Gallery highlights
L’amour de l’art
Until 20 November Galerie Canesso, Paris
This display explores depictions of romance in painting from the th to the th century. Highlights include Fedele Fischetti’s painting of Selene looking moon-eyed at a sleeping Endymion (c. – ), while an unsettling allegorical work attributed to the th-century painter Camillo Mainardi, The Chastisement of Love, depicts passion as a torment; here the god Mars lashes out in fury at Cupid, who kneels in front of him on the floor.
Collins Obijiaku: Gindin Mangoro – Under the Mango Tree
Until 19 November ADA, Accra
Founded by the art adviser Adora Mba, ADA gallery opened last month in Accra to provide a platform for West African artists at the start of their careers. For its inaugural display, the gallery presents the work of Collins Obijiaku, a young painter who grew up outside the Nigerian capital of Abuja. This is his first solo exhibition and includes of his highly stylised and richly textured portraits (Fig. ).
Jim Shaw: Hope Against Hope
Until 16 January 2021 Simon Lee Gallery, London
Jim Shaw’s monumental paintings are a heady blend of Pop kitsch, surrealist imagery and satire. For this solo show at his London gallery, the Los Angeles-based artist presents a new suite of paintings which offer a compelling but disturbing vision of American life. A twisted caricature of Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen faces off against the Goddess of Reason; in another work, Donald and Melania Trump descend by escalator into the ninth circle of Dante’s Hell.
Church & Rothko: Sublime
Until 12 December Mnuchin Gallery, New York
This focused display follows in the footsteps of the critic Robert Rosenblum, who argued in
that Abstract Expressionism was at the head of a tradition that stretched back, via Romantic landscape painting, to Immanuel Kant’s notion of the sublime. Paintings by the Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church hang alongside those of Mark Rothko, to reveal how each in their own way sought to inspire awe and wonder.