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Rita Ackermann's Blue Period
Titled after a 2010 painting that the artist considers pivotal, "Negative Muscle," Rita Ackermann's first showing with Hauser & Wirth in New York, is a tour de force of 17 large-scale paintings and smaller works on paper completed over the past three years. Ackermann has long been interested in melding figuration and abstraction, but in this installment, a new and versatile side of the artist's esthetic is revealed. Androgynous forms populate the compositions as solo characters or in clusters, held together by subtle color relationships and swirling pools of painterly material.Read More
Artistic Positions: Q+A with Luc Tuymans
On Jan. 10, "The Summer is Over," Luc Tuymans's 10th show with David Zwirner Gallery in New York, will open. The seven paintings in the exhibition, which feature imagery culled solely from the painter's personal environment, represent somewhat of a new direction in the artist's work—one where looking and self-reflection come to the fore.
A.i.A. spoke with Tuymans about the exhibition, its personal significance for the artist, and his views on the politics of privacy.
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Mixed Media. Courtesy Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, and the artist.
Extraction, the most recent series of mixed media collages
