Aujourd’hui is pleased to present Aujourd’hui je dis oui, a group exhibition in Lisbon curated in collaboration with Domenico de Chirico. Gathering works from multiple national and international artists, the exhibition will be on view from the 15th of April until the 14th of May, featuring works by: Ana Manso, Andrew Birk, Antoine Donzeaud, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Béla Pablo Janssen, Benoit Platéus, Ittah Yoda, João Paulo Serafim, Manor Grunewald, Manuel Forte, Michele Gabriele, Miguel Januário, Mikkel Carl, Nuno Patricio, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine, Pedro Barateiro, Pedro Matos, Ricardo Passaporte, Samuel François and Sasha Kurmaz.

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In Wet & Wild Josh Reames presents a new series of paintings which employ commonly used artistic techniques, such as trompe-l’oeil, action painting, graphic design and rudimentary drawing, all existing on one plane. The artworks by Josh Reames consider abstraction and painting in relation to the internet and digital image searches via Google Image and Tumblr.

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Manor Grunewald focuses on the process of transforming images, whereby the printing process itself, as well as the results achieved with various printing techniques, plays a special role within his compositions, in which order and chaos, the creating, breaking, interrupting and dissolving of structures, are all key elements.

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Aujourd’hui is pleased to present Aujourd’hui je dis oui, a group exhibition in Lisbon curated in collaboration with Domenico de Chirico. Gathering works from multiple national and international artists, the exhibition will be on view from the 15th of April until the 14th of May.

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Silent Spring navigates us into a world of seemingly sensible, yet simultaneously absurd contradictions reminiscent of the flow of energy outside, as well as within the power socket. While faced with a series of small economies, which operate as interdependent clusters, yet bare a clear reference to the frequent absurdity of the systematic whole, the stillness of presented life here echoes the somewhat loud silence of a new season, which has long began (!).

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Tristian Koenig is currently exhibiting When a still painting tells us we are moving - a solo exhibition of new work by Professor David Thomas. The exhibition debuts recent large-scale paintings and a suite of new photo-paintings, which continue Thomas' explorations of colour, duration and gesture from within the tradition of the monochrome.

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Bruno Cidra’s third solo show at Galeria Baginski, titled MEXICANO, is a moment of consolidation of the work that Cidra has been developing, which results from a thought process brought forth from his experience at an Artistic Residency in São Paulo, in 2013.

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Bid Project is currently exhibition I’LL BE BACK IN A MOMENT, a two person exhibition curated by Marialuisa Pastò, featuring works by Rashid Uri and Andrey Bogush.

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Annabelle Arlie’s work speaks to the complex temporality of humankind. She assembles contemporary cultural objects with artisanal, primitive ones in a manner that can collectively reference the Totem—engaging the concept of a prior belief or symbol that has been reconstituted in an updated context and allowed to assume new meanings and significances as a result. These assemblages speak to the paradoxical nature of human existence and abide by what is sometimes referred to as the riddle of the Sphinx: “What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?” Oedipus answered: “Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs; in old age, he uses a ‘walking’ stick.”

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Bid Project Gallery is currently showing ‘ON-SCREEN AND OFF’, a group exhibition curated by Domenico de Chirico, featuring woks by BB5000, Gina Folly, Michele Gabriele, Tilman Hornig, Pakui Hardware, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Nicolas Pelzer, Sung Tieu, and Yannick Val Gesto.

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I’m looking at a picture of a praying mantis eating a fly it looks so delicious I mean it looks like the praying mantis is eating something so fleshy and fulfilling. I spent hours looking at pictures of people hand pollinating plants. I collected them in a folder on dropbox. Instead of bees or flies or wasps or moths, they are using various tools to pollinate plants by hand. These images seem important. I don’t know much about this topic, I can just assume things from the pictures and the snippets of text. I don’t have any flowers to pollinate. Someone is pollinating a peach blossom with a tuft of dog hair. Others are using toothbrushes and paintbrushes to pollinate potatoes. “It’s not paint it’s pollen.” Many of the hands in the pictures are wearing rings on their ring fingers. Isn’t it weird that Michael Pollan’s last name sounds like pollen?

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The invitation card for Julian Turner’s first solo exhibition in Vienna reproduces typical tiles of the German Democratic Republic. Its not-quite-monochrome green reminds us of the not-quite-white of popcorn wallpaper. Like popcorn wallpaper, it is decoration so commonplace, it might get away with not being decoration at all. The clean flatness of modernist aesthetics is eased to fit the simple working class home. The tiles go well with the fake stone grain painted as background for Turner’s collaged canvasses, and with other cheap but efficient ways to cover bleak surfaces.

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Giorgio Galotti is currently showing Paul Branca’s first solo exhibition in Italy and the gallery’s first show devoted to one artist. New York-based artist Paul Branca presents a selection of paintings made on readymade canvas tote bags that have been stretched on wooden stretchers and prepared as traditional supports. Branca, known for his research on the social connectivity of food culture, paintings of meticulously rendered sausage links as well as slices of cold cuts and vegetables, and projects that often question painting’s ability to mirror distribution strategies within historical languages of painting.

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The work of Runo Lagomarsino (b. 1977 in Lund, Sweden, based in São Paulo, Brazil and Malmö, Sweden) investigates the historiographic, geographic and mathematic models that informed the colonial domination of the world by Western modernity. How can one trace the relationship between the historical and geographic methods of describing the planet that were devised by European reason and the political control of that planet? Lagomarsino’s practice attempts to answer this question, setting out from a perspective of comparative cultural analysis and suggesting new, alternative forms of cultural interpretation that stand in contrast with those established and passed down by modern European thought.

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In the main space Johnny Abrahams and Matt Mignanelli meet, while the big back Gallery 3 teams together Russell Tyler and Palma Blank.These four artists make abstract works that look at line and texture through geometric or optical abstraction in a fresh, digital­era way. Each of the four artists has an unmistakable personality, however, that comes through in both their approach and way of looking. From Russel Tyler pitching paint balls of oil at his pieces to Palma’s taped­off winnowing of thick acrylic, the sphere of interest is shared but the details distinctive.

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Jos van Merendonk (1956) has, in the last three decades continuously labored on a body of work that, given the self-imposed limitations at hand, has a surprising scope and depth. Three simple gestures on a square canvas form a base structure, this structure is then re-imagined by Van Merendonk painting over the structure, always using the same, rather unforgiving green hue.

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Annka Kultys Gallery is currently showing an exhibition of works by Dash Snow (1981-2009), marking the first solo exhibition of the American artist to be held in London. Hello, this is Dash is organized around a group of eight works completed between 2004-2008 which represent the breadth of range within Snow’s oeuvre, including examples of his photography, collage and assemblage sculpture.

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