What exhibitions to visit in May?
Art exhibitions are a powerful way to expand our cultural horizons and appreciate creativity in all its diversity. When visiting an art exhibition, we are transported to a world of beauty, reflection and inspiration, where we can explore ideas, feelings and perspectives that we may never have considered before. Furthermore, art exhibitions offer us the opportunity to learn about different periods in art history and understand how art has evolved over the years. In this article, we will explore six art exhibitions taking place during the month of May.
Mike Nelson: 'Extinction Beckons' at Hayward Gallery, South Bank
The British artist specializes in abandonment narratives, creating disconcerting immersive experiences, filled only with remnants of lives once lived. Mike Nelson wants to untangle the webs that he weaves in the spectator. In this exhibition, the artist created ghostly post-apocalyptic environments, Nelson where the spectator is the main character of an old and disconcerting film, a western traveler through foreign lands that don't want him. Mike Nelson has combined all of his previous work to create a giant new piece. Its early Ballardian dystopian environments invite you to build the narrative; They ask the viewer to find out what happened, how it happened and they want them to find answers, knowing full well that they will be totally horrible.
Yayoi Kusama “Infinity Room” in David Zwirner, New York
Entitled I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, the exhibition marks the tenth anniversary since Yayoi Kusama exhibited for the first time with David Zwirner and is being hailed as his “largest gallery show to date”. In addition to the “Infinity Room”, the acclaimed Japanese artist will also present a series of new paintings and sculptures that reflect on her career-long explorations in pumpkins and floral motifs. At 93 years old, Kusama has been busy, as she currently has an ongoing exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, a recent collaborative capsule with Louis Vuitton, along with a new outdoor exhibition that was recently completed in Qatar. I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers will occupy David Zwirner's West 19th and West 20th Street galleries in New York starting May 12th.
LuYang Vibratory Field in Basel (January 20, 2023 – May 21, 2023)
LuYang places the human being at the center of an investigation that uses the cultures of anime, Buddhism, digital technology, computer games, Indonesian dance rituals, neuroscience and science fiction to explore the chaos (and magic) of human existence. The artworks are captivating, fantastical and sometimes grotesque techno-psychedelic videos, installations and computer games that explore themes of life, death, reincarnation or even global destruction. At LuYang Vibration Field in the Kunsthalle Basel, LuYang's first solo exhibition in Switzerland and one of the most comprehensive presentations of LuYang's work in the last ten years, a different cosmos is evoked in almost every room by the video works displayed.
Egon Schiele in the Leopold Museum Collection
the viennese painter Egon Schiele he was only 28 when he died, but although his career was short-lived, he is remembered as one of the greatest artists of the late 19th century. It's been nearly 30 years since Tokyo has seen an exhibition dedicated solely to the artist, so this comprehensive show hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is a truly momentous event. Here you can find Schiele's rare genius through 50 works on loan from the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Through works such as Schiele's 'Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant' and a 1915 portrait of his wife Edith, the exhibition provides a rich insight into the young artist's life and powerful legacy. Alongside Schiele's 50 artworks, there will be an additional 120 installations by Schiele's contemporaries, including Klimt, Kokoschka and Gerstl.
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art by the National Gallery
Explore a time of great turmoil when artists broke with established tradition and laid the groundwork for 20th and 21st century art. The decades between the 1880s and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 were a complex and vibrant period of artistic questioning, searching, risk-taking and innovation. The exhibition celebrates the achievements of three giants of the time: Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and traces the influences they had on younger generations of French artists, their peers, and wider circles of artists across Europe in Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, and Vienna. With nearly a hundred works by artists ranging from Klimt and Munch, Matisse and Picasso The Mondrian It is Kandinsky, complemented by a selection of sculptures by artists such as Rodin and Camille Claudel, the exhibition follows the creation of new modern art, free of conventions, spanning Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction. The exhibition includes some of the most iconic works of art created during these decades.
Henry Taylor: B Side on MOCA
Examining thirty years of work by Henry Taylor in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, this retrospective celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetics, social vision and free experimentation. Populated by friends and relatives, strangers on the street, athletic stars, politicians and artists, Taylor's canvases depict an imagination that spans many worlds. Informed by experience, her work conveys her fundamental empathy in both a keen eye and a keen social critique. Henry Taylor: B Side is the largest exhibition of Taylor's work to date. Admission to Henry Taylor: B Side is free, courtesy of Carolyn Clark Powers.