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Spanish artist Antonio Lopez prepares to pose next to his painting "Madrid desde la torre de bomberos de Vallecas" at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. The exhibition opens on June 28 and runs until September 25. REUTERS/Juan Medina.
MADRID.- This summer, the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza in Madrid is presenting a temporary exhibition that offers a complete overview of the work of the Spanish artist Antonio López (born Tomelloso, 1936). The exhibition is articulated through the artist’s own gaze on his recent and earlier work, given that López has steered the selection of works and overseen their installation, working with the two curators, his daughter María López and Guillermo Solana, the Museum’s Artistic Director, as well as with the exhibition’s technical curator, Paula Luengo. The result is a major exhibition of an almost autobiographical nature. Works from the last twenty years, which will arrive at the Museum directly from the artist’s studio and which represent almost half of the 130 works on display, are displayed alongside others created in the more distant past, as far back as the 1950s. Rather than a chronological pre ... More |
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George Condo's Mental States on View at Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
George Condo, Memories of Picasso, 1989. Oil on canvas, 195 x 160. Frac Île-de-France Collection © George Condo.
ROTTERDAM.- This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a major retrospective exhibition of the American artist George Condo. His work is known for its adventurous, imaginative and provocative character. The exhibition features more than sixty paintings and sculptures by this influential artist. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has a unique collection of works by the Surrealists, including masterpieces by Dalí and Magritte. The work of George Condo (1957) has a surreal quality that complements this collection. The selection of works charts the artist’s development from 1983 to the present day. His paintings and sculptures explore the genre of portraiture, the human physiognomy and various ‘states of mind’. Along with painters such as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Condo was instrumental in the international revival of painting in the 1980s. His astonishing technical ability, stylistic versatility an ... More | | Billy the Kid Image Sells for More than $2 Million at Denver's Old West Show & Auction
A photograph of a tintype of Billy the Kid taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, N.M. AP Photo/Old West Show and Auction.
By: Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
DENVER (AP).- What is believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid went up for auction in Denver on Saturday and sold for $2.3 million. The tintype on Saturday evening went to private collector William Koch at Brian Lebel's 22nd Annual Old West Show & Auction, where auction spokeswoman Melissa McCracken said the image of the 1800s outlaw was the most expensive piece ever sold at the event. A 15 percent fee was added to the bidding price, making the selling price more than $2.6 million. Organizers had expected it could fetch between $300,000 and $400,000. The tintype is believed to have been taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, N.M. It shows the outlaw dressed in a rumpled hat and layers of clothes, including a bulky sweater. He's standing with ... More | | City of Radicals Exhibition Features Work by Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin and Signac
Paul Signac, Saint-Tropez, le sentier de dounane. Photo: ® Musee de Grenoble
LIVERPOOL.- The relationship between a 100-year-old ground-breaking art exhibition and a city’s radicalism is the focus for a new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery from 24 June to 25 September 2011. Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 celebrates the pioneering exhibition The Sandon Studios Society exhibition of Modern Art including work by the Post-Impressionists, which ran at the Bluecoat (formerly known as the Liberty Buildings), Liverpool, from 4 March to 1 April 1911. Inspired by Manet and the Post-Impressionists, the writer and artist Roger Fry’s controversial London exhibition of 1910, The Sandon Studios Society brought about 50 paintings and drawings from the show to Liverpool the following year. The society’s exhibition was the first time that such a large number of mainland European Post-Impressionist works were shown in the UK outside London and the first time ... More |
New Museum in Biarritz by Steven Holl Aims to Raise Awareness of Oceanic Issues
Derived from the spatial concept “under the sky” / “under the sea”, the museum’s concave exterior creates a central gathering plaza, open to the sky and sea, with the horizon in the distance. Photo: Iwan Baan.
BIARRITZ.- The Cité de l’Océan et du Surf, located in Biarritz, France will open to the public starting on Sunday, June 26, 2011. The museum, a design by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Brazilian artist and architect Solange Fabião, aims to raise awareness of oceanic issues and the scientific aspects of surf and sea. Derived from the spatial concept “under the sky” / “under the sea”, the museum’s concave exterior creates a central gathering plaza, open to the sky and sea, with the horizon in the distance. On the interior, the inverse convex curve becomes the ceiling of the main exhibition space, evoking the sense of being “under the sea.” The building’s spatial qualities are first experiences in the entrance space, where a ramp passes along the dynamic curved surface on which filmed exhibitions are projected, animating the space with changing images and ... More | | Masterpieces on Paper: The Secret of Lines at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Claude Mellan, The veil of Saint Veronica, engraving, 1649.
AMSTERDAM.- As part of its Masterpieces on Paper series, the Rijksmuseum presents the exhibition The Secret of Lines. This minor exhibition features 18 masterfully crafted 16th - and 17th-century prints and drawings from the Rijksmuseum collection, which demonstrate the incredible artistic versatility of lines. Whether created in a restrained or ebullient style using a drawing pen or an etching needle, each line embodies the signature of its creator. Much like etching and engraving, drawing also starts with lines. You can use lines to draw just about anything. A single line is sufficient to create a shape, while hatching and crosshatching can be used to render light-and-dark contrasts to reproduce the incidence of light and volume. Lines can take an infinite number of forms. For instance, the engraver Claude Mellan poured intense concentration into the one continuous line he used to ... More | | Luc Tuymans Exhibits for the First Time in Spain at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga
Luc Tuymans, Secrets, 1990. Oil on canvas, 52×37cm. Private Collection. Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Amberes.
MALAGA.- “Art is not derived from art. Art derives from reality.” Tuymans’s words constitute a statement of intent and a clear explanation of the nature of his work in which he aims to evoke and insinuate but in which it is the viewer’s responsibility to fill in the gaps that have been deliberately left there and to construct his or her own narrative. Tuymans is a committed artist and his work engages with events that have marked contemporary society despite the existence of a collective desire for amnesia that aims to forget or to distort these events within the context of a society that at times seems closer to the deceptive reality presented by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. The CAC Málaga is presenting Retratos y vegetación, the first exhibition devoted to Luc Tuymans in Spain. It comprises a selection of 16 oil paintings of different sizes that reveal the technique that has made Tuymans a key referenc ... More |
Atlas Gallery Presents Exhibition of Celebrated Italian Artist Mario Giacomelli's "Landscapes"
Mario Giacomelli, Metamorphosis of the Land, 1980.
LONDON.- Atlas presents an exhibition of celebrated Italian artist Mario Giacomelli’s ‘Landscapes’, comprising work from his two series ‘On Being Aware of Nature’ and ‘Metamorphosis of the Land’ (1950s - 1980s). Widely regarded as the greatest Italian photographer of the twentieth century, Mario Giacomelli was born in Senigallia, Italy, in 1925. Following a poor formal education, he began his working life as a jobbing printer, before training as a typographer and did not fully embrace photography until he was 30 years old. Despite this late start and his sometimes unconventional almost naïve approach, and in some ways because of it, Giacomelli is now considered one of the most original photographic artists of the twentieth-century. The rawness of approach is a key characteristic of his work and his obliviousness to accepted dark-room practices resulted in the creation of works which were ... More | | Pablo Picasso's Cartoons on the Front Line on View at the Museo Picasso Málaga
Pablo Picasso, Sueño y mentira de Franco [plancha 1], 31,5 x 42 cm. 8 enero 1937. Aguafuerte con aguatinta al azúcar © Museo Picasso Málaga © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Málaga, 2011.
MALAGA.- In January 1937, Pablo Picasso began to work on Sueño y mentira de Franco, eighteen scenes etched on two plates. He created them in protest at the military uprising of July 1936 and with the aim of collecting funds for the Republican cause by selling the prints in the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair. Each plate consists of nine vignettes, organised in a format that recalls cartoons and comic strips in which Picasso portrayed themes such as violence, the destruction of art, the consequences of totalitarianism, the confrontation and the effects of the Spanish National drama in innocent people, in a language in which avant-garde and popular styles join in a project of denouncing war and its barbarism. The plates were completed by June ... More | | Work by Snorre Ytterstad on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo
Snorre Ytterstad, Squared Target, 2010. Foto: Snorre Ytterstad.
OSLO.- Snorre Ytterstad's work often starts off with something inconspicuous from everyday life, like a piece of reinforcement rod from the back yard, a pen, a drawing pin or a coin. By placing these familiar objects in unusual contexts, where they are alienated from their intended functions, they emerge in a new light, producing whole new chains of associations. The exhibition is one of a series showing key Norwegian contemporary artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The latest in this series was an exhibition of Marte Aas' films and photographs. The exhibition gives a comprehensive overview of Ytterstad's work from 2000 onwards, and some entirely new works which have not been shown before. Ytterstad is fascinated by the range of meanings that language and words can take on depending on their context. Thus his titles often ... More |
Booth-Clibborn Editions Presents New Book on the History of The Saatchi Gallery
Each of the 28 sections of the book illustrate different aspects of the exhibitions which have been held at The Saatchi Gallery from 1985 to 2010.
LONDON.- Edward Booth-Clibborn knew the time was right to celebrate the vision of Charles Saatchi. The History of the Saatchi Gallery is the first book to chronicle the collection since it opened a gallery in 1985. It is important as a document, because many of the works included are no longer owned by The Saatchi Gallery, and a vital source of information for collectors, scholars and all those interested in contemporary art. Several of the artists whom the Saatchi Gallery first introduced have become household names, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst to name just a few. Many of the exhibitions it has held are recognized as milestones, marking the incredible rise in popularity and awareness of contemporary art. The Saatchi Gallery continues to stimulate the debate, polarising opinions and putting on record breaking and pivotal shows. Each ... More | | First New York Survey of the Work of California Artist B. Wurtz on View at Metro Pictures
Installation view at Metro Pictures. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures.
NEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures presents a special summer exhibition: the first New York survey of the work of B. Wurtz. Spanning some 40 years, the show is a collaboration between B. Wurtz; White Columns director Mathew Higgs, the exhibition's curator; Metro Pictures; and Feature Inc., the artist's longtime gallery. Born in Pasadena, California, in 1948, Wurtz graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1970. That same year, he made Handbag, which is the earliest work in this exhibition. A humble wall-hung sculpture that resembles its title, Handbag is made from a few sheets of plastic and a thin metal wire. This early piece is a precursor to later constructions that continuously and optimistically flouted the aesthetic orthodoxies of his peers. In 1973, the artist penned Three Important Things, a drawing that served as a foundational statement for his work. Objects in Wurtz's works have steadfastly d ... More | | Photographs of Cowboys in the 21sr Century Featured at Nailya Alexander Gallery
Jane Hilton, "Shiprock," New Mexico, 2006. C-print. Photo: Courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery is presenting “Jane Hilton: Dead Eagle Trail,” the artist’s most recent project (2006-2010) about American cowboys and their way of life in the twenty-first century. This is Jane Hilton’s first solo exhibition in New York, featuring twenty color photographs, all taken by a 4 x 5 inch camera. The exhibition runs from through July 15, 2011 at 41 E 57th Street, Suite 704. Jane Hilton (b. 1965), a London based photographer and filmmaker, has been captivated by a cowboy lifestyle since her childhood in suburban England, when she watched Westerns on the television. An opportunity to work on various projects in the US for the last two decades ignited her passion to explore American culture. On one of her assignments she learned about a seventeen-year-old cowboy, Jeremiah Kirsten, who traveled from his native Alaska to Mexico on horseback for two years, earni ... More |
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 First-Rate Selection of Important Works of Art at Kunsthalle FridericianumKASSEL.- With Produced by Migros, Kunsthalle Fridericianum is presenting a first-rate selection of important works from the collection and at the same time placing its own exhibitions of recent years in a broader context. Room-sized installations, some of which come directly from exhibitions curated by the first two directors of the Migros collection, Rein Wolfs and Heike Munder, are supplemented by selected sculptures, films, paintings and photographs. At the centre of the show are issues of sociopolitical relevance and aspects such as performativity and spatiality. There are references to Kassel in the show, especially with Maurizio Cattelan’s sculptural reminiscence of Joseph Beuys: it seems as though the artist has decided to return to the Fridericianum for a while. For the Kassel exhibition, which has been jointly curated by Rein Wolfs and Heike Munder, the curators made a selection from purchases of the ... More National Music Centre Reveals Much-Anticipated DesignCALGARY.- Two years after holding an international architectural competition that saw world renowned designers face off in a public presentation, the National Music Centre revealed competition-winner Allied Works Architecture’s extraordinary final design today. “We have worked tirelessly over the last two years to create a space unlike any other in the world,” says NMC President and CEO Andrew Mosker. “We’re ecstatic with the results and with the experience we had working with Allied Works, GEC and the rest of the team. We truly believe this building will join the ranks of iconic architecture in Canada.” The National Music Centre’s design pays homage to the western Canadian landscape with a series of “resonant vessels” informed by the crags and canyons of the Rocky Mountains, the hoodoos of southern Alberta and the vast openness of the prairies creating spaces that will resonate with the sounds of NMC’s ... More From Romance to Rifles: Winslow Homer's Illustrations of 19th-Century America at the Dayton Art InstituteDAYTON, OH.- Winslow Homer is best known as a great American painter, but he was also a prolific and expert wood engraver. Most of Homer’s engravings were published in Harper's Weekly where Homer worked as a freelance illustrator between 1857 and 1876 before his career as a painter was fully launched. According to Philp C. Beam, noted Homer scholar, Homer was the "leading designer of wood engravings of his day, and that many of the engravings are now loved and admired as masterpieces of their kind" and that "At their best they rank with his watercolors and oils for style and beauty." The Army of the Potomac – A Sharp Shooter on Picket Duty, 1862, is typical of Homer’s extraordinary sense of design. Here, he captures the drama of a moment during the Civil War, while at the same time he creates a design of intense movement and clarity. With his ability to convey emotion as well as information, Homer was an ... More Hong Kong's Para/Site Art Space Appoints Cosmin Costinas First Curator of Contemporary ArtHONG KONG.- “Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong's leading non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary visual art exhibitions, has named Cosmin Cosintas as its new Executive Director/Curator. His appointment is effective immediately. Mr. Costinas is Asia's first Outset Curator of Contemporary Art. He relocates from his base in the Netherlands to Hong Kong this fall. Mr. Costinas says: "I am thrilled to be joining Para/Site at this exceptional moment of its history and look forward to bringing my international and regional experience in leading the institution through this process of growth and rethinking of its role on the local and world stages." Mr. Costinas is the outgoing curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands and also serves on the advisory board of Patterns/Erste Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Mr. Costinas was an editor of the magazines project of documenta 12 (2005–2007) and has c ... More Chinese Premier Visits Shakespeare's Birthplace LONDON (AP).- Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, reportedly a big Shakespeare fan, made a pilgrimage to the Bard's birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday. Wen is in Britain as part of a three-day visit intended to reinforce economic links between the two countries. Britain, like other European nations, is hoping to tap into the emerging economic superpower to help drive its own recovery — a sentiment that was on display as Wen browsed the treasures of the town's Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. While Wen saw extracts of "Hamlet" and examined a 17th-century folio of the Bard's famous plays, British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt was enthusing about the visit's potential impact on the U.K. tourist industry. "I am hoping that a billion Chinese might see some pictures on their TV of their premier coming and visiting the birthplace of Shakespeare, and thinking: 'Well, I'd like to go there as well,'" he told Sky News television. Wen ... More New York Academy of Art's 5th Annual Summer Exhibition at Flowers GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Flowers is hosting the New York Academy of Art‘s 5th Annual Summer Exhibition. The show will remain on view through August 6th 2011. This highly anticipated group show brings together a wide range of new work by more than 50 established and emerging talents. Comprised of paintings, drawings, limited-edition prints and sculpture, the chosen works have been selected from over 500 submissions by jurors Matthew Flowers, Carter Foster and Julie Heffernan. Flowers and the Academy have previously collaborated several times, including two 3 person exhibitions by artists who have participated in past Summer Exhibitions. Former jurists include Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Will Cotton and David Salle. The New York Academy of Art was founded in 1982 by artists and collectors, including early trustees Andy Warhol and Tom Wolfe. The Academy’s rigorous MFA program promotes the development of an ... More Thai Leader Defends Leaving United Nations Heritage Site BodyBANGKOK (AP).- Thailand's prime minister is defending his country's decision to quit the U.N.'s World Heritage Convention. Abhisit Vejjajiva says the group's consideration of a Cambodian plan to manage a protected temple on Thailand's border would increase tensions. Abhisit said Sunday it didn't make sense for Cambodia to unilaterally offer a plan for managing the Preah Vihear temple site, which is mostly easily accessible through land under dispute by both countries. Some 20 people have died in attacks in the area surrounding the temple since 2008, when the site received World Heritage status over Thailand's objections. Thailand announced its withdrawal from the convention at a meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris Saturday. ... More |
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