James Cohan

@tuan.andrew.nguyen: Crimes of Solidarity is an incomplete film, a forever fractured narrative that further reveals its scars by deliberately withholding the sound of the voices that attempt to retell its stories. It is not a silent film, on the contrary it is a film that desires to be heard. It is a film that opts for a live voice - the actual live utterances by the writers of those words, the teller of those stories. It is a film shot on smartphones. It is a film shot in... a format privileging the portrait. It is a film made in collaboration with tenants of Squat St. Just, the largest squat in Marseille that sheltered close to 300 people at any given time, most of whom were refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. . The project was first envisioned as a strategy to stand in solidarity with Collectif 59 St. Just and the tenants of Squat St. Just, to utilize the arts infrastructure of Manifesta 13 to situate Squat St. Just as a significant exhibition space during the biennale. The attempt was to, at the very least, use the biennale platform to extend the life of the squat for the six or so months that the biennale was running. . The squat suspiciously caught on fire on June 8, 2020. This was in the middle of a court battle between the volunteers and tenants of Squat St. Just and the Diocese of Marseille who own the building. This was also in the middle of the project. The pandemic didn’t let up. And when most European biennale’s closed, Manifesta decided to proceed. Plans had to change drastically. And everything was done remotely. . As we did our final rehearsals a couple days ago in Marseille at the Conservatoire de la Musique yesterday, the new mayor of Marseille came to greet the artists. . It has been a long journey for all involved. I can’t show enough gratitude to all those dedicated souls that made this possible. @manifestabiennial @viaartfund See more

Explore "Trenton Doyle Hancock Presents The Moundverse, Chapter 2: Veganism" in our latest Viewing Room, accessible via link in bio. This online presentation, also on view at 291 Grand Street, features a new suite of ink-on-paper works that comprise the second chapter of the artist’s most visionary drawing project to date: "Trenton Doyle Hancock Presents The Moundverse." Designed as a graphic novel, these intricate illustrations provide a narrative master class in the charact...ers and mythologies that have ruled Hancock’s work for the past twenty-five years. . In our accompanying video feature, Hancock discusses the creation of the Moundverse and the origins of his superhero alter ego Torpedo Boy. As he notes, "I knew that I could dive into this imaginary world and through my pencil, create a place for myself." . . Film by Greg Poole. . . . . . #trentondoylehancock #somethingamerican #moundverse #torpedoboy #jamescohan #contemporartart #graphicnovel #comics #nycgallerieslive See more

Explore Trenton Doyle Hancock's exhibition, "Something American," in our latest Viewing Room, accessible via link in bio. This online presentation, also on view at 48 Walker Street, features new paintings that demonstrate the breadth and dexterity of Hancock’s practice: explorations of never before seen corners of the Moundverse and densely layered and collaged reexaminations of Hancock’s extraordinary iconography. Over a career spanning nearly twenty-five years, Hancock has ...created a singular body of visual art that exuberantly subverts and synthesizes his omnivorous influences to invent a world entirely his own. In this exhibition, he takes us on a deeply personal journey through the multivalent facets of the self. . In our accompanying video feature, Hancock discusses the genesis of his Klan paintings and the wide-ranging influencesfrom W.E.B. Du Bois to Philip Guston to his childhood in Paris, Texasthat have shaped this project and informed the cast of characters in his ever-expanding Moundverse. Enmeshing personal history with the fantastical, Hancock’s artmaking becomes a strategy of radical autobiography and a way of seeing, of looking closely both at the world outside and deep within oneself. . . : Film by Greg Poole (@djgregpoole) . . . . . . #trentondoylehancock #somethingamerican #jamescohan #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting See more

With a prolific output that included manipulated TV sets, video wall installations, live performances, single-channel videos, and global television broadcasts, Nam June Paik balanced a Utopian philosophy with a technical pragmatism and subversive sense of humor, creating artworks that drew on chance encounters between ideas, the object and the public. Paik emphasized that it is the artist's role in society to re-envision technology in the service of culture. His ideas resonat...e now, more than ever, as we conduct much of our lives virtually, partaking in Paik's vision of a "global village." . Learn more about Paik's monumental "Main Channel Matrix" and explore other works in our online viewing room, accessible via link in bio. . . . . . #namjunepaik #jamescohan #jamescohangallery #globalgroove #mainchannelmatrix #musicisnotsound #videoart #contemporaryart #nycgallerieslive See more

For @themosaicrooms, Jordan Nassar created a how-to video, with an original design and step-by-step instructions and tips for you to learn how to do traditional Palestinian embroidery. Download the PDF on their website (accessible via link in bio) and follow the links shared there to order your materials, then get started! When you're done, share your work on Instagram with the hashtag #letstatreez . . Want to learn more about Jordan Nassar and his work? Tune into to @asiasoc...iety’s Instagram Live feed this Friday, June 26 at 10 AM, for a conversation between Boon Hui Tan, Artistic Director of the Asia Society Triennial, and Nassar, whose work will be featured in the upcoming triennial. . . . . . #jordannassar #mosaicrooms #asiasociety #diy #embroidery #contemporaryart #asiasocietytriennial See more

Explore new paintings and monotypes by Federico Herrero in our online viewing room, accessible via link in bio. Federico Herrero is best known for working on an operatic scale, regularly exhibiting immersive, site-specific wall paintings, monumental canvases, and cast concrete sculptures. In striking contrast, these intimately scaled canvases and monotypes create a rich, distilled vocabulary that explores the sensory and pictorial properties of Herrero’s painting and image ma...king. . In our accompanying video feature, Herrero discusses his use of photography and 'found paintings' from his San José home-studio, highlighting the tangible connection between the artist's environment and practice. . . #federicoherrero #jamescohan #nycgallerieslive See more

James Cohan is pleased to present a selection of work by Nam June Paik in our online viewing room, accessible via link in bio. This virtual exhibition showcases three of the artist's iconic sculptures, "Main Channel Matrix," "Music is Not Sound," and "TV Service Robot." . With a prolific output that included manipulated TV sets, video wall installations, live performances, single-channel videos, and global television broadcasts, Paik balanced a Utopian philosophy with a techn...ical pragmatism and subversive sense of humor, creating artworks that drew on chance encounters between ideas, the object and the public. Paik emphasized that it is the artist's role in society to re-envision technology in the service of culture. His ideas resonate now, more than ever, as we conduct much of our lives virtually, partaking in Paik's vision of a "global village." . #namjunepaik #jamescohan #globalgroove #musicisnotsound See more

In the spirit of online exhibition initiatives created in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, James Cohan and Bill Viola Studio are pleased to present "The Reflecting Pool" (1977-9), an early, seminal work by renowned video artist Bill Viola. We offer this short video for viewers to enjoy from the comfort of their homes, as we collectively navigate the challenges this crisis has presented to us. In this work, all movement and change in an otherwise still scene is co...nfined to the reflections on the surface of a pool in the woods. Suspended in time, a man hovers in a frozen, midair leap over the water, as subtle techniques of still-framing and multiple keying join disparate layers of time into a single coherent image. Viola writes that "the piece concerns the emergence of the individual into the natural world a kind of baptism." Learn more about "The Reflecting Pool" on the EAI website via link in bio. . . : Bill Viola, "The Reflecting Pool," 1977-9, videotape, color, mono sound; 7 minutes. Performer: Bill Viola. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio. See more

Jordan Nassar’s hand-embroidered pieces address intersecting fields of craft, ethnicity and the embedded notions of heritage and homeland. Treating traditional craft more as medium than topic, Nassar examines conflicting issues of identity and cultural participation using geometric patterning adapted from symbols and motifs present in traditional Palestinian hand embroidery. Meticulously hand-stitching colorful compositions across carefully mapped-out patterns, he roots his practice in a geopolitical field of play characterized by both conflict and unspoken harmony. Stay tuned to the gallery's Instagram for a sneak peek at the gorgeous new work by Nassar that we will be highlighting in our online Frieze Viewing Room.

In this video, Peter Johnson, Curatorial and Programs Coordinator at the National Gallery of Australia, leads a tour of "ETERNITY vs EVOLUTION," the artist’s current retrospective exhibition at the museum. . Visit our online viewing room via link in bio to explore the provocative world of XU ZHEN, whose sculptures intervene with cultural assumptions and taboos within a context of exchange between contemporary China and the west. Manipulating visual cues tied to western expectations of Chinese art and commerce, the artist’s works engage withand often playfully transgressthe value systems and economic forces that shape perceptions of history and social difference in a globalized world. . Video courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

A reset button for the universe pressed only once. This phrase is from the artist Katie Paterson’s poignant "Ideas" series. Nowadays, we wonder if only. . Robert Fludd, the 16th century Hermetic philosopher, was among the first to identify the relationship between the microcosmic and the macrocosmic. Fludd expressed the impulse to qualify and quantify the inherent link between man and the universe. As we now grapple for our place in the larger order of things and reckon wi...th the contemporary moment, we have curated "Cosmologies," a selection of our artists' approaches to matters of the universal. . Participating artists include Simon Evans, Mernet Larsen, Josiah McElheny, Lee Mullican, Katie Paterson, Matthew Ritchie, and Fred Tomaselli. . In our online video feature, Josiah McElheny speaks about his "Observation" series, the visionary singer June Tyson, and the possibility and necessity of finding, seeing, and creating worlds unlike our own. Explore these works and discover more in our online viewing room via link in bio. . A portion of the proceeds from sales will go toward the Food Bank for New York City. See more

Explore Firelei Báez's solo exhibition of new paintings in our online viewing room via link in bio. Overlaying paint onto large-scale reproductions of found maps and documents, Báez casts diasporic histories into an imaginative realm, re-working visual references drawn from the past to explore new possibilities for the future. The artist populates historically-loaded representations of space with change-making creatureswhose hybrid forms incorporate folkloric and literary references, textile pattern, plantlife, and wide-ranging emblems of healing and resistanceto present fictional alternative universes. . In this video feature, Báez speaks about the exhibition, her ongoing use of found book pages, and mythologies ranging from the Dominican ciguapa to the black Atlantis developed in the techno music of Drexciya.

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