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Cuban visual artist Osvaldo González showing exhibition at Galleria Continua
HAVANA.- Galleria Continua is showing the solo exhibition “Estados” by Cuban visual artist Osvaldo GonzÃ¡lez. His work is crafted from spatial relationships, self-awareness and knowledge, and potential subjective connections between the viewer and the environment he recreates. Without a doubt, what identifies him are the elements with which he began to work some years ago and which have become his leitmotiv : adhesive tape and light. Taking the use of adhesive tape to the extreme as a fundamental material in his work, the magic lies in evoking a sense of strangeness in almost everyone who encounters his works: how is the image we see constructed ? Is it a photograph, a painting, or something unidentifiable at first glance ? Through the use of light and added layers, he creates spaces, compositions, interior landscapes that ... More

The annual Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens for the 10th year running
WEST SUSSEX.- The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair returns for three days in May to the grounds of the National Trust’s Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 May 2024. Unusually, this event has taken place successfully every year since its inception, despite having to move dates on more than one occasion, last year as a result of King Charles III’s coronation. Even in 2020 and 2021, when the fair had to move months to take place safely during the pandemic, this fair has always been extremely well attended by collectors, interior designers, south of England residents and others from around the UK and abroad. Brilliantly supported by the local market town, which looks forward to this annual event with much anticipation, the businesses in Petworth put on a great show for the influx of visitors ... More

150th anniversary of 1st impressionist exhibition in Paris, 1874, celebrated with major exhibitions
CHARLOTTENLUND.- In Scandinavia, Ordrupgaard takes the lead with a magnificent exhibition highlighting the women of impressionism – both behind and in front of the canvas. The exhibition features four female impressionists and their interconnected world of sisters, daughters, and friends through what is incontestably regarded as major works of this period. Due to their gender and class, these artists did not have the same opportunities to depict the pulsating city life enjoyed by their male colleagues. Instead, their focus was on modern life as it unfolded in the home and gardens of Paris and the surrounding area. These intimate motifs were depicted in a radical fashion using bright colours, quick brushstrokes, and a sketch-like technique, which elicited both admiration and indignation from viewers and art critics alike. The ... More

'Hidden Agenda, Stano Filko and Franz West', on view at Layr through March 23
VIENNA.- The expression “hidden agenda” has a questionable connotation. That makes sense as the framework of a society is often based on ideals of truth and honesty. The trouble is that not all of our ambitions are helpful when publicly revealed. Our psyches, just as society—and in it, galleries and artists—need private space. Basic fears and desires are kept behind allegorical closed doors. We can even expand the allegory of the door: if we add walls, we have a room, or even an allegorical house with several rooms (including a basement and restrooms)—some of them hidden or closed off. The very idea of art is that it has the ability to represent some of our underlying and less obvious motives. The works of Stano Filko and Franz West both produced psychological landscapes ... More

Regen Projects now representing Alberta Whittle and will host her first exhibition on March 16th
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects has announced their representation of Glasgow-based artist Alberta Whittle. The artist will debut her first exhibition with the gallery on March 16, 2024. Alberta’s creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest ... More

Margot Samel presents 'Analog Mountain' by Merike Estna
NEW YORK, NY.- This is the Estonian-born, Mexico City-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In the work, themes of family, climate, and representation are troubled through a series of works that emerge from an interest in historic lineages of art and logic at play in structuring our present day. The title of the exhibition is drawn from 20th-century French novelist RenÃ© Daumal’s Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing. The allegorical story, unfinished in the writer’s lifetime, follows a group of mountaineers as they work to climb Mount Analogue, an enormous mountain on a surreal continent, invisible and inaccessible to the outside world, and only perceived by applications of obscure knowledge. A mountainous and cavernous terrain is the artist’s point-of-view ... More

Strauss & Co. is hosting their first official London private sale and loan exhibition dedicated to Alexis Preller
LONDON.- Africa’s leading auction house, Strauss & Co. is hosting their first official London private sale and loan exhibition dedicated to Alexis Preller this march. The public exhibition devoted to ‘Missing Modernist’ Preller on view at Cromwell Place is timed to coincide with Growing Interest in the Missing Modernists of Africa. To be staged at Cromwell Place and open to the public from 5 to 10 March, the show comes hot on the heels of the artists retrospective at the Norval Foundation, South Africa. It is the first time works by Alexis Preller will be celebrated in London, even though the South African artist was in London at Westminster Art school, graduating in 1934. Kate Fellens, Strauss & Co’s, Business Development Director also has recently relocated to London and pledges to continue work in showcasing artists arguably often neglected ... More

Experience the enchantment: Zack Lobdell's 'The Fire Remembers' at Rooted in Salem, NY
SALEM, NY.- Prepare to be transported into a world where art and magic collide as you step into contemporary art galleryRooted In Salem gallery, who has announced Zack Lobdell's extraordinary exhibition opening today, Friday, March 1, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for the inaugural day with the unveiling of Zack Lobdell's mesmerizing creations. Upon entering the gallery, you will be embraced by the warm glow of several fires, casting enchanting shadows that dance across the canvas. The canvases on display radiate with the essence of a bonfire scene, where spirits and souls come together in perfect harmony. Silhouettes of figures, both seen and unseen, gather around the flickering flames, creating an ethereal ambiance that captivates the senses. ... More