Gallery highlights
Goyo and His Contemporaries
3 November–22 December
Ronin Gallery, New York
Goyo Hashiguchi’s career lasted all of 15 years, but in that time he earned fame for the technical accomplishment of his woodblock prints, in step with the Shin Hanga (‘new print’) movement at the turn of the 20th century in Tokyo. He produced only 14 prints before his death at 41; this show includes them all, as well as the work of contemporaries and followers also renowned for the intimacy of their bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women).
Alicja Kwade: Petrichor
15 November–17 December
303 Gallery, New York
The Berlin-based artist’s first New York show since her commission in 2019 for the Met’s Roof Garden continues her experiments with the systems we use to categorise time and space – and their inadequacy in the face of experience. This large-scale installation incorporates mobiles made of natural stones, arranged like orbiting planets, and her Schusslöcher (‘bullet holes’) works on cardboard, exploring the tendency of systems towards entropy.
Hedda Sterne: Metamorphoses
5 November–10 December
Victoria Miro, Venice
Hedda Sterne was part of Bucharest’s Dada community in the 1920s, she forged links with Surrealists in Vienna and Paris and, after fleeing Romania for the United States in 1941, she became a member of the New York School. Sterne continued to experiment with the material qualities of paint and the expression of nature through abstraction until her death in 2011; this is her first solo show since Victoria Miro took on her estate earlier this year.
Matthew Krishanu: Playground
10 November–14 January 2023
Niru Ratnam, London
Krishanu’s parents, a white British father and Bengali Indian mother, moved to Dhaka in 1981, and spent the next 11 years working for the Church of Bangladesh. His paintings, shown to acclaim in the Hayward’s ‘Mixing it Up’ show last year, are mainly based on family photographs from these years – the title image of his second solo show in London, Playground (Fig. 2), powerfully represents his ambivalent feelings about his upbringing.