LOUISE BONNET, CELESTE DUPUY-SPENCER et al.

Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths (group show)
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
October 2022 – end date TBC

Installation view: Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïsthi Foundation, Beirut, 2023, photo: Stefan Altenburger
Installation view: Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïsthi Foundation, Beirut, 2023, photo: Stefan Altenburger

Works by Louise Bonnet and Celeste Dupuy-Spencer are on view at the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, in Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths. The exhibition assembles the work of over one hundred artists from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection, presenting recent acquisitions that question the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art. As the very definitions of truth have dramatically eroded in the past few years, many contemporary artists have proceeded to analyse, interrogate, and deconstruct the notion of realism, particularly in the field of painting. Bringing together work from an emerging group of artists and their established predecessors, this exhibition subverts conventional notions of beauty, taste, and propriety, depicting a new humanity that is simultaneously monstrous and angelical, carnal and ethereal. 

Aïshti Foundation

Installation view: Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïsthi Foundation, Beirut, 2023, photo: Stefan Altenburger
Installation view: Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïsthi Foundation, Beirut, 2023, photo: Stefan Altenburger

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LOUISE BONNET

Projection 2, 2022 (permanent collection)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Louise Bonnet, Projection 2, 2022, © Louise Bonnet, photo: Joshua White
Louise Bonnet, Projection 2, 2022, © Louise Bonnet, photo: Joshua White

We are pleased to announce that Louise Bonnet’s painting Projection 2, 2022, is now part of the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 

Louise Bonnet, Projection 2, 2022, © Louise Bonnet, photo: Joshua White
Louise Bonnet, Projection 2, 2022, © Louise Bonnet, photo: Joshua White

LOUISE BONNET

Pisser Triptych, 2021–2022 (permanent collection)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Louise Bonnet, Pisser Triptych, 2021–2022, on display in the collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
Louise Bonnet, Pisser Triptych, 2021–2022, on display in the collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet

We are pleased to announce that Louise Bonnet’s monumental Pisser Triptych, 2021–2022, is now part of the Moderna Museet collection.

Louise Bonnet, Pisser Triptych, 2021–2022, on display in the collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet
Louise Bonnet, Pisser Triptych, 2021–2022, on display in the collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, photo: Åsa Lundén/Moderna Museet

LOUISE BONNET

Entanglements: Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman at Hollyhock House (duo show)
Hollyhock House, Los Angeles
15 February – 24 June 2023

Installation view: Entanglements: Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman at Hollyhock House, 2023, courtesy of the artists, photo: Joshua White / jw pictures
Installation view: Entanglements: Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman at Hollyhock House, 2023, courtesy of the artists, photo: Joshua White / jw pictures

As their first formal collaboration, Louise Bonnet and her partner, ceramicist Adam Silverman, will take over the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, marking the first artistic intervention at the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Featuring new work in dialogue with the space, Bonnet’s paintings and drawing and Silverman’s ceramics engage the legendary house’s 100-year history as a platform for artists and experimentation. The works will be installed in Hollyhock House's public rooms where Aline Barnsdall's celebrated art collection was once on display.

Known for her portraits of exaggerated proportions and grotesque features, Bonnet continually explores emotions of melancholy, loneliness, nostalgia and grief in her works on canvas or paper. Silverman is among the most dynamic practitioners dedicated to ceramics today and is known for his sculptural vessels and richly textured glazes. He brings an architect’s sense of structure to his objects and utilises personal and experimental techniques to glaze and fire his works.

The exhibition opens to the public on 15 February 2023. 

Please note, that advance booking is required. 

Hollyhock House

Installation view: Entanglements: Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman at Hollyhock House, 2023, courtesy of the artists, photo: Joshua White / jw pictures
Installation view: Entanglements: Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman at Hollyhock House, 2023, courtesy of the artists, photo: Joshua White / jw pictures

CELESTE DUPUY-SPENCER

But The Clouds Never Hung So Low Before (publication)
Published by Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications 2022
With a conversation between Celeste Dupuy-Spencer and Louise Bonnet

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Photo: def image

Published on the occasion of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer's 2020–2021 solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, the new catalogue But The Clouds Never Hung So Low Before is now available for purchase on the Galerie Max Hetzler publications website. 

In the artist's first solo exhibition outside of the United States, Dupuy-Spencer presented blistering paintings, loaded with a complex mix of iconography, drawn from the real and the imaginary. Included in the catalogue is a supplementary booklet featuring a discussion between Dupuy-Spencer and fellow artist Louise Bonnet.

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