Ron Nagle – Five O'Clock Shadow

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Matthew Marks.
523 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
September 11 – October 24, 2015

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It's impossible to do this show justice. Not only the work itself, which is exceptional, but also the installation, which is almost as impressive. When you're making sculptures that are only a few inches in size, and when those sculptures are displayed inside recessed, glass-fronted cubes, it's incredibly difficult to take a photo that adequately reflects the attention to detail of either. Which is another reason to recommend going to see this show if you happen to be in New York before it closes on the 24th. Offering a selection of recent drawings alongside 35 sculptures made between 1991 and 2015 – the largest exhibition of Nagle's work ever organized in New York – I cannot recommend Five O'Clock Shadow highly enough.

—Matthew Marks

Stone Island: Reflective Research '992 – '015

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41 Greene Street
New York, NY 10013
October 15 – November 15, 2015
Thursday-Saturday, 11am-7pm
Sunday, 12-6pm

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First shown at Tortona Design Week in Milan earlier this year, the Reflective Research'992 – '015 exhibition opened in New York yesterday. Highlighting Stone Island's use of reflective materials, originally inspired by the study of safety workwear, the exhibition showcases a range of garments and applications used by the Italian brand from 1992 to 2015. The retrospective retraces Stone Island's original research, and examines the evolution and various interpretations of the concept on different textile bases, along with the many experimental processes that have been used over the years. The show runs for the next month, and a special retail presentation will accompany the exhibition, with much of the brand's Fall-Winter '15 collection available for sale. Both should represent opportunities not to be missed, for diehard fans and newcomers alike.

—Stone Island

Talia Chetrit – Parents

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Off Vendome
254 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
September 10 – October 17, 2015

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Off Vendome is a strange place. The New York gallery is spread over two floors of a residential building, on the fringes of what might be considered Chelsea proper. It has a flag outside, a carpeted stairway, patchwork plasterwork, a small office and a large, bright main exhibition space. And for the next couple of days both are host to an exhibition entitled Parents by the artist Talia Chetrit. In the office are a selection of framed photographs, shot in her teens and more recently, while upstairs is a new video installation. The artist's first foray into film offers a humorous and frank portrait of her parents – frequent subjects of her photography – as they pose, clown around, and embrace without the knowledge that they're being captured on video. Chetrit set up a second camera while taking their portraits, and they assumed they were posing merely for a photograph. The short video captures these delicate moments of union, romance and companionship and the body of work is very much worth a look. You'll just have to hurry, as the show ends on Friday.

—Off Vendome

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Online Feature: Modern Design in Britain

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—01. The Ken Stadling Collection.

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To accompany a new exhibition of over 50 items from the Ken Stradling Collection curated by Margaret Howell, we are pleased to present a conversation between the collector and the designer. Shot on location in Bristol, the short film offers a glimpse into Stradling’s modern design archive, and sees the pair discuss not only the origins, but also the depth and breadth of his collection.

Made by regular Inventory contributor Rick Pushinsky, alongside Tim Bowditch, it captures the diversity of Stradling’s surroundings and touches upon the work of Marcel Breuer for Bristol furniture manufacturer Crofton Gane. A major component of the exhibition, these pieces will be complimented by a selection of studio pottery, glassware and everyday household objects. The show opens at Margaret Howell’s Wigmore Street store in London on Thursday October 15th, and runs until Saturday November 15th, 2015.

— Online Feature: Modern Design in Britain

Richard Serra Ramble Drawings

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Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075
September 26th - October 24th, 2015

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The Gagosian has presented more than 25 major exhibitions by the artist Richard Serra since 1983, and the gallery recently opened a show in New York focused on his Ramble Drawings. Perhaps most well-known for his large-scale sculptures, these works on paper represent another side of the artist’s oeuvre. Featuring hand-applied fields of black litho crayon, they have a quality not entirely dissimilar from examining one of his CorTen steel pieces up close.

—Gagosian Gallery

Paul Sharits Dream Displacement at Greene Naftali

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Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
8th Floor
New York, NY 10001
September 3 – October 3, 2015

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Paul Sharits' 1976 film Dream Displacement serves as the focus of this recently-opened solo show at Greene Naftali, which runs until October 3rd. Sharits was part of a group of experimental artists who emerged in the 1960s as the structural film school – a small but influential movement that has long had the gallery's support. This exhibition, co-presented by the Anthology Film Archives, features the looped multi-projector 16mm print of Dream Displacement alongside a selection of paintings and reference material.

—Greene Naftali

Willy Vanderperre – Raf Simons 1995-2015

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—01. Photograph by Boris Kralj.

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"032c Workshop/Joerg Koch is pleased to present an anti-retrospective by photographer Willy Vanderperre that activates 20 years of Raf Simons collections. Using archival pieces from across all of the label’s collections, Vanderperre channels the energy of Simons’ design practice through a series of archetypes drawn from youth subcultures. Organized to appear as a schoolhouse locker, the installation unravels a collaboration between designer and photographer that feeds from the iconography and dissonance of adolescence in provincial Belgium."

—032c

Gagosian Paris presents Chris Burden

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26 Avenue de l'Europe
93350 Le Bourget, Paris
April 25 – September 19, 2015

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Having been closed for the whole of August, the Gagosian's Chris Burden show has now reopened at their gallery on the outskirts of Paris, until its extended run comes to an end on September 19th. Anyone who lives in the area or expects to be close by should really make a trip to the suburb of Le Bourget to witness a number of the conceptual artist's thought-provoking sculptures. The exhibition, which includes the massive Porsche with Meteorite, represents something of a late career retrospective, with the three most recent pieces acting as an overview of Burden’s final years, prior to his death in May.

—Gagosian Gallery