‘Othering’, 2022, exhibition view, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin.
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The missing (written) contextualization of her exhibited work, which includes a new series of black and white RC prints (all works 2022) depicting unidentifiable forms that melt into rhythmic patterns, adds a layer of mystery and ambivalence that Donnelly is well known for. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Buchholz, BerlinĪ heavy silence dwells in Trisha Donnelly’s work, one that calcifies as the absence of work titles, a press release or an exhibition title in her current solo show at Galerie Buchholz. Trisha Donnelly, Untitled (288), 2022, RC print, 36 × 30 cm. A bohemian idea has become reality here: saving the world through flowers.
All artists created flower bouquets with individual prices: a picture of the bouquets alongside a thank you note can be ‘bought’ by donating the price to a charity organization via a QR code. ‘he economy is not “in” crisis, the economy itself is the crisis’, is the maxim of this group exhibition, which includes more than 30 artists, among them Ed Atkins, Marc Camille Chamowicz, Klara Lidén and Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings. The exhibition invitation for ‘Fugue’ at Isabella Bortolozzi quotes from a radical leftist tract, The Coming Insurrection (2007), by the anonymous French group The Invisible Committee. While the end of the world might inevitably come, the end of our capitalist society might be even more imminent. Courtesy: the artists and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin 'Fugue', 2022, exhibition view, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. While hugs are certainly not going to solve anything in these dire times, they might help us feel less alone. His right hand tenderly caresses his left arm as he stands next to a pile of books. Studio Nude (2022), for instance, shows a zoomed-in snippet of a naked young man’s hip and arm. Titled ‘Die bunten Tage’ (‘The Colourful Days’), Fratino’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Neu offers a comprehensive account of the 29-year-old’s practice, which veers between provokingly explicit visuals of gay male sex and private, non-sexual intimacies. In his large-scale oil paintings, New York-based artist Louis Fratino relives his recollections of sexual encounters, delicate touches and domestic scenes, referencing Western art movements such as fauvism and cubism. Memories are like sparkling water that has lost its fizz: cerebral relics that once were vibrantly present. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin photograph: Stefan Korte Meanwhile, to see Tovey's method in practice, check him out stripping down to his birthday suiton a recent episode of Looking.Louis Fratino, 2022, exhibition view, Galerie Neu, Berlin.
Erect nipples add so much to a scene I think. “I keep the bush low, trim the chest hair and I like to get the nipples more erect, so I’ll tweak them a bit too. Like, I’ll only touch their balls if it says so in the script.”ĭiscussing his beauty regime when it comes to stripping off, Tovey teased that he thinks "erect nipples" add value to a sex scene. He continued: “When I’m doing a sex scene with an actor who is straight, I feel a huge sense of responsibility not to feel like I’m taking advantage or anything. “It’s easier doing those scenes with another gay man than it is a straight man, the same way I feel fine doing sex scenes with a woman," Tovey told BigGayPictureShow. Tovey, who can currently be seen in the second season of HBO's gay-themed drama Looking, has explained that he finds it hardest to do sex scenes with straight male actors because he doesn't want them to think he's "taking advantage". Russell Tovey has openly discussed the more awkward parts of filming explicit sex scenes.