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Orsten Groom
SOLO SHOW – LIMBE [LE VROI DANS LA NUIT]
Orsten Groom - LIMBE [Le Vroi dans la Nuit]Suquet des Artistes, CannesFrom July 1st to December 11, 2022
Dedicated to childhood in contrast to prehistoric art, forty fiery, baroque and complex canvases weave a disconcerting and singular cave, impregnated with the original power of painting. From this whirlwind emerges a complex reflection that the artist, a new father, questions on the innocence of art and man in the grip of history and memory, between mythology, literature and anthropology. To do this, Orsten Groom called the great prehistorian and specialist in cave art, Jean-Michel Geneste (former curator and director of research at the Lascaux cave, heritage and director of the National Center for Prehistory and the multidisciplinary study program of the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave), with whom a lengthy interview has been reproduced in the catalog published on the occasion.
Kehinde Wiley
NEW EDITION ARTISTS ANNOUNCEMENT BLACK ROCK SENEGAL
Kehinde Wiley - Black Rock Senegal
Dakar, Senegal
July 2022 to March 2023
Black Rock Senegal seeks to support new artistic creation through collaborative exchange and to incite change in the global discourse about Africa. The third year of the program will run between July 2022 and March 2023 and will welcome sixteen artists from around the world. The selected artists for Black Rock 2022-2023 are: ‘Pemi Aguda (Nigeria, Writer), Gouled Ahmed (Ethiopia, Textile), Sophia Nahli Allison (USA, Film), Adrian L. Burrell (USA, Film), Panmela Castro (Brazil, Painter), Chinwe Chigbu (Nigeria, Photographer), Ayan Farah (Sweden, Mixed Media), Enam Gbewonyo (United Kingdom, Textile), Stephen Leo Hayes Jr. (USA, Sculptor), Amina Kadous (Egypt, Photographer), Mae-ling Lokko (Ghana, Mixed Media), Nasheeka Nedsreal (Germany, Performance Based), Nengi Omuku (Nigeria, Painter), Léonard Pongo (Belgium, Visual Artist), Khalif Tahir Thompson (USA, Painter), and Paul Verdell (USA, Painter).
James Casebere
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – EXODES
Philippe Cognée, James Casebere - Exodes
ville de Saint-Raphaël
From July 1st to September 30, 2022
“ExodeS” is a particular cultural event because of its conception, invading, for one summer, a city rich in history and migrations since Antiquity. The exhibition is installed in temporary structures, taking possession of emblematic places and monuments, squares and gardens, unusual places, seashores where it is good to stroll, rest, look.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – LOURD LéGER, LES éTATS DU CORPS
Philippe Cognée - Lourd, Léger, les états du corps
Moulin des Arts, Saint-Rémy
From June 25 to September 4, 2022
The body in all its states is a fundamental data of the contemporary creation: painting, drawing, print, installation, ceramics, videogram… Externalized, reified in a way, it departs from the poignant authenticity of the body of the artist of Body Art. The body that we guess, that we cross, that imposes itself, that falls, that flies away, that spreads, that we divide… Everything is about weight, breath and matter. Lourd léger tells the story of a body in search of rest, humor, gravity and fantasy. Classical art has bequeathed us a body of metamorphoses and reveries.
Iván Navarro
SOLO SHOW – THIS IS YOUR LAND
Iván Navarro - This is your land
Sculpture and Architecture Park, New York
Starting June 25, 2022
Here, Navarro invokes the iconic form of water towers, closely associated with the skyline of New York City, a city where immigrants from around the world gather in search of a better life. Guthrie’s 1940 song criticized the privatization of resources in the United States that he believed all should have access to, including water. Notably absent from Guthrie’s song is reference to Indigenous Nations’ right to this land and critical role in protecting clean water. Ultimately, Navarro’s installation raises questions about how nations linked by colonial histories might reshape their futures.
Iván Navarro
GROUP SHOW – RêVERIES
Iván Navarro - Rêveries
Domaine Pommery, Reims
From June 25 to November 8, 2022
With this new series made in 2020 during the confinement, Iván Navarro takes the viewer on a poetic journey through cosmic landscapes. Constellations, nebulae, eclipses, large panels of illuminated glass open up like windows to the infinity of space. Both sublime and intriguing, these imaginary cartographies question the limits of astronomy, mental representations and anthropocentrism.
Prune Nourry
GROUP SHOW – METTRE AU MONDE
Prune Nourry - Mettre au Monde
L’Artsenal, Dreux
From June 23 to January 8, 2023
“Mettre au monde” questions the complex interaction between creation, begetting, public and private spheres, intimacy and extimacy while questioning the tenuous balance between these worlds in the life of an artist, parent, active and independent evolving notably in the field of visual arts still too little structured in the social support of its actors. The exhibition “Mettre au monde” (Bringing into the world) was created by the curators Amélie Adamo and Lucile Hitier. It supports a selection of artists who have – at some point in their lives – dedicated their work to their family, their child, to the inhabited body, to the nurturing body or to the artistic practice of four hands.
SOLO SHOW – THE SOUL TREMBLES
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia. From June 18 to October 3, 2022
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. From May 1 to August 29, 2021
“The Soul Trembles” is the largest exhibition devoted to the internationally active artist Chiharu Shiota. On display are some one hundred works ranging from her 1990s output to her latest pieces. In addition to large-scale installation, there are sculptures, performance videos, photographs, drawings, and materials related to her stage design projects.
GROUP SHOW – CLAUDE VIALLAT, PATRICK SAYTOUR
Aubais, France
Through August 21, 2022
After visiting several places in the hometown, Viallat, in collaboration with Saytour, chose to exhibit their work in places not so well suited to present painting, a way to put painting back into play and to renew with the spirit of Supports/Surfaces.
Pierre et Gilles
GROUP SHOW – RESPIRER L’ART, QUAND L’ART CONTEMPORAIN SUBLIME L’UNIVERS DU PARFUM
Pierre et Gilles - Respirer l'art, quand l'art contemporain sublime l'univers du parfum
Musée International de la Parfumerie, Grasse
Through March 5, 2023
Olfaction has become a medium of choice for a generation of artists who do not hesitate to collaborate with perfumery professionals and scientists. Indeed, olfaction offers innovative possibilities for contemporary creation. The plant elements used as raw materials in perfumery breathe poetry into ephemeral and even aerial art installations. Other artists evoke the sensuality and fluidity of perfume through creations made of glass. The technical and chemical processes of transforming raw plant materials to obtain perfume have an alchemical character for many artists who, intrigued, integrate them into the heart of their artistic approach.Laboratory glassware, stills and raw materials feed their imagination.
Pierre et Gilles
GROUP SHOW – WITH LOVE, FIFI CHACHNIL, LE FIL D’UNE HISTOIRE
Pierre et Gilles - With love, Fifi Chachnil, Le Fil d'une Histoire
Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon
Through august 31, 2022
Since the opening of her Parisian fashion house in 1984, Fifi Chachnil has been drawing the infinite variations of a single score: an ode to the female body, which sublimates its attributes with a lightness mixed with subversive insolence. For Fifi, the quest for the eternal feminine means cultivating her style in total freedom, in defiance of the diktat of trends, to the glory of a carnal, exuberant and… very cheeky! In the circle of “Fifidèles”, Madonna and Kylie Minogue, for whom she designed costumes in the 90s, cohabit with Philippe Katerine, with whom she started singing in the 2000s, the German photographer Ellen von Unwerth and Charles Petit and Pierre & Gilles.
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – FLEURS !
Philippe Cognée - Fleurs !
La Fabrique - Centre d'art, Montreuil
Through June 20, 2022
Here, the flower topic seems to reconnect with the fundamentals of painting, evoking traditional Flemish still life bouquets as well as Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe. Through this process, however, Philippe Cognée is also confronting the fundamentals of his own practise. His proliferating flowers echo a nature full of magic and mystery, as fragile as it is indomitable. They act as the “memento mori” haunting many of his past series such as those dedicated to recycling factories (2005), vanities (2006) and slaughterhouses (2008).
SOLO SHOW – ARCOSS THE RIVER
Landesgalerie Niederoesterreich, Austria
Through January 15, 2023
The artist’s works touch on central themes of human existence: memory and time, homeland and tradition, life and death. Her installations focuses on the interconnections between humans and the world, linked together through invisible threads symbolizing feelings and inner thoughts.
Oda Jaune
GROUP SHOW – UNCANNY DEPTHS
Oda Jaune - Uncanny depths
MAMO, Cité Radieuse de Marseille
Through June 12, 2022
“Uncanny depths” proposes a historical walk and a reflection on time, around the notion of antiquity value theorized by Alois Riegl. Taking place in the MAMO, the former gymnasium of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, conceived as an inverted ship’s hull, the exhibition takes the form of a baroque, undulating and archaeological fantasy, a resurgence of the myth of Atlantis and of the most mysterious and disturbing incarnations of the forces of time.
Julião Sarmento
SOLO SHOW – ABSTRACTO, BRANCO, TóXICO E VOLáTIL
Julião Sarmento - Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil
Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
From May 12, 2022 to January 1st, 2023
Bringing together a significant set of works that marked his career, th selection presented here is the fruit of a close collaboration between the late artist and the curator Catherine David. A title of one of his 1997 works, “Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil” is the first major exhibition of Julião Sarmento since his passing.
Kehinde Wiley
VENICE BIENNALE – AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE
Kehinde Wiley - An Archaeology of Silence
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Italy
From April 23 to July 24, 2022
Curated by Christophe Leribault, the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence is hosted at Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the occasion of the 59th Biennale di Venezia. For this new body of work, Wiley has expanded these core thematic elements to meditate on the deaths of young Black men slain all over the world. Technology allows viewers to witness these graphic depictions of violence against the Black body that were once silenced. Wiley states, “That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.” In light of the current global conflicts, language concerning power struggles and inalienable human rights are more critical than ever.
David LaChapelle
SOLO SHOW – I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES
David LaChapelle - I Believe in Miracles
MUDEC, Italy
Through September 11, 2022
With a new project, the MUDEC is offering an exhibition based on a critical look at the human soul, explored in its folds of pain, solitude, joys, passions and ideals. Man and his relationship to himself, man in his environment and in human society, man in Nature.
Jean-Michel Alberola
SOLO SHOW – HERMèS BABY
Jean-Michel Alberola - Hermès Baby
Passage Sainte-Croix, Nantes
From April 12 to June 11, 2022
Combining visual arts and poetry, Jean-Michel Alberola presents a series of works, some of which are specially created for the Passage Sainte-Croix, notably two imposing wall paintings.Some thirty drawings and gouaches take up extracts from the texts of the Beat Generation and are inspired by their cut-up technique by randomly assembling fragments of poetry, colours and thoughts of the artist.
Jeanne Vicerial
GROUP SHOW – LA FIN EST DANS LE COMMENCEMENT ET CEPENDANT ON CONTINUE
Jeanne Vicerial - La Fin est dans le commencement et cependant on continue
Fondation d’entreprise Martell, Cognac
From April 7 to November 6, 2022
This multi-sensory project approaches the human being as a tool of perception and a tracer of possibilities. Based on our natural perceptions represented by the 5 senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste – the invited personalities from various disciplines reveal their perception of these senses by making it a rule not to stop at a specific medium: they are designers, visual artists, light designers, sound artists, textile designers, dancers and botanists.
Norbert Bisky
SOLO SHOW – MIRROR SOCIETY
Norbert Bisky - Mirror Society
SCAD Museum of Art, United States
Through August 1st, 2022
In Mirror Society, the artist presents a series of recent works uniquely collaged with canvas from previous paintings that has been slashed and reapplied to a mirrored surface. These composite arrangements deconstruct the figure into fragments of torsos, limbs, and faces violently intersecting with abstracted bursts of saturated color and the mirror’s fractal reflections. The viewer is confronted with half-hidden, half-bared images of beautiful youth as well as their own gaze, trapped in a voyeuristic feedback loop. With these works, Bisky comments on the narcissism of a society deeply engaged in the production and consumption of a dizzying onslaught of images in viral media, ambivalent to the violence and turmoil of global events.
