ART NEWS:Dec.04

“Unidades y Continuidades” surveys the language of experimentation that David Medalla, Stanley Brouwn, John Divola and Lee Ufan began developing over 40 years ago. The works on display at kurimanzutto are echoes of these early experiments, now crystallized into a variety of gestures and forms encompassing sculpture, photography, drawing and painting. Gabriel Kuri’s curatorial project seeks to understand how geometry is unfolded in these various mediums and manifestations. Info: kurimanzutto, Gob. Rafael Rebollar 94, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexico City, Duration: 5/11/15-9/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Thu 11:00-18:00, Fri-Sat 11:00-16:00, www.kurimanzutto.com

Lina’s Selander films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge, the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one. Her exhibition “Moment” reveals a darker facet of Lina Selander’s oeuvre but is nevertheless part of her ongoing analyses of the oscillation between utopia and collapse. The presentation focuses on works dealing with various aspects of exclusion and inclusion, of controlling and owning the image of one’s history. Info: Curator: Lena Essling, Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Duration: 14/11/15-28/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue & Fri 10:00-20:00, Wed-Thu & Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00, www.modernamuseet.se

Commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the entrance hall of her residence in New York in 1943, Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” synthesizes a remarkable host of sources and ideas. These range from the example of the great Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, native American Indian art Picasso’s work of the “Guernica” period and wartime action photography. As the largest work that Pollock ever executed, “Mural” was also a vital stepping stone that led the way to the sheer audacity of the poured paintings that he began in 1947. After Peggy Guggenheim returned to Europe, it was gifted to the University of Iowa Museum of Art in 1948. Since then, it has rarely been shown elsewhere. After an 18 month campaign at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, is now being presented at: Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Unter den Linden 13/15, Berlin, 25/11/15-10/4/16, Days & Hours: Daily 10:00-20:00, www.deutsche-bank-kunsthalle.de

The National Gallery of Canada is presenting works by Joseph Beuys in a special two-year installation. Featuring 20 major sculptures and a selection of works on paper. These sculptures span four decades of the artist’s practice, beginning with early work influenced by the German sculptors Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Ewald Mataré, through sculpture of the ‘70s and ‘80s, achieving an incomparable formal and material vocabulary. Info: National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, Duration: 1/12/15-27/11/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-Sun: 10:00-17:00, Thu 10:00-20:00, www.gallery.ca

The group exhibition “Cold. War. Hot. Stars. The Iron(y) Helmet of the Intellect”, displays a dystopian landscape produced by asymmetric relation of delirious realism and rigorous fiction in the time of global capital, with a certain sense of alienation, coldness and distance. It intensifies these affects and creates a space of reflection and a heterogeneous perceptual field that is simultaneously a close-range haptic space of proximity, on the backdrop of the recent mass media rhetoric announcing a new global crisis in which the world has never been closer to a New Cold War. Info: Curator: Dimitrina Sevova, Corner College, Kochstrasse 1, Zürich, Duration: 09/12/15-29/1/16, Days & Hours: Thu14:00-19:00, Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat 14:00-17:00, www.corner-college.com

The exhibition “Stongue” by the artist collective Slavs and Tatars, looks at language politics as a form of etiquette in its written, oral, and visual registers. From medieval advice literature to the Russian avant-garde, the exhibition examines language as a source of political, metaphysical, and even sexual emancipation. Including new works produced especially for Kunsthal Aarhus, the exhibition highlights the COLLECTIVE MAKING 2015-2016 programme. Info: Kunsthal Aarhus, J.M. Mørks Gade 13, Aarhus, Duration: 9/12/15-6/3/16, Days & Hours: Tue & Thu-Fri 10:00-17:00, Wed 10:00-21:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-17:00, http://kunsthal.dk

At key moments in history, artists have reached beyond galleries and museums, using their work as a call to action to create political and social change. For the past hundred years, the term agitprop, a combination of agitation and propaganda, has directly reflected the intent of this work. The group exhibition “Agitprop” connects contemporary art devoted to social change with historic moments in creative activism, highlighting activities that seek to motivate broad and diverse publics, Exploring the complexity, range, and impact of these artistic practices. Info: Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, Duration 11/12/15-7/8/16, Days & Hours: Wed & Fri-Sun 11:00-18:00, Thu 11:00-22:00, www.brooklynmuseum.org

”The infinitely variable ideal of the popular” is the first exhibition in Argentina by Jeremy Deller (winner of the 2004 Turner Prize), with a selection of the artist’s work that spans the range of his practice, from the ‘90s to the present day. Throughout his career, he has worked in a variety of artistic disciplines, including photography, video art, and installation, and has revived a pop – or “popular” – aesthetic in each of his projects. Many such pieces are included in the exhibition, offering a distinctive overview of his artistic vision. Info: Curators: Amanda de la Garza, Cuauhtémoc Medina & Ferran Barenblit, Fundación Proa, Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929, Buenos Aires, Duration: 12/12/15-15/3/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 11:00-19:00, www.proa.org

The most significant subject in Francesca Woodman’s work was Francesca Woodman herself. She used photography as an extremely personal means of expression, as if wearing her skin inside out, making herself the only subject of her work. Her photographs were shown in a number of major international exhibitions and they have inspired artists all over the world. After the presentation in Stockholm the exhibition “Francesca Woodman. On Being an Angel” the exhibition is on presentation at: FOAM, Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam, Duration: 15/12/15-9/3/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Wed &n Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00am, Thu-Fri 10:00-21:00, www.foam.org