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Lorna Simpson at Hauser & Wirth

In the Arctic, ‘so much believed to be white is actually – strikingly – blue,’ writes award-winning American poet Robin Coste Lewis in a text applied to the wall at the entrance to Lorna Simpson’s solo show at Hauser & Wirth.  Titled ‘Darkening’ and featuring monumentally scaled paintings combining text and images from Ebony magazine, the AP and National Archives, the new work pictures bodies and icy landscapes commenting on, as Simpson has explained, ‘inhospitable conditions and how to survive those conditions.’  (On view in Chelsea through July 27th).

Lorna Simpson, Blue Turned Temporal, ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass, 102 x 144 x 1 3/8 inches, 2019.

Phyllida Barlow at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Construction sites, abandoned objects on the street and even a rubbish-filled alley have inspired Phyllida Barlow’s gritty sculpture, now on view at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Chelsea.  Barlow once described her work as ‘hideous,’ and in her current show, ‘tilt,’ her sculpture stands in apparent defiance of gravity, incorporating jarring angles and textured surfaces that offer more for the eye to puzzle over than to delight in.  This towering accumulation of jagged forms entices with its pink color but is ultimately menacing, suggesting immanent catastrophe.  (On view through Dec 22nd).

Phyllida Barlow, untitled: pinkspree; 2018, filler, PVA, paint, plywood, sand, spray paint, timber, 102 x 110 ¼ x 89 inches, 2018.

Dieter Roth at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Six hundred binders hold plastic sleeves filled with studio waste in a huge installation of books and other material created by Dieter Roth and his son and collaborator, Bjorn Roth currently at Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Chelsea. Every piece of trash less than 5mm thick found its way into a binder in the years 1975-76, resulting in a portrait of the artist told through postcards, cigarette butts, packaging and more. ‘The worse it looks, the better,’ Roth noted on one binder. (On view through July 29th).

Installation view of ‘Books. Dieter Roth. Bjorn Roth. Studio,’ Hauser and Wirth Gallery, April 27 – July 28, 2017.

Roni Horn at Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Roni Horn once said that glass can convey ‘the most ideal expression of color.’ In two same-but-different cast-glass sculptures at Chelsea’s Hauser & Wirth Gallery, a tranquil, blue form immediately invites visitors to draw near and marvel at the reflections of light on the water-like surface of a substance that is neither fully liquid nor solid. (On view through July 29th).

Roni Horn, Water Double, v. 1, solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces with oculus, 132.1cm/52 inches (height), 2013-15.

Monika Sosnowska at Hauser & Wirth

Inspired by the modern glass wall grid of Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Warsaw-based artist Monika Sosnowska’s ‘Tower’ reverses the aspiration and elegance of International Style. Sprawled on the ground an curling like a dying leaf, the massive steel structure is a blunt symbol of failed ideals. (At Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Chelesa through October 25th).

Monika Sosnowska, Tower, steel, paint, unique, 2014.