May 17 - June 28, 2012
Wunderkammern - Via Gabrio Serbelloni, 124 - Rome

Valentina Vannicola’s new photographic series for W underkammern is a significant turning point with regard to her previous work, which was set in the more reassuring landscape of the Maremma area in northern Lazio:   Living Layers, with its manifold means of interpreting a territory, has led the artist to abstract the city from its present day existence, taking it into the suspended time of a parallel universe, in which “the obsessions, suffering and secrets of the human being” come alive. On exhibition at Wunderkammern will be images arising from the artist’s feelings when faced with the stories, experiences and sensations emerging from this specific urban landscape: a series of photographs that constantly combine literary and cinematographic references and see the participation of ordinary people, everyday inhabitants -actors who are drawn in, becoming protagonists in the work of art.
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April 27 - June 23, 2012
Peres Projects - Grosse Hamburger Strasse, 17 - Berlin

On the occasion of Berlin Gallery Weekend 2012 Peres Projects  is very proud to present  Whatever is Clever, a solo  exhibition by Belgium  based Leo  Gabin. Leo Gabin (Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem and Robin De Vooght) have worked as a collective since the early  2000’s  in  media  such as video, painting, drawing  and sculpture  and  have taught as a collective at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent where they received their Fine Art degrees.
Leo Gabin take inspiration from the proliferation of user generated media on the internet and the until now undefined space straddling the public and private realms. Themes of sex, violence and celebrity which dominate these users’ experiences are filtered though Gabin’s collage based aesthetic and confrontational  means of production.  Read more »

May 2 -  June 16, 2012
Bortolami Gallery - 520 West 20th Street  New York, NY 10011

Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present Jutta Koether’s first exhibition with the gallery, The Fifth Season, from May 2nd to June 16th with a reception for the artist on May 2nd from 6 to 8pm. The Fifth Season will include seven large-scale paintings and one small-scale painting. Integral to the exhibition is a second installment of her work The Seasons, which is currently on view at The Whitney Biennial, the remaining three paintings incorporate garland imagery. There will be a particular “ground plane” completing the arrangement of works in the gallery.In her series Koether updates iconic paintings with a visual vocabulary of erratic, graffiti-like lines in evocative hues of pink, blood-red tones and metallic paint. The activity on the ground creates a heightened experience for the viewer, providing an alternate, almost bucolic setting while viewing two-dimensional landscape-like paintings. The Seasons and The Fifth Season concurrently on view in New York invites viewers to compare the differences between the installation at the gallery and at the museum, as well as the ways we perceive the seemingly similar bodies of work. Both exhibitions reference the seventeenth century painter Nicolas Poussin’s The Four Seasons, which illustrates the seasons with classical landscapes and biblical imagery. Koether is interested in how the materiality and context in which a work is displayed affects viewers’ responses and inferences. Read more »

May 10 - June 16, 2012
Marlborough Gallery - 545 West 25th Street.

Often atmospheric and abstracted, the works comprising Wherever you go by renowned photographer, filmmaker and  artist  Ari  Marcopoulos include grandly-scaled pigment prints and smaller photographs on rice paper that, through processes of multiple printings of the same image, result in lush surfaces of densely textured black and white. Marcopoulos’ signature time-stamped photos, made with an old, inexpensive point-and-shoot camera, which are then further mediated through photocopying  and scanning, are given a dramatically new presentation as unique artworks. These works depict many of Marcopoulos’  familiar subjects, from graffiti scrawled walls and skate-sessioned  architecture  to the more close-at-hand studies that the artist has made of his own family and friends that have been atomized and degraded through reproduction. Read more »

April 26 - June 16, 2012
greengrassi -  1a Kempsford Road London SE11 4NU
On Sean Landers’ first visit to the Medici Chapel, what impressed him most were cartoons by Michelangelo scrawled on to unfinished plaster walls. Landers saw more humanity in this minor form by the great master than in anything else there. The doodles, half-animal half-human amalgams, provided a pure glimpse into the truth of Michelangelo. Therein, the ‘truth of the artist’ would become Landers’ own life’s pursuit.In his latest exhibit at Andrea Rosen Gallery he’s at it again. Large text paintings are back with a vengeance accompanied by a group of bronze sculptures - a confederacy of dunces - both stoic and fantastically absurd. The painted texts, of varying colours and sizes, read differently on three types of back-ground: clouded skies, pitch-blackness and white. Read more »

May 11 - June 26, 2012
Istituto Svizzero di Roma - Sede Milano - via Vecchio Politecnico 3 - Milan

The exhibition A CUF FUL SKUL opens on Thursday 10 May at the Milan branch of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma. The show presents a selection of works from the current Swiss art scene, by exploring its differences and common traits. During the evening there will be a performance of artists Marie Villemin and Marie Léa Zwahlen (8.00 p.m.) followed by music and projections by Niels Wehrspann (Socialiste) (9.00 p.m. to midnight).
The exhibition is the first appointment of Bureau for Art Nerds curated by Valentina Sansone, a program of events (two exhibitions and five events, through to June 26, 2012) at the Milan branch of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and in public and self-run spaces around the city, that activates new networks for contemporary art and experiments non-happening formats.
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