‘Michael Landy H.2.N.Y’ - a newly commissioned performance to mark the 25th anniversary of Museum Tinguely. 

Friday, 24 September, 5.45pm CET

Jean Tinguely has been a guiding artistic figure for Michael Landy ever since Landy saw the 1982 Tate exhibition of the Swiss sculptor as a nineteen year-old student.

In 2006 Landy produced a series of drawings and paintings from photographs of Jean Tinguely's ‘Homage to New York’, a 23 feet long and 27 feet high "self-constructing and self-destroying" sculpture-machine that self combusted in front of a live audience on the evening of March 17, 1960 in the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden. Landy also began to research a possible re-enactment of ‘Homage’, re-constructing some parts of it, and creating a documentary about the work.

Now, on the occasion of Museum Tinguely's 25th birthday, Landy presents his re-imagining of the original ‘Homage to New York’, with dancers and a choreography developed in collaboration with Tabea Martin.

Kaserne Basel, Klybeckstr. 1b, CH-4057 Basel

Tonight, Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Filipa Ramos as part
of Art Basel Film.

Live Q&A: 7pm CET
Monday, 20 September
Stadt Kino, 5 Klostergasse, Basel

The conversation will be followed by a screening of three of Siegel’s recent works. Exhibited exclusively as installations and rarely seen in the cinema, these works trace the back stories of various underlying references, materials, and objects.

‘Quarry’ (2015) follows the journey of marble from the largest underground quarry in the world, in Vermont, to luxury developments in Manhattan.

Filmed at the Freud Museum in London ‘Fetish’ (2016) renders the annual nocturnal cleaning of Sigmund Freud's collection of archaeological artefacts, bringing together its intimate operations and the psychoanalytic process, both occurring behind closed doors.

‘Genealogies’ (2016) gathers novels, films, images, advertising, and soundtrack into a baroque invocation of image and artwork provenance, remake and copy. Extending from Brigitte Bardot in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Le Mepris’, to Freud, Pink Floyd, and the Beastie Boys, the video drafts a non-hierarchical lineage of adaptation, appropriation, and recurrence.

 ‘Quarry’, 2015, 34:00 min. HD video, colour, sound

 ‘Fetish’, 2016, 10:00 min. HD video, colour, sound

 ‘Genealogies’, 2016, 26:00 min. HD video, colour, sound

 Total running time: 70 minutes.

Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel
Stand: R17

Showing works by Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Patricia Leite, Albert Oehlen, Dana Schutz, Amie Siegel and Caragh Thuring.

Preview: 20 - 23 September
Public days: 24 - 26 September

This evening, Barbara Kasten and David Levinthal will be in conversation as part of Photo London 2021.

The talk, moderated by William A. Ewing, will focus on the art, technology, industry and commerce of the Polaroid.

Tuesday 14 September, 2021 at 8pm GMT

Hurvin Anderson: ‘Reverb’

Exhibition dates: 12 October - 4 December 2021

Thomas Dane Gallery 

3 & 11 Duke Street, St James's London, SW1

Now open: Hurvin Anderson and Caragh Thuring in ‘Mixing It Up: Painting Today’ at Hayward Gallery, London.

“Featuring three generations of artists who live and work here, ‘Mixing It Up’ highlights the UK’s emergence as a vital international centre of contemporary painting.”

Exhibition dates: 9 September – 12 December 2021

Hayward Gallery
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX

Premiering tomorrow: Amie Siegel, Asterisms (2021) at 34th São Paulo Bienal

Amie Siegel’s expansive new work Asterisms explores geological and social displacement processes on a planetary scale, focusing on the specific context of the United Arab Emirates. Siegel leads us through the process of constructing artificial islands in Dubai; through migrant labor camps that supply manual work for gold factories and oil recovery; through the surreal landscape of a royal palace where Arabian horses are bred and trained for show; through an abandoned village almost completely submerged by the desert sand... Each of these segments unfolds in a different cinematic aspect ratio and is projected onto a shape that floats between a wall and a sculpture. Derived from the superposition of the various projection formats, the shape resembles a stylized star, or asterism – an informal group of stars and the lines used to mentally connect them, whose form we can identify in the night sky, if we look hard enough.

Siegel’s continuous slide projection Surrogates (2016) will also be shown as part of the Bienal. The relationship between the female body, the copy and its sculptural context is evoked in a dialogue between projected image and pedestal, as images of rupture and repair on the bodies of classical sculpture in the Naples National Archaeological Museum emerge and disappear in turn.

Exhibition dates: 4 September - 5 December 2021

Caragh Thuring, ‘Island Fever’, 2021, a limited edition lithograph print produced on the occasion of work by her being acquired for Tate’s collection of British art.

‘Island Fever’ is Thuring’s first lithograph print and features many of the motifs that occur in her paintings, including a silhouette of a submarine, a brick wall pattern and, most prominently, an erupting volcano.

She explains “I’ve always been fascinated by their subterranean mystery, and the fact that they destroy themselves as well as build themselves from underneath”.

To purchase the print, please click here. 

Steve McQueen’s ‘Ashes,’ at Turner Contemporary has been extended until 26 September.

The two-channel video installation by Steve McQueen was filmed over ten years, on two separate visits to Grenada. A homage to the protagonist - Ashes, a young man and friend of McQueen's, who was killed by drug dealers - it is also a poignant rumination on life, death and lost potential. 

Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, Kent, CT9 1HG