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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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    MONIKA SOSNOWSKA – Weight of Matter

    Monika Sosnowska is known for her often site-specific architectural installations created by appropriating construction material to create impactful and elegant sculptures that comment on the post-war architecture of her native Poland. In a dynamic approach to materiality the artist manipulates…

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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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    ANGEL OTERO – MAGICAL REALISM AND ABSTRACTION

    Over the last decade, New York-based artist Angel Otero has experimented with numerous genres and styles, from early still lifes, domestic interiors, and landscapes, to pure abstraction created using his innovative oil paint ...

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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…

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    Michel Perez Pollo at Mai 36 Gallery

    “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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    JOSE DAVILA – THE SIMPLE ACT OF POSITIONING

    With “The simple act of positioning” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, presents a selection of new works by Jose Dávila. The artist continues his sustained investigation into one of sculpture’s most elemental gestures: the fundamental act of placing one thing in relation…