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Artist: Merlin Carpenter Venue: Reena Spaulings, New York Exhibition Title:  Paint-It-Yourself Date: January 31 – March 1, 2020 Click here to view slideshow   Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Reena Spaulings, New York. Photos by Joerg Lohse. Press Release: Dear Emily and John, As you know I am not going to come for the opening of my show Paint-It-Yourself . I could imagine this might leave you in a strange social situation so I thought I could explain in a few sentences what it’s about. First of all this show is a bit of a reaction to the sameyness of a lot of painting. It’s almost like the whole thing turned into zombie formalism. Figurative formalism. Add the number of older white men going around talking about “real” painting which they are finally “allowed” to do, and you have a boring conservative atmosphere that I am at risk of being dragged into with my own paintings. So let’

Artists:  Abraham Cruzvillegas, David Douard, Mona Hatoum, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Hassan Khan, Liliane Lijn, Jean-Luc Moulène, Melik Ohanian, Gabriel Orozco, Willem de Rooij, Anri Sala, Tomoko Sauvage, José María Sicilia, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo, Haegue Yang Venue: Chantal Crousel, Paris Exhibition Title: Seen in a crystal ball Date: January 25 – February 29, 2020 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: Bosch’s depiction of the pleasures of the world […] is first of all an invitation to the viewer to restore man’s original, pre-lapsarian capacity of ‘speculative’ vision, that is to say, to clear the mind and see through the delusional world of evil-induced phantasms.1 To start the new year with some reflexions on an ideal world, Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to present Scènes dans une bull

Tracy Drain, with one of her childhood inspirations … Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2vtduhB

Artist: Nicolas Ceccaldi Venue:  Meyer Kainer, Vienna Exhibition Title: Knock knock Date: January 17 – March 7, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna. Installation images by Marcel Koehler. Photos by Kati Göttfried. Press Release: Knock knock is an exhibition by Nicolas Ceccaldi about Joker , a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed and produced by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix. Set in early-1980s Gotham City, the film provides an origin story for Batman’s infamous arch nemesis never seen before on the big screen, following Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a social outcast and aspiring stand-up comedian who lives alone with his mother and who suffers from many mental illnesses including one which causes him to laugh uncontrollably when he is nervous. The film embarks us in Arthur’s descent into insanity and