of the artist’s work including self-portraits and portraits, works on paper, frescoes, monumental oil and watercolor paintings, and one of the artist’s notable hand painted tents. Executed in Rome, New York, Taos, Varanasi, Jodhpur, Orissa, Pondicherry, and Madras, the works have traveled far and been dispersed among museum collections and art patrons. They now come together for Francesco Clemente: Works 1978–2018, each with its own story to tell. Non-chronological in nature, the exhibition interweaves threads that have been a constant in Clemente’s long-spanning oeuvre, and presents ideas and questions that persist throughout his various transformations in medium.
Julião Sarmento
WITHOUT – SOLO SHOW
CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, CORUNA, SPAINFrom 09/11/2018 to 02/02/2019
The work of Julião Sarmento is shaped from the borderline. Many of his works contain images of images which, while inter-related, also function independently, embracing the ambiguity of their meaning. They are microstories that take on the multiple potential of cinema, somewhere between the explicit and secret; between what is personal and what is alien. They also share a kind of suspended duration. Julião Sarmento’s entire body of work projects this cinematographic sensation because when we look at his works we always get the feeling that there is something else there that is absent, something kept offstage. The exhibition at the CGAC is a panoramic view including works that reflect this feeling that cuts across his whole trajectory: cinematographic expression. It is not so much a question of highlighting a literal relationship—which is evident in many cases—but rather we seek to project how Sarmento has always explored this intermediate space between suspension and desire, in an interstitial space where the spectator becomes immersed, treading disturbing terrain like an foreigner, like a spectator. Curators: Santiago Olmo, David Barro
Norbert Bisky
POMPA AND RANT – SOLO SHOWS
RANT – Solo show VILLA SCHÖNINGEN, POTSDAM, GERMANY From 9 November, 2019 to 23 February, 2020 POMPA- Solo show ST. MATTHÄUS-KIRCHE, BERLIN, GERMANY From 10 November 2019 to16 February, 2020
“I would never have been an artist without the fall of the Wall.” In November 2019, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, painter Norbert Bisky reflects on the end of the GDR, the chaos of the post-reunification era and his personal experience with two parallel exhibitions, POMPA and RANT, in Berlin and Potsdam.
Kehinde Wiley
ICONS: WORSHIP AND ADORATION / 30 AMERICANS / AFROCOSMOLOGIES: AMERICAN REFLECTIONS – GROUP SHOW
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany October 19, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA From October 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA From October 19, 2019 – January 20, 2020
Kehinde Wiley is currently taking part in three group exhibitions in different parts of the world. In the United States with American Reflections at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut ; 30 Americans at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia; and in Germany with Icons – Worship and Adoration at the Kunsthalle in Bremen. https://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/en/view/exhibitions/exb-page/icons https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/30-americans https://www.thewadsworth.org/afrocosmologies-american-reflections/
Abdelkader Benchamma
FATA BROMOSA – SOLO SHOW
MUSÉE RÉGIONAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN OCCITANIE /PYRÉNÉES - MÉDITERRANÉE, SÉRIGNAN, FRANCEDu 23 /11/2019 au 20/09/2020
For his first solo exhibition in a French museum, Abdelkader Benchamma invests three rooms at Mrac Occitanie with an immersive installation drawing inspiration from his residence at Villa Médicis in autumn 2018. In Rome, Abdelkader Benchamma is fascinated by the richness of church decorations, in particular by the representation of marbles in the works of the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico. The Old Master’s depictions render the illusion of precious stones by playing on symmetry of veins, thus creating spiritually charged abstract forms. The title of the exhibition, Fata Bromosa, (literally Fairy of the Mists) refers to that blurring of perception dear to Fra Angelico. The term indicates an optical phenomenon observed by navigators in the Middle Ages which gives the impression of a bright-rimmed fog perceptible on the horizon. To depict without representing seems to be the artist’s ambition: drawing become an emanation of nature, but of a different kind, intimate and unfathomable.
Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY: SAINT LOUIS – SOLO SHOW
SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM, SAINT LOUIS, USA From 19/10/2018 to 10/02/2019
The Saint Louis Art Museum is proud to present Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis, an exhibition that is deeply connected to this city and informed by visits Wiley made in 2017. Through a process of street casting, he invited strangers he met in neighborhoods in north St. Louis and Ferguson to pose for his paintings. Wiley then created eleven original portraits that are inspired by carefully chosen artworks in the Museum’s collection. Curators: Simon Kelly, Hannah Klemm, Molly Moog
