ART NEWS:Nov.01

Marie Losier’s mid-career retrospective “Just a Million Dreams” highlights two dozen short films and two feature length films made over the last 15 years, seen together for the first time. Losier’s anticipated second feature, Best known for poetic 16mm film portraits of Avant-Garde musicians and filmmakers that transcend documentary conventions, Losier is dedicated to analog 16mm filmmaking in a digital age, shooting, editing, and often producing films entirely herself. A longtime New York resident, Losier arrived in 1994 to study painting and quickly fell into the orbit of luminaries who would later appear in her pictures: she designed props for Richard Foreman and learned to shoot 16mm with Mike Kuchar at the Millennium Film. For Losier, these intergenerational connections go hand in hand with a boundless urge to create art with others through films that channel the unfettered spirit of artistic creation. Info: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 West 53 Street, New York, Duration: 1-11/11/18, Days & Hours: Mon-Thu & Sat-Sun 10:30-17:30, Fri 10:30-22:00, www.moma.org

In her solo exhibition “world cup”, Michele Abeles presents four new series of works. Each uses photographic imagery to create a suspended, composite realm in which the artist plays out ideas of gender, power and psychology.  In a series of works conceived as bricolage, Abeles has created multipart constructions named after reptiles found in the swamps of Florida. Two sets of work extend Abeles’s use of street photography with a focus on the male subject. For the first time, she includes her anonymous subjects’ faces in lieu of an abstracted body. Abeles’s photographic portraits of white male professionals on their way to work present oblivious white-collar subjects – sartorially codified and psychologically tuned-out (several are wearing wireless headphones), perhaps with the flicker of an existential crisis. The artist responds in a separate series to the kind of vacant imagery that populates waiting rooms. Info: Sadie Coles HQ, 62 Kingly Street, london, Duration: 1/11-19/12/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00, www.sadiecoles.com

One of our most elemental behaviors as human beings is walking. It’s an amateur activity. But what happens when we become explicit, inquisitive, and deliberate about what is as natural to us as eating and breathing? Walking is both universal and idiosyncratic; we all walk but choose different paths, peppered by unique interactions and experiences. The exhibition “Other Walks Other Lines” focuses on artwork made during the last 30 years by artists around the world who use walking as a mode of making the world, as well as being in it. In conjunction with the exhibition, SJMA commissioned new works of art by Lordy Rodriguez, Brendan Fernandes, and Lara Schnitger that activate the gallery and take the exhibition outside of the Museum. The exhibition is divided into six sections, in conjunction with the exhibition, performances will activate the gallery and take the exhibition outside of SJMA’s building. Info: Curator: Lauren Schell Dickens, Rory Padeken and Kathryn Wade, San José Museum of Art, 110 South Market Street, San José, CA, Duration: 2/11/18-10/3/19, Days & Hours: Tue-sun 11:00-17:00, https://sjmusart.org

Mike Nelson, who represented Great Britain at the 2011 Venice Biennale and was twice nominated for the Turner Prize, has created a new project, designed specifically for the spaces of the Officine Grandi Riparazioni. “Binario 1” appears to have been completely transformed into “another place” by a large-scale installation that takes up the entire hall with a powerful yet intimate intervention: the former industrial space is made unrecognizable, generating an alienating effect in which visitors are called to find their own personal path, to freely explore the different elements in search of the clues necessary to construct their own individual narrative. As the title suggests, a suspended and enigmatic atmosphere marks the installation, formed by a landscape that seems to come out of the images of a film and in which different memories and material layers create a narrative open to multiple readings. The themes of journey (both metaphorical and real) and transience emerge as a sort of fil rouge to this story that, set inside the OGR, which for over a century was a repair workshops for rail vehicles, finds a perfect setting to amplify the sense of a work deliberately left without predefined keys of interpretation. Info: Curator: Samuele Piazz, Officine Grandi Riparazioni  Corso (OGR), Castelfidardo 22, Turin, Duration: 2/11/18-3/2/19, Days & Hours: Thu 11:00-19:00, Fri 11:00-20:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-19:00, www.ogrtorino.it

With new paintings and sculptures by Eske Kath presents her solo exhibition “The Fundamental Uncertainty from Where I Sit”. Lawn chairs are scattered around the gallery space while two sculptural parasols provide shade from the large, almost obtrusive suns shining their light from the paintings on the walls. In Eske Kath’s paintings, landscapes appear not as we are accustomed to, not like the nature we know – or think we know. Rather, they assume an unrestrained character as horizons are twisted, turned, and inverted. Night and day mirror one another, fusing while heaven and earth dissolve, melding as one in seemingly constant mutations. Eske Kath investigates the fundamental uncertainty that has become a basic condition for our time where man-made technology radically changes climate and landscapes – as well as our fundamental understanding of our relationship with nature and what it means to be human. Synthesizing the aesthetic with the nearly unfathomable conclusions and implications of quantum physics, Kath approaches landscape painting in a novel way. Info: Galerie Mikael Andersen, Bredgade 63, Copenhagen, Duration: 2/11-8/12/18, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 12:00-18:00, Sat 11:00-15:00, http://mikaelandersen.com

“Der Zauberberg” is a site-specific installation that Jorge Macchi conceived specifically for Quartz Studio. Based on the pattern of the floor, the artist selected 14 zones that have exactly the same distribution of black, red and yellow tiles. In eight of these zones, and on the same spot in each one of them, he built identical structures made with objects and rubbish apparently gathered by chance. Two identical newspaper pages hang from the wall very close to the entrance door. All the texts and photographs are cut out except the word ‘GESCHICHTE’ (history in German). There are two previous works linked to this project: “Parallel Lives” (two versions), 1998. In one version, two sheets of glass broken in the same way lay next to each other on the floor. The second version is a matchbox with a division down the middle. The distribution of matches is exactly the same on each side. In both versions of Parallel Lives, a highly improbable situation is shown to the viewer: the repetition of chance. Info: Quartz Studio, Via Giulia di Barolo 18/D, Turin, Duration: 3/11/18-12/1/19, www.quartzstudio.net

The film exhibition “Second Summer of Love” celebrates the 30 years anniversary of Centro Pecci. The exhibition is a series of artists’ films that narrates another anniversary: 1988 is the year electronic music and youth culture exploded in the UK, later expanding into Europe and the US. The roots of acid house and rave scenes, the way these revolutionized youth lifestyles and how they had a lasting impact on contemporary culture comparable to that of the counterculture of the 1960s – provide inspiration for work by Jeremy Deller, while the scenes that preceded and influenced rave inspire the works by Wu Tsang and Josh Blaaberg. Jenn Nkiru recently joined Jeremy Deller, Wu Tsang and Josh Blaaberg to create the fourth film of the series, on Detroit and Berlin techno culture, that will premiere at Frieze Los Angeles in February 2019. Info: the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Viale della Repubblica 277, Prato, Duration: 6-25/11/18, Days & Hours: Mon-Thu & Sun 10:00-20:00, Fri-Sat 10:00-23:00, www.centropecci.it

Entitled “Paolo Pellegrin. An anthology”, the exhibition is the result of two years of intensive work on the photographer’s archive and traces through more than 150 images, including numerous previously unseen works and a number of videos, a 20-year period in his career, from 1998 to 2017. It represents an invaluable introduction to his creative and documentary career and an opportunity to explore the issues that underlie his work in which the vision of the reporter and the visual intensity of the artist entwine and become one.  Paolo Pellegrin has travelled throughout the world with his camera, recounting people, wars and humanitarian emergencies, along with stories of great poetry and extraordinary, pulsating nature. He has won 10 World Press Photo Awards and numerous other prestigious prizes throughout the world, including the Euegne Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Info: Curator: Germano Celant, MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Via Guido Reni 4A, Rome, Duration 7/11/18-10/3/19, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri & Sun 11:00-19:00, Sat 11:00-22:00, www.maxxi.art

The work of Rochelle Feinstein is deeply informed by abstraction, while also conveying a keen sensibility to contemporary culture, particularly to our everyday use of language. Over the span of the last four decades, Feinstein has probed the relevance of the abstract painting tradition vis-a-vis a rapidly changing cultural environment. She has used the lexicon of abstract painting to approach subjects of both personal and social import. As a professor of painting at Yale University from 1994 to 2018, Feinstein played an important, albeit peripheral, role in the contemporary art scene through her engagement with and support for younger generations of artists whose works have been widely recognized. Rochelle Feinstein’s solo exhibition “Image of an Image” is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work in the United States it follows a critically acclaimed three-venue retrospective of Feinstein in Switzerland and Germany in 2015-2016, in which each venue presented a modified version of the exhibition. Info: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York, Duration: 7/11/18-3/3/19, Days & Hours: Wed-Thu & Sat-Sun 11:00-18:00, Fri 11:00-20:00, www.bronxmuseum.org

With four videos, two of which were conceived especially for the exhibition “Giving Voices” in Barcelona, Erkan Özgen reveals the human cost of political turmoil, responding intelligently and respectfully to issues that are relevant, not only because they are ongoing, but also because they are global.  Ergan Özgen’s work invites a reflection beyond the boundaries of political issues, returning to the purely private and very human dimension of forgotten stories of violence, trauma and power. His work gives voice to a series of stories that could, due to rapid information flows, be erased or even intentionally overshadowed. These stories, which are often told with different levels of accuracy and objectivity, tackle the enormous challenges of relating the experiences of individuals. Info: Curator: Hilde Teerlinck, Fundació Antoni Tàpies: Carrer d’Aragó 255, Barcelona, Duration: 13/11/18-24/2/19, Days & Hours: Tue-Thu & Sat 10:00-19:00, Fri 10;00-21:00, Sun 10:00-15:00, https://fundaciotapies.org