Angela Bulloch – ‘It's a feast for the mind because their appearance changes, so you're constantly doing adjustments with your eyes. Your eyes are trying to find the similarities, the differences, the irregularities. It’s like scratching an itchy place in the mind.’ >> Read more
by Alice Gee Rui Matsunaga – The Myth of Survival Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park, London) September 10–November 26, 2021 Rui Matsunaga, a Japanese artist based in Yamaguchi, is obsessed with the end of the world. Over five years she has examined the ‘apocalypse’ through various perspectives: the works of Dürer, animism, tribal and religious myths, and […] >> Read more
Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce the Xie Nanxing solo exhibition A Roll of the Dice. The exhibition unfolds around the artist’s recent thinking on “waiting” and “randomness,” presenting works from three series: What to Exhibit (2017), Seven Portraits (2018), and A Theater of Waiting (2019). >> Read more
Jumping and whooping, men swept by in costumes covered in fabric petals, their bodies thawed into fluttering colors. It took Andy a moment to realize that their swollen, red features and black, hollowed eyes belonged to wooden masks. >> Read more
Manifestations is Philippe Parreno’s eighth solo exhibition with Esther Schipper. It includes works spanning various media: a granular soundtrack, a CGI film, atmospheric sensors, robotic systems, computer code, ice and water. >> Read more
Kasmin and Perrotin are delighted to announce a jointly organized exhibition of new works by American painter Mark Ryden (b. 1963, United States). Featuring approximately forty works from the artist’s latest series, Anima Animals, the exhibition will be on view at Perrotin’s Shanghai gallery from July 3, 2020. This also marks the artist’s first solo show in China. >> Read more
Tianjin, just half an hour by train from Beijing, is said to be the most inconspicuous of China’s municipalities. This is perhaps surprising, given the fact that it is the first city in Northern China to be exposed to modern culture, experiencing a glamorous era in the period following 1860 when it became a treaty port. Tianjin is the epitome of modernity with “Chinese characteristics”. >> Read more
Galerie Urs Meile is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of the artist Marion Baruch (*1929 Timişoara, Romania, lives and works in Gallarate, Italy) at the Lucerne gallery. >> Read more
Lu Yang’s ‘debut’ and Chen Tianzhou’s ‘Backstage Boys’ at BANK stimulate the senses to the point of overload. The gallery is a kitsch carnival where, for instance, the rock star Marilyn Manson is depicted as an ‘enchanting, vicious snake demon’ who resists the fiery attack launched by the Cabalesh Brothers >> Read more