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GRIMM | ART BASEL WEEK
GALLERY PRESENTATION
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GRIMM is pleased to present an online group presentation during Art Basel week (Dec 2 - 6). Highlights include exemplary works by Charles Avery, Louise Giovanelli, Volker Hüller, Matthew Day Jackson, Dave McDermott, Ciarán Murphy, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer, Michael Raedecker, Daniel Richter, Elias Sime, Caroline Walker, and Matthias Weischer.
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Daniel Richter
In Daniel Richter’s pictorial world, surrealist forms synthesize art history, politics, and cultural memory. Informed by aggression, isolation and awkwardness, an interplay of strongly defined silhouettes, colors and forms hang in the balance between abstraction and figuration.
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Elias Sime
TIGHTROPE: ECHO!?, 2020
Reclaimed electrical wires and
components on panel
91.4 x 121.9 cm | 36 x 48 in
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Elias Sime incorporates the refuse from consumer electronics, repurposing salvaged components such as circuits and keyboards to create dynamic, abstract compositions. The materials he uses are sourced from the largest open-air market in Africa located in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. A traveling solo exhibition will be on view at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada (April 3, 2021 to July 4, 2021).
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Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosalind Nashashibi's practice encompasses filmmaking, painting, printmaking, and photography. Capturing fleeting, dream-like moments, her approach to image making encourages intuitive connections. Nashashibi's imagery cannot be placed definitively, allowing for numerous associations to be conjured.
Nashashibi is currently an artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in London (UK). She will be presenting a series of four new paintings that respond to works of the Spanish Golden Age in the museum’s collection (3 December–21 February 2021).
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Michael Raedecker
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Lucy Skaer
Equally tactile and conceptual, Lucy Skaer's multimedia practice draws on the history of socially engaged and Environmental Art. She probes the rich history of objects and works of art to reveal how their meanings evolve over time. Skaer's bronze pelts are tributes to the interaction between humans and nature, retaining the rugged texture of the animal's protective fur in their expressive bronze surfaces. Skaer has long been interested in the allegorical significance of hunting, and these new works develop her approach to representing the result of this interspecies interaction.
Forest on Fire is included in Skaer's current solo exhibition at the London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, London (UK), on view until May 15, 2021.
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Caroline Walker
Caroline Walker paints nuanced, striking compositions of contemporary women in quotidian settings. She captures women as they go about their daily rituals, unaware of careful observation by the artist. Walker examines cultural, socioeconomic, and racial divides as she portrays her subjects vacationing in luxurious hotels in Palm Springs, working in restaurant kitchens and London offices, and awaiting asylum in temporary social housing. Mundane moments collectively shared by women are memorialized in monumental and delicate works comprised of flickering brushwork.
Forthcoming exhibitions include GRIMM, New York, NY (US), the British Art Show (touring across the UK) and Women's Work, Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham (UK).
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Matthew Day Jackson
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The collaged textured surfaces of Matthew Day Jackson's works are created through a layered process-they display a convergence of materials resulting in a coded visual language that asks viewers to question and create meaning. His paintings are sculptural as much as they are painterly: brightly colored floral arrangements composed of manufactured materials like Formica, plywood, lead on wood, and epoxy resin. They reference the 16th- and 17th-century paintings of Flemish Baroque painters Jan Bruegel the Elder and Jan Bruegel the Younger: cut and arranged flowers that are reminders of death even as they celebrate life.
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Illusions of pictorial space are expanded through multiple perspectives in the paintings of Matthias Weischer. He uses the domestic realm as a framework to enhance the viewer's experience of the interior as a stage for symbolic objects. His thick paint application speaks to a practice enriched with conceptual and material exploration.
His current solo exhibition Bühne at the Drents Museum in Assen (NL) is on view until March 28, 2021.
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Matthias Weischer
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Ciarán Murphy
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Ciarán Murphy’s paintings conjure an unsettling array of quotidian and imagined forms. The works capture a sense of place through fragments, charting the artist’s exploration of a familiar landscape through psychic automatism.
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Louise Giovanelli
Louise Giovanelli's practice is one of subtle contrasts and involves an erasure of prior meaning in the images she appropriates. Light pierces through her paintings to illuminate shimmering motifs that elicit a heightened emotional experience. Isolating her subject matter in tightly composed works, she removes it from circulation in the world, identifying it as something to be studied and observed.
The artist's solo exhibition A Priori is on view on in the gallery's Van Baerlestraat, Amsterdam location through January 9, 2021.
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Charles Avery
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Charles AveryUntitled (Pamphleteer), 2020Pencil, acrylic, ink and gold watercolour on paper mounted on linen55.7 x 42.7 cm | 21 7/8 x 16 3/4 in (unframed)£ 9,000.00
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Charles AveryUntitled (Gathering), 2020Pencil, acrylic, ink and gold watercolour on paper mounted on linen57.1 x 65.3 cm | 22 1/2 x 25 3/4 in (unframed)£ 10,000.00
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Starting in 2004, Charles Avery has dedicated himself to a singular world-building project through the depiction of an imaginary island. The Islanders charts the formation of Avery's fantastical universe through drawings, sculptures, texts, ephemera and (more rarely) 16mm animations, as well as live incursions into our own world.
Avery's work is now on view at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden (NL), as part of the exhibition Other.Worldly. Recent exhibitions include The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); the 16th Istanbul Biennale (TR) titled The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud; the Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK); NOW at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK); Auto fictions - Contemporary drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE); Rhapsody in Blue, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL) and GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT).
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Dave McDermott
Dave McDermott surveys the tropes inherited through collective memory. Eschewing the hierarchical values assigned to the sublime and the absurd, he references art history, literature, music, and cinema in his work. Intricate yarn patterns, gold leaf, plaster, and expressive brushwork create differentiation between themes. This commingling of materials imparts the unbound characters and forms with a sense of individual elegance.
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Volker Hüller
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