ART NEWS:March 02

rambaSelma Gürbüz presents her solo exhibition “Karnavalesk” that includes never before seen three-dimensional work, painting, work on paper, and kinetic sculpture. Gürbüz’s works have often tended toward the historical, fantastical, and mythological, a tendency typical to Carnival, as well. Carnival is a freedom characterized by a communal and ritualistic defying of norms. It is war and peace, young and old, rich and poor, past and present, Heaven and Hell, male and female, all at once. While Gürbüz maintains her stylized aesthetic, in this exhibition she gives the figures and characters in her works a new agency. They speak, they fight, they dance, and some literally move off of the canvas, as in her three-dimensional paintings. The figures depicted, historical or imagined, animist or human, all have a sense of pride, marked by a defiant liveliness. Info: Rampa Gallery, Şair Nedim Caddesi No: 21a, Akaretler, Beşiktaş Istanbul, Duration: 2/3-8/4/17,Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.rampaistanbul.com

Kunsthalle WienThe group exhibition “More Than Just Words [On the Poetic]” is taking the idea of the poetic function of communication as a point of departure for ways of expressing thoughts and ideas beyond semantic unambiguity. The exhibition is interested in a polysemous, open language and finds it in concrete poetry, film, collages, installations and performances. The exhibition draws on Jakobson’s distinctive ideas on the poetic function of language as a departure point for considering forms of expression situated beyond semantic clarity. It looks at language as a source of morphological uncertainty and endless hermeneutics. Found in films, photographs, sculptures, installations, and performance: this type of language is more than just words after all, and the word more than just a mere string of letters. Info: Curators: Luca Lo Pinto & Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna, duration: 8/3-7/5/17, Days & Hours: Mon-Wed & Fri-Sun 11:00-19:00, Thu 11:00-21:00, www.kunsthallewien.at

daniel templonFor his solo exhibition “Quand le carré devient cercle,” Daniel Dezeuze has created a journey through 50 years of a rich and diverse oeuvre. The journey starts in 1969 with a flexible “Echelle de bois” made up of a grid of squares that become circles when rolled out on the ground. This work constitutes an exercise in topology, opening the door onto another space ,  a preoccupation that has marked all the artist’s work through the years, right up to the recent piece exhibited at the gallery, “14 juillet dans un jardin républicain” (2012. The works, in a state of levitation produced by their shape or colour, conjure up an ethereal, ventilated world, a visible lightness of being. Info: Galerie Daniel Templon, Veydtstraat 13A, Brussels, Duration: 9/3-15/4/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00, http://danieltemplon.com

BAL02-strange_sketches.170117.inddThe group exhibition “Strange Attractor” explores the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, technology, and sound. The term “strange attractor” describes the inherent order embedded in chaos, perceivable in harmonious yet unpredictable patterns. New and commissioned works employing sound, site and technology form the connective tissue of this expansive terrain. For her newly commissioned work, Phillipa Horan has been experimenting with mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus) and growing a figurative mycelium-based sculpture in a laboratory in Upstate New York. The final result will be a larger-than-life installation of Charon, the ferryman of Greek mythology. This biotech sculpture will have a usable lifespan of 30 years, after which it will biodegrade and may be regrown by the artist. Info: Curator Gryphon Rue, Ballroom Marfa, 108 East San Antonio Street, Marfa, Texas, Duration: 10/3-16/8/17, Days & Hours: Wed-sat 10:00-18:00, Sun 10:00-15:00, https://ballroommarfa.org

Grazer KunstvereinInspired by the distinctive mark making of a woman at a psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg in 1894, Isabel Nolan’s work  “Spare Rug for Marie Lieb’s room, Heidelberg Psychiatric Hospital, 1894 (a.k.a. Circumstances shape an emptiness)”, adaptable for past, present and future. (For Marie Lieb), celebrates the disarming nature of a stubbornly partial object, one that demands attention, alters perception, and reaches for meaning beyond what is known. The work was originally commissioned by Vaari Claffey for Gracelands: Circling the Square, as part of eva International, 2012.  Nolan’s work accompanies the artistic programme of 2017 at the Grazer Kunstverein, alongside new commissions by Chris Evans with Morten Norbye Halvorsen, and Fiona Hallinan; an extended commission by Céline Condorelli; evolving presentations of work by Isabella Kohlhuber; and a poem by Adam Zagajewski Info: Grazer Kunstverein, Palais Trauttmansdorff, Burggasse 4, Graz, Duration: 10/3-9/6/17, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00, www.grazerkunstverein.org

The Phillips CollectionGeorge Condo is a prolific painter whose career spans three decades and is best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor, and imaginative portraits that incorporate a hybridization of art-historical influences. His solo exhibition “The Way I Think “ presents 200 drawings and sketches and 8 “drawing paintings” that allow visitors unprecedented insight into the mind and creative process of the artist. Condo’s approach to drawing is best exemplified in his “drawing paintings”, an ongoing series started in 2009 that allows him to fully explore the reciprocal relationship between the two media which have been an essential part of his artistic practice. Info: The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC, Duration: 11/3-25/6/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-Sat 10:00-17:00, Thu 10:00-20:30, Sun 12:00-19:00, www.phillipscollection.org

galerie PolarisFor “On en est arrivé là”, her first solo exhibition in Paris, Sara Ouhaddou resorts to materials and techniques different from those usually used in the traditional studio. She salvages rubber strips gathered on markets on the road to Targa. She reconstructs them until brown bare threads remains. She  obtains the illusion of a painted backgrownd on which simple patterns are embroided. The result obtained transforms the pictural surface into an object close to sculpture. Sara Ouhaddou’s work explores design as a tool for economic,social, and cultural development. Having grown up in France in a Moroccan family, her dual culture influences her practice. The artist highlights traditional methods through an input of technical and aesthetic innovations. She is constantly seeking new forms while relying on the ancient knowledge embodied in the artisans’ gestures. Info: Galerie Polaris, 15 rue des Arquebusiers, Paris, Duration: 11/3-18/4/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, http://galeriepolaris.fr

metropoliThe MEXTRÓPOLI Pavilion is a public space that is activated to promote reflection of key issues for the city, a pavilion with social vocation, which is recyclable and reusable, contemplating relocation and achieve incorporated as a recreational device, information carrier and knowledge to a space currently demands the city. MEXTRÓPOLI positions Mexico City as the most important and diverse scenario for thinking, creating, designing and enjoying the city by promoting creative, critical and participatory exercise through conferences, dialogues, workshops, routes, exhibitions, pavilions and activities. Itis the only forum in Latin America that gathers for four days more than 52,000 people to generate knowledge, exchange and a develop a new vision of city through architecture. Throughout the course of the festival, pavilions are on display in Alameda Central, the main public space of Mexico City. Info: MEXTRÓPOLI 2017, International Festival of Architecture and the City Teatro Metropolitan, Cuauhtémoc, Colonia Centro, Avenida Independencia No. 90, Ciudad de México, Duration 11-14/3/17, www.mextropoli.mx

La Ferme du Buisson“SeventySeven: When Rossellini filmed the Centre Pompidou” is dedicated to the Centre Pompidou’s 40th anniversary. The core of the exhibition is Roberto Rossellini’s last film dedicated to the opening of the Centre Pompidou in 1977. In doing so the Italian filmmaker testified to the advent of a new artistic, architectural and cultural modernity. When Roberto Rossellini was filming, Brion Gysin was investing his photographs of the facade with his hallucinations; and Gordon Matta-Clark had already used the building site for Conical Intersect, in 1977, Melvin Moti was being born, and thirty years later he came up with “No Show” a recreation of a guided tour of a museum containing no artworks. The exhibition also presents unshown archival material from Genesium Foundation and producer Jacques Grandclaude. Info: La Ferme du Buisson, Allée de la Ferme, Noisiel, Duration: 11/3-16/7/17, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 14:001-19:30, http://lafermedubuisson.com

castelo di rivoliThe exhibition ”L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte” includes a collection of over 400 works by 125 artists and other practitioners from around the world, dating from the late 17th Century to today. The exhibition investigates the use of color in art through Art Movements and research that stand apart from canonical histories on color and abstraction, with multiple accounts relating to memory, politics, spirituality, storytelling, psychology and synesthesia. By analyzing the different color theories that took shape in the turbulent socio-political context that characterized the 20thcentury, the exhibition reflects on a perspective that considers light, its vibrations and the world of emotions, while challenging the standardization of the use of color in the modern age (synthetic colors) and the digital era (RGB colors offered by various online palettes), a leveling that considerably reduces our ability to distinguish colors in the real world. Info: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, Rivoli, Torino, Duration: 14/3-23/7/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:00-17:00, Sat-Sun 10:00-19:00, www.castellodirivoli.org & Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Via Magenta, 31, Torino, Duration: 14/3-23/7/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gamtorino.it