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Jonas Burgert 'Sinn frisst' opens 16 February at .
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For this monumental solo exhibition of his work, the artist has created seven new monumental paintings and a series of sculptures. They will be presented alongside smaller works in the newly built exhibition space at the Arp Museum, designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier.
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A publication (German/English) will be produced as an accompaniment to the exhibition.
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Pictured: Detail 'Russmoos' (2020) Photo: Lepkowski Studios
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The many faces of Blain|Southern ✔
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Pictured: Top L, Jonas Burgert, 'ein Mut', 2017 | Top R, Enrique Martinez Celaya, 'The Happy Lot', 2019 | Bottom L, Frank Thiel, 'Llilian Samantha Vidal Diepa, La Habana, Boyeros, Wajay, Abel Santamaría', 2015 | Bottom R, 'Outstretched n**e woman', 1989
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Art in action! Throwing it back to the install of Tim Noble and Sue Webster at Blain|Southern London.

Today marks the final week for Michael Simpson: 'New Paintings' at Blain|Southern London. Swing by the gallery between now and Saturday to view this exhibition before it closes.
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‘…elegant geometric forms’, ‘... blocks (...) rendered so convincingly that it appears one could almost walk onto them’ and ‘subtle tonal modulations’ - Elizabeth Fullerton on the painterly asceticism of for
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York curator Randall Griffey talks to PBS about Joan Snyder’s painting ‘Smashed Strokes Hope’ which is part of , highlighting the ‘exuberant colour’ and ‘experimentation’ that ‘breaks from the intense formalism of minimalism.’

The segment begins 20 minutes in.

https://www.pbs.org/video/nyc-arts-full-episode-january-9-2020-pzaeod/

NYC-ARTS Full Episode: January 9, 2020 | Season 2020 Episode 2 | NYC-ARTS Paula Zahn speaks with Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan of the New York City Ballet.

Mircea Suciu: 'Universal Fatigue' opens one week from today at Blain Southern New York! Please join us for the opening reception next Thursday 16 January from 6-8pm. The exhibition will be on view until 22 February 2020.

Happy 1 January 2020! Bringing you the best type of clean slate to start the decade!
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Pictured: Bosco Sodi, 'Untitled', 2016

Wishing a Happy New Year to all our followers and friends! 🥂
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Pictured is 's installation 'Hand to Hand', currently being presented as part of the third Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, 'Boundless Encounters', on view until 9 February 2020.
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'Boundless Encounters', referring to cross-media and metaphysical fiber art creations that are unrestricted by boundaries, signifies the mission of fiber arts in the intertwining globalized context.

is participating in the itinerant exhibition Prête-moi ton rêve or 'Lend Me Your Dream', with his artwork 'Rouge Touareg N°01 (Vert)', a detail of which is pictured above.
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Organised by the Foundation for the Development of Contemporary African Culture, the second leg of this exhibition opened 6 December in Dakar, Senegal, and will be on view until 28 January 2020.
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The exhibition features 50 artworks by 28 internationally renowned artists and following its stint in Dakar, will tour Abidjan, Lagos, Addis-Abeba, Cape Town and Marrakech.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Blain|Southern!
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Pictured: Michael Joo, 'SRS #8', 2007

'Twas the night before Christmas... 🎄
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Pictured: Marius Bercea, 'East by South West Correspondent', 2017

Don’t miss Sue Webster talking her new book in Interview Magazine!

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/artist-sue-webster-on-her-obsession-with-siouxsie-sioux-and-the-banshees

How Siouxsie and the Banshees Saved Sue Webster's Life The British artist's reverence for the band is the subject of her new book, "I Was a Teenage Banshee," a catalogue of her obsessions and inspirations.

Behind the scenes at 's studio in Cluj, as we prepare for his upcoming exhibition 'Universal Fatigue' opening 17 January at Blain Southern New York!

asking the important questions as usual 🤓
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Pictured: Harland Miller, 'If Your Past Were On Fire Would You Go Back To Save It', 2016

A sneak-peek at one of 's new paintings, 'Hot Jot' (2019)! Swipe left for a closer look. 👀
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'There is dissonance between the printed mark and the painted mark,' explains the artist, 'And I am excited by how both can be equally evocative and concurrent.'
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To make these works, .feldman has scanned canvas fabric, enlarged the weave in photoshop and then reproduced this back onto a gray primed canvas in silkscreen ink. In some of the works, she has even silkscreened her own markmaking on to the canvas. She then paints on top of this silkscreened surface and finally adds impasto marks and scribbles as a final layer, to create an even more intense sense of depth.

A sublime ink on paper work by of his wife, Anne. ❤
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Pictured: Avigdor Arikha, 'Anne', 1972

Imagine cruising down the highway and coming upon the largest public artwork in Europe! Bernar Venet's 'Arc Majeur' makes this a reality.

Beautiful feature on Mircea Suciu in 212 Magazine 👏🏼

We can’t wait to present our first exhibition of Suciu’s work next year at Blain Southern New York!

Blain|Southern is pleased to announce the representation of Romanian artist Mircea Suciu in London and New York.
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'Universal Fatigue', the artist's first exhibition with the gallery, opens at Blain Southern New York on 17 January 2020. Mircea Suciu is also represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp.
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Part of the Cluj School, Mircea Suciu (b. 1978, Baia Mare, Romania) is regarded as one of Romania’s leading artists. Predominantly working in acrylic and oil paint combined with monoprint techniques, Suciu depicts solitary figures or groups—sometimes state and religious authorities—in sparse surroundings and caught in moments of inner conflict.
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Suciu grew up in an area of Romania loaded with historical conflict and came of age during and after the 1989 revolution. Fascinated by what he describes as ‘the absurd actions of man’ Suciu explores human foibles and existential problems in his work, pointing to the psychological terrain of his subjects.
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Pictured: Mircea Suciu, 'Disintegration 2', 2019, Courtesy the artist and Blain|Southern

Bidding farewell to ‘Bosch & Banisadr: We Work in Shadows’ at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The exhibition which closed yesterday, created a dialogue between Hieronymus Bosch and Ali Banisadr. Swipe through for some beautiful details from both artists and see how the works correspond and with one another.

Photos: on Instagram

@ Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Happy first of December! The countdown to the holidays has officially begun and we see no better way to kick off the festive season than this joyful Tim Noble and Sue Webster work from 1999 entitled - you guessed it - 'Happy'!

Happy Fry-day! 🍟
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Pictured: Tim Noble and Sue Webster, 'Another Happy Meal' (2007)

‪In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, Blain Southern New York will close at 2pm today, reopening Tuesday 3 December. 🦃 ‬

Can you spot the rug hanging in the Academician's Room? Swipe left for a closer look! The limited art rug was specially comissioned to support 's efforts to double tigers numbers in the wild. 🐅
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A bit more about Harland Miller. His writing and painting have developed synchronously and come together in his most iconic artworks, The Penguin Book Series. Based on the dust covers of Penguin books, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer’s love of text. The ensuing images are humorous, sardonic and nostalgic at the same time.
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@ Royal Academy of Arts

Bursting into the week with Chiharu Shiota 塩田千春 'Além da Memória' on view at CCBB São Paulo as part of the retrospective exhibition 'Lifelines'. Until 27 January 2020.
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The exhibition presents seminal works by the artist including 'The Key in the Hand' (2015) and this brand new work 'Além da Memória' (2019) inspired by the diversity of the Brazilian people and the historical architecture of the CCBB-SP. This suspended, 13-metre-high cloud-like sculpture is composed of more than 1,000 sheets of white paper. It is an invitation for the public to idealise their own history and to reflect on their memory.

Last chance to visit Mat Collishaw's 'The Nerve Rack' on view at Ushaw College until this Saturday 23 November. 🦅
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The new commission by Mat Collishaw explores the themes of martyrdom and treason, worship and heresy at Ushaw, the former seminary in County Durham.
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'The Nerve Rack' is a life-sized animatronic eagle inspired by the grand scale of the college, chapels and Ushaw’s extensive archive. Collishaw commented: “I was drawn to a document in the library 'The Sincere and Modest Defence of English Catholics' (1584), annotated by the Elizabethans’ chief priest hunter and torturer Richard Topcliffe. It outlines the two diametrically opposing viewpoints that defined religious belief in England at the time. When church and state are bound together the consequences are magnified, Protestantism and Catholicism, martyrdom and heresy – they are two sides of the same coin. It was this mirroring of religious conviction that I wanted to work with.”

Michael Simpson's 'Squint 59' (2017) is on view at Leeds Art Gallery as part of the group exhibition 'Slow Painting' organised by Hayward Touring and curated by Martin Herbert.

The exhibition features 19 artists including Darren Almond, Michael Armitage and Lubaina Himid, who are primarily British or UK based and whose work spans a myriad of styles and applications, from figuration to abstraction. It’s an exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite the viewer to do the same.

On view at Leeds Art Gallery until 12 January 2020, it then travels to The Levinsky Gallery in Plymouth from 24 January - 29 March 2020 and onwards from there.
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Splashing into the new week with 'The Remembered' (2013) by Studio Enrique Martínez Celaya.
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Watercolours by Francesco Clemente painted especially for this month’s cover of Architectural Digest India The Art Issue. 🎨 We’re in love!

Opening TONIGHT at Blain Southern New York: Thomas Joshua Cooper 'Allure'. Join us from 6-8pm!

The works in this exhibition are part of the artist’s project 'The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity'. Inspired by Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world in the 16th century, Cooper set out to make pictures at the cardinal points of the extreme north, south, east and west of all five continents and the North and South poles surrounding the Atlantic basin. He has travelled the Atlantic Coast and Ocean for over three decades on a journey which concluded with a defining exhibition titled 'The World’s Edge', currently on view at .

The works in 'Allure' chart stages of Cooper’s epic undertaking, beginning with photographs from a journey inspired by the earliest European travellers, Viking pioneers and Celtic peregrinati - early Irish and Scottish wandering saints. Retracing their routes to the extreme north, images like 'rising freezing fog', (2007-2008) or 'Icenest, The Greenland Sea', (2004-2008) pictured above, evoke the past wanderings of those in search of distant places, beyond the borders of the known world.

Another fantastic review for Herbert Zangs 'Plus Minus' at Blain Southern New York. Thank you Artforum!

https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201908/herbert-zangs-80852

Canada Choate on Herbert Zangs The late German artist Herbert Zangs (1924–2003)—who worked primarily with cardboard, staples, wood, and white paint in the years following World War II—generated a sorely underrecognized oeuvre that’s as blissfully meditative as it is dense with painterly innovation. “Plus Minus” at Bla...

Blain|Southern New York is delighted to announce ‘Allure’, an exhibition of works by Thomas Joshua Cooper opening 13 November. Picture-maker and story-teller, Cooper has spent an entire working lifetime chronicling the qualities of time through his photographs of the earth’s topography. On view until 21 December.
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It is with the support of our own Harry Blain that Cooper engaged Jason Roberts, a polar explorer, who has also produced expeditions for David Attenborough, and headed to the northernmost point in Europe, the Svalbard archipelago. Since then Roberts has guided or overseen numerous expeditions for Cooper to both the North and South Pole.
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Pictured: Detail 'rising freezing fog, The Arctic Ocean. Sea ice, sestrugi and melt lakes, The North Pole, 90° N.', 2007-2008
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Lovely words from Chiharu Shiota 塩田千春 on the occasion of closing yesterday at Mori Art Museum : 'While my solo exhibition ''The Soul Trembles'' is soon coming to an end, the positive response has been overwhelming. An estimated 600,000 people will have visited the exhibition, and I want to thank everyone for their interest in my work.'
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The exhibition will now travel across Asia and Australia.
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@ Mori Art Museum 森美術館

Rachel Howard: 'L'appel du vide', an Artforum must see exhibition and one of artnet's editors' picks, has been extended. You now have until 2 November to check it out. On view at Blain Southern New York and not to be missed!
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Pictured: Installation views of 'L'appel du vide' at Blain|Southern New York. Photos: Adam Reich.

Delighted to announce that after 35 years in the making, Bernar Venet has realised his vision of 'Arc Majeur', a monumental sculpture that appears to span across a busy highway. 🌈 The 250-tonne steel sculpture was inaugurated today, and is now the largest public artwork in Europe. Originally conceived for a site in France in 1984, the work has found its home in Belgium.
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'Arc Majeur' takes the form of a sweeping, circular arch springing from the earth on either side of a highway linking Brussels to Luxembourg. The massive steel pieces have been installed on opposite sides of the road. They measure just over 90 feet in height on one side of the road and nearly 200 feet on the other. The steel semi-circle gives drivers the sense that they are driving right through the artwork.

Just over a month left to catch Francesco Clemente 'Watchtowers, Gates and The Sea of Stories' at Blain Southern Berlin. On view until 16 November.
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This solo exhibition of recent works by Francesco Clemente is the first presentation of the artist’s sculptures in Europe. The exhibition comprises 'The Sea of Stories', a monumental mural spanning the length of the gallery that has been created on site, and two bodies of sculpture created in collaboration with local artisans in Rajasthan.