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Bortolami

Bortolami is a contemporary art gallery representing international artists with a focus on European

08/30/2024

Opening Friday, September 6 | Deborah Re*****on: Mirrors

Bortolami is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Deborah Re*****on (b.1930, d. 2010) at the gallery. Mirrors features works from three distinct junctures in Re*****on’s career, from some of the artist’s most iconic compositions to rare and never before exhibited paintings. The exhibition
coincides with the release of the artist’s first monograph, published by Rizzoli Electa.

Re*****on achieved notoriety in the early 1960s for an inscrutable approach to hard edge abstraction, painting an iconography of irregular, organic shapes rendered with startling precision. Her heraldic imagery, both biomorphic and mechanistic at once, encircled luminous, mirror-like surfaces painted with gradients of black, white and gray. She painted the irregular perimeter of each shape with brilliant bands of orange, blue or green, as if the metallic surfaces
within were a conduit for the bold, electric lines which surrounded them.

🔗 To read the full press release, visit the link in our bio

Deborah Re*****on
Mirrors
6 September - 19 October
Bortolami
Opening Friday, September 6, 6–8pm

📸: Deborah Re*****on, Devon, 1969, Oil on canvas, 73 x 71 in (185.4 x 180.3 cm)

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08/28/2024

Bortolami is pleased to present Sounding Lines, an exhibition by celebrated performance and visual artist Aki Sasamoto. For her third solo show at the gallery, Sasamoto re-envisions her recent commission at Para Site in Hong Kong by creating an installation of oversized, handmade fishing lures suspended from a network of motorized springs. Sounding Lines continues her series of installations which imply movement without requiring physical activation, “performing” without her presence.

Each of Sasamoto’s suspended lures houses a kitchen tool; a knife, a strainer, a whisk, a spatula, which quake at seemingly random intervals, triggered at the turn of a motor. The effect is a choreography of catalytic movements set to a metallic soundscape as the coils zip and the kitchen implements rattle within. Historically, sounding lines are among the oldest navigational instruments. Composed of a rope and a heavy weight, the simple tool has been used to measure the depths beneath a ship for hundreds of years. In the gallery, however, Sasamoto’s Sounding Lines might quantify the profundity of interpersonal relationships hands rather than measure the depth of water. Situated between sculpture and performance, the constellation of lures in the gallery, tethered via supple springs, allude to the physical and psychological distance between things, people, and places, relative to each individual position.

🔗 To read the full press release, visit the link in our bio

Aki Sasamoto
Sounding Lines
6 September – 19 October
The Upstairs at Bortolami
Opening Friday, September 6, 6–8pm

📸: Aki Sasamoto, Sounding Line (blue, green, gold – carving fork), 2024, Wood (red cedar), carving fork, acrylic paint, epoxy, Mylar, plexiglass, stainless steel wire and springs, copper rods, fishhooks, stainless steel hardware, steel, AC motor, speed controller, timer, 6 x 17 1/2 x 1 3/4 in (15 x 44.5 x 4.5 cm). Courtesy the artist and Bortolami.

08/20/2024

We’re excited to share that Marina Rheingantz will be showcasing her work at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (), “Pansori, a Soundscape of the 21st Century.” Her presentation features new paintings created specifically for the exhibition.

In response to curator Nicolas Bourriaud’s focus on sound and acoustics in modern spaces, Rheingantz has crafted evocative landscapes where rhythmic brushstrokes and flowing paint serve as visual interpretations of vibration, resonance, and ambient phenomena.

See new paintings by Marina Rheingantz September 7 – December 1 at the 15th Gwangju Biennale. 🔗 For more information, visit the link in our bio

08/09/2024

Aki Sasamoto: Sounding Lines
6 September – 19 October
The Upstairs at Bortolami
Opening Friday, 6 September 6–8 pm

📸: Installation view of Aki Sasamoto: ‘Sounding Lines’, 2024, Para Site, Hong Kong. Photo: Studio Lights On.

08/08/2024

Bortolami is pleased to present its second solo exhibition of works by Deborah Re*****on (b.1930 d. 2010). Mirrors includes some of Re*****on’s most iconic compositions alongside rare and previously unexhibited works. The exhibition will coincide with the release of the artist’s first monograph, published by Rizzoli Electa.

📸: Deborah Re*****on, Aldwych, 1973, Oil on canvas, 56 x 52 in (142.2 x 132.1cm).
Image courtesy Bortolami and the Deborah Re*****on Charitable Trust for the Visual Arts.

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08/07/2024

Paula Wilson is known for creating works that use collage as a unifying approach, in both material and content. Drawing deeply from her own biography, including her 2007 relocation from Brooklyn to Carrizozo, New Mexico, a town of less than 1,000 residents, her holistic practice in the high-desert plains extends beyond traditional artworks. It encompasses functional objects such as her own clothing which she prints and sews, as well as rugs made from painted and printed fabric affixed to wood slats.

⭐️ See Paula Wilson: The Wind Keeps Time through August 30 at 55 Walker

📸: Paula Wilson, Meridian, 2011/2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas glued to pine slats, 68 1/2 × 58 1/2 in
Paula Wilson, Given Space, 2013 & 2024, Monoprint, acrylic, oil on canvas laminated to pine slats, 80 × 48 in
Paula Wilson, Trailhead, 2021/2016, Collagraph print, acrylic, and oil on muslin mounted on pine slats 69 1/2 × 43 3/4 in

07/30/2024

Today is Ann Veronica Janssens’ birthday! 🎉🎈 
Since the late 1970s, Ann Veronica Janssens has developed her research around light and its relationship to what surrounds it, often creating site-specific works that challenge the immutable nature of sculpture and installation. Her experimental work emphasizes different stages of fragility, whether visual, physical, temporal, or psychological.  
“In the tradition of optical art, Janssens’ work radically questions human perception. But the power of her art lies in the tension between the mastery and the wildness of the natural world. Hers is an architecture of the immaterial: a radical act of resistance against the tyranny of space in favour of time,” writes Benoit Loiseau for .

Happy Birthday, Ann Veronica!

📸: Ann Veronica Janssens, Esther Schipper x Domaine du Muy, Installation view, 2024. Photo © Jean-Christophe Lett

07/26/2024

Virginia Overton in The New York Times 🗞

“You don’t have to know how Virginia Overton made “Untitled (n**e descending a staircase)” to enjoy it. Comprising dozens of 1-foot-by-8-foot sheets of glittering, silvery steel, each bent or bowed in a different place and lined up edge to edge across Bortolami gallery’s back wall, it has the same jagged, thrilling sense of possibility and movement as the 1912 Marcel Duchamp painting name-checked in the title. […] It does, however, add something to know that Overton specializes in reclaiming materials and responding to specific architectural sites, and that all the metal in this show came from the mammoth old Domino Sugar sign on the Brooklyn waterfront.”

🔗 Visit the link in our bio to read more
📍 See works by Virginia Overton through August 9 at Bortolami

07/25/2024

Bidding for the 2024 ArtCrush Online Auction is now live!

Bortolami is pleased to participate in the 2024 ArtCrush Auction and support the Aspen Art Museum with donated works by Lena Henke and Marina Rheingantz. The Live Auction will take place in person at ArtCrush, the Aspen Art Museum’s annual summer gala, on Friday, August 2, 2024.

🔗 To bid in the Online Auction, tap the link in our bio

LENA HENKE
Combustions 9, 2023
Pigment on soldered leather on wood
36 x 24 x 1 1/2 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami, New York. Photo: Guang Xu.

MARINA RHEINGANTZ
Sopro, 2024
Oil on canvas
51 x 43 in.
Photo: Eduardo Ortega. Courtesy of the artist, Bortolami, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, and White Cube.

07/24/2024

In Virginia Overton’s Untitled (cascade), long, thin bands of galvanized steel flat stock have been cinched together with vises bolted to the wall. The sculpture repositions the formerly rigid materials, allowing the inherent and newly “encouraged” curves to make the steel appear to flow downwards.

📍See new sculptures by Virginia Overton now through August 9 at Bortolami

Pictured: Virginia Overton, Untitled (cascade), 2024, Galvanized steel and steel vise, 117 x 122 x 3 1/2 in (297 x 310 x 9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami.

07/22/2024

Lena Henke featured in the Summer 2024 Edition of Aspen Art Magazine

Henke has designed a limited-edition Stetson on the occasion of her solo show at the Aspen Art Museum - available for pre-order now in the Aspen Art Museum Shop. The Move Stetson Hat is meticulously hand-fashioned in Garland, Texas, and is the hand-branded image of Henke’s striking sculpture, THEMOVE (Aspen), on view at the Aspen Art Musuem through September 29.

🔗 For more information visit the link in our bio

Lena also has a donated work in the 2024 ArtCrush Auction. Bidding opens this Thursday, July 25!

Pictured: Portrait of Lena Henke. Photo: Christian Werner.
Lena Henke, THEMOVE (Aspen), 2023, Installation view, Aspen Art Museum. Photo: Daniel Pérez

07/19/2024

“School’s In For Summer”
Lola Kramer recounted her experience to the inaugural exhibition at the Campus in 📓🎒

“I was headed out for the grand opening of the Campus, a new exhibition and project space housed in a former school building founded by six New York galleries: Bortolami, James Cohan, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, kurimanzutto, and kaufmann repetto. ‘All aboard the Gallerina Express!’ one caffeinated gallerist remarked. […]
In the principal’s office, dealer Stefania Bortolami sat at a table with the Campus’s staff—everyone was taking a break from the excitement. ‘So how do we, you know, end this thing?’ she laughed, gesturing into the packed hallway while addressing the event’s publicist. ‘You could pull the fire alarm,’ I said.”

🔗 Read more about Kramer’s experience of the opening of The Campus via the link in our bio!

⭐️Visit The Campus for Upstate Art Weekend July 20 & 21, open from 12-5 PM.

1. Dealer Loreta Lamargese posing for her school picture at the opening of The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.
2. Artist Barbara Kasten blowing out her birthday candles at The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.
3. Madeline Hollander with her work Bob, 2023, at The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.
4. Dealer Stefania Bortolami with Rachel Harrison’s The Excavator, 2023, at The Campus, Claverack, NY. Photo courtesy of Lola Kramer/Artforum.

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