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    Qi Lei – Echoes of Day and Night

    Echoes of Day and Night is a solo presentation by Chinese artist Qi Lei at Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hongkong. The exhibition centres on the artist’s recent reflections on music, painting and time with the title emerging from the Qi Lei seeing the post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor perform live last year. Their music is highly abstract, seldom relying on lyrics or text, and builds its structure and rhythm through instrumental performance alone. That abstract musical language led him to consider how figuration and abstraction stand in relation to one another in painting, and it has become an important point…

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    Michel Perez Pollo – Painting as Sculpture

    “Bolero” is the latest series of paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo, comprising large- and small-scale paintings of abstracted glyph-like forms in rich, earthen hues. The title “Bolero” is drawn from the eponymous Cuban musical genre, which developed…

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    GRACE WEAVER – PARATAXIS

    Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, currently presents Parataxis, an exhibition of new paintings by Grace Weaver. Depicted in domestic interiors, Weaver’s tall, sloping protagonists animate the small ceremonies of everyday life. Solitary figures and couples sit on low and high-backed chairs, hold amphorae,…

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    HIROSHI SUGIMOTO – UNNATURAL HABITAT

    From the Seventies to the present day Hiroshi Sugimoto has produced a body of highly recognisable photographs – silent images with a predilection for the essential, snatched from the flow of time, that catch the eye as archetypes of a…

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    Austin Martin White – Constructing Historical Memory

    Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, is currently presenting “The lie, the larp and the lusophile” by Austin Martin White. Through paintings and works on paper, White investigates the construction of historical memory, exploring postcolonial histories and the ways images shape cultural narratives…

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    DAVID SALLE AT LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY AND PALAZZO CINI

    Immediately eye-catching and combining a vibrant palette with dense, dynamic composition: David Salle juxtaposes shapes and heterogeneous images that link the photographic to the painterly, while creating disruptions between black and white areas and bold colour tones. As a whole,…

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    TONY CRAGG AT LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

    In the late 1960s, Cragg, intrigued by the observation and study of the material world, left the field of science to pursue a career as an artist. Over half a century and more than 400 solo exhibitions later, Cragg has…