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A visitor looks at a Wilhelm Tell sculpture by artist Rodo, on display in an exhibition, entitled ...Giacometti, Hodler, Klee..., in the art hall of the Hypo Cultural Foundation in Munich, Germany. The exhibition shows highlights of Swiss art from seven centuries. EPA/FRANK LEONHARDT.
MUNICH.- The Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts) is Switzerland's oldest art museum with a permanent collection. This autumn, over 150 masterpieces from this institution are on show at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (Hypo Cultural Foundation) in Munich. The selected paintings, drawings and sculptures were created by more than 60 Swiss artists. Thus, these works not only represent the Kunstmuseum's collection but also reflect the development of art in our neighbouring country. In looking back over seven centuries, is it possible to detect a specific quality that is unique to Switzerland? Can certain themes or artistic expressions be detected within this countries art production? How can one define a national, a Swiss art? Can this be found in works by artists who, although they were born in Swiss cantons, spent their lives elsewhere, achieving glory from beyond the borders of their home country? In the same way ... More |
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Exhibition of Modern Art from Latin America on View in Bonn
The installation 'Continuel Mobile' from 1963 by Argentine artist Julio le Parc is displayed in the art centre 'Bundeskunsthalle' in Bonn. EPA/ROLF VENNENBERND.
BONN.- The rich cultural heritage of the Latin American continent has long fascinated European audiences. This fascination also extends to 20th-century Latin American art and literature, which tend to be perceived as largely dominated by Magic Realism (e.g. Gabriel García Márquez). The thematic focus of this exhibition seeks to counter this widely held misconception and to shed new light on the dynamic development of 20th-century abstract art in Latin America and its relationship to European classical Modernism. At the centre of the exhibition is the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, which caused a sensation when it first opened in the US and which now makes its first appearance in Europe. A selection of more than two hundred works, spanning painting, sculpture, photography and drawing, presents key positions of Latin American geometric abstraction. The artists who propelled this broad movement broke with the narrative traditions of the indigenous Pre-Columbian civilisations. ... More | | Arcimboldo's Famous Paintings on View for the First Time in the U.S.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumnus, c. 1590, oil on panel, framed: 81 x 68 cm (31 7/8 x 26 3/4 in.) unframed: 68 x 56 cm (26 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.) Skokloster Castle, Skokloster.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The bizarre yet scientifically accurate composite heads painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593) will be exhibited together for the first time in the United States, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from September 19, 2010 through January 9, 2011. Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy includes 16 of the most spectacular of these paintings of heads composed of plants, animals, and other objects. They are joined by 32 additional works, such as drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer, small bronzes, illustrated books and manuscripts, and ceramics, to provide a context for Arcimboldo’s inventions, revealing his debt to established traditions of physiognomic and nature studies. Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy was selected in part from a larger exhibition held at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, in 2008. After Washington, the exhibition ... More | | All Eyes on Kees van Dongen in Exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Kees van Dongen, La Penseuse / The Thinker, 1907, Oil on canvas, 65 x 54.5 cm, Musée & Jardins Van Buuren, Photograph: Musée & Jardins Van Buuren, Pictoright, Amsterdam.
ROTTERDAM.- Painter, society artist and womanizer, Kees van Dongen painted the Parisian avant-garde nude or clothed. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a selection of sixty masterpaintings from international collections. His models dressed in the haute couture of Paul Poiret and still inspire fashion designers like Vera Wang and John Galliano. ‘All Eyes on Kees van Dongen’ showcases this stellar artist’s sophisticated eye and his ideal of beauty. This exhibition of the finest paintings by Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968) opened in Rotterdam on 18 September. The works come from some of the world’s leading collections, from as far afield as New York, Geneva and Moscow. Many of the works featured are in private collections and are seldom if ever loaned out. In the nineteen-twenties, Rotterdam-born Kees van Dongen was already being followed by the world press. The artist cut a flamboyant figure in Pa ... More |
 | Exhibition Titled "Pond Edge" by Michael Mazur at Mary Ryan Gallery
Michael Mazur, Upland, 1996. Oil on canvas, 76 x 72 inches. Photo: Courtesy of of the Estate of Michael Mazur and Mary Ryan Gallery, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pond Edge focuses on Michael Mazur’s use of water, especially pond imagery, in paintings, prints and works on paper from the mid 1990s through 2008. On view are paintings, oils on vellum, and experimental monoprints that are being exhibited for the first time. The gallery has represented Michael Mazur (1935-2009) since 1990. Bodies of water and water itself have been constant sources of material and inspiration for Mazur. Ever drawn to the fluidity of the natural world and its capacity for self-renewal, Mazur found systems and structure in nature which he translated into art. Over time, his water imagery transformed from linear, realistic depictions to colorful and complex Wakeby landscapes, to the multilayered Pond Edge abstractions. In the painting Pond Edge II, representational space dissolves completely; composition is defined only by ... More | | Morrison Hotel Gallery Premieres the Photography of Julian Lennon
Julian Lennon, "Reflexion" (detail). Photo: Courtesy The Morrison Hotel Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morrison Hotel Gallery featuring the premiere exhibition and sale of Julian Lennon’s stunning collection of limited edition and hand signed portraiture and landscape photography. This exhibit, entitled Timeless, is curated by one of the most sought after celebrity photographers, Timothy White and sponsored by Lennon’s charity, The White Feather Foundation, Duggal Visual Solutions, Inc. and Canson Infinity Paper. Lennon developed a love for photography at a very young age and over the years has been perfecting his work. The exhibit not only consist of Lennon’s landscape work, but will takes us into his studio where he recently photographed U2 as they recorded their newest album. In addition, Lennon takes us behind the scenes for a photographic look at the Sean Lennon tour. “I have always felt that I have observed life, in a different way than others; probably because my life ha ... More | | High Museum of Art Brings Titian's Famed Diana Paintings to US for First Time
Paolo Veronese (Caliari), Venus, Cupid and Mars, about 1580. Oil on canvas: 165.20 x 126.50 cm (framed: 214.63 x 175.26 x 13.97 cm). National Gallery of Scotland.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never before traveled to the United States. The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the National Galleries. The High’s presentation of “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland” launches a new collaboration between the High and NGS, with additional exhibitions currently under development. “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the ... More |
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Exhibition on the Use of Shadow Opens at Kunsthal KAdE
Ralph Kistler, installation Cuentos Chinos (Chinese Stories), 2010, Kunsthal KAdE.
AMERSFOORT.- From 18 September 2010 to 9 January 2011 on show at Kunsthal KAdE, the exhibition 'ShadowDance'. 'ShadowDance' is a group exhibition featuring work by more than thirty visual artists, all operating on the international art scene and all fascinated by the effect of shadow. The exhibits will vary in terms of content and form. The common denominator will be the use of shadow – and more particularly moving shadows – as a crucial means of visual expression. The artists use shadow as a metaphor for a range of (sometimes heavy-weight) themes: time - alter ego - evil - death. But the shadow phenomenon also inspires more light-hearted work involving the creation of illusions and shadow ‘play’. At ShadowDance the electric light goes out for a while as, with an imaginary candle flickering in your hand, you are drawn into the sometimes dark but also whimsical worlds evoked by the art. ‘ShadowDance& ... More | | New Work by German Artist Thomas Scheibitz at Sprüth Magers
Thomas Scheibitz, A moving Plan B, GP 151 b, 2010. Vinyl, pencil, pigment marker on rag paper, 215 x 155 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Sprüth Magers Berlin London.
LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London presents an exhibition of new work by the German artist Thomas Scheibitz in his first solo show in London for over two years. Entitled ‘A moving plan B – chapter TWO’, the exhibition will feature a frieze of works on paper, drawings and sculpture. To coincide with his West London show, the artist will also organise an exhibition at the Drawing Room in East London. Born in Radeberg, Germany in 1968, Thomas Scheibitz, a student of Professor Ralf Kerbach at the Dresden Art Academy, started painting and producing sculpture in 1990 and quickly gained international recognition. Through the use of both mediums, he explores the boundary between figuration and abstraction, playing with the traditional genres of landscape, still life and portraiture, and thus creating radical new forms that are graphically dynamic. His works are characterised by a chromatic artificiality, shallow dept ... More | | Cross-Section of Thomas Wrede's Oeuvre at Museum Kunst der Westküste
Thomas Wrede, House above the Dunes (Fotografie aus der Serie REAL LANDSCAPES), 2007. © Thomas_Wrede.
HAUPTSTRAßE.- Since the 1990s German photo artist Thomas Wrede (born 1963) has garnered international attention with variously conceived photo series. Taking real natural, landscape and city settings as their starting point, his artistic images transform these and imbue them with an ambiguous and absurd-surreal quality. In his large-scale colour photographs Wrede creates spaces for longings and Utopias that build on catchy image patterns and defy temporal and spatial placing. His image series stage nature and landscape in terms of a visual pitfall and phantasma, prompting us to subject them to closer scrutiny. The exhibition Anywhere presents a selection of photographs from the two series Real Landscapes (started in 2005) and Seascapes (2001-2007), which play a pivotal role in Thomas Wrede’s oeuvre. Both bodies of work are intrinsically linked to the landscape of the North Sea coast, since, in addition to the Lusatian mining district in eastern Germany, the beaches and dune ... More |
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Christie's Offers the Remarkable Wolfgang Joop Collection
Andre Arbus and Vadim Andronousov, A Lacquered Bed. Circa 1937. Estimate: € 18.000-22.000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
PARIS.- Christie's offers a remarkable selection of 20th century decorative art from the Wolfgang Joop Collection in Potsdam, reflecting his exceptional eye and taste, on 26 November 2010, in Paris. Wolfgang Joop has gained worldwide fame not only as a fashion designer but for his artistic passion, intuition and the perfection of his craft which has yielded results in various genres of fine and applied art, duly honoured by numerous exhibitions. The interior of the Villa Wunderkind in Potsdam – just outside of Berlin and remodelled by the museum architect Josef Kleihues - shows off Wolfgang Joop’s eclectic collection including 1930s and 1940s furniture, old masters and contemporary art. Over the last two decades, he has been a tremendously focused and passionate collector of French Decorative Arts. One of the main focal points in ... More | | Color in American Photography, 1950-1970 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Ernst Haas, Oil Spot, New York City, 1953 © Ernst Haas, courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents, Beyond COLOR: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970, a re-examination of a pivotal period in photography’s short history, when the artistic relevance of color in fine art photography had yet to be determined. The exhibition unites works for the first time by many of the “first generation” practitioners of color photography including artists Marie Cosindas, Arthur Seigel, Harry Callahan, Eliot Porter, Saul Leiter, Marvin E. Newman, Pete Turner, Ruth Orkin and Ernst Haas. Other highlights include images exhibited for the first time by Magnum’s first female member, Inge Morath, as well as a special slide projection of color images by Garry Winogrand, images that were never printed by the artist. Beyond COLOR attempts to reclaim this moment of photographic history that only today has begun to receive critical attention. After the conclusion of ... More | | Dana Melamed Opens Her Third Solo Show at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
Process photograph of Darkest Matter, 2010. Transparency film, cinefoil, vinyl, metal wire, acrylic paint, ink and charcoal on paper and aluminum composite mesh 69 x 135 x 4½ in. (175 x 343 x 11cm) Photo: Shaq Melamed. Image courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Dana Melamed’s third solo show at the gallery. With this exhibition, Melamed expands her exploration of the relationship between her unique technique, the materials she applies and her theoretical approach to a subject as old as the human race — the conflict between nature’s own creations and manmade interventions. Melamed constructs a visual world of drawn and collaged imagery, mostly sourced from digital archives forming a pictorial quilt, consequently transforming it with a blowtorch into a densely crusted, layered surface born out of fire. Using a blowtorch to melt her materials into one another, Melamed fuses sheet metal, Cinefoil, photographic film, acrylic paint and industrial waste into a complex amalgam of textures — left ... More |
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Chrysler Museum Reveals Portrait of America through Photography
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850–2010, which is on view through March 27, 2011 in the Frank Photography Galleries. From the rise of the daguerreotype in the 1840s to the digital imagery of today, photography has played a crucial role in capturing and defining who we are as Americans. Drawn from the Chrysler’s extensive photography collection, Portraying a Nation presents more than 100 portraits by American photographers. Affordably priced, easy to produce, and available to virtually everyone, portrait photography ranks among the most popular media. In the Chrysler’s exhibition, four thematic sections—“Friends and Family,” “I Am What I Do,” “My Message is My Meaning,” and “Joiners and Loners”—celebrate the vitality and diversity of those who define themselves as Americans. ... More
MASS MoCA to Present Site-Specific Sculpture by Artist Federico Díaz
NORTH ADAMS, MA.- Beginning October 23, 2010 and running through March 2012, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) will present a new site-specific sculpture by Prague-based artist Federico Díaz. Created from 420,000 black spheres precisely milled and assembled by robotic machines, the 50-feet long by 20-feet high sculpture, Geometric Death Frequency—141, will fill MASS MoCA’s entrance courtyard with a fragmented wave seemingly caught between movement and stasis. An opening reception with the artist will be held at MASS MoCA, Saturday, October 23 from 2–4pm. Architecture critic and curator Jeff Kipnis calls Diaz’s work “re-origination,” comparing it to the making of a book into a film. In one sense the film represents the book, yet does so in an entirely new medium, and through this becomes something completely different. In the case of Geometric Death Frequency—141, the “b ... More
Six Artists Explore the Interaction between Cinema and Reality
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Live Cinema/In the Round (September 17, 2010 – February 6, 2011) features the works of Ziad Antar, Inci Eviner, Hassan Khan, Gülsün Karamustafa, Maha Maamoun, and Christodoulos Panayiotou, artists from the East Mediterranean region who explore how cinema informs representations of reality through video, installation and performance. The title, In the Round, takes its cue from theater-in-the-round, in which the audience surrounds the stage. The installation of Live Cinema echoes this practice with a multi-room presentation starting with the Live Cinema galleries (178 and 179) and continuing in several of the Museum’s period rooms (galleries 223, 259 and 288). Live Cinema/In the Round is organized by Istanbul-based guest curator November Paynter and coordinated ... More
Arnulf Rainer on Vincent van Gogh: Exhibition in Vincent van GoghHuis
ZUNDERT.- Arnulf Rainer exhibition opens in Vincent van GoghHuis in Zundert. For the first time museums visitors can admire his new series of art pieces, inspired by Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition Arnulf Rainer on van Gogh will be held at Vincent van GoghHuis in Zundert from 19 September 2010 until 6 February 2011. Arnulf Rainer (1929) has gained international fame with 'Übermahlungen' (overpaintings). In his urge for perfection, he repeatedly paints over his own work and that of others. He also uses his own self-portrait and portraits of other artists as a background for expressive drawings and paintings. Since the mid '70s Rainer has made a series of stunning portraits of van Gogh. In the series he transformed Vincentʼs face expression into the most strange grimaces. “This is not mockery” – says Ron Dirven, Director of the Vincent van GoghHuis and the exhibition curator – “Rainer painted the ... More
Christie's Presents Guitars from Legendary American Singer-Songwriter Judy Collins
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's presents the fall sale of Fine Musical Instruments on October 8 highlighted by a selection of instruments from legendary American singer-songwriter Judy Collins. Comprising of the 8 guitars, 7 of them by C.F. Martin and Company, and an autoharp, this collection reflects Collins’s extensive recording and performing history from the early 1960’s to the 21st century. The collection includes a 1939 D-28 by C.F. Martin and Company (estimate: $20,000-30,000), a guitar that Judy played extensively between 1968 to 1977 and recorded hits such as Who Knows Where The Time Goes and Whales and Nightingales; a 2002 12-string HD12-35SJC by C.F. Martin and Company (estimate: $2,000-4,000), a contemporary guitar custom made for Judy where she chose the wood and the pearl inlayed wildflower to the neck; and an autoharp by Oscar Schmidt, circa 1970 (estimate: $1,000-2,000), an instrument where she recorded The ... More
Mystery Bidder Buys Berlin's "Checkpoint Bravo"
BERLIN (REUTERS).- A mystery telephone bidder purchased a piece of history in the form of "Checkpoint Bravo" -- once one of the busiest crossing points between East and West Berlin -- in an auction Thursday. The sole bidder secured the site -- which includes a derelict bridge and a crumbling cafe covered in graffiti, for 45,000 euros ($58,890) -- the minimum asking price. Less famous than its counterpart "Checkpoint Charlie," which lies in central Berlin, Checkpoint Bravo was built along a major motorway in the city's southwest to inspect travelers between the Allied and Soviet sectors in the early 1950s. It continued to be used to control movements from West Berlin into the Communist German Democratic Republic and from the East into the West until 1969. The road was then re-routed and the checkpoint moved to a site a short distance away. ... More
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