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Artist:  Mona Hatoum Venue:  Chantal Crousel, Paris Date: October 12 – December 21, 2019 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Chantal Crousel, Paris Press Release: Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to present Mona Hatoum’s 7th solo exhibition, from October 12 to December 21, 2019. New sculptures, installations, and works on paper are presented. Mona Hatoum’s art reflects on world conflicts, migrations, and surveillance, using materials as varied as steel, brick, concrete, and human hair, in order to create spaces of tension, paradox, and ambiguity. The motif of the grid and the sphere serve as metaphors for confinement, oppression, and destruction. The artist articulates these issues through the use of abstraction and poetic Realism which enables her to reach a certain universality and become one of the most influential figures of her gen...

Artist:  Vincent Fecteau Venue:  Wattis, San Fransisco Date: September 5 – November 9, 2019 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; greengrassi, London; and Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles. Photos by Johnna Arnold and Nicholas Lea Bruno. Press Release: 1 . These sculptures are tools . Some artists begin with an idea or an opinion , and use it to make an artwork — first comes the meaning , then comes the object . But for Vincent Fecteau ,  ideas never work . His sculptures don ’ t come as a result of an idea but are the tools he uses in his attempt to generate ideas and make meaning . He begins with an initial impulse or desire ( the specific trigger quickly becomes irrelevant ) and proceeds by folding , cutting , twisting , trimming ,  adding , leveling , scraping off , smoothing out ...