6 - 9 September, 2023
Fergus Feehily, Kaoru Arima, Ken Kagami, Reina Sugihara, Kazuyuki Takezaki, Trevor Shimizu
COEX, Seoul
Zolo Press at Printed Matter’s 2023 LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair
10 - 13 August, 2023
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
This August, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) returns to Los Angeles—the first time back since 2019! LAABF 2023 is taking place August 10–13 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
LAABF 2023 will feature more than 300 international exhibitors, including artists and collectives, small presses, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors. This year’s Fair will forefront artists’ books from Latin America and Asia-Pacific, feature a newly commissioned exhibition and mural, and highlight LA-based artists, community-driven projects, and interdisciplinary artists’ publishing practices from around the world.
Rīga Confidential
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo present Fergus Feehily at Rīga Confidential
Opening: 21 June, 6-9 pm
Participant presentations: 22 July 12-4 pm
22 June - 30 July, 2023
Participating institutions: 427 (Rīga), Alma (Rīga), Artbeat (Tbilisi), Editorial (Vilnius), Green Gallery (Milwaukee), Kim? (Rīga), LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina), Misako & Rosen (Tokyo), Temnikova Kasela (Tallinn)
Artists: Tamar Botchorishvili, Fergus Feehily, Kristians Fukss, Richard Galling, Vedran Kopljar, Katy Cowan, Ieva-Kraule Kūna, Liudmila (Miša Skalskis un Milda Januševičiūte), Ieva Putniņa, Līva Rutmane, Anastasia Sosunova, Līga Spunde, Sigrid Viir, Elīna Vītola, Dardan Zhegrova
Rīga Confidential brings together international, experimental and established galleries as well as non-profit art institutions from the Baltics, Japan, the US, Kosovo and Georgia to introduce the Latvian art audience to new names from exciting regions and to activate Rīga’s contemporary art market.
Rīga Confidential is to serve as a meeting point for art institutions, artists and the public, informing and democratizing art sales activities and promoting forms of support for art institutions and artists. The day after the opening, we invite you to an event in which gallerists will present and talk about their spaces and the history thereof, as well as about decades of working side by side with their artists, tools for promoting artists’ careers, collaborations with local creative communities from Milwaukee, Pristina, Tallinn, Tokyo, Vilnius, and Riga, their challenges, difficulties and, of course, successes. At the same time, our guests will be introduced to Rīga’s contemporary art and culture scene, accompanied by visits to artists’ studios and meetings with art students.
The name Rīga Confidential alludes to the Onsen Confidential gallery and art space exchange project in Tokyo, inspired by precedents such as Milwaukee International, Paramount Ranch, Condo, OKEY DOKEY, Friend of a Friend, and Villa projects (Villa Warsaw, Villa Reykjavik and Villa Toronto), as well as non-profit initiatives such as NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), Paris Internationale and gallery associations such as CADAN (Contemporary Art Dealers Association of Japan) and IGA (International Gallery Alliance).
Zolo Press at Acid Free, Los Angeles
Zolo Press at Acid Free, Los Angeles, Blum & Poe.
New monograph on Fergus Feehily available, amongst many other titles published by Zolo Press.
16 June - 18 June, 2023
Basel book launch and signing at I Never Read
June 14, 2023.
Join us for the book launch in Basel of the new Zolo monograph. Fair runs June 14 - June 17, 2023
Collections of Things, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels
Please join us in Brussels on Wednesday June 7th, 6:00-9:00pm, At La Maison De Rendez-vous, For the launch and signing of Feehily's monograph, some artist editions, and a one-night show!
Oil, carpet tacks, acrylic, gesso, gouache, twigs, the occasional spray paint, pencil, dabs of watercolour, found photographs, found frames, bandages, a paper bag or two, screws, aluminium foil, sweet wrappers, scrap wood. The marginal meets in the paintings of Fergus Feehily (1968, Dublin, Ireland), paintings that themselves stand at the periphery of contemporary painterly conventions - Whose "subtle activity," as Martin Herbert observes, "Is On Its Way Somewhere Else, Drifting Out Of View." This book is the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date. It brings into view more than one-hundred works made over more than 15 years alongside clippings, notes, and research material from the artist's archive as well as exhibitions staged from Aachen to Mexico City to Tokyo. Essays by Martin Herbert, curator Chris Sharp, and artist Sarah Braman celebrate Feehily's reminder of, as writes the latter, "the joy of just looking".
Beers by Illegaal Belgium
A. W. Book Launch at 41/42, Cornwall
Book Launch at 41/42
Saturday 3 June, 4-8 pm
41/42
5 Treneglos Terrace, Gulval, Cornwall TR18 3BL
Please RSVP via 4one4two@gmail.com
For further information, and to purchase copies, please visit the 41/42 shop here.
Production has been supported with funding from Cultivator Cornwall’s Creative Investment Grant scheme.
A. W., 41/42, Cornwall
Fergus Feehily has in recent years shown a certain reticence to in any sense explain his work and A.W., his new publication for 41/42, is no different. The publication was made over just a couple of weeks in early 2023, and includes paper works made by Feehily in the last couple of years, images from the artist’s collection, and makes reference to the artist Alfred Wallis, who lived in St Ives, Cornwall.
Fergus Feehily is an artist living in Berlin, Germany.
28 pages
14 x 20 cm b/w booklet
29.7 x 42 cm 2-sided colour sheet
First Edition of 30
2023
£10 + shipping
To purchase contact 4one4two@gmail.com
Fronts/Backs, Complex, Dublin
May 6 - May 26, 2023
Fergus Feehily, Glenn Fitzgerald, Sarah O’Brien, Tanad Aaron
Preview May 5, 18:00 - 20:00
"During my first meeting with Fergus, Glenn, and Sarah, I started with: 'I'm drawn to all three of you as artists because when I look at your paintings, they intensely trick me into thinking I can paint too'. In hindsight, I think I was alluding to the fact that all three artists make paintings using materials that are easily found and gathered, such as sweet wrappers, office prints, glue, household paint, tinfoil, zip lock bags, coloured paper, old frames, glitter, carpet underlay, cardboard, wood, screws, and various textiles. Encouraging a form of art-making through intuition as opposed to tradition. Paintings formed in such a way may be seen as "poor" in some cases.”
Curated by Mark O’Gorman
Misako & Rosen, NADA, Miami
November 30 – December 3, 2022
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), is pleased to present the 20th edition of NADA Miami, which will be held at Ice Palace Studios.
This year marks both the 20th edition of NADA Miami—which held its inaugural edition in 2003 with just 35 exhibitors—as well as the 20th anniversary of the New Art Dealers Alliance, which was founded in 2002.
NADA Miami 2022 will showcase a diverse selection of 146 galleries, art spaces, and nonprofit organizations spanning over 40 cities around the globe including Paris, Tokyo, Dubai, Toronto, Buenos Aires, and Copenhagen. This year’s fair includes over 80 NADA members and 37 first-time exhibitors. The fair will also feature NADA Presents, the organization’s signature programming series of conversations, performances, and events, as well as a Curated Spotlight, a special section highlighting a selection of galleries organized by a renowned curator and presented in partnership with TD Bank.
Portals at Dublin Art Book Fair 2022
November 24 - December 4, 2022
Dublin Art Book Fair 2022: A Caring Matter
backbonebooks shows Fergus Feehily’s Portals, 2022 at the Dublin Art Book Fair. Temple Bar Gallery + Studios presents Dublin Art Book Fair 2022: A Caring Matter (DABF22), the twelfth edition of Ireland’s only art book fair, sponsored by Henry J Lyons. Taking place from 24 November to 4 December 2022, the gallery is transformed into an art book fair where you can enjoy an impressive range of artist books, curated book titles, independent publishers, talks and events in a unique atmosphere.
Rosie Lynch, Creative Director of Workhouse Union in Kilkenny, is DABF22 Guest Curator. Her theme, A Caring Matter, is explored through the books themselves and an eleven-day programme of talks, events and workshops. At the crux is the idea of care, considered in poetic and imminent ways through the role of formal and informal publishing, and how we build communities of solidarity and belonging to how we care for our buildings and towns. Lynch’s programme puts care at the centre of how we think about society, our environment, how we work, live and make art.
Dublin Art Book Fair 2022: A Caring Matter is sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
Portals at Super BOOKS 3, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Portals features as part of backbonebooks presentation at Super BOOKS 3, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Super BOOKS 3
November 11 - November 12, 2022, 12 – 8 pm
In November, Haus der Kunst will host the third edition of Super BOOKS. Over two days, artists, designers, and alternative publishers will show their publications. Super BOOKS was organized for the first time in 2019 at Haus der Kunst as part of the exhibition "Archives in Residence: AAP Archiv Künstlerpublikationen" curated by Sabine Brantl. The project aims to be considered part of the tradition of independent showcases for artists’ publications that have formed in the context of the international, post-avant-garde art scene since the 1960s.
Super BOOKS is a collaborative project between Haus der Kunst, AAP Archive Artist Publications, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Curated by Sabine Brantl with Hubert Kretschmer, Lilian Landes, Veronika Günther and Martin Schmidl.
Contemporary Art Daily, Half Doors, Lulu, Mexico
Art School: A Beautiful Uncertainty
The text, Art School: A Beautiful Uncertainty is included in Rethinking the crit: New pedagogies in design education, which has just been published by Routledge, 2022.
Edited by Patrick Flynn, Maureen O'Connor, Mark Price and Miriam Dunn.
Maureen O’Connor, Johan De Walsche, Rosie Parnell, Collette Nolan, Bill O’Flynn, Mia Roth-Čerina, Caterina Barioglio, Daniele Campobenedetto, Kathryn H. Anthony, Donal Moloney, Carmen Tomas, Martin Gledhill, Sevgi Türkkan, Rashida Ng, Lindy Osborne Burton, Hermie Delport, Jolanda Morkel, Michele Gorman and Alice Clancy and contributions from Johanna Cleary, Lorena Dondea, Patricia Ruisch, Sam Carse and Sarah Sheridan.
Half Doors, Lulu, Mexico City
September 10 - November 5, 2022
The impossible elegance of Fergus Feehily’s painting. Its economy both of scale and means, humble (but is it?) and domestic-sized and made of the stuff of the everyday. Its humor, how apparently playful it is, even a touch absurd, and yet, deeply thoughtful and totally rigorous. Have you ever seen anything so beautiful and unhinged? I mean it’s a broken piece of wood sutured with a dirty piece of medical tape, which is just starting to peel off (oh no!). But it is so utterly serious at the same time. Look at that artist-made metallic frame. And the well, let’s admit it, opulent amber-hue…. How much of the history of 20th century art and painting is subsumed in this gesture? Duchamp, Burri, Fontana, probably more, and yet, it kind of just disappears before the unremitting, if casual pulchritude of this object. Elsewhere, fluorescent daubs of paint skittering gaily around a slate grey surface, as if applied in a state of elated distraction. Really? Is he fucking with me? Foutage de gueule? But look at the frame. The colors of it. There’s nothing distracted about any of this. And the box on the shelf? Is it a painting? It is. Look at it closely. The glittering, multi-colored sides. The importance of the role this part of painting plays in the practice of the artist cannot be overstated. Never mind the oddly sensuous surface and striations of the plywood and its almost accidental pictorial quality, which is nevertheless perfectly compelling as a picture. But then again, maybe the plywood are the sides? Conceptual, so to speak, painting at its finest, this work is blessedly devoid of the dourness associated with conceptualism. Consider the warmth and brightness of it. This is the joy of contemplation. Of painting. Of painting that is not painting. But really is. Much more so than it is conceptualism, in any event.
Contemporary Art Daily, Equation: Fergus Feehily & Günther Förg, June, Berlin
Contemporary Art Daily, A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
Pick of the Week: A Minor Constellation
A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery reviewed
Equation, Fergus Feehily & Günther Förg, June, Berlin
August 4 - August 27, 2022
Equation, Günther Förg & Fergus Feehily, curated by Camila McHugh
Something Günther Förg found compelling in exhibiting photographs was their reflective surfaces: “I have often observed how visitors to my installation try to find a position in which they don’t have a reflection in the glass. They want to see the photo as neutrally as possible, but that is almost impossible, for one can’t avoid the reflections.” For a show at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1986, he even glazed his framed photographs to accentuate this mirroring. Such attentiveness to perception imbues his works with fragility. Not because he elevates the position of the viewer—far from it—but instead because he draws out the inevitably of this clunky viewer-object contract. And its essential precarity.
He was similarly concerned with the way in which architecture occupied space—formally, as well as in a mode laden with history and connotation. His 1985 photograph Das Detail vergrößern (3) is part of a sequence of photos he took of Munich’s Glyptothek, in tandem with his photographic dissection of the nearby Pinakothek. It was a fascination with Villa Malaparte in Capri, and particularly how it had been documented, that first moved Förg to pick up a camera. Architecture with Fascist or Modernist inflection would become his frequent subject throughout the 1980s and 90s, and an attention to gridded window panes and spiral staircases another through line. This photograph shows a tight, vertical crop of Glyptothek’s interior dome, which, like the rest of the interior neoclassical museum, was originally built in marble in the early 19th century, and was rebuilt with red brick and painted with a light plaster after it was mostly destroyed during the Second World War. In a characteristically hazy, almost blurred focus, Förg’s dilating composition also lays power structures bare.
Fergus Feehily’s painting Dee, 2022 also plays with the possibility of reflection, though you can’t quite see yourself in the sheets of textured, shiny aluminum and pink, orange and silver glitter fabric that are fastened to a thin box shape with carpet tacks. But the work does invite a kind of continuous reorientation—it is seductive, strange, self-consciously ordinaryl. Feehily had also been thinking of English occultist and alchemist John Dee and his black spirit mirror: a lustrous surface that the Elizabethan court astronomer employed to summon visions of the spirit world. Paintings can be portals and Feehily’s resolutely small-scale work makes a claim for an artwork’s ability to encompass or engender something like a universe. Take the subtly expansive quality of the methodical and multicolored dabs of oil on wood that comprise Ever Loving, 2021 or the pulsating stars in blue on yellow in North Star, 2008. Both of these works make use of found frames, emblematic of Feehily’s interest in dragging intriguing fragments from the world around him onto the picture plane. Or perhaps more precisely, making this found material the picture plane. Counter to Förg’s consistently serial approach to artmaking, Feehily pays keen attention to a friction between artworks. What questions has this work raised that the next might broach? Or how might the next work attempt to embody something entirely other to the previous? Like Förg, on the other hand, Feehily is invested in painting as a proposition that is unconstrained by material parameters of paint or canvas, as an ongoing negotiation with both a weighty history and boundless possibility.
Meandering reflection on these two artists could take many directions, but their work also resists explication. These guys are the real deal.
A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles
July 30 - September 3, 2022
Tom Allen, Sophie Barber, Michael Berryhill, Dike Blair, Varda Caivano, Luz Carabaño, Lois Dodd, Fergus Feehily, Anna Glantz, Federico Herrero, Ulala Imai, Lauren Spencer King, Jennifer J. Lee, Daniel Graham Loxton, Paulo Monteiro, Alexandra Noel, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Paul P., Santiago de Paoli, Dana Powell, Kristopher Raos, Eleanor Ray, Louise Sartor, Anna Schachinger, Shana Sharp, Hiroshi Sugito, Sean Sullivan, Altoon Sultan, Hayley Tompkins, Tinus Vermeersch, Tyler Vlahovich, Owen Westberg, Yui Yaegeshi, Zhiliang Zhao.