Weekly Round up of International Exhibitions

In the coming week there is:

Richard Deacon: ‘Flat Earth’
Lesson Gallery
Opening 17 March – 29 April 2016

This is Richard Deacon’s first exhibition with Lisson Gallery Milan, bringing together floor-hugging ceramic and modestly scaled but totemic wooden works: flat earth and standing trees. Deacon’s sculptures call attention to their making and invite a bodily response from the viewer, while their vernacular titles create a tensions between the visual and the poetic.

http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/richard-deacon-flat-earth

Lesson Gallery
Via Zenale 3
20123 Milan
Italy

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Andres Serrano: Uncensored Photographs
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Opening 18 March – 21 August 2016

Considered a major figure in the contemporary art scene, Andres Serrano unveils and often disturbing reality through the lens of his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work and all figure in this retrospective exhibition. Beyond these powerful themes, the exhibition reveals Serrano as an attentive witness to the world and mankind. Four works that were considered scandalous and were vandalised during past events will also be on display, questioning the limits of censorship.

http://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/andres-serrano

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Rue de la Régence / Regentschapsstraat 3
1000 Brussels
Belgium

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Rachel Harrison: Perth Amboy
The Museum of Modern Art
Opening 19 March – 5 September 2016

Names after a town in New Jersey where an apparition of the VIrgin Mary was said to have appeared on the window of a two-story house, Rachel Harrison’s room-sized Perth Amboy exemplifies a cross-disciplinary approach to making art. The work comprises 21 photographs, individual sculptural assemblages, and an open-ended labyrinth made from cardboard. It takes as it subject the basic acts of looking and seeing, which are central to any experience of visual art. This is the first presentation of Peth Amboy at MoMA since the work entered the collection in 2011.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1628?locale=en

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY 10019
U.S.A.

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This Is Us: Portrait Photography 1996 – 2013
Berlinische Galerie Museum of Modern Art
Opening 20 November 2015 – 21 March 2016

The nine different series of portrait photography in this exhibition originated between 1996 and 2013; pictures taken on the street and in the studio, in a documentary context and in an experiment framework; this exhibition explores the unending fascination towards photography. A wide spectrum of strategies, methods and attitudes currently adopted by photographers are featured; some drawing tradition from well established history of art and photography,while others are notable precisely because they have broken with the conventions of classical portraiture, exploring the boundaries of the medium, the influence of the Internet and gender issues.

http://www.berlinischegalerie.de/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/portraetfotografie/

Berlinische Galerie Museum of Modern Art
Alte Jakobstraße 124–128
10969 Berlin
Germany

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Alberto Giacometti Retrospective
Yuz Museum
Opening 22 March – 31 July 2016

This is the largest Giacometti retrospective to date of an artist acclaimed by the world’s community of artists because he embodies the spirit of modernism into his epoch. This exhibition features 250 masterpieces ranging from 1917 to 1966 with a comprehensive overview of the artist’s life-length career with presentation of the artist’s time, culture and life.

http://www.yuzmshanghai.org/giacometti-retrospective/

Yuz Museum
No.35 Fenggu Road
Shanghai
China

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Vhils: DEBRIS
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation
Opening 22 March – 4 April 2016

This is the first solo exhibition of celebrated Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto AKA Veils in Hong King. A multi-site initiative that will include an intervention on one of the city’s iconic trams and an exhibition at Pier 4, encouraging visitors to explore the city and reflect on the nature of the urban environment through the lens of the artist.

http://hoca.org/project/vhils-debris/

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation
(no permanent address)