Katharina Grosse at the Gagosian

Art

The Final Echo Isn’t a Sound

June 12, 2025

The Final Echo Isn’t A Sound marks a return and reinvention for Alexandre Kasproviez, presenting over thirty new large scale-works that explore the fleeting moments before memory fades, and is shaped by his time in Brazil and New York. Bringing together both his blurred landscapes and photo realistic works into one show, he shares a more personal, intimate narrative that feels like emotional flashbacks.

“The exhibition invites us to reflect on the fleeting moments before death — what stays in our memory and what we hold onto. Alexandre’s blurred subjects challenge us to reconsider both our personal memories and our collective history, capturing the tension between what endures and what fades away.” Adds Léa Coussy, Co-founder of Maestria. His signature blurred technique, mixed with such realism allows for these striking works when viewed as a whole, but once up close and personal, this technique creates for the most abstract outcomes.

With such a personal body of work there was also experimentation within his creative process, especially for his piece 'The World Vanishes In Red'. He decided to leave the artwork outside for a period of time to weather, connect with nature and add a further level of nuance to the piece.

The Final Echo Isn’t A Sound will be on view at 545 W 23rd Street, Chelsea, from June 5 to June 21, 2025.

Photography Max B & Clifton Mooney

Art

Sulis & The Wreck by Tali Lennox

June 11, 2025

Tali Lennox delves into a subaqueous dreamscape exploring the untamed intensity of her internal worlds on this dance through the carnival of the mind. Complex states of isolation and desire are traversed as Lennox pays reverence to outliers and social pariahs with an almost unhinged headyness, celebrating the fortresses hidden away within oneself and all the unknowable secrets of the soul.

The collection summons the golden bust of Sulis, a deity deeply connected to healing water. One interpreted meaning of the name Sulis is "Eye/Vision", cognate with Old Irish súil "eye. She was revered as both a nourishing, maternal goddess and also as an agent to effect punishments and curses on people at will, by the denial of sleep, by causing normal bodily functions to cease or even by death. The faraway gaze of the famous Sulis Minerva bust appears in the dissonant stare of Lennox’s subjects, their eyes fixed on a distant galaxy that only they can see.

This solo exhibition is running from 06 June- 09 August 2025.

Text Katie Brown
Photography Nicola Morittu
Copyright Tali Lennox
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Sébastien Bertrand

Le Bal des Folles, 2025- Oil on linen

The Lull, 2025- Oil on linen Chambers, 2025- Oil on linen

Eyes and their subsequent tears command many of the paintings, though not as an expression of sadness or hopelessness but more as an abundant catharsis, a purifying ritual like droplets of holy water.

Another particularly important real life figure is the enfant-martyre Jane Avril, a celebrated outsider and dancer of the Moulin Rouge who discovered her prodigal talent while residing at the Salpêtrière Asylum in Paris. Each year the women-only asylum would host the Bal de Folles, to which members of Parisian high society were invited to dance and socialize with the hospital residents. Patients were encouraged to dress up, dance, play music and sing as a form of artistic expression that walked the line between exhibitionism and macabre voyeurism. It was here that Jane Avril, (nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive) first experienced a wild and euphoric release through physical movement and found her signature contortive style.

As a child, Lennox experienced episodes of dream psychosis where her waking state and her subconscious would merge and cause her to experience both reality and her dream world in tandem. Like Jane, her body would feel expansive and transcendent, evocative of the outsized female figures in the paintings.

Blessed Tincture, 2025- Oil on linen Sinking Paradise, 2025- Oil on linen

An eerie aqueous light bleeds across the collection, luring the viewer down to the depths of a potent and luminous twilight zone where reason and reality are disregarded. Tiny figures can also be spotted animating the background of the paintings like distant mortals in a dream.

The colour silver holds special meaning throughout the collection with its reflective and sensitive qualities that inspire intuition, clairvoyance and mental telepathy. The colour represents the process of reflecting changes of personal direction by illuminating the path forward. It signifies the cleansing and releasing of mental, physical and emotional blockages.

Through a nuanced expansion around these varying ideas and figures, Lennox constructs a world at the convergence point of myth and existence. Past, present and future are all united to intersect across the canvases like falling stars. acquiescing to the vast abundance of this arcadian dreamscape. Lennox invites us to revel in the liberation and freedom that is found through embracing one's imagination and singularity, even if that takes you far, far away from reality.