Peres Projects

 Mak2, Home Sweet Home: Love Pool 6 , 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas in three parts, each: 205 x 122 cm; overall: 205 x 366 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Peres Projects

Mak2, Home Sweet Home: Love Pool 6, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas in three parts, each: 205 x 122 cm; overall: 205 x 366 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Peres Projects

In triptychs of hot-and-heavy bodies at Peres Projects, Berlin, Hong-Kong-based artist Mak2 materializes the tensions of synthetic desire and our urges to gawk and look away.

 Wait till the sun shines , 2022, oil on linen, 100 x 205 cm. Installation view, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2022. All photos: Johannes Stoll

Wait till the sun shines, 2022, oil on linen, 100 x 205 cm. Installation view, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2022. All photos: Johannes Stoll

At Belvedere, Vienna, androgynous nudes lay around Stanislava Kovalcikova’s art-history-rich paintings as though in erotic limbo.

Hermann Nitsch, Schüttbild (2021). All photos courtesy Peres Projects

Legendary Viennese avante-gardist Hermann Nitsch flies solo in a recent exhibition of paintings and drawings at Peres Projects, Berlin.

 Installation View “what fruit it bears” December 4 – January 15, 2021 Peres Projects, Berlin

Installation View “what fruit it bears”, Peres Projects, Berlin; front: Vojtech Kovarik, Laocoon, 2020, Acrylic, spray paint and sand on canvas, 220 x 200 cm 

“what fruit it bears” at Peres Projects, Berlin

Installation view, Ambera Wellmann, “Logic of Ghosts”, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2020; Photo: def-image

Installation view, Austin Lee, “Aah”, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2020, Photo: Matthias Kolb

Installation view, Austin Lee, “Aah”, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2020, Photo: Matthias Kolb

Michel Majerus
aluminium paintings
installation view at neugerriemschneider

Paolo Chiasera
Frankenstein
installation view at PSM

Symonds, Permain, Lebon
Iron Lady
installation view at Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie

 Movie Star Maps, 2014 Detail of room-sized mural installation, Los Feliz, California Photo: Michael Underwood

Movie Star Maps, 2014
Detail of room-sized mural installation, Los Feliz, California
Photo: Michael Underwood

Alex Israel was born in Los Angeles in 1982. His practice is multi-faceted, employing a variety of media to accommodate the many and varied flavors of his particular West Coast aesthetic. His blown-up sun shades, airbrushed self-portraits, and Hollywood props belie a deeply layered set of personal and pop cultural references that expertly reorient their context. His As It LAys series of celebrity interviews reflect the miracle and wonder that is life in L.A. and helped to bring a greater attention to his sun-drenched artworks. Since 2010 he has operated a sunglasses company called Freeway Eyewear that has lately begun collaborating with marquee artists to design new looks. The next collaboration is scheduled for release this holiday season. Israel is an unvaryingly upbeat artist, consistently delivering a cool optimism across his oeuvre. What is his secret? An interview by Jon Leon.