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Love, touch, and teaching are irreversibly entangled and celebrated in Laure Prouvost's largest North American solo exhibition to date 'Oma-je', now open at PHI Foundation, Montreal.

This immersive presentation celebrates Prouvost’s relationship to family, friends, and their loved ones, as well as inspirational thinkers, activists, chosen kin, and artistic predecessors. 'Oma-je' honours both intellectual inheritance and embodied ways of knowing, shifting attention from grandfather to grandmother and forefather to foremother, through iconic films and sculptures as well as the new installation work Here Her Heart Hovers (2023).

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On 2 November in Shanghai, Lisson Gallery is pleased to open its first exhibition dedicated to Anish Kapoor's works on paper.

Known for his rigorous experimentation with materials and his ability to conjure uncanny sensory experiences, Kapoor’s practice defies genres by seamlessly blending sculptural and painterly approaches. This new body of work features rich, vibrant colours – from deep purples and blues to lavish, fiery layers of yellow, orange and red – where unknown forces appear to emerge from a mysterious darkness.

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Shown here: Anish Kapoor, The Unmade, 2018, Gouache on paper, 66.5 x 84 cm, 26 1/8 x 33 1/8 in © Anish Kapoor, courtesy Lisson Gallery

Tonight in New York: 'Sean Scully: Duane Street, 1981-83' opens at Lisson Gallery New York.

This ambitious exhibition incorporates loans of historic pieces from the early 1980s, including the legendary, 11-panel work Backs and Fronts, which was last exhibited in New York at MoMA PS1 in 1982. Seven such constructions from this period, all made at Scully's Duane Street studio, are included in this show, marking a significant break from Scully’s earlier, tighter striped canvases, as well as from the strictures of mainstream, hard-edged Minimalist painting of the 1970s.

📍 Opening at 504 West 24th Street, 6–8pm.

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Next week in New York, Lisson Gallery is proud to mount an ambitious exhibition exploring one of Sean Scully's breakthrough bodies of work, incorporating loans of historic pieces from the early 1980s.

'Sean Scully: Duane Street, 1981-1983' includes the legendary, 11-panel work Backs and Fronts, which was last exhibited in New York at MoMA PS1 in 1982, a year after it was made. This monumental composition was extended from an earlier work, known as Four Musicians (painted after Picasso’s Three Musicians of 1921), which Scully combined using reclaimed wooden struts, in the loft space of an old textile warehouse on Duane Street in the then unfashionable and run-down neighborhood of Tribeca.

Seven such constructions from this period, all made at the Duane Street studio, are included in this show, marking a significant break from Scully’s earlier, tighter striped canvases, as well as from the strictures of mainstream, hard-edged Minimalist painting of the 1970s.

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Shown here: Sean Scully, Adoration, 1982 (detail), Oil on canvas, linen and wood, 274.3 x 396.2 cm, 108 x 156 in © Sean Scully, courtesy Lisson Gallery

It's the last day to see 'Josh Kline: Social Media' and 'Joanna Pousette-Dart: Centering' at Lisson Gallery New York!

Kline's inaugural Lisson show presents a series of self-portraits for the first time, building on previous bodies of work to examine employment and the changing, precarious workforce. Pousette-Dart presents a new suite of arching and domed paintings that further her explorations into shaped canvases, suggestive of the expansive, visceral, and all-encompassing qualities of landscape.

📍 Find the shows at 504 & 504 West 24th St.

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At La Pedrera in Barcelona, 'Art in Stone' highlights the work of eight historically significant sculptors born between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Anish Kapoor's No. 3 (1997) in alabaster.

Organised by the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, the show celebrates the iconic stone structure of Casa Milà—popularly known as La Pedrera—designed by Antoni Gaudí.

The artists – Anish Kapoor, Hans Arp, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, and Jorge Oteiza – followed parallel artistic journeys, often exploring new forms of expression through stone. The exhibition showcases their shared points of convergence and the innovative approaches that redefined sculpture in their time.

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Image © The Artists, Courtesy La Pedrera-Casa Milà. Photography by Xavier Padrós

Find us at booth B31 at the third edition of Art Basel Paris, open now through 20 October.

Alongside sculpture by Olga de Amaral, Tony Cragg and Otobong Nkanga and painting by Carmen Herrera and Rodney Graham, highlights of the booth include works by Kelly Akashi, Dana Awartani, Ryan Gander, Van Hanos, Anish Kapoor, Richard Long, Hélio Oiticica and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Lisson Gallery at Art Basel Paris also marks the gallery’s first presentation of work by the influential Brazilian artist Tunga (1952-2016), following the recent announcement of representation.

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Photography by Dawn Blackman.

Continuing in London: 'Yu Hong: Islands of the Mind' focuses on the concept of psychological landscapes, with each painting embodying an emotion or experience that unites us all: be it love, expectation, survival, oblivion or repose.

With Yu Hong’s personal experiences living between East and West, witnessing the considerable changes that have taken place in contemporary life during this time, this new body of work reflects on our shifting, precarious state and provides a cathartic opportunity to both immerse ourselves in the deepest, darkest waters, and return to witness an opening in the clouds.

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Images © Yu Hong, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.

On 8 October, Ryan Gander unveiled six life-sized bronze sculptures at Elephant Park, South London, created in collaboration with South London Gallery, year 4 school pupils, and the Contemporary Art Society. The artist's first piece of public art in London was created through a series of workshops with children from three local primary schools, with the works now available to view in the two-acre park in Elephant & Castle.

During the workshops, led by Gander and the South London Gallery education team, the children explored possibilities for their futures together, and engaged in place-making activities relevant to their personal, local, and global contexts. The project’s aim was to create positive stories for young people and help them reflect on the diversity and vibrancy of their own communities and future.

Gander said: “Elephant & Castle has always been a really special part of London, through all its historic iterations. When we think about place we often think about 'as it is' or 'as it was' but seldom do we envisage para-possible futures, what a place 'could be’. This form of ‘Imagineering' takes great cognitive ingenuity and inventiveness, and so it seemed really apparent and fitting to me that working with those with the most active imaginations and those who know the place the best - namely the young people who live in the area - would be the most catalytic approach.”

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Ryan Gander and children (Sulaiman, Lily, Mason, George, Maria) from three local Southwark schools (Crampton, Charlotte Sharman, Robert Browning).
Commissioned by Lendlease in partnership with South London Gallery and Contemporary Art Society.
© Ryan Gander, Courtesy Lisson Gallery. Photographer: Jon Lowe

At booth F12 at Frieze Masters, Shirazeh Houshiary shows historic and recent works together for the first time in a special presentation for the fair's Studio section.

Spanning four decades, each of the works in Houshiary’s Studio presentation can trace their origins to a 1981 work, titled Fire Stolen by Bird. Comprising sculptural elements made from sand and wood covered in earth and wax, the artist torched the works to char them, and eventually the entire piece was destroyed.

The earliest work on display is a large-scale drawing created in 1990: depicting an elemental, binary form set against a black ground, while the journey through painting begins with a work created in 2003, Outside In, which makes manifest the boundary that Houshiary’s work has continually sought to inhabit, investigate and extrude. Sculpture provides the final dimension of this this partial survey of Houshiary’s work, in which she forgoes a focus on chronology for a conceptual and narrative approach that highlights points of connection between new and historical works.

📍On view through Sunday at Frieze Masters.

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"Gazing up at the 60-foot wall in the central atrium of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga felt both excited and terrified.

“You look up, and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, where is it going to end?’” she recalled thinking. “I’m always interested in working in spaces that aren’t that easy. This is by far the most crazy space.”

That was her first reaction when she visited the space with the museum’s chief curator-at-large, Michelle Kuo, after receiving a major commission from MoMA to build an installation in its Marron Atrium. The resulting work, “Cadence,” opens on Thursday and runs through June 8, 2025."

– Nina Siegal speaks with Otobong Nkanga ahead of the unveiling of her new commission, Cadence, at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

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Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for The New York Times

John Akomfrah's multi-channel video installation 'Becoming Wind' will make its UK premiere at this year's Frieze London in a special presentation with LG OLED.

In an era defined by rapid climate change and the Anthropocene, art asks us urgent questions: "What are the sustainable choices for our future?". 'Becoming Wind' reimagines the symbolic imagery of the Garden of Eden, reflecting on the complex relationship between nature and humanity through the lens of loss. Scenes of children playing on the beach intertwine with the everyday lives of transgender actors and activists, offering a profound meditation on the challenges we face in a changing world.

Through black-and-white, elegiac imagery, 'Becoming Wind' recalls the richness of past biodiversity, underscoring our responsibility to confront climate change within an unstable, human-centric ecosystem. The text, "We need to be quick," heightens the sense of urgency, calling on viewers to respond to the demands of the present. Akomfrah also suggests that human identity must remain fluid and adaptable to survive these transformations, remarking, "We almost need to become wind-like to get there." LG OLED plays a pivotal role in bringing this artwork to life with vivid clarity.

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Shown here: Installation view of John Akomfrah, Becoming Wind (2023) at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2023 © Smoking Dogs Films, courtesy Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Frieze Masters’ Studio sector returns for 2024 with an expanded edition featuring ten immersive presentations that explore the role of the studio space in artists’ careers and creative processes.

Lisson Gallery participates this year with a special display of painting and sculpture by London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary who, for the first time here, shows both historic and recent works together in one presentation.

📍 Find us at booth F12 from 10–13 October

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Shown here: Shirazeh Houshiary, Rite of Passage, 2024, Pigment and pencil on Aquacryl on canvas and aluminium, 190 x 190 x 5 cm, 74 3/4 x 74 3/4 x 2 in © Shirazeh Houshiary, courtesy Lisson Gallery

Next Monday in London, Devon Turnbull is joined in conversation by Lisson Gallery's Ossian Ward at 180 Studios.

Part of 180 Studios' Autumn Listening Sessions 2024, Ward sits down with Turnbull to explore the philosophy behind his immersive installation, Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1. Together, they delve into Turnbull's deep passion for sound, music, and the art of listening, as well as the craftsmanship involved in building his custom, hand-made speaker systems.

The talk takes place in conjunction with 'The Vinyl Factory: Reverb', a major multimedia exhibition showcasing The Vinyl Factory Collection and celebrating the intersection of art and sound.

🗓️ 7 October at 7pm BST.

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Installation view of 'Devon Turnbull: Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1' at Lisson Gallery, London, 2023 © Devon Turnbull, courtesy Lisson Gallery