ART NEWS:Nov.02

Fondation d'entreprise Martell“Par nature” by Vincent Lamouroux occupies more than 600 square-meters, is an artificial terra incognita, a mineral and botanical landscape that is white. The installation, as a form and as a field of experience, offers the possibility of an infinity of viewpoints. It invites visitors to wander along the extraordinary undulating walkways whose elevation speaks to and stimulates the adventurous of spirit.The white halo fades out around the edges of the work as the sand is spread by visitors’ footsteps. The artist has cultivated, down to the finest detail, the appearance of a wild landscape, fixing the dunes and considering the unstable properties of matter. The white veil he has cast over the work is as much the sign of an effacement as the evocation of a beginning. “Par nature” suggests the power of patient forms whose movement is beyond time. Info: Curator: Nathalie Viot, Fondation d’entreprise Martell, Avenue Paul Firino Martell, Cognac, Duration: 15/10/16-31/1/17, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 12:00-19:00, www.fondationdentreprisemartell.com

Guggenheim Bilbao“The Collection of Hermann and Margrit Rupf” features 70 works from the Rupf Collection including paintings by key artists from the first half of the 20th century, such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, or Vasily Kandinsky, juxtaposed to works by contemporary artists from the second half of the 20th Century until today. The Rupf Foundation was created in 1954 to conserve, consolidate, and expand these holdings, which were deposited at the Kunstmuseum Bern in the early 1960s. Hermann and Margrit Rupf also left the Foundation the rest of their assets to guarantee the growth of these funds in the future. Traveling to Spain for the first time for this occasion and with works created between 1907 and 2016, the exhibition reveals the coherence and evolution of the Collection of Hermann and Margrit Rupf as a testament to the art of their time. Info: Curators: Susanne Friedli and Petra Joos, Guggenheim Bilbao, Abandoibarra et.2, Bilbao, duration 11/11/16-23/4/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-20:00, www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus

Lawrie ShabibiFor the exhibition “Everything Should Be OK”, Oliver Clegg presents a selection of new and older paintings of discarded childhood toys and other household objects on used table tops, church floorboards and the scratched wooden backs of old small storage boxes.. In other paintings within this continuing body of work he has also worked with old church pews and school desks showing his ambivalence towards both institutions. The artist was brought up with a religious background and began making work just as the internet began its relentless advance. Old authority and the internet, two binary notions and how they fit together—inform much of Clegg’s art making. Clegg also presents two other works that highlight both, the diversity of his materials and another major facet in his work, the question of self. References to cinema and music recur throughout his work. Info: Lawrie Shabibi, Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai, Duration: 13/11/16-5/1/17, Days & Hours: Sun-Thu 10:00-18:00, www.lawrieshabibi.com

Kunsthalle Basel 1In her first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye fills   Kunsthalle’s Basel galleries with all new paintings,lush and vibrant reflections on perception, painting, and the figure. At once traditional in her approach to form, line, and color, and decidedly contemporary in her self-reflexivity about her medium, the British-Ghanaian writer, poet, and painter represents a bold and beautiful cast of black figures culled from the haze of memory, projection, and fiction. The goal is not formal perfection, or exactitude with regard to any real person, but another sort of precision, one that aims, as she says, to “Make people intelligible through paint”. Info: Kunsthalle Basel, Steinenberg 7, Basel, Duration: 18/11/16-12/2/17, Days & Hours: Tue, Wed & Fri 11:00-18:00, Thu 11:00-20:30, Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00, www.kunsthallebasel.ch

La Ferme du BuissonCreator of unforgettable films, Chantal Akerman is one of the great artists and filmmakers of the last 50 years. This exhibition “Maniac Shadows” envisaged with her before her death, brings together historic works and recent installations as a tribute to her importance in the field of contemporary art. For the first time in France, La Ferme du Buisson is presenting “Maniac Shadows”, one of Chantal Akerman’s last video installations. In images shot in or from her living spaces in Paris, Brussels and New York, and in an intertwining of here and there, of interior and exterior, we hear her reading letters to her mother in which she meditates on her life and the world. Info: La Ferme du Buisson, Allée de la Ferme, Noisiel, Duration 19/11/16-19/2//17, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 14:00-19:30, http://lafermedubuisson.com

Jorge Juardo Art StudioThe group exhibition “OXYGEN–FRAGMENTED CITIES+IDENTITIES” in Bogota, examines how every human being lives relating himself to the built and unbuilt geographical contexts, the cities as result of human evolution. Every part of the city reflects the aestethic, cultural, political and philosophical values influenced by the production of architectural form, and shows fragmented pieces of urban life. Fragmented cities and identities can be combined as a big collage, to create the link between the man and the space, the city and the ground to find new points of view, new ways of possible life in contemporary society. We invite artists and architects to share their ideas of cities and identities, in which they imagine to live.  Info: Jorge Juardo Art Studio, CRA. 9 No. 117A – 53, Barrio Santa Bárbara, Bogota, Duration 19/11-19/12/16, http://jorgejuradoartstudio.com

CAC“JUMP”, a spatial presentation-installation devised by the artist Jean-Pascal Flavien, aims to connect the two sides of a single entity: the galleries of the art center and its digital space, offering both of them a reciprocal yet uncertain translation. There are as many kinds of jumps as there are combinations of possible elements. The works of: Julie Béna, Jean-Luc Blanc, Aleksandra Domanović, Zackary Drucker, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Christophe Lemaitre, Géraldine Longueville, Teresa Margolles, Fabio Morais, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Sean Raspet, Dennis Rudolph, The Big Conversation Space and Agnès Violeau are invited to populate Flavien’s installation play on the ambiguity of their status, be they objects of connection or conflict, personal or utilitarian artifacts, ambivalent forms, or passages between different realities. JUMP experiments with the way pieces of art function, work in the day-to-day world, seek to redefine traditional categories and uses, and radically or surreptitiously sow confusion in common sense. Info:           Curator: Céline Poulin, CAC Brétigny, rue Henri Douard, Brétigny-sur-Orge, Duration: 19/11/16-22/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat 14:00-19:00, www.cacbretigny.com

CascoAlex Martinis Roe locates an affirmative politics of difference by performatively tracing a social history of feminist theory and practice. She engages in the making of films, textual documents, and material structures and sites where discursive strategies are practiced in order to show how the significant feminist work of the past is linked to contemporary feminist theories and practices. “To Become Two” is an exhibition that brings together six films from artist Alex Martinis Roe’s long-term research project that traces the genealogy of “feminist new materialist” and “sexual difference” theories through her engagement with different international feminist communities and their political practices, historically and today. The six films are presented in a modular architectural installation designed with Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga that allows for multiple encounters within the exhibition and speaks to the project’s trajectory: commenced in 2014, the exhibition also includes workshops, performances, and an artist’s book. Info: Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht, Duration 20/11/16-29/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 12:00-18:00, www.cascoprojects.org

BernierIn his first solo exhibition in Greece, Kahlil Joseph presents three films: “m.A.A.d.”, is the byproduct of his collaboration with the musician Kendrick Lamar. Starting from a short film, the artists created an audiovisual video installation with two screens in 2014. It is a rich portrait of the district of Compton, in California. The camera sinuously glides through a predominantly African American neighborhoods capturing quotidian scenes hovering between the real and dreamlike. “Wildcat” was filmed by Malik Sayeed. It records the real and spiritual world of an exclusively African-American rodeo in Grayson city, in the state of Oklahoma. The short film “Until the Quiet Comes”, an amalgam of the work of rKahlil Joseph, composer Flying Lotus and dancer and choreographer Storyboard P, this work wordlessly narrates the ubiquitous and rarely spotlighted story of urban violence, resilience, community and creativity. Info: Bernier/Eliades Gallery, 11 Eptachalkou Street, Athens, Duration: 24/11/16-5/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:30-18:30, Sat 12:00-16:00, www.bernier-eliades.gr

Copenhagen ContemporaryCéleste Boursier-Mougenot presents his installation “from here to ear”. A 600 m² hall has been transformed into a giant walk-through aviary where 88 living zebra finches are living. The aviary is equipped with sand, plants and nesting places and 18 bass guitars and electric guitars arranged horizontally on stands. Audiences isinvited to walk around inside this living installation, watching as the birds flit around and perch on the stings of the instruments as if they were cables suspended between city roofs or branches in a forest. The song of the finches and the random sounds created as they perch on the electric instruments fill the space. The exhibition hall is transformed into a concert hall as the bird’s activities give rise to experimental ambient music that intensifies and changes in accordance with the dynamics between exhibition visitors and the finches. Info: Copenhagen Contemporary, Trangravsvej 10-12, Copenhagen, Duration: 25/11/16-5/3/17, Days & Hours: Tue-sun 11:00-18:00, http://cphco.org

MALBAIn the framework of the celebration of the 15th anniversary of MALBA’s founding, the museum presents “Verboamérica”, a new exhibition of its permanent collection. The exhibition proposes a living history of Latin America in actions and experiences, a postcolonial history that does not understand Latin American art in the terms proposed by European art, but rather on the basis of the words that the. It includes 170 works divided into eight thematic clusters with works from different historical periods and in a wide range of expressive media. Info: Curators: Andrea Giunta and Agustín Pérez Rubio, MALBA, Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415, Buenos Aires, Days & Hours: Wed 12:00-21:00, Thu-Mon 12:00-20:00, www.malba.org.ar