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Appointments for Stanley Edmondson’s exhibition ‘Stanley’s Circus’ at Nicodim, Los Angeles, are still available throughout the week. When Alexander Calder moved to Paris in 1926, he began to concoct Cirque Calder, or Calder’s Circus, which would become his most beloved work. A complete miniature Big Top, the circus was an elaborate troupe of animals, clowns, acrobats, nets, flags, carpets, lamps, phonographic records, noisemakers, and an orchestra of musical instruments, the... entirety of which were constructed of easy-to-find household materials. Calder’s Parisian guests would sit indoors while the artist brought the kinetic sculptures to life in choreographed spectacles that could last for hours. Over the course of the past year, Stanley Edmondson found himself considering Calder’s diminutive traveling circus, the life and joy it brought to tiny Parisian salons, and the current global circumstance in which experiencing things indoors with friends and loved ones is dangerous, if not impossible. He assembled and choreographed his own sort of circus: literally larger-than-life ceramic performers engaging with abstractions of trampolines and onomatopoeic visualizations of the tumbles and flips about to ensue. Stanley’s Circus would become a delightful, traveling ensemble as at home indoors as out. Edmondson is the missing link between the Peter Voulkos generation of ceramicists and the current one in Los Angeles. He has been creating and firing his work in his magical home studio in Pasadena his entire life. #StanleyEdmondson #StanleysCircus #NicodimGallery

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO SIMPHIWE NDZUBE FOR THE OPENING OF ORACLES OF THE PINK UNIVERSE AT DENVER ART MUSEUM. The exhibition, installation, and catalog are truly next level. Special thanks to Rebecca Hart, Laura Almeida, and the trustees of DAM for allowing this exhibition to grow in scope and scale in challenging circumstances. If you’re in or around Denver, this is a must see! #SimphiweNdzube #OraclesofthePinkUniverse #DenverArtMuseum #DAM #NicodimGallery

When I was in Senegal, we drove thirteen hours to Ziguinchor on a roundabout route because the road through Gambia was closed due to COVID. We stopped at a gas station, and there was a lone man watching a soccer match. He was sitting at this wood table, and his feet reflected off the tile back at him. It was banal, but it was spiritual, a sense of connectivity to the world at large, even when totally isolated. When I returned from Senegal, I was still reeling from the heat ...and sun of Dakar. I’d come to learn in the months to come that home was different. Especially being in New York, the city was hit hard by COVID. New York, like my new paintings, is in the midst of both a becoming and an undoing. A becoming of what is to be determined. Facades of buildings remain boarded up and out of business. As I walk to my studio or to and fro on my daily my runs, I take close inventory to the surfaces and textures of eroded paint and spray paint skirmishes. In its essence, I wanted to respond to that way time has a hold on the landscape around us. The works are a response to a visual language I see in the natural world. Devin B. Johnson ‘Light Foot’ (2021) is on view at Devin B. Johnson’s solo exhibition ‘Long Walk’ at Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest. #NicodimGallery #LongWalk #DevinBJohnson #GaleriaNicodim

Jorge Peris has arrived in Los Angeles and is taking advantage of his new surroundings in preparing for his upcoming show at Nicodim in Los Angeles, which opens next month in July. Jorge Peris was born in Alzira, Valencia in 1969 and lives and works in El Palmar, Valencia, Spain. Peris has made a name for himself by creating site-specific installations that challenge the viewer’s senses as well as the conventional physicality of the gallery space. Peris’ work combines differ...ent media and often takes the form of installations. The artist operates with the given space and transforms it by adding or subtracting architectural elements. He creates a new situation, felt as real, yet unsettling, in which the sensation of familiarity falls apart. His work tends to widen the gap between emotion and intellect. Beautyand even meaningcan be found in supporting forces at odds with the world. #JorgePeris #NicodimGallery

Dominique Fung’s ‘Tobacco’ (2021) is on view in her solo exhibition ‘It’s Not Polite to Stare’ at Jeffrey Deitch, New York through June 19. In Dominique Fung’s exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch, a series of sumptuous birdcages hang from the gallery’s ceiling, inviting viewers to peer through and observe their ceramic inhabitants. Inspired by the tradition of taking songbirds for walks in parks in Hong Kong, these works stem from the artist’s interest in the act of staring and o...ur shifting perception of subjects and objects. Fung’s work is fueled by Asian American critical feminism. She is interested in theorist Anne Anlin Cheng’s analysis of the figuration of the Yellow woman, regularly sexualized, spectacularized, rendered synthetic and ornamental. Like Cheng’s research, Fung’s paintings and sculptures address the crisis of persons taken for things, while things have acquired aliveness and agency from the bodies they evoke. Engaging with this history of fetishism for bodies and objects saturated with colonial and imperial history, Fung acquired these antique-looking birdcages from estate sales and online auctions in the US and modeled anthropomorphized objects to populate them. The artist sees her works as a collaboration with the anonymous artisans who crafted the birdcages. These objects’ unknown provenances echo the lack of specific information that often accompanies Asian artifacts displayed in international museums. #DominiqueFung #ItsNotPoliteToStare #JeffreyDeitch #NicodimGallery

Simphiwe Ndzube’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, ‘Oracles of the Pink Universe’ opens this weekend at the Denver Art Museum. On view will be this painting, ‘The Bloom of the Corpse Flower’ (2020), along with seven other major new works exploring the interplay between magical realism and history. The exhibition integrates themes related to power, conflict, and the search for freedom through a Pink Universe, an imaginative world that combines fantasy with t...he history of Ndzube’s post-apartheid South Africa. A genre first conceptualized in Latin America, magical realism infuses reality with elements of the fantastical. ‘Oracles of the Pink Universe’ is an expansion of Ndzube's visual search that explores a mythological place, drawing from his personal experiences, imagination, and art history. He will present exclusive works that depart from Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (14901500), depicting a theatrical space where heaven, earth and hell intersect. As visitors step into this alternate universe, they will be confronted with artworks that explore themes of conflict, tension, resilience, strength and a fight for human rights. ‘Oracles of the Pink Universe’ will include an entirely new body of work comprised of vibrant paintings and sculptures, some of which ingeniously transform from two dimensional to three dimensional works of art. Ndzube’s mythical world explores boundaries, whether ontological, political, or geographical, and embraces the coexistence of seemingly irreconcilable realities, spaces and systems that confront the viewer’s perception of what is possible. Share your visit online using #PinkUniverseatDAM Access included in general museum admission. #SimphiweNdzube #OraclesofthePinkUniverse #DenverArtMuseum #NicodimGallery

Stanley Edmondson’s ‘Untitled’ (2021) is on view at Nicodim, Los Angeles in ‘Stanley’s Circus’ through June 26th. Stanley’s Circus, Edmondson’s first exhibition with Nicodim, is a synthesis of a solitary reaction to an unprecedented year of global upheaval, the artist’s unique place in Southern California and world art history, and the very earth Los Angeles and its surroundings are built upon. There is room for everyone under his Big Top, and his end goal is unbridled joy. ... Edmondson is the missing link between the Peter Voulkos generation of ceramicists and the current one in Los Angeles. He has been creating and firing his work in his magical home studio in Pasadena his entire life, while crafting all his own clay and glaze recipes. #StanleyEdmondson #NicodimGallery #StanleysCircus

This amazing work by Moffat Takadiwa is included in 'Parcours Saint-Germain, Au fil de l'art' at Phillips, Paris, June 1 10, 2021. The artist Anni Albers states that if the essence of architecture is to be rigid and permanent, then that of textiles is its antithesis. Through her creation of a body of work that has transformed the conventional understanding of textile art, transcending the notion of a handicraft reserved exclusively for women, Anni Albers has paved the wa...y for a practice that has since been ceaselessly re-interpreted and has elevated itself to the very pinnacle of the visual arts. This exhibition hosted by Phillips, pays tribute to this medium by bringing together six artists around the subjects of the thread, weaving, waft and warp. Through the choice of weaving as a common denominator rather than textiles themselves, the exhibition reveals the artists’ constant curiosity and their thirst to explore the repetitive act, recycling, performance and intimacy. This exhibition features six artists, who through their complex and diverse practices accompany us on a journey through a suspended instant in the fabric of art. #MoffatTakadiwa #ParcoursStGermain #PhillipsParis #SemioseGalerie #NicodimGallery

Devin B. Johnson’s ‘Bernie’ (2021) is on view now in his solo exhibition ‘Long Walk’ at Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest. I was on the M train and this guy was sitting across from me, dressed to the nines in oranges and browns. Everything about him was color-coordinated, right down to the Reese’s peanut butter cups he was holding. It was incredible the way his style, sense of humor, his entire personality could be conveyed in the way he carried himself. I smelled his cologne ever...y time I approached the canvas, and every time I look at it now. Devin B. Johnson ‘Long Walk,’ Devin B. Johnson’s second solo exhibition with Nicodim, is a meditation on entropy and the re-assertion of soul and identity in a city following tragedy. On view at our Romanian galley through June 26. #DevinBJohnson #LongWalk #NicodimGallery #GaleriaNicodim

Philip Kremer’s ‘Gathering (XX)’ (2020) is on view now in 'How you like it and what we are' at Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich through June 25, 2021. Curated by Olaf Holapfel, Philipp Kremer joins Annedore Dietze, Franziska Goes, Hanna Hennenkemper, Olaf Holapfel, Malene List Thomsen, Sarah Loibl, Nik Nowak, Lisa Wilkens, and Ran Zhang in this group exhibition. The erect dicks, anguished faces, and interlocked bodies in Kremer’s paintings are depicted with large, swift, yet pre...cise brushstrokes of unmixed, bright, and transparent oil paint, and composed entirely in primary and secondary colors. He intentionally leaves ostensible voids on the canvas to reinforce the aesthetic expression of the negative space, which allows for a more objective reading of his provocative portraiture and diffuses their innate eroticism. By zooming-in on the joyous and occasionally distressed faces and applying bigger brushstrokes of more than one color on each canvas, he intensifies the interplay between indexicality and iconicity: tracing the physical act of painting while insisting on being an organized representational, yet emotional picture. #PhilippKremer #GalerieSabineKnust #NicodimGallery

Larry Madrigal’s ‘Dream of Impending Storm’ is on view in ‘Senses of Brown’ a virtual exhibition on Armory Access: Curated put together by César García-Alvarez, founder of The Mistake Room and co-curator of Desert X 2021. ‘Senses of Brown’ is on view today June 3rd through June 13th, exploring the debates around the term Latinx through the lens of contemporary artistic practices. #LarryMadrigal #SensesofBrown #ArmoryAccessCurated #CesarGarciaAlvarez #NicodimGallery

Appointments for Stanley Edmondson’s exhibition ‘Stanley’s Circus’ are still available throughout the week. When Alexander Calder moved to Paris in 1926, he began to concoct Cirque Calder, or Calder’s Circus, which would become his most beloved work. A complete miniature Big Top, the circus was an elaborate troupe of animals, clowns, acrobats, nets, flags, carpets, lamps, phonographic records, noisemakers, and an orchestra of musical instruments, the entirety of which were c...onstructed of easy-to-find household materials. Calder’s Parisian guests would sit indoors while the artist brought the kinetic sculptures to life in choreographed spectacles that could last for hours. Over the course of the past year, Stanley Edmondson found himself considering Calder’s diminutive traveling circus, the life and joy it brought to tiny Parisian salons, and the current global circumstance in which experiencing things indoors with friends and loved ones is dangerous, if not impossible. He assembled and choreographed his own sort of circus: literally larger-than-life ceramic performers engaging with abstractions of trampolines and onomatopoeic visualizations of the tumbles and flips about to ensue. Stanley’s Circus would become a delightful, traveling ensemble as at home indoors as out. Edmondson is the missing link between the Peter Voulkos generation of ceramicists and the current one in Los Angeles. He has been creating and firing his work in his magical home studio in Pasadena his entire life. #StanleyEdmondson #StanleysCircus #NicodimGallery

PAPA RAGAZZE! NICODIM UPSTAIRS LOS ANGELES DECEMBER 12 JANUARY 30 ISABELLE ALBUQUERQUE VICTORIA CANTONS KATJA FARIN DOMINIQUE FUNG STACY LEIGH CASSI NAMODA KATHERINA OLSCHBAUR CATALINA OUYANG CIMA RAHMANKHAH MOSIE ROMNEY ED RUSCHA ILONA SZWARC JENNIFER WEST... Curated by OLIVIA NEUTRON BOMB DAUGHTERS OF THE OLD WORLD ORDER, HEAR US! In 1978, Ed Ruscha predicted a future with exclusively female racecar drivers. He was right. PAPA RAGAZZE is an operation of the EMPATHETIC COUNSEL, a paramilitary wing of the future MATRIARCHAL UTOPIA where men have been made obsolete and exterminated. In the 1970s through the early 2010s, noted groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster captured plaster moulds of the erect penises of famous and not-so-famous musicians. She crafted semiperfect reproductions of the manhoods of Jimi Hendrix, Jello Biafra, Frank Zappa’s bodyguard, and countless other alpha-archetypes. This was not out of subservience to the Patriarchy, but rather the first step in a decades-long process that will eliminate the necessity of any sort of manhood whatsoever. The second step starts now. This exhibition is a blueprint from your MOTHERS IN THE FUTURE for the elimination of men. We are PAPA RAGAZZE, and WE NEED YOU to enable a FUTURE WITHOUT TOXIC MEMBERS. Film by Olivia Neutron Bomb (aka Ben Lee Ritchie Handler) and Mike Zamora Morrell Voice and translation: Valerj Pobega Empress Matriarch: Melahn Frierson Brigate Rosse: Isabelle Albuquerque Victoria Cantons Dominique Fung Tasha Gonsalves Stacy Leigh Nicolette Mishkan Paz Zamora Morrell Katherina Olschbaur Cima Rahmankhah Mosie Romney Corinne Schiavone Aly Tipacti Jennifer West Allison Wolfe Emilia Yin

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JUST ANNOUNCED: #SIMPHIWENDZUBE's upcoming solo exhibition 'Oracles of the Pink Universe' at the Denver Art Museum which opens June 13, 2021 and is on view through September 12, 2021. "In the first U.S. solo museum exhibition for South African contemporary artist Simphiwe Ndzube, Oracles of the Pink Universe presents seven new immersive works exploring the interplay between magical realism and history. Opening June 2021, the exhibition integrates themes related to power, conf...Continue reading

Georgina Gratrix The G.O.A.T., 2020 On view in Georgina Gratrix: The Pleasure is Mine at Nicodim, Los Angeles

Open today at ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair: #NicodimGallery presents a solo booth by #DominiqueFung Dominique Fung’s (b. 1987, Ottawa, Canada) new series of large-scale paintings for DETOUR at ART021 are the result of the subsequent years of research into her motherland’s cultural history, casting the objects in the Met she once fetishized as an entry pointthey grapple with the humorous, the uncanny, and the sublime in their investigations and criticism of cultural ...authenticity. Produced specifically for the upcoming fair, this series represents the artist’s dark and playful exploration of her own jook-sing-ness; they navigate and reclaim the water of her identity suspended within bamboo. #GaleriaNicodim #NicodimLA #Shanghai #ART021 #ART021ShanghaiContemporaryArtFair

Georgina Gratrix: The Pleasure is Mine and Georgina Gratrix: Nine Weeks are the South African artist’s first solo exhibitions Stateside. They open concurrently at Nicodim and Nicodim Upstairs in Los Angeles this Saturday, October 24, by appointment. Book your viewing at www.nicodimgallery.com/reservations. Most frequently employed as a genteel response to it’s a pleasure to meet you, the phrase the pleasure is mine possesses a distinctly old-world quality. It harkens to a...Continue reading

Lou Andreas-Salomé, the psychoanalyst, writer and infamous lover, defined eroticism as what ruptures the ego. To enter into an erotic encounter is to break apart our neatly constructed selves, to invite destruction; it is also a chance for a volcanic eruption of selves that have long laid dormant to bubble to the surface, to spill out, take over and find their physical expression. In a recent interview, Isabelle Albuquerque described the year she conceived Orgy for 10 Peop...le in One Body, the series from which Sextet is pulled from, as the most sexual year of my life. Just as Mount Vesuvius erupting captured the bodies of Pompeii in placecrying out, stretching forth, entwined in an embraceAlbuquerque has allowed herself to erupt open through powerful vulnerability. Through body casting and expert use of 3D imaging she has, in six fabrications, captured the feelings that rumbled through her in this year of sensual experience, and offers us an erotic Pompeii of One. #IsabelleAlbuquerque featured in Artillery Magazine in a review written by #JulieSchulte Read more at: https://www.artillerymag.com/isabelle-albuquerque/ #NicodimGallery #GaleriaNicodim #Orgyfor10PeopleinOneBody #ArtilleryMagazine #LosAngeles #LosAngelesArtist

#LarryMadrigal's exhibition at #NicodimUpstairs 'Scattered Daydream' is on view through October 17th. Thanks #EricMinhSwenson for this great footage!

#SimphiweNdzube featured on #AgnesLew's 'A List Recommendations' Simphiwe Ndzube’s work just captivated my interest, and I knew that I had to interview him, says Agnes Lew, East West Bank’s senior vice president and head of private banking. As an appreciator of art, I can say that everything Ndzube uses, from the bold colors to how he applies different dimensions, transports you to a mystical world. In collaboration with the Gallery Association Los Angeles, Lew is exclus...ively interviewing a variety of prominent artists in the LA art scene during the pandemic to contextualize and showcase their work. To date, 81 galleries have united to create an online space called Gallery Platform LA during the shutdown to provide art aficionados around the world a way to enjoy and engage with art. Gallery Platform LA features 10 gallery viewing rooms along with a selected project on a rotating basis every eight weeks. East West Bank is a proud sponsor of Gallery Platform LA. In this edition of Lew’s artist series, she talks with South African artist Simphiwe Ndzube who has been receiving a lot of attention in LA. From a video interview with Vanity Fair, to his most recent exhibition at the Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles, Ndzube’s unique collection has traveled and received wide attention around the world. Inspired by moments in his childhood and his experience in post-apartheid South Africa, Ndzube’s work tells a story that is distinctly relevant in today’s world. Read more on: https://www.eastwestbank.com//Agnes-A-List-Artist-Intervie

#GeorginaGratrix featured in 'Broken Face' curated by #AliSubotnik for #GalleryPlatformLA! See this work and more on www.GalleryPlatform.LA Georgina's first solo show with Nicodim Gallery debuts in Los Angeles onOctober 24th. Save the date! : 'The T.V. Detective', 2020, oil on canvas, 75 x 65.5 x 7.5 cm

Installation images for #LarryMadrigal's solo exhibition 'Scattered Daydream' at #NicodimUpstairs in #LosAngeles are now online. Check them out at www.nicodimgallery.com/exhibitions or make an appointment to visit us in-person at www.nicodimgallery.com/reservations! Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. Joan Didion, Blue Nights, 2011 Let me tell you this, the older you do get... the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin', man. L-I-V-I-N. David Wooderson, Dazed and Confused, 1993 We’re often reminded that there’s a first time for everything, but what the cliché fails to mention is that most first-times are followed by a second, then a third, ad nauseam. A first step, a first kiss, a first love is worthy of applause, the second not so much, and no one’s going to pat you on the back for your 100th, your 1,000th. The more years pass, the more difficult it is to find firsts worth pursuing, and they become increasingly laborious to obtain. We find comfort in the repetition of firsts past, we grow experienced, and the novel becomes banal. Then, if life dictates it, we procreate, and the journey develops into the enablement of a child’s firsts, seconds, and so forth. 'Scattered Daydream'', Larry Madrigal’s first step with Nicodim, is a celebration of the matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored, after the new-car smell wears off. Each canvas and panel is a suspension of these overlooked moments, revealing how unique, how anarchic these everyday occurrences truly are. Madrigal’s loose, confident brushwork subverts the precariousness of each moment captured. A stolen instance of intimacy between young parents teeters on the edge of chaos with the flick of a light switch. A trip to the clothing store becomes a crisis of identity. A pair of filthy feet await the end of a morning prayerthe divine circles down the drain of this mortal coil. Madrigal is his own muse, but his compositions are all of us in our collective struggle to keep L-I-V-I-N. Larry Madrigal (b. 1986, Los Angeles) lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. Madrigal recently completed his MFA at Arizona State University in Tempe. His work has been featured in 'When You Waked Up the Buffalo', Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); 'Painting the Figure Now II', Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Wasau, Wisconsin (2019); 'New Art Arizona', Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (2019); and 'Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art', curated by Julie Sasse, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, Arizona (2017). Madrigal is a finalist for the 2020 AXA XL Art Prize. 'Scattered Daydream' is his first exhibition with Nicodim.

Installation Images for #IsabelleAlbuquerque's exhibition 'Sextet' at #NicodimGallery #LosAngeles are now online. Check them out at www.nicodimgallery.com/exhibitions or make an appointment to visit us in-person at www.nicodimgallery.com/reservations! Isabelle Albuquerque is a dancer. Articulate in movement, she contorts her body into visual expressions of fleeting yet unforgettable waves of emotion, perfect in the moment, then gone. The body, to Albuquerque, is a porous vess...Continue reading

Opening this Thursday at #GaleriaNicodim in #Bucharest! #MichielCeulers and #JorgePeris : Endangered Species September 24 December 5, 2020... Toward the end of the Anthropocene, a perfect virus forced humans to physically isolate themselves from one another. While fires scorched the earth and hurricanes and rising temperatures flattened and flooded it, the dominant species instead focused inward, searching for confirmation that all of this was happening for a reason, and that they could not only save their livelihoods, but achieve spiritual salvation in doing so. What will redeem us when science preaches an irreversible entropy of our own making, they cried into the polluted, disease-ridden atmosphere. The earth answered: more pestilence, more destruction. Endangered Species is an exploration of the way things were just before The End became recognizably imminent. Michiel Ceulers and Jorge Peris are ghost sharks, Invisible Men foraging through the darkness after the electricity runs out. Ceulers’ sculptural, Rube Goldberg-ian mousetraps would be comically cruel if they were functional in the least; they become relics of extinct belief structures in their immediate obsolescence. His wall-bound works are bricolages of found objects, acrylic paint, and partially remembered idioms. A canary in the coalmine may well be a living buffer from unseeable invaders, but it is also a charming companion. Peris creates the coalmine itself, repurposing modernist pots and furniture into shelters and altars, reminding us that the modern is already ancient history when salt stalactites are leaking through the ceiling and the floor is littered with the fossilized bronze bones of one’s former companions.

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#IsabelleAlbuquerque's 'Sextet' on view at #NicodimGallery in Los Angeles from September 12 October 17, 2020 http://www.nicodimgallery.com/e/isabelle-albuquerque-sextet

Isabelle Albuquerque featured in LA Magazine on her newest exhibition Sextet at Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles

#SimphiweNdzube in #OnArtandAesthetics by #TulikaBahadur Ndzube calls his fictitious worldthat he uses as a vehicle of truththe Mine Moon. It isn’t escapist, rather it is supposed to facilitate a deeper immersion in reality. The Mine Moon is fantasy, local African legends and national history all in one. It explores themes of power, conflict, exploitation and occupation through instances of violence and humour. The storytelling oscillates between joy and hopelessness. The... context remains autobiographicalthe artist’s experience as a young black man growing up in South Africa, where, even after the end of apartheid, institutional racism and neocolonialism are rife. Ndzube’s recent body of work focusses on the people affected by abuses of authority; these figures are on their own search for freedom, love and meaning in a setting that has deemed them, as the French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher Frantz Fanon phrased it, the wretched of the earth. See more