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// BREUER’S LINES //

On March 18, 2016, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the public opening of its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art in Marcel Breuer’s iconic 1966 Whitney museum on Madison Avenue and 75th Street. The controversial upside-down ziggurat made of granite-clad concrete had undergone a careful renovation maintaining the building’s unique character and preserving the aesthetic of its weathered areas.

“Outside, it is expression; inside, only proportion. It stands back and lets you see the pictures.”

New York photographer Bill Jacobson has documented the building with the Whitney’s permission in late 2014, in the in-between days after they moved out, and before it was restored into The Met Breuer. His photographs are carefully composed into diptychs focusing on Breuer’s muted space stripped of its pictures: concrete walls, slate floors, cast-cement ceilings, bronze doors and fixtures.

Bill Jacobson - Lines In My Eyes

The Met Breuer

New York

2014

 

 Lines In My Eyes (945 Madison Ave.) #104/96//#12/63//#89/35//#57/56//#99/51//#17/19//#15/83.

© Bill Jacobson. Courtesy the artist and Julie Saul Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// I CRIED BECAUSE I LOVE YOU //

Lehmann Maupin and White Cube present ‘I Cried Because I Love You’, a joint exhibition by Tracey Emin taking place across both gallery spaces in Hong Kong and marking the artist’s first solo presentation in Greater China.

“I look at myself, and I paint myself, but they’re portraits of my mind, of my deepest thoughts.”

For this major project, Emin has envisaged a continuous exhibition of painting, embroidery, and neon across two spaces that reflect the diversity of her challenging and deeply poetic work across a wide range of media. She draws on subjects that are intimately bound up with her own biography, recalling events, dreams or emotional states in works that are starkly honest and personal, yet familiar and universal.

Tracey Emin - I Cried Because I Love You

White Cube HK

Hong Kong

21.2.2016 – 21.5.2016

 

© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin and White Cube.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// APRES HYERES //

For the occasion of the 31st International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères, Julien Dossena (artistic director of the iconic house Paco Rabanne) lent his mind to Nudes. This is a project by A Magazine that aims to promote significant cultural events. In collaboration with Coco Capitàn, he curated his selection of nudes occasionally accompanied by some of Coco’s poetry, also occasionally dressed in some Paco Rabanne pieces.

The result is this magnificent visual story about nudity chaperoned by an interesting dialogue between Julien Dossena and Dan Thawley (editor in chief of A Magazine) that features nudity and eroticism in today’s society. This first edition of the project has already been labelled as collectors item, the second one won’t be here soon enough. 

/ A Magazine by Julien Dossena /

/ by Gaelle Van Lede /

// VERTIGO //

With the works of young Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota currently on show, Antwerp gallery Stieglitz19 presents a generation of artists who are radically experimenting with photography, bookmaking and other media.

  Vertigo, a series of highly processed black and white images of skies, nudes and abstract buildings and rooms, originates from snapshots to which the artist applied various techniques and interventions to create deformation, imperfection, and visual noise: he photographs, develops, prints, photographs the resulting images again and again, and continues experimenting in his homemade darkroom by developing film in boiling solutions, leaking light, or leaving deliberate scratches.

Daisuke Yokota

Stieglitz19

Antwerp

3.4.2016 – 22.5.2016

 

 

© Daisuke Yokota. Courtesy the artist and Stieglitz19.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// THE ART OF COLLAGE //

Paul Kasmin Gallery presents a selection of works by artist Robert Motherwell showing the unprecedented diversity of approaches in the artist’s lifelong exploration of the medium of the collage.

The works on display illustrate the harmonious coexistence of media and disparate techniques in the artist’s work, from intuitive tearing methods and the introduction of ready-made objects into the composition, to the layered painting of its underground. 27 of the plates on show are reproduced in an accompanying publication.

Robert Motherwell - The Art of Collage

Paul Kasmin Gallery

New York

14.4.2016 – 21.5.2016

 

 

© Dedalus Foundation, Inc. Licensed by VAGA,New York, NY.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// FROM A TO K //

Currently on view at Museum M is a carefully curated selection of works by Brussels-based artist Aglaia Konrad. In this first major solo-exhibition both older and recent oeuvres are shown side by side to reveal a diversity of work, and a newly commissioned site-specific intervention by the artist and an accompanying book presented.

 Spanning a production of over 20 years, the artist uses photography and film to document, and sculpture and architecture to translate her research into the modern city, its public space and buildings, and their transformation.Through extensive travels, she has brought together a vast archive of images documenting urbanity in such diverse cities as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Chicago, Dakar, Tokyo, Cairo or Shanghai.

Aglaia Konrad – From A to K

Museum M

Leuven

29.4.2016 – 18.9.2016

 

 

© Aglaia Konrad. Courtesy the artist and Museum M.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// RETROSPEKTIVE //

C/O Berlin presents the first retrospective exhibition of the work of US photographer and artist Stephen Shore. Including over 300 pictures, of which some are shown here for the first time, the curators shed light on the most significant aspects of the photographer’s oeuvre and his unique contribution to the culture of photography.

“I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.”

A regular at Andy Warhol’s Factory between 1965 and 1967, Shore went on to explore and document the unspectacular in everyday situations and banal objects, unremarkable landscapes, and faceless places.Making use of the medium of photography as an instrument of perception, his photographic series record, preserve, and reflect on those traces of human life that are normally considered unworthy of representation. 

Stephen Shore - Retrospektive

C/O Berlin Foundation

Berlin

6.2.2016 – 22.5.2016

 

 

© Stephen Shore. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York & Sprüth Magers.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// TRAVEL //

Just unveiled, Léa Seydoux is the new LOUIS VUITTON's heroine captured by Patrick Demarchelier.

// SO FAR / SO CLOSE //

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet opens tonight at Almine Rech Gallery with what appears to be no less than 3 exhibitions, centred around an impressive panorama of 12 colourful, site-specific paintings in the artist’s Fugue series.

 The sequence of rooms that form the gallery has been slightly altered on the artist’s request to visually separate three distinct sets of works, linked by a common use of a limited palette of vibrant primary colours, a large format, and a notion of ‘controlled chance’ in the process of creation, final selection, and presentation as a series. Through the layering of colour, material and technique the artist achieves a remarkable depth that draws in the viewer, both in the opening series of circular works composed of glazed enamel on lava-stone, the panorama of celebrated Fugue paintings, and a third, yet title-less series of canvases shown here for the first time.

Tonight’s opening at Almine Rech is one of several on the occasion of Brussels’ Gallery Night during which a number of galleries opens to the public on the occasion of this weekends’ Art Brussels and Independent events.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet – So Far, So Close

Almine Rech Gallery

Brussels

20.4.2016 – 28.5.2016

 

 

Untitled (Fugue), 2016 © Jean-Baptiste Bernadet. Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.

Details – Jean-Baptiste Bernadet for The Word Magazine.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// SIX SPECTRAL WORKS //

Peter De Potter presents his latest show entitled ‘Six Spectral Works’ in which a selection of images, both new or from his recent archive, are overlaid, layered and blended, and graphical elements and text added to complete them.

Referencing at once at the art historical techniques of the photomontage and spirit photography, his works also reflect and embrace the contemporary digital visual language often recurring in the Belgian artist’s larger oeuvre.

 Prominently active in the art world since the last six years, the artist has been producing art parallel to his 2000 - 2010 collaboration with fashion designer Raf Simons and has contributed to several publications through carte-blanche artist assignments and interventions. Most recently he designed the album-cover for Kanye’s latest album.

 

Peter De Potter - Six Spectral Works

NO.gallery

Brussels

20.4.2016 – 30.4.2016

 

 

© Peter De Potter. Courtesy the artist and NO.gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// NATUR UND KONSTRUKTION //

Berlin Gallery Dittmar presents a selection of works by Austrian photographer Margherita Spiluttini.

 Although not an architectural photographer in the strictest sense, the artist has documented the works of a series of leading contemporary architects in numerous international magazines, book presentations and exhibitions.

 After a major exhibition at Cologne’s SK Stiftung Kultur earlier this year, she presents ‘Natur und Konstruktionen’ in which the interaction between architecture and landscape is questioned through the documentation of a series of ‘heroic’ man made interventions of different scales in the mountainous scenery of the Austrian Alps

Margherita Spiluttini

Natur und Konstruktion – Fotografische Untersuchungen.

Galerie Dittmar

Berlin

12.2.2016 – 23.4.2016

 

 

© Margherita Spiluttini. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Dittmar.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// ICONIC LAMPENS //

Starting today architecture and art lovers alike can book a 3-day stay in Lampens’ iconic House Van Wassenhove, conceived as an open-space shell made of concrete, wood and glass in which basic geometric shapes structure the interior: a circle for the sleeping area, a triangle for the kitchen and a square for the office.

 Designed and built for a teacher with a passion for contemporary art and architecture between 1972 and 1974, the house marks a highpoint in the Belgian architect’s shift from traditional architecture to a concrete modernism likened to the works of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, and to Japanese and Scandinavian architecture.

 After it was given on a long-term loan to the museum Dhondt-Dhaenens following the death of it’s owner in 2012, the house was carefully renovated in 2015 and opened to a residency program for artists, writers and researchers to develop their work in the calm of it’s concrete architecture, set in the region of the river Lys. Starting 2016 the house will additionally be opened for summer short-stays, as well as for occasional individual and group visits.

Juliaan Lampens – House Van Wassenhove

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Deurle

29.4.2016 – 2.10.2016

 

 

© Juliaan Lampens. Courtesy museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Photographs by Rik Vannevel.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// MOUNTAIN PRINTS //

Gagosian Geneva opens today with the first exhibition exclusively devoted to Ed Ruscha's Mountain Prints, both in the form of his distinctive limited-edition paintings, as well as proofs the artist has been producing since 2010.

“I had a notion to make pictures by using words and presenting them in some way and it seemed like a mountain was an archetypal stage set. It was a perfect foil for whatever was happening in the foreground.”

Ruscha has added text upon landscape in his paintings since the 1980’s, introducing an atmosphere of speech, sound, and shape. In his square-format Mountain Prints seemingly banal phrases in white or black letters are centrally superimposed upon the landscapes, with each word occupying a new line in contrast to the perspectival recession of the snow-capped mountains. The prints, each subtly different from the next, are imbued with a graphic tactility amplified by vivid colour combinations.

Ed Ruscha – Mountain Prints

Gagosian Gallery

Geneva

6.4.2016 – 28.5.2016

 

 

© Edward Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// STRIKE A POSE //

Jamie Hawkesworth unveiled his latest Calvin Klein Collection SS16 campaign feat. Dillon Westbrock, Mitchell Slaggert & Keith Powers.

 

/ by Michael Marson /

// THE IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPE //

From the beginning of his career, Luigi Ghirri used his camera to render the familiar strange. Through pioneering use of color and remarkable compositions he grounded his imagery in the visual language of everyday reality.

“Photographs become our impossible landscape, without scale, without a geographic order to orient us; a tangle of monuments, lights, thoughts, objects, moments, analogies from our landscape of the mind, which we seek out, even unconsciously, every time we look out a window, into the openness of the outside world, as if they were the points of an imaginary compass that indicates a possible direction.”

Featuring thirty-four vintage color photographs made between 1970 and 1989, the Luigi Ghirri exhibition includes landscapes from Italy, where the artist was born and spent most of his life, as well as from Austria and France.

Luigi Ghirri – The Impossible Landscape

Matthew Marks Gallery

New York

26.2.2016 – 30.4.2016

 

 

© Estate of Luigi Ghirri. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// HEIM //

44 Gallery presents ‘Heim’, a series of photographs composed by Brussels’ based artist Arnaud De Wolf during a period of 2012 through 2015, which won him first prize in Contretype’s 2015 Proposition d’artistes competition.

 Unlike the cosines referred to in the series’ title, De Wolf’s imposing full-frame images of built structures set amidst deserted snowy landscapes emphasise the somewhat impersonal and unsettling nature of their brutalistic aesthetic. His images of mountainous landscapes bathe in an equally harsh and cold light to reveal natures’ details in their most brutal and beautiful form of raw matter in which colour, structure and proportion are, again, primary.

Arnaud De Wolf - Heim

44 GALLERY

Bruges

2.4.2016 – 24.4.2016

 

 

© Arnaud De Wolf. Courtesy the artist and 44 GALLERY.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// FOAM TALENT //

Foam presents a selection of 21 innovative image-makers under the age of 35 to feature in their annual Foam Magazine Talent Issue, and in a group exhibition at Brussels’ De Markten and London’s Beaconsfield.

 Following the annual Talent Call, the exhibition brings together the diverse and personal portfolios of a young generation of international photographers. It presents Foam’s view on the current state of photography and creates a platform to introduce emerging talents, with a total of over 1200 submissions from 67 countries

Foam Talent

De Markten

Brussels

19.3.2016 – 14.4.2016

 

 

Current Studies 2013 © Sjoerd Knibbeler. Courtesy the artist and LhGWR, The Hague.

In heaven the darkness is quite beautiful 2011 © Justin James Reed. Courtesy the artist.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// KLEDZE HATAL //

D+T Project Gallery presents the latest works by Sébastien Bonin in which the Brussels based artist continues to explore the limitless levels of reading related to the stories associated with the Native American Navajo society.

 Through the photographic technique of the photogram Bonin focuses on the essence of the pattern-design in the Navajo’s unique clothing – the colours and the structure – to create complex geometric compositions by projecting luminous rays of light onto photographic paper through a set of colourful gelatine filters.

 The final images, hand cut and with visible traces of fixing lines and scotch, are enclosed in raw, untreated and stained brass frames, reminiscent of the material used by the Navajo to manufacture their jewellery.

Sébastien Bonin - Kledze Hatal

D+T Project Gallery

Brussels

17.3.2016 – 7.5.2016

 

 

© Sébastien Bonin. Pictures by Ludovic Beillard Courtesy the Artist & D+T Project Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// MARTYRS //

During the remainder of the Klara Festival, BOZAR presents the video installation Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Martyr & Water Martyr (2014) by artist Bill Viola, at the Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels.

 Departing from the perspective of the ‘witness’, which is the original Greek meaning of the word martyr, Viola confronts the visitor with the suffering of four martyrs subjected to the extreme, invincible forces of nature. The video, which is shown on four plasma screens, ends with a blinding light that shines on the four dead martyrs, The artist encourages the audience to reflect on themes like death, the hereafter, compassion and sacrifice.

Bill Viola

Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Maryr & Water Martyr

Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula

Brussels

9.3.2016 – 24.3.2016

 

 

© Bill Viola. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio and Vanhaerents Art Collection.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// DRIFT //

David Zwirner opens later this week with an exhibition centered around a group of twenty-two paintings by Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser which were completed shortly before his death in October 2012.Known as The Last Wall, the series is shown here in its entirety for the first time.

 Revisiting some major themes that occupied the painter throughout his career, such as the landscape of the Belgian lowlands, the inconspicuous things at hand, and the partition of the picture plane, the works remain formally and materially restrained in their colourful compositions, subtly evocative and at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative.

 

Raoul De Keyser - Drift

David Zwirner

New York

18.3.2016 – 23.04.2016

 

 

© Raoul De Keyser. Courtesy David Zwirner and Zeno X Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

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