The first exhibition in England to focus on the complex and fascinating relationship between Russian and Italian Futurism is to be held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, from Wednesday 28 March until Sunday 10 June 2007.
A long overdue and comprehensive examination of the subject, A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia explores the energetic, creative and occasionally violent encounter of East and West in the arena of avant-garde art. These were cultural movements with powerful national characteristics.
The Craft is the fantastical documentation of a fictional sect. Created by the artists Emma Talbot and Cathie Pilkington it brings together an anthology of work claiming to document the existence of a hitherto undiscovered isolated community.
The exhibition will present the artists’ ‘finds’ in the form of a museological compilation of objects, tableau and paintings. This home-spun museum of curiosities is the fictitious hinterland which reveals Cathie Pilkington and Emma Talbot’s collective fascination with the darker side of human experience including their interests in gothic obsession, entrenched belief systems and communal codes of behaviour.
Where: Transition, London, UK United Kingdom
Following the one-man exhibition of the author at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Villa Croce in Genoa in 2005, CACT opens its own 2007 season right with a solo show of the Italo-Argentinian artist Andrea Crosa (1949).
It is not by chance that we mention the exhibition in Genoa almost two years after, because that chance for an exhibition had showed the turning point in his maturation of the working process, in his aesthetic system of behaviour and of paralleling the expository rooms. The spatial layout, particularly suitable to a more process-like presentation of an art work, is seemingly ideal to assist and validate the recent researches of Crosa.
Where: CACT - centro d'arte contemporanea ticino, Bellinzona, CH Switzerland
Bodhi Art is proud to bring to New York Nataraj Sharma’s traveling exhibition titled ‘S T R E T C H’, completed during his 2006 residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute [STPI]. In ‘S T R E T C H’, paintings and mixed media etchings in paper, pulp and prints, Nataraj Sharma continues to explore the relationships between urbanization, landscapes and the human presence at the interstices of modernity.
The opening of ‘S T R E T C H’ coincides with New York’s Asia Week - the focal point for significant Asian art auctions and gallery shows. The Asian Art Fair is widely lauded as the world’s leading Asian art fair and this year Bodhi Art is proud to participate and showcase the works of many Indian artists at this prestigious fair.
Where: Bodhi Art, New York, NY USA United States of America
This first London solo exhibition at Cafe Gallery Project by the highly acclaimed German colour painter, Sybille Berger, features three new major works alongside recent paintings and related sketches.
By excluding any narrative element from her painting and letting the work speak for itself, her colours take on a reality outside of their own existence. The colour of a whole work becomes both concrete and abstract at the same time, making an impact both as a physical and metaphysical presence. These paintings speak to an intuitive receptive level within us, becoming like a projection surface for the observer.
Where: Cafe Gallery Project, London, UK United Kingdom
Cape Farewell travels to the vast industrial space of the Kampnagel Cultural Centre with Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change, the exhibition developed with the Natural History Museum in 2006.
The show features Stranded, Heathe! r Ackroyd & Dan Harvey's 6-metre long crystal-encrusted Minke whal e skeleton, End of Ice, David Buckland's 28' video projection of the demise of an iceberg, Nymark (Undiscovered Island), Alex Hartley's topographically inspired photographic installation of his 'new' Arctic island and Siobhan Davies' ephemeral projection of a lone dancer, Endangered Species
Light and shadow are the literal and figurative focus of the exhibition ‘Lights & Drawings’ by American artist and activist Paul Chan (1973, Hong Kong). His projections, together with charcoal drawings, collages and digital studies are presented in six rooms.
The works all revolve around the digital animation series The 7 Lights which Chan has been working on since 2005 and which will ultimately consist of seven pieces. This exhibition in Stedelijk Museum CS, Chan’s first major museum presentation in Europe, presents all the Lights Chan has completed so far.
Where: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
The exhibition, 6 BILLION PERPS HELD HOSTAGE! Artists Address Global Warming, showcases a diverse collection of art works, including textiles, videos, paintings, drawings, inflatables, photography and music, all directing attention to the topic of global warming. These works serve to raise awareness of our current state of affairs, including U.S. policy, natural disasters, the destructive power of corporations, and the harmful effects of carbon production in the food industry as well as initiate public dialog about the issue.
The exhibition is a collection of works by Andy Warhol and contemporary artists, including The Yes Men, Preemptive Media, Jay Critchley, The Institute For Figuring, Hugo Kobayashi, Trevor Paglen, Marjetica Potrc, Cai Guo-Qiang, Greg Kwiatek, Bobby Pickett and Horseback Salad, Steffi Domike-Suzy Meyer-Ann Rosenthal, and Bob Bingham. 6 Billion Perps Held Hostage! will be on view from March 11 – June 17, 2007.
Where: Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Patrick Gysemberg pleases the Belgian Queen with a portrait in blue. The blue action painting portrait, the first one ever created, as it is a combination of action painting and realism (portrait), is now in possession of her Royal Majesty Queen Paola of Belgium.
The artist Patrick Gysemberg had made the painting as one of a series of local celebrities he used on an art action together with the stores of a Belgian city, to promote commercial activities in September 2006. As this event has concluded and several painting were sold, the action painter remained with a collection of about 60 paintings of local and international celebrities
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the opening of 'Joe Carioca', the ninth installation in the Museum's New Media Series. In this witty and absurd, yet poignant animated film, noted Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander explores intersections between cultures and the ways our hopes and dreams take material form.
'Joe Carioca' was influenced by a student workshop the artist conducted in association with her first Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition 'Currents 93: Rivane Neuenschwander'. During the workshop, Neuenschwander described Joe Carioca, a cartoon character created by Walt Disney Studios in 1942 to represent her home country in American movies, newspaper comic strips and comic books, and encouraged the students to create a character that would represent Brazil today
Townhouse Gallery in Cairo presents 'Palimpsest: Photography by Nermine Hammam' during March, 2007. In this series of works, brought together under the title Palimpsest (a parchment from which writing has been incompletely erased to make room for another text), artist Nermin Hammam plays with fixed notions of artifice and reality.
Using graphics technology to evoke Caravaggio’s Tenebroso (literally meaning dark and gloomy), layering textures and washes of pigment to imbue photographs with a static, painterly quality, she documents rituals in which religious boundaries are transgressed as a matter of course, Christians and Muslims flocking to church in search of solace and healing.
Where:Townhouse Gallery / Factory Space, Cairo, EG Egypt
Viveza Art Experience, 2604 Western Ave., presents 'Arterial: Organic Intersections of the New Cityscape.'
This evocative exhibit runs through Wednesday, February 21 to March 18, 2007 and offers a diverse collection of works by award-winning artist Christopher Santer, mixed-media artist Brian Scott Campbell and prolific painter Jeff Koegel. All three artists will be in attendence at the opening reception from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), nicknamed Guercino (“squinter”) after a childhood incident left him cross-eyed, is regarded as one of the most significant Italian artists of the Baroque period. A prolific and fluent draughtsman who was known as ‘the Rembrandt of the South’, he was hailed for his inventive approach to subject matter, his deftness of touch and ability to capture drama and movement. The exhibition reflects the artist’s extraordinary technical and stylistic versatility, and is the second joint exhibition to be organised as part of the Courtauld Institute of Art’s ongoing collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
It is focused around an important group of twenty-six drawings from the collection of Sir Robert Witt, bequeathed to the Courtauld in 1952. A number still retain the distinctive patterned ‘Casa Gennari’ mounts that originate from the studio of Guercino’s nephews and studio assistants, Benedetto and Cesare Gennari, to whom he left his entire stock of drawings. Guercino: Mind to Paper will be on view at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2, from 22 February to 13 May 2007.
chashasma is pleased to present Visions of Light, a solo exhibition of the acclaimed Greek sculptor Antonia Papatzanaki. Visions of light exhibits Papatzanaki’s signature wall-reliefs, which represent her production of the last decade, and an installation of new Plexiglas works. Her work is a constant dialogue between the artificial light of the work and the ambient light of the surroundings.
The works function as a conceptual manifestation connecting sculpture, architecture, and the experience of light.
Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon presents some sixty photographic portraits of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo taken throughout her life. Beginning with childhood and ending with the image of Kahlo on her deathbed, these portraits bring into focus the painter, the patient, the wife, the daughter, the lover, and the friend.
“Frida was, and continues to be, a source of fascination and inspiration,” said Director Stephanie Stebich, who curates the exhibition. “She was not only known for her art, but also for her striking appearance, her radical politics, her stormy marriage to artist Diego Rivera, and her lifelong health problems. All of it was captured in the camera lens, in entrancing formal and informal portraits.”
Where: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA United States of America.
When: February 3 through June 10, 2007.
BLACK USA is an art exhibition celebrating past, present and future life of Black people in the USA. Commemorating Black History Month, New Orleans Mardi Gras and life in general the show is one view at the Gloria Kennedy Gallery in Brooklyn.
Ione Citrin, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Diane C. Duvall, Lou Grant, Leon Nicholas Kalas, Harry Longstreet, Gloria Kennedy and Jeanmarie Theobalds.
When: BLACK USA is on view February 1 – March 17, 2007 wth an opening on February 8 from 6-9pm.
Where: Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
ow a body of them are invading Denmark: The bodybuilder and the CEO, the pensioner, the derelict and the family dog – American artist Duane Hanson’s exceptionally lifelike figures. See them for yourself when they settle in ARKEN’s Art Axis in the spring 2007 exhibition DUANE HANSON – Sculptures of the American Dream.
The verisimilitude is astounding, as they sit there on the bench in the gallery. It is virtually impossible to see that the elderly couple with the glazed expression are not just another two exhausted museum visitors taking a well-earned rest amid the flurry of impressions. However, the life-sized sculptures are actually cast in bronze by the American sculptor Duane Hanson (1925-1996). Better than anyone in his generation he was able to portray the consequences of post-war consumer culture and lifestyle for the American middleclass, with equal parts tenderness, humour and barbed criticism.
RKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, DK Denmark
Oakville Galleries is excited to announce Metamorphosis – David Altmejd’s first major solo exhibition in Canada outside Montreal. The exhibition will be open to the public from 27 January to 25 March 2007 at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.
Metamorphosis is produced by the Galerie de l’Universite du Quebec a Montreal and is curated by Louise Dery. David Altmejd has also been chosen to represent Canada at the 2007 Venice Biennale of Visual Art. Montreal-born artist/sculptor David Altmejd’s research is about energy and metamorphosis. Altmejd creates miniaturized architectural structures that weave a horror-movie /Gothic type of aesthetic with a reference to modern architecture and minimalist sculpture.[
On at Oakville Galleries, Oakville, CA Canada /SIZE]
Something a little closer to home. At the University of New South Wales, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney, Australia. Step Into Leonardo's Shoes Anatomy Drawing Workshop 5-day Workshop to take place February 5-9, 2007. Want to draw human anatomy specimens? The University of New South Wales (Sydney) is offering the rare opportunity to draw real human specimens in the School of Medical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine).
Under the guidance of Dr Brian Freeman, associate professor of anatomy, and artist Susan Dorothea White, author of Draw Like Da Vinci (Cassell, London 2006), you discover what's under the skin while acquiring new drawing skills.
News out of Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, USA: this winter visitors to Fuller Craft Museum can discover what the “RISD experience” is all about in the exhibition RISD Routes on view January 20 – May 6, 2007. Curated by David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator of New York’s Museum of Art and Design, and organized by the RISD Alumni Association, RISD Routes features works of contemporary craft by New England alumni of Rhode Island School of Design.
Works in glass, metal, wood, ceramic, fiber and metal demonstrate the wealth of creativity in New England, and the importance of contemporary craft in the art world.
Better known as a European financial capital, Frankfurt will host 1000 innovations in bathroom, building, energy, air-conditioning and renewable energy technology during the 2007 ISH trade fair this March. Billed as the largest exhibition of its kind in the world, ISH Frankfurt am Main will span five full days, fill 20 halls, and feature over 2300 global expositors.
Highlights of ISH 2007 Frankfurt are set to include excursions through avant-garde restroom form and function, cutting-edge building services and energy technology (like this air pipe systems cleaning robot), and "Aircontec", the specialist international trade fair for air-conditioning and ventilation equipment. From March 16 to 20.
Those crazy Balkans are at it again
La Fabrica Gallery presents Marina Abramovic's most recent work in Spain. La Fabrica Galeria is organising the second solo exhibition of Yugoslav artist Marina Abramovic, which will feature pieces from the series Balkan Erotic Epic.
The exhibition is comprised of three large-format images and two videos about the significance of eroticism in Balkan popular culture. Brave and committed, Marina Abramovic (Belgrade, 1946) is undoubtedly an artist who is adept at achieving a perfect symbiosis of art and life.
Could be good?
Exiled from South Africa for political dissidence Ivor Sias has, after a thirty year absence, returned to South Africa with his exhibition Longings. Sias studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and received his masters in painting at the University of Amsterdam.
Well known for his controversial and politically progressive subject matter, he has exhibited in galleries and museums in Germany, Italy and America, as well as participating in the 2005 Berlin Artfair. The exhibition, the first in Joao Ferreira Fine Art's new space at 70 Loop Street in Cape Town, was opened by Peter Clarke on December 20, 2006
One of the giants of early 19th century Spanish art has found himself reappreciated - a set of 80 black-and-white etchings, Los Caprichos, by Spanish artist Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), going on view at the Portland Museum of Art from December 16, 2006 through February 25, 2007.
Los Caprichos, one of the most influential series of graphic images in the history of Western art, provides a satirical and damning look at 18th-century Spanish society. This superb first edition set of these controversial etchings, published in 1799, is one of four sets acquired directly from Goya by the Duke and Duchess of Osuna.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney. Currently exhibiting are works by Deborah Kelly. They cover an array of print mediums from stickers, postcards and downloadable pdf prints which can be inserted neatly into contemporary visual life so as to be almost at the point of disappearance as artworks. In terms of the ‘rules’ of printmaking this kind of work also throws up a series of questions that interrogate the very nature of the print, the multiple and the original work of art. Is the ‘print’ the outputted document or is it the pdf file itself? Is the matrix the file or the printer?
12 October 2006 - 25 March 2007
Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, is currently presenting ‘Video Killed the Painting’, an exhibited curated by Bart de Koning Gans, which will be on view from December 27, 2006 until February 3, 2007.
The exhibition argues that our language of immediacy has made us hungry for quick imagery, however video art teaches us to 're'-observe by taking our time to look. True it is very annoying when it is bad but when it is good the reward is worth the wait. Video forces us to view, listen and take time to adjust. Paintings and sculptures can more easily be divided into bad and good with a brief glance, yet with video it demands your time.
This exhibit features 4 video artists whom interpret various stages of the human mind and its behavior.
A look into the Nazi regime’s genocide of millions of Jews and other minorities through 'racial hygiene' is illustrated in the latest exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh USA. Contemporary ethical issues such as applied genetic research and medically-assisted suicide are evoked through this historic tale of 'science as salvation' during the Holocaust.
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race presents a look into the murder of six million Jews in the name of applied biology. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race will be presented at The Andy Warhol Museum from December 17 through March 18, 2007. The exhibition explores both the then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought of human genetic makeup that lie at the root of the Holocaust, a sobering tale at this time of world conflict and growing antisemitism
Something a little different - BoMA: The Bar of Modern Art has announce and upcoming designer toy show. Unusual for the largely market oriented toy manufacturing community the show is coined Operation: Fragmentation.
The group exhibition will feature customized creations by twenty-four renowned underground artists from around the world. The exhibition will be on view in BoMA’s first-floor Salon Gallery in Columbus, America from December 12, 2006 through January 21, 2007.
Nomadic ocean artist Michelle Wardley has returned to her Perth stomping ground after 5 1/2 years of travelling around Australia and the indo pacific. Michelle arrived at the Vic Park Art Centre on Saturday, December 9, 2006, with her exhibition 'Tidal' after touring throughout the north west, Midwest and Goldfields with the collection of over 30 oil paintings 'inspired by the energy of the sea & the many places on my path'. The Exhibition until Sunday the 24th December 2006 and as a part of her state wide tour.Michelle Wardley has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2002.
A major retrospective on one of South Africa's most important photographers is opening on 2 December at the Iziko S A National Gallery in Cape Town. 'Invoice' is a survey show of the work of Santu Mofokeng, one of South Africa's foremost photographers and, according to international curator Simon Njami, 'one of the most important photographers of his generation'.
The exhibition, which runs until 2 May 2007, includes photographs from virtually all his major bodies of work produced in the period between 1982 and 2006, and is a landmark event designed to coincide with the photographer's 50th year.
Chris Humphreys’ strangely beautiful paintings depict a border world in which nature gets caught up and mixes with fantasy and reality.
His first solo show Woodland Chicken World at Transition Gallery in London England enhances this sense of mystery with a touch of exotic orientalism to give his new paintings of common or garden birds an aristocratic grace.Influenced by Chinoiserie, a centuries-old decorative style based on highly embellished and exaggerated Chinese design, Humphreys’ sets his birds (most particularly chickens) in an intricate, ornamental world of paint.
Facts, Fictions and Stories’ is the first solo exhibition in The Netherlands for Adam Broomberg (South Africa, b. 1979) and Oliver Chanarin (Great Britain, b. 1971). Stedelijk Museum CS presents two impressive projects by this pair of photographers, totalling more than 70 large-format photographs. Their most recent work, ‘Chicago’ (2006), shows various aspects of the war and propaganda in Israel. The series ‘Mr. Mkhize’s Portrait’ (2004) casts a glance at South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid.
The photographs (generally portraits) are combined with texts and interviews, and give us a convincing picture of the social changes and complexity of daily life in that country. Both projects are not only striking examples of photo reportage, but also make an important contribution to the discussions within documentary photography. The exhibition ‘Facts, Fictions and Stories’ opens on Thursday, November 9, at 5:00 p.m. in Stedelijk Museum CS, and runs through February 25, 2007.
For those in the Sydney and with an interest in ancient art head to thePeter Lane Gallery. Peter Lane shares a premises with: Marie-Francoise Fatton of Au Lion Des Neiges: objects anciens de culture tibétaine, and Andrew Simpson of Simpson's Antiques Pty Ltd on Jersey Road in Woollahra.
In Peter Lane's Gallery you'll find exhibited Roman artefacts and antiquities that preserve the forms and style of Greek art. Peter Lane Gallery shows artefacts from the lives of these ancient people including artefacts in pottery, bronze and marble that include the forms: statue, busts, figure, sarcophagus, representations of divinities and gods: Aphrodite, Zeus, Bachus the god of wine, Salinus, Julius Ceasar and other emporers. Some are Republican, some Empire, all genuine.
The range is extensive and features artefacts from the Eastern Empire and the Byzantium Empire. Peter Lane Gallery can access artefacts if your need or request is not in stock. The exhibition runs until the 29th November 2006.
Dot Fiftyone Gallery announces the premier of the first U.S. solo exhibition of the Argentinean Artist Mauro Giaconi, which was unveiled in cocktail opening reception Friday October 27, 2006. The exhibition will feature more than 24 artworks from the artist recent production. Includes drawings on canvas, paper and glass, three-dimensional objects and art video installations. For its uniqueness, creativity and powerful message, Mauro Giaconi's exhibition is a real gem for the US art scene. His work is a window and an interpretation of the chaos, that for those of us who live in big metropoles (going under deep transformations), we suffer as consequences of monumental office towers, skyscrapers, constructions and streets renovation. Cities nowadays are a clear example to these inconveniences we are exposed to.
In an incredible art first and a landmark in world art, the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art has opened - the first publicly funded contemporary art museum in mainland China. In keeping with its mission to support contemporary art and artists, the Duolun MoMA offers an international artist-in-residence program to bring artists from around the world to the museum to work on individual or collaborative projects proposed by the artists themselves.
It is intended to foster personal vision by offering a unique opportunity for working professional artists to expand their art and experience by making contact with Chinese and other international artists while working in the dynamic environment that the city of Shanghai and the Duolun MoMA provide
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