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Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Curated by Sunjung Kim
April 23 – August 24, 2022 | Palazzetto Tito (Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa)

Kukje Art and Culture Foundation with the support of La Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice; Kukje Gallery, Seoul; Tina Kim Gallery, New York; Almine Rech and Blum & Poe are pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Ha Chong-Hyun, on view at Palazzetto Tito (Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa) as Collateral Event of the Biennale Arte 2022 from April 23. 

Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Curated by Kathryn Weir
April 23 – November 27, 2022 | Palazzo Cavanis
Opening Reception on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from 6 pm to 9 pm

‘Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh’ presents a new critical reading of key dimensions of the Los Angeles-based French artist’s work in a remarkable survey exhibition curated by Kathryn Weir that explores multiple transformations: of self, other, collective identities, struggle, release, refuge. A powerful and unexpected dialogue is created with a number of vernacular devotional objects drawn from archaeological and liturgical collections in Italy, invoking an ambivalent threshold in Tabouret’s practice, a portal into multiple temporalities andsubjectivities through which to consider alternative relationships amongst human beings, and between human beings and their environment, in theface of ecological and social crises and in communication with the supernatural.

Almine Rech Brussels Thursday
March 10, 2022 at 7 pm

On the occasion of the opening of BLACK RODEO: Cowboys of the 21st Century, an in person discussion between curator Larry Ossei-Mensah and Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe will take place during the opening reception starting at 7pm.

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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of De Wain Valentine (1936 - 2022). We are proud and honored to have worked closely with this incredible artist. 

De Wain Valentine was born in Colorado and arrived in L.A. in 1965 to teach a course in plastics technology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is regarded today among the earliest pioneers in the use of industrial plastics and resins to execute monumental sculptures that reflect the light and engage the surrounding space through its mesmerizingly translucent surfaces that arrest one's gaze. […] This technical knowledge, combined with his subsequent experience working with fiberglass-reinforced plastic in boat building shops and painting automobiles, air planes - and even, according to some, UFOs - led to his fascination and artistic involvement with sculptures made out of colored plastic and polyester resin, all materials evoking a futurist era.

Sweet Dreams of Rhythm and Dancing, Andrea Marie Breiling's first exhibition in London, will be on view from November 23 to December 18, 2021.

Andrea Marie Breiling makes us witness to her physicality while simultaneously inviting us to experience our own. Building multiple, cross-hatched layers of spray paint, she brings phantasmagorical gestures and shapes to life across the surfaces of her work. Her brush-free approach allows her to render wide forms filled with a frenetic energy that is as emotional as it is physical.

Almine Rech hosted the artist's inaugural solo exhibition at Almine Rech New York in June 2021. His second solo exhibition will take place at Almine Rech Paris, Front Space in July 2022.

Daniel Gibson (b. 1977, Yuma, AZ) grew up in El Centro, CA, and other surrounding towns that border Mexicali, Baja California. Both of Gibson's parents immigrated from Mexico, settling in the American southwest. This led to Gibson's early inspiration from his exposure to the desert and communities, as well as the sheetrock factory in Plaster City, CA, where his father worked. Gibson’s output is bred by his indispensable draw towards creation, an expressive therapeutic flow of visions and beliefs, real life situations and dreams, comprising a combination of elements incomparably extricated and productively gifted.

Haley Josephs
MY DOLPHIN FANTASY, 2021
Oil on linen - 10 x 8 inches

Fairy tales are grasping at a world that can never be. Maybe a painting is a fairy tale? It’s a reflection of our world, but with a spin on it that makes it forever unattainable. Like a bug preserved in crystal, you can’t get to it without breaking it all apart. What is reality? What is the dream?­­ 
- Haley Josephs

Almine Rech hosted the artist's inaugural solo exhibition at Almine Rech Paris in November 2020. His second solo exhibition will take place at Almine Rech Brussels, Belgium in September 2022, as well as a solo presentation at Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors, France, in October 2022.

Gerasimos Floratos (b. 1986) lives and works in New York City. Floratos grew up enmeshed in the overwhelming sensorial experience that is Times Square, the pounding commercial and touristic heart of the city, a place the artist refers to as “the center of the center”. To this day, his studio is stationed there, where he continues to work and live.

Jorge Galindo was born in 1965 in Madrid, Spain. Trained in the workshops of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, his artistic oeuvre spans more than three decades. Describing his own work as “dirty pop,” his monumental paintings are gestural and expressionist. Over the past thirty years, Jorge Galindo has made paintings which often synthesize elements of collage. Using a range of materials, his lush and colorful surfaces are executed in an energetic, sometimes chaotic style. 

Please join Almine Rech at DnA SHENZHEN 2021, presenting a solo project of Vivian Springford.
The American abstract painter Vivian Springford (1913-2003) provides a fascinating case study of a mid-century American woman artist. With an emphasis on gesture, dripping, and splattering, Springford's works of the 1950s bore a clear connection to Abstract Expressionism. The primary influence of her early work came from East Asian arts and letters, particularly Chinese calligraphy, Taoism and Confucianism.
We look forward to welcoming you at Booth C17.