ART NEWS: Nov.02

Entitled “Between Worlds”, Priscilla Rattazzi’s exhibition offers a survey of three bodies of work from across five decades: “Portraits” (1975–2023), “Hoodoos” (natural rock formations in south-west Utah, 2009–19), and “Lindens” (1991–2021), bringing together twenty-four individual photographs. This will be Rattazzi’s first solo exhibition in the UK and the first time that these three distinct groups of works are shown in a single exhibition. The themes offer a reflection of the photographer’s life, with an interlinking chronology, examining human relationships, and relationships between people and their dogs, while suggesting the increasingly profound reassurance of nature as an eternal point of reference, especially in uncertain times. Priscilla Rattazzi was born in Rome, Italy and came to the United States in the early seventies. She studied photography at Sarah Lawrence College, and later worked as an assistant to photographer Hiro. Throughout the eighties, Priscilla worked as a fashion and portrait photographer in New York. Rattazzi has authored five books and one limited-edition portfolio. Info: Robilant+Voena, 38 Dover Street, London, United Kingdom, Duration: 22/11-20/12/2024, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.robilantvoena.com/

Mounir Fatmi, showcases for the first time the entirety of his works in white coaxial cables, created over the past 25 years. Entitled “If You Don’t Know Me by Now”, this solo exhibition brings together iconic sculptures that echo a career defined by the exploration of the circulation of images and information, and their implications in contemporary society. Since 1998, the coaxial cable has played a central role in mounir fatmi’s sculptural work. As a recurring symbol, it represents the flow of information that permeates our era, while questioning the  relationships  between  the  individual,  the  image,  and  a  declining  technology.  The  artist examines memory, communication, and how these obsolete technologies transform into relics of  the  past.  These  creations,  perceived  as  future  archives,  challenge  the  transmission  of knowledge, the survival of languages, and the durability of cultural objects in an ever-evolving world. The geometric and calligraphic forms that these cables take sometimes immerse the viewer in a visual universe where reference points blur, leading to multiple interpretations. At other times, the concentric circles offer visual clarity, providing a breath within this complexity. Info: Ceysson & Bénétière, 21, rue Longue, Lyon, France, Duration: 28/11/2024-11/1/2025, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00, www.ceyssonbenetiere.com/

Marking Joan Snyder’s first solo exhibition “Body & Soul” stages the most comprehensive presentation of the American artist’s work outside of the United States to date. Over her career of six decades, Snyder has reimagined the narrative potential of abstraction, infusing her art with autobiography in a way that was distinct from the male-dominated conventions of Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting, which were prevalent in the New York art scene into which she emerged. Featuring more than 30 new and historic paintings, the exhibition traces the evolution of the artist’s practice from 1964 to the present, culminating in eight major new works. Encompassing the guiding principles and themes of her practice, Snyder’s oeuvre is structured around the development of three foundational groups of work: the “Stroke paintings” with which she first garnered widespread recognition at the beginning of the 1970s, the “Symphony” paintings and “Field” paintings. Their visual language extends into her expansive body of paintings beyond these categories, recognisable in her most recent works. Arranged chronologically, a pattern of recurring personal motifs emerges throughout the exhibition in a cyclical rhythm of return and renewal, encompassing love, joy, grief and desire expressed through colour, form and gesture in rich, poetic compositions. Info: Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London, United Kingdom, Duration:28/11/2024-5/2/2025, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, https://ropac.net/

The English word “rest” refers in German to what is left. In the exhibition “REST” the three artists use temporary situations in their special living spaces as an opportunity for their work. From the seemingly irrelevant, overlooked aspects of their personal environment, they each develop their own visual language in which the traces of change and transition are discussed. On the one hand, testamentary relics from other times are transferred to new contexts, and on the other hand, temporal processes themselves become the focus of attention. The resulting “habitats“ are fragile intermediate stages whose vulnerability comes from a fluid reality and whose existence only represents a pause between the before and the after. Nuria Fuster’s installations create fragile balances from found, unmanipulated architectural relics through targeted interventions. Her photographs explore physical and chemical transformations through the confrontation of various elements. Tom Früchtl’s pictures create traces of use and decay in complex compositions using the classic means of painting. His objects also simulate similar processes and thereby create a new artificial reality. Peter Scior’s images address tents as an archetype of human habitat and as a stage of transition.  As a fragile and provisional architecture of a “second skin”, they focus on the lighting situation, which is the actual subject of his paintings. Info: SCOTTY, Oranienstr. 46, Berlin, Germany, Duration: 29/11/2024-11/1/2025, Days &Hours: Fri 15:00-19:00, Sat 14:00-18:00, https://scotty-berlin.de/

Kunsthalle Bielefeld is presenting the exhibition “Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet”, which reorganizes the Kunsthalle’s collection and is supplemented by an intervention by the British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara. Based on Arp’s “Owl Dream” as a key work, the exhibition raises the question of which images inspire or encourage us to change our perspective. A total of 200 works by over 150 international artists will be on display, all of which revolve around the relationship between man and nature. In addition to some classics from the collection, including works by Max Beckmann, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Agnes Martin and others, it is also about discovering artists with a regional connection such as Simone Nieweg, Theo Ortmann and Benita Koch-Otte. Donations and acquisitions from recent years will also be on display (including works by Olaf Nicolai, Rita McBride and Katinka Bock). Individual loans (Hans (Jean) Arp, Julia Scher, Charline von Heyl) complement the exhibition. A special exhibition architecture was developed to create a dense and rich visual narrative in the rooms. Info: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Artur-Ladebeck-Straße 5, Bielefeld, Germany, Duration: 30/11/2024-23/2/2025, Days & Hours: Tue, Thu-Sun 11:00-18:00, Wed 11:00-21:00, https://kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/

Lisa Jonasson’s exhibition “Reality Trip” presents collages and assemblages in painted, cut paper and wood made in recent years, as well as a series of new sculptures and objects in bronze and mixed media. Lisa Jonasson works intuitively with her images and compositions. A process where an initial statement nourishes what comes next and the final result cannot be predicted until the last piece has fallen into place. The finished works contain large quantities of small, painted and cut pieces of paper, which are joined together to form a complex and teeming imagery. The meticulous collage technique she uses is a complicating factor, a necessary friction and slowness. By concentrating on the hand, the scissors and how they interact with the paper, thoughts can be limited and chiselled out. Not everything is possible, just one thing at a time. The detailed and enigmatic images can be experienced as winding labyrinths or rebuses. Imaginative and figurative but with a broken narrative. Mysterious and open to interpretation but at the same time full of recognition and precise in their execution. Perhaps life is portrayed here in a broad sense – from its emergence and development through the lens of a microscope, via everyday relationships and endeavours, to a zoomed-out perspective where we are only an insignificant part of an infinite universe? Info: Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Fredsgatan 12, Stockholm, Sweden, Duration: 30/11/2024-25/1/2025, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 12:00-17:00,www.gallerimagnuskarlsson.com/

“Carol Jerrems: Portraits” is a major exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential photographers. Carol Jerrems’ intimate portraits of friends, lovers and artistic peers transcend the purely personal and have come to shape Australian visual culture. Set against the backdrop of social change in the 1970s, her practice charted the women’s movement, documented First Nations activism, put a spotlight on youth subcultures and explored the music and arts scenes of the era. In a career that spanned only 12 years before her tragic death at the age of 30, Jerrems captured the world around her with curiosity and courage. She was a voracious observer yet also intentional in her approach to narrative and composition. Her photographs play with tension and dramatic impact. They are candid but at times consciously performative; vulnerable but also tough; melancholic yet joyful. The exhibition showcases more than 140 photographs, from Jerrems’ lesser-known early work to the now iconic “Vale Street” (1975), and coincides with the 50th anniversary of her landmark publication “A book about Australian women. Featuring portraits of cultural figures like Anne Summers, Bobbi Sykes, Evon”ne Goolagong and Linda Jackson the exhibition examines how her work defined a decade and continues to shape how we think about photography today. Info: National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, Canberra, Australia, Duration: 30/1172024-2/3/2025, Days & Hours: Daily 10:00-17:00, www.portrait.gov.au/