DIONYSIA | Group Show
Afra Eisma | Abel Hartooni | Anastasia Kiseleva | Lena Kuzmich
Xavier Robles de Medina | Marijke Vasey
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“Come with me” it whispers, oozing nectar across the brim of each bright green leaf.
In the holy woods of Stimuli they celebrate. Decorum, loose ends, abundance and decay. In disparate togetherness. In continuous metamorphosis. They wake up in a dream and enter a space of transgression
No Man’s Art Gallery is honored to present DIONYSIA, a group show that inaugurates the opening of the gallery’s second location in Amsterdam, Bos & Lommer. No Man’s Art Gallery KIOSK is located on the Willem de Zwijgerlaan 327. DIONYSIA will be on show at both locations.
Exhibition runs from 12 November - 19 December 2021
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“Nieuwe Locatie No Man’s Art Gallery oogt als een theatrale etalage”, Edo Dijksterhuis, Het Parool
Photos: Sonia Mangiapane
Unseen Photo Fair 2021
Mnguni, 2019, Buhlebezwe Siwani, 101.9 × 151.9 cm, Inktjet print on paper, Edition of 5 + 2 AP
TWISTER | Mia Chaplin
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4 September - 7 November 2021
No Man’s Art Gallery is honored to present TWISTER, Mia Chaplin’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The works are all created in Amsterdam where she has been working as NMAG Artist in Residence over the past summer month.
TWISTER enters a body of work that oscillates between the abstract and figurative in which Chaplin explores the crooked and imperfect nature of intimate relationships. In rich impasto oil paintings and sculptures, with the immediacy of prominent brush strokes and expressive color palettes, she searches for the vivid tension between the soft and the violent, the familiar and the estranged. When it comes to passionate love, danger always lurks.
Endless kissing scenes of young love, the silent devastation after a perfect storm, an abstracted scene of two fighting dogs frozen in a deadly battle painted in fleshy pinks, reds in blues. Saliva exchanges in fights and embraces. We see bodies intertwined, wrapped, curled inwards in scenes that hint at the sensual and emotional richness of the classical baroque paintings of Rubens. Are we witnessing an act of intimacy or one of fending off?
It is the ambiguity between the works that Chaplin carefully highlights; by juxtaposing this diverse selection Chaplin makes us second guess what we see: “It's both beauty and destruction; the one who is there to love and protect also is the one that violently hurts and betrays. This body of work in general is an attempt to anxiously grapple for some kind of control. It reflects the desire to trust, to be safe and vulnerable alongside the fear of being betrayed, deceived and misled.” (Chaplin)
Photos: Sonia Mangiapane
Mia Chaplin in her studio by Jonathan Kope
Mia Chaplin (b.1990 South Africa) is a South African artist based in Cape Town. Her work is situated between painting and sculpture, with her impasto oil paintings and painted papier-mâché/plaster of Paris sculptures forming the basis of her practice. Chaplin uses materiality, colour, texture and visual motifs symbolically to address themes of identity, femininity and the body.
Everything is better when I’m with me | Marilyn Sonneveld
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19 June - 19 August 2021
NMAG is honored to present “Everything is better when I’m with me” the second solo exhibition by Marilyn Sonneveld (1990, NL) at the gallery. Sonneveld will show a new series of oil paintings and glass objects made in the past year.
“Everything is better when I’m with me” conveys a personal narrative, one that takes us inwards, in which Sonneveld explores the vulnerabilities and insecurities of herself and her artist-hood. The year of self isolation made her studio her center and pushed Sonneveld to explore her own limits and focus solely on her autonomous practice. In the paintings we see genderless and faceless figures taking on introverted and intimate postures. They are alone but not lonely. “The paintings touch upon a sense of desire, gut feeling and fantasies that one carries within, but is not always in touch with. To me they represent a journey of self acceptance, in my autonomous practice, in my ability to dive into painting even with the self doubt. Once you find that inner connection through intimacy, in the broadest sense of the word - everything gets better.” (Sonneveld)
In the postures we recognize a touch of the toe while leaning backwards, wrapping one’s body with arms and legs, sitting cross-legged and face down, fiddling with hands; all of them carry with them an emotion, a time and place. Figures in glass, zooming in and taking out, playing with organic shapes, brought to life by Sonneveld’s vivid use of colour. “The figures might be introvert but the colors counter with lots of expression and presence. The colors allow me to be totally free while painting, to work in the moment and think of nothing, as nothing else exist.” (Sonneveld) This enjoyment; the loss of time, insecurity, self doubt or better said: the inevitable presence of those feelings but the enjoyment despite them might be exactly what “Everything is better when I’m with me” wants to share with us.
Everything is better when I’m with me” will be on show from June 19th till 22nd of August 2021. For more information, please contact info@nomansart.com
This exhibition is kindly made possible by AFK
Photos: Neeltje de Vries
Marilyn Sonneveld in her studio. Photo Lisette van Hoogenhuyze
Online Viewing Room Art Brussels 2021
OVR Art Brussels
1 - 14 June 2021
Mia Chaplin
Afra Eisma
Fabian Herkenhoener
Sam Samiee
Buhlebezwe Siwani
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Isikhumbuzo (A reminder), 2021, Buhlebezwe Siwani, preem soap, varnish, wood, lacquer, polystyrene, 110 x 140 x 140 cm. Photo: Neeltje de Vries
Slow Cure | Sisse Holst Pedersen & Bertrand Peyrot
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09.04 - 23.05 2021
Opening weekend: 9, 10 and 11 April 2021
No Man’s Art Gallery is honoured to reopen the gallery with Slow Cure a duo exhibition by Sisse Holst Pedersen (DK) and Bertrand Peyrot (FR). Both artists have created new pieces for the exhibition.
For Slow Cure Holst Pedersen presents a series of new and old sculptures, together showing an intimate and instinctive interaction between the artist and the objects. A shiny blue arch corporeally enfolded by its matte black counter form, enacting a slow sensual choreography in Parasite, 2020 and Corner Snake (2019) a foetal-like form that in a very slow pace seems to spoon its own pedestal. Many pieces hold a golden round shape, carefully caressed into their nests. The simplicity of a ball-shape, that which fits exactly in the warmth of one's palm. All pieces reveal countless traces and fingerprints of Holst Pedersen’s hands. One can sense a primal human need in the pieces: a longing for physical touch, that has become even more sensible in a present that forces distance upon us. “I let my entire body affect the clay while in return the clay affects my body. My work can be considered as a plea for a more sensory engagement.” (Holst Pedersen)
The instinctive interaction between Holst Pedersen’s sculptures and their surroundings extend to Bertrand Peyrot’s oxidized metal paintings. Their presence enriches the sensory and tactile experience of the sculptures, who, in return, seem to invite the visitor to direct their attention back to the plates. Large quadrilateral metal surfaces appear to have been taken over by a slow process of oxidation. Emergent colours and contrasts create ambiguity in what has been controlled by the artist and what was surrendered to nature’s course. The strong and still impressions conceal the ongoing process of oxidation that will change the painting’s image over time.
Slow Cure will be on show from 9 April - 23 May 2021 at Bos en Lommerweg 88/90. For more information please contact: Safira Taylor info[at]nomansart.com
To book a time slot please call or Whatsapp 31 6 3755 0132
Photos: Neeltje de Vries