Mark Godfrey

Mark Godfrey

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Co-director @new_curators and curator of ‘Kerry James Marshall: The Histories’ @royalacademyarts

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Continuing the recent uptick in Black American artists being shown in Paris, the @museedartmodernedeparis is showing the first retrospective in France of maestro #KerryJamesMarshall. ⁠ ⁠ Steps from the museums that hold the French masterpieces he has long studied, Marshall’s monumental figurative works centering Black life punch through the longstanding racist exclusion of Black communities within the art historical canon. ⁠ ⁠ Observer connected with the exhibition curator Mark Godfrey (@markgodfrey1973) to discuss the artist’s career devoted to depicting the full humanity of Black subjects. ⁠ ⁠ Read more by @sarahmsnapshot at the link in our bio. 02 Nov 2026 Twenty two years ago I was in Oxford to see Mike Nelson’s Triple Bluff Canyon at @modernartoxford and I was back yesterday to visit ‘Double Negative (The Clown), which revisits the earlier work - itself partly based on Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed - while including many transformations and additions. It’s an incredible installation that makes you think about the fate of protest movements, the recurring wars connecting the USA and UK to the gulf and Middle East , the artist’s own changes over 20+ years, and mine. Ever since I saw The Coral Reef @mattsgallerylondon 26 years ago, Mike has been a favourite artist but I’ll never get my head around the work; it’s still surprising and confusing and materially and psychologically complex as ever. Nice to see the Michael Heizer reference in the title having travelled to see his Double Negative in the summer. Go to Oxford to see for yourself! The show is open until 11 April . 30 Oct 2026 Two of my highlights from this week in Paris were the Schwitters show @museepicassoparis and walking through Kerry James Marshall’s show with @bb1341 Benjamin Buchloh and guess what! They are linked ! I absolutely loved Schwitters’s collages - intimate records of a life moving through Hanover and then exiled to Norway and the UK, witnesses to a world of increasing consumer culture (all those flattened branded packages) and administration (receipts, ticket stubs etc). Schwitters used all this paper stuff alongside feathers and fabrics on such an intimate scale to imagine a universe that was more sensitive and delicate. In the show I was reminded of how many contemporary artists love Schwitters- like William Kentridge, Gabriel Orozco, and Tacita Dean- but also of how Kerry turned to Schwitters collages that he knew from the Pasadena Museum to make his own in the late 1970s. He discussed this relationship with Benjamin Buchloh in our catalogue…. BB spent hours in the Schwitters show on Monday and then came to @museedartmodernedeparis on Tuesday. So pleased to have finally been able to look at KJM’s work together! 23 Oct 2026 Congrats @lacachepli Oscar Murillo on your new show @davidzwirner ; I think some of the best paintings you’ve made to date. 19 Oct 2026 The unrest in Paris has meant Stan Douglas’s show Parallax @jeudepaumeparis can’t open tonight; I was lucky to get a preview. The first images are details from his digital image ‘London 9 August 2011 (Pembury Estate)’ which he made in 2017 to reconstruct scenes from the riots in 2011, condensing different disturbances across Hackney into one image. Stan’s work is so formally and politically intelligent and experimental. I was so pleased to see this survey and revisit some of the best art of recent years including ‘Luanda Kinshasa’, a video that lasts over 6 hours and that features a fictitious jam staged in the early 70s in NY, in the vein of Miles’s On the Corner; the musicians are played by real musicians like @thejasonmoran … you think you’re watching a regular music video until you notice the sound and image coming in and out of synch, so much so you aren’t sure if you’re hearing what you’re seeing. The work also relates to the histories if Angola and the Congo in these years and the impact of African independence movements on American music. All the works in the show are amazing. Hope lots of people see it this week. 18 Oct 2026 Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman have collaborated on a new film Drawing Blind Drawing which opened @mariangoodmangallery in Paris last night. Two huge projectors show two adjacent films, each divided by a craggy line, so that four different drawing moments are shown. You see Bruce’s hand gripping Tacita’s, or the other way around, impossible to tell if the upper hand is guiding or restraining the lower as it moves. Apparently each was trying to draw an object but the lines are scrambled. Sometimes the hands move gently , sometimes they are jerky and frenetic. Four different implements (pencils, silver stylus, etc) and four different grounds (white paper, blackboard etc) give the double film a tonal gradation from upper right to lower left corner . Nauman’s first collaboration with Marian Goodman was in 1970 for his book LA AIR and Tacita has been showing with the MG since the 1990s, so there’s lots of personal histories in the room. Great to see Anri Sala, James Coleman, Stan Douglas and so many others at the opening. Looking forward to reading Tacita’s conversation with Hal Foster about this project. If you can make it through the smoke and the burned lime bikes , try to see this show . 18 Oct 2026 Issy Wood @nationalportraitgallery looks fantastic- congrats @isywod @flavia_fffff @victoriamaysiddall @bukhmanfoundation 16 Oct 2026 Absolutely loved @salman.toor show @courtauld and especially the way he constructs his paintings. Of course there is a lot to say about colour but I was really taken by the short brush strokes almost like feathers. Not sure if there is writing on this yet? But really enjoyed @_elena_crippa ‘s catalogue essay. 16 Oct 2026 Miriam Cahn’s room installation Altich is on show @frieze.london in @galeriejocelynwolff booth. This room will be part of the major show I’m curating @munchmuseum in Oslo next November. Miriam is such an important artist. I wish a UK venue would come on board with this show! Miriam has had major exhibitions in the last 10 years @stedelijkmuseum @palaisdetokyo @reinasofiamuseum @kunsthausbregenz and other institutions. Other than in this booth and the few works in @tate collection, her work hasn’t been seen in the UK since the mid 80s at the Serpentine. The show could be in the Uk in mid 2028 😊 15 Oct 2026 @studiotarekatoui ‘s Turbine Hall commission ‘Hold’ is one of the best in the TH’s history. It is sculpturally, sonically, and socially successful, and massive congrats to @_catherine_wood_ @nabilaanabi @dinaakhmadeeva for shepherding this work to its beautiful and moving opening last night. Tarek has done an amazing job to make the hall feel intimate and awesome at the same time; crowds gathered around the central table and around spaces where singers, drummers, and guitarists played, and looked up at the old and newly constructed drums, horns, and pipes, some of them made from stretched and heated hides, some from 3-d printed sugar/bamboo composites. Then there are the white cloths designed by @isseymiyakeofficial that stretch down from the heights and become instruments too. I have loved Tarek’s work from the first performance I saw @kurimanzutto in 2014; I spent ages in the Tate Tanks when he took over that space with ‘The Reverse Collection’; my visits to the studio in Paris are among the most extraordinary I’ve made…. And last night was the best experience of all. Looking forward to spending a lot of time @tate with this work! 13 Oct 2026 I think the last Cady Noland solo show in London was this at Anthony Reynolds gallery in 1989. It was about five years before I started visiting galleries and I didn’t see it. A new show opens @gagosian on Monday. 09 Oct 2026 Robert Ryman: The Real Thing @barbicancentre is one of the most beautiful shows I’ve ever seen in London. So many congrats @wellsfs . The work sings in the spaces and it’s wonderful to see art shown like this, just as I expect Ryman would have wanted. I feel lucky that I’ll be able to return to this show again and again in the next few months. 07 Oct 2026

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