The Fall Previews: Europe Edition

SCULPTURALLY INCLINED by ArtSlant London Editor Charlotte Jansen Having been overshadowed by its omnipotent cultural kin – sport – this summer, this autumn should be a phlegmatic return for visual art forms in London. The vestiges of a turbulent few years, socially, economically and culturally, still remain in the city, however, and it seems to have inspired a new spate of exhibitions that consider environments and space – from the contemplative, to the laconic and the humourous. Assessing the physical space around us, how it moulds us, and the way in which we consequently express ourselves in the context of our enviroment, seems to be a pivotal theme arising from the gamut of Autumn shows – the corollary of a city laden with influences from around the globe, that has been submitted to constant construction and reconstruction. Some of the best exhibitions opening in the coming months across the city seem to be taking a literal stance on this idea, with a proliferation of sculpture exhibitions... ...Read more...
THE RETURN OF THE STEDELIJK by ArtSlant Amsterdam Editor Andrea Alessi Over the years visitors have left a number of Amsterdam guidebooks on my bookshelf. Out of curiosity, I recently perused the entries for the Stedelijk, Amsterdam’s modern and contemporary art museum, which has been closed for renovations for nearly a decade. One tells me the displaced museum “will reopen in the original building” in December 2009; another offers the even more suspect “closed until mid-2006.” The misinformation ends here. Let the fanfare commence as I tell you now what these misguided books could not: the Stedelijk will reopen – with Queen Beatrix in attendance! – on September 22, 2012. I grew up in Boston so I’m familiar with stretched construction deadlines. While the Stedelijk renovation is not exactly Amsterdam’s Big Dig, it did leave a gaping hole – if not in the city’s physical landscape, then in its cultural one. Just as Boston’s traffic was rerouted onto provisional overpasses, in recent years Stedelijk exhibitions have found makeshift accommodation in various places throughout the city, mostly notably in an old post office near the Central Station, and more recently in the unfinished shell of its soon to be permanent home... ...Read more...
	THOMAS HOUSEAGO: I'll Be Your Sister Hauser & Wirth September 7th - October 27th More LON Editor's Choice...
GABRIEL OROZCO . Galerie Chantal Crousel September 8th - October 20th More PAR Editor's Choice...	SYLVIE FLEURY: Do Not Think of The Color Blue For Thirty Seconds Mehdi Chouakri September 12th - October 6th More BER Editor's Choice...
JACK PIERSON: Jesus and Nazimova Xavier Hufkens September 7th - October 6th More BRX Editor's Choice...	PILVI TAKALA: Disappearing Act Galerie Diana Stigter September 8th - October 13th More AMS Editor's Choice...
	Berlin, Sept. 2012: Marinella Senatore’s art offers an inspiring example of people working together to create intellectual consensus by collectively investigating the nature of community. Her elaborate film projects involve masses of volunteers in various cosmopolitan cities who band together for a common creative goal. The Italian filmmaker and artist refuses to claim an authoritative position in her projects. But she graciously grants us an interview before her upcoming solo show at Peres Projects, in Berlin, which opens on September 15. Read more in this week's Rackroom interview.
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Carol Ladewig, Year in Color, 2011 (52 weeks and a day),2011, acrylic and gouache on 365 canvases, 88 x 162 in.  The Year in Color (52 weeks and a day), developed from a desire to give an abstraction (time), a literal and visual shape. To create a visual record of time, Carol Ladewig painted a 6 x 6 inch canvas panel to represent each day. The work will be on view in the Keeping Time exhibition at the Kala Arts Center in Berkeley, CA, from Oct. 4 to Nov. 24 Carol Ladewig received her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Since then she has been showing her work throughout the Bay Area and elsewhere. Ladewig’s work is held in both public and private collections across the United States and Europe.
Les Mayers, Geisha, 2012, archival ink on museum grade fine art paper, limited edition of 25, 40 x 44 in. Selected works from Les Mayers' expansive and highly colorful 'Asian Collection' will be featured from September 8 through October 7, 2012, at the ArtLA Gallery in the Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA. Les Mayers is an emerging artist in the contemporary art scene of Southern California. His work has been featured in exhibits from coast to coast throughout the United States, and the artist incorporates numerous state-of-the-art advances of modern technology to create and display his work.
Tracy Girdler, Elisabet, 2011, mixed media, 72 x 60 in.  Tracy Girdler's work is presently featured at the Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, until Sept. 7. Her solo exhibition at the Galleria Monogramma Arte Contemporanea in Rome opens from Oct. 26th until Nov. 28th. The work shown above was selected to appear on the Times Square big screen in New York and for the art publication Art Takes Times Square.  Tracy Girdler studied at Northeastern University and the Corcoran College of Art+Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited her work internationally. Girdler's work can be found in private collections throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America.
Catherine de Saugy, Inspiration, 43 1/4 x 43 1/4 in. Swiss artist Catherine de Saugy studied piano at Geneva Conservatoire de Musique, and graphic arts at the Ecole des Arts Appliqués. She began her career as an artist in 1992, and has exhibited in over 30 galleries and international art fairs. Since 2005, Saugy's work has incorporated paint and digital manipulations on Plexiglas or paper; while contributing to material innovations in the arts, this new technique also gives her painting a new kind of depth. Saugy lives and works in Switzerland.
Debbi Chan, Ladybug Duo Dance, 2012, photography, 8 x 10 in. Debbi Chan's multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, and multi-medium practice blends Eastern traditions with the splendor of the American West. Chan's representations of the natural world stem from traditions of Chinese painting, and find expression primarily in watercolor and ink paintings on silk and rice paper. Chan also creates seal carvings and deep relief carvings in natural materials such as wood, stone, bone, antler, and ivory, as well as working in other media such as embroidery, artist books, etchings, prints, calligraphy and photography.
Al Villaester Jr. started to develop his love for art at the age of ten. His painting Summer, which in actuality was painted in the dead of winter, is drawn from the impressions of dreamlike memories of warmer months, and was exhibited this year at Phillips de Pury. Villaester studied at the School of Visual Art, and lives and works in New York City.   Al Villaester Jr., Summer, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in.