The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley (b. 1950), the most significant in the UK for over a decade. The exhibition brings together both existing and especially conceived new works for the occasion, from drawings and sculptures to experiential environments, that have taken on the RA’s Main Galleries across all 13 rooms. Gormley sees the exhibition as a ‘test site’; engaging the senses, employing scale, darkness and light, and using elemental, organic and industrial materials. The works interact with the BeauxArts galleries, creating a series of distinct encounters that come together as a collective experience. It is a summation of Gormley’s enduring concern with the inner dark space of the body itself and the body’s relation to its surroundings: the body as space and the body in space.

Today, Turner Contemporary unveiled an exhibition of work by the four artists shortlisted for Turner Prize 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani. The exhibition will be held from 28 September 2019 to 12 January 2020 at Turner Contemporary in Margate. The winner will be announced on 3 December 2019 at an award ceremony broadcast live on the BBC as the official broadcast partner for the Turner Prize. Artist and ‘private ear’ Lawrence Abu Hamdan creates audio-video installations, audio-archives and performances. For Turner Prize 2019 Abu Hamdan presents a sequence of three time-based works stemming from research exploring ‘earwitness’ testimony: evidence heard rather than seen. This research originates from an investigation Abu Hamdan undertook with Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture into the Syrian regime prison of Saydnaya. Abu Hamdan conducted earwitness inte

Color, form, surface, figure and space – Henri Matisse, the master of painterly innovation, combined these elements in an entirely new way around 1905. His figurative and symbolic reductions bordered on abstraction. The French painter, printmaker and sculptor Matisse (1869– 1954) had a lasting influence on twentieth-century art. Hardly any young artist looking to build on impressionism’s foundations could fail to engage with his oeuvre. In developing and intensifying his means of artistic expression, Matisse continued to work within the European tradition while simultaneously opening himself up to the possibilities offered by oriental and far Eastern art. With an exhibition of around 125 selected paintings, sculptures, pottery and graphic works, the Kunsthalle Mannheim presents Matisse as a pioneer of modernity and an example to his circle of younger contemporaries, whether the French fauvists, the German expressionists

Artam Antik A.S. is hosting a highlight exhibition in Istanbul which will be open until the October 18, 2019. Wednesday Society exhibition takes place at Artam Antik, a nineteenth-century Ottoman mansion in Istanbul’s popular Macka neighborhood in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Allianz Kulturstiftung and ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Curated by A.S. Bruckstein / House of Taswir. Addressing what Freud called the “dark continent” of female desire, the exhibition presents works of the legendary Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim and Georgian artist Natela Iankoshvili for the first time in Istanbul, next to a number of rarely seen works of Rebecca Horn from the Collection Peter Raue in Berlin. Wednesday Society exhibits parts of the digital archive of Beral Madra, curator of the first and second Istanbul Biennial, paying homage to a pioneering female contemporary figure in Istanbul’s art scene and beyond. Wednesday Society comb

Artemis Gallery’s Fall 2019 Exceptional Series contains such an extensive selection of stellar cultural art, it is being divided into two parts with a week’s intermission in between. All forms of bidding will be available, including absentee and live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. On Thursday, September 26, Artemis will present more than 325 lots in a Classical Antiquities & Asian Art session featuring investment-grade art and artifacts from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern and Far Eastern cultures. Additionally, there are many examples of beautiful gold and silver jewelry designs – some with semiprecious stones – of early Middle Eastern and Mediterranean origin. “We have never before had such an impressive Egyptian section to offer our bidders,” said Artemis Gallery Executive Director Teresa Dodge. “This grouping goes above and beyond, starting with the very first lot.”