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Sue Williams has lived and worked in New York since the mid-1980s. In her early career, she became known to a wider audience with her highly narrative painting. In taboo-like visual stories that seem like comics and caricatures, scenes of domestic violence and sexual obscenity, the artist expresses her rage over the enduring acceptance of sexism in society.[...]

“Just a matter of time” – the sequence of individual actions results in a specific present time. Past actions are part of this present, which is itself merely a passage to the future. In different ways, the artists Barbara Kasten, Allan McCollum, Jimmy Robert, Katja Strunz, Wolfang Tillmanns and Jennifer West literally “pass through” several material and formal qualities in their works.[...]

Francis Alÿs in collaboration with Olivier Debroise and Rafael Ortega. A Story of Deception, Patagonia, 2006 still from 16mm film (4:20). Courtesy of Francis Alÿs and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich © Francis Alÿs.

A Story of Deception is the title of Francis Alÿs‘ current retrospective on view at the Tate Modern. The title of the exhibition, which spans the artist’s two-decade long career is borrowed from a work of the same name, and appropriately provides the exhibition’s subtitle and introduces the gallery visitor to Alÿs’ work.[...]

The word “temporal” is defined as “of or relating to the sequence of a particular time.” Laurent Grasso’s own work, such as the series of what appear to be 16th century paintings and drawings, Studies Into the Past, uses the conceptual notion of shifting temporalities and multiple temporalities existing simultaneously to create a surreal suspension in time.

Under the title Spagotzen, a neologism coined by the artist, Daniel Richter’s most recent exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac comprises fifteen works showing mysterious figures bathed in an artificial light typical of Richter, against a sometimes seismographically linear background.

The Regional Series is a year-long project by cultural promoter and artist Abdiel Segarra, founder of the publication Conboca, that will consist of exhibitions and events that within a particular framework attempt to establish a dialogue between artist, curator and spectator as an educational, investigative and cultural platform. The exhibitions will take place at the Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, La Puntilla in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

You Were There, an exhibition curated by Thomas Duncan at Rachel Uffner Gallery, features work by Rita Ackermann, Justin Adian, Joe Bradley, Sarah Braman, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, and Josh Smith. The exhibition examines how time affects an artist’s practice, attitude and overall outlook.[...]

New York-based artists Steven Baldi and Lucas Knipscher have a show currently on view at Andrew Kreps Gallery until August 7th. The show is a continuation of a project initiated by Piper Marshall of the Swiss Institute at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. The current manifestation of the exhibition considers the capacity for images to synchronously reveal and obstruct meaning by ways of construction and reconfiguration. The works in the show reflect the shifts of geography and time, and include sculpture, film, photography and painting.[...]

Dani Marti‘s work deals with the impossibility of portraiture and unveils the frenetic desire in each of us to capture through a photograph, an object or a video the essence of a person. In his work, Marti pairs different mediums such as painting with video and photography, to construct a portrait of someone with whom he has had a personal, creative and/or sexual relationship. Marti transforms this very intimate encounter, however ephemeral it may have been, into an intricate pattern, a woven account of image, text and object that transcends the traditional notions of painting and portraiture.

On the occasion of the centenary of Max Weiler’s birthday, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman dedicates an extensive exhibition to the doyen of Austrian landscape painting that will primarily consist of rarely seen masterpieces. The spectrum will reach from the representational earlyworks of the nineteen-forties via the milestones of painterly abstraction of the sixties and the lyrically reduced works of the seventies all the way to the brightly coloured,impulsive late works.