Abdelkader Benchamma
GROUP SHOW – CE QUE NOUS AVONS PERDU DANS LE FEU

Villa Arson, Nice
From February 5 to April 17, 2022

An exhibition imagined by Lola Gonzàlez at the invitation of Éric Mangion. “Winter 2020, there is the discovery of the universe of Mariana Enriquez, a slap. The title of her book haunts me “What we lost in the fire”. November 2021, I have just finished her latest novel “Our share of the night”, I am stunned and deeply touched by the power of her writing. So I borrowed her words for the title of this collective exhibition, a way for me to invite Mariana among us and a way for me to invite Mariana among us and to pay her a tribute.

Claude Viallat
SOLO SHOW – KITCHISSIME 

Claude Viallat - Kitchissime
Fondation GGL Helenis, Montpellier 
Through May 30, 2022

The exhibition sheds light on a selection of recent works, objects made of rope with a vernacular rusticity, but also on fabrics painted with repeated motif, which became his signature. An always-renewed shape while the artist plays on the diversity of the materials and appropriates the raw support for a sound and rhythmic colourism transcending the simplicity of the motif.

Jeanne Vicerial
GALERIE TEMPLON ANNOUNCES THE REPRESENTATION OF ARTIST AND CLOTHES DESIGNER JEANNE VICERIAL

Galerie Templon is delighted to announce that it is representing French artist Jeanne Vicérial, a clothes designer and researcher. She was selected for a residency at the prestigious Villa Medici in 2020, and at not yet 30 is the first person in France to be awarded a PhD in the practice of fashion design. She develops a protean body of work, forging links between design, crafts, fashion, the arts and sciences. Baroque and unsettling, her creations are designed as works of art rooted in innovative textiles and textures. They address contemporary environmental issues and the question of the ties between ready-to-wear and haute couture. She founded the design and research studio Clinique Vestimentaire in her quest to use her work to substantially redefine ideas about the body and clothes. In March 2022, the gallery will be holding an exhibition dedicated to her work in its Brussels space. The show will feature around ten brand new creations from the artist, taking viewers on a voyage of discovery into her visionary world.

Billie Zangewa
TOMORROW IS A DIFFERENT DAY – GROUP SHOW

Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10, 1071 DJ, Amsterdam
On Going

Using samples of vibrant silk, the artist hand sews sprightly embroideries who take inspiration from contemporary life scenes. Tomorrow is a Different Day spotlights art and design from the collection, from 1980 to the present, by international artists and designers who are helping to shape the changes of today and tomorrow. They challenge the status quo and offer alternative perspectives.

Will Cotton
LA DAME à LA LICORNE MéDIéVALE ET SI CONTEMPORAINE – GROUP SHOW

Musée des Abattoirs
76 All. Charles de Fitte, Toulouse
From October 30, 2021 to January 16, 2022

In Roping, 2019-2020, Cotton switches treats for a surprising encounter between a triumphant cowboy and his fantastic steed which is none other than a pink unicorn. The mythical animal comes here to challenge the norms of the conquest of territories by men. The latter loses its virility in a wonderful world made of softness in which seems to dive a desacralized cowboy who is not without evoking a Queer update of that created in 1989 by the artist Richard Prince. 

Abdelkader Benchamma
RAYON FOSSILE – SOLO SHOW

Rayon Fossile 
Collection Lambert, 5 Rue Violette, 84000 Avignon, France 
October 29, 2021 through February 20, 2022

The Lambert Collection invites Abdelkader Benchamma to take over the entire first floor of the Hôtel de Montfaucon. Entitled ‘Rayon Fossile’, the exhibition is organized around an initiatory journey through possible worlds, past, imaginary, future, written or dreamed, assembled in a narrative that unfolds slowly in the rooms of the museum.

Abdelkader Benchamma
ECHOES – SOLO SHOW 

Rupture et Associés
1 place André Malraux, Paris
From October 23 to November 27, 2021

Conceived as a total immersion in the universe of the artist, the exhibition will feature the artist’s latest works of ink on paper. The opportunity for us to admire the gesture of Abdelkader Benchamma and to unveil the mystery on his so-magnetic works.

Claude Viallat
EXPANDED PAINTING IN THE 1960S AND 1970S  – GROUP SHOW

Fall 2021
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia

The exhibition “Expanded Painting in the 1960s and 1970s” presents radical innovations in painting that testify to a pursuit of freedom and expression in the midst of a period marked by social and political unrest in the United States and abroad. From Alma Thomas’s mosaic-like painting of flowers to Sam Gilliam’s suspended, draped canvas, these works speak to an upending of barriers-be they artistic, ideological, racial, or rooted in gender stereotypes. By rethinking and systematically probing conventions associated with the painted canvas, these works ultimately speak to the desire for a deeper, more fundamental connection to nature, the body, movement, and light.

Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY – SOLO SHOW

Winter 2021
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

For his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, The National Gallery, Wiley will depart from portraiture to explore artistic conventions and modes of representation in the European landscape tradition through the media of film and painting. Wiley’s first film installation, Narrenschiff (2017), was a contemporary response to the Ship of Fools theme, popular in European culture from the late 15th century. It featured a group of young Black men at sea, struggling to reach the land – a metaphor for both historical and contemporary histories of migration and social dislocation. Building on these themes at the National Gallery, Wiley will explore European Romanticism and its focus on epic scenes of oceans and mountains, and humankind’s relationship with nature. The film included in this project will feature Black Londoners that Wiley met and cast for the film on the streets around the National Gallery.

Pierre et Gilles
THIERRY MUGLER : COUTURISSIME – GROUP SHOW

Musée des Arts Décoratifs
107 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
September 30, 2021 to April 24, 2022

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is hosting the exhibition conceived, produced and organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). This major shows explores the work of the designer with a singular imagination as he revolutionized fashion, haute couture and perfume. This Parisian step marks the return of a visionary artist, photographer, perfume inventor and director to the City of Lights.