ART NEWS:Jan.01

The first solo exhibition of the Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, in N. York will be on show at the Blum & Poe Gallerry. Zhu’s painting practice is divided into two parts: all-over paintings which literally cover the canvases end to end with paint often the depth of the human hand, and what are known as Liu Bai paintings In parallel with works such as these, Zhu has recently explored the flat application of the black monochrome, with all of its minimalist and philosophical implications. Info: Blum & Poe Gallery, 19 East. 66th Street, New York, Duration: 7/1-13/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.blumandpoe.com

In “Ground Glass”, Ahmet Elhan focuses on photography’s own tradition and the notion of mastery. Creating this new exhibition with an artistic sensitivity towards visual exuberance in today’s world, he proposes an alternative perspective against the manipulation of the hastily produced and consumed digital photography, and how it conceals the truth photographically. Elhan ensures that his nature photographs are evaluated analytically by adding lines on their ground glasses, thus drawing attention to the subject of composition. In this way, he also underlines the issue of photography being the proof or reflection of truth, advising the audience not to believe what they see with their eyes and invites them to spend time in front of the Ground Glass and think about what photography could offer as a material. Info: Galeri Zilberman, İstiklal Cad. Mısır Apt. No:163, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Duration: 9/1-9/3/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 11:00-19:30, Sat 12:00-19:00, www.galerizilberman.com

The solo exhibition of Brittany Nelson, is entitled “The Year I Make Contact”. This body of work is an intricate experimentation with the 19th Century negative reversal process of Mordançage. Toxic mixtures of chemicals react to the silver content of the paper, subsequently destroying its intended functionality. Nelson takes the involved materials, negatives and silver gelatin, once too precious to afford experimentation, and explores their unbounded formal potential. Altering the associated process drastically, she captures a moment in the negative’s chemical activity via scanner and expands the four by five inch negative to a large-scale chromogenic print. Info: Morgan Lehman Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, New York, Duration: 7/1-20/2/16, Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.morganlehmangallery.com

The paintings of Ilse D’Hollander (1968–1997) resulted from a personal search for the medium of painting. Via meticulous observation of her immediate environment, D’Hollander created compositions of colored surfaces and lines, vibrating forms and transparent overpainting. Visual elements from the landscape, such as a branch, house, or road, are transformed into a more abstract visual language that vacillates between the recognizable, suggestive, determined and more poetic. Info: Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York, Duration: 8/1-16/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00, www.skny.com

In the exhibition “Sea Level”, the fluidity of shapes and their inevitably temporary nature are central to the new paintings presented by Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, partnered with sculptures by Benoît Platéus., Bernadet’s Black Paintings reintroduce the artist’s earlier use of the color black. While the title of the series refers to Ad Reinhardt’s black monochromes, Platéus’ hybrid objects (part volume and image, part sculpture and photography) call to mind the same register of landscape as Bernadet’s Black Paintings. In this respect, the fact that the sculptures presented here were also created in California may be meaningful as the two artists took a trip there together, traveling between the national parks of the American west. Info: Almine Rech Gallery, 11 Savile Row, 1st Floor, Mayfair, London, 8-22/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.alminerech.com

Over her three-decade career, Ericka Beckman’s playful yet formally demanding films challenge traditional aesthetic, and cultural values, that mix games with fairytales to create hybrids with new rules. Beckman uses play in every sense to shape her message. Ericka Beckman’s film-sculpture installation, “Cinderella” (1986), has never been presented in America with sculptural objects, as it was originally intended. The exhibition also includes drawings and photographs that relate to Cinderella, exploring the visual discourse of Beckman’s landmark piece, a foundational work in the history of ‘80s moving image art. Info: Cherry and Martin, 2712 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, Duration: 9/1-2-12/3/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.cherryandmartin.com

The exhibition “Positive Transference Part 1: Chinoiserie”, consist of a new series of watercolor drawings and oil paintings of Chiyuki Sakagami. The artsist using primarily watercolor and ink, fills the picture plane with sequences of biomorphic forms resembling microorganisms. At times the details are so minute as to be imperceptible to the naked eye, and the pictures seem to burst with latent narratives. In recent years she has exhibited series entitled “Naturalis Historia” and “Scriptures from the Birds”. Info: MEM INC., NADiff A/P/A/R/T 2F, 1-18-4, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Duration: 9/1-9/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 12:00-20:00, http://mem-inc.jp

“Exit/Entry”, the solo exhibition by Leo Gabin, shows new works on aluminium and film that are an evolution in Gabin’s recognizable aesthetic of appropriation and repeated, graphically iconic symbols of American life. From a collection of more than 3,000 videos, Leo Gabin makes a well thought out selection to re-create one typical day in the life of Bonnie, a woman who lives in Newburgh, New York with her profoundly mentally handicapped brother and blind dog. The film is following her from morning to night. The film shifts between reality and illusion, through a psychological projection of the world’s order. Thoroughly observed, “Exit/Entry” is oddly savvy. The level of obsession it portrays is utterly fascinating and disturbing, yet it is another mode of isolation prevalent in modern life. Info: Peres Projects Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee 82, Berlin, Duration 9/1-6/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, http://peresprojects.com

In “dove step”, Britta Thie has developed a site-specific ‘future fairy-tale’, a spatialized script containing extracts from popular media, such as comic strips, as well as theoretical references to “Cold Intimacies. The Making Of Emotional Capitalism” by Eva Illouz. Thie transforms the exhibition space into a colorful, exuberant landscape and presents the viewer with a contemporary survival guide, which analyzes and focuses on the emotional mobility of the post-internet generation with a keen eye and a playful sense of humor. Info: Kunstverein Göttingen, Gotmarstraße 1, Göttingen, Duration: 10/1-21/2/16, Days 7 Hours: Mon-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat-Sun: 11:00-17:00, www.kunstvereingoettingen.de