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First Major Retrospective of the Work of Der Blaue Reiter Ever Held in the Netherlands Opens
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A woman looks at the painting 'Der Tiger', 1912, by German artist Franz Marc. EFE/Rolf Haid.
THE HAGUE.- In the early 20th century, a group of artists caused a huge furore in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical paintings which were to prompt the development of Expressionism in Germany. The core members of the group were Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and kindred spirit Franz Marc. Although the group was so important for the later development of modern art, this exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in spring 2010 will be the first major retrospective of its work ever held in the Netherlands. Many of the works were seen earlier as part of the successful Kandinsky exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. ... More |
"Pep Art" Pioneer David Willardson and Marshall Swerman at Rebecca Molayem
David Willardson and Marshall Swerman, Yellow Andy.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Rebecca Molayem Gallery in West Hollywood will be opening a solo exhibit on February 13, 2010 from 6-10 PM of the newest work from “Pep Art” pioneer David Willardson in collaboration with digital impressionist and photographer, Marshall Swerman. Willardson and Swerman’s “IKONXART Series” renders American and International superstars like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis Presley, And Warhol, Audrey Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, the Beatles, Muhammad Ali and others. All are represented in larger-than-life scale that reflects their influence on global pop culture and history. Willardson’s use of rich texture, bold colors, and accentuated movement working with Swerman’s creative digital manipulations offer a unique perspective on the scope and meaning of fame and power. The impetus for the “IKONXART Series” came after a serendipitous meeting between Da ... More |
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Louisiana Museum Presents Exhibition from the Merzbacher Collection
André Derain, Bâteaux dans le Port de Collioure, 1905. Både i Collioure havn. Merzbacher Kunststiftung and Werner & Gabrielle Merzbacher.
HUMBLEBAEK.- This spring’s major exhibition at Louisiana centres on colour: colour in art, in the world and in the eye. In words, pictures and through interactive programmes the exhibition will present the ways in which artists throughout the twentieth century either made use of colour as a medium of expression or researched it to find new colours and colour systems. Louisiana has been given a unique opportunity to choose freely from works in the Swiss Werner & Gabrielle Merzbacher’s rich collection, which was described in The New York Times in 1999 as “one of the world’s finest private collections of modern art”. The selection of the works has been made with colour as the point of departure, and along with a number of works from the Louisiana’s collection we are showing them in an exhibition about colour in art ... More |
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Albert Müller: Paintings, Sculptures and Prints at Kunstmuseum Basel
Albert Müller, Bildnis Bruna, 1924.
BASEL.- The Basel painter, draftsman, printmaker and sculptor Albert Müller (1897–1926) is considered one of the main exponents of Swiss Expressionism. Müller received his initial artistic training in his native city, at a glass-painting studio and at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule, the local vocational arts school. Galvanised by the example of Cuno Amiet, he was soon using luminous colours that diverged strongly from the dark tones typical of the established painters of the area. His work first began attracting the notice of a wider audience in 1919. Although Müller moved to Ticino two years later, he retained close ties to Basel’s cultural life. His active engagement with the avant-garde set off a period of intense artistic development: he took much of his inspiration from Louis Moilliet and Edvard Munch until his encounter with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in 1923 and subsequent friendship with the artist provided ... More |
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Amber: Treasures from Poland on View at the Hunterian Art Gallery
Inclusions of insects and plants. © The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
GLASGOW.- From the earliest times, the southern shores of the Baltic Sea have been associated with the gathering, trading and working of amber - a natural substance which has been long valued by man. Featuring some of the finest items from the Polish national collection, this new exhibition, ‘Amber: Treasures from Poland’ offers a unique chance to see some fascinating and beautiful artefacts which represent both natural history and northern European craftsmanship. This is the first time that these items have been exhibited in the UK. Most are from the famous Malbork Castle collection in Poland which has an important national collection of Baltic amber artefacts. Also included is the famous Gierłowska lizard from the Gdańsk Amber Museum, as well as a collection of insects trapped in amber and some historical ... More |
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Exhibition of Work by The Singh Twins Announced at the National Portrait Gallery
Arts Matters: The Pool of Life, commissioned by Liverpool City Council, 2008.© The Singh Twins.
LONDON.- Work by The Singh Twins will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery for the first time in March. The twin sisters are contemporary British artists whose award-winning paintings explore issues of social, political, religious and multicultural debate. The display will offer a contemporary response to the concurrent exhibition, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, and The Singh Twins have created a new Gallery trail to draw links between their work, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, and the Gallery's permanent Collection. Using a narrative, decorative, symbolic and witty 'Past Modern' (as opposed to Post Modern) style, The Singh Twins have revived the Indian miniature tradition within modern art practice. They say: 'Our work bridges many worlds, the ancient and the modern; fusing both Western and Eastern aesthetic elements ... More |
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Genesis Publications Chronicles the Adventures of The Traveling Wilburys
George Harrison, Don Smith. © T Wilbury Ltd.
LONDON.- The Traveling Wilburys was not a carefully planned band, not formed from deep premeditation. Rather, the band was created in a casual blending of genuine friends one ordinary afternoon, which turned out to be anything but ordinary. Genesis Publications celebrates this supergroup of friends featuring George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison with the release of the extraordinary, limited edition book The Traveling Wilburys. This 144 page, hand-bound collectible book features unseen photographs, Polaroids, drawings, log book entries and handwritten lyrics. “George said to me, ‘We should have a group, me and you.’ I said, ‘Great, who would we have in it?’ He said, ‘Well, I’ll have Bob Dylan.’ I said, ‘Can we have Roy Orbison?’ We thought Tom Petty would be a great member of the group too; luckily so did Tom.” Jeff Lynne, from his fo ... More |
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MCA Chicago Presents Exhibition that Examines the Artist's Studio as Subject
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Untitled, 2005, installation view at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2008-2009. Private foundation, Oslo, c/o Peder Lund Courtesy of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.
CHICAGO, IL.- This winter, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, premieres Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, an exhibition that uniquely examines the artist’s studio as subject. The exhibition presents an illuminating look at how some of the most compelling artists of today have demystified, remystified, and reconsidered art production spaces. Large installations, films, multi-channel video projections, photographic light-boxes, and life-sized fabrications of artists’ studios that explore the creative process are on view February 6 through May 30, 2010. "Production Site presents work that documents, depicts, reconstructs, or otherwise invokes that space, it reveals how the studio provides for the intersection of research, experimentation, production, and social activity, and how ... More |
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Pop Art from the Collection of Valencia's IVAM Travels to Cuba
Rear Window, 1971. (detail).
HAVANA.- The IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) and the SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior de España) openning today, February/5/2010 this co-production with the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain in Cuba and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba. The Pop Art exhibition at the IVAM Collection is curated by chief curator of the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg (USA) William Jeffett, and the Director of IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar. The exhibition brings together 59 works of different techniques and media including paintings, photography, works on paper and sculptures. These works have been selected from the extensive exhibition devoted to Pop Art held at the IVAM in 2007 and that following its exhibition in San Juan (Puerto Rico), Fortaleza (Brazil) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) are presented now in the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba. ... More |
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Cuban-American Artist Jorge Pardo to Exhibit at the Irish Museum of Modern At
Jorge Pardo, Oliver, Oliver, Oliver, 2004, painted steel structure, coloured Makrolon, Birch, Wood, Painted Wood, 2 Textile Screens, 2 Projectors, 2 DVD/VCR Players, List of Films by selected artist, 15 x 9.4 x 4.1 m, Installation Image, Braunschweig Parcours, Germany, 2004.
DUBLIN.- The Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo, widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation, returns to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) with his first major solo exhibition in Ireland on Wednesday 17 February 2010. Jorge Pardo is a challenging retrospective that uses the architecture of the Museum to embrace the world of swiftly changing technology and question how art can be innovative and relevant in the 21st century. The exhibition, which follows the artist’s notable participation in the group exhibition .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae at IMMA in 2006, comprises a single work in the form of photomural wallpaper covering the walls of the entire East Wing Galleries. Jorge Pardo depicts, in ... More |
Ariel Hassan to Show Works with a Degree of Theatricality at Greenaway Art
Hassan orchestrates his tableaux from a current concern with fears and phobias – part of the complex web of propositions hinted at by the author/artist.
ADELAIDE.- Ariel Hassan is primarily a painter, but his practice extends to sculpture / installation and photography. The title of his latest exhibition Today all your plans are going to be successful! is patently ironic, as the viewer, who is invited to have a great day will be confronted by demons; the ghosts generated from memory, anger ,frustration, fears and phobias temper the greeting. This exhibition is triggered from a more personal perspective than some of the more analytical investigations in his previous shows. This new exhibition has a degree of theatricality – a shower of meteors about to hit; paintings on hands and feet, prepare to give chase; a colourful and noisy, immersive upper level of the gallery (with a fragmented figure lying on its surface). All elements induce a smile, as everything is held in one suspended moment, like the pause button pressed ... More |
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Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Candice Breitz's Best Known Video Installations
Candice Breitz, The cast of New York, New York, 2009. A Performa Commission with Kunsthaus Bregenz. Produced by Performa in association with The Power Plant, Toronto and Scott Macaulay. Photo: Jason Schmidt,
BREGENZ.- Though Candice Breitz (b. 1972 Johannesburg, South Africa) has focused largely on creating multi-channel video installations since 1999, her approach to the moving image grows out of an earlier body of photographic work, in which she made extensive use of photomontage and cut-and-paste strategies. In composing her multi-channel video installations, Breitz deploys both freshly shot footage and material drawn from familiar films, modifying her source material digitally in the working. Amongst other themes, Breitz’s video oeuvre reflects critically on the narrative structure of Hollywood cinema, the counter-projections of fans and their idols, and the challenges posed to the individual and individuality within contemporary media culture. The Kunsthaus Bregenz presents a selection of Breitz’s best known video ... More |
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Last Week to See Exhibition of Howard Hodgkin's Major Prints
The exhibition also includes documentary material as to how Hodgkin would go about making these large scale works, including printing plates and proofs as well as education resources.
SOUTHAMPTON CITY.- The exhibition includes the two new monumental works As Time Goes By, exhibited in a public gallery for the first time. As Time Goes By are Hodgkin's most ambitious and complex works to date. Each measuring over 20ft long, these two new pictures are the largest works the artist has ever made. They are also the largest works ever made, by any artist, using a combination of aquatint, carborundum embossing and painting in acrylic. The colours and vibrancy of the works have a brilliant impact on Southampton City Art Gallery’s space. The exhibition also includes two series of large scale prints, Venetian Views and Into the Woods, as well as documentary material as to how Hodgkin would go about making these large scale works, including printing plates and proofs as well as education resources. ... More |
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Spectacular Digital Moving Image Installation for Canary Wharf Underground Station
LONDON.- A large-scale projection of a thirty year long digital artwork with an environmental message will be exhibited at Canary Wharf Underground station for 12 months from the end of March. As a part of a series of new contemporary art projects for the Jubilee line commissioned by Art on the Underground, Irish artist John Gerrard is to present a large-scale installation of Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) in Canary Wharf Underground station’s iconic ticket hall. Shown on this occasion as a large-scale data projection on a monolithic block wall in the station (15m x 8m), Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) is a complex digital moving image piece that develops in real time for a thirty-year period. Beginning in 2008 and continuing until 2038, the work presents an immersive landscape constructed from ‘real’ information (digital photographs and topographies of an existing American agricultural landscape) mapped onto meticulously ... More
Delaware Art Museum Presents Women Collared for Work
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Women Collared for Work, featuring paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations by eight female artists, on view February 6, 2010 – March 21, 2010. The artists explore both the well-known contributions and anonymous stories of women spanning more than 100 years of history—1889 to 1999. They interpret the collar as a symbol for the restraint, inspiration, and innovation of powerful female icons representing a range of occupations. The theme of being “collared” was chosen as a metaphor for women’s issues because of the symbolic connotations of the word. A collar can be an article of clothing or a restraint around the neck, and it was the contrast between its uses as an adornment versus a shackle that inspired this selection of works. Each of the artists created work inspired by a range of years as follows: ... More
Bielefelder Kunstverein Opens Group Exhibition "In the Event of Suspicion"
BIELEFELD.- The group exhibition »In the Event of Suspicion« understands suspicion as a medium allowing both artists and visitors to question aesthetic, political, social, and media-related issues. On view are works by six international contemporary artists who practice methods of observation and analysis, enquiring into forms of composition and matters of representation. Much, if not everything, can come in for suspicion these days: news coverage, the workings of the media, economic and political developments, questions of sustainability and the conditions and possibilities governing international collaboration. But in order to formulate a strategy of suspicion in the context of art, the understanding of the term has to be broadened. It cannot indicate only the establishing of proof or methods of verifying negative presumptions any more; suspicion denotes, much rather, acting in a positive sense with a goal in mind, an essentially critical and sceptical attitude towards the giv ... More
Two-Person Exhibition Focusing on Ancestry, Nature, and Form at MACLA
SAN JOSE, CA.- MACLA present Castillo and Mariana Garibay in a two-person exhibition that focuses on ancestry, nature, and form featuring site-specific installation and works on paper. These two artists employ divergent approaches to working with form and landscape in their esthetic pursuit. Castillo’s work has hints of ancestral, historical symbolism. She selects her materials for their historical relevance and presented larger than life, embodying multiple layers of meaning. Her current work is a commentary of the history of capitalism and the role that it has played in her lineage. Her installation Brown Sugar addresses her Columbian lineage that is made up of Pilipina, African, and Spanish, which has a history both proud and unsettling. Little known is the use of slavery in the production of sugar in her home country of Columbia. Representing the many that are a product of that history, Castillo has created a fict ... More
New Exhibition by Robert Fuerer in the Purchase College Library
PURCHASE, NY.- “Down the Rabbit Hole” is an exhibition of 50 fanciful sculptures and paintings by Robert Fuerer in the Purchase College Library on view through August 2010. The works are exhibited in the main art gallery and throughout the Library’s central spaces. Admission is free. Down the Rabbit hole refers to the portal where the strange world of the artist’s childhood memories enter his art. The works, with rabbit heads on formally dressed individuals, are his commentary about the ways in which modern society has darkened his perspective. The global economic crisis capitalism, corporate greed, war, and the loss of innocence are among the themes explored in these neo-social realistic works which are a reaction to the global economic crisis of 2008. ... More
High Welcomes More than 100,000 Participants to Art Access Program
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art reached a major milestone for its Art Access program recently, welcoming more than 100,000 participants since its inception in 2004. Art Access provides metro Atlanta students a high-quality, dynamic visual arts experience by offering free Museum visits to a limited number of students in all grade levels. This all-inclusive field trip program includes free admission for students and required chaperones as well as payment of school bus transportation (if required), free teacher resources and “Welcome Back” cards for all participating students that allow each child to return to the Museum with his or her family one time, free of charge. The Kendeda Fund has provided not only operating support for the Art Access program since 2004, but also funding for an endowment challenge grant that seeks to make Art Access a permanent program at the High Museum of Art. Additional support for the Art ... More
Lehman College Art Gallery Shows a Selection of Work by 21 Contemporary Artists
BRONX, NY.- Nature, Once Removed: The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing presents a selection of work by 21 contemporary artists who use drawing to explore our alienated relationship to nature, creating oblique narratives inflected with irony, anxiety, grotesquerie and satire. Much of the stylization of plants, animals and geological forms in the show bears the influence of popular culture, demonstrating the degree to which our contemporary conception of the natural world has been shaped by cartoons and advertising. The work in the show varies significantly in its treatment of the theme, alternately mythic (Huey, Saul), abstract (Crump, Herrera, Taylor), fantastic (Fueki, Hancock, Karpov, Ulivo), political (Esquivel, Piehl), nostalgic (Barrett, Panter), pessimistic (Di Genova, Hoving), deadpan (Brown, Patch) and wryly funny (De Los Angeles, Johnston, Peterson, Wesley). A variety of formal and technical means are on display, including woodburning, bravura brushwork, meticu ... More
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