Adam Pendleton – A Microhistory of Marks and Impressions
The Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany, is shortly coming up with “Can I Be?” by Adam Pendleton, a major solo exhibition that explores abstraction, language, and history—examining how these forces converge in unlikely and poetic ways. Pendleton, a central figure in contemporary American…
JANAINA TSCHÄPE AT MAX HETZLER GALLERY BERLIN
Richly painted using large scale oil sticks in addition to the water-based pigments she previously employed, it marks a fresh direction in Tschäpe’s oeuvre. This material shift allows the artist to “draw” as one would with a pencil or pastel,…
Michel Perez Pollo – Sculptured Paintings
“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…
GEORGE CONDO AT THE MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE, PARIS
The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is organizing, in collaboration with the artist, the most significant exhibition to date of George Condo’s work. A painter, draftsman, and sculptor, George Condo has created a unique pictorial world, drawing inspiration from a…
OTTO BOLL – LINES DRAWN IN THE AIR
Otto Boll is an artist who operates from an expressly minimalist sensibility. His works are acutely reduced forms of steel that hover in space, almost cutting through it ...
CHRISTOPHER WOOL AT GAGOSIAN GALLERY LONDON
Integrating both mechanical and analogue processes, Christopher Wool is back with a show at Gagosian Gallery, presenting recent works on paper, prints and sculptures at the gallery’s London premises. The range of processes employed in each of Wool’s multilayered works…
THOMAS SCHEIBITZ – MAQUETTES, DRAWINGS, COLLAGE
Internationally renowned for his mastery of painting, Scheibitz subverts traditional notions of the medium with radical juxtapositions of color and a unique formal language that lands ambiguously between abstraction and representation. Drawing from classical painting and architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and popular…
ALBERT OEHLEN – ENDLESS SUMMER
Gagosian Gallery, Paris, is presenting Endless Summer, an exhibition of new paintings by Albert Oehlen.. The paintings explore the theme of the bather, a motif deeply embedded in French art history that captivated such artists as Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne,…