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Julião Sarmento
STRIP CLUB – SOLO SHOW
From February 26 to May 31, 2021
Janela “Taffimai”, Calçada Castelo Picao, 32, Lisboa
For the new Janela edition, “Taffimai” invited artist Julião Sarmento to intervene with the neon installation Strip Club, which occupies most of the Janela’s area. Strip Club ironically promises to transform the plant store Limbo Shop into a striptease club, inviting whoever passes by the Janela to come inside. As the store is closed by law, the artist’s invitation reveals itself as a provocation, the ultimate game of seduction. This edition of Janela is not just one more game we came to get used to in Julião Sarmento’s work, but it is mostly a reminder that we, in fact cannot come in, cannot enjoy, cannot participate in all of what Lisbon’s streets have to offer.
Julião Sarmento
JAPANESE TRAFFIC YELLOW TIDE – SOLO EXHIBITION
From February 15 to April 23, 2021
CCA Gallery, 2-5 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Japan
Julião Sarmento presents his solo exhibition “Japanese Traffic Yellow Tide” at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan : “Standing alone in the exact center of the room, the one defined by the crossing of both diagonals on the floor, I imagine a colour. Not just any colour but one which can transport me to unknown pleasures and places of delight. A colour connected to freedom and self-improvement. A colour I particularly fancy and often use in my work. A colour that sets my good mood in. A colour like the colour of New York City cabs. Traffic Yellow. RAL 1023. I then imagine how many gallons of paint would it be necessary to fill up the room I’m standing in, up to the tip of my head, shy only of my scalp, with me inside, in the center, completely still. To fill up the room with paint up to 186 cm which is my height, shy only of the hairs on top of my head. Like an immense yellow tide. I imagine a room as a sink, with a hole in the bottom through which the paint disappears once the room is filled the way I imagined. And then the result. A yellow room completely covered in yellow paint up to a quota of 186 cm. A simple equation. A simpler gesture ? ”- Julião Sarmento
Jean-Michel Alberola
EX AFRICA. PRÉSENCES AFRICAINES DANS L’ART D’AUJOURD’HUI – GROUP SHOW
From February 9 to July 11, 2021
Galerie Jardin, musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, 37 quai Branly, 75007 Paris
In an unprecedented visual dialogue, the Ex Africa exhibition brings together more than 150 works by contemporary artists of all generations and origins to decipher the relationships that unite the current scene and ancient African arts since the end of the 20th century.
Billie Zangewa
THE POWER OF MY HANDS, AFRIQUE(S) : ARTISTES FEMMES – GROUP SHOW
From January 22 to May 30, 2021
Musée d’Art Moderne, 11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris
As part of the Saison Africa2020, Suzana Sousa, independent curator based in Luanda, Angola and Odile Burluraux, curator at the au Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, bring together at MAM a set of works by sixteen female artists from several English-speaking African countries, and Portuguese speakers, or from the diaspora, offering a glimpse of a contemporary African art scene little presented in France. The Power of My Hands, through the creations presented – painting, pottery, photography, video, performance, embroidery etc. – takes into account the capacity of the artists to approach, starting from their personal histories, the social questions which determine the female condition.
Chiharu Shiota
LIFELINES – SOLO SHOW
From January 13, 2021 to April 19, 2021
CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
Chiharu Shiota’s body of work is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition Linhas da Vida (Lifelines), on view this fall at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – São Paulo.
The exhibition presents seminal works by the artist, including The Key in the Hand (2015) and the brand new work Além da Memória (2019), inspired by the diversity of the Brazilian people and the historical architecture of the CCBB-SP.
Chiharu Shiota
LINHAS DA VIDA – SOLO SHOW
From January 13rd to April 19th, 2021
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro, R. Primeiro de Março, 66 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Rio de Janeiro is the last location of the touring exhibition of Chiharu Shiota “Linhas da Vida”, that has been traveling since beginning of 2020 through Brazil. It is the first extensive solo exhibition presented in the country, showing works spanning over 25 years of artistic career. The exhibition includes the site-specific installations “Beyond Memory”, “Two Boats, One Direction” and “Internal Line”.
Iván Navarro
RIO DE SANGRE – INSTALLATION
Santiago, Chile
From 12 january 2021
“Río de sangre” is an installation created by Ivan Navarro, located on the banks of the Mapocho river in Chile. Made up of an iron tower connected to one of the river’s pathways through a bridge, it creates a peaceful place for meditation in the midst of the urban jungle. Visitors can walk it up, one at a time, and are given a map of Santiago with the streets renamed after various parts of the human body. The installation is an homage to the Desaparecidos, the victims of the dictatorship thrown in the river before and after the Pinochet era.
Iván Navarro
PLANETARIUM – SOLO SHOW
From January 9, 2021 to February 28, 2021
Le 104, 5 Rue Curial, 75019 Paris
With this new solo exhibition, Planetarium, displayed at Centquatre, Iván Navarro created an immersive journey through constellation of videos, sculptures, and other luminous and sonorous objects. Celestial bodies and terrestrials ones are confounded for a better understanding of power, at a time of metaphysics obsessions, such as identity and memory.
Prune Nourry
L’AMAZONE ÉROGÈNE – SOLO SHOW
From January 9 to February 21, 2021
Le Bon Marché , 24 rue de Sèvres, 75007 Paris
In January and February 2021, Prune Nourry invests the vast spaces of the Bon Marché Rive Gauche with a set of works created specifically for this carte blanche and thought in relation to the unique architecture of the place. The installation L’Amazone Érogène extends the Catharsis series in which the figure of the Amazon appeared by allowing the artist to experiment an unprecedented scale, thanks in particular to the vast volumes offered by the department store.
Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY, GO – PERMANENTE INSTALLATION
The Moynihan Train Hall, Penn Station, New York
From January 1, 2021
The new Moynihan train hall (New York, USA) features three ambitious site-specific permanent installations by artists Kehinde Wiley, Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset. On view on the 33rd Street mid-block entryway ceiling, Wiley’s site-specific installation Go (2020), covers the ceiling of the train hall’s with a backlit, hand-painted, stained-glass triptych that recalls the grandeur of decorative Renaissance and Baroque painting.
David LaChapelle
“THIERRY MUGLER: COUTURISSIME” – GROUP SHOW
Until April 18, 2021
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Theatinerstrasse 8, Munich, Germany
The exhibition “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime” presents 150 haute-couture and prêt-à-porter outfits by a visionary couturier, director, photographer, perfumer and dancer – almost none of which have ever been exhibited – in addition to accessories, stage costumes, videos, rarely seen sketches, and archival material. Numerous art prints by leading fashion photographers, from Helmut Newton to David LaChapelle, round out the show.
Valerio Adami
FIGUREZ-VOUS… ADAMI, ERRO, GUYOMARD, KLASEN – GROUP SHOW
From December 12, 2020 to March 7, 2021,Palais des Arts et du Festival, 2 Boulevard Wilson, 35800 Dinard, France
The exhibition is dedicated to the artistic movement of Narrative Figuration. It brings together four masters of contemporary art, Adami, Erró, Guyomard and Klasen, whose works are preserved in hundreds of museums around the world and by great collectors.
Chiharu Shiota
CHIHARU SHIOTA: THE WEB OF TIME – SOLO SHOW
Starting December 12, 2020
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
The web of time, an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, is part of Te Papa’s permanent collection. This installation creates a vision of a night sky studded with constellations of numbers representing significant dates in history, both collective and personal.
ROBIN KID
THE KID : THE FUTURE IS OLD – SOLO SHOW
Opening November 19, 2020
Moco Museum, Honthorststraat 20 (Museumplein), 1071 DE Amsterdam
MOCO Museum in Amsterdam will premiere the first solo exhibition in a Dutch museum of International contemporary artist THE KID. The exhibition will focus at looking where contemporary art enlightens humanism in the social crisis and democratic decay of our 21st century. It will push boundaries, wake up humanity and shake up Museum Square in Amsterdam. I Saw The Sun Begin To Dim, 2018-2019 by THE KID on MOCO Museum ©THE KID
Julião Sarmento
ESTUDOS DE LUZ – INDÍCIOS, REFLEXOS E SOMBRAS NA COLEÇÃO DE SERRALVES – GROUP SHOW
From November 19, 2020 to January 17, 2021
Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes, Vila Nova de Gaia, Rua D. João de Castro, 210, 4150-417 Porto Portugal
The exhibition presents the work of several artists taking part of the Coleção de Serralves which explores the different potentialities of light. The artists represented in “Estudos de Luz” manage, whatever the variety of means, materials and processes, to put their research at the service of the visual representation of light.
Julião Sarmento
MAIS NADA SE MOVE EN CIMA DO PAPEL – GROUP SHOW
From November 14, 2020 to April 21, 2021
CAA Centro de Artes de Águeda, Rua Joaquim Valente Almeida, nº 30, 3750-154 Águeda, Portugal
Framed in the cycle O Desenho como Pensamento do CAA – Centro de Artes de Águeda, the exhibition takes up the first line of a poem by Al Berto for its title and brings together works by artists who over the years have worked on drawing as an undisciplined register, sometimes transversal to their practices.The works on display show that the drawing is not very tangible, comparable to a thought, gaining body and acquiring sculptural, sound, atmospheric and spatial formulations.
Jan Fabre
“L’HOMME GRIS” – GROUP SHOW
Casino Luxembourg, 41 Rue Notre Dame, 2240 Luxembourg
Until June 6, 2021
The exhibition L’homme gris explores non-archetypal representations of the Devil in contemporary art. Far from disappearing, his image has simply mutated, showing again his fascinating ability to adapt which has allowed him to pass through art history – and mankind – unabated. While the way in which he slips away, transforms, infiltrates allows him to claim an all-the-more dangerous, powerful, or liberating position, it offers artists two possible paths to explore. Their choice sways between the empty shell, the costume to don, the pure image, and an elusive and constant metamorphosis. This exciting alternative evokes, or perhaps, invokes, reflective illusions or the use of anonymity as strategic weapons; reveals the evil internalisation in man, and his unbearable banality; questions the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, disguise and mass; and aspires to rekindle a dark flamboyance. Creation leans, therefore, to span philosophical, economic, political, aesthetic, and moral fields.
Chiharu Shiota
SLEEPING: LIFE WITH ART – FROM GOYA AND RUBENS TO CHIHARU SHIOTA – GROUP SHOW
From November 25, 2020 to February 23, 2021
The National Museum of Modern Art, 3-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322, Japan
The exhibition presents about 120 works by 33 artists from many different times and places, and a wide range of genres, including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, and video. The spectator is invited to question the way in which each work highlights the theme of sleeping.
Abdelkader Benchamma
Jim Dine
Jan Fabre
INAUGURATION DE LA FONDATION HELENIS GGL – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION HELENIS GGL, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
Inauguration - November 2020
For its inauguration, the Helenis GGL Foundation in Montpellier is hosting four personalities from the contemporary art world: Abdelkader Benchamma, Jim Dine, Jan Fabre and Marlène Mocquet. Each of the four artists will present an artwork for the event – which will open the season in what aims to become one of the city’s major cultural centres.
Julião Sarmento
O PEQUENO MUNDO – GROUP SHOW
From November 1st, 2020 to February 21, 2021
Museum of Contemporary Art Nadir Afonso, Av. 5 de Outubro, 105400-017 Chaves, Portugal
O pequeno mundo is a group exhibition that brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and photographs by 24 Portuguese artists, including many of the major figures from the Portuguese art scene. This exhibition evokes one of the most distinctive features of artistic practice: the possibility or vocation, to create peculiar, in-between or parallel worlds, that question the realities in which we live.
