Chris Sharp
Vittorio Brodmann
Leslie Fritz
May 2013
The thirteen paintings in Vittorio Brodmann’s latest exhibition—with their cast of mutant and misbegotten grotesques, drooping visages, and a swirling, variegated palette—could be described as Sunday comic strips dipped, so to speak, … READ ON
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Cécile Bart
Galería Desiré Saint Phalle
May 2013
Cécile Bart’s “Interferencias” (Interferences) offers a seductive spin on post-painterly abstraction. For her first exhibition in Mexico City, the French artist presents a series of in situ wall paintings overlaid and interspersed with… READ ON
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Grazer Kunstverein
April 2013
Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s Touch Sanitation, 1977–80, is an unparalleled colossus of artistic ambition. For this epic undertaking, Ukeles systematically and personally shook the hand of each of New York City’s 8,600 sanitation workers, … READ ON
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“Algunas Lagunas”
Proyecto Paralelo
March 2013
Those alarmed by the narrowing gap between curatorial and artistic agency can perhaps rest assured that artists can still get away with murder, at least where curating is concerned. For what would most likely get a curator summarily skewered… READ ON
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Guy de Cointet
Jumex Foundation
February 2013
A potential game changer, this solo survey of Guy de Cointet presents a rare opportunity to comprehensively consider the French artist’s graphic production. Active in the Los Angeles art scene during the 1970s and early ’80s, de Cointet,… READ ON
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Giorgio Griffa
Casey Kaplan
January 2013
“Fragments 1968–2012” traverses the past four decades of the Turin-based Italian artist Giorgio Griffa’s winsomely delicate production as a painter. And while changes in terms of content can be descried throughout the fifteen paintings… READ ON
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“Les Possédé(e)s”
Triangle France
May 2012
The conceit of this motley group show is pretty elusive: to present works that may or may not transmit their authors’ intentions, of which said authors, incidentally, may or may not themselves be aware (hence the title: “The Possessed… READ ON
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“Casting Glances in All Directions”
Supplement
April 2012
The first work one encounters upon entering this group exhibition, by literally stepping on it just inside the door, is Philomene Pirecki’s Untitled (The belated fulfillment of a dream about which I should by then have ceased to care), … READ ON
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“Déplacer Déplier Découvrir: La Peinture en actes, 1960/1999”
Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne (LAM)
April 2012
Curated by Marc Donnadieu, this scholarly exhibition presents specific bodies of work by five historically disparate painters—Simon Hantaï, Martin Barré, Marc Devade, Jean Degottex, and Michel Parmentier—who were nonetheless linked … READ ON