Gallery highlights
Emma Prempeh: In and Out of Time
Until 17 October
ADA, Accra
The young London-born painter Emma Prempeh’s large-scale, earth-toned canvases are inhabited by partially defined figures and draw on a host of mythical subjects reflecting the artist’s Ghanaian heritage. This display of new paintings, which take further inspiration from the poetry of Maya Angelou, is the result of a residency hosted by ADA in Accra; Prempeh worked alongside local artist Theresah Ankomah, who will show at the gallery next month.
Marin in the White Mountains
Until 15 October
Menconi & Schoelkopf, New York
In the s the American modernist John Marin produced many hundreds of watercolours depicting New York, where he exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery, and the north coast of Maine, to which his family retreated each summer. Between the two lay the White Mountains of New Hampshire, which he would paint during family road trips (Fig. ); this show presents more than a dozen of these rarely seen, vigorous studies.
Monique Frydman: My Perfect Body, 1976–1983
Until 30 October
Galerie Dutko, Paris
Erotically charged, surreally misshapen and rendered with strong lines and bright colours, this series of female nudes on paper by Monique Frydman is a far cry from the experimental abstract canvases for which she is best known. While a number of drawings are shown here for the first time, the exhibition also includes eight ‘Torsos’ displayed in Paris with the Femmes/Art collective in .
Gallery opening 6 October
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul
The Austrian mega-dealer expands his portfolio of galleries with his first in Asia, situated on the first floor of Juhwan Park’s landmark Fort Hill building in the Hannam-dong district in Seoul. Ropac collaborated with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, to host Georg Baselitz’s first exhibition in the country – and it is with a display of paintings by the German artist that the gallery inaugurates its new premises (until November).