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    Rita Ackermann – The Chemical Alphabet

    Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York, opens the autumn season with a solo show by Rita Ackermann. Her new works are called Chemical Alphabet paintings. Ackermann takes on a new source of vocabulary: letters from the alphabet and the structure of each symbol serves as an anchor for each composition. The configuration of the letter, painted in acrylic green chalkboard paint on a canvas primed by multiple silkscreen prints, allows the surface to be built through Ackermann’s chalkboard method: layers of pastel and chalk drawings are erased, washed away, and redrawn until multiple states of the painting coexist on the…

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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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    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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    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…

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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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    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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    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…