This week, the start of the Olympic world world of Chicago as the largest stock market returns to Navy Pier. From 24 to 27 April, Expo Chicago Will program hundreds of galleries, location -specific projects, conversations and multidisciplinary programming in both the city and in the city.
To help you navigate, we share the artworks that we look forward to the most. And if you have not yet received your tickets, use the code Kolossaal25 For $ 5 discount.
1. Wangari Mathenge with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (London)
The Chicago -based, Kenyan artist will present a collection of lively new paintings that speak of the enormous amount of information generated by her intensive research process. Surrounded by books, plants and bright patterns in Eastern African Kanga, fabrics, lounging by Mathenge between objects that transcend colonial stories.
2. Ilhwa Kim, Gordon Cheung and Zheng Lu with Hofa (London)
We have long been in love with Kim’s roaming compositions with rolled -up papers that deliminate dense paths due to wider extension. Her dynamic works will be visible in addition to Cheung’s decadent paintings and LU’s stainless steel splashes.
3. Florence Solis with The Mission Projects (Chicago)
Starting with digital collage Before moving to acrylic and canvas, Solis gives essential portraits of women steeped in Filipino folklore. Delicate leaves and flowers are pushed with rolled up hair, while veils got the figures in luminous coverings, each binding with a protective, yet limiting layer.
4. Suntai Yoo with Galerie Gaia (Seoul)
Freeded, surreal landscapes are prominent in Yoo’s paintings, which often combine common objects such as books, bicycles and apples with Korean letters. The artist is especially interested in metaphor and how different items work on each other to create meaning.
5. Desmond Beach with Richard Beavers Gallery (Brooklyn)
Mixing digital painting with patchwork quilts, beach creates daring, future-oriented portraits. The artist born in Baltimore evokes the ways in which trauma can be used for resistance and collective solidarity.
6. Jimmy Beauquesne with Fragment (New York)
Nested within hand -cut metal frames, Beauquesne’s colored pencil works you propose a dreamy, apocalyptic world that drips with fantastic details. The nine pieces are a story about the transformation of humanity fueled by fantasagorical change.
