ART NEWS:Nov.01

Katie Grinnan’s works investigate the relationship between visual and cognitive experience. “Nocturnal Hologram” features three recent large-scale sculptural installations that explore the productive space of the dream state and our attempts to understand how thought patterns are created and can be made physically manifest. The works take the form of video reenactments, objects, and sculptures inspired by Grinnan’s childhood and adult anxiety dreams. Info: Nocturnal Hologram, DiverseWorks, 4102 Fannin Street, Suite 200, Houston, Till: 14/11/15, Days & Hours: Wed-Sat 12:00-18:00, www.diverseworks.org

The group exhibition ”Belgique”, features 9 Belgian contemporary artists. It was developed in dialogue with Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director of S.M.A.K, Museum of Contemporary Art in Gent. Over twenty works loaned taken from museums, private collections and the artists’ studios provide a subjective and beguiling overview of Belgian contemporary art from the 1990s through to the 2010s, combining drawings, paintings and sculptures. Info: Belgique, Galerie Daniel Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris, Duration: 5/11-31/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-18:00, www.danieltemplon.com

John Baldessari for his new exhibition “200 Years Städel”, presents a total of sixteen new works related explicitly to the Städel Museum collection. Taking these selected works as his point of departure, the artist explores the relationship not only between painting and photography, but also that between image and language. In the process, he not only isolates specific details of the Städel paintings, but also partially overpaints those details and combines them with texts formally reminiscent of excerpts from Hollywood film scripts to create large horizontally or vertically divided diptychs. Info: 200 Years Städel, Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, Frankfurt, Duration: 5/11/15-24/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue, Wed, Sat & Sun 10:00-18:00 Thu & Fri 10:00-21:00, www.staedelmuseum.de

Renowned for its focus on research and experimentation, Artissima 2015 hosts: 207 selected galleries from 31 countries, 3 curated sections, including 20 Present Future solo shows by emerging artists, 25 Back to the Future booths dedicated to the rediscovery of the decade ’75–’85, and 12 surprising live actions in the Per4m section. This year, over 50 curators and museum directors are contributing to the fair’s programme while collectors become active participants. Info: Artissima 2015, via Bertola 34, Torino, Duration: 6-8/11/15, Hours: 11:00-20:00, www.artissima.it

In the 25th anniversary of the CAC’s landmark presentation of Robert Mapplethorpe’s survey exhibition “After the Moment: Reflections on Robert Mapplethorpe”, seven curators from Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana, select 5 artists each, who will present new work that measures how Mapplethorpe’s photos, exhibition and censorship shaped the artistic landscape they navigate today. The photographs include a never before published or exhibited 1988 homage to Mapplethorpe, a photograph exhibited at Images in 1990 which had earlier caused the entire exhibition to be cancelled at a university gallery, and other images with various histories of censorship, all but one to be exhibited for the first time in the US. Info: After the Moment: Reflections on Robert Mapplethorpe, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, 44 E. 6th Street, Cincinnati, Duration: 6/11/15-13/3/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Fri 10:00-21:00, Sat-Mon 10:00-18:00, www.contemporaryartscenter.org

The Group exhibition “Accompaniment” is a curatorial project exploring accompaniment as an evolving theory of practice, developed in response to our cultural and political milieu. The project asks: might an artistic practice characterized by distributed authorship be a catalyst for a shift in the ways we produce, exhibit, and write about art? This exhibition enacts accompaniment such that the physical, historical, and social supports within individual practices are made manifest, but also so that each participant and contribution inevitably accompanies and is accompanied in the present grouping. Info: Accompaniment, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, EFA Project Space, 323 W. 39th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, Duration: 6/11-19/12/15, Days & Hours: Wed-Sat 12:00-18:00, www.projectspace-efanyc.org

An exhibition of works in Cor-ten steel by Donald Judd, features a range of forms in this distinctive material, which the artist began to produce in 1989 and would continue to elaborate on until his death in 1994. Cor-ten afforded Judd a new avenue for exploring many of the fundamental preoccupations of his oeuvre, such as the relationships between surface and volume, as well as color and form. The exhibition aims to elucidate this group of significant works. Info: Curator: Flavin Judd, David Zwirner Gallery, 537 West 20th Street, New York, Duration: 7/11-19/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.davidzwirner.com

Long fascinated by the resilience of pop icon shapes, Plummer-Fernandez expands on his ideas about illusory images, material, and copyright to generate a new version of familiar faces. In the exhibition “Hard Copy”, the artist shows a series of new sculptures and prints that challenge our notion of an object, insofar as they are works generated from the same code but represented in different forms. The four sculptures on view are derived from 3D models of popular cartoon characters that the artist found online and remixed in order to obtain a new version of these pop icons. Info: Hard Copy, NOME, Dolziger Straße 31, Berlin, Duration: 7/11-23/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 15:00-19:00, www.nomeproject.com

An exhibition devoted to Gianni Piacentino is hosted on the two levels of the Podium of the Fondazione’s Prada architectural compound and comprises more than 90 works, exploring Piacentino’s artistic path in anti-chronological order, starting from his most recent works from 2015 and working its way backwards to those from 1965. His work, however, did not embrace either of the dominant tendencies of those times, Pop art and Minimal Art, but, according to the original reading of his work provided in this exhibition, generated a dialectic process between the two. Info: Curator: Germano Celant, Fonazione Prada, Largo Isarco 2, Milan, Duration: 7/11/15-10/1/16, Days & Hours: Sun-Thu 11:00-21:00 Fri-Sat 11:00-22:00, www.fondazioneprada.org

Encompassing more than twenty-five paintings that Francis Bacon made in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life, the exhibition “Francis Bacon: Late Paintings”, is an in-depth exploration of the innovations in his late work. In Bacon’s art, modernity and tradition converge. His ectoplasmic figures strain like savage forces of nature against shallow fields of intense color and strict armatures that bind them to the picture plane. In his gut-wrenching serialization of the human form and its sensations, he shows himself to be the unflinching witness of the hysterical reality of bodies and the primal fear of those who inhabit them. Info: Francis Bacon Late Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, Duration: 7/11-12/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

Not only is political populism on the rise, but it is also making much stronger use of pop culture and artistic methods and aesthetics than in earlier years. Social media, advertising aesthetics and media staging have lent a progressive appearance to simple or simplistic slogans. In turn, artistic works reflect or comment on this tendency or lend it a further, subversive level that uses the mechanisms of political populism against this trend. The exhibition “Political populism” brings together works by international artists who address various facets of populism and analyse it, diffract it in ironic manner and above all point out how omnipresent it has become. Info: Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen, Curatorial Assistants: Juliane Bischoff, Eleanor Taylor, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna, Duration: 7/11/15-7/2/16, Days & Hours: Fri-Wed 10:00-19:00 Thu 10:00-21:00, www.kunsthallewien.at

Drawing has always been central to Baselitz’s work. Parallel to his cerebral yet impassioned paintings and roughly hewn sculptures. In a new series of two-part ink drawings, Baselitz is “visited” by Katsushika Hokusai, whose exquisitely controlled color-woodblock prints epitomized the refined ukiyo-e genre in Japanese art and persist in the popular imagination today. In each diptych, Baselitz pairs reconsidered motifs from his own work with iterations, in ink with blue, yellow or green watercolor washes of an intimate late work by Hokusai, a wry self-portrait sketched at the end of a letter to his print publisher in 1842. Info: Visit From Hokusai, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, Duration: 7/11-19/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

Known widely for his prolific output of video, sculpture, performance, and installation, Paul McCarthy also works extensively in two dimensions. The ongoing series “White Snow”, first exhibited York in 2009 and now encompassing hundreds of works, reveals the artist’s deft draftsmanship and layered, gestural approach to drawing. His presentation at the Renaissance Society features over 75 rarely and never before seen works from the series, produced between 2008 and 2015. Info: Paul McCarthy Drawings, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Cobb Hall, 4th Floor, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, Duration: 8/11/15-24/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:00-17:00 Sat-Sun 12:00-17:00, http://renaissancesociety.org

The exhibition of new work by James Turrell, includes three major, large-scale “Elliptical Glass” works, as well as a selection of unique graphic works taken from Aten Reign, the large work created for the atrium of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The “Elliptical Glass” series, developed out of Turrell’s larger group of “Tall Glass” works begun in 2006, was significant in its introduction of a temporal element. Over a 2:30 hour period, the unique composition sweeps through thousands of different color themes. Across the glass’s plane, light gently diffuses to make the shallow space indeterminable to the eye. Info: Kayne Griffin Corcoran, 1201 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, Duration: 8/11/15-16/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.kaynegriffincorcoran.com

The term ”Kapitalistischer Realismus” (Capitalist Realism) was coined by Gerhard Richter for the flyer for an exhibition he, Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Sigmar Polke organised while still attending the art academy in Düsseldorf in 1963. While not a movement in the strict sense, the term Capitalist Realism, with its double-edged irony, became a bracket label for a constellation of artists, including Polke, Richter, and some of the pioneers of German and European Pop Art. Besides works from Sammlung René Block, the exhibition incorporates the portfolio “Gras Grafikkmappe 1971”, produced by the Norwegian artist group Gras, which included Victor Lind, Per Kleiva and Morten Krohg among others. Info: Kapitalistischer Realismus, Trondheim kunstmuseum, Bispegata 7b, Trondheim, Duration: 9/11/15-14/2/16, Days & Hours: Wed & Fri-Sun 12:00-16:00 Thu 12:00-20:00, http://trondheimkunstmuseum.no

The new exhibition of Jeff Koons is entitled “Gazing Ball”. In this series of works, Koons is in dialogue with artists of the past, such as Titian, El Greco, Courbet, and Manet, among others. The works deal with the power of artistic gesture. Each work has a blue glass gazing ball that sits on a painted aluminum shelf attached to the front of the painting. The viewer and the painting are reflected in the gazing ball. This metaphysical occurrence connects the viewer to a family of cultural history in real time. Through the simple act of placing a gazing ball in front of the images, painting and sculpture are reunited for maximum sensory perception, as in ancient times. Info: Gazing Ball, Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, New York, Duration: 9/11-23/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

With the recent global conflicts stirring the world, questioning identity, what it means and what it represents becomes more crucial. The drastic changes that happened in the 20th Century led to the unexpected worldwide migration, global conflict, warring, unchecked materialistic consumption and environmental issues. All of these issues have created anxiety, melancholia and alienation; from which arises a desire to cross the lines sometimes physically, sometimes in an allegorical sense. The exhibition “Crossing Lines” aims to explore the alienation and estrangement process each individual goes through in life. Info: Crossing Lines, Curator: Huma Kabakcı & Billur Tansel, Gallery on the Corner, 155 Battersea Park Road, London, Duration: 10-20/11/15, Hours: 17:00-20:00, www.openspaceistanbul.co.uk

Paris Photo is the premier international art fair for works in the photographic medium. The 2015 Fair will be held in Paris’ historical Grand Palais and will host 147 galleries. Renowned for its innovative and high-level programming, Paris Photo is a key event for collectors and art world professionals, as well as photography enthusiasts. For the first time this year, a selection of galleries will present series and large formats in a new PRISMES sector in the Salon d’Honneur. The Salon d’Honneur will also host guest collector Enea Righi, who will present major works from one of Italy’s most important private collections featuring prominent artists including Cy Twombly, Nan Goldin, and Hans-Peter Feldmann, among others. Info: Paris Photo 2015, Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris, Duration: 12-15/11/15, Hours: Thu-Sat 12:00-20:00, Sun 12:00-19:00, www.parisphoto.com