London

// DAVID HOCKNEY //

Tate Britain presents an unprecedented overview of the impressive body of work of British artist David Hockney. Currently entering its final week, the exhibition will tour internationally to Paris’ Centre Pompidou and New York’s The Metropolitan Museum.

Gathering an extensive selection of the artist’s most famous works to date, the touring exhibition demonstrates how he continuously questioned the nature of pictures and picture-making and challenged their conventions throughout his achievements in painting, drawing, print, photography and video across six decades.

The exhibition is presented as a chronological overview and lays bare how the roots of each new direction lay in the work that came before: from his portraits and images of Los Angeles swimming pools, through to his drawings and photography, Yorkshire landscapes and most recent paintings at London’s Royal Academy and beyond.

As he approaches his 80th birthday, Hockney still continues to change his style and ways of working, embracing new technologies as he goes. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these unforgettable works together.

David Hockney

Tate Britain

London

9.2.2017 – 29.5.2017

 

© David Hockney.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// CIUDAD JUÁREZ PROJECTS //

David Zwirner presents Ciudad Juárez projects, an exhibition displaying a group of recent works by Francis Alÿs. Made in and about Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a once prosperous border city that in recent years has been devastated by drug-related violence, the artists’ works on display date between 2010 and 2015.

 Home to the Belgian artist since 1986, Mexico City has since provided a rich setting for his varied actions and works which are often characterised by a distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility towards anthropological and geopolitical concerns, and centred around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life.

  In the works on view the artist does not offer solutions, but rather poses open-ended questions, in particular related to the role of the artist in a time of a national crisis in an area affected by violence and crime.

Francis Alÿs - Ciudad Juárez projects

David Zwirner

London

11.6.2016 – 5.8.2016

 

© Francis Alÿs. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.

 

  / by Kim Poorters /

// 82 PORTRAITS AND 1 STILL LIFE //

The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of recent portrait paintings by David Hockney, executed over the last couple of years in the artist’s Los Angeles studio. Considered by Hockney to be seen as one single body of work, each portrait is painted on the same sized canvas, in the same time frame of three days, and shows his subjects seated in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background.

  An intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two years, his sitters include friends and family, office staff, fellow artists, curators and gallerists such as John Baldessari and Larry Gagosian.

David Hockney - 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life

Royal Academy of Arts

London

2.7.2016 – 2.10.2016

 

 © David Hockney. Courtesy the artist.

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// SEA LEVEL //

Almine Rech brings together a series of works by two Brussels based artists, which both of them created in California in the aftermath of a mutual trip along the West Coast’s national parks.

 Jeap-Baptiste Bernadet’s Black Paintings are composed of a diluted mix of black and coloured paint, spread across the canvas with a sheet of paper, while Benoît Platéus’ negative sculptures form when horizontal layers of pigmented resin in vivid colours are poured into empty chemicals containers.

 Both series depend on a degree of randomness and unpredictability in the act of making to reveal a landscape of endless variations in colour and textured surfaces, open to projection and interpretation

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet and Benoît Platéus – Sea Level

Almine Rech Gallery

London

8.1.2016 – 23.1.2016

 

 

Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.

Photography by Melissa Castro Duarte.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

// YELLOWBLUEPINK //

With yellowbluepink, Ann Veronica Janssens launches States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousnessa year-long investigation into the experience of human consciousness.

 Invading the gallery with coloured mist - an ongoing experiment since her first fog-sculpture in 1997 - any detail of surface or depth within the space is blurred, and the viewers’ attention drawn to the process of perception itself through the medium of light and colour.

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 “Nothing is more beautiful than a person’s own perception. I try to push it to its limits."

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On the occasion of the planned installation of two permanent sculptures for the City of Ghent, S.M.A.K. invites both the Brussels based artist and her Turkish counterpart Ayşe Erkmen to elaborate on their proposals in a duo exhibition.

Ann Veronica Janssens - yellowbluepink

Wellcome Collection

London

15.10.2015 – 3.1.2015

 

© Ann Veronica Janssens. Courtesy the Artist and Wellcome Trust.

 

Ayşe Erkmen and Ann Veronica Janssens - .A

S.M.A.K.

Ghent

31.10.2015 – 14.2.2016

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

 

// PHREATIC ZONES //

Cristina Iglesias brings the city plaza and London’s river Thames into Marian Goodman’s Gallery with three new horizontal sculptures, lined with bas-reliefs cast in weathered aluminum.

After large scale works in the public realm with Deep Fountain in Antwerp in 1996 and Tres Aguas in Toledo in 2014, she continues to explore the concept of the underground and the well as an allegory of life, sex and death in the contemplative setting of the gallery.

Cristina Iglesias – Phreatic Zones

Marian Goodman Gallery

London

30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015

 

 

© Cristina Iglesias. Courtesy the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

 

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// INSIDE / SERIES 3 //

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