All photos by Guy Sangster Adams @GSangsterAdams
Art Marathon: Frieze Sculpture Park and Masters 2015 [Slide Show]
All photos by Guy Sangster Adams @GSangsterAdams
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All photos by Guy Sangster Adams @GSangsterAdams
All photos by Guy Sangster Adams @GSangsterAdams
Mark Leckey’s inflatable Felix the Cat at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin. Photo: Guy Sangster Adams
By Guy Sangster Adams
The transition from the bright but fragile autumnal sunshine and colours of The Regent’s Park into the 13th edition of Frieze London, which ran from 14th – 17th October, was unsettling. As one’s eyes struggled to adjust to being plunged into darkness and the looming shapes of other fair goers and staff, white daubed slogans didn’t reassure: ‘welcome to purgatory’.
Spine-tingling and mystifying the space was created by the equally mysterious American artist, Lutz Baker, and immediately initiated one into this year’s Frieze Projects. Curated by Nicola Lees, the commissions create hyperreal environments subverting and transforming the visitor’s interaction with the fair.
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Tim Braden, Ultramarine, 2015. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the aritst and Bruce Haines Mayfair, Lodnon
TIM BRADEN
ULTRAMARINE
9 – 30 October 2015
Bruce Haines Mayfair, London
Bruce Haines Mayfair opens its West End gallery with a new body of work by the British artist Tim Braden. Entitled Ultramarine, the exhibition is comprised of several large and medium- scale still lifes executed in acrylic and oil, presented alongside a hand-knotted abstract wool rug laid on the floor in the centre of the gallery. Continue reading “Tim Braden “Ultramarine” at Bruce Haines Mayfair, London”
Nick Waplington, Battleship Island Courtesy of the artist and White Conduit Projects, London © Nick Waplington
NICK WAPLINGTON
BATTLESHIP ISLAND
8 October – 7 November 2015
White Conduit Projects, London
White Conduit Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of Nick Waplington’s 1990s photographs of the ruins of Japan’s Battleship Island (Gunkanjima). This tiny abandoned island off the coast of Nagasaki, was once a coal mine with a population of 5000, squeezed into a complex maze of imposing concrete apartment blocks (Japan’s first high-rises). Vacated in 1974, Gunkanjima was recently approved as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Hans Rosenström, Together, 2015. C-Print. Courtesy the artist and Maria Stenfors, London
HANS ROSENSTRÖM
WHY IS THE REMOTE ALWAYS SO FAR AWAY
11 September – 24 October 2015
Maria Stenfors, London
Text by Yasmina Reggad
With his first solo exhibition at Maria Stenfors, Finnish artist Hans Rosenström outlines themes that have punctuated his practice in the past years. The exhibition presents recent works that address the notions of liminal and transitional states and study the limits of our experience of the world from a singular perspective.
The title Why the remote is always so far away clearly points at something unattainable ahead of us and at the same time paradoxically replicates the precision of a measuring tool. Nevertheless, the very question Hans Rosenström is raising lies in the position of the body itself in relation to the remote. The body stands in the centre, in the in-betweeness surrounded by unreachable far-aways. In this exhibition, the artist investigates the multiple nature and social functions of liminal spaces. Rosenström also strives to draw and mould the contours of the inside and the outside of the body as well as reveals its faculty of resonance that gives shape to its surroundings.
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© David K. Ross, Théodolitique (2015)
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DAVID K. ROSS
POSITIONS
10 September – 7 November 2015
Dazibao, Montréal
Positions brings together a selection of three moving image works and a suite of drawings by artist David K. Ross. Through the use of customized lens-based devices, Ross explores how sight and sound can be manipulated to alter perception of physical space. In each of the works on display, the viewer is placed in a privileged position and is offered specific access to locations and activities that would otherwise remain concealed or out of reach. Continue reading “David K. Ross “Positions” at Dazibao, Montréal”
Daisuke Yokota, Untitled, from the series site/cloud, 2013. ©Daisuke Yokota, Courtesy of G/P gallery
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2 – 26 September 2015
Les Territoires, Montréal
Artists: Daisuke Yokota (Japan), Hajra Waheed (Canada), Paulien Barbas (Netherlands)
Curated by Safia Belmenouar (France) and Myrabelle Charlebois (Canada).
The exhibition Le Polygraphe explores the aesthetic perceptions generated when an isolated photograph or preexisting matrix of images are inserted into a new set of narrative. Deliberate technical errors, vernacular productions, recycled images are finding a place in, and redefining art, thanks to the artists who gather, consult, and manipulate them as available objects. Continue reading “Le Polygraphe at Les Territoires, Montréal”
Joanna Rajkowska, Uzi submachine gun, 2014, life-size cast, powdered analgesic, polyurethane resin. ©Joanna Rajkowska. Courtesy ŻAK | BRANICKA, Berlin & l’étrangère, London
JOANNA RAJKOWSKA
PAINKILLERS
17 September – 24 October 2015
l’étrangère, London
Private view: Wednesday 16 September 2015, 6.30 – 8.30pm
l’étrangère is delighted to announce Painkillers, which brings into conversation new and existing sculptural works by the Polish artist, Joanna Rajkowska. Noted for her ambitious interventions in public space, as well as her objects, films, photography, installations and ephemeral actions, Rajkowska’s practice interrogates individual and collective bodies as politicised sites of historical, ideological and psychological conflict. For her inaugural exhibition at l’étrangère, Rajkowska unites two object-based series under the rubric, Painkillers, in order to explore the at times uncomfortable connections between modern warfare, healing systems and the practices of Western science.
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DAVID ALTMEJD “FLUX” and JON RAFMAN
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
20 June – 13 September 2015
*Special opening hours:
Friday, 11 September: 5.00pm to 2.00am – First NOCTURNE of the fall season
Saturday, 12 September: 10.00am to midnight – Extended hours
Sunday, 13 September: 10.00am to midnight – Extended hours
DAVID ALTMEJD: FLUX
Flux, Altmejd’s major survey exhibition, features some thirty works produced over the last fifteen years by this Montréal-born sculptor currently based in New York. The show also includes a site-specific mural and another new work, fresh out of the artist’s New York City studio.
Altmejd creates an organic yet phantasmagorical world that combines various forces of decay and regeneration in a fantastical life cycle. In describing his work, he says “a perpetual tension must be there, between the attractive and the repellent, like the two poles necessary to maintain vital force.”
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