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Sylvie Fleury’s work ‘Marcel et Robert’ (2000-2001) is currently on view in the retrospective dedicated to the work of Belgian Pop-Surrealist Evelyne Axell (1935-1972) at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland - Until December 6th, 2020

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The late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu intervened within the discourse of consumption habits in his landmark study Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979), a text that is essential reading for the lovers and collectors of Chloe Wise’s work.

Second Nature focuses on small scale micro portraits, a departure from Wise’s larger scale group paintings. Wise’s first digital show, an experiment in widespread accessibility where space is further collapsed, is an outcome of a health and geopolitical crisis that has compelled us to question our own values, pleasures, and desires.

- Kristen Cochrane

« As I am moved, enriched, empowered, and inspired by the courage and fortitude of the brother Dr. Cornel West, I write: The murder of George Floyd was practically a public lynching, giving rise to heightened protests and mass demonstrations throughout America — and, indeed, in many parts of the world — highlighting, at last, that America has proven to be, on many levels, a failed social experiment.  The world is undergoing and witnessing America’s great moment of reckoning, where the long-standing correlation between the local and the global are most remarkably felt: sowing the seeds of unchecked greed that made concrete domestic inequality in tandem with America’s imperial, militarized, and violent tentacles around the globe.  Make no mistake, the collective seeds of violence operate as the obvious link that bounds the connective tissue between the external and the internal.  Such is most efficiently true in relation to the seed of white supremacy’s deep hatred of Black people within the context of a predatory capitalistic society obsessed with money, domination, and the marginalization of the “other.”  

The American Empire’s foundation is shaken to its core, with uprisings from below, from the streets.  

No doubt, George Floyd’s murderous lynching by the embodiment of white supremacist hatred by the name of Derek Chauvin ignited the fuse, but the outright failings of America’s predaceous capitalistic economy to adequately fulfill basic needs — food, healthcare, a quality education, jobs with decent wages — was the explosion.  The so-called promise of America’s legitimacy is bankrupt, and a multiracial check is past overdue. 

Now, the youth and the streets are forcefully speaking, highlighting the hypocrisy and the abject blindness to their suffering and misery.  Simply put, they no longer believe in the legitimacy of the traditional American social contract.  However, rebellion, while being the sounding call, is not enough, for a Nonviolent Revolution is of the highest order; that is, enacting comprehensive, democratic sharing — power, wealth, resources, respect, organizing — and the radical transformation of the American Empire.  

For, by all means, we cannot possibly, comfortably, and willingly return to the way things were. »  

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Nathaniel Mary Quinn, I Imagine It Was a Burden at Times, 2019 - oil paint, paint stick, oil pastel, soft pastel, gouache on linen canvas - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2 cm; 20 x 20 x 3/4 in
Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech

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Almine Rech presents “Conjunctions”, the second iteration of Art Basel's Online Viewing Room.

Artists include Karel Appel, Ha Chong-Hyun, George Condo, Genieve Figgis, Günther Förg, Markus Lüpertz, Pablo Picasso, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf, Vaughn Spann, Vivian Springford, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Zhang Wei and Tom Wesselmann.

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It seems impossible today to look at this series of drawings by Marcus Jahmal without considering the context of racial events in the United States during recent weeks and years. His artistic practice is deeply inspired by a concrete reality that reflects social issues in America and beyond. In Jahmal's iconography, ancient mythology has always played a dominant role, revealing both a yearning for hybrid forms of culture and a search for origins, blending each with contemporary society. A word that appears in one of his minotaur-men drawings is extremely revealing: Kemet. This term contains links to ancient Egypt, but more generally it means "the land of Black people." The artist's exploration of the figure of the bull-man, a favorite theme of Pablo Picasso, is linked to the depletion of the autobiographical subject through its multiplication and a harsh look at the violence perpetrated by the powerful. Jahmal has said "paper is a mirror," and, indeed, his art reflects the world. 

- Loïc Le Gall
Director of La Passerelle - Contemporary Art Center, Brest, France

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of iconic American artist Kenny Scharf, and his inaugural solo exhibition of new paintings at Almine Rech New York this fall.

Opening September 10, Kenny Scharf: Dystopian Painting will debut 15 paintings and a sculpture by Scharf, showcasing the energy and depth of his singular artistic practice. The artist’s new body of work reflects his continued immersion in the everyday life of urban society and circumstances of our time, blending quotidian and deeply relevant themes within the framework of his bright, frenetic canvases and enduring optimism.

Tursic & Mille received the prize of the Foundation Simone and Cino Del Duca, along with Guillaume Bresson, Damien Deroubaix and Pierre Monestier.
This year, the prize have been shared between the four nominated artists.

An exhibition featuring the work of the artists will be on view from June 18 to August 9, 2020 at Académie des Beaux-Arts / Palais de l’Institut de France in Paris.

Kurt and Courtney, 2016 - Oil on wood - 37 x 56 x 2,2 cm ; 14 5/8 x 22 x 0 7/8 Inches
Photo: Rebecca Fanuele

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné. Working in close collaboration with the Estate of the artist, the WPI will author a dynamic online publication that will link to digitized material from the artist’s archives.

Almine Rech is pleased to announce a special initiative in collaboration with artists to support the individuals and families who have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. A curated online exhibition will open May 26, featuring new works by New Jersey- and New York-based artists:

Justin Adian, Joe Andoe, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Todd Bienvenu, Joe Bradley, Peter Halley, Marcus Jahmal, Kurt Kauper, Leelee Kimmel, Jeff Koons, Erik Lindman, John McAllister, Sam McKinniss, Arlene Shechet, Taryn Simon, Vaughn Spann, Genesis Tramaine, Chloe Wise.

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