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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.
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.
