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Almine Rech

Visages

Nov 7 — Dec 14, 2024 | New York, Upper East Side

Opening on Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 6pm - 8pm

Almine Rech New York, Upper East Side is pleased to present, Visages, a group show on view from November 7 to December 14, 2024.

Artist to be featured: Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Miriam Cahn, Günther Förg, Richard Prince, Tom Wesselmann, Francesco Vezzoli, Georg Baselitz, Elaine de Kooning, Claire Tabouret, Brian Calvin, Ali Cherri, Alex Israel, Matthias Bitzer, George Condo, Genieve Figgis, José Lerma, Inès Longevial, Markus Lüpertz, Jess Valice, Amanda Wall, Chloe Wise, and Ji Xin, amongst others.

Why faces now? Well, because faces always and forever, as long as each of us has one and animal life manages to persist. But there are other reasons, too. Just last year the surgeon general diagnosed an epidemic in this country of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection doing serious damage to individual and societal health. Faces and our relationship to them are increasingly undergoing a strange sea change, a transformational trip through the uncanny valley of AI, deep fakes, virtual reality, digital filters, hormone therapies, and the latest in cosmetic procedures. Gender and appearance have never been so fluid, performative, or androgynous. Technology has never been as life-like nor as thoroughly enmeshed in our lives. And, because our present moment is submerged in an identity politics, verging on tribalism, that too often reduces identity to physiognomy and race, now is also a good time to think more expansively about the convergence of faces and being multifaceted, visages and vision vis-à-vis one’s outlook on the world. Perhaps a show about portraiture and the human face now is also asking, why even face the now when it too often appears hostile, brutal, destructive, and irrational? Is it possible? Or, how can we face the times in which we find ourselves? Can we face it by representing some of its many faces?
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— Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, writer, curator, and publisher

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Selected artworks

  • Marie Laurencin,                                      Sonia, 1923

    Marie Laurencin Sonia, 1923

    Oil on canvas
    61 x 49.5 cm - 24 x 19 1/2 in (unframed)
    93.5 x 82.5 x 8.5 cm - 37 x 32 1/2 x 3 1/2 in (framed)

     

     

     

  • Günther Förg,                                      Untitled (Mask), 1990

    Günther Förg Untitled (Mask), 1990

    Bronze
    44 x 30 x 30 cm
    17 3/8 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
    Edition 2 of 3

  • Alex Israel,                                      Self-Portrait (Still Life with Fish, Dreams and Wave), 2023

    Alex Israel Self-Portrait (Still Life with Fish, Dreams and Wave), 2023

    Acrylic on sintra

    61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm
    24 x 20 x 1 in

Artists