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For nearly six decades, pioneering conceptual artist Charles Gaines has used systems to create series of works that mine the complex relationship between perception and meaning. This February, following a major 2023 – 24 museum survey and an acclaimed public commission, Gaines returns to his hometown of Los Angeles to present a new sequence of his signature Plexiglas works at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood—the most elaborate treatment yet of his ongoing Numbers and Trees series, first conceived by the artist in 1987. Consisting of nine large-scale triptychs and a suite of new watercolor diptychs, all works are based on photographs of baobab trees the artist shot during a trip to Tanzania in 2023.
La vie intime des artistes fondateurs de l'art moderne, du Montmartre de 1900 jusqu'à la Libération. Un ballet passionnant de destins croisés, superbement ressuscités par la peinture, l'illustration et l'animation. Premier volet : dans le Montmartre joyeux du début du XXe siècle, une troupe d’artistes (Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire...), vit la vie de bohème.
GALLERIA CONTINUA est heureuse de présenter Blursday, nouvelle exposition personnelle du duo d’artistes Ornaghi & Prestinari, dans son espace parisien au cœur du Marais. Le titre de l’exposition fait référence au néologisme anglais Blursday, créé pour décrire le désarroi temporel et émotionnel ressenti pendant les périodes de confinement liées à la pandémie de COVID-19, lorsque les jours de la semaine semblaient se fondre en une seule séquence indistincte. Pour Ornaghi & Prestinari, ce terme devient une métaphore d’une condition abstraite où le temps perd sa linéarité, dissolvant les frontières entre hier, aujourd’hui et demain, et donnant naissance à un état émotionnel flou et indéfini (blurred en anglais). Décontextualisé dans cette exposition, le terme illustre une atmosphère suspendue et un sentiment de désorientation qui imprègnent les œuvres.
Perrotin presents Clear History, a group exhibition of international artists curated by artist Oli Epp that stages a visual conversation between digital erasure and material permanence, authenticity and artifice, taboo and prestige.
Since the early 1970s, artist, activist, and scholar Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (b. 1951, Chicago, IL; lives and works in South Kent, CT) has made photographs that testify to the beauty and complexity of Black life, honoring the rhythms of the everyday and marking important rites of passage for the people who appear in them.
GALLERIA CONTINUA is delighted to present The Ability to Dream, a group exhibition in three chapters at its French spaces in Paris and Les Moulins, and at the Centre Interculturel Leila Alaoui (CILA) in Fontvieille, Provence, marking the inaugural exhibition of this new art centre. This new trilogy follows on from the eponymous exposition presented at GALLERIA CONTINUA / San Gimignano in 2022.
The Ability to Dream is the title of a documentary produced and directed by Sky Arte and TIWI, retracing thirty years of GALLERIA CONTINUA’s history, through the voices and memories of some of the protagonists of this incredible adventure.
Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Carrie Mae Weems featuring new work as well as highlights from several key series in the artist’s four-decade career. The exhibition continues Weems’s long exploration of questions about power, history, and identity. Two new photographs from Weems’s ongoing Museum Series depicting San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will be on view for the first time, shown with other selections from the project. Large-scale photographs from Painting the Town present boarded-up storefronts in Portland, Oregon following protests against the murder of George Floyd. Other works reference earlier moments in the struggle for racial justice, including scenes from Civil Rights protests in the 1960s. Weems will speak at FOG Design+Art on Saturday, January 25, at 5pm, followed by a conversation with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Director Christopher Bedford.
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 examines an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists—including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini—in defining Western painting. In the decades leading up to the catastrophic onset of the plague around 1350, Siena was the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity. While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance, this presentation offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Siena, from Duccio’s profound influence on a new generation of painters to the development of narrative altarpieces and the dissemination of artistic styles beyond Italy.
The exhibition Sculpture Nails at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais retraces Sylvie Fleury’s profound contribution to how we understand the sculptural medium. On the ground floor of the gallery, the Swiss artist presents a selection of sculptures – both historic pieces and new works seen here for the first time – spanning her career of more than 30 years. On the first floor, visitors will discover an immersive space illuminated only by the glow of the artist’s celebrated neon works.