| | Overview of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Creative Development at Hamburger Kunsthalle
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A view of one of the exhibition rooms where are displayed the paintings of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the Kunsthalle of Hamburg, Germany. The art hall exhibits Kirchner's works, who is a founding member of the artist group 'Bruecke', until 16 January 2011. EPA/ANGELIKA WARMUTH.
HAMBURG.- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), founding member of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) artists group in Dresden, Germany 1905, is among the most influential artist personalities in German classical Modernism. A trailblazer for Expressionist art, he succeeded in creating some of the most innovative formal solutions of his day - particularly as a printmaker. The exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle features a representative overview of the most significant phases in Kirchner’s creative development: the early work showing studio and street scenes of Dresden and Berlin, work created during summer stays on the Baltic Sea island Fehrmarn and the later work in Davos. The exhibition itself centers primarily on paintings from the Kunsthalle’s own collection along with selected loans, all works indisputably regarded as the high point of Kirchner’s oeuvre as a painter. For the first time, these paintings ... More |
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Solo Show of Paintings by the American Artist Pat Steir at Galerie Jaeger Bucher
Pat Steir, Yellow and Blue, 2009. Oil on canvas, 213,4 x 213,4 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris and Cheim & Read, New York.
PARIS.- Galerie Jaeger Bucher presents a solo show by the American artist Pat Steir, born in Newark, New Jersey. Since her first exposition in New York in 1964 at the gallery Terri Dintenfass, Pat Steir has created a broad spectrum of paintings all born from her pouring technique which has been refined to the point of virtuosity : layers of paintings placed as successive veils whose meditative silence is reminiscent of Agnes Martin pictorial space. The art of Pat Steir resides in the delicately equilibrated interplay between the force of gravity and the properties of the paint, for its quantity, consistency and substance determine the fragile oscillation between deliberate control and chance occurrence. With this technique, Pat Steir works with what she calls herself the “nature of painting” and uses her body as a Kyudo arch or as a compass in order to better express the work from a ... More | | Deichtorhallen Hamburg Provides a Comprehensive Insight into the Art of Poul Gernes
Poul Gernes, Treppenhaus in einer Schule in Gentofte, Dänemark; (C)Foto: Finn Thybo Andersen.
HAMBURG.- Deichtorhallen Hamburg is staging a retrospective showcasing over 400 exhibits that provide a comprehensive insight into the art of the Danish painter, sculptor, filmmaker and performing artist Poul Gernes (*1925, † 1996), who numbers among the most influential of Scandinavian artists. In the 50 years that he was active he had numerous exhibitions; in 1988, his work featured in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennial, and he shaped the face of more than 150 buildings in Denmark. He left behind an impressive oeuvre, which is fascinating on account of its extraordinary complexity and his aesthetic is as topical today as it as when he developed it in the 1960s and 1970s. Curator of the exhibition Dirk Luckow (General Director of Deichtorhallen Hamburg) describes Poul Gernes’ oeuvre as hilarious, anarchic, opulent, joyful, folkloristic, funky, psychedelic – while at the same time also emphasizing ... More | | Jericho Unveils a Massive 1,200-Year-Old Carpet Mosaic Measuring Nearly 900 Square Meters
Visitors look at part of a mosaic, measuring around 9,700 square feet. AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed.
By: Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer
JERICHO (AP).- Visitors to ancient Jericho got a rare glimpse Sunday of a massive 1,200-year-old carpet mosaic measuring nearly 900 square meters (9,700 square feet), making it one of the largest in the Middle East. The small red, blue and ochre square stones laid out in sweeping geometric and floral patterns cover the floor of the main bath house of an Islamic palace that was destroyed by an earthquake in the eighth century. Since being excavated in the 1930s and 1940s, the mosaic has largely remained hidden under layers of canvas and soil to protect it against sun and rain. Starting Sunday, a small section will be laid bare for a week, as part of Jericho's 10,000th birthday celebrations. The mosaic then will be covered up again until the money is found to build a roof that would serve as a permanent weather shield, said Palestinian archaeologist ... More |
 | Three Emerging London-Based Artists Present 'Transmission' at Haunch of Venison
Katie Paterson, Inside this desert lies the tiniest grain of sand, 2010 (detail). Photograph, 80 x 120 cm. © Katie Paterson 2010.
LONDON.- 'Transmission' brings together three emerging London-based artists – a painter, a sculptor and a multimedia artist – and explores the affinities they share with regards to notions of transference and abstraction. While the work of Adam Dix, Alex Hoda and Katie Paterson is shaped by very different thematic and formal concerns, there are underlying correspondences in their approach to considerations such as the transmission of meaning, the dislocation of context and the mutation of form. Objects and forms are often manipulated or abstracted in their works, their original function obscured. This exhibition seeks to reveal the points of intersection in Dix, Hoda and Paterson's practices, showcasing the work of three exciting young artists at the start of promising careers. Adam Dix mines the graphic culture and sociology of the 1950s in his ... More | | Largest-Ever Exhibition in Scandinavia of the Work of Alice Neel at Moderna Museet Malmö
Alice Neel, Don Perlis and Jonathan, 1982 © Estate of Alice Neel/Moderna Museet. Acquired with funds from the Second Museum of our Wishes.
MALMO.- This autumn, Moderna Museet Malmö presents Alice Neel: Painted Truths – the largest exhibition of this American artist ever to be shown in Scandinavia. With 59 works spanning more than 70 years, the exhibition fills the entire Turbine Hall and the new gallery at Moderna Museet Malmö. Today, Alice Neel (1900-1984) is an iconic figure in American painting. For most of her life, however, she worked without recognition from either critics or the public. Persistently and unremittingly, Neel continued to paint portraits – or pictures of people, as she preferred to call them – in an era that was dominated by abstract expressionism, pop art and the readily available photograph. Alice Neel’s oeuvre is characterised by a genuine fascination with people and a striving to make sense of the human drama of everyday life. Neighbours, friends, artist colleagues and family ... More | | Suchan Kinoshita Exhibits at Museum Ludwig as Part of Winning Fine Arts Prize
Suchan Kinoshita, Clock, 2010. © Suchan Kinoshita, Foto/Photo: Museum Ludwig / Ulrich Tillmann.
COLOGNE.- The Museum Ludwig and Suchan Kinoshita (born 1962 in Tokyo, lives in Maastricht and Münster) will receive the Fine Arts Prize of the Board of Trustees of the Plastics Industry (Kunstpreis des Kuratoriums der Kunststoff-Industrie). This prize has enabled the Japanese-German artist to install a solo exhibition in the Museum Ludwig’s largest sun-lighted gallery. Contrasts play a central role in Kinoshita’s work: sound and silence, distance and nearness, persistence and fleetingness. These themes are not just coincidentally related to theatre and music. For Kinoshita, who came to Cologne in 1981 to study at the music academy, this connection is a matter of course. In her works, she consistently roams the crossroads of theater, music and visual art. In her installations, Kinoshita creates a subtle interplay of objects, sounds and spatial perception. This invites the visitor to move through the installation ... More |
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SMU's Meadows and Prado Museum Officials Sign Partnership Agreement in Madrid
File photo of several people looking at the artwork 'Rome From Vatican' by British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner at the Prado Museum. EPA/EMILIO NARANJO.
MADRID.- This past week. 46 Dallasites, including Mayor Tom Leppert, gathered in Madrid to witness the official signing of a partnership agreement between the The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University and the Prado Museum in Madrid. The signing took place in one of the galleries of the Prado surrounded by Spanish Renaissance paintings, with Prado Director Miguel Zugaza, Deputy Director Gabriele Finaldi, and Chair of the Board Placido Arango orchestrating the event. The signing of the agreement at the Prado represents the second and final official ceremony to launch the historic partnership, the first of which took place at the Meadows Museum in Dallas on September 10. Representatives from Dallas at the signing included Meadows Museum Director Mark Roglán; Provost of Southern Methodist University Dr. Paul ... More | | Major 20th-Century Private Sculpture Collection Goes to Chazen Museum of Art
Louise Nevelson (American, b. Ukraine, 1899–1988), Dawn’s Wedding Chest, 1959, wood, paint, 27 x 15 x 6 in. Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection, 41.2
MADISON, WI.- A major private collection of 20th-century sculpture will be made accessible to the public in its new home at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The museum announced the gift of the renowned Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection, comprising more than 70 sculptures and 250 preparatory drawings by artists including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, and David Smith, among other modern masters. The works will be installed in the museum’s expanded facility, which opens October 2011 and is designed by the team of Machado and Silvetti Associates and Continuum Architects + Planners. Over the course of four decades, New Yorkers Terese and Alvin S. Lane carefully assembled a collection of sculptural works dating from 1915 through the mid-1980s, with many of the most important artists of the period represented. The couple added depth to the collect ... More | | Picasso to Julie Mehretu: Modern Drawings from the British Museum Collection
03 51 April 1951 4 - 51, by David Smith, 1951. Copyright Estate of David Smith DACS, LondonVAGA, New York 2010.
LONDON.- This survey of modern drawings from the British Museum’s extensive collection explores the significant interchange of ideas between artists mainly working in Europe and America during the past hundred years. It showcases some of the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, starting with Picasso’s study for his masterpiece Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon, the painting that changed the world in 1907, and concluding with Julie Mehretu, the Ethiopian-born artist and one of the stars of the contemporary international art scene. The exhibition features 70 works all of which have been added to the British Museum’s collection over the past 35 years and most of which have never been on public display at the Museum before. The British Museum has an unparalleled collection of graphic art from across the world, and actively collects modern and contemporary works today. Unfettered from academic codes o ... More |
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Exhibition of New Paintings by Sandra Lerner on Display at June Kelly Gallery in New York
Sandra Lerner, Windsong, 2009 - 2010, mixed media on linen (46x48). Photo: Courtesy June Kelly Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Parallel Universes, an exhibition of new paintings by Sandra Lerner that display anew her dramatic use of calligraphic form and subtle color to delve into the eternal mysteries of the universe, opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on October 7. The works will remain on view through November 9. Her recent paintings, Lerner says, draw upon her long exploration of the similarities between Eastern philosophy and the latesttest theories in physics and cosmology. “I try to incorporate calligraphy's expressive force to conjure up references to nature as well the multiple universes that exist.” In an essay on Lerner’s new work, art writer Phyllis Braff says, “A very physical, very energetic and very direct interpretation of Japanese calligraphy became a part of Sandra Lerner’s painting approach at an early point in her career. Now, …she further explores calligr ... More | | Model of Renzo Piano-Designed West Building Now on View at the Kimbell Art Museum
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. South view of the building design, 2010 (detail). Renzo Piano, architect © Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
FORT WORTH, TX.- A detailed scale model of Renzo Piano’s design for the Kimbell Art Museum’s new west building is now on display in the Museum’s lobby. “The model is beautiful,” commented Eric M. Lee, the Museum’s director. “It will provide visitors with a clearer understanding of how the new building relates to the Kahn building and how it will be positioned in the landscape.” The new Piano-designed building consists of two connected structures: the first, facing and echoing the west front of the Kahn building; the second, running parallel in the rear. A spacious, travertine-clad lobby containing a café, store, and coat-check occupies the center of the front pavilion, with major exhibition galleries extending to the north and south. A third gallery, as well as an auditorium, library, and education center, will be housed in the rear pavilion, which will be topped with ... More | | An Impressive and Comprehensive Collection of Glorious Quilts Celebrate the "Year of the Quilt"
Slashed Star Quilts. Sara Maartz (dates unknown) Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Dated 1872. Cotton, 82 x 76". American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Weinstein, 2007.15.1 Photo by Gavin Ashworth, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The artistry of America's quilt heritage will be highlighted in the "Year of the Quilt"— an unprecedented twelve-month-long series of exhibitions, special events, and educational programming focusing on the creative contributions of three centuries of talented women. The exhibition QUILTS: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum is presented in two parts. The first installment is on view from October 5, 2010 to April 24, 2011, and the second from May 10 to October 16, 2011. QUILTS features dazzling textiles from the museum's impressive and comprehensive collection. Characterized by a mastery of design, extraordinary color combinations, and innovative use of fabrics, these quilts reflect a spirit and energy that make them uniquely American. The ... More |
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Local Collector's Estate Realizes Over $900,000 at Auction
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- It was one of Joseph Sorger's last wishes to have his estate sold at auction at Freeman's, a venue at which he had procured much of his collection. Tuesday, that wish was realized, and with great success. A full sale room, over 17 busy phone lines, and 294 online bidders indicated the interest of buyers in Sorger and his notable estate. Unpredicted action was seen on a number of pieces at the auction, including many lots of Asian art, and culminating in the pinnacle sale: the second to last item up for auction. The painting was by The French School, circa 1800, of Coriolanus, which fetched $46,600 more than 30 times the estimated value. The sale of Sorger's estate clearly attracted attention due to not only the quality of his collection, but also due to the legacy of his personality. Kate Molets, the Exhibition Manager for the sale, mentioned that "As people came through the exhibition (held at Sorge ... More
Jonas Lipps' "Available Material of the Necessary Time" at Klosterfelde
BERLIN.- It was my first time in the studio/home (or home/studio) of Jonas Lipps. I was certain of entering a living condition in which the artist proceeds in total harmony with the work. I imagined as much not only because Jonas Lipps lives in the spaces where he produces his works, but also because it could not be otherwise, given the psychological component that goes into his operation, along with the element of time, his time, as the condition in which sketches, projects, images and definitive works take form. The factors with which to organize an interpretation of Lipps’s work are found at multiple starting points. Certainly the process of recognition of the final moment proceeds through a long, precise effort of accumulation of material, which is the intermediate space between the various phases of growth of the idea. Dozens and dozens of elements move in this space, different forms make up the material on which Lipps acts, through drawing or other methods. The waterc ... More
Phillips Collection Names Klaus Ottmann Curator at Large
WASHINGTON, DC.- Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection, announces the appointment of Klaus Ottmann as the museum’s first Curator at Large, a newly created position supported by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He will direct the activities of The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art, established in 2007 to engage varied audiences in conversations about modern and contemporary art. Ottmann began work at the Phillips on Oct. 1. “In addition to being a seasoned curator and well-respected scholar, Klaus brings to the Phillips deep expertise in publishing and new technologies. His appointment ties directly to the vitality of the Center and the concept of the Phillips as an experiment station,” commented Kosinski. Ottmann comes to the Phillips from the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y., where he was Robert Lehman Curator. He has organized more tha ... More
Galerie Michael Janssen Opens First Exhibition with Belgian Artist Joris Van de Moortel
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents for the first time Belgian artist Joris Van de Moortel with the exhibition Like a hurricane (you are like). Van de Moortel’s practice and work consist of a complex web of ideas and references with a processual and performative approach. It combines different disciplines and is characterized by a radical deployment of material in which predicted chance or “planned accidents” play a central role. His practice disrupts all expectations of what sculpture can be and plays with notions of referentiality. Similar to Marcel Broodthaers, Van de Moortel uses found or discarded material in order to create new objects and meaning from existing things. In his raw sculptures and installations Van de Moortel arranges objects in extreme situations stripping them of their original function. They seem like attempts to capture and accumulate energy and often feel like time bom ... More
Christie's Rediscovers a Rare 17th Century Set of Silver Playing Cards to Be Sold in October
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s rediscovers a remarkable survival of a complete set of German engraved silver playing cards signed by Michael Frömmer of Augsburg in 1616 (estimate: $150,000-250,000), which will be offered in the Important Silver sale on October 19. Consigned by a descendant of General Manuel Oribe of Uruguay, and “hidden” in generations of his family since the early 19th century, these cards become the fifth known set of renaissance silver playing cards in existence—and the only complete deck of 52 cards. They are beautifully engraved in the Italian suits of swords, batons, cups, and coins, each with a king, a knight, a knave, and pip cards ace through ten. Silver playing cards were a luxury that would only have been made for a noble collection, and indeed these cards descended in the Spanish Royal family. According to family tradition, Infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain (1775-1830) gave them to ... More
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