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De Buck Loft Series at TriBeCa’s Six Cortlandt Alley

September 19, 2017 De Buck Gallery is pleased to present the De Buck Loft Series at Six Cortlandt Alley, a restored 19th century Italianate building with five full-floor lofts including two duplex penthouses. The gallery has teamed up with Halstead Property Development Marketing to host a two-month exhibition in the fourth floor residence within the Tribeca development. Curated [...]

De Buck Gallery Announces New Representation of Artists Juan Garaizabal, Jeffrey Gibson, Robert Lazzarini, and Devan Shimoyama

September 15, 2017 From left to right: Robert Lazzarini, Devan Shimoyama, Juan Garaizabal, Jeffrey Gibson NEW YORK—De Buck Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of contemporary artists Juan Garaizabal, Jeffrey Gibson, Robert Lazzarini, and Devan Shimoyama. Founded in 2010, the expansion of De Buck’s programs across its New York City, Saint Paul de Vence and Antwerp locations [...]

Rarely seen Gutai artworks arrive in London

September 7, 2017 Pieces by members of the avant-garde Japanese group will be on show at The Arts Club from September 13 “Do what no one has done before,” said Jiro Yoshihara, one of the founders in the 1950s of Japanese art group Gutai, and his fellow members took him at his word, smashing jars of paint and using [...]

The McNay | Rashaad Newsome: KNOT

August 4, 2017 On view at the McNay from August 8, 2017 to January 5, 2018 Combining baroque grandeur, hip-hop swagger, and black and LGBTQ subcultures, Rashaad Newsome creates evocative works of art that highlights fantasy, capitalistic obsessions, and systemic oppressions. The opulence of fashion magazines and society culture is subverted through the vocabulary of voguing, the New [...]

Princess of Monaco selects Pino Pinelli for the Annual Artist Award

August 1, 2017 We are excited to announce that Pino Pinelli was awarded the annual artist award, selected by Princess Charlene of Monaco on the occasion of the Red Cross Gala. This great achievement was celebrated at the 69th Monaco Red Cross Gala where Pinelli was commissioned to create the work shown in the image above.  Previous commissioned [...]

DLECTRICITY 2017 | Rashaad Newsome

July 19, 2017 De Buck Gallery is pleased to announce Rashaad Newsome is named Artist-in-Residence for the 2017 DLECTRICITY festival to be held in Detroit September 22-23, 2017. Throughout the summer Newsome will be working in Detroit casting local performers and staging rehearsals for 'Shade Compositions', the artist’s critically acclaimed performance artwork which concludes the DLECTRICITY festival at [...]

Art + Auction | Juan Garaizabal

July 13, 2017 Making his debut solo exhibition in New York, Spanish sculptor Juan Garaizabal takes over De Buck Gallery with “Build a Story: Urban Memory of the Lost Tuileries” from June 8 through July 15. Often constructing monumental installations that recreate lost architecture as part of his “Urban Memories” works, the sculptures in Garaizabal’s exhibition take their [...]

MMoCA | Rashaad Newsome: ICON

June 30, 2017 August 11, 2017 to December 3, 2017   Rashaad Newsome is a New York based artist whose multidisciplinary practice combines collage, video, music, computer programming, and performance. On view in the museum’s Imprint Gallery, this exhibition focuses solely on the video-based component of the artist’s larger practice, and highlights works that showcase his engagement with the dance [...]

Denver Art Museum to host first major exhibition from American Indian artist Jeffrey Gibson

May 17, 2017 Jeffrey Gibson, known in the art world as one of the most exciting American Indian contemporary artists, will hold his first major exhibition at the Denver Art Museum May 13-Aug. 12, 2018. “Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer,” will feature about 65 objects comprising large and mid-sized figurative works, text-based wall hangings, “a significant selection of his [...]

Vogue Italia | Biennale di Venezia 2017: Sislej Xhafa, our interview

May 12, 2017 An interview with Sislej Xhafa to explain the creative prism through which his artist eye sees art Sislej Xhafa, well known conceptual, contemporary artist is being shown this year at the Venice Biennale with a powerful exhibition representing his interpretation of the devastation and suffering brought to his country in the Kosovo War. He is [...]

Vogue Italia | Venice Biennale 2017: interview with Gal Weinstein

May 11, 2017 Gal Weinstein expounds on his developing vision in an exclusive interview Acclaimed artist Gal Weinstein, known for works that critically address Israeli politics, represents Israel at 2017 Venice Biennale with an exhibition titled Sun Stand Still. The immense site-specific work was designed by the architect Zev Rechter in the spirit of the Bauhaus, inaugurated at [...]

Whitehot Magazine | Mark Bloch on Shozo Shimamoto at De Buck Gallery

April 4, 2017 Shimamoto performance, Capri, Italy at Certosa di San Giacomo, May 9, 2008 MARK BLOCH, MAR. 2017 Do Something Interesting, See Something Odd dove into the revolutionary career trajectory of the important Japanese Gutai artist Shozo Shimamoto who died in 2013 at 85. Several striking paintings that hearken back to earlier Gutai works and a colorful, [...]

Joseph Cohen Receives the FY17 Individual Artist Grant

March 22, 2017 De Buck Gallery is excited to announce artist Joseph Cohen’s grant award from the Houston Arts Alliance. Known as the largest grant for individual artists in Texas, Cohen aims to utilize this opportunity to create work that will help bridge the world of art and science together. Cohen will address the existing role and various [...]

“What is your definition of ‘Actionism’ today?”

March 2, 2017 We asked the Featured Artists of ‘Opulent Landscapes’ the following question: “What is your definition of ‘Actionism’ today?” The question was posed by the curator, Rachel Vancelette, in an effort to have the term redefined in contemporary context, rather than in a historical context. The artists' studio practice, artworks and the action of creation in [...]

Rashaad Newsome prints at Art on Paper fair 2017

March 1, 2017 During this year’s edition of the Art on Paper fair in New York, Tamarind Institute will premier a suite of new Rashaad Newsome lithographs. The suite includes five distinct prints representing each of five elements of vogue femme, derived from the data captured during Rashaad Newsome's April 2016 FIVE SFMOMA performance. Produced at Tamarind Institute, this series incorporates a complex layering of performance, [...]

Rashaad Newsome: Mélange Exhibition | CAC New Orleans

January 17, 2017 New Orleans-born artist Rashaad Newsome returns for this interdisciplinary presentation of Mélange, figuring a series of films and works on paper in conversation with Newsome's upcoming performance of FIVE.   Together, this interdisciplinary presentation of genre-bending works frames Newsome's live performance and studio practice through the history of collage. Using layered constructions of formal material to investigate layered constructions of [...]

Shozo Shimamoto and Gutai

January 13, 2017 The 1950’s were a time of radical change in the arts in the West. However, it is often unrecognized that a similar change was simultaneously happening in the East. Read on for how Shozo Shimamoto, Gutai, and other art movements of the 1950’s influenced international artwork for years to come by breaking the rules and [...]

Interview with the Archive Aubertin

November 28, 2016 Bernard Aubertin was a monumental artist who paved the way for performance and monochrome art beginning in the 1960’s. After his recent death in 2015, the works of Bernard Aubertin were consolidated into an estate and formed The Archive Aubertin. We interviewed Bernard Aubertin’s close friend and President of the estate about what it was [...]

TAKE FIVE IN ST. CROIX | A Survey of Race, Identity, Gender and Power in the United States Virgin Islands

November 15, 2016 DEC. 4–8TH, 2016 Take Five Art Exhibition and Education Series features visual and performance works by Rashaad Newsome, Oceana James, Kharis Kennedy, La Vaughn Belle and David Antonio Cruz. These interdisciplinary artists confront the effects and legacy of colonization stemmed from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, through the lenses of gender, race, identity and power. We [...]

Bernard Aubertin

October 19, 2016 The late Bernard Aubertin was a color and performance artist deeply involved in the Zero art movement. While his work was well known in life, its impact will carry on long after Aubertin’s recent death, starting with a solo, retrospective show, titled RED: The Estate of Bernard Aubertin, at De Buck Gallery. Aubertin’s fascination with the [...]