ART NEWS:Apr.01

Language, whether oral or written, gestural or graphical, has always been one of Falke Pisano’s central preoccupations. Her installations, sculptures, drawings, diagrams and speech-performances approach the mastery of language and discourse as an emancipation factor that enables individuals to responsibly make themselves part of the world. Focussing on mathematics, the exhibition “The Value in Mathematics” presents an exploration with very broad implications that challenges this science’s universalist, absolute approach, as well as the objectivity and neutrality that are automatically attributed to it. Info: Centre d’art contemporain – la synagogue de Delme, 33 rue R. Poincaré, Delme, Duration: 19/3-29/5/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Sat 14:00-18:00, sun 11:00-18:00, http://cac-synagoguedelme.org

“Spaces Between Things” presents the work of the experimental British artist Shelagh Wakely, an artist whose international artistic connections defined her practice, yet who remains undeservedly neglected in her home country. The exhibition follows on from her retrospective at Camden Arts Centre in 2014 and highlights Wakely’s global relationships and collaboration with other artists. The exhibition also presents, for the first time since its creation in 1986, “Spring Snow”, a floor installation made of coloured tissue paper, which will occupy the entirety of one room of the gallery. Info: Curators: Shelagh Wakely & Antoni Malinowski, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 111 Great Titchfield Street, London, Duration 1/4-13/5/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.richardsaltoun.com

The Center for Curatorial Studies of Bard College presents 18 exhibitions curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art, with 17 individual exhibitions presented alongside a student-curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show entitled “Receipt of a Magical Agent”. Some of the artists included in the exhibition are: Vito Acconci, Janine Antoni, Richard Artschwager, Matthew Barney, Roger Brown, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Chu Francesco Clemente, Moyra Davey, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, April Gornik, Kojo Griffin, Walter Hampel, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Imi Knoebel, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Tatsuo Miyajima, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Blinky Palermo, Allen Ruppersberg, Kiki Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson. Info: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 12504-5000 Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Duration: 3-4/4/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00, www.bard.edu

More than 10 years after the original motif appeared in the distinctive “Mountain” paintings, Ed Ruscha began producing complementary prints in 2010. “Mountain Prints” comprises color trial, separation, and cancellation proofs, as well as numbered editions from the limited-edition series. Ed Ruscha has superimposed text upon landscape in his paintings since the ‘80s, juxtaposing the symbolic stimulus of the image with text as an atmosphere of speech, sound, and shape. In Mountain Prints, cryptic and humorously banal phrases in white letters, such as “Sponge Puddle” and “Bliss Bucket,” interrupt the harmony of the stock scenic backdrop. Info: Gagosian Gallery, 19 Place de Longemalle, Geneva, Duration: 6/4-28/5/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

“Empty Fields” is the first exhibition to explore the archive of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) and the Protestant mission work in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Working with the archives, the exhibition begins by considering the period when the Empire collapsed and the Republic was formed, whereby certain archival absences bear the traces of the Great Catastrophe of 1915. The exhibition traces the routes of dispersal of a number of the original showcases and their contents, and highlights the layered frameworks of museological, geo-politicized space in an attempt to face the irretrievability of a particular period in history. Info: Curator: Marianna Hovhannisyan, SALT Galata, Bankalar Caddesi 11,  Karaköy, Istanbul, Duration: 6/4-5/6/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 12:00-20:00 Sun 1:00-18:00, http://saltonline.org

For “Doubt”, a solo exhibition by Carsten Höller divides the Navate space at Pirelli HangarBicocca into two halves, which can be accessed through two different entrances. Visitors have to decide on a color, green or yellow, in order to enter. They will find the artworks aligned along the middle axis of the space. This alignment of works forms a central dividing wall, where visitors will see/experience only half of a given work, and have to remember the half they have seen until they encounter the other half on the other side. The exhibition, presents a rich selection of works both existent and new, including large-scale installations, videos and photographs, and plays with the spatial and temporal coordinates of the exhibition venue. Info: Curator: Vicente Todolí, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Via Chiese, 2, Milan, Duration: 7/4-31/7/16, Days & Hours: Thu-Sun 10:00-22:00, www.hangarbicocca.org

John Kørner in his paintings for his solo exhibition “Apple bombs”, presents a constellation of seemingly incongruous pictorial elements in which the viewer is caught up, setting in motion dialogues concerning wellbeing, human relationships, consumption and survival. Painting, for Kørner, serves the unambiguous, if impalpable, function of exercising the imagination much in the same way as a bicycle stretches out the legs. Subject to the alchemies of representation, recognisable fragments taken from everyday life re-emerge suspended on the two dimensional planes of Kørner’s canvases, occupying an abstracted or ambiguous landscape that seems to vibrate with potential. Info: Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London, Duration: 8/4-14/5/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.victoria-miro.com

For his project “A work in situ”, at REDCAT, John Knight revisits this relationship between two cohabiting institutions (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and Walt Disney Concert Hall),  in today’s highly developed “cultural corridor” of downtown Los Angeles, considering the relationship between space, architecture, contemporary arts and real estate.Since the late ‘60s, John Knight has pioneered the practices of site-specificity and institutional critique, always interested in interrogating the underlying geopolitical and economic systems implicit in everyday convention. Info: REDCAT, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, Duration: 9/4-12/6/16, Days & Hours: Tue-sun 12:00-18:00, http://www.redcat.org

The first exhibition in Portugal of Liam Gillick, “Campaign”, has been conceived as a series of four changing sculptural interventions in the galleries of the Serralves Museum. The  presents a progressive overlaying of spatial and performative situations that elaborate previously realized and unrealized sculptural projects dating from the late ‘90s to the present. Including sound, sculptural and text-based works that have existed as early prototypes or sketches but never produced on the architectural scale for which they were initially intended.  For the second part of the exhibition Gillick presents a large version of his Milan House (AC/DC and Joy Division), titled “Scale Model Of A Social Center For Teenagers For Milan 1993 (Porto)”. This social centre for young people was Gillick’s response to his first public commission in 1993. Info: Curator: Suzanne Cotter, Assistant Curator: Filipa Loureiro, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Rua D. João de Castro 210, Porto, Duration: 9/4-22/5/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:00-18:00, Sat-sun 10:00-19:00, www.serralves.pt

In the exhibition “Rainbows are Trending in Fashion”, Helen Feifel presents her new work. Her artistic practice is distinguished by complex processes of appropriation and transformation, in which she applies artisanal, even anachronistic methods, integrating them into a contemporary context. The ceramic pieces and photographic works developed especially for the exhibition at the Langen Foundation typify the diverse techniques employed by this Berlin-based artist. Yet the artist places her main focus on the art of painting, which she incorporates into her work as a genre-spanning medium. Info: Langen Foundation, Raketenstation Hombroich 1, Neuss, Duration: 10/4-7/8/16, Days & Hours: Daily 10:00-18:00, www.langenfoundation.de