Exhibitions – Sprüth Magers

Thomas Scheibitz
WÜSTE — DSCHUNGEL / Omega UND Tunnel
November 22, 2024–January 11, 2025

Berlin

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present Thomas Scheibitz’s solo exhibition WÜSTE — DSCHUNGEL / Omega UND Tunnel at their Berlin gallery. Thomas Scheibitz’s paintings and sculptures represent a continuous exploration of the visual translation of complex thoughts and social models, which are transformed into multilayered, often fragmented pictorial structures – structures that are simultaneously open and in a perpetual state of flux. From his earliest to his most recent works, Scheibitz simultaneously solves and dissolves everything. These works symbolize the act of encoding and decoding and allude to one of the artist’s main themes: mapping, measuring, penetrating, and exploring a pictorial inventory. This is a difficult territory to explore, a journey between contradictions and extremely varied regions.

Hyun-Sook Song
November 15–December 20, 2024

New York

On the studio floor lies a canvas, with wooden blocks on either side balancing a plank. Equipped with a wide brush, the artist moves intently along this narrow bridge as she performs a dance she describes as “thinking with her hands.” The paintings of Hyun-Sook Song demand this specific set-up, absolute physical control and a particular kind of meditative focus. Taking long, slow, deep breaths, she readies herself for the flow of methodical movements that translate into carefully placed, distinct brushstrokes. Hyun-Sook Song’s singular style and technique that blends the ancient medium of egg tempera with deliberate lines and forms that draw on East Asian calligraphy have come to define her decades-long practice. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the artist’s first solo exhibition in the US at the New York gallery.

Salvo, Andreas Schulze
About Painting
November 12–December 20, 2024

London

The paintings of Andreas Schulze (*1955) and Salvo (1947–2015) depict intriguing worlds unlike any other. Across vibrant landscapes and eccentric interiors, their unique conceptual approaches to painting evolved over decades of experimentation with color, light and form. Working in Turin, Salvo made a radical departure from Arte Povera circles, first to text-based conceptual art and then in 1974 to painting that looked to art historical traditions from Giotto to Surrealism. In Cologne in the 1980s, Schulze developed a practice that balances representation and abstraction and draws also from the past, while infusing his surreal scenes with humor and irony. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are proud to present an exhibition of new works by Schulze alongside paintings by Salvo, bringing into focus their parallel trajectories and contributions to the discourse of contemporary painting. Originally conceived by the late Pasquale Leccese, who knew both artists intimately, this exhibition is dedicated to his memory.

Arthur Jafa
nativemanson
September 14–December 14, 2024

Los Angeles

Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are honored to present the LA-based artist’s first solo gallery exhibition in Los Angeles, featuring recent wall works, sculptures and moving images, including Jafa’s latest film, BG, his deft remix of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, in which Jafa performs an exorcism on the film (and by extension the American unconsciousness) to foreground the Spook that Haunts the American Psyche.

Anthony McCall
Raised Voices
September 13–December 20, 2024

London

Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Raised Voices, an exhibition by Anthony McCall featuring the UK premiere of a new solid light work alongside drawings from throughout his career. McCall’s ‘solid light works’ occupy a space between cinema, sculpture and drawing, with beams of light creating sculptural forms as they are projected through mist within the space. The viewer becomes an active participant in the work, dissected by an undulating light that slowly shifts and changes. The exhibition coincides with two major solo shows of McCall’s work at Tate Modern and Guggenheim Bilbao.

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