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Artist Arlene Shechet has been commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy to create a new site-specific installation for the Park, on view from September 25, 2018, through April 28, 2019. Marking the Conservancy’s thirty-seventh exhibition and the artist’s first major public art project, Full Steam Ahead features a series of new sculptures in porcelain, wood, steel, and cast iron installed around and within the emptied circular reflecting pool in the north of Madison Square Park.

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Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on the occasion of its Vivian Springford exhibition and the release of the artist's first-ever monograph.

Conversation:
Alexandra Schwartz - professor of Art History, Fashion Institute of Technology
Phong Bui - Publisher and Artistic Director, Brooklyn Rail
Moderated by Ethan Buchsbaum - Director, Almine Rech Gallery

The talk will be followed by a reading of original poetry in response to Springford's work by Anselm Berrigan, Laura Henriksen, Vincent Katz and Uche Nduka.

Friday, September 28th
6 to 8 pm

Almine Rech Gallery
39 E 78th St
New York, NY 10075

Her first exhibition with the gallery will take place in June 2019 in New York.
Paintings by Farah Atassi will be presented at Frieze London (booth A09) and FIAC Paris (booth 0.A20).
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Characterised by vibrantly coloured geometric shapes and plays on perspective, Farah Atassi’s paintings create imaginary yet inhabited spaces that, by means of their visual trickery confusing depth and imminence, are impossible to fully grasp. The artist employs two main, methodological building blocks: a meticulous collection of images and a masking tape grid laid out in order to systematise the patterns produced within the abandoned interiors or scenes akin to still lifes she depicts. Situated on the fringes of narration, her paintings mix textile patterns and motley mosaics, referencing Modernism and Folk Art in equal measure. In the artist’s own words what we are dealing with are “figurative paintings that depict abstraction”. _
Farah Atassi (b.1981 in Brussels to Syrian parents) lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2013, she was artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York and was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp and received the Jean-François Prat Prize in 2012. 
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View of the studio of Farah Atassi in Paris, 2018 / Photo: Hélène Mauri - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to announce the acquisition of a painting by Genieve Figgis by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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This work will be added to the almost 1,100 works of modern and contemporary Irish art in the Collection and mark the latest additions to the Council’s long history of purchasing excellent and ambitious works of art that reflects the practise of artists working in Ireland today. 
Comprising works across painting, sculpture, photography, video and multimedia installations the new purchases are drawn from across the spectrum of contemporary visual arts practice and will be accessible to public audiences throughout the country as part of the Arts Council Collection’s ongoing programme of exhibitions, loans and projects.
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This painting is currently on view in the Consortium Museum biennale in Dijon, until October 14th, 2018
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Genieve Figgis, The Lover crowned (after Fragonard), 2018
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery
Photo: André Morin, Consortium Museum

Almine Rech Gallery looks forward to welcoming you at Booth C24 with a solo presentation by Joseph Kosuth. 

The work titled Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) (2018) is made up of body of different colored neon works that read Any Message?. In this new series of work, Kosuth appropriates this text from George Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984, a story which gives a tragic illustration of what the world would be without the freedom to think.

Opening Hours

Wednesday Preview, May 2: First Access 10am - 7pm
Thursday Preview, May 3: 11am - 8pm
Thursday Private View, May 3: 5pm - 8pm
Friday, May 4: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, May 5: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, May 6: 11am - 6pm

Tamuna Sirbiladze: Presentation of the artist’s monograph by Benedikt Ledebur and film screening

Benedikt Ledebur will present the first and recent monographic publication on Georgian painter Tamuna Sirbiladze (1971 Tbilisi–2016 Vienna). This gathering will revisit the practice of Sirbiladze and include her video work – a selection of which will be screened for the occasion. 

"My film works are not really video works, they are the expanded footnotes to my work processes and my work situation. I use the videos as documentation and I mostly work with film when I don’t have my studio available.” — Tamuna Sirbiladze, 2006

WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels

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On the occasion of Art Brussels 2018, Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present the new publication ‘Imaginary Ancestors’, an important catalog published by the gallery in conjunction with the exhibition held in New York from May 2 to June 15, 2017.

‘Imaginary Ancestors’ was a group exhibition organized with Carlo Severi and Bernard de Grunne. The exhibition looked at Primitivism in modern and contemporary art, on the one hand restaging a seminal 1933 Durand-Ruel Gallery exhibition in New York of Fang sculptures and contemporary paintings of the time, and on the other hand presenting a parallel exhibition of Primitivist modern and affiliated contemporary works by Joe Bradley, Mark Grotjahn, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Ana Mendieta, James Turrell and Erika Verzutti, among others.

Almine Rech Gallery
Rue de l'Abbaye 20
1050 Brussels

On the occasion of Per Kirkeby’s solo exhibition, Almine Rech Gallery Paris is pleased to invite you to 
a conversation between Fabrice Hergott and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso

on Saturday, March 24th, 2018
from 5 to 6 pm

(The conversation will be in french)

For further information, please contact Myriam Chair: myriam@alminerech.com
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Image: Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 2011, Oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cm, 70 7/8 x 55 1/8 inches, photo: Rebecca Fanuele - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

Join us to discuss Modigliani, contemporary art, institutionalisation, marketing and media

In the 100 years since Modigliani died, art has moved from margin to centre, with all the losses and gains that this entails. For this event, artist Francesco Vezzoli and Cristiana Perrella, newly appointed director of Centro Pecci, Italy will consider how the artist’s role has changed accordingly.

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Expanded Portrait Compositions will be the first major exhibition by American artist George Condo in Hong Kong. Showcasing a brand-new body of paintings and works on paper that have been created by Condo specifically for the Maritime Museum in Hong Kong, the exhibition will be on view for two weeks only, from March 27 through April 6, 2018.
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George Condo, Laughing and Screaming, 2018, acrylic, metallic paint, pigment stick, charcoal and pastel on linen, 80 x 74 inches, 203 x 188 cm © George Condo / ARS (Artists Rights Society), New York, 2018.