Gallery highlights
Francis Picabia, Women: Works on Paper 1902–1950
23 February–20 April
Michael Werner Gallery, London
The female figure plays a key role in the work of many male artists. What makes Francis Picabia’s approach unusual is the sheer number of styles the French artist adopted: from an early dalliance with Impressionism, through to cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, Surrealism, abstraction and a kind of Pop. The exhibition includes some 40 drawings and paintings made over the course of 50 years (Fig. 2).
Marisa Merz
Until 23 March
Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples
‘There has never been a separation between my life and my work,’ Marisa Merz once asserted. Merz, the only woman to have been associated with the Arte Povera movement, drew on everyday life in both the substance and the themes of her sculptures. These incorporate traditionally feminine crafts and the use of materials more commonly associated with domesticity.
Jason Rhoades: Drive
27 February–14 January 2025 Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
For the best part of a year, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is devoting a gallery to an exhibition of LA native Jason Rhoades’s monumental installations, sculptures, drawings and videos, which will evolve across the months, each iteration exploring a different theme. It’s a particularly strong pairing of person and place: an artist fascinated by the place of the car in American life, in a city infamous for its car culture.
Nolde
Until 23 February
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Watercolours and oil paintings including landscapes, floral still lifes and figurative works by Die Brücke member Emil Nolde are now on show at Thomas Gibson Fine Art in London, before travelling to Maastricht for the gallery’s presentation at TEFAF (9–14 March). All the works bar one come directly from the Nolde Foundation Seebüll in Neukirchen.