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Fondation Cartier to Open Massive Paris Space in 2025

Fondation Cartier is gearing up to unveil its new Paris location near the Louvre in 2025, transforming a historic Haussmannian building with the help of architect Jean Nouvel, who also designed its current glass-and-steel headquarters on Boulevard Raspail. Originally a luxury hotel and later an antiques gallery, this 19th-century site will offer over 21,000 square feet of exhibition space, blending historic charm with modern design. The space features mobile platforms that allow for flexible layouts, giving artists more freedom to shape their exhibitions.As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, Fondation Cartier continues to push the boundaries of contemporary art. Known for showcasing talent like Sarah Sze, Ron Mueck, and Matthew Barney, the foundation has a reputation for embracing both es...

‘Smoke & Mirrors’ Shines a Light on Barriers of Access

For able-bodied audiences, navigating through a museum or exhibition can be a straightforward experience. For those with disabilities, however, the barriers they face are often overlooked.The Zimmerli Art Museum has unveiled a new group exhibition featuring the work of artists with disabilities from around the world. Titled Smoke & Mirrors, the show conceptualizes access through ideas of transparency, antagonism, and humor as each artist brings institutional inequity to the surface.“The exhibition really comes from the perspective of a disabled person or a disabled artist specifically. It's trying to make transparent this idea of something that we ordinarily would not notice or take for granted,” says guest curator Dr. Amanda Cachia. “That's why I use that turn of phrase, ‘smoke and mi...

Talia Chetrit Trusts Her ‘Gut’

In the hum of Milan fashion week, photographer Talia Chetrit reveals her most comprehensive exhibition to date. Bearing the intimacy of its title, Gut evokes the visceral and vulnerable at once. The show gathers works from 1994 to 2023, creating a dialogue between Chetrit's personal and public worlds in a lyrical display of images.In the crescendo of her artistic career, Chetrit’s instinctive approach to composition is made evident. Through a series of self-portraits, family scenes, still lifes, and street photography, each image invites viewers to reflect on the nature of human relationships in its own light. Blending emotional intensity with daring pictorial structure, Chetrit captures what it means to be both behind and in front of the lens.Presented by 10 Corso Como at their concept st...

Danielle Mckinney Turns Inward in ‘Haven’

Danielle Mckinney suspends the domestic into the atmospheric. Her compositions begin with all-black canvases, as subjects reveal themselves in a wash of chiaroscuro. For Haven, the artist’s first solo show at Galerie Max Hetzler, Mckinney brings visual poetry to Berlin in a display of oil paintings and new watercolor works on paper.Trained as a photographer, Mckinney cinematically captures moments of introspection. As her protagonists lounge leisurely on couches and read magazines, the aura of Haven extends beyond its frames. Drawing imagery from social media and vintage magazines, the artist summons a timeless quality in her intimate arrangements, as subjects revel in physical and psychic interiority.At the heart of the show is its eponymous piece. The painting imagines a woman, clad in b...

Cj Hendry Brings a ‘Flower Market’ to NYC’s Roosevelt Island

This past weekend, contemporary artist Cj Hendry brought an immersive installation of blooms and blossoms to FDR Four Freedoms Park located in New York’s Roosevelt Island. Housed in a 120-foot by 40-foot greenhouse, Flower Market conjures childlike wonder and joy in its display of 100,000 handcrafted flowers. In collaboration with French skincare brand Clé de Peau Beauté and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, the artist invites viewers to stop and smell the roses.For the exhibition, Hendry references a quote from American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." Bringing this idea to life, viewers were invited to take a walk amongst the blooms, touch their plush petals, and take one home as a keepsake.Among the 21 different species of...

Wang Xin Explores Death & Rebirth in ‘Head Swapping Games’

The MadeIn Art Museum is currently presenting Wang Xin's solo exhibition ‘Head Swapping Games’ through October 15, 2024. This exhibition highlights Xin's exploration of nature, bodily structures, and internal spaces, expressing the fluid relationship between these elements. Showcasing works from 2021 to 2024, Xin's art plays with the concept of transformation, using materials like pastel dust to juxtapose themes of death, rebirth, and universal particles.Inspired by childhood games, the exhibition blurs the lines between animals, humans, plants, and abstract forms. Xin reimagines creatures by swapping heads and bodies, blending insect limbs, decaying organisms, and natural elements to challenge traditional notions of form. The works dissolve boundaries between the physical and spectral, me...

Andile Dyalvane is Guided by ‘Ancestral Whispers’

Friedman Benda presents a new body of work by South African artist, healer, and spiritual leader Andile Dyalvane. In a series of textural and vibrant vessels, the exhibition renders a visual language of strength and courage. Imagining tradition and possibility through craft, Dyalvane weaves collective history and contemporary narrative to make anew.Each vessel of OoNomathotholo: Ancestral Whispers tells a story. The title conjures generational knowledge, highlighting Xhosa connections to land through the vessels, a nod to pots used to store memories in a display of rich textures and vibrant colors. Each piece is made from clay drawn from the rivers near the village of Ngobozanza, the artist’s birthplace in the Eastern Cape.Punctuated with knobs and scores, the artist joins Xhosa practices ...

Pieter Ceizer Brings the ‘Good Vibes’ With His First Metal Edition Artwork

The good vibes never end in the world of Amsterdam-born, Paris-based artist Pieter Ceizer. He's known for his cheerful Woody sculptures, warm-hued, large-scale canvases and playful collaborations with everyone from Paris Saint-German to Uniqlo and more. Now, he's encapsulating that positive energy in a literal way: through the aptly-named Good Vibes, his first metal edition artwork (his past metal creations have all been 1:1 gallery pieces).A "steel drawing," Good Vibes takes Ceizer's mono line drawing style and applies it in an alternate medium. Cut out of raw steel and painted in six colors — yellow, orange, pink, black and both navy and powder blue — it displays a mini-landscape inspired by a warm sunset over the ocean: "Good," spelled out in a geometric font, is sinking into the sea wh...

Through the Lens: Alastair Philip Wiper

There’s an unexpected allure in Alastair Philip Wiper’s photography, where beauty emerges from the most utilitarian environments. His images of factories, laboratories, and industrial facilities reveal symmetry, texture, and color often hidden beneath their functional surfaces. Alastair doesn’t glamorize these spaces; instead, he brings out their innate aesthetics, uncovering an unexpected elegance in places many overlook.For more than 12 years, the British photographer has traversed the globe, capturing everything from wind tunnels and shoe-testing machines to razor blade factories and sex doll production lines. His work elevates industrial photography beyond mere documentation, blending precision with a playful eye for composition.Drawing inspiration from fashion photographers like Jean-...

Josh Kline Probes the Transformative Power of ‘Social Media’

For Social Media, Josh Kline ushers in an era of self-obsession. On view at Lisson Gallery in New York, the artist presents his first series of self-portraits, approaching the selfie with a new realm of possibility. Through hauntingly realistic forms, the exhibition reflects a moment of self-promotion and commodification in the digital age.In this new body of work, Kline fragments the body and puzzles them back together. He expands on his decade-long exploration of social media platforms, now implicating himself in these portraits of labor. In a collection of upholstered office chairs and segmented hands clasping tools for various labor practices, the installation immortalizes work-induced exhaustion into a modern-day period piece.Located somewhere between the present and the imminent futu...

Fotografiska and Mass Appeal To Present Immersive Hip-Hop Exhibition

Fotografiska Berlin will open the exhibition Hip Hop: Conscious, Unconscious, presented in collaboration with Mass Appeal. This retrospective celebrates the transformative power of hip-hop, tracing its evolution from the Bronx in the 1970s to its global impact today. Featuring over 200 striking photographs by more than 50 renowned artists, the exhibition highlights iconic figures and pivotal moments that have shaped the culture.The exhibition's core story explores how hip-hop has united people, provided a platform for marginalized voices, and catalyzed social and political change by confronting oppression. Beyond a chronological account, the photographs showcase hip-hop as a revolutionary tool for empowerment, revealing its conscious movement and enduring influence on pop culture.The Germa...

Hypeart Visits: From Pitch to Pottery, Lev Rosenbush’s Artistic Take on Football

Less than two percent of college athletes make it to the pros. It’s a tough pill to swallow for players who dedicate their entire lives to sport, only to pivot to an entirely different career out of necessity. “I was in denial for a while,” Lev Rosenbush tells Hypeart.Born in Brooklyn and currently based in London, Rosenbush had aspirations to follow in the footsteps of famed American keeper Tim Howard, having attended Ohio’s Kenyon college, only to fall short to ascend to the next level. “It was frustrating because I trained so hard and got to a position where I felt like I was playing at a high level and things just didn’t align at my school.”Thankfully for Rosenbush, blocking shots wasn’t his only calling in life. In hindsight, the self-described “designer and storyteller” found solace ...