ART NEWS:Sept.03

Centre d’art contemporain d’IvryLiz Magor represented Canada at the 1984 Venice Biennale, she draws her ideas from beliefs, reactions, and human behavior, especially when they have something to do with the material world. She is interested in the social and emotional lives of ordinary, even domestic objects, being especially fond of materials that have lost the luster of their former use or function. Selecting them for their capacity to contain and reflect stories, like personal and collective identities, Magor reveals a resonance that goes beyond their mere utilitarian function through transformations and shifts. For “The Blue One Comes in Black”, Magor has brought together a recent group of sculptures and photographs, which allow the visitor to measure the formal extent of her approach, looking to stress the memory of what is human for an exhibition located in a former factory. Info: Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, 25-29 rue Raspail, La Manufacture des Œillets, Ivry-sur-Seine, Duration: 9/9-18/12/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat-Sun 14:00-19:00, www.credac.fr

After two decades of mainly portraying the world’s leading musicians, Søren Solkær set out to do a large scale portrait project about individuals who create art in the public space. His solo exhibition “SURFACE” is a portrait anthology of some of the most significant street artists on the contemporary scene as well as the pioneering icons across the globe. His use of artificial lighting on location and a strong element of storytelling, creates images with an atmosphere of hyperrealism. Each artist is portrayed with their own art work, often using masks or props to obscure the identity of the artists. Info: Vroom & Varossieau, Willemsparkweg 134, Amsterdam, Duration: 9/9-9/10/16, www.vroomandvarossieau.com

Hauser & WirthThe solo exhibition “In the Wake” by Zoe Leonard debuts three new bodies of work that balance the rigorous conceptualism and personal vision for which she has achieved critical recognition. Using old snapshots of her family from the years after World War II as her starting point, Zoe Leonard examines the ripple effects of war that reverberate across generations. Her mother’s family was from Warsaw and remained there during World War II as active participants in the Polish Resistance Movement. At the end of the war, with Poland under Soviet occupation, Leonard’s grandmother and her mother (still a child), escaped the country and reunited with her great aunt in a Displaced Persons camp in Italy. They remained stateless for over a decade before eventually immigrating to the United States. With the work on view, Leonard draws a connection between the social upheaval of the postwar years and the rise of photography as a popular medium. Info: Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 East 69th Street, New York, Duration: 13/9-22/10/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.hauserwirth.com

Nohra Haime GalleryAdriana’s Marmorek work is a continuation on the investigation of “The architecture of desire,” a series exploring concepts of desire and pleasure using erotic, social, historical and human elements. “Love Relics” is an exhibition of photographs and videos documenting the ceremonial burning of 12 treasured objects associated with love. The idea began years ago, when Marmorek was given a small cast of a female’s womanhood. While the cast discomfited her, the owner needed to liberate himself from this burdensome object of power that had become a personal reflection on the end of his love. Marmorek realized how seemingly insignificant objects can become adored treasures, or relics, when associated with memories of love or loved ones no longer with us. Info: Nohra Haime Gallery, 730 5th Avenue, New York, Duration: 14/9-15/10/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.nohrahaimegallery.com

Museum of Architecture and Design“Common Places”, is a commissioned project by the architecture office Plan Común and the landscape architect Tiago Torres-Campos, who have designed five multifunctional plinths, which are strategically positioned over the entire neighbourhood, in the museum courtyard. The plinths build, encourage and reinforce different uses of public space and create specific relations with the surroundings. They intend to become platforms for contemplation, meeting points, stages for events, concerts or lectures, or simply structures on which to sit and enjoy the communal life of the neighbourhood. Info: Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) Ljubljana, Pot na Fužine 2, Ljubljana, Duration: 14/9-29/10/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00, www.mao.si

gagosianRichard Serra is widely considered one of the most influential sculptors of the late 20th Century. Serra’s interest in painting, sculpture, music, dance, film, performance, and installation art has affected legions of artists during his long career. Architects and urban planners today often cite Serra’s influence, which the artist scorns in keeping with his belief that true art is never utilitarian. In “Drawings”, his new exhibition the artist presents new “Composite Drawings” and three recent large-scale steel sculptures. Info: Gagosian Gallery, 17–19 Davies Street, London, Duration: 15/9-17/12/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

Gagosian 2The exhibition “Line into Color, Color into Line” comprises eighteen canvases by Helen Frankenthaler, from 1962 to 1987, selected to reveal how the renowned abstract painter articulated the relationship between drawing and color during this period. In her pioneering work of the ‘50s, Frankenthaler had poured both linear tracks and spreading areas of thinned paint onto unprimed canvas. She continued with this approach in the early ‘60s, but with a difference: in  some paintings broad areas of color combine with linear elements so narrow as to seem drawn, resulting in canvases with no sense of division between the drawn and the painted. In other works she set aside the landscape association that had aided the cohesion of the earlier work for an abstract parade of colored lines and areas. Info: Gagosian Gallery, 456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills, Duration: 16/9-29/10/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

foamIn the exhibition “Dynasty Marubi-A hundred years of Albanian studio photography”, Foam is showing a selection of photos from the archive of the Albanian photo studio Marubi (1856-1959). Three generations of photographers made studio portraits of a wide variety of people. The extensive collection of 150.000 glass negatives is interesting from a historical, sociological, cultural and anthropological as well as artistic point of view. Events from the turbulent history of Albania, from Ottoman times to the communist period, social rituals, folkloric costumes and sociologically interesting group portraits can all be found in the collection. The exhibition is an introduction to the rich photographic history of an isolated European country that is often overlooked. Info: Foam, Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam, Duration 16/9-27/11/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Wed & Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00, Thu-Fri 10:00-21:00, www.foam.org

NOMEIngrid Burrington’s practice focuses on mapping, documenting, and identifying elements of network infrastructure, drawing attention to the often overlooked or occluded landscapes of the internet. In “Reconnaissance”, the artist exposes the tension between the awe inspired by digitally captured aerial landscapes and “The imaginary objective truth of the God’s-eye view” (after Donna Haraway). The series of large-scale lenticular prints of data centers, military sites, and downlinks, suggests that while the scale and detail of satellite imagery is fascinating, no view is total or definitive. Each print shows a single, politically relevant, location captured at two different points in time. As the viewer shifts from one side to the other, the composite nature of the image is revealed, and with this, ideas about how the maps we consult on our screens are manipulated and always changing. Info: NOME, Dolziger Straße 31, Berlin, Duration: 17/9-11/11/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 15:00-19:00, http://nomeproject.com