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Betye Saar, Snake in the Heart, 1987. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles.

49 Nord 6 Est presents Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight and Émilie Picard: Degrés Est

September 9, 2022–January 22, 2023 The exhibition Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight compiles a number of the American artist's immersive works (b. 1926, Los Angeles). They demonstrate how the artist harnesses the emotive power of found objects despite being rarely displayed till now. These installations present viewers with radical new worlds inspired by ritual and myth, highlighting…

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Silvia Kolbowski, Who will save us? (still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

Silvia Kolbowski and Laura Langer at Kunsthaus Glarus

September 4–November 27, 2022 Opening: September 3, 6–10pm Public talk with Silvia Kolbowski, Luiza Nader and Melanie Ohnemus: September 4, 4–5:30pm, livestreamed via website In two exhibition areas at Kunsthaus Glarus, Silvia Kolbowski displays the video pieces Who will help us? (2022) and Missing Asher (2019). Who will save us? was specifically made for this display. The video is a…

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Camille Bombois, Derrière le rideau, 1928. Sammlung Zander. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022.

Museum Frieder Burda presents The Painters of the Sacred Heart

July 16–November 20, 2022 They were actually gardeners, carnival wrestlers, or customs agents. Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), Camille Bombois (1883-1970), André Bauchant (1873-1958), Louis Vivin (1861-1939), and especially Séraphine Louis (1864-1942) are all considered members of the school of the "Painters of the Sacred Heart." As autodidact painters, they created a world of images whose sensual immediacy…

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Shafei Xia, Passando davanti alla mia finestra, P420, Bologna, 2022. Photo: Carlo Favero.

Shafei Xia at P420

June 23–July 23, 2022 “I like staying home. With my parents, I moved many times from one home to the next, and as I grew up I continued to change my lodgings. As a child I would spend time inside the home by myself, and the cardboard boxes became my refuge. I used them to build…

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