Kehinde Wiley
GROUP SHOW – LUX ET VERITAS

NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale
From April 2, 2022 to January 8, 2023

Kehinde Wiley is presenting artworks on the occasion of the exhibition Lux et Veritas. It explores a transformative period in contemporary art by focusing on a generation of artists of color who attended Yale School of Art for graduate studies between 2000 and 2010 and discovering how they explored with critical complexity their work and their movement through institutional structures.

Omar Ba
SOLO SHOW – FOCUS

Omar Ba - Focus
Fine Arts Museum, Belgium
From April 1st to August 7, 2022

Omar Ba’s work is characterized by its enigmatic nature and its great poetic intensity. In contrast with a didactic narrative, he rather seeks to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of reality. The artist deals with themes such as chaos, destruction, and dictatorship, draping his political discourse in a veil of poetry through a pictorial language that is entirely his own, both fierce and delicate. 

Chiharu Shiota
SOLO SHOW – LIVING INSIDE 

Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris
From March 16, 2022 to June 6, 2022

For its 14th Carte blanche to contemporary art, the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet invites Chiharu Shiota. For her first solo exhibition in a museum in France, the artist addresses the shores of this new anxiety, that of the Covid era. With her threads, Chiharu Shiota weaves an inextricable protective network around a daily life that has become tiny; this scale, which is new in her work, refers to her experience, to the experience of all of us, of isolation in our homes. 

Kehinde Wiley
GROUP SHOW – FICTIONS OF EMANCIPATION: CARPEAUX RECAST

The Metropolitan Museum, New York
From March 10, 2022 to March 5, 2023

Featuring more than 35 works, Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast reflect on the role Western art has played in representing misconceptions of racial difference. Kehinde Wiley’s After La Négresse, 1872 (2006), a small-scale editioned bust, transfigure the sculpture to confront the hierarchies of race underpinning Carpeaux’s creation.

Claude Viallat
SOLO SHOW – LIBERTAD DE COLORES

Claude Viallat - Libertad de Colores
MACBA, Buenos Aires
From March 4 to June 12, 2022

This exhibition brings together the most representative works of his oeuvre, which, grouped by theme, pay homage to one of the most important contemporary colourists, whose abstract pictorial syntax is constantly being renewed while still identifiable among all the others through its serial imprints, its materiality, the nature of its support, its manufacture, the surface treatment and its presentation. A prolific and demanding artist, Claude Viallat, who was one of the founders of the Supports-Surfaces movement created in 1970, has been creating for more than 60 years a universe that explodes with colours, leaving traces of his universal poetry in space and time.

Claude Viallat
SOLO SHOW – ECLECTIQUE

Claude Viallat - Eclectique 
Bonisson Art Center, Aix-en-Provence
From February 26 to June 12, 2022

Claude Viallat’s work is based on the conviction that “the object of painting is painting itself”, in a movement of repetition and overcoming: “The notion of repetition, of series or repetitions, becomes a de facto necessity”. The absence of subject matter allows him to concentrate on forms and structures, on the relationship between colours, on pictorial matter, generating a unique work on colour.

Jitish Kallat
SOLO EXHIBITION – ORDER OF MAGNITUDE 

Ishara Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
From February 16 to July 1st, 2022

Featuring new works that include paintings, multimedia installations, drawings and site-specific interventions, the show reflects the artist’s profound deliberations on the interrelationship between the cosmic and the terrestrial. In ‘Order of Magnitude’, one finds a contemplation of overarching interconnectivity on the individual, universal, planetary and extra-terrestrial dimensions. Image caption : Jitish Kallat, Postulates from a Restless Radius (2021). Acrylic, gesso, lacquer, charcoal and watercolour pencil on linen, 640 x 320 cm radius, 375 cm length. Image courtesy of the artist and Ishara Art Foundation. Photography by Ismail Noor/ Seeing Things.

Pierre et Gilles
SOLO SHOW – TROUBLED WATERS 

Spritmuseum 
Djurgårdsstrand 9, 115 21 Stockholm, Suède
From February 10 to September 8, 2022

For the first time, French artistic duo Pierre et Gilles are exhibiting in Sweden. Inspired by the old maritime setting of the Museum of Spirits, they take as their starting point the romantic representation of the sea, the port and the sailors, which they compare with the overexploitation threatening today to exterminate marine life.

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.

Michael Ray Charles
GALERIE TEMPLON ANNOUNCES FIRST SHOW OF AMERICAN ARTIST MICHAEL RAY CHARLES IN TWO DECADES

Representation

Galerie Templon is delighted to announce that American artist Michael Ray Charles joins the gallery roster. With the valuable collaboration of his agent Hedwig Van Impe, the gallery will unveil for the first time in almost two decades the complex, visually striking and often disturbing oeuvre of one of the most radical African-American artists of his generation. Templon will reveal over time his spectacular series of unseen paintings and sculptures.  

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. 

Iván Navarro
IVáN NAVARRO – THE NIGHT OF PHILOSOPHERS

UNESCO, 7 Pl. de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France 
September 27, 2021 

This work attacks the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, a reign marked by torture, murders and disappearances ordered by the government for over 15 years. The video refers to the poet and singer Victor Jara, who was killed in September 1973 in a stadium in Santiago by Pinochet’s armed forces.  On September 27, 2021, starting at 7pm, UNESCO will be transformed into a large philosophical agora and will be the scene of twelve hours of multi-performance for the tenth anniversary of the Philosophy Nights events created by Mériam Korichi in 2010.