ArtReview

Announcing the ArtReview September 2024 issue, out now. Get your copy and subscribe: https://lnkd.in/eV65ZGXx For good or ill, the world is an interconnected place. The September issue of ArtReview explores some of the routes and channels – historic, personal, economic, ecological – that make up this unbalanced network, through the work of artists and thinkers who reflect on a global reality, and how we got to where we are. If the museum is a place both of remembering and repression, its relationship to historical facts is always unstable. But as Izabella Scott asks in her essay, can there be history without facts? Surveying the works of artists such as Mercedes Azpilicueta, Shannon Alonzo and Dalton Paula (Paula’s painting Zeferina, 2018, appears on this month’s cover), Scott examines how artists deploy forms of fiction to rework and augment the often fragmented and biased historical records, to recreate the possible lives of queer, Indigenous and colonised subjects otherwise lost, to ‘create a missing ancestry by recovering forgotten lives’. The political theorist and historian Françoise Vergès, meanwhile, has pursued a decades-long campaign to excavate the forgotten history of France’s postcolonial politics. In a new book, she turns her attention to the controversies that rage over the politics of Western museums. Talking to Sarah Jilani, Vergès explores the problems that come from demanding the museum’s reform while leaving its underlying structures unchanged. “When people in power understand that a certain form of inclusion does not threaten them,” she tells Jilani, “they are ready for it. So we must acknowledge that recognition is not the end of the fight.” Elsewhere in the issue, London-based duo Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen talk to Chris Fite-Wassilak about how their complex, ironic work loops global supply chains back onto themselves, revealing the human and social histories of commodities and materials. There are reviews of Pacita Abad, Otobong Nkanga, Minoru Nomata, and many more. Plus, a new series of one-off comic commissions continues with a cryptic encounter with an Elven lord, by Joseph Kelley. Get your copy and subscribe: https://lnkd.in/eV65ZGXx

This new series, Eternal Returns, seeks to republish (and annotate) key texts that have influenced art and the thinking around art https://lnkd.in/eDixp95R

‘I Love Ancient Baby’ by Jala Wahid delves into the idea that time and feelings are cyclical, passed down through generations and embodied in the artefacts we find. Stream now: https://lnkd.in/eQHsPrqX

Dana-Fiona Armour has won the 2024 Sigg Art Prize https://lnkd.in/e3A5fUJ6

Security guard workers at London’s Science and Natural History museums have voted to strike this half term https://lnkd.in/erh-SEzk

From our networks: ALMINE RECH London is pleased to present ‘Unwind’, an exhibition of the South Korean artist Guimi You. The artist's new paintings will be on view from 7 October through 9 November 2024.   Trained in traditional Korean painting as well as oil painting, Guimi You (b. 1985, Seoul) has developed a unique style that merges both traditions. Her works stand out for their richness and luminosity, celebrating the beauty of natural environments while capturing the peacefulness of everyday life. In her new paintings, the artist brings enigmatic figures into the background, creating intimate and playful scenes. The vivid color palette and lush vegetation immerse the viewer in a world where dreams and reality seamlessly intertwine. – Text by Milena Oldfield Find out more: https://lnkd.in/egdYdAw3   Portrait of Guimi You, 2024. Photo: Guimi You Studio. © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Guimi You, Emerald Garden, 2024, oil on linen, 188 x 152 cm. Photo: Melissa Castro Duarte   #GuimiYoui #Unwind #AlmineRechLondon #AlmineRech #London

This new series republishes key art historical texts: Gombrich explores art history’s stylistic categories and their origins in Renaissance ideals, while ArtReview annotates his thinking in light of current debates on representation and decolonisation https://lnkd.in/eDixp95R

Two Youth Demand activists have pasted a photograph of a mother and child in Gaza over the 1901 painting Motherhood (La Maternité) by Pablo Picasso https://lnkd.in/efyn3TcC

From 2016: The two friends catch up on the occasion of their having almost simultaneous solo institutional exhibitions in Seoul https://lnkd.in/eq2xa9DP

From our networks: Pace Gallery is pleased to announce the details of its presentation for the 2024 editions of Frieze London and Frieze Sculpture. Featuring paintings, sculptures, installations, textiles, and photographs, Pace's booth (D21) at Frieze London will highlight contemporary artists from its upcoming exhibition program at its London gallery. Pace will return to Frieze London with works by artists including Acaye Kerunen, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Sonia Gomes, William Monk, Arlene Shechet, Mika Tajima, and Hank Willis Thomas, each of whom will hold solo exhibitions at the gallery's Hanover Square location throughout 2024 and 2025. The booth will also feature new works by Genesis Belanger and Robert Longo, coinciding with their exhibitions at Pace in London. Nigel Cooke, Keith Coventry, Kevin Francis Gray, and Pam Evelyn, London-based artists, will be represented at the fair with paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.  Additionally, the gallery will showcase a sculpture and a mixed media work by Alicia Kwade, alongside paintings by Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, Latifa Echakhch, and Marina Perez Simäo. Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who are represented at the fair by a new marble sculpture, will open L 'Addition in the Musée d'Orsay's iconic sculpture nave on October 15. Next year, Emily Kam Kngwarray will be the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern, and Yoshitomo Nara will present a survey exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. A new painting by Adam Pendleton will also be included in the booth ahead of his show at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, next spring. A painting by Paulina Olowska will also be featured on Pace's booth. Following Frieze London, Olowska will present a curated booth for the gallery at Art Basel Paris, exploring occultic themes in the works of Louise Nevelson, Lucas Samaras, and Kiki Smith. Preview the rest of the gallery’s program online: https://lnkd.in/eJKrNJm2