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A Guide to the Best Shows in Miami

Dec 6, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Ren Ebel

Share Billed as the first luxury hotel for Black guests, Historic Hampton House was a Green Book destination – included in the famous guidebook for Black American travellers seeking safe places and roads during segregation – whose patrons included Martin Luther King, Jr., Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke.
The Best Shows to See in Paris This October

Oct 14, 2024 | frieze.com | Ren Ebel

‘ECSTATIC’ | Shmorévaz | 26 September – 23 October How many balloons does it take to cover up an atrocity? How much confetti can muffle a nation’s anxieties? Russell Perkins and Charlie Culbert’s succinct, melancholic Static (2023) – the centrepiece of a collaborative exhibition with writer Aurelia Guo – is troubled by the superficial theatrics of American political life.
The Best Shows to See During the Paris Summer Olympics

Jul 19, 2024 | frieze.com | Ren Ebel

Laurent Le Deunff | Semiose | 22 June – 17 AugustVisitors to Laurent Le Deunff’s ‘Whatever This May Be’ are greeted by a parade of charming rustic wood carvings — from totem pole-like sculptures fusing together friendly animals and household objects, to a series of primitive booby traps made from twine, logs and branches arranged in a circular procession around the gallery space. But some of these sculptures are not like the others.
Must-See: Kelly Beeman Dreams of Suburbia

May 29, 2024 | frieze.com | Ren Ebel

This review is part of a new series of Must-See shows, in which a writer delivers a snapshot into a current exhibition The near-identical feminine subjects of Kelly Beeman’s oil and watercolour paintings pose and amble wistfully near various landmarks of residential North America: a manicured front lawn (Young Love on the Lawn Smoking, all works 2024), a neighbourhood crosswalk (Crosswalk), the mirrored facade of an office building at a business park (Under the Skyway).
Constance Debré Finds Beauty in Cruelty

Mar 4, 2024 | frieze.com | Ren Ebel |Constance Debré

Ren Ebel You’re visiting Los Angeles? Constance Debré Yes. I don’t have a house in Paris, so I’ve been travelling for years like this. I’m in love with Los Angeles. RE What do you love about it? CD When I’m in Paris I don’t see anybody. I keep avoiding people. But it actually takes a lot of energy to avoid people all the time. LA is perfect for a creative person because during the day no one sees anyone. Everyone is focused on their work. RE Have you found a place to swim?
Enter the Nightmarish World of Jim Shaw

Feb 15, 2024 | frieze.com | Ren Ebel

Jim Shaw is a latter-day classical surrealist and symbol-wrangler on the frontiers of the American id, who seems to revel in the improbable arrangement of dream and pop images: Stevie Wonder, Wonder Bread, Yul Brynner, a Ken doll performing stand-up, a severed ear. In Mnemonic Device #2, Third Stone from The Sun (2020), which appears at the centre of his current solo exhibition, ‘The Ties That Bind’, highly detailed pictograms hover before the image of an enormous golden chick.
Caspar Heinemann Revisionist Elegy to the Unabomber

Jan 12, 2024 | frieze.com | Ren Ebel

In FBI photos taken inside Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s cabin shortly after his arrest in 1996, a small box of Tide laundry detergent can be seen resting on a dusty workbench. Oddly conspicuous, tilted toward the camera, it’s the perfect Barthesian punctum – trivial as evidence, yet inescapable, its bullseye logo, like the Looney Tunes title card, bores a tunnel into the image.
Esther Gatón at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M)

May 11, 2023 | artforum.com | Ren Ebel

Madrid Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) Avda. Constitución, 23 February 18–May 21, 2023 Dangling at the center of Esther Gatón’s exhibition “Emil Lime” is a life-size boat, suspended by wire cables from a hole in the ceiling_. _The 2023 sculpture, which shares the show’s palindromic title, consists of bound bamboo reeds woven through a large brushed-metal hull and decorated with paint, glitter, stickers, and rubber animal toys.
Pierre Allain at Galerie Roger Tator

Mar 13, 2023 | artforum.com | Ren Ebel

Lyon Galerie Roger Tator 36 rue d'Anvers February 3–March 24, 2023 While Pierre Allain’s “Soap Opera” may draw conceptual inspiration from the corporate-sponsored origins of that titular genre, it is the numb and haunted tone of his work that more closely evokes the soap opera’s vacuum-like atmosphere, with characters like coiffed prisoners pacing claustrophobic rooms in states of perpetual frustration, yearning, and doom.