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David LaChapelle
“ON EVERYONE’S LIPS. FROM PIETER BRUEGEL TO CINDY SHERMAN” – GROUP SHOW
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Until June 6, 2021
The exhibition “On everyone’s lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman” is dedicated to the theme of the oral cavity, from the mouse to the lips, the tongue and the teeth. Science and medicine have always been involved in the exploration of the specific part of the body, so as art and cultural history, from antiquity to present. The exhibition presents over 250 works of art by among others, David Lachapelle, Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Max Klinger, Marina Abramović, Andy Warhol, and Louise Bourgeois comprising paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, drawings, prints and video art, juxtaposed with individual exhibits from ethnological and scientific collections, film and advertising, music and literature.
Chiharu Shiota
“THE WEB OF TIME” – PERMANENT DISPLAYS
permanent displays
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington
“I want the viewer to reflect on their inner self, on their life – past, present, and future…” – Chiharu Shiota In “The web of time”, countless intertwined strands connect numbers across time and space. The installation which is part of the Te Papa museum’s permanent collection creates the vision of a night sky studded with constellations of numbers. These numbers – scattered like stars in the night sky – represent meaningful dates in history, both collective and personal. As Chiharu Shiota says, “Numbers confort us. We share dates that are important to us, and they help us understand ourselves.”
Julião Sarmento
STRIP CLUB – SOLO SHOW
From February 26 to May 31, 2021
Janela “Taffimai”, Calçada Castelo Picao, 32, Lisboa
For the new Janela edition, “Taffimai” invited artist Julião Sarmento to intervene with the neon installation Strip Club, which occupies most of the Janela’s area. Strip Club ironically promises to transform the plant store Limbo Shop into a striptease club, inviting whoever passes by the Janela to come inside. As the store is closed by law, the artist’s invitation reveals itself as a provocation, the ultimate game of seduction. This edition of Janela is not just one more game we came to get used to in Julião Sarmento’s work, but it is mostly a reminder that we, in fact cannot come in, cannot enjoy, cannot participate in all of what Lisbon’s streets have to offer.
Julião Sarmento
JAPANESE TRAFFIC YELLOW TIDE – SOLO EXHIBITION
From February 15 to April 23, 2021
CCA Gallery, 2-5 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
Julião Sarmento presents his solo exhibition “Japanese Traffic Yellow Tide” at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan : “Standing alone in the exact center of the room, the one defined by the crossing of both diagonals on the floor, I imagine a colour. Not just any colour but one which can transport me to unknown pleasures and places of delight. A colour connected to freedom and self-improvement. A colour I particularly fancy and often use in my work. A colour that sets my good mood in. A colour like the colour of New York City cabs. Traffic Yellow. RAL 1023. I then imagine how many gallons of paint would it be necessary to fill up the room I’m standing in, up to the tip of my head, shy only of my scalp, with me inside, in the center, completely still. To fill up the room with paint up to 186 cm which is my height, shy only of the hairs on top of my head. Like an immense yellow tide. I imagine a room as a sink, with a hole in the bottom through which the paint disappears once the room is filled the way I imagined. And then the result. A yellow room completely covered in yellow paint up to a quota of 186 cm. A simple equation. A simpler gesture ? ”- Julião Sarmento
Jean-Michel Alberola
EX AFRICA. PRÉSENCES AFRICAINES DANS L’ART D’AUJOURD’HUI – GROUP SHOW
From February 9 to July 11, 2021
Galerie Jardin, musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 37 quai Branly, 75007 Paris
In an unprecedented visual dialogue, the Ex Africa exhibition brings together more than 150 works by contemporary artists of all generations and origins to decipher the relationships that unite the current scene and ancient African arts since the end of the 20th century.
Billie Zangewa
THE POWER OF MY HANDS, AFRIQUE(S) : ARTISTES FEMMES – GROUP SHOW
From January 22 to May 30, 2021
Musée d’Art Moderne, 11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
As part of the Saison Africa2020, Suzana Sousa, independent curator based in Luanda, Angola and Odile Burluraux, curator at the au Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, bring together at MAM a set of works by sixteen female artists from several English-speaking African countries, and Portuguese speakers, or from the diaspora, offering a glimpse of a contemporary African art scene little presented in France. The Power of My Hands, through the creations presented – painting, pottery, photography, video, performance, embroidery etc. – takes into account the capacity of the artists to approach, starting from their personal histories, the social questions which determine the female condition.
Chiharu Shiota
LIFELINES – SOLO SHOW
From January 13, 2021 to April 19, 2021
CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
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.
Chiharu Shiota
LINHAS DA VIDA – SOLO SHOW
From January 13rd to April 19th, 2021
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro, R. Primeiro de Março, 66 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro is the last location of the touring exhibition of Chiharu Shiota “Linhas da Vida”, that has been traveling since beginning of 2020 through Brazil. It is the first extensive solo exhibition presented in the country, showing works spanning over 25 years of artistic career. The exhibition includes the site-specific installations “Beyond Memory”, “Two Boats, One Direction” and “Internal Line”.
Iván Navarro
RIO DE SANGRE – INSTALLATION
Santiago, Chile
From 12 january 2021
“Río de sangre” is an installation created by Ivan Navarro, located on the banks of the Mapocho river in Chile. Made up of an iron tower connected to one of the river’s pathways through a bridge, it creates a peaceful place for meditation in the midst of the urban jungle. Visitors can walk it up, one at a time, and are given a map of Santiago with the streets renamed after various parts of the human body. The installation is an homage to the Desaparecidos, the victims of the dictatorship thrown in the river before and after the Pinochet era.
Iván Navarro
PLANETARIUM – SOLO SHOW
From January 9, 2021 to February 28, 2021
Le 104, 5 Rue Curial, 75019 Paris
With this new solo exhibition, Planetarium, displayed at Centquatre, Iván Navarro created an immersive journey through constellation of videos, sculptures, and other luminous and sonorous objects. Celestial bodies and terrestrials ones are confounded for a better understanding of power, at a time of metaphysics obsessions, such as identity and memory.
