Galerie Perrotin is inaugurating its New York space with an exhibition by the audacious and playful Italian artist Paola Pivi. 

Nomadic by nature, Paola Pivi has lived all over the world, including Shanghai, the remote island of Alicudi in southern Italy, and Anchorage, Alaska. She is presently in India. Pivi first exhibited at Viafarini in Milan in 1995, the same year she enrolled in the Brera Academy of Art in Milan. In 1999, she was co-awarded the Golden Lion for the best national pavilion (Italy) at Harald Szeemann’s Venice Biennial. For this venue, which featured five Italian artists, Pivi presented “Untitled (airplane)”, an inverted Fiat G-91 airplane resting on its cockpit. Last year, the artist was commissioned two original public artworks in New York City: “How I roll”, a project by Public Art Fund, a Piper Seneca airplane rotated on its wingtips, installed near Central Park at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, and “Untitled (zebras)”, a striking image of zebras on a snow-covered mountaintop on the 25-by-75-foot High Line Billboard at West 18th Street.

Paola Pivi “ok, you are better than me, so what?” will open at Galerie Perrotin, New York, on September 18th. The show will run through October 26, 2013. Galerie Perrotin’s New York space is located at 909 Madison Avenue. 

An exhibition of works by John McCracken (1934-2011) is opening at David Zwirner’s 537 West 20th Street location on Tuesday, September 10th. Drawn primarily from public and private collections, the exhibition will include both well-known and lesser-seen examples of McCracken’s production from the early 1960s up through his death in 2011. In addition to presenting a range of the artist’s sculptures, a number of his paintings and sketches will be on view in an effort to fully contextualize and demonstrate the wide-ranging breadth of his practice.

McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art, as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and surface. Viewed in their totality, the works in this exhibition will present a vocabulary of forms and pinpoint specific tendencies in McCracken’s practice, exploring in particular concepts of spatiality and his relationship to architecture.

The opening of the exhibition will be held on Tuesday, September 10, from 6-8pm at 537 West 20th Street, New York. 

On September 7th Carol Bove will open "RA, or Why is an orange like a bell?“, the artist’s second solo exhibition with Maccarone Gallery in the West Village of Manhattan, on view through October 19th, 2013.   

The show will feature Bove’s newest body of sculptural works inhabiting both maccarone’s morton street and greenwich street spaces.  Many of these works are similar to Bove’s most recent outdoor sculptural tableaus comprised of various metals and concrete, and will for the first time be brought into an interior gallery setting. Bove will interweave relics and ephemera from the archive of Lionel Ziprin - a legendary NYC beat poet and scholar -  thereby incorporating a realm for research and study within the traditional gallery show context, offering a metonymic viewing experience and insight into Bove’s artistic practice on the whole.

Maccarone Gallery is located at 630 Greenwich Street, New York City. 

Josephine Meckseper (b. 1964, German)

Josephine Meckseper has developed a practice that melds the aesthetic language of modernism with a profound critique of consumerism. In her signature shop window displays, large scale sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, and films she draws a direct correlation to the wayconsumer culture defines and circumvents the key instruments of individual political agency. Meckseper received her MFA from the California Institute of Arts (1992). Her works have been exhibited at and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum amongst other major institutions and have been included in numerous museum exhibitions and international biennials. Monographs on Meckseper’s work have been published by Hatje Cantz and JRP Ringier, on the occasion of her solo exhibitions at the KunstmuseumStuttgart and the Migros museum. Her recent public sculpture Manhattan Oil Project was commissioned by the Art Production Fund.

The artist’s work is currently on view at the Parrish Art Museum, as well as at the Fireplace Project in East Hampton. Josephine Meckseper will also have an exhibition at the Andrea Rosen Gallery opening in November 2013. 

Los Angeles-based artist Ken Price’s innovative works helped redefine contemporary sculpture as they advanced the medium of clay well beyond its traditional roles.  Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—a long overdue major exhibition showcasing the artist’s unique and groundbreaking approach to sculpture—is the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in New York. The exhibition assembles 62 sculptures dating from 1959-2012 along with 11 late works on paper - allowing exhibitions viewers the ability to grasp the full range of Price’s innovative work. 

Born in Los Angeles, Ken Price received his BFA from the University of Southern California in 1956 and his MFA from the famed New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1959. In the late 1950s, at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (later renamed the Otis College of Art and Design), Price’s ceramics professor, Peter Voulkos, encouraged the artist to create work that transcended the traditional boundaries of the medium.  

Ken Price Scultpure: A Retrospective is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum in The Helen and Milton A Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. The show will run through September 22, 2013.