internationalartists – Page 23 – Painting After Art is Dead

Bernard Friz

First discovered Bernard Tumblring, and have followed him on IG. I love how eclectic his production is.

#bernardfriz

Mosaic Room in London went #tbt with this show exploring how Melehi and other “artists in postcolonial Casablanca created a specifically Moroccan form of Modernism, merging the influences of Pop art and Hard-edge painting with the rich tradition of abstraction in Berber craft and architecture.”

#mohamedmelehi

Daniel Mato

First saw Daniel on Tumblr, and the followed him on IG. He is French and I would wager loves early Paul Klee almost as much as me. Maybe more.

#danielmato

Kinu Kamura

Widewalls noted Blast recently- it caught my eye. She’s on IG also.

#kinokamura

Isidore Isou

This one is a TBT, to the 1940s. Widewalls was nice enough to shout out the founder-of-Letrism’s retrospective at the Pompidou.

#isidoreisou

Yann Houri

If this is indicative of how Frieze Week v.Los Angeles is gonna go down, I’m gonna have to check it out next year. I want to swim in this piece!

#yannhouri

Zest

Zest is a French graffiti artist-turned-gallery-artist; Widewalls had a blurb up about his newest show and there’s a great bio there, too. The paintings are pretty good and his public work is really strong, easy to see why he caught the eye of Art world folks.

#zest

Elias Simes

Glad I went to see the O’Keefe show at NCMA because I discovered they’ve also got a huge piece from Elias Sime’s show at James Cohan in 2015 (Tightrope 9)- it’s pretty spectacular if you haven’t seen it yet. The composition is clearly non-representational- abstract if you will- but his use of computer parts (and the social and cultural context for the acquisition of the materials) clearly carries a rich depth of content. Even more interesting to me was the conceptual bent he shared with O’Keefe and they both shared with their subject matter- the materials they make work about and from have a visceral attraction for both that comes through loud and clear. Check out his bio for more of this type of color on this amazing artist.

#eiliassimes

Luis Romero

Ran across a piece by this Chicago artist while Tumblr’ing. He has a show up right now in Portland, as well as an Instagram feed that has a video of one of these assemblages up close.

#luisromero

Matthieu Venot

Not sure how I ran across Widewalls but I appreciate how they have enriched my RSS feed. A recent discovery there is Matthieu Venot, a French musician turned photographer. His photos remind me of Dibenkorn’s obsession with the light in the Bay Area (except Matthieu lives in Brest). His attention to the moment shows there is always #abstractionallaroundus.

#matthieuvenot

Julie Mehretu

Some images on Pinterest of other work by Ms Mehretu. I haven’t yet seen any of these in person- but Artsy thinks her show at White Cube in London is a must see if you are doing Frieze Week.

#juliemehretu

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