10 March – 21 April 2023
White Cube Online
Patrick Martinez (b. 1980 Pasadena, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. As part of White Cube’s ‘Introductions’ online programme, the artist presents an exhibition of mixed media painting and neon work.
Martinez’s large-scale abstracted landscape paintings, reflect the visual language of East Los Angeles and the changing nature of the artist's local community. Collaging elements from vernacular architecture with aerosol paint tags and references to, for example, Nahua, Aztec and Mayan mythological forms, the paintings unearth a hybrid sense of people and place.
Fabricated to mirror commercial signage and inspired by words and phrases from 20th-century black American literature, civil rights speeches and anti-slavery oration, Martinez’s neon sign works create contemporary forms of political expression. His acrylic on panel ‘Cake’ paintings memorialise social justice leaders, activists and thinkers, colliding the history of portraiture with everyday confectionary. In his ongoing ‘Pee Chee’ series, Martinez appropriates the well-known, high school folder that depicts traditional drawings of students engaged in sports and other safe youth activities by adding portraits of black and brown people who have lost their lives to police violence.
Fabricated to mirror commercial signage and inspired by words and phrases from 20th-century black American literature, civil rights speeches and anti-slavery oration, Martinez’s neon sign works create contemporary forms of political expression. His acrylic on panel ‘Cake’ paintings memorialise social justice leaders, activists and thinkers, colliding the history of portraiture with everyday confectionary. In his ongoing ‘Pee Chee’ series, Martinez appropriates the well-known, high school folder that depicts traditional drawings of students engaged in sports and other safe youth activities by adding portraits of black and brown people who have lost their lives to police violence.
Martinez is represented by Charles James Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Michael Armitage elected as a Royal Academician
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Events
Michael Armitage and Hassan Musa performance and discussion at the V&A
17 March 2023, 6 – 7:45 pm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Antony Gormley in conversation with Pavla Melková
Czech Centre London
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In the Gallery: Samuel Ross
23 April 2023, 11:00 am and 1:30 pm
White Cube Bermondsey
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Klára Hosnedlová’s solo exhibition opens at Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany
4 March – 4 June 2023
Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany
Biennial
Theaster Gates, Mona Hatoum, Ibrahim Mahama and Doris Salcedo to participate in Sharjah Biennial 15
7 February – 11 June 2023
Various venues, Sharjah
Museum Exhibition
Georg Baselitz’s new exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
7 March – 25 June 2023
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Museum Exhibition
A major retrospective of Isamu Noguchi opens at LaM, France
15 March – 2 July 2023
LaM, France
Museum Exhibition
Etel Adnan’s new exhibition at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1 April – 16 July 2023
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Museum Exhibition
‘Sculpture 21st: Mona Hatoum’ opens at the Lehmbruck Museum
26 May – 20 August 2023
Lehmbruck Museum
Museum Exhibition
A 30-year retrospective of Sarah Morris opens at Deichtorhallen Hamburg
4 May – 20 August 2023
Museum Exhibition
'Noguchi Subscapes' at The Noguchi Museum
15 June 2022 – 3 September 2023
The Noguchi Museum, New York
Museum Exhibition
Beatriz Milhazes’ ‘Maresias’ opens at Turner Contemporary
27 May – 10 September 2023
Turner Contemporary, Margate
Museum Exhibition
Doris Salcedo at Fondation Beyeler
21 May – 17 September 2023
Basel, Switzerland
Museum Exhibition
Doris Salcedo’s Palimpsest at Fondation Beyeler
21 May – 17 September 2023
Public Projects
Virginia Overton at Hypermaremma
8 April – 8 October 2023
Orbetello, Italy
Museum Exhibition
Michael Armitage at Kunsthaus Bregenz
15 July – 29 October 2023
Bregenz, Austria
Museum Exhibition
Antony Gormley’s new exhibition at TAG Art Museum
28 April – 10 December 2023
Qingdao, China
Museum Exhibition
‘Baselitz in the Studio’ opens at the Hall Art Foundation
7 April 2023
The Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneberg
Commissions
Anselm Kiefer at the Panthéon, Paris
Panthéon, Paris
Announcement
Anselm Kiefer opens studio-estate to the public
Barjac, France
Commissions
Antony Gormley at Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral, UK
Commissions
Cerith Wyn Evans at the U.S. Embassy, London
U.S. Embassy London
Museum Exhibition
Cerith Wyn Evans’ C=O=D=A at NGV International in Melbourne
NGV International, Melbourne, Australia
Announcement
Chopped & Screwed, White Cube’s inagural exhibition in New York opens this fall
Fall 2023
Events
Conversations: Marguerite Humeau and Charlotte Burns at White Cube Bermondsey
2 May 2023, 6:30 pm
White Cube Bermondsey
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Dóra Maurer at the Ringturm, Vienna
Ringturm, Schottenring, Vienna
Museum Exhibition
Doris Salcedo at Glenstone
26 May 2022
Glenstone Museum, Potomac
Museum Exhibition
Imi Knoebel at Dia Beacon
28 May 2021
Dia Beacon
Events
In Conversation with Virginia Overton
15 April 2023, 5pm CEST
Monteverdi Gallery, Sarteano, Italy
Announcement
Julie Mehretu elected as National Academician
National Academy of Design, New York
Editions
Michael Armitage inaugurates Turner Contemporary Editions
26 September 2022
Announcement
Park Seo-Bo announces the opening of his new museum
Seogwipo, Jeju Island
Announcement
The Gilbert & George Centre is now open
The Gilbert & George Centre
Biennial
Theaster Gates is showcasing three films in exhibitions around Venice
Punta della Dogana, Fondazione Prada, Venice Biennale of Architecture
Award
Theaster Gates, 12th winner of the Frederick Kiesler Prize, receives his award in Vienna
15 June 2022
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Announcement
Tracey Emin, ‘Lovers Grave’
White Cube New York
Announcement
Virginia Overton's new permanent installation is unveiled at LaGuardia airport
LaGuardia Airport, Queens, New York
