Departures India Spring 2020

44 DEPARTURES CULTURE

44 DEPARTURES CULTURE ON VIEW From left: Gerhard Richer's Cage 4 (2006); Chiharu Shiota’s haunting installation In Silence (2002/2019) There may be no bigger star in the art-world firmament than Marina Abramović, many of whose performance-led pieces will be recreated at her coming retrospective other side of the planet, in Australia, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art will host Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles (27 June – 5 Oct; qagoma.qld.gov.au), which showcases the spiderweb-like works of the Japan-born, Berlin-based artist who has made waves at recent showings in Busan and Tokyo. Another multi-hyphen prodigy, Michael Armitage – who was born in Kenya and trained in London – proves his case as an ascendant name to watch with two exhibitions this year: Accomplice (until 15 June; norvalfoundation.org), which centres on a series of recent Isa Genzken’s transfixing Parallelograms (1975) Kenyan politics-influenced paintings, at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, and a self-titled show (24 July – 3 Jan; hausderkunst.de) at Munich’s Haus der Kunst. Under the auspices of the Reina Sofia in Madrid, Petrit Halilaj (3 April – 6 Sept; museoreinasofia.es) will create another of his biographyinformed installations in the Palacio de Cristal – the latest in a series of high-profile solo displays that have included the New Museum in New York, Fondazione Merz in Turin and the Kosovo pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Ed Atkins is another thirtysomething artist on the rise, and his Live White Slime (until 23 Aug; kiasma.fi) brings together many of his mind-melding video works, alongside new pieces, at the always provocative Kiasma in Helsinki. DESIGN IN FOCUS The crossover between art and design continues with a handful CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: GERHARD RICHTER, CAGE 4, 2006, OIL ON CANVAS, TATE: LENT FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 2007,© GERHARD RICHTER 2019; CHIHARU SHIOTA, IN SILENCE 2002/2019, BURNT PIANO, BURNT CHAIR, ALCANTARA BLACK THREAD; INSTALLATION VIEW: SHIOTA CHIHARU: THE SOUL TREMBLES, MORI ART MUSEUM, TOKYO, 2019, COURTESY: KENJI TAKI GALLERY, NAGOYA/TOKYO, PHOTO: SUNHI MANG; JENS ZIEHE

© MICHAEL ARMITAGE of exhibitions, led by the ongoing Gio Ponti: Loving Architecture (until 13 April; maxxi.art), a retrospective at MAXXI in Rome focused on the multifarious creations of Italy’s preeminent 20th-century designer and architect. In Mexico City, at the Jumex Museum, Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat (until 10 May; fundacionjumex.org) examines another multidisciplinary mid-century career – Bo Bardi was an Italo-Brazilian architect, designer, curator and editor – before the show moves to the MCA in Chicago in June. Oriented emphatically in the present, Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness (8 April – 14 June; mori.art.museum) puts Englishman Thomas Heatherwick centre stage, from his double-decker buses that have come to symbolise modern London to his Vessel (2019), the grand staircase installation at the heart of the Hudson Yards development in Manhattan. Conrad Shawcross is a Pathos and the Twilight of the Idle (2019), by Michael Armitage second youthful Brit with a major solo show this year, though his often mechanical creations are decidedly on the functionless side, no matter how practical they may look: Escalations (until 19 June; chateau-lacoste.com) is spread across three sites in the beautiful Chateau La Coste grounds in Provence, and a monumental sculpture, Schism, will be installed this spring, a permanent memento of the extraordinary show. Last but not least, Bags: Inside Out (25 April – 3 Jan; vam.ac.uk) presents a history of our most essential accessory, exploring both its looks and uses in more than 300 objects ranging from the iconic Birkin bag to early Louis Vuitton trunks and cutting-edge contemporary creations by Marc Jacobs, Mulberry and more. 45 DEPARTURES