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Peinture Extrême / Extreme Painting

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Julie Trudel, EllipseCMCYCK (2011-18), 2011. Acrylique and silkscreen ink on plywood. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Hugues Charbonneau

From June to August, AGAC (Association des galeries d’art contemporain / Contemporary Art Gallery Association) organizes the second installment of Peinture Extrême / Extreme Painting. 20 galleries in Montreal are participating in this summer event to showcase the diversity and hybridity of the ever-challenged medium.
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Jumaldi Alfi “Never Ending Lesson” at Primo Marella Gallery, Milan

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Jumaldi Alfi, Melting Memories, Mooi Indie #02, 2012. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Primo Marella Gallery

Jumaldi Alfi
Never Ending Lesson
16 May – 28 June 2013
at Primo Marella Gallery, Milan

Jumaldi Alfi (Indonesia, 1973) is mostly known for the compelling iconography of visual signs reflecting existential and spiritual experience on both an individual and collective level. Creating his own code of images, the artist draws on a wide scope of cultural references, from objects of the natural world, to Renaissance paintings, to the childhood memories of family life. The visual effect is at once mysterious and intimate.
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The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada at Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal

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© Christine Major, Crash Theory II, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 284,5 x 213,4 cm Photo : Guy L’Heureux. Courtesy Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal

The Painting Project:
A Snapshot of Painting in Canada
at Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal

Curator and Coordinator: Julie Bélisle
General Curator: Louise Déry

Part 1:
1 May – 1 June 2013

Part 2:
7 June – 6 July 2013
Opening and Announcement of the Virtual Exhibition on Thursday 6 June 2013, 18h00

Unique for the diversity of recent works on display, The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada testifies to the intense activity taking place in painters’ studios all across Canada. The works by 60 artists were selected after two years of research. The project also includes a virtual exhibition, which will be launched in fall 2013 to give the national and international public access to a lively, prolific art scene.

The entire process of preparing The Painting Project – its unusual depth and scope, measure of risk, methodological difficulties and complex logistics – confirmed our hunch that such an initiative was essential, for it would enable the generation of new knowledge and provide an updated view of Canadian painting as it is being practised at the present time. Continue reading “The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada at Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal”

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Reaching 100 (Or The End of an Era) at Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, NY

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Entrance to, Reaching 100, with paintings by Philippe Nuell. Photo by Etienne Frossard. Courtesy of Parker’s Box NY

Reaching 100 (Or The End of an Era)
13 April – 5 May 2013
at Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, NY

Artists: Ophir Agassi, Beatriz Barral, Virginie Barré, John Bjerklie, Matt Blackwell, Willard Boepple, Steven Brower, Denis Castellas, Jason Glasser, Patrick Martinez, Philippe Nuell, Bruno Peinado, Mike Rogers, Stefan Sehler, Joshua Stern

This exhibition is dedicated to Nancy Grumbacher (1946-2013)

This will be the gallery’s one hundredth exhibition since it opened its doors in June 2000, and it will be the last in the gallery’s original location on Grand Street in Williamsburg. We hope to re-emerge somewhere soon with a new model, new energy and new ways to promote the best experimental contemporary art.

Parker’s Box has always endeavored to curate challenging exhibitions often involving exploration of some of the more rarefied regions of contemporary art practice, whether in painting, sculpture, video, installation etc. As a commercial gallery, Parker’s Box has always taken pride in making no concessions to that status, in favor of allowing artists a platform of complete freedom on which to experiment.
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Martin Gustavsson “Indentations” at Maria Stenfors, London

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Image courtesy of the artist and Maria Stenfors, London

Martin Gustavsson
Indentations
19 April – 1 June 2013
at Maria Stenfors, London

Opening: Thursday 18 April 2013, 18h30 – 20h30

The core subject matter of Gustavsson’s paintings reveal a physical rotation, through a fixed viewpoint, as if they were snapshots or the frames of a film reel. If a film is a large series of images shown in quick succession of one another, the paintings presented act equally as a short film of the sculpture, in all its dysfunction and disjointedness. Continue reading “Martin Gustavsson “Indentations” at Maria Stenfors, London”

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“Observer Effect” at Gallery 400, Chicago

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Steve Roden, Striations, 2010–11. Two 16mm films with ink transferred to video, 6:00 min. (still). Courtesy the artist and Gallery 400

Observer Effect
18 January – 9 March 2013
at Gallery 400, Chicago

Artists: Jessica Hyatt, Steffani Jemison, Jochen Lempert, John O’Connor, Steve Roden, Jorinde Voigt
Curated by Carrie Gundersdorf and Lorelei Stewart

Across media and approaches, Observer Effect examines how artworks incorporate processes akin to the scientific method as a means to examine and understand specific phenomena that exist in the world. Each artist’s idiosyncratic approach of observing and understanding his/her distinct subject matter reveals the artist’s own subjectivity through this process, and discloses how each artist, the observer, is part of what is being observed.
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Melanie Authier “Jostling Pictorial Oppositions” at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

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Melanie Authier, Over Eons, 2013. acrylic on canvas. 56 x 66 inches. © Melanie Authier. Courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

Melanie Authier
Jostling Pictorial Oppositions
7 February – 16 March 2013
at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto

[…] in my painting practice, I’m referencing the histories of abstraction but I’m utilizing strategies of representation. So within my painting there are elements of traditional Landscape painting: foreground, middle ground, background, atmospheric space, texture, variety of texture, scale of the formal elements. These things I’m playing around with but I’m translating them through an abstract language. I think that allows for some really dynamic opportunities to take place. Continue reading “Melanie Authier “Jostling Pictorial Oppositions” at Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto”

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Opportunities: 100 Painters of Tomorrow

100 PAINTERS OF TOMORROW

Open call web submission for breakthrough project
to find the best of the next generation of painters.

Painting is enjoying a remarkable creative renaissance in the 21st century, with many of the world’s leading artists now working in this most enduring and seductive of media. 100 Painters of Tomorrow is an ambitious new project, initiated by editor-curator Kurt Beers and the publishers Thames & Hudson, to find the 100 most exciting painters at work today. Culminating in a major publication that will introduce and present each artist and their work, creating a snapshot of the best new talent in painting from across the globe, submissions are invited from artists via this website from 15 January – 15 March 2013.
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Christian Hidaka “Souvenir” at Galerie Michel Rein, Paris


Christian Hidaka, Canopy, 2012. Oil on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Michel Rein

Christian Hidaka
Souvenir
1 December 2012 – 2 February 2013
at Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

The derivation of the title of Christian Hidaka’s exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein, Souvenir, is from the French, ‘to come to mind’. This cognitive inference, which is inspired by a physical memento or form is in common with Hidaka?s different depictions of space within the exhibition and the various notions of the competing representational values which accompany them.
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Felipe Cama “Autorretratos Estatísticos” at Galeria Leme, São Paulo


Felipe Cama, Trilhas 1-40, 2012. Inkjet on cotton paper. Courtesy the artist and Galeria Leme

Felipe Cama
Autorretratos Estatísticos
4 October – 10 November 2012
at Galleria Leme, São Paulo

In his second solo exhibition at Galeria Leme, Felipe Cama presents abstract self-portraits shaped by mathematic precision.
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