Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Helmut Federle
Helmut Federle, Basics on Composition C (April at Kamikochi), 2019. Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (40 x 50 cm). Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Helmut Federle entitled, Basics on Composition at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Helmut Federle has developed a body of work over four decades that is characterized by both painterly and geometric imagery rooted in spirituality, symbolism, and a closeness to nature. He engages in the tradition of geometric abstraction, renewing and expanding it, exploring the relationship between figure and ground, between order and disorder, between movement and stillness. Federle began investigating the reclining H in 1979 while living in New York, using the first letter of his first name as its basic, now iconic, form. Subsequent
Solo exhibition featuring a new body of work by Afshin Pirhashemi opens at Ayyam Gallery
Afshin Pirhashemi, Untitled, 2018. Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm.
DUBAI
.-Ayyam Gallery is presenting Can You Keep a Secret?, a solo exhibition featuring a new body of work by Afshin Pirhashemi.
In Afshin Pirhashemis work, black is a symbol for the power that cloaks femininity, truth, militancy and a worldview in which the stakes are high. His monochrome register never loses its dimensionality, although primary colours have begun to seep in, as well as the sheen of poetic fragments.
The iconic women that populate Pirhashemis paintings like alter-egos a recurring motif are both alluring and forbidding, multiple and individual yet in this latest series, they have come into their own. Layered with different texts, their outlines stream into colours and forms, evading absolute capture. At times, they seem familiar, symbolic of the film industry and popular culture. Other times, they a
Ebay to sell Korean online retail platforms
Posted : 2021-01-20 16:37
By Kim Jae-heun
American multinational e-commerce corporation eBay is in the process of selling its Korean online retail platforms G-Market, Auction and G9 for an estimated 5 trillion won.
According to reports, Wednesday, eBay said it has initiated a process to explore, review, and evaluate a range of strategic alternatives for its Korean business. The company is considering options that would maximize value for its shareholders and create future growth opportunities for the business.
Ebay has 183 million active users and 11 percent of its annual sales comes from Korea.
eBay has been reviewing the sale of its Korean e-commerce platforms over the past few years, but this is the first time that the company has officially confirmed it.
Americas Society presents first U.S. show of Joaquín Orellana s útiles sonoros (sound tools)
Installation view. Photo: Alexander Perrelli
NEW YORK, NY
.-Americas Society presents Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music, the first exhibition of the Guatemalan composer s útiles sonoros (sound tools) in the United States alongside the work of contemporary artists. Orellana is a key figure for both music and contemporary art in Central America, and his show expands our exhibition program s geographic and disciplinary boundaries, said Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society Aimé Iglesias Lukin.
The exhibition connects the musician s avant-garde sensibility with that of artists including Carlos Amorales, María Adela Díaz, Akira Ikezoe, and Alberto Rodríguez Collía, each of whom has spent time with the composer and created work related to his practice. Orellana s útiles are interdisciplinary by nature, existing as visual objects waiting to be activated