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Harold Ancart
Bird Time

October 29–November 11, 2023
Ryosoku-in Temple, Kyoto, Japan
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Bird Time is an exhibition by Harold Ancart at Ryosoku-in Temple, a Zen temple established in 1358, in Kyoto, Japan. Organized by the Contemporary Art Foundation, the show presents a series of paintings specifically sized to the temple’s architecture, with each painting featuring a circular window that opens onto an alternate reality. This is Ancart’s first solo exhibition in Japan.

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The Inner Island

April 28–November 4, 2023
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
www.fondationcarmignac.com

This exhibition, which features more than eighty works by fifty artists, presents visitors with new, unknown worlds floating outside familiar geographies and temporalities. The artists included break away from reality, bringing to life fictional, mental, and abstract islands. Work by Harold Ancart, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Simon Hantaï, Roy Lichtenstein, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool is included.

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Whitney Biennial 2022
Quiet as It’s Kept

April 6–October 16, 2022
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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The Whitney Biennial was established in 1932 by the museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, to chart developments in art in the United States. The 2022 Biennial presents dynamic selections that take different forms over the course of the exhibition: artworks—even walls—change, and performance animates the galleries and objects. With an intergenerational and interdisciplinary roster of sixty-three artists and collectives at all points in their careers, many of whom work with an interdisciplinary perspective, the Biennial surveys and presents the art and ideas of our time. Work by Harold Ancart, Ellen Gallagher, Cy Gavin, and Rick Lowe is included.

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Harold Ancart in
The Sculpture Park: Second Edition

December 9, 2018–October 2020
Sculpture Park, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, India
www.thesculpturepark.in

Four sculptures by Harold Ancart are included in the second exhibition organized at the Sculpture Park in Madhavendra Palace within the historic Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India—the country’s first public park for contemporary sculpture. Ancart loosely defines the small-scale works, which are made with oil stick on cast concrete, as “stairs.” The colors of each piece respond to the wall paintings of the room in which it is situated. Originally constructed as apartments for the Maharaja’s queens inside the eighteenth-century fort, the Madhavendra Palace is now the setting for large-scale art exhibitions.

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Peindre la nuit

October 13, 2018–April 15, 2019
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

This exhibition explores the night in modern and contemporary painting, music, literature, photography, and video. With a focus on the perception of night rather than its iconography, the exhibition intends to be a nocturnal experience. Work by Harold Ancart, Francis Bacon, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha is included. 

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High Anxiety
New Acquisitions

November 30, 2016–August 25, 2017
Rubell Museum, Miami
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High Anxiety: New Acquisitions presents a selection of artworks by thirty-two artists acquired by the museum since 2014, many of which explore polarizing social and political concerns through a broad spectrum of practices. In gauging the output and energies of these artists we find creative currents that speak to our shared state of uncertainty, nervousness, and pessimism. Work by Harold Ancart, Cy Gavin, and Jordan Wolfson is included.

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Harold Ancart
Untitled (there is no there there)

August 18–October 23, 2016
Menil Collection, Houston
www.menil.org

In 2014, Harold Ancart, a Belgian artist living and working in New York, transformed the trunk of his jeep into a studio and set out on a road trip across the United States. He wanted to experience the vastness of the country he now called home. Along the way, he would pull his car over whenever he saw something that moved him to draw. Untitled (there is no there there) (2014/2016), a group of twenty-seven drawings completed over the course of his journey, reflects the immediacy and vitality of his method.