Galerie Mighela Shama

Great article about ‘Doll House Blues’ by Audrey Guttman today in Tribune de Genève, written by Carole Kittner . Opening tonight at 6pm ✨

OPENING TOMORROW. We’re very much looking forward to welcoming you tomorrow to the opening reception of ‘Doll House Blues’ by Audrey Guttman.

DOLL HOUSE BLUES
it’s an empty house with geometric slits
through which the doll has split
inching her way out of a too-tight box
it’s a home made for seeing (not by me, you see)
it’s a sticky feeling— how do I look?
how does it feel — to hold — me? shesgotbeautyshesgotbrains
no more of those doll-like faces and busts and lips and empty eyes — vessels for Your Own Reflection™️
Play House Dress Starve F**k Marry Kill
s**t, I deviated - from the script
and I am always hungry, and I can’t feel a thing
they — the dolls - have remade us in their image
a parliament of plastic lines the hole in our souls
singing the blues - seeking a window
awake, steady, once beloved
watchful.

Poem by Audrey Guttman

Artwork

Audrey Guttman
Breathe
2023
Cyanotype on paper in altarpiece
22 x 24 cm

Dorian Büchi in his studio. We’re thrilled to announce« SELF-PORTRAITS, PORTRAIT AND STILL LIVES » will open on january 23rd on and will featuring a group of paintings by Swiss artist Dorian Büchi. The show explores the pursuit of purpose and balance in our lives, spanning from societal and political implications of rewilding nature to the intimate realms of angst, memories and death.

We’re very much looking forward to welcoming you next week to the opening reception of ‘DOLL HOUSE BLUES’ by Audrey Guttman! The show opens on January 18th at 6pm and will include cyanotype prints, collages, mixed media and sculptures. The solo exhibition marks the third collaboration between the artist and the gallery.
‘With Doll House Blues, Audrey Guttman offers an elaborate body of new work that keenly situates “the doll house” as a figurative site of intimacy and spectacle, ultimately dissecting the mechanisms of beauty and façade. Guttman wields blue cyanotype prints, collage, mixed media and sculpture to challenge our fractured performances of self—positioning “the doll house” as the metaphorical nucleus where these multiplicities converge. The show asks: How do we flee the confining “houses” of self, of performance, of scrutiny? It also considers the prospect of escape, wondering: How might we subvert those boundaries and smash their walls? ‘
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Audrey Guttman
Moi & mes seins, mon nombril, mes jambes
2023
Cyanotype on cotton
22 x 30 cm

We are so excited to be presenting a solo show of DAVID WEISHAAR entitled ‘Chemically Induced magic unfolds‘ for artgenève 2024 (Booth D39). This solo presentation will mark the fourth collaboration between the artist and the gallery.

Dates:
Opening: Janary 24th ( by invitation )
Public days : January 25th - January 28th.
at Palexpo Booth D39

Artworks:
David Weishaar
Fainting Spell
2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm

No particular order < Looking back at 2023 > 1. at her opening!
2. in action
3. article on solo show
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6. .m.west post opening bliss
7. .m.west jpg diner
8. pre hanging brainstorm
9. pre hanging brainstorm
10. Artist talk with .m.west and

ON VIEW: Chloe West, Still Life (Deer Skull), 2023, Oil on linen, 30.5 x 40.5 cm.

LAST WEEK: Chloe West solo exhibition ‘At Your Altar’ is closing next week.

Our freshly baked first ever exhibition catalogue is out! ´At Your Altar’ by Chloe West ! .m.west Thank you nabavi

ON VIEW: Chloe West, Pillar, 2023, Oil on linen, 81 x 61. Chloe West’s solo exhibition ‘At Your Altar’ runs until december 1st.

Reflecting on past and present invitations. since we moved to our current house location.
Graphic Design by .trzmielak @chamscreativeco ..

Audrey Guttman is part of “Greetings from”
along side among others at until december 22nd. We’re very excited to announce Audrey’s first solo show at the gallery will open on January 18th.

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View of our current show ‘At your Altar’ by Chloe West .m.west imsge by

Chloe West, Still Life (Cow Femur), 2023, Oil on linen, 30.5 x 40.5 cm.

´What is an altar? Technically it is a table used for ritual, offerings or worship. In Still Life (Cow Femur), Chloe West follows this definition—and Dutch still-life traditions—by literally rendering altars. Yet these altars are surreal: ornate animal bones perch atop lush, textiled platforms. Although these altars are distinctly be***al, their uncannily religious positionings embody holiness. Notably, West subverts memento mori by situating these bones as emblems of life instead of death ‘

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The exhibition ’At Your Altar’ is on view until dec 1st.

Image: Courtesy of Chloe West and GALERIE MIGHELA SHAMA. Photo by . Text by

‘The paintings remind us that we can venerate unexpected objects, we can find beauty in flesh and bone, we can carve oases in wastelands, and we can bow at the altar of art. We can have religious experiences without God. Likewise, one’s devotion to artistic practice can rival that of reverence for a higher power—whether that power rests atop an altar, among the soil, or inside the tenacious bristles of a paintbrush’

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Art works :

Chloe West
Deposed (Knees Bent)
2023
Oil on linen
214 x 122 cm

Image: Courtesy of Chloe West and GALERIE MIGHELA SHAMA. Photo by . Text by

Views and Images of ’At your Altar’ by Chloe West. .m.west. Open everyday. PM for APT.

‘For Chloe West paintings are altars and the act of painting is a divine gesture. Although not religious, West is devoted to the history of painting in theory and practice. West’s high regard for historical painting traditions buoys her devotion to creating works that can transcend time’

Art works :

Chloe West
Pillar
2023
Oil on linen
81 x 61 cm

Chloe West
Shell
2023
Oil on linen
81 x 61 cm

Image: Courtesy of Chloe West and GALERIE MIGHELA SHAMA. Photo by . Text by .m.west

ON VIEW: Chloe West, Still Life (Deer Jaw), 2023, Oil on linen, 30.5 x 40.5 cm. Chloe West’s solo exhibition ‘At Your Altar’ in on view until december 1st.

‘What is an altar? Technically it is a table used for ritual, offerings or worship. In Still Life (Cow Femur) , Still Life (Deer Jaw) and Still Life (Deer Skull) Chloe West follows this definition—and Dutch still-life traditions—by literally rendering altars. Yet these altars are surreal: ornate animal bones perch atop lush, textiled platforms. Although these altars are distinctly be***al, their uncannily religious positionings embody holiness. Notably, West subverts memento mori by situating these bones as emblems of life instead of death.

Image: Courtesy of Chloe West and GALERIE MIGHELA SHAMA. Photo by . Text by

ON VIEW: Chloe West ‘At Your Altar’.

Born and raised in Wyoming, “At your Altar” is Chloe West first European solo show. The exhibition displays a series of canvases that address, in the face of nature, the transient quality of our decaying fleshes and culture. Some argue that West’s work is at the forefront of a new genre echoing with a renaissance of the Vanitas tradition of the 16th and 17th century. Influenced by biblical imagery and by the Dutch Golden Age, yet resolutely feminine, West explores the residues of Western culture, one that has been imported by European settlers and cowboys, and whose relics have perpetuated in the far West of what has today become the United States of America.

Artwork on display:
Chloe West
Bull Horn Bind
2023
Oil on linen
180 x 150 cm

Image: Courtesy of Chloe West and GALERIE MIGHELA SHAMA. Photo by . Text by

‘West’s high regard for historical painting traditions buoys her devotion to creating works that can transcend time. Mother Cabrini, in which the saint’s hazed remains sport a serene façade, is influenced by West’s visits to New York’s St. Frances Cabrini shrine. With this, West spotlights the sacred intimacy of death, unveiling yet another dichotomy.

As a whole, At Your Altar is a collection of dichotomies. Visceral, pastoral and timeless, the paintings weave the aesthetics of religious iconography and the Western terrain to provoke deep reflection on what it means to live, to die and to worship’ Text by

Chloe West solo show ‘At Your Altar’ opens on this thursday from 6pm. Don’t miss the conversation with the artist and Malka Gouzer which starts at 7pm. .m.west

Chloe West
Mother Cabrini
2023
Oil on linen
40.5 x 51 cm

Charles Hascoet is on view at LE Musée Picasso in Paris as part of the exhibition ´A toi de faire, ma mignonne’ by Sophie Calle

Congrats to Madelynn Green! ‘4 or 5 am’ is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto! . The exhibition ’Dancing in the Light’ runs until February 4th 2024 and all of the works are from the

“Dancing in the Light examines portraiture across a variety of mediums as a way of entering into a more nuanced consideration of contemporary Black life. Rethinking moments of stillness and vulnerability as instances of strength, the exhibition works against flattened and commodified images of a Blackness so often experience within art history and popular visual culture.” Huge thanks to curators and Farida Abu-Bakare.

🐚Shell by Chloe West will be part of her solo exhibition ‘At Your Altar’ which is opening on october 5th at the gallery. The opening will include a Conversation with Chloe West and Malka Gouzer starting at 7pm.

‘For Chloe West paintings are altars and the act of painting is a divine gesture. Although not religious, West is devoted to the history of painting in theory and practice. West’s high regard for historical painting traditions buoys her devotion to creating works that can transcend time’ text by Leila Renee.

Select works for At Your Altar were made during West’s seven-week residency with the gallery in Geneva.

Shell
oil on linen
81 x 71 cm

Geneva is the place to be. Samourai visiting Chloe West studio. ´At your altar’ is due to open on october 5th. .m.west

Studio visit .m.west 🔜Solo show opens on October 5th! This exhibition will mark our third collaboration with Chloe. 💥

Chloe West (B. 1993, Wyoming ) is an American artist based in St. Louis, MO. Continually inspired by European art from the Medieval and Renaissance eras, Chloe’s work is in dialogue with several tropes of the era, specifically vanitas painting and depictions of the n**e figure. The artist is continuously engrossed by the history of representation, symbolism, and functions of the gaze as it relates to the human form.

‘Pool' by Chloe West is currently being exhibited at in East Hampton as part of the group show 'Poetics of Falsification'. Chloe's solo show will open on october 4th

Views and detail of our current show ‘Over-simulation’ by Richard Burton. The nine works on display represent a culmination of his time spent in the residency.
It takes immense dedication and passion to create such a stunning body of work, and I am in awe of Richard Burton's ability to channel his creativity into something so profound. Thank you Richard! The show runs until march 10th.
Richard Burton
Elevate
2023
Distemper and oil on linen
70 x 110 cm

Richard Burton
Pale King
2023
Oil and sand on linen
50 x 60 cm

Richard Burton
Mono
2023
Oil and sand on linen
66 x 76 cm

Richard Burton
Poly
2022
Oil and sand on canvas
120 x 110 cm

Richard Burton is preoccupied with the notion of work in our contemporary societies. He is presently reading Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra & Simulation, which seems very relevant to his current paintings. The map, namely the representation we ascribe to a given phenomenon, potentially precedes, if not annihilates, our perception of reality.
Adept of worldbuilding (creation of fictional worlds), Burton continuously questions the border, not to say the fracture that separates the image from its representation. How can one differentiate the real from its copy? What balance is to be found between the signified and the signifier? And more importantly, what remains to be said and to be shown when everything has been exhaustively repeated and replicated?
Extracting oneself from an overly saturated world without sinking into alienation is one of the assumed quests of this gifted artist. The singularity he underlines is nestled within the excessive repetition of the banal. What he obsessively seeks is the vanishing point, the element that strikes beyond dissolution. trxt by photo
Richard Burton
Sur
2022
Distemper and oil on linen

Our favorite Yoora Lee ✨’A Winter story’, ‘Letter of no return’ and ‘Flow in the wind’ shown at artgeneve last month along side Richard Burton, Chloe West, David Weishaar, Audrey Guttman, Charles Hascoet and Leonardo Meoni. installation view by

Yoora Lee
A Winted story
2023
Oil on linen
81 cm x 106

Yoora Lee
Flow in The Wind
2023
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm

Yoora Lee
Letter of No Return
2023
Oil on canvas
51 x 46 cm

View and details of our current show ‘Over-Simulation’ by Richard Burton. The show runs until march 10th. Richard Burton’s work is an enigma. A number Pi which declines to infinity, which turns, ruminates, erases and replays. His canvases are capsules, scenographies frozen in a dimension that is no longer ours. They evoke an abrupt pause, the death of an image which nevertheless continues to accelerate. Where are we? Who are the ghosts that appear and disappear from one painting to the next?
Burton certainly masters his technique. Sensitive to each layer and texture detail, Burton partly acquired his skills by studying the old masters. Today he privileges oil paint with a manifest attraction for magenta and other synthetic colours, which lead us away from earthy tonalities. By listening, following, and interacting with its codes and signs, one can discover keys and clues which in turn enable escape to an elsewhere. text by

Richard Burton
Crossing
2023
Oil and sand on canvas
40 x 35 cm

Richard Burton
Pale King
2023
Oil and sand on linen
50 x 60 cm

🪡‘Seam’ by Chloe West is part of a group show intitled ‘Ripe’ which is opening next week in LA .m.west . Start running…

Seam
2023
20 x 16 inch
oil on linen