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Robert Clark & Skye Sherwin

Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley: Exploded Fortress of Solitude, London
LA-based artist Kelley is obsessed with Superman mythology. Since 1999, he has created 20 sculptural depictions of the miniaturised Krypton city of Kandor (Kandor 16, pictured) in coloured resins, setting them in tinted glass bottles, each based on different Kandors created by DC Comics' illustrators. In his new show, Kelley turns to the Fortress of Solitude that houses the shrunken city, realising the superhero's hideaway as a rocky bunker. At Gagosian Britannia Street, WC1, until 22 October 2011
Photograph: Fredrik Nilsen
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong, London
A still from Yang Fudong's Fifth Night, 2010, in which a stagey street scene is experienced from seven different angles with seven screen projections simultaneously closing in on its players' emotional nuances. A typically stylish film installation from Fudong, with perfectly composed imagery and a heady atmosphere of yearning. At Parasol Unit, N1, 13 September until 6 November 2011
Yang Fudong
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Norman Dilworth
Norman Dilworth, Huddersfield
Dilworth's sculptures hold their own through the finely-tuned tension between his use of steel and wood and a spirit of improvisation that allows for unforeseen sculptural twists and turns. At Huddersfield Art Gallery until 27 November 2011
Photograph: Norman Dilworth
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist The World We Live In
The World We Live In, Leigh
LS Lowry's The Park, 1946, part of this show of works on loan from the Arts Council Collection to celebrate the Turnpike Gallery's 40th anniversary. The show also takes in works by George Shaw, Cornelia Parker and Frank Auerbach. At Turnpike Gallery until 5 November 2011
© The Estate of LS Lowry
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Roni Horn
Roni Horn, London
Roni Horn's photographs of people are not portraits in the obvious sense. Her famed You are the Weather (pictured) consisted of 100 head shots of a woman bathing in Icelandic pools where the weather is written in her face. Horn has now recreated this work with the same model posed in those hot springs some 15 years on. New gem-like sculptures and large abstract drawings complete the show. At Hauser & Wirth, W1, until 22 October 2011
Photograph: Roni Horn
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Richard Woods
Richard Woods, Bristol
Man Cutting Wood (yellow and black) is one of several woodblock prints depicting Boy's Own-types hard at carpentry. Woods is known for skewering design culture mores, and here he tackles the current trends for retro decor and cosy nostalgic nationalism. Look out also for his dry stone wall, which looks decidedly precise and industrially made, ready to be wheeled out of the factory and into a contemporary dream-world of bygone days. At Works/Projects, 16 September until 19 November 2011
Photograph: Richard Woods
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Gary Rough
Gary Rough, Glasgow
Rough's mixed-media art is deceptively spontaneous. His cut-out texts and scrawled intimacies – such as Failed Patter (Away From Here), pictured – resemble less the tired mannerisms of urban tagging than the erotic reveries once etched into toilet walls or the heartfelt romanticisms carved into tree bark. This is doodled mischief, painstakingly presented. At Sorcha Dallas until 7 October 2011
Photograph: Gary Rough
exhibitionist 10/09: Exhibitionist Concept As Concrete Form
Concept as Concrete Form, Derby
The University of Derby hosts a modest yet wide-ranging survey of concrete poetry (as much visual art as it is a literary tradition). The show celebrates the role over the last 60 years of Eugen Gomringer (pictured), as well as taking in big names such as Henri Chopin and Dom Sylvester Houedard. At University of Derby School of Arts, Design and Technology, 13 September until 14 October 2011
Photograph: PR
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