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Aino Laberenz (L), the widow of German artist Christoph Schlingensief, poses with Biennale President Paolo Baratte (C), the Commissioner of the German Pavilion, Susanne Gaensheimer (2-L), the Mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsono (R) and Cornelia Pieper (2-R), Under-Secretary of German Foreign Office, during the awards ceremony of the 54th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy, 04 June 2011. Laberenz accepted the Golden Lion award for best National Participation for the German Pavilion on behalf of Christoph Schlingensief. The Biennale runs from 04 June to 27 November. EPA/ANDREA MEROLA.
VENICE.- After Christoph Schlingensief`s death in late Summer of 2010, the curator Susanne Gaensheimer and Aino Laberenz, Christoph Schlingensief‘s wife and longtime collaborator, decided not to exhibit his latest project, which existed in developmental, sketch-like form, but rather, to show existing works in the German Pavilion. In a constructive collaboration with a circle of close participants and confidants of Christoph Schlingensief including Carl Hegemann, Thomas Goerge, Voxi Bärenklau, Heta Multanen, and Frieder Schlaich, and drawing on extensive conversations with Chris Dercon, Alexander Kluge, Matthias Lilienthal, and Francis Kéré; Gaensheimer and Laberenz have developed a concept for the German Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale. The selected works provide a representative insight into his complex oeuvre and in particular cover the areas of theater, film, video, and Africa. In the main hall of the G ... More |
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Julian Schnabel: Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing at the Museo Correr
Julian Schnabel poses in front of his artwork 'Bez #1' at Correr Museum, during the opening of the exhibition Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing. EPA/ANDREA MEROLA.
VENICE.- The Museo Correr in Venice presents a major exhibition dedicated to Julian Schnabel, the famed New York artist and eclectic creative spirit. The exhibition is on view from 4 June to 27 November 2011. The show “Julian Schnabel. Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of seeing” is produced and organised by Arthemisia Group in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and staged thanks to the key contribution of Maybach, the event’s main sponsor, and BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas. Curated by Norman Rosenthal, the exhibition presents more than forty works, exploring Julian Schnabel’s career from the 1970s to the present and offering an opportunity to admire paintings and sculptures by a great artist and all-round American phenomenon. The retrospective illustrates his aesthetic, strongly influenced by Jackson Pollock and Cy ... More | | First Major Exhibition of the Work of Canadian Artist Evan Penny Opens at Kunsthalle Tübingen
South African born artist Evan Penny stands next to one of his works, Murray 3, Variation of 3 from 2008. EPA/BERND WEISSBROD.
TUEBINGEN.- Evan Penny’s sculptures portray human bodies in their true colors and down to the last hair, with all of their wrinkles and characteristic features. His figures, to which he skillfully applies layers of silicone and pigments and implants with real hair, have an extremely sensuous presence. And yet their artificiality is obvious. Alienation techniques such as compressions, stretching, distortions, or color errors cause them to be reminiscent of features of photography, television, or digital image editing. What evolves are anamorphic sculptures that grow out of two-dimensionality, three-dimensional portraits that come across as being flawed process-color prints, or even distorted sculptures that advance into the fourth dimension of time. When asked to describe his current working phase, which is being celebrated for the first time on such a large scale in the exhibition Evan Penny. Re Figured, in one sentence, the Canadian artist, born in ... More | | LACMA Presents Groundbreaking International Exhibition of Islamic Art, Gifts of the Sultan
Shah Jahan Receives the Persian Ambassador, Muhammad Ali Beg. Folio from the Windsor Padshahnama, India, c. 1633. Ink, colors, and gold on paper. 12 5/8 x 8 5/8. The Royal Collection, Windsor. ©2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, a major international loan exhibition, which explores Islamic art through the universal tradition of gift giving. Many of the most spectacular and historically significant examples of Islamic art can be classified as gifts, a number of which have been brought together for the unique purpose of this exhibition to demonstrate the integral and complex nature of gift exchange in the Islamic world. Organized by LACMA with support from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Gifts of the Sultan spans the eighth through nineteenth centuries and features more than 250 works of art representing a rich variety of media from collections in America, Europe, and the Middle East. ... More |
Film Celebrates the Remarkable Nine Decade Career of Legendary Cinematographer Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff provided the canvas for classics like The Red Shoes and The African Queen.
LONDON.- Modus Operandi Films and High Point Media Group presents CAMERAMAN: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff. Celebrating the remarkable nine decade career of legendary cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, who provided the canvas for classics like The Red Shoes and The African Queen. Jack Cardiff’s career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture’s first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall’s passionate film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema. Cameraman illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning nine decades of mov ... More | | Mike and Doug Starn's Big Bambú on View in the Courtyard of Casa Artom on the Grand Canal
The central aspect of the ongoing sculpture is a 50 foot-tall hollow tower of bamboo. Photo: Courtesy of Mike + Doug Starn.
VENICE.- Mike and Doug Starn's Big Bambú is being presented as an official collateral exhibition of the 54th Venice Biennale, a special project of GLASSTRESS. The first exhibition of the Starns' Big Bambú series was on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last year and ranked 4th in the world for total attendance of a contemporary art exhibition in 2010 and was the 9th highest attended exhibit in the entire history of the Metropolitan. Big Bambú is being installed in the courtyard of Casa Artom on the Grand Canal next to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. This is the first time the site has been used as a location for a collateral exhibition since the famous triumph of American art in 1964 as the annex to the American Pavilion when Robert Rauschenberg won the Grand Prize. The central aspect of the ongoing sculpture is a 50 foot-tall hollow ... More | | ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Hew Locke, Starchitect (installation view, ArtSway), 2011. Mixed media, Variable dimensions. Courtesy of: Hew Locke and Hales Gallery, London. Photo: Mark Segal © Hew Locke.
VENICE.- ArtSway, the innovative contemporary art gallery based in England’s New Forest, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth, presents the fourth iteration of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. Featuring a number of new commissions, each artist explores, in different approaches, ideas relating to nationhood, ecology and landscape as seen within a modern global context. Gayle Chong Kwan’s installation The Obsidian Isle explores ideas of collective history, the senses and memory, national identity, landscape and tourism. Chong Kwan documents an island which houses the lost and destroyed places of her native Scotland, referencing the 18th century fictionalized epic of Ossian, as well as her Mauritian heritage, an island whose ... More |
Canadian Artist Kathleen Munn Receives Homecoming Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario
Kathleen Munn, Untitled (female nude in forest setting), around 1923, oil on canvas, 54.5 x 45 cm, Collection of Bernard and Sylvia Ostry, promised gift to the Art Gallery of Ontario, © 2011 Kathleen Munn Estate.
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) opened a unique exhibition featuring Canadian artist Kathleen Munn, on view until August 28. The Passion of Kathleen Munn features nearly 40 works by Munn, including her highly regarded Passion Series drawings, as well as paintings and prints. In addition, the exhibition is supported by archival material from the AGO’s collection, including sketches, notebooks, diagrams, collages and a custom-made light box. Born in 1887 in Toronto, Kathleen Munn was one of the first Canadian artists to embrace abstraction. Little known yet much admired by fellow artists, Munn studied in New York, and during the 1920s travelled to Europe and exhibited with the Group of Seven. Around 1939, she stopped making art due to family obligations and an unresponsive art public in Toronto. She spent the rest of her life here in relative obscurity, only to be rediscovered ... More | | Declaration of Independence Stone Facsimile on View at the National Gallery of Art
William J. Stone (1798–1865), Declaration of Independence, 1823, engraving on parchment. Lent by David M. Rubenstein.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Declaration of Independence: The Stone Copy presents one of only 31 existing copies of the "Stone" facsimile of the historic document in the American galleries of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 28 through September 5, 2011. On loan from David M. Rubenstein, it is installed near American painter Gilbert Stuart's portraits of Declaration of Independence signers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee of five to draft a statement asserting the American colonies' independence from Great Britain. John Adams and the other committee members agreed that Thomas Jefferson should undertake the task. On July 4, after debate and revision, Congress approved the document and soon ordered that the declaration be written large and legibly on parchment for official purposes, and signed by all members of Congress. The Declaration of I ... More | | Exceptional Complete Prints Portfolio, Unité, by Le Corbusier Offered for Sale on artnet
Le Corbusier, Unité (portfolio of 37 with title and foreword), 1953. Aquatint, ed. 5/130, 22.5 x 18 inches each. Estimate: USD 55,000–75,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions is pleased to announce an offering of Le Corbusier’s complete prints portfolio, Unité, 1953 (with additional black and white set) from the collection of renowned architect Mohinda N. Kawlra. Only the first 30 prints portfolios of this edition of 130 contain the full 37 prints—17 color prints and 20 black and white prints on Rives BFK paper. This Le Corbusier prints portfolio offered on artnet Auctions is part of these complete sets, which rarely appear for sale at public auction. A single print from this portfolio, plate 2, was successfully sold at auction in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, May 14, 2011 for USD 4,158 Hammer. Le Corbusier is one of the fathers of Modern architecture and the International Style. Though best known for his recognizable and unique architectural style, Le Corbusier was also a skilled designer, painter, and printmaker. Le Corbusier's modernist and imaginative figures are enlivened by his vibrant colors. This print ... More |
Edward Cella Art + Architecture Shows a Solo Exhibition by Contemporary Artist Brad Miller
Brad Miller is considered a pioneer in ceramic and pyroglyphic techniques. Photo: Courtesy Edward Cella Art + Architecture.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture is presenting a solo exhibition of a trilogy of new works by contemporary artist and sculptor Brad Miller. Using the elements of clay, wood and fire, Miller creates three interconnected yet discrete bodies of work that suggest the life generating systems found in nature. His installation of branching porcelain sculptures, burned wood panels inscribed with bisymmetric forms, and carved clay vessels evoke the cellular patterns that are the very genesis of life. Miller transforms the gallery into a laboratory to construct and present his insights into the fundamental mechanisms of existence. A naturalist at heart, Miller continues to build upon these universal relationships which have appeared in various contexts throughout his career. Immersive in scale and yet all together new in form; Miller engages the viewer ... More | | Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art
Conjectural Portrait of Andrea Palladio by Sebastiano Ricci c., 1715.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- For the first time in the Midwest, a collection of thirty-one rarely seen drawings as well as books and models by Italian 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio, from the collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, will be on view at the Snite Museum of Art. Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey, will be on exhibit from June 5 through July 31, 2011. This collection will travel to one more US venue before the drawings are put into storage for twenty-five years in order to ”rest” these delicate and valuable works. The drawings, together with Palladio’s architectural texts and pattern books, highlight the growth of his design sensibility. They range from early studies and sketches to perfectly executed later drawings of villas and other commissioned works. Also on view are a number of detailed architectural models, created and loaned specially for the exhibition by r ... More | | New Exhibition Features Miniature Propliners from the Collection of Anthony J. Lawler
Air France Breguet 763 Provence 1950s. La Maquette d'Etude et d'Exposition à Aubervilliers, France, scale 1:50, wood, plastic, metal, paint. Collection of Anthony J. Lawler.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Making scale models of propeller-driven transport aircraft, or “propliners,” was an important part of the design, manufacturing, and marketing process for the aviation industry in the late 1940s and 1950s. Crafted by in-house model shops or independent model makers, they represented the new designs in miniature for convenient three-dimensional analysis. Accurately painted livery schemes on the models helped the airlines to imagine the new airliner operating within their fleet. Carriers also commissioned airplane models to promote their improved services in airline offices and travel agencies. Early examples were usually made of sheet or cast metal and complemented with metal bases often formed into unique streamline shapes. By the late 1950s, models were produced from plastic, which was easier ... More |
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 Exhibition of Works with Lens-Based Mediaphotography, Video and Film by Berni Searle METZ.- Berni Searle works with lens-based media—photography, video, and film —to stage narratives connected to history, memory, and place. While her work is intertwined with South African history that has emerged from a “life apart” (apartheid), her poetic and abstract imagery transcends the specific to address ideas about belonging and displacement in various contexts. The exhibition is on view from May 20th until September 18th, 2011 at Frac Lorraine, Metz, France. She questions tirelessly the self and the other, examining the elements of her own identity shaped by successive cross-fertilizations: a “composite identity” based on “creolization”―a notion dear to Edouard Glissant’s heart. Begun in the early 1990s, Searle’s work (installations, videos, and photographs) is poetically political. Nourished by personal mythologies, it questions memories and memory (About to ... More Daniel Buren to Create Permanent Artwork at Tottenham Court Road Tube StationLONDON.- Art on the Underground announces that the renowned French artist Daniel Buren has been selected to create a new permanent installation for the upgraded Tube station at Tottenham Court Road. The rebuilding of Tottenham Court Road station is due to be completed in 2016. At least 200,000 people per day are expected to use the station. Customers will be able to experience the dramatic Buren installation as they enter and move through the station. The new artwork will become a major feature of the Oxford Street entrance and ticket hall. Buren will create a colourful series of large scale diamond and circle shapes that will be fixed to the station's internal glass walls. Designed in his trademark striped vinyl, the shapes will allow light to pass through to keep the public areas bright. A cabinet containing the 'parents' of the forms that are transforming the station's surfaces - a set of Buren's shapes in sculptura ... More Ornamentum Gallery: Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition at Design Miami/ Basel 2011HUDSON, NY.- Ornamentum Gallery will be the first and only contemporary jewelry gallery to be an exhibiting design gallery at Design Miami/ Basel – the sister fair of Design Miami/, June 15 – 19, 2011. Ornamentum Gallery will feature 11 of the most important names in international contemporary jewelry at Design Miami / Basel 2011: David Bielander-Switzerland Meticulously engineered works with humorous themes are made in small, limited editions. The curved wood of an original Thonet coffee-house stool is sawed apart and rebuilt into 3 “Wurst” necklaces. The edition is limited to 12 stools, each of which produces three sausage-chains- a Wiener, a Frankfurter and of course a Munich White-Wurst, paying tribute to the city where the designer currently resides Iris Eichenberg-Netherlands / USA Holding the position as Artist in Resi ... More After Theft, Auschwitz Sign Won't Go Back to GateWARSAW (AP).- The notorious sign that once spanned the main gate at Auschwitz will not return to its original spot after being recently repaired from the damage it suffered during a 2009 theft, an international council that oversees Auschwitz-Birkenau decided Thursday. The sign bearing the Nazis' cynical slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) will instead be housed in a planned exhibition hall, said Pawel Sawicki, a spokesman for the memorial site. Sawicki said the proposal to house the sign in a secure indoor center came from the Auschwitz memorial museum director Piotr Cywinski. There were no objections to that proposal by the International Auschwitz Council — a 25-member body made up of Holocaust survivors, historians and others — at a two-day meeting that ended Thursday. Experts say the sign is best preserved in a situation of stable humidity and in temperatures ranging from 63 to 66 fahrenheit — conditions ... More Ancient World Dictionary Finished - After 90 YearsBy: Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
CHICAGO (AP).- It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of chariots and concubines, royal decrees and diaries — and omens that came from the heavens and sheep livers. The year: 1921. The place: The University of Chicago. The project: Assembling an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on clay or stone tablets unearthed from ruins in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, written in a language that hadn't been uttered for more than 2,000 years. The scholars knew the project would take a long time. No one quite expected how very long. Decades passed. The team grew. Scholars arrived from Vienna, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Berlin, Helsinki, Baghdad and London, joining others from the U.S. and Canada. One generation gave way to the next, one century faded into the next. Some signed on early in their care ... MoreJoslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen at the Joslyn Art Museum OMAHA, NE.- Swann Joslyn Art Museum’s collection is not only known and admired by those in Omaha who consider the museum their own, but is respected by institutions worldwide. A quick look at the itinerary of the Museum's most popular works over the past years would make even the most seasoned traveler jealous — requested for over three dozen exhibitions, objects from the Joslyn collection have toured from coast to coast as well as to Europe. Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen reunites these familiar and important favorites with highlights from the vaults to showcase forty works from antiquity through the twentieth century. The exhibition is on view at Joslyn from June 4 through August 28. The earliest “treasure” is a black-figure amphora dating to the sixth century BCE that was recently featured in the exhibition Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece, organized by the ... More |
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