Caroline Jane Harris and Shane McAdams: Hand to Earth

Caroline Jane Harris and Shane McAdams
Hand to Earth
Scream London

«Caroline Jane Harris (London, 1987) explores the complexities of nature through a labour-intensive paper-cutting technique. She responds to visual phenomena in nature; the endless geometric patterns found in all levels of existence.» [PR]

Bosco Sodi: Graphein

Bosco Sodi
Graphein
Pace London (Soho)

Bosco Sodi, Untitled (mixed media on canvas, 186x186x12cm, detail), 2013

«Each of Bosco Sodi’s (1970, Mexico City) paintings is a summary of his memories and collective experiences, made present by a direct method of creating, which demands his full physical and emotional participation. Sodi’s works tend to defy any categorisation but are influenced by movements such as l’art informel and colourists such as Willem de Kooning or Mark Rothko. Graphein features seven graphite large-scale unique and unconventional monochromatic paintings created this year, and continue Sodi’s use of pure pigment, sawdust, wood pulp, natural fibers, water, and glue.» [PR]

Bosco Sodi, Untitled (mixed media on canvas, 186x186x12cm), 2013

Bosco Sodi, Untitled (mixed media on canvas, 186x186x17cm), 2013

Bosco Sodi, Graphein, exhibition view

Bosco Sodi, Untitled (mixed media on canvas, 200x282x12cm), 2012

Bosco Sodi, Untitled (mixed media on canvas, 200x282x12cm, detail), 2012

Anna-Bella Papp

Anna-Bella Papp
Stuart Shave/Modern Art

Stephan Balkenhol

Stephan Balkenhol
Stephen Friedman Gallery

«Stephan Balkenhol (b. 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany) lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany and Meisenthal, France.

Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Universe’, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg (2013); ‘New Works’, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (2012); ‘A Sign in the Forum of Caesar - Stephan Balkenhol More and More’, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome (2012); ‘Unlimited Bodies – Corps Sans Limite’, Palais d'Iéna, Paris (2012); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2011); Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto (2011); Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble (2010); Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig (2009); ‘This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008).

Recent group exhibitions include; ‘Lost in LA’, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (2013-2012); ‘Art is beautiful but hard work too’, Kunstabau, Munich (2012-2013); ‘Unlimited Bodies’, Palais Diena, Paris (2012); ‘Invisibleness is Visibleness’, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei (2011); ‘Wings’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (2010); ‘PastPresentFuture: Works from the UniCredit Art Collection’, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna (2009); Toured to Palazzo della Regione, Verona and Yapi Credi Cultural Center, Istanbul (2009); ‘Listen Darling The World Is Yours’, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Center, Lisbon (2008); ‘New Dimensions’, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (2007); ‘Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections’, MCA Chicago, Chicago (2006).»

Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel
Sprüth Magers

& we meet again: «Rosemarie Trockel (1952) is represented in the group exhibition “Il Palazzo Enciclopedico” in the 55th Biennial in Venice; in 1999, she presented her work at the German Pavilion. Parallel to the exhibition “A Cosmos” in Madrid, New York, and London (2012/2013), a further solo exhibition entitled “Flagrant Delight” was presented at the Wiels in Brussels, the Culturegest in Lisbon, and the Museion Bozen. Other important solo exhibitions at museums in recent years include the Kunstbau im Lenbachhaus München in 2002, the exhibition “Post-Menopause” at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 2005 as well as 2006 at the MAXXI in Rome, 2010 “Deliquescence of the Mother” at the Kunsthalle Zürich, as well as an exhibition of drawings, collages, and book designs at the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn.»

Shhh... Shunga sex and pleasure in Japanese art

British Museum
Opens 3 October 2013

«Produced from 1600 to 1900 and banned in Japan for much of the 20th century, these explicit and beautifully detailed erotic paintings, prints and books inspired Toulouse-Lautrec, Beardsley, Rodin and Picasso.

Mostly created by the artists of the ukiyo-e or ‘floating world’ school, these popular works were known as shunga, - literally ‘spring pictures’. They appealed to all classes in Japan for almost 300 years, and to men and women alike. Frequently tender and humorous, they celebrate sexual pleasure in all its forms in brilliantly coloured paintings and prints, culminating with beautiful and explicit works by iconic artists Utamaro, Hokusai and Kunisada.

Within Japan, shunga has continued to influence modern forms of art, including manga, anime and Japanese tattoo art. The exhibition sheds new light on this unique art form within Japanese social and cultural history.

Torii Kiyonaga (1752–1815), detail taken from Sode no maki (Handscroll for the Sleeve), c. 1785.»

Klezmer in the Park

Klezmer in the Park
Regents Park, Bandstand