International 07 Art Exhibitions 2019 International 14.09.2019 > 19.10.2019 Art Exhibitions 2019 Loie Hollowell 1 Plumb Line Pace Gallery Pace Marking Hollowell’s debut exhibition with Pace in New York, ‘Plumb Line’ will feature nine large-scale paintings that expand upon the artist’s dynamic use of dimensionality, colour and geometric shapes. Abstracting the human figure, Hollowell’s work explores the dualities of light, volume and scale, blurring the lines between the illusory and the real. In particular, this new body of work explores Hollowell’s relationship to New York different stages of her pregnancy from conception, to birth, to motherhood. 5 Opposite page Standing in Blue 2018, Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust and high density foam on linen mounted on panel 182.9 x 137.2 x 8.9 cm © Loie Hollowell 1 Installation view 2 Birthing Dance 2018, Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust and high density foam on linen mounted on panel 182.9 x 137.2 x 8.9 cm © Loie Hollowell 3 Standing in Light 2 3 2018, Oil paint, acrylic medium, sawdust and high density foam Nonetheless, subject matter in Loie Interested in Transcendental and Tantric on linen mounted on panel Hollowell’s work often emerges painting, Hollowell creates work that 182.9 x 137.2 x 8.9 cm through phenomenological encounter is meditative in both process and form. © Loie Hollowell rather than narrative content, tapping Hollowell’s paintings implore a spiritual 4 the depth of the artist’s embodied energy. Through the use of symmetry, Installation view experience. Central to Hollowell’s colour and abstract iconography, 5 practice is her inquisitive approach to Loie Hollowell maps a cartography of Installation view the human form and her ability to psychic space, depicting the essence of compose otherworldly landscapes that the female form unapologetically, Courtesy the artist and Pace 4 2 challenge the perception of space. sensually and openly. Gallery, New York www.pacegallery.com International 14.09.2019 > 09.11.2019 Art Exhibitions 2019 Opposite page Game Over Peter Halley 2019, Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas 1 New Paintings 214 x 176 x 10 cm Galerie Thomas Galerie Thomas Modern I grew up with the notion that 1 paintings create light, that picturing Code 8 light was really important. As my 2019, Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic work developed, I wanted to make and Roll-A-Tex on canvas paintings that created light, not 174 x 196 x 10 cm natural light, but an artificial light. 2 Peter Halley Long Shot 2019, Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic Peter Halley was born in 1953 and raised and Roll-A-Tex on canvas in New York. Galerie Thomas Modern 204 x 158 x 10 cm has exclusively represented the artist 3 in Germany over the course of many The Trap years and has presented his works in a 2019, Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic number of one-person and group and Roll-A-Tex on canvas exhibitions. 23 204 x 158 x 10 cm Halley first came to prominence in the mid-1980s with his diagrammatic repre- sentations, his geometrically alienated cells and prisons in strong, fluorescent colours. Since the 1990s, Halley created site-specific installations, in which he Munich integrated his images into large digital prints that covered entire walls. Peter Halley’s paintings are character- ized by geometry, strong colours and strictly consequent composition. They can be read as a critique of a society increasingly controlled by systems of communication, provision and traffic – structures, that don’t even allow the 1 2 4 individual to escape from. At the same 5 time, Halley is investigating the essence of painting beyond image and represen- 4 tation. ‘New paintings’ is a programmatic Inside Game title. For more than three decades, Peter 2019, Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic Halley has been reviewing and reorient- and Roll-A-Tex on canvas ing non-figurative painting. Halley 216 x 179 x 10 cm even extended his investigation from 5 painting to large installations. In his new The Stand-In works, Halley intensifies the importance 2019, Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic of light, emanating from colour and and Roll-A-Tex on canvas 4 space in painting. 201 x 144 x 10 cm www.galerie-thomas.de International 14.09.2019 > 29.12.2019 Art Exhibitions 2019 Opposite page Gordon Parks Self-Portrait 1941, Gelatin silver print The New Tide: Early Work 1940-50 Private Collection Amon Carter Museum of American Art Carter Museum of American Amon 1 5 1 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was an Paris Fashions American photographer, musician, 1949, Gelatin silver print writer and film director, who became National Gallery of Art, prominent in US documentary photo- Washington, Corcoran Collection journalism in the 1940s through 1970s – (The Gordon Parks Collection) particularly in issues of civil rights, 2 poverty and African-Americans – and in Charles White glamour photography. Gordon Parks in front of his mural ‘Chaos was part of what author Richard Wright of the American Negro’ called ‘the new tide’ of African-Americans 1941, Gelatin silver print who were pushing for respect and racial The Charles White Archives equality in the 1940s. ‘Gordon Parks: 3 The New Tide’, explores the early years Marva Trotter Louis, of his career as an influential photo- Chicago, Illinois grapher who captured the essence of 1941, Gelatin silver print the civil rights movement in addition to The Gordon Parks Foundation breaking barriers for African-Americans. 2 4 Washington DC From his fashion photographs to his Government charwoman thoughtful depictions of American life, July 1942, Gelatin silver print Parks used the camera as his tool for pro- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington Fort Worth Fort claiming the value of an American com- munity built on freedom and equality. 5 Grain Boat taking on Through some 150 photographs, as well a load of wheat, Port Arthur, as rare magazines, newspapers, pam- Ontario, Canada phlets and books, the exhibition offers October 1945, Gelatin silver print an expansive and intimate look at how George Eastman Museum this pioneering African-American artist became one of the most influential Courtesy of and copyright photographers of his day. 3 4 The Gordon Parks Foundation www.cartermuseum.org International 14.09.2019 > 12.01.2020 Art Exhibitions 2019 1 Rietveld Bow Gerrit Rietveld presents the Joost Swarte construction of his Beugel (bow) Chair to his family members. 5 Everywhere A print on the occasion its launch at Cassina, Milan 2018. Kunsthal Kunsthal 2 Piet Mondriaan Piet Mondriaan in his New York Studio, En toen De Stijl, 2017 Published by Griffioen Grafiek 3 Renaissance Man Illustration for The New Yorker, Rotterdam 17 January 2007 4 Book cover of An Independent Organ From a Collection of short stories ‘Men Without Women’ by Haruki Murakami, 2015 5 Joost Swarte Haarlem, 2014 Photo © Gert Jan Pos 6 1 2 6 Think Again Portrait of philosopher Rene Joost Swarte was born in Heemstede Descartes, an illustration for The in 1947. He studied Industrial Design New Yorker, 20 November 2006 in Eindhoven in the late 1960s, and 7 produced illustrations for local Eind- Books on Holiday hoven publications during that time. Cover of the summer issue of He first appeared in the spotlight as part Walrus magazine, 2009 of the alternative cartoon movement of 8 the 1970s. Halfway through the 1980s, Love Stories Swarte’s field of activity moved from Cover drawing for The New cartoon drawing to making illustrations Yorker, 2014 for magazines such as Humo, Vrij Nederland and The New Yorker. 7 All works © Joost Swarte He also designs posters, logos, stamps, In 1998, Joost Swarte won the Strip- This year, the Kunsthal Rotterdam pays furniture and buildings. Furthermore, schapprijs (Dutch Comic Award) for his homage to 50 years of Swarte’s work as Swarte is co-initiator of magazines such general contribution to cartoon draw- an illustrator, designer and architect – as Modern Papier and Scratches, of the ing and his entire body of work. In 2004 from his first cartoons, original drawings, ‘Stripdagen Haarlem’, the largest biennial Queen Beatrix appointed him as officer sketches, designs and objects to his cartoon festival in Europe, and of the of the Order of Orange-Nassau, and in most recent work. His search for iconic Hergé Museum in the Belgian city of 2012 Swarte won the Marten Toonder illustrations is also shown on the basis of 3 4 Louvain-la-Neuve. Award for his entire body of work. sketches that have never been exhibited. 8 www.kunsthal.nl International 14.09.2019 > 02.02.2020 Art Exhibitions 2019 Opposite page Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Dora Maar with Green Thomas Scheibitz Fingernails 1936, Oil on canvas 1 Sign | Scene | Lexicon 65 x 54 cm 1 Museum Berggruen Thomas Scheibitz was born in Radeberg Thomas Scheibitz near Dresden 1968. Heis one of few con- Hand temporary artists to work so diversely 2004, Oil, vinyl and pigment with variable elements and references markers on canvas derived equally from everyday life and 40 x 50 cm the pool of art history. His dense, often 2 brightly coloured paintings and Pablo Picasso schematic, often puristic sculptures can Violin be understood as montages of a freely 1912, Charcoal and pencil interpreted reality. The works manifest on paper themselves as complex caches of 63.5 x 48.5 cm images or objects into which everyday 3 visual culture has been inscribed and Thomas Scheibitz highly condensed by Scheibitz’s formal Festival vocabulary. Pablo Picasso and Cubism’s 2009, Oil, vinyl, pigment influence on the artist is unmistakable. 2 3 markers on canvas 235 x 170 cm Of all the great ‘isms’ of the 4 Berlin twentieth century, Cubism is the Pablo Picasso most radical and has remained the Houses on a Hill most influential.