Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Carl Cheng at Cherry and Martin

Carl Cheng at Cherry and Martin
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Cherry and Martin on occasion producing well timed exhibitions interrupting the "new" moment with gentle reminders, past artists who too had delivered on certain aesthetics promises. E.g. their delivering a new Support/Surfaces exhibition to at a moment when gentle auto-painting of certain painter-painters was reaching peak. And from Thek to 1960's Robert Graham to Kudo to here Cheng before today's bio-waste terrariums of a list of at least 15 artists currently voguing, the anxiety of futurology's biotechnic surrealism is well represented. When young artists start to occlude the past it is of course a market effect producing outshone visibility and C+M - and perhaps Greenspon across the continent and bummeringly very few others - dogged insistence against the new shiny thing commendable.


See too: Ajay Kurian at Rowhouse ProjectMax Hooper Schneider at High ArtNancy Lupo at Swiss InstituteAmy Yao at Various Small Fires“Flat Neighbors” at Rachel UffnerHans-Christian Lotz at Christian Andersen,Yuji Agematsu at Artspeak“RR ZZ” at Gluck50Yuji Agematsu at Real Fine ArtsMathis Altmann at Freedman Fitzpatrick AltmannOlga Balema at Croy NielsenDavid Douard at Johan BerggrenNancy Lupo at WallspaceKatja Novitskova at Kunsthalle LissabonAnicka Yi at Kunsthalle BaselAnicka Yi at Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformer StationFlorian Germann at Gregor StaigerTimur Si-Qin at Carl KostyálBen Schumacher at Musee d’art contemporain de LyonAnna Uddenberg and Nicolas Ceccaldi at MEGA Foundation Pamela Rosenkranz at Karma International“Being Thing” at Centre International d’Arte et du Paysage & Treignac ProjetMichael E. Smith at Sculpture Center