Jill Magid - Failed States - Honor Fraser - LA

through July 4th 2012

Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power. In January 2010, while on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, Magid witnessed a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. After attempting to speak with a state employee a young man named Fausto Cardenas exited the building and —in full view of security- fired six shots from a small caliber gun into the Texas sky. Cardenas has offered no explanation for his actions. Last August, after eighteen months of incarceration, he took a plea bargain, ultimately silencing himself.

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PURE PERCEPTION - group show - Monica De Cardenas - Milan

through July 27th 2012

Kristin Baker, Laura Owens, Mai-Thu Perret, Amanda Ross-Ho 

With the exhibition Pure Perception Monica De Cardenas Gallery presents new work by four young and acclaimed contemporary artists. The project, curated by Margherita Artoni, sets out to redefine the need for abstraction through an aesthetic itinerary that attempts to bring out the pars construens of the perceptive dimension of the work.

Curated by Margherita Artoni

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Summer show - 11 Rivington - NYC

through August 3rd 2012

Eleven Rivington presents a multi-generational summer group exhibition featuring pictures and objects by Sarah Braman, Daniel Buren, Sam Falls, Mary Heilmann, Morris Louis, and Kyle Thurman.

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I Second That Emotion - group show - TAON - Ivry sur Seine

through July 14th 2012

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Marco Basta - Blue Thursday - Gasconade - Milan

through July 21st 2012

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Ulrich Erben - Raum Bilder - DUVE - Berlin

through August 4th 2012

In his new reduced work, Erben seduces the viewer to specific heirs (Seherlebnis). These images require time and foster thoughtful and sensual feelings of movement. They exist npt only to be viewed, but to be experienced. Their color and shape arouses ideas, associations and mental (inner) images that allow a wide range of experiencal sensations, from quietly meditative to dynamically active, and transform the spectators into participants.

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An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art - group show - Francesca Minini - Milan

through July 14th 2012

Artists in the Exhibition:

Meriç Algün Ringborg, Ghada Amer, Nina Beier, Pierre Bismuth, Liudvikas Buklys, Christian Burnoski, Claire Fontaine, Ryan Gander, Juozas Laivys, Sol LeWitt, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Kris Martin, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Jonathan Monk, Alek O., Dan Rees, Mandla Reuter, Ron Terada, Mario Garcia Torres

An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art brings together artworks by both emerging and established artists that are in various ways and in different states incomplete. 

Through painting, drawing, sculpture, video and photography, the exhibition looks at the incomplete, and respectively the complete, in connection with the visual arts as well as life at large. It poses questions in regard to whether or not a work of art can ever be complete, and if so by whom, in examining what is to be complete or incomplete. 

Curated by Adam Carr

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Jack Vickridge/Lizzie Wright - Nicelle Beauchene - NYC

through August 3rd 2012

The two artists in this exhibition are united not only by their shared exploration of  geometric abstraction but through their use of spare, elegant forms rendered through their  physical approach to mark making and material investigation of wood.  In some instances  the geometry is removed or substituted, while in others it is suggested as the elusive site  of memory and time. In either case, both artists present work that locates itself partially  beyond its apparent graphical content to rigorous sites where the manipulation and  contemplation of materials is the aesthetic conceit.     

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Lupo Borgonovo - Orbita - Fluxia - Milan

Last chance: through June 23rd 2012

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Pika Don - group show - Gallerie Jocelyn Wolff - Paris

through July 28th 2012

COLETTE BRUNSCHWIG, MIRIAM CAHN, MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS,

GUILLAUME LEBLON, ON KAWARA

curated by Jocelyn Wolff and Erik Verhagen

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Image Object - group show - Foxy Production - NYC

through July 13th 2012

Image Object is a group exhibition that considers the relationship between images and objects in the age of digital media. With prints, sculptures and collages by ANDREA LONGACRE-WHITE, TRAVESS SMALLEY, KATE STECIW, and ARTIE VIERKANT, the exhibition probes the ways in which artists negotiate both gallery space and online space. With visual content transposed and modified across digital platforms, notions of what an artwork can be are in flux, not unlike the way personal identities are shape-shifting across social networks. The works in Image Object reflect these developments.

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Steel Life - group show - Michael Benevento - LA

through July 28th 2012

organised by Zak Kitnik

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