Nathlie Provosty: Group Show 'Bui, Jensen, Lewczuk & Provosty'

Phong BUI
Bill JENSEN
Margrit LEWCZUK
Nathlie PROVOSTY

Gallery Night Opening
In presence of the artists

18 April from 6 to 9 PM
Avenue Louise 430, Brussels

Four Brooklynites reunite for a one-time-only group show in Brussels.

The idea of this exhibition arose from their long-nurtured friendship
and genuine shared love of art and culture. 
Together they explore the themes of pairs, parallels, and patterns,
with the pure pleasure of camaraderie, including the diversity that allows them to remain friends with their growth in perpetual tact.

Join us at our Brussels gallery for the opening in presence of the artists
on Wednesday 18 April until 9 PM.

Nathlie Provosty (b. 1981 in Cincinnati, Ohio; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) has gained critical acclaim for her subtle, highly sensual oil paintings that oscillate in appearance through open-ended imagery and responsiveness to the movement of light. 

Works are included in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; the Colby Museum of Art, Maine; the Farnsworth Museum of Art, Maine; the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Titus Kaphar: Unseen: Our Past in a new light

March 23, 2018 - January 6, 2019
The exhibition highlights the work of two leading contemporary artists who grapple with the under- and misrepresentation of certain minorities in portraiture and American history. Gonzales-Day and Kaphar illuminate the contributions and sacrifices people of color made during the country’s founding. Kaphar defaces, cuts, and peels back his paintings to show how portraits of American historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, have traditionally coded racial difference, hid systemic prejudices, and omitted the presence of African Americans. Gonzales-Day photographs portrait busts, sculptures, and ethnographic casts in European and American museums to create installations that reveal how scientific studies, artistic conventions, and collecting tendencies have reinforced inappropriate notions of race and “Otherness.” Together, the work of these two artists will demonstrate how the absence of certain figures and communities in art has preempted their recognition in national history, and, in the process, will reclaim a space for them in the art historical context.

The Portrait Gallery curators for this exhibition are Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, Taína Caragol, and Curator of Prints, Drawings and Media Arts, Asma Naeem.

Armory Show Highlights and Lowlights 2018 Round-Up

Article: Armory Show Highlights and Lowlights 2018 Round-Up

(artlyst.com)

"Presents, a platform for galleries no more than ten years old. This year, 26 galleries will showcase recent work through solo and dual-artist presentations. Highlights included Athi-Patra Ruga at WHATIFTHEWORLD; André Butzer at NINO MIER GALLERY; at Parafin, new works by Justin Mortimer; at Vigo, selected works by Derrick Adams from his Future People exhibition at Theaster Gates’ Stoney Island Arts Banks; Jose Carlos Martinat at Revolver Galeria; and Cammie Staros’ New York debut at Shulamit Nazarian."  More at Artlyst

Titus Kaphar: TED Talk

Video: Titus Kaphar TED Talk, "Can Art Amend History?"

Genieve Figgis: What we do in the shadows

Genieve Figgis: What we do in the shadows

June 3 — July 29, 2017 • Brussels
Opening on Saturday, June 3rd, 2017 / 5 - 8 pm
Almine Rech Gallery Brussels is pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Genieve Figgis with the gallery.
 
Genieve Figgis is a consummate storyteller. Using paint rather than words, her deeply narrative works—often conjuring characters and settings out of the Edwardian age of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy—fit snugly within this long tradition of Irish cultural production. While it may seem essentialist, if not a political minefield, to overemphasize national identity in critical discussions of Figgis’ work, it could be argued that what distinguishes her use of figuration from the slew of contemporary painters is a distinctive translation of the Irish “blarney” into a pictorial form. What theorists such as Eagleton wrote of nineteenth century Irish writers such as Oscar Wilde’s ambivalent relationship to Britannia could easily applied to Figgis’ own work: both conjure Anglo-Irish society at the cusp of Irish independence. A world that is infused with qualities of “violence, travesty, affection, complicity, mimicry, subversion, mutual mystification.”
- Excerpt from Alison M. Gingeras, « Picturing Blarney – Notes on the Irishness of Narrative in the work of Genieve Figgis » (2017) to be published in the upcoming monograph of Genieve Figgis by Rizzoli in October 2017.
 
The opening will take place tomorrow from 5 to 8 pm - Rue de l'Abbaye 20 Abdijstraat, 1050 Brussels

Art gone wild: The best places to see sculptures outdoors

Article: Art gone wild: The best places to see sculptures outdoors

Some of the most popular outdoor works of the last few decades -- James Turrell's famous Skyspaces, Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," Antony Gormley's standing figures, Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral works in nature -- have shown how a fresh setting can make for a perspective-altering and exhilarating experience.

We often view art in white cube spaces and neoclassical museums. But once a work of art is placed outdoors -- whether in a busy city or the open countryside -- it's given new meaning.

Here are a few of the best places to view outdoor art today.

-Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Wakefield, United Kingdom)

-Domaine de Muy (Le Muy, France)

-Not Vital Foundation (Sent, Switzerland)

-Brooklyn Bridge Park (New York)

Kehinde Wiley: Kehinde Wiley To Receive An Honorary Ph.D.

Kehinde Wiley: Kehinde Wiley To Receive An Honorary Ph.D.

Kehinde Wiley will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) during the school's 2017 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, June 3rd. Founded in 1877, RISD is known as one of the leading colleges of art and design in the United States. For more information, please visit risd.edu

Kehinde Wiley's current exhibition, Trickster, is on view through June 17 at Sean Kelly. For more information, please visit skny.com

(Sean Kelly Gallery)

Ibrahim El-Salahi: “Understood and Counted”: A Conversation with Ibrahim El-Salahi

Article: “Understood and Counted”: A Conversation with Ibrahim El-Salahi

(guggenheim.org)

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi curatorial team has been granted a rare opportunity to build a collection from the ground up. Assembling the collection for the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has allowed us to expand our curatorial thinking and consider modern arts movements and practices in all parts of the world as we endeavor to create a museum collection that, from its beginnings, honors the work of modern artists working across nations and contexts.

A masterpiece from the personal collection of renowned Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi — Untitled (1964) — is a cornerstone work for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Born in Sudan in 1930, El-Salahi has long been regarded as one of the forefathers of modern art in Sudan and a key contributor to African modernism. He was a founding member of the Khartoum School in 1960, along with Kamala Ibrahim Ishag and Ahmed Shibrain, who is also represented in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection. Together, the artists of the Khartoum school sought to foster an arts practice that responded to the specific cultural heritage of Sudan, a particularly important charge as the country emerged from decades of colonial control, gaining independence in 1956.