Gallery highlights
Concert of Sighs: Rebecca Horn 11 September–2 November
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
In 1991, Galerie Thomas Schulte opened its doors with an exhibition of works by Rebecca Horn. Now the gallery is revisiting a monumental installation the German artist made a few years later, for the 1997 edition of the Venice Biennale. Concert of Sighs is a mass of building rubble – broken bricks, wooden palettes and planks – with gleaming copper funnels that sprout like flowers from the wreckage while hidden voices murmur away.
Ad Reinhardt: Print–Painting–Maquette 12 September–19 October David Zwirner, New York
It wasn’t until 1964, three years before his death, that Ad Reinhardt made his first screenprint: an untitled black-on-black cross. Its success led him to create the portfolio 10 Screenprints by Ad Reinhardt (1966), which appears in this show at David Zwirner’s West 20th Street location – billed as the first exhibition to focus on the artist’s screenprints and their relationship to his late paintings.
Rinus Van de Velde
7 September–5 October Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
From early childhood in rural Belgium, watching stars on television, Rinus Van de Velde has been fascinated by imagining all the other lives he could have lived. For his first solo exhibition in France, the artist has created a new series of works in oil pastel, charcoal, video and sculpture that illustrate his imaginary autobiographies. As Van de Velde has put it: ‘The lie is much more interesting [...] than telling the truth.’
Bernice Bing
12 September–12 October Berry Campbell, New York
This spring, Berry Campbell announced its representation of the estate of Bernice Bing – a Chinese-American painter who described her work as ‘calligraphy-inspired abstraction’. Despite her prominence in the Beat scene of 1960s San Francisco, it’s only in recent years that Bing’s contribution has been widely recognised. Highlights of this exhibition include Burney Falls (1980), which, at 2.4m high, is the largest work Bing ever painted.