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Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW – FLEURS !
Philippe Cognée - Fleurs !
La Fabrique - Centre d'art, Montreuil
Through June 20, 2022
Here, the flower topic seems to reconnect with the fundamentals of painting, evoking traditional Flemish still life bouquets as well as Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe. Through this process, however, Philippe Cognée is also confronting the fundamentals of his own practise. His proliferating flowers echo a nature full of magic and mystery, as fragile as it is indomitable. They act as the “memento mori” haunting many of his past series such as those dedicated to recycling factories (2005), vanities (2006) and slaughterhouses (2008).
Oda Jaune
GROUP SHOW – UNCANNY DEPTHS
Oda Jaune - Uncanny depths
MAMO, Cité Radieuse de Marseille
Through June 12, 2022
“Uncanny depths” proposes a historical walk and a reflection on time, around the notion of antiquity value theorized by Alois Riegl. Taking place in the MAMO, the former gymnasium of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, conceived as an inverted ship’s hull, the exhibition takes the form of a baroque, undulating and archaeological fantasy, a resurgence of the myth of Atlantis and of the most mysterious and disturbing incarnations of the forces of time.
Julião Sarmento
SOLO SHOW – ABSTRACTO, BRANCO, TÓXICO E VOLÁTIL
Julião Sarmento - Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil
Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
From May 12, 2022 to January 1st, 2023
Bringing together a significant set of works that marked his career, th selection presented here is the fruit of a close collaboration between the late artist and the curator Catherine David. A title of one of his 1997 works, “Abstracto, Branco, Tóxico e Volátil” is the first major exhibition of Julião Sarmento since his passing.
Kehinde Wiley
VENICE BIENNALE – AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE
Kehinde Wiley - An Archaeology of Silence
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Italy
From April 23 to July 24, 2022
Curated by Christophe Leribault, the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence is hosted at Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the occasion of the 59th Biennale di Venezia. For this new body of work, Wiley has expanded these core thematic elements to meditate on the deaths of young Black men slain all over the world. Technology allows viewers to witness these graphic depictions of violence against the Black body that were once silenced. Wiley states, “That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.” In light of the current global conflicts, language concerning power struggles and inalienable human rights are more critical than ever.
David LaChapelle
SOLO SHOW – I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES
David LaChapelle - I Believe in Miracles
MUDEC, Italy
Through September 11, 2022
With a new project, the MUDEC is offering an exhibition based on a critical look at the human soul, explored in its folds of pain, solitude, joys, passions and ideals. Man and his relationship to himself, man in his environment and in human society, man in Nature.
Jean-Michel Alberola
SOLO SHOW – HERMÈS BABY
Jean-Michel Alberola - Hermès Baby
Passage Sainte-Croix, Nantes
From April 12 to June 11, 2022
Combining visual arts and poetry, Jean-Michel Alberola presents a series of works, some of which are specially created for the Passage Sainte-Croix, notably two imposing wall paintings.Some thirty drawings and gouaches take up extracts from the texts of the Beat Generation and are inspired by their cut-up technique by randomly assembling fragments of poetry, colours and thoughts of the artist.
Jeanne Vicerial
GROUP SHOW – LA FIN EST DANS LE COMMENCEMENT ET CEPENDANT ON CONTINUE
Jeanne Vicerial - La Fin est dans le commencement et cependant on continue
Fondation d’entreprise Martell, Cognac
From April 7 to November 6, 2022
This multi-sensory project approaches the human being as a tool of perception and a tracer of possibilities. Based on our natural perceptions represented by the 5 senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste – the invited personalities from various disciplines reveal their perception of these senses by making it a rule not to stop at a specific medium: they are designers, visual artists, light designers, sound artists, textile designers, dancers and botanists.
Norbert Bisky
SOLO SHOW – MIRROR SOCIETY
Norbert Bisky - Mirror Society
SCAD Museum of Art, United States
Through August 1st, 2022
In Mirror Society, the artist presents a series of recent works uniquely collaged with canvas from previous paintings that has been slashed and reapplied to a mirrored surface. These composite arrangements deconstruct the figure into fragments of torsos, limbs, and faces violently intersecting with abstracted bursts of saturated color and the mirror’s fractal reflections. The viewer is confronted with half-hidden, half-bared images of beautiful youth as well as their own gaze, trapped in a voyeuristic feedback loop. With these works, Bisky comments on the narcissism of a society deeply engaged in the production and consumption of a dizzying onslaught of images in viral media, ambivalent to the violence and turmoil of global events.
Omar Ba
SOLO SHOW – FOCUS
Omar Ba - Focus
Fine Arts Museum, Belgium
From April 1st to August 7, 2022
Omar Ba’s work is characterized by its enigmatic nature and its great poetic intensity. In contrast with a didactic narrative, he rather seeks to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of reality. The artist deals with themes such as chaos, destruction, and dictatorship, draping his political discourse in a veil of poetry through a pictorial language that is entirely his own, both fierce and delicate.
Claude Viallat
SOLO SHOW – LIBERTAD DE COLORES
Claude Viallat - Libertad de Colores
MACBA, Buenos Aires
From March 4 to June 12, 2022
This exhibition brings together the most representative works of his oeuvre, which, grouped by theme, pay homage to one of the most important contemporary colourists, whose abstract pictorial syntax is constantly being renewed while still identifiable among all the others through its serial imprints, its materiality, the nature of its support, its manufacture, the surface treatment and its presentation. A prolific and demanding artist, Claude Viallat, who was one of the founders of the Supports-Surfaces movement created in 1970, has been creating for more than 60 years a universe that explodes with colours, leaving traces of his universal poetry in space and time.
