MIRAGES LXXIII

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Dropped Bouquet, 2021, painted aluminum, 12′ 3″ × 9′ 3″ × 14′ 10″ (373.4 × 281.9 × 452.1 cm), Edition of 3, © Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Courtesy Pace GalleryThe art exhibitions gently begin to bloom this month, even if the most of them are open by appointment only, just like the Spring. And the art season is now shifting to Summer.

The major exhibitions dominating this month are: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s “Claes & Coosje: A Duet” at the Pace Gallery in New York, Helen Marden’s “Bitter Light a Year”, and Gerhard Richter’s exhibition “Cage Paintings” at Gagosian-New York, the recipient of the Julio González Prize 2020 Mona Hatoum in Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, the exhibition “Humor Has It” a huge exhibition dedicate to Fluxus Movement at Nam June Paik Art Center, Felix Gonzalez Torres’ retrospective “The Politics of Relation” at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and a selection of major works by Louise Bourgeois eat the Kasrten Greve Gallery in Paris. Also, we are not forgetting the artists and architects associated with April through the corresponding columns such as Traces with Dan Flavin, Giuseppe Penone, Gary Hill, Nancy Holt, Tony Cragg, Victor Vasarely, Kenneth Noland, Chris Burden, Vitto Acconci, Bridget Rilley, Cy Twobly, William Kentrigde, Yves Klein, and Kimsooja, and the Architects: Richard Neutra, Junya Ishigami, Jørn Oberg Utzon, Carme Pigem, and Peter Zumthor

Photo: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Dropped Bouquet, 2021, painted aluminum, 12′ 3″ × 9′ 3″ × 14′ 10″ (373.4 × 281.9 × 452.1 cm), Edition of 3, © Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Courtesy Pace Gallery

Good Reading!!!
Efi Michalarou
14/3/2021