Calder has undoubtedly left a permanent mark within the history of contemporary art. By introducing movement into the sculptural medium, the artist has given a temporal dimension to his work. As the wires in the works by Calder are not welded, the sculptures are allowed to move within their limits and according to the surrounding draft of air. The constant movement or the momentary stillness of the pieces characterise them with constant change, appearing different to every viewer. Calder: Sculpting time is displayed at Lugano’s cultural centre, Lugano Arte e Cultura (LAC) within the allocated museum section, Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana (MASI), Switzerland, and presents a solo exhibition by the artist. Composed entirely by sculptural masterpieces, the large museum space allows the works to create a dialogue amongst each other, whilst still being viewable singularly to the viewer.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection museum is one of the most significant institutions dedicated to twentieth century European and American art. Located in Venice, Italy, the collection is displayed across the outside sculpture garden through to the terrace and inside the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, also the former residence of the acclaimed collector herself, Peggy Guggenheim. The collection presents a vast assortment of international movements and artists, amongst which Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters, constructing the Dada Movement.
Gazelli Art House presents Montage, a group exhibition featuring works created in a diverse range of mediums by Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lilly Fenichel, Perle Fine, Betty Parsons, Sonia Sekula, Yvonne Thomas and Michael (Corinne) West. The exhibition displays an examination of abstract expressionist works created in the artists’ secondary mediums. The non-canvas works spotlight the female interaction with the Post-war artistic developments, such as the European application of abstract expressionism, them influencing the American elaboration of the practice.
Actively producing works, RAFKA is an emerging Swiss artist, living and working in Zürich, one of the most prevalent cultural centres of Switzerland. The artist has found his creative passion through the array of colours and vivid pigments available on the market to handle and combine. The use of colour in RAFKA’s paintings is unique, still evolving across developed studies and current experimentation in the artist’s short career. The combination of vibrant tones with a metallic sheen, instates a unique watermark on the artists developing style. Solo show Interference, exhibited at IMAGO Gallery, directly delves into the artists creative production. The exhibition occupies the entirety of the exhibition space, allowing the emerging Swiss artist the opportunity to showcase different periods of his work across different studies of colour and texture.
Still is a solo show by American artist Dan Walsh. Exhibited at Galerie Tschudi in Zürich, Switzerland, the display of works delves into the roots of abstraction through meditative geometry and human contemplation. Across the gallery’s white wall space, the collection of patterned works generates a dialogue between the monochromatic and bright colour qualities in the disposition of the hung works. Completing the display Walsh’s Artist Books unveil his creative process and introspective originality.
Almine Rech Gallery presents TUK, Roby Dwi Antono’s recent body of works, created following the birth of his firstborn daughter, Laut in July of 2023. The collection of recently completed works is heavily influenced by the nuances and challenges of fatherhood. Encouraged by a shift in his life, the artist has developed a new expression, emphasising a rougher approach to painting. The artist's hyper-realistic method of portrayal has evolved into a mere and emotional gesture of colour on the canvas. The exhibition captures the new works, highlighting the ever-changing lived tensions across dynamic gestures and vivid colours scattered by the articulation of Antono’s raw emotions.
Displayed at the Ringling Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art in Sarasota, Florida, the collection of carefully selected and significant works from the mid 1950s to the late 1990s, gifted from Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Bring, explore the dialectical relationship between painting and sculpture present within the display. Pertaining to different artistic movements, currents and executed in a wide range of mediums, the artworks included in the collection explores the premise of spirituality and nature across the application of colour, light, and space.
Presenting a new body of work, Christine Ay Tjoe investigates the needs and molecular conditions of people, as well as the connections between individuals and the natural world across mathematical fractions. Exhibited at White Cube, Mason’s Yard in London, Lesser Numerator occupies the entire white wall space, presenting an abstract collection of oil paintings in the artist’s trademark expressionist gestural style. Ay Tjoe examines the persistence of philosophical dichotomies – individual and societal, peace and chaos, light and dark, good and evil – through her creative process, which exposes their unequivocal unity.
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