Ella Kruglyanskaya at Tate Liverpool
Ella Kruglyanskaya
May 18 - September 18, 2016
Tate Liverpool
Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze New York 2016
Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze New York
Booth: B63
Private view: May 4
Public days: May 5-8
Our inaugural show at Frieze New York will be the latest collaboration between Thomas Dane Gallery (London) and Corbett Vs. Dempsey (Chicago) who have partnered on booths at Frieze Masters in London for the past four years as well as joint curatorial projects at both galleries.
For Frieze New York in 2016 the focus is on eccentric figuration. Both galleries share a key interest in the status of the figure in contemporary art, its definition and limits and equally in its historical manifestation in the 20th century, its shadowy existence at the margins during the era dominated by abstraction (with particular attention to the Chicago Imagist tradition), as well as in its current popular revival.
This presentation will spotlight both organisations' programs, with new, and historical works. The booth will include paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptural works by Hurvin Anderson, Margot Bergman, Cecily Brown, Brian Calvin, Dominick Di Meo, Arturo Herrera, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Robert Lostutter, Albert Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Lari Pittman, Christina Ramberg, Barbara Rossi, Lui Shtini, Amy Sillman, Diane Simpson, Caragh Thuring and Karl Wirsum.
Channel 4 announces unique collaboration with John Gerrard
John Gerrard: Western Flag
Channel 4 have announced an important new commission with John Gerrard to be broadcast in April 2016 and appear in large-scale public projections simultaneously at several international locations to be announced. This new project will be a virtual flag made out of perpetually-renewing black smoke that Gerrard will place in a perfect CGI replica of Spindletop, Texas - the birthplace of the modern oil industry. The work will run in cyberspace for a year – exactly parallelling the sunrises, sunsets, lengthening shadows and changing seasons of the real Spindletop – and for one day next spring will break into the Channel 4 schedule in the junctions between programmes - an icon of climate change and modern society’s dependence on oil.
Steve McQueen: Open Plan at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Steve McQueen: Open Plan
29 April - 14 May, 2016
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Related events:
Friday April 29, 6.30pm
Steve McQueen in conversation with Donna De Salvo
Sunday May 1, 5pm
Harry Belafonte and Dr.Cornel West discuss Paul Robeson
Lynda Benglis in the Bergen Assembly 2016
Bergen Assembly 2016
Bergen, Norway
1 September, 2015 - 1 October, 2016
LYNDA BENGLIS
Primary Structures (Paula’s Props) | February 6–28, KODE, Grand opening February 6, 5pm
Glacier Burger, Ceramic works | April 9–May 1, Bergen School of Architecture
Slithering Green, Ceramics Conference | April 30, Bergen School of Architecture
Double Albatross, Paper works | April 30–May 15, Kunstgarasjen
Raptor, Pleats | June 17–September 4, Entrée
Adhesive Products, Pours | September 2–October 16, Bergen Kunsthall
Secrets | October 28–November 14, KODE
Is It Now?, Video works | December 6–9, Private homes
Lynda Benglis at Aspen Art Museum
Lynda Benglis
23 April - 30 October, 2016
Aspen Art Museum
Jean-Luc Moulène: Artists on Artists Lecture Series - Gabriel Kuri on Jean-Luc Moulène at Dia Art Foundation
Gabriel Kuri on Jean-Luc Moulène
Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Dia Art Foundation
Tuesday April 19, 2016, 6.30pm
Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
New York City
Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem screening at Tate Modern
Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.30-9pm
After the screening the artist will be in conversation with Tate Modern curator Andrea Lissoni, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Thomas Dane Gallery Easter Opening Hours
Daily: 10 - 6pm
Friday 25 March: Closed
Saturday 26 March: Closed
Monday 28 March: Closed
Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016
Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong
Booth: 1C02
Private view: March 22
Vernissage: March 23
Public days: March 24-26
Glenn Ligon – ‘Strangers’ and ‘Mirrors’
New York artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is one of the foremost artists working today and a distinctive voice of American culture. In most of his painting, work on paper, film or neon, Ligon appropriates text - borrowing passages from seminal contemporary and historical sources - to examine issues concerning race, authorship, gender and identity in America.Ligon’s favourite literary source is the distinguished African American novelist and social critic, James Baldwin, whose 1953 essay Stranger in the Village has spawned the famous series entitled ‘Stranger’, ‘Mirror’, ‘Figure’ and ‘Masquerade’.
Baldwin’s essay recounts the author’s experience of staying in a remote Swiss village. The other inhabitants of the village, having never seen an African American before, treat him with a distant curiosity, more as an object than a person, which Baldwin likened to the African American experience at home in his native USA.
Ligon has explained his fondness for this specific text: ‘The gravity and weight and panoramic nature of that work inspired me.’ He applies the letters to canvas or paper using stencils, often with a combination of materials including oil stick, gesso, coal dust and even glue.
During the stenciling process, Ligon allows imperfections and accidents to occur so that the words become more and more illegible. The result is that the text increasingly becomes an abstract surface, addressing language's inability to fully articulate experience, while also extending its reach from a literal signifier into a realm of emotive and abstract expression.
For Ligon, ‘there are a lot of things in our culture that seem clear, but … what the paintings are trying to do is to slow down reading, to present a difficulty, to present something that is not so easily consumed and clear.’
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