| | Selected works from the François Pinault Collection on view at SongEun ArtSpace
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Francois Pinault (R), chief of the French multinational holding company PPR, and American artist Jeff Koons (L) pose for a photo during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea. Pinault is in Seoul to attend an exhibition of his collection of artworks by world-renowned artists. PPR specializes in retail shops and luxury brands including Gucci. EPA/YONHAP.
SEOUL.- SongEun ArtSpace welcomes the exhibition “Agony and Ecstasy” a selection of 23 works from the François Pinault Collection of contemporary art. This will be the first time that works from the François Pinault Collection will be presented in an exhibition in Asia. For this exhibition, François Pinault has decided to entrust the curatorship to Francesca Amfitheatrof. Focusing upon the central theme of portraiture and the representation of the self, Amfitheatrof has selected a highly expressive list of works, which include portraits, statues, busts, mirrors, animals preserved in formaldehyde and photographs by four major contemporary artists: Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Cindy Sherman. The title “Agony and Ecstasy” refers to both Damien Hirst’s butterfly diptych and Irving Stone’s biographical novel of Michelangelo Buonarroti derived from the Renaissance ... More |
| Exhibition tells the story of an unusual collaboration between two very different artistic temperaments | | Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Geometry of the Moment Landscapes at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg | | Exhibition of Louise Bourgeois's work at Fondation Beyeler addresses key themes | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Self-portrait (Plaid), 1983, Collection Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Paris. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi.
SKOWEJ.- ARKEN is presenting a large special exhibition of two American art legends, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Featuring more than 65 works, the exhibition includes paintings by Warhol and Basquiat along with a wide selection of the more than 100 collaborative works that the two artists created over a short, intense period from 1983 to 1985. Warhol and Basquiat were fixtures of the New York art scene in the mid-eighties, a time when artists, musicians and actors experimented with art, identity, sexuality and drugs. In this environment, appearances and personas were crucial to an artist’s career and key ingredients in the finished work of art. Warhol created the “scene” and Basquiat splashed onto it as a young graffiti artist shooting to stardom. Celebrated in life, they were mythologized in death. Their intense lives, great art and early deaths, are the stuff of legend. Basquia ... More | | 
A museum technician prepares an exhibition presenting photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson at the arts museum in Wolfsburg. EPA/JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE.
WOLFSBURG.- Henri Cartier-Bresson was the acknowledged ‘master of the moment’. With this presentation of around 100 photographs and 7 drawings by the renowned French artist, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is featuring another pioneering figure in its series of “Great Modernist Photographers”, which has to date included Brassaï, Lee Miller and Edward Steichen. Born in a suburb of Paris in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographic career began in 1930 and continued until 1972, when he decided to concentrate all his energies on drawing. After escaping from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1943 he joined the French Resistance, and in 1947 he co-founded the now world-famous Magnum photo agency with four colleagues. On his extensive travels around the world Cartier-Bresson always worked with an unobtrusive Leica rangefinder camera that enabled him to select the right shot within a fraction of a seco ... More | | 
A visitor looks at the artwork "A l'infini" (2008) by French artist Louise Bourgeois. AP Photo/Keystone/Georgios Kefalas.
BASEL.- To mark her 100th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an homage to Louise Bourgeois (25.12.1911 – 31.5.2010), one of the most significant and influential artist personalities of our times. Comprising about 20 exhibits, some of them multipartite, the exhibition represents a concentrated selection from the artist’s oeuvre and address its key themes: an involvement with other artists, a concern with her own biography, and the translation of emotions into objects of art. In addition to works and series of works from renowned international museums and private collections, more recent, previously unexhibited works – including the late cycle À l’infini (2008) – are on view. These are supplemented by groups of pieces from the Beyeler Collection. Especially revealing insights are provided by juxtapositions with paintings by Fernand Léger and Francis Bacon, and sculptures by Alberto Giaco ... More |
| Recent paintings and drawings from 2008 to 2011 by Daniel Richter at Kestnergesellschaft | | Real or abstract photography? Shirana Shahbazi exhibits at Fotomuseum Winterthur | | San Francisco Fall Antiques Show celebrates its 30th anniversary with a host of hidden treasures | 
German painter Daniel Richter poses in front of his work 'Strangers of Comfort' at the KestnerSociety (Kestnergesellschaft) in Hannover. EPA/HOLGER HOLLEMAN.
HANNOVER.- Daniel Richter (*1962 in Eutin, lives and works in Berlin) is one of Germany’s most important contemporary painters and has made his name with a hybrid of abstraction and figuration. The kestnergesellschaft is now showing new paintings and drawings from 2008 to 2011 which deal with conflictual narrations and the vocabulary of the line. The starting point for these works is the collection of fantastical tales known as the »1001 Nights«. Richter transforms these Arabic stories into menacing, fairytale-like scenarios that allude to an orientalism which has changed since 9/11. As the title indicates, Richter’s works contain an extra zero – a Ground Zero – that gives the fantastical element an eerie and at the same time very concrete touch. These new works distance themselves from the tight crowds and urban settings of earlier paintings, and concentrate on a very few ... More | | 
Shirana Shahbazi, Komposition 12, 2011. C-print. Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich. © Shirana Shahbazi.
WINTERTHUR.- How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception. As early as 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes proposed photographing the world in its entirety, after which it could be burned down: “Form is henceforth divorced from matter”. Alvin Langdon Coburn asked in 1916: “Why should not the camera also throw off the shackles of conventional representation and attempt something fresh and untried?”. In the 1960s and 70s one spoke about “generative photography”, self-generating photographs with their own aesthetics of production. This general question has yet to be settled, and in recent years it has again become highly relevant. Shining through in works by Wolfgang Tillmans, for example, is the notion that all photographs are “to the same degree, representational, concrete and abstract; constructions that arise from translations and manipulations”. For ten years Shirana Shahbazi’s work has a ... More | | 
Russian neo-classical mahogany and brass armchair. St. Petersburg, circa 1800. Provenance: The Earl of Donoughmore. Knocklofty, Clonmel Co. Tipperary – Ireland. Courtesy of Antoine Cheneviere Fine Arts, London.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Starting October 27, The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Benefiting Enterprise for High School Students, celebrates its 30th anniversary at the Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center. Over 60 carefully-vetted new and returning dealers will present a superb array of thousands of best-in-class decorative and fine art objects. This year’s theme, Hidden Treasures, is inspired by the pearl, the treasure hidden within an oyster shell that is the traditional 30th anniversary gift. On Wednesday, October 26, the fair kicks off with its glittering opening night Preview Party, with all proceeds going to Enterprise for High School Students. This year’s benefit will be hosted by internationally renowned chef, Tyler Florence, who has delighted the culinary cognoscenti with his contemporary take on classic ... More |
| Exhibition provides rare opportunity to view drawings and texts by Andrea Palladio | | Most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain published by Jorge Welsh Books | | A celebration of Helaine Blumenfeld's spiritual marble and bronze sculptures at Italy's Pietrasanta | 
Engraved after Sebastiano Ricci, Conjectural portrait of Andrea Palladio, c. 1715, frontispiece from Giacomo Leoni, The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715–1720). Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) is considered one of the most influential architects of the last 500 years. From September 3 to December 31, Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey will be on view at the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, presenting 31 rare, original drawings from the outstanding collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects Trust, alongside models and equally rare books. The exhibition reveals how Palladio’s designs evolved from his study of antiquity, thus uniting classical Roman design elements with Renaissance advances in architecture. The enduring contemporary style Palladio created spread throughout Italy and Great Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, but it was the United States that most fully embraced his vision as a living tradition, from colonial times to ... More | | 
Entry 252 (Vol. II, p. 104), Tureen in the shape of a crouching crab and fixed stand. Porcelain decorated in famille rose enamels and gold. Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-1795), ca. 1770. Height: 10.5 cm; length of stand: 22.8 cm; width of stand: 21.5.
LONDON.- The most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to have been published for many years reveals for the first time comprehensive details of what is probably the world’s best private collection of pieces intended primarily for the European market. The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector’s Vision by Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos, a distinguished academic and museum director, also contains much new research into the entire subject of Chinese export porcelain. Published by Jorge Welsh Books, this magnificent limited edition three-volume boxed set is a work of art in its own right. The RA Collection has been assembled over the past 30 years by an intuitive sharpeyed connoisseur who has combined a passion for Chinese export porcelain with a rigorous insistence on quality, beauty, rarity and historical relevance ... More | | 
Helaine Blumenfeld, Ascent, 2010. Bronze. 335 cm x 200 cm x 165 cm.
PIETRASANTA.- A celebration of Helaine Blumenfeld's spiritual marble and bronze sculptures will be held in Italy's Pietrasanta, the world's centre of international sculptors by the Commune of Pietrasanta. Invited by the Mayor, Dr. Domenico Lombardi and the City of Pietrasanta in recognition of her exceptional talents as a sculptor, Helaine Blumenfeld has been finishing five monumental marble and bronze sculptures – each one over ten feet in height – to be placed in the Piazza del Duomo. Blumenfeld is also creating a haunting installation, Visionary Landscape to be placed in front of the altar of the Chiesa di S.Agostino. In effect, this will be the staging of four abstract Spirits in a landscaped environment. Dr.Valentina Fogher is curating the exhibition, which also includes more than fifty sculptures inside the church. She regards the exhibition not just as a retrospective, but as an exploration of the mysterious spirit of creation that imbues Blumenfeld's work. A fo ... More |
| Dan Gunn creates a new work especially for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago | | Exhibition by artists from Georgia at Lunds konsthall is certain to have a political dimension | | Gavel lifts on Chicago's world famous Lee Roy Hartung Collection
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Trickster Mechanism No.1. Fabric, wood, acrylic paint, wire and mirrored acrylic. 83 x 42 in. (210.8 x 106.7 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago-based artist Dan Gunn’s work simultaneously inhabits the realms of sculpture and painting. A new work created especially for the MCA, Patchwork Plateau vaguely resembles a traditional dining room table painted various shades of green and explores compositional layering by embedding a series of handmade woven patterns in its large 8 x 12 foot horizontal surface. Gunn’s exhibition debuted at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, on the evening of September 2 during First Fridays as part of the monthly UBS 12 x12: New Artists/New Work series, and runs through October 2. Gunn’s previous three-dimensional compositions and installations, similar to Patchwork Plateau, also examine perceptual phenomena using materials such as glitter, tinsel, chair caning, holographic paper, and patterned objects. Dan Gunn is a visual artist and writer. He earned his MFA from the School at ... More | | 
To a Western audience, Georgia is sufficiently unknown to provoke curiosity.
LUND.- An exhibition with artists from Georgia will inevitably have a political dimension. To a Western audience, Georgia is sufficiently unknown to provoke curiosity, but at the same time sufficiently known to be representable, imaginable. Georgia is associated with geopolitics on a grand scale: the Great Game that followed the collapse of the USSR twenty years ago. The short war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008 was just the best-publicised event in a continuous development that involves oil and hegemony, values and ambitions, Eurasia, the Middle East, the US and the EU. Yet an exhibition should not be a narrative that sticks to one topic, even if it is as complex as Georgia's recent history. An exhibition should always be multi-dimensional. The word 'dimension' is to do with measuring. It is related to 'metre', 'moon' (the celestial body that helps us measure time) and 'month' (the time unit measured out by the moon). Yet it is not a precise technical term. Instead it ... More | | 
From cars to motorcycles, bicycles, license plates and other vintage memorabilia, Lee Roy Hartung collected it all. Photo: Darin Schabel © 2011 courtesy Auctions America / RM Auctions.
AUBURN, IND.- Auctions America by RM in partnership with RM Auctions announced today it will lift the gavel on one of the Chicago area’s best known treasures, the famous Lee Roy Hartung Collection, during a multi-day sale in Glenview, Illinois, November 3 - 5, 2011. Well-known to collectors around the world, the Hartung Collection was amassed over five decades by the late Mr. Lee Roy Hartung for display in his private museum. From motor cars to motorcycles, bicycles, license plates and other vintage memorabilia, the amazing collection is comprised of items Hartung acquired locally, many from within a 15-mile radius of his Glenview location. Following his passing in May 2011, Hartung’s impressive collection will be offered ‘without reserve’ in November, presenting a unique range of ownership opportunities for those looking to continue his amazing legacy. In ... More |
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 Heritage to launch Estate Auctions, in September, featuring the best of the nation DALLAS, TX.- Adding to its formidable line-up of events, Heritage Auctions will present its first Estate Auction, Sept. 27, at its Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street, with a wide and eclectic range of antiques and art, including fine French Clocks, Bergman bronzes, a grouping of George Nakashima Mid- Century furniture and Personal Property from the Collection of Oscar-Winning actress Whoopi Goldberg among the offerings. “This will be one of the most interesting auctions we have ever held,” said Ed Beardsley, Director of Fine and Decorative Arts at Heritage, “with a greater variety than many of our clients are used to seeing, given Heritage’s focus as a specialty house; we know everyone loves a good estate auction, and they love to have a look at what some of the finest estates in the nation have to offer, so here it is.” The triangular national placement of Heritage Auctions’ primary loca ... More American Craft Week: A nationwide celebration of handmade in America CHARLOTTE, NC.- Now in its second year, American Craft Week is a nationwide celebration of the wonders of our country’s craft traditions and innovations. Beginning the first Friday of October and running for ten days, this year’s event will take place October 7-16 at galleries, artists’ studios, festivals and art institutions across the country. “American Craft Week is an opportunity to spotlight the creativity of thousands of American artists who hand-make functional and decorative craft,” explained co-chair, Diane Sulg. “Their work encompasses a vibrant and vital sector of our economy, especially with the renewed emphasis on American made goods.” Organizers are inviting galleries, artists, art guilds and absolutely everyone involved in craft to present events, such as studio tours, art walks, fairs and special exhibitions during American Craft Week. In 2010, more than three hundred locations held special events highlighting ... More 10 years, 21,000 bone fragments, no 9/11 closure NEW YORK (AP).- His family has his spare firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 — or any other trace of him. Killed at the World Trade Center, 32-year-old Scott Kopytko's remains were never recovered — a painful legacy of grief for families looking for answers, closure or final confirmation that their loved one was actually a 9/11 victim. "Very painful and very hurt" is how Russell Mercer, Kopytko's stepfather, describes it. "And mistrusting of everybody." Numbers tell the story in the decade of search and recovery of the remains of Sept. 11 victims — a massive forensic investigation marked by a Supreme Court appeal of families who wanted a more thorough search, and discoveries years after the attacks of even more remains in manholes and on rooftops around ground zero. — Tens of millions have been spent, including on the painstaking extraction of DNA from tiny bone fragments, using technology ... More Artists collaborate on a human-size "speaker" structure at The Showroom LONDON.- New York-based artists Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, and Tbilisi-based artist Gela Patashuri are collaborating on a human-size ‘speaker’ structure that will be assembled in The Showroom’s exhibition space. This ‘sound room’ will function both as a loudspeaker and a music studio, housing objects and materials ready for an ensemble to play a specific score. The ensemble will comprise Showroom staff and members of the gallery’s local community, performing on 3, 7, 11 and 14th September. Be a speaker. So be it... evolved out of work that the group have been doing towards the establishment of a new contemporary art centre in Tbilisi. Plans for this are so far imaginary, inspiring the group to devise a music festival in 2009 and develop the project Hurt Locker Instruments at Casco, Utrecht, in 2010, as part of the project Circular Facts. The installation at The Showroom will incorporate ... More New book shows how Mark Dion creates a monumental curiosity cabinet LONDON.- Oceanomania investigates the evolution of our fascination with the sea, in time and space, design, literature and art, revealing how the uncanny and marvelous have inspired artistic research. Continuing his investigations as a naturalist, archaeologist and traveler, the American artist Mark Dion explored the collections of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to create a monumental curiosity cabinet and dived into the collections of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM) to present a major intervention at Villa Paloma, one of the NMNM’s exhibition spaces. The accompanying publication, Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas published by MACK and NMNM combines installation images from the exhibition, original artist imagery and essays from various writers exploring the different facets of the exploration of the seas and the challenges in exhibiting a marine world above sea level. Two significant and ... More Recent work from Bay Area artist Timothy Buckwalter at Mina Dresden Gallery SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Mina Dresden Gallery presents "Everybody’s Happy Nowadays," recent work from Bay Area artist Timothy Buckwalter. Also at the gallery are artist selected pieces from Maryland-based artist Bill Dunlap, Philadelphia sculptor Michael Macfeat and San Francisco’s Mike Monteiro. “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” runs September 2 – 25, 2011 with a reception on September 8 from 7-9 pm. Mina Dresden Gallery is located at 312 Valencia Street (at 14th Street) in San Francisco. As its starting point, Timothy Buckwalter’s latest work takes a brief passage from Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopic classic Brave New World containing the phrase “Everybody’s happy nowadays.” A phrase, which 45 years later, would be reworked into the tale of a misfit looking for love and a minor hit song for the Buzzcocks. The series -- consisting of photographs, drawings, painting assemblages a ... MoreMuseum acquires two African objects via Apollo Society selectionTOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired two objects through the annual selection process of its art acquisition group, The Apollo Society. This year?s curatorial theme was African art, and the final selections represent the work of a contemporary Moroccan-born photographer and an unknown 19th-century sculptor from what is now Tanzania. The compelling photograph La Grande Odalisque, by Lalla Essaydi, references Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres? famous 1814 reclining nude, La Grande Odalisque. That oil painting, residing in the Louvre in Paris, belongs to a genre that came to be known as Orientalism. The term describes the exotic and sensual way in which 19th- and early 20th-century Western artists (mostly male) depicted the Muslim culture of North Africa and the Middle East. In her photo series Les Femmes du Maroc, which includes Le Grande Odalisque, Essaydi reacts to and in some cases recreates these Orientalist i ... More |
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