The Shock of the Now - Issue #164
Afternoon All - Welcome to Issue 164 of The Shock of the Now! I hope you’re having an enjoyable week.
This week, the full issue includes seventeen Recommended Exhibitions, as well as eleven fresh Artist Opportunities.
I hope you enjoy Issue 164, and if so do forward it along! As always, questions and comments are welcome, so feel free to get in touch, H x
Recommended Exhibitions Opening This Week :
Richard Sides - ‘Psychology’ Solo Exhibition - Carlos/Ishikawa, Whitechapel (13th March - 12th April, opening Wednesday 12th March, 6-8pm)
Carlos/Ishikawa presents Richard Sides’ solo exhibition ‘Psychology’.
Cecilia Reeve - ‘What the Water Gave Them’ Solo Exhibition - Twilight Contemporary, Dalston (13th March - 5th April, opening Thursday 13th March, 6-8pm)
Twilight Contemporary presents Cecilia Reeve’s solo exhibition ‘What the Water Gave Them’.
“At first glance, this collection exudes a serene and dreamlike quality, but a closer look reveals a darker narrative lurking beneath the surface. The recurring imagery of three legs, along with the symbolism of moths, snails, moons, and scissors, suggests that the three women are engaged in an occult-like ritual of rebirth. Through these paintings and animations, viewers are invited to take part in the narrative’s unfolding, as the interplay of symbolism, body language, and archetypal characters fosters meaningful connections between the works.” - Twilight Contemporary
Anne Rothenstein - Solo Exhibition - Stephen Friedman, Mayfair (14th March - 12th April, opening Thursday 13th March, 6-8pm)
Stephen Friedman presents a solo exhibition of new paintings by British artist Anne Rothenstein.
“My reasons, or intentions, when making a particular painting are quite mysterious to me. The spark is always lit from an existing image, a photograph or another painting, and I often don’t discover why that image leaped out at me or what it is I’m exploring until the work is finished. Sometimes I never find out. It is almost entirely intuitive.” - Anne Rothenstein
Minyoung Choi - ‘Distant Night’ Solo Exhibition - Lychee One, London Fields (13th March - 12th April, opening Thursday 13th March, 6-8:30pm)
Lychee One presents Minyoung Choi’s solo exhibition ‘Distant Night’.
“Minyoung Choi’s paintings are pictures of places that are somewhere else. It is not possible to locate or date these scenes; we could be looking at the past, the present or the future. Or they could also easily be an alternate past, an adjacent present or a substituted future. We are looking into, through and over a place that is both particular and yet unremarkable. It may be a domestic setting, such as a bathroom bathed in fluorescent light. It may be a snowy nocturne where stillness has been disturbed by a duo of play-fighting lynx.” - Scott McCracken
Celia Paul - ‘Colony of Ghosts’ Solo Exhibition + Inka Essenhigh - ‘The Greenhouse’ Solo Exhibition - Victoria Miro, Wharf Road (14th March - 17th April, opening Thursday 13th March, 6-8pm)
Victoria Miro presents Celia Paul’s solo exhibition ‘Colony of Ghosts’ (above) and Inka Essenhigh’s solo exhibition ‘The Greenhouse’.
“Celia Paul has always mined the complexities of interior and exterior life, looping back and forth through time to the people and places closest to her. It is this highly personal consideration of time, and painting’s unique relationship to it, that underpins her latest body of work. Constancy and change, and how the past is always held in dialogue with the eternal present of the painted image, are, for Paul, inextricably linked to a consideration of self.” - Victoria Miro
“Inka Essenhigh’s paintings seduce and disarm in equal measure. Each painting is a complete world in itself, impeccably realised, governed by its own logic and in possession of its own narrative. Each has its own ecology and its protagonists – human, floral, or other. The New York-based artist’s latest body of work features botanical, landscape and figurative motifs poised between an exuberant exterior world and an energetic interior consciousness.” - Victoria Miro