MICHELE GUIDO | Kosmos

Electric Op is the first major exhibition to examine how the Op art of the 1960s and 1970s related to not only industrial machinery, but also the new electronic media of the dawning post-industrial era. At the very moment that Op artists began making works that short-circuit our optical systems, new video and digital technologies began reformatting the nature of images and how we see. Could it be more than coincidental that the undulating lines of Op art resemble electronic video signals, or that its grids suggest the pixilated structure of digital screens? In fact, many Op artists would turn to using these technologies, some as early as the late 1960s, while at the same time, many of the first video and digital artists openly turned to Op art for inspiration. In this way, Op art became more than just the final chapter of modernist geometric abstraction; it was also the first artistic movement of the global Information Age, heralding the transformation of vision from a mode of embodied perception to an algorithmic process executed by the computer systems that produce and process images today.

• Buffalo AKG Art Museum
• 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York 14222
• 27 settembre 2024 – 27 gennaio 2025

Gary Hill has tagged the exhibition Loop Through, referring to a singular work as well as being suggestive of a path or circuit from which to experience the selected works.His multimedia installations, performances and video works incorporate a wide range of materials and technologies, along with diverse linguistic concerns. From his early experiments with video and sound to his complex intermedia installations, Hill has consistently challenged conventional notions of perception, engaging audiences with artworks that operate on multiple levels. The installations range from silent projections of “being” and confrontations with physicality, to ambiguities between inside and outside. The works have been strategically placed to reflect all the industrial spaces that constitute the heart of the Art & Design District Palma, with a total of six industrial spaces and eight installations.

• Art & Design distric Palma
• Carrer de Siquier, 24 – Palma, 07007
• 20 settembre – 22 dicembre 2024

Cutting Clouds is a program featuring actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and the impermanent. The title refers to Cloud Scissors, a work conceived in the early 1960s by George Brecht. A few cards dictating places, times, and modes provide the instructions for a possible combined happening, drawing on multiple events: random directions to follow in order to shift creative boundaries through play and experimentation. The tools bequeathed by Brecht thus provide the stimulus for an exercise in imagination. In the liminal spaces of the museum, interventions and works present a potentiality, an idea of incompleteness by adopting various media—video, painting, poetry, graphics, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, and performance. Cutting Clouds reflects the movement of clouds that flow fluidly and take shape through our gaze, changing yet never repeating, thus evolving through operations that aim to trigger potential creativity by appreciating the random, the improvised and the indeterminate.

• Museo Madre, Museo d'arte contemporanea Donnaregina
• Via Luigi Settembrini, 79, 80139 Napoli NA
• 26 settembre 2024 – 7 gennaio 2025

On stage at the San Carlo Theater in Naples is the one-act tragedy “EleKtra” extracted from Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto from Sophocles' 'Electra'. The sets and costumes are by artist Anselm Kiefer.

• San Carlo Theater
• Via San Carlo, 98, 80132 Napoli NA
• 27 settembre – 3 ottobre 2024

A Shadow of a Shadow is a survey of 17 performances created by Kentridge from the late 1980s to the present, from his interpretations of King Ubu—the outrageous protagonist from Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi  (1896)—and Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, to Kentridge’s original works such as The Head and the Load (2018) about Africa and Africans in World War I. On view are objects and artworks produced for the development and presentation of these performance projects: drawings, stage backdrops, animations, puppets, props, costumes and installations inspired by theatrical illusions. The title of the exhibition is drawn from a play by thirteenth-century playwright and puppeteer Ibn Daniyal, who fled Iraq to escape the Mongol invasions. Prompted by the sense that the world was ending, Ibn Daniyal created shadow plays that ridiculed authorities and exposed corrupt social mores

• Sharjah Art Foundation
• Al Mureijah Square Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• 28 settembre – 8 dicembre 2024

Salta art presents a public intervention by renowned Chilean artist Alredo Jaar curated by Espacio Temporal at Sorry Square, Munich as part of Various Others. The exhibit in Sorry Square will present Alfredo Jaar’s installation Chiaroscuro, 2024.

• Sorry Square
• Wiener Platz 9, 81667 München, Germany
• 7 – 22 settembre 2024