The New York Times | What to See in NYC Galleries in July: 'Island Time'

Photo: Arturo Sanchez

Dawn Chan reviews Island Time, an exhibition of artists living and working in the Philippines, curated by gallery artist James Clar, for The New York Times.

“Island Time” can be a derogatory phrase: a way to mock various Pacific Rim and Caribbean cultures for a supposed indifference to punctuality. But it can be used — jokingly, fondly — by island inhabitants too: a reminder that succumbing to the tyranny of clocks and timers might be just one of many possible ways to live.

Taking “Island Time” as its title, this show includes videos, paintings and sculptures by twelve artists based in the Philippines. Its curator, the Filipino American artist James Clar, seemingly asks how Filipino constructions of identity — and the pace of daily existence — can exist with and also apart from chronological systems imported by colonizers.

By: Dawn Chan

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Hiroshima MoCA | Teppei Kaneuji

Exhibition View, Collection Highlights, Hiroshima MoCA, 2023. Photo: Keita Otsuka + Shunta Inaguchi.

Work by Teppei Kaneuji is now on view at Hiroshima MoCA as part of their Collection Highlights group exhibition. 

According to the museum:

“The Collection Highlights program will showcase selected works that are representative of the museum’s collection, while Collection Relations will feature different guest artists, related materials, and special exhibits with each edition. These programs are aimed at expanding the museum’s presentation of works from its collection.”

Featured artists include:

Kaoru Hirano, Issey Miyake, Ryu Kato, Tadanori Yokoo, Yayoi Kusama, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Fang Li-jun, Lee Ufan, Atsuko Tanaka, Hideko Fukushima, Louise Nevelson, Mika Yoshizawa, Rieko Hidaka, Teppei Kaneuji, Bukichi Inoue, Mona Hatoum, Iri and Toshi Maruki, Isamu Wakabayashi, Takako Araki, Tetsumi Kudo, Tadashi Tonoshiki, Jiro Takamatsu, Arpana Caur, Yumi Domoto, Miran Fukuda, Tang Da Wu, Noe Aoki, Atsushi Suwa.

Open through November 12, 2023.

Learn more here.

Kansas City Public Library | Squeak Carnwath

Work by Squeak Carnwath on view at the Kansas City Public Library as part of the group exhibition In Other Words.

From the exhibition text:

Text can add recognizable context to visual art. When it doesn’t, it can beguile. Words may both pose a question and speak the answer, some in a shout, others in a whisper, becoming almost audible as you look at them.

Artists from the Kansas City area and across the country incorporate text – typographical or handwritten, narrative or esoteric – in a selection of absorbing contemporary works comprising the exhibition In Other Words. Personal statements, bold phrases, thought fragments, wordplay, concrete poetry, and typographic explorations are presented through paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, textiles, and photography.

The featured artists all share an impulse to use text in as a primary visual component to convey a message.

The show is up through September 9, 2023.

Learn more here.

Ludwig Museum | Teppei Kaneuji

Work by Teppei Kaneuji up at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, as part of the group exhibition The Cuteness Factor.

From the exhibition text:

The aim of the exhibition is to present and contextualise a current tendency in contemporary art, and especially in painting. The artworks, mainly by artists of the middle-aged generation, are constantly revisiting familiar characters from the cartoons of the 1990s. It is an easily detected visual language that oscillates between abstraction and figuration, experimenting with the conscious blurring and interplay or even separation of these two poles. The works are assembled in a patchwork-like manner, based on iconic symbols, elements taken from popular culture and a combination of various artistic styles.

Exhibiting artists include:

Katherine BERNHARDT, Cosima von BONIN, BOZÓ Szabolcs, Jon BURGERMAN, Paul CHAN, Maja DJORDJEVIC, Philip EMDE, FISCHER Judit, Max FREUND, GALLOV Péter, GELITIN, Antwan HORFEE, Ben JONES, Teppei KANEUJI, Misaki KAWAI, Austin LEE, Martin LUKÁČ, Markéta MAGIDOVÁ, MAKAI Mira, Eddie MARTINEZ, Annette MESSAGER, Takashi MURAKAMI, Robert NAVA, Anne NEUKAMP, Joakim OJANEN, Joyce PENSATO, Mario PICARDO, Paola PIVI, Hunter POTTER, Mika ROTTENBERG, TÓTH Balázs Máté, Felix TREADWELL 

Open through November 12, 2023.

Read more here.

Centre d'Art Kamouraska | Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, La Grande Appropriation/The Great Appropriation, 2020-ongoing. Wood, bamboo, acetate, thread, mesh, paper, and ink, dimensions variable. Installation view, Centre d’Art Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada. Photo: Caroline Bolieu

Artist duo Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens are featured in Inhospitality, a solo exhibition now on view at the Centre d’Art Kamouraska in Kamouraska, Quebec.

The artists make visible forms of administrative, cadastral and financial documentation that tend to consider the earth as an inanimate resource subject to human instrumentalization. Through the intervention of the artists, these abstract data become visually intelligible and presented with careful aesthetics.

Open through September 4, 2023.

Read more about Inhospitality here.