ART NEWS:May 02

“Reframed Positions” is the first multi-venue retrospective by Terre Thaemlitz in Europe. It comprises a survey exhibition, talk, multimedia performance, and a concert. At Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, painterly, graphic, printed, audiovisual, and written works trace the development of a cross-media critical formal language in Thaemlitz’s practice, from her studies at Cooper Union School of Art in New York during the mid-1980s to her multi-genre audio work as producer and founder of the label Comatonse Recordings. In her ongoing engagement with cultural theory she analyzes the social functions of power, the social construction of identity, and their relationship to practices of consumerism. Thaemlitz employs the ambient genre emphasizing sampled audio elements, echoing the production techniques heard in her house and disco productions under the alias DJ Sprinkles. In her “Rubato-series”, she is interpreting electronic music classics by Kraftwerk, Gary Numan and Devo as neo-expressionist piano solos, and in Interstices she reads the technical glitch as a social-political phenomenon. Info: Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Reichenbachstraße 2, Lüneburg, Germany, Duration: 11/5-16/7/2023, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 14:00-18:00, https://halle-fuer-kunst.de/

Experimenting with complex uses of holographic and photographic technology, Meyohas Sarah expands upon her long-standing engagement with optics and perception and reveals a new fascination with anatomy in her solo exhibition.  Meyohas debuts a new series, “Diffractions”, alongside new works from her ongoing Interferences series in the exhibition. Building on her ongoing experimentation with glass, technology, and the intersections therein, Diffraction #1 is a suspended sculptural form comprising multiple glass panel diffraction gratings. Created by etching an image into glass at a rate of three thousand lines per millimeter—the opalescent object produces a kaleidoscopic array of colors when viewed from different angles. Much like holograms, diffraction gratings generate precise structural color—color produced by the interference of light waves with the microscopic structures etched into the glass. The snaking, sculptural form, combining overlapped and repeated images of the female form, evokes the organic nature of the body represented within. Eliciting a sense of movement and transformation reminiscent of early experimentation with movement in photography, “Diffraction #1” reflects the continued influence of technological innovation on contemporary artistic expression—an ever-present theme in Meyohas’s work. Info: Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 West 24th Street,, New York, NY, USA, Duration: 16/8-30/6/2023, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, https://marianneboeskygallery.com/

Cameron Jamie presents a solo exhibition in Athens, he has been a prominent figure in contemporary art for the past three decades. His artistic practice encompasses various mediums, such as video, photography, performance, sculpture, and drawing. It is often referred to as an anthropological research that expands the notion of identity by highlighting the resurgence of myths and fantasies in everyday life and popular culture. In his recent series of work, the artist showcases a collection of bronze sculptures and paintings that explore the layer of the body as a terrain of analysis and examination. All forms in his new works are developed through an organic movement of expansion, destruction, and reconstruction similar to a spider consuming its prey in its web. The source of these abstract and interweaving forms remains unknown, providing Jamie’s work with a distinctly unique and timeless energy. The figures in Jamie’s creations gradually reveal their mystical dimension and cathartic power, bringing to light the fundamental instincts, the collective unconscious, and the archaic myths of violence and atrocity that are shared by all humanity, irrespective of culture. Info: Bernier Eliades Gallery, 11 Eptachalkou Street, Athens, Greece, Duration: 25/5-13/7/2023, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 10:30-18:00, Sat 12:00-16:00, https://bernier-eliades.com/

In her newest body of work, Julie W. Chang that is shown in her solo exhibition “Amulets” wields a dictionary of talismans to investigate and celebrate the power of cultural symbols to shape and transform our lives. In the wake of the 2020 pandemic, Chang began reconsidering how traditional amulets operate as protective energies as well as binding or guiding forces. Her deftly intricate paintings weave together fetishes from a wide range of cultures and eras, in a series of layers that form a three-dimensional matrix. Layered and interwoven in this way, these symbols of healing, wisdom, redemption, joy, enlightenment, interdependence, and peace combine to form a powerful global emblem of hope and renewal. Chang has long been interested in the implied meanings and identifying markers inherent to the historical development of patterns in textiles and decorative objects. Chang manipulates this tradition of abstract patterning through collisions of familiar forms, like the Chinese symbol for happiness, the Sanskrit character for namaste, the peace sign, or the lucky cricket. Through layering and repetition, these symbols morph, migrate and cross boundaries, transformed by encounters with other forms. Arrivals, foreignness, dislocation, struggle, and integration are some of the references implied in these confrontations. Info: Hosfelt Gallery, 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, Duration: 25/5-30/6/2023, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-Sat 10:00-17:30, Thu 11:00-19:00, https://hosfeltgallery.com/

“Ações Matéricas” is the fourth chapter of its collaboration with Anna Maria Maiolino, which completes the exhibition of the various expressions of her work in Italy. In the previous shows held in 2010, 2015, and 2019, the Galleria Raffaella Cortese showcased her practice through videos, photographs, and sculptures. Through an array of mediums Maiolino explores the fundamental themes of Brazilian history and their relation to issues of political, civil, personal, and expressive freedom that are vital not only for Brazil but for the evolution of the international cultural landscape since the 1960s and 1970s. “Ações Matéricas” gives an insight into Anna Maria Maiolino’s pictorial production for the first time in the gallery. Presented in via A. Stradella 1, these paintings bear witness to the performative dimension of Maiolino’s practice, built on bodily movements and action, encompassing the artist’s intense decennial research. Created with acrylic tempera on paper or canvas, these works attest to the four essential aspects of the artist’s work: space, time, movement, and body. The creative process is connected to the spatiality of the support on which the paint is poured. The inclination of the canvas determines the color’s movement on its surface, guided by the gravitational force. Info: Galleria Raffaella Cortese, via a. stradella 1, Milan, Italy, Duration: 26/5-2/9/2023, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-13:00 & 14:30-19:00, https://raffaellacortese.com/