KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE, LONDON of ‘anaesthetised aesthetics’—an expression used by philosopher Susan Buck-Morss to capture the way in which control over aesthet- BOOGIE ics can be used to control soci- WONDERLAND ety. BoogieWonderland presents us SOHEILA with a revision of nostalgia, a look- NOW SHOWING SOKHANVARI ing-back at the way things were 16 OCT—14 NOV in order to empower a new gen- eration with self-awareness and self-realization.

Exhibition: With a joyful colour Born: Shiraz, Iran. palette reminiscent of Frida Kahlo Resident: Cambridge, uk. or Gauguin, Sokhanvari subscribes to the school of magical realism. Something else you should know: BoogieWonderland focuses on pre- Sokhanvari is also exhibiting at revolutionary Iran under the rule London’s Saatchi Gallery from 25 of the Pahlavi regime. Sokhanvari November until next spring in a has been drawn to events and trau- group show called Champagne Life. mas that linger in the collective

consciousness and cause amne- Quote: ‘Memory viewed through AMRANI GALLERY AND SABRINA OF THE ARTIST COURTESY

sia where the collective narrative is the telescope of time and exile SABRINA AMRANI GALLERY, told through the story of the indi- means history can itself be viewed MADRID vidual. Using mainly family pho- as a magical phenomenon, where tographs as her source material, reality and magic mingle to cre- her work is also recognizable for ate a fantastical narration of a lived its obsessive use of patterning and experience.’ (M)ETA(M)ORPHOSIS decoration, inspired by the idea www.kristinhjellegjerde.com AMINA BENBOUCHTA

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Exhibition: In (M)eta(M)orphosis, Amina Benbouchta focuses on the process of transformation. Through a timeline of images, the Casablanca-born artist dissects the various stages of human muta- tion and evolution throughout the cycle of life. She seeks to provoke an intimate exploration—to evoke personal resonance by appealing to the thought, imagination and affectation of the viewer. Through an exploration of the metamorpho- sis process, Benbouchta presents a new way of understanding the existing challenges of living as a Above contemporary woman in the public Amina Benbouchta and private spheres. Eruca 2014 Dibond Born: Casablanca, Morocco. 100 x 130 cm Resident: Paris/Casablanca. Left Media: Sculpture, image, Soheila Sokhanvari installation. In the Garden 2015 Egg tempera on calf vellum Quote: ‘I prefer to devote myself 15 x 20.5 cm to a work that asks questions

Opposite of the future of the human being, Soheila Sokhanvari in a universal way, without con- Selma stantly bringing back the debate 2015 Egg tempera on calf vellum to the details of origin or identity.’

COURTESY THE ARTIST AND KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE GALLERY HJELLEGJERDE AND KRISTIN THE ARTIST COURTESY GALLERY HJELLEGJERDE AND KRISTIN THE ARTIST COURTESY 15 x 20.5 cm www.sabrinaamrani.com

30 NOW SHOWING NOW SHOWING 31 Right THE THIRD LINE, DUBAI Born: Qazvin, Iran. Untitled (detail) Resident: Tehran, Iran. 2014 Felt marker on paper Media: Mirror, Plexiglas, 100 x 70cm pen and ink. WORKS ON PAPER Below Untitled MONIR SHAHROUDY Something else you should know: 2014 FARMANFARMAIAN Farmanfarmaian’s characteristic Felt marker, coloured pencil 16 NOV—24 DEC mirror mosaic work is derived from and glitter on paper 100 x 70cm the Iranian decorative technique aineh-kari, which dates back to the sixteenth century. Exhibition: Farmanfarmaian weds the cosmic patterning of traditional Quote: ‘I was inspired by the Islamic geometry with the rhythms geometry I found in old mosques of modern Western geometric with their tile, metal, wood, abstraction in painstakingly crafted and plaster work. A master works on paper. Wall-based pan- metalworker that I studied with els and freestanding works offer a once told me, “Everything is in detailed sense of craft as well as of geometry.” Today, I still work in contemporary abstraction. The show geometry—it’s at the base of my art marks the official opening of The because it has an infinite amount Third Line’s new space, which will of possibilities.’ be unveiled a little earlier in October. www.thethirdline.com IMAGES COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE THIRD LINE THE ARTIST COURTESY IMAGES

32 NOW SHOWING Below MASSIMO DE CARLO, LONDON Born: Livorno, Italy. Gianfranco Baruchello Resident: Rome, Italy. Murmur 2015 Media: Film, paint, enamel, Indian ink and metal hinges collage, installations. on wooden shape NEW WORKS 2013–2015 Bio: The artist attended Ruggero GIANFRANCO Bonghi School where he was inocu- BARUCHELLO lated ‘with the viruses of heroism 12 OCT—21 NOV and sacrifice and the worshipping of military honour’ in Fascist Italy. He graduated from the University of Rome in Law with Economics in Exhibition: Across Gianfranco 1947. In 1959, he produced Other Baruchello’s long career, the Italian Traces, canvasses crossed by artist (regarded by his friend and a tangle of black painted lines. mentor Marcel Duchamp as his only possible heir) has tackled Something else you should know: a vast array of media spanning Baruchello, now 94, has been from land art to video via painting energetically painting since he gave and sculpture. up his business to pursue a career as a painter, aged 35. In the artist’s debut uk solo show, Massimo De Carlo gallery exhibits Quote: ‘I continue to draw; over the his work from the past two years, past three months, I’ve done focusing on the idea of the gesture 20 drawings, with the idea that they and the relationships between the are of no use. Why am I making mind, the ego and the contempo- these drawings? Because I cannot rary external world. Each piece is think without having the possibility delicately handmade by the artist of producing images, of tracing himself, whose witty and sophis- outlines, of experiencing the ticated narrative encompasses a adventure of drawings. This is thoughtful, political and light- a way of being.’ hearted critique of our society. www.massimodecarlo.com COURTESY GIORNO POETRY COURTESY

PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS Born: New York, usa. Resident: New York, usa.

I JOHN GIORNO Something else you should know: Performances run throughout the exhibition period. Look out for 21 OCT—10 JAN people on roller skates handing out Giorno’s poems to visitors and passers-by, re-enacting the artist’s participation in the StreetWorks Exhibition: I John Giorno is performances on the streets of the first retrospective of the life New York in 1969. and work of American poet John Giorno, a key figure of the New Quote: ‘In the early 1960s, I had York underground scene in the the good fortune of meeting a lot 1960s. The show, conceived by of artists. , Jasper fellow artist Ugo Rondinone, is Johns, , John curated by Florence Ostende Cage, Trisha Brown and Carolee and also features works from Schneemann. These artists and artists, filmmakers, poets and painters were the real influence performers who have been on me, as a poet. Whether it was influenced by Giorno’s life and a performance or a painting, they work. These include Anne Collier, did what arose in their minds, and Angela Bulloch, Verne Dawson, made it happen. It occurred to me Judith Eisler, John Giorno, Mark that poetry was 75 years behind Handforth, Matthew Higgs, Pierre painting and sculpture and dance Above John Giorno Huyghe, Françoise Janicot, Scott and music. Giorno Poetry Systems King, , R.E.M., Raspberry LP Ugo Rondinone, Erik Satie, Billy ‘I said to myself, if these artists can Released by The Intravenous Mind LP art work, front cover Sullivan, Rirkrit Tiravanija and do it, why can’t I do it for poetry?’

COURTESY FONDAZIONE BARUCHELLO AND MASSIMO DE CARLO, MILAN/LONDON. PHOTO: EZIO GOSTI PHOTO: MILAN/LONDON. DE CARLO, AND MASSIMO BARUCHELLO FONDAZIONE COURTESY 1967 Andy Warhol. www.palaisdetokyo.com

34 NOW SHOWING NOW SHOWING 35 SKARSTEDT GALLERY, LONDON exhibition demands an immersive approach, coercing the viewer into questioning the veracity of the CHILDISH THINGS notion that childishness must be VIJA CELMINS, restricted exclusively to one’s early ROBERT GOBER AND years. There’s a playful tension MIKE KELLEY at work here in Childish Things, 9 OCT—21 NOV between the everyday objects and the potential for them to unseat our emotions. Exhibition: Childish Things engages with the deeply personal, repressed Media: Sculpture, image, memories of childhood through installation. the medium of self-portraits, psychological furniture and Quote: ‘Memory is like looking food in the form of humble up at the stars, it’s not a linear meals. Featuring iconic works by thing’—Robert Gober. Celmins, Gober and Kelley, the www.skarstedt.com COURTESY OF DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA. PHOTO: FREDRIK NILSEN PHOTO: CA. ANGELES, LOS GALLERY, KORDANSKY OF DAVID COURTESY

DAVID KORDANSKY, LA and a harlequin trying to get over a fence (Pixelator, 2008).

Born: San Antonio, Texas. AARON CURRY Resident: Los Angeles, California. Bio: Curry moved to la to attend 14 NOV—16 JAN CalArts, where he studied under Mike Kelley and Richard Hawkins. His first solo show, Bank Robber, was at David Kordansky in 2006. Exhibition: Fresh from last year’s retrospective at the CAPC Musée Something else you should know: d’Art Contemporain, Curry’s Curry used to hide his paintings in show at David Kordansky spans his studio when he had visitors for both of the la gallery spaces and fear that painting wasn’t consid- features large-scale sculptures as ered cool anymore. well as new paintings on shaped canvasses. Quote: ‘Now that I am partici-

MIKE KELLEY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS FOR FOUNDATION © MIKE KELLEY ART Curry’s sculptural work—day-glo pating in this thing you call the painted, trippy and reminiscent of art world, it becomes very selfish. skateboard graphics, comic books From the get-go it’s a selfish way of and Cubist paintings (Calder and going through life. You are totally Picasso are clear references)—is wrapped up in your own ideas and playful, pleasing and kind of cos- how you experience life. I think Above mic. It’s like ectoplasm that’s too often artists get confused and Mike Kelley Ahh… Youth (detail) suddenly hardened in a dance- think that this becomes about them 1991 like pose… in a really good way. being geniuses and not looking at

Right Editorial favourites from his back the other artists around them and Aaron Curry catalogue include abstract sculp- finding exciting things about their Pink Eye tures that resemble a graffitied ideas.’ (Interview with William 2015 Acrylic gouache on canvas wooden duck (Model for the New Corwin, 2011.) 213.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Dark Age (Reconfigured), 2007) www.davidkordanskygallery.com

36 NOW SHOWING Below BERLONI GALLERY, LONDON Born: Jerusalem. ...And There Was Light’ No.3 Resident: Berlin, Germany. (detail) 2015 Acrylic on canvas Media: Silkscreen, canvas, oil on 100 x 100 cm canvas and paper. …AND THERE WAS LIGHT Something else you should know: KAMAL BOULLATA Boulatta was a Fullbright Scholar 24 SEPT—31 OCT Fellow in 1993–94, pursuing field research on Islamic art in Morocco and Spain. The artist has also edited a number of books on modern poetry. Kamal Boullata was born in Jerusalem in 1942. Since his Quote: ‘By finding inspiration exile in 1967, he has been living in art that comes down to us and working in the usa, France, from other times—as in the case Morocco and Germany. This is his of Byzantine iconography and first London exhibition since 1978. Islamic art, both of which I grew up with—I sought through my …And There was Light, inspired painting to transform the reading by the legend of The Creation, of the beautiful in these affiliated is a recent series of seven acrylic traditions and render it in rela- paintings and 12 works on paper. tion to our time. That is how Conceived in Berlin, each of these I invite viewers to return to geometric abstractions explores a present where they have questions of light, transparency never been’. and spatial ambiguity. www.berlonigallery.com COURTESY THE ARTIST AND BERLONI GALLERY AND BERLONI THE ARTIST COURTESY

38 NOW SHOWING terrace at the foundation as part in this latest show from a strictly in its Bushwick and Chelsea of Images examines various ways of one of France’s best-known street lights, darkened football of Parasolstice—Winter Light. Over photographic act to environmental spaces this autumn. The experiencing the world: through sculptors. The exhibition takes pitches, or lights flickering in five metres tall and cast in bronze, and societal issues. November exhibition in the images that are born digitally, further the artist’s exploration into empty buildings. the sculpture draws on math- When Clouds Enter the Forest and Chelsea gallery features new resin made with scanners or lenses in the boundaries between sculpting, Galerie Guido W. Baudach ematical equations for its design. the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance sculptures, and complements the the studio or the real world, pre- architecture and ambient installa- www.guidowbaudach.com The tree, ripe with strange fruit, Galerie Karsten Greve earlier September show sented as still or moving pictures, tion spaces. OCT is from the Jadindagadendar, a www.galerie-karsten-greve.com that features early large-scale distributed as zines, morphed Andréhn-Schiptjenko municipal park situated in the works on paper as well as a recent into three-dimensional objects or www.andrehn-schiptjenko.com town of Onomatopoiea, at the monolithic sculpture. remixed online. heart of the artist’s fictional island. Luhring Augustine MoMA JUSTIN MATHERLY Tree No.5 (from the Jadindagadendar) www.luhringaugustine.com www.moma.org 17 NOV—12 DEC / NEW YORK Parasol Unit www.parasol-unit.org In his second solo show at Paula DEC JENNIFER WEST Cooper Gallery in New York, THROUGHOUT OCTOBER / NEW YORK NOV Justin Matherly continues his

OSCAR MURILLO 2015 PERFORMANCES, ZHANG DING, ENTER THE DRAGON FOUNDATION AND K11 ART ICA THE ARTIST, © ZHANG DING COURTESY exploration into abstract figura- New work by filmmaker Jennifer 10 OCT—20 NOV / LONDON tion, sickness and the human West–expect visceral visuals of CLARE BURNETT form. These works articulate the New York skyline. In his first London exhibition for 22 OCT—28 NOV / LONDON this through Matherly’s char- TOMASZ KOWALSKI One Mile / Lisa Cooley David Zwirner, Oscar Murillo acteristic premixed concrete 3 DEC—23 JAN / ANTWERP www.lisa-cooley.com presents a host of large-scale, ‘In my forthcoming exhibition, sculptures and two-dimensional methodically composed paintings Pink, I hope to explore the edges CAMILLE HENROT monoprints. In his third solo show at the Tim VOCES (VOICES): tied to the notion of community. of tolerance to the colour, both 5 NOV—23 DEC / NEW YORK Paula Cooper Gallery Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, LATIN AMERICAN The show also features sculptures emotional and formal, and to test www.paulacoopergallery.com Polish-born artist Tomasz PHOTOGRAPHY and video works. its reaction with other colours and Former Elephant cover star Kowalski’s works will follow 1980–2015 Binary Function / David Zwirner materials. This investigation is Camille Henrot’s new exhibition THIERRY BOUTEMY on from his drowsy, paranoia- 9 OCT—10 JAN / LONDON www.davidzwirner.com part of my overall interest in how will see the artist present a series 26 NOV—19 DEC / BRUSSELS infused scenes from everyday form, colour, shape and material of different telephones, all with ART. OF CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM HERZLIYA VIEW, INSTALLATION 2014. (DETAIL) OF CERTAINTY SHIFTING DEGREES ILIT AZOULAY, © 2015 ILIT AZOULAY. TEL AVIV. GALLERY, AND BRAVERMAN NEW YORK, ANDREA MEISLIN GALLERY, THE ARTIST, COURTESY life in Krakow, with Grosz-esque Photography expert Wendy Watriss ZHANG DING can relate to, and reveal aspects of, their own unique designs and ROSSON CROW CATHY WILKES Traditionally a collaborator with depictions of street scenes, café has said that there is no such thing 12—25 OCT / LONDON the spaces and ideas around them,’ hotlines. On some level, each hot- 7 NOV—12 DEC / LA 8 NOV—21 FEB high-end fashion houses, Thierry inhabitants and shop assistants. as ‘a Latin American identity’ nor says Burnett. line, or perhaps more accurately MÖNCHENGLADBACH Boutemy is famed for his dream- Tim Van Laere Gallery is there a conceptual paradigm Zhang Ding transforms the ICA Pink / William Benington Gallery ‘helpline’, is there to assist with Rosson Crow creates imposing, like, large-scale floral arrange- www.timvanlaeregallery.com for the photographic art produced theatre into a ‘mutating sound www.williambeningtongallery.co.uk the headaches of everyday life. bold canvasses crammed with Wilkes, a key protagonist in the ments. Galerie Rodolphe Janssen by Latin American artists. What sculpture’, covering the room Henrot will also present draw- fluid brushstrokes and critical internationally renowned Glasgow present his first solo exhibition ERIK PARKER is certainly clear from the selection with mirrored surfaces, suspended SERGIO VEGA ings that illustrate some of these historical associations. Honor art scene, brings more than 20 —expect vividly coloured and 8 DEC—23 JAN / NEW YORK of works in the exhibition is sound panels and a series of rotat- 29 OCT—2 JAN / PARIS nuisances. Fraser presents a host of the years of artistic work into a single beautifully crafted glossy ceramics the extraordinary diversity ing mirrored sculptures situated Metro Pictures painter’s newest works. installation to form a theatrical from the floral artist. Employing his own wildly inven- of expression. Featuring artists next to two identical music stages. In the latest series by Sergio Vega, www.metropictures.com Honor Fraser scene comprised of figures, Ceramic / Galerie Rodolphe Janssen tive architecture and signature from Argentina, Chile, Mexico There are also daily performances. When Clouds Enter the Forest, the www.honorfraser.com objects and paintings. Realized in www.galerierodolphejanssen.com neon palate, Parker creates and Brazil. Enter the Dragon Argentinian artist emphasizes FLAVIO MERLO co-operation with Tate Liverpool bold, graphic compositions that Michael Hoppen Gallery ICA & K11 Art Foundation the importance of nature as a 6 NOV—12 DEC / DUBLIN JORGE QUEIROZ and Lentos Linz. TAMINA AMADYAR riff on the traditional genres of www.michaelhoppengallery.com www.ica.org.uk metaphor for paradise through 7 NOV—31 DEC / PARIS Museum Abteiberg 16 SEP—31 OCT / BERLIN portraiture and still-life. Look www.k11artfoundation.org sensorial stimulation, reaching Sculpture, installation and www.museum-abteiberg.de ahead to Parker’s new series JIM SHAW performance artist Merlo’s solo Portuguese artist Queiroz The gallery presents the drawing inspiration from diverse 7 OCT—10 JAN / NEW YORK exhibition at Ellis King, Dublin, makes abstract works that are ANNA BJERGER Afghanistan-born Amadyar’s first elements of American subculture sees the gallery transformed into part-drawings, part-paintings, 11 NOV—20 DEC / STOCKHOLM solo show. Expect moody, semi- —underground comic books, the Shaw is one of the United States’ a stage for a performance—or, strewn with marks made by abstract paintings occasionally Chicago Imagists, hip hop and most influential and visionary perhaps, the aftermath of an a host of different materials. Swedish artist Anna Bjerger populated by shapes that resemble heavy metal. artists, moving between paint- event where the spectator is not The resulting canvasses have makes impressionistic paint- @297 / Paul Kasmin Gallery ing, sculpture and drawing, and entirely certain if they have a role an uncommon sense of depth ings from found, anonymous www.paulkasmingallery.com building connections between his within this elaborate endeavour and emotional intensity. photographs. The works bore into own psyche and America’s larger or are simply an member of its Queiroz has claimed that the tricky psychological dimen- political, social and spiritual his- grand audience. This ambiguity GRAYSON PERRY his works are a ‘portrait of sions that accumulate beneath tories. This three-floor exhibition underlies Merlo’s approach 10 DEC—1 MAY / SYDNEY thoughts… a portrait of the photographs, via bold, rich oil shows a comprehensive selection to his practice and delves into net of the mind’. colours and disjointed spaces. of his works. existential questions forging In the first major survey exhibi- Galerie Nathalie Obadia Galleri Magnus Karlsson The End Is Here / New Museum relationships between social and tion of his work in the southern www.galerie-obadia.com www.gallerimagnuskarlsson.com www.newmuseum.org spatial potency. hemisphere, the Museum of Ellis King Contemporary Art in Sydney CHARLES AVERY www.ellisking.net OCEAN OF IMAGES: XAVIER VEILHAN presents an exciting and compre- 8 OCT—6 DEC / LONDON NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 12 NOV—19 DEC / STOCKHOLM hensive retrospective of Perry’s RACHEL WHITEREAD 2015, VARIOUS ARTISTS ceramics, self-portraits and Co-commissioned by Edinburgh SEPT—DEC / NEW YORK 7 NOV—20 MAR / NEW YORK Xavier Veilhan’s polystyrene tapestry pieces. Art Festival and Parasol Unit island of motorbikes, contoured, My Pretty Little Art Career / Museum Foundation for Contemporary Luhring Augustine presents a Probing the effects of an image- polished inox horse, and electric of Contemporary Art Australia

Art, Avery’s work illuminates the NEW YORK. AUGUSTINE, AND LUHRING OF THE ARTIST WHITEREAD; COURTESY © RACHEL solo Rachel Whiteread exhibition based Post-Internet reality, Ocean cord structures have made him CM 200 X 170 , 2014, APARTMENT AMADYAR, TAMINA BERLIN BAUDACH, & GALERIE GUIDO W. THE ARTIST COURTESY www.mca.com.au

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