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| | | | Existential encounters, a birthday bash and forensic feminism – the week in art | | | Jane Austen meets JMW Turner, Huma Bhabha takes on Giacometti and the Secret Lowry’s work is taken seriously at last – all in your weekly dispatch | | | | Mask of Dimitrios by Huma Bhabha. Photograph: Daniel Perez Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery | | | | | Exhibition of the week Encounters: Giacometti – Huma Bhabha
A season of sculptural “encounters” with Giacometti’s primal, existentialist figures kicks off with this Pakistani-American artist taking him on.
• Barbican, London, from 8 May to 10 August Also showing Austen and Turner
Jane, meet JMW … this exhibition imagines a country house encounter between the two British greats who celebrate their 250th birthdays this year.
• Harewood House, Leeds, until 19 October Eric Tucker
Paintings of working-class British life by the “Secret Lowry” whose work is being taken seriously at last.
• Connaught Brown, London, until 30 May Helen Chadwick
The Artist Rooms collection presents this mini-survey of the brilliant feminist artist.
• Tate Modern, London, until 8 June Alaria
A group show by Miriam Austin, Eiko Soga and Esther Teichmann with landscape as its theme.
• Gerald Moore Gallery, London, until 24 May Image of the week | | | | | One of the paintings that was lost. Photograph: Courtesy Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin. | | | Twenty paintings by the Caribbean British abstract painter Winston Branch have been recovered after they disappeared without trace nearly five decades ago. Read the full story. What we learned Tate Modern transformed art in the UK Ian Hamilton Finlay was an idiot Artists have a long tradition of painting each other Utagawa Hiroshige’s work birthed a new way to capture everyday joy Five UK museums are to compete for a huge prize Korean conceptualist Do Ho Suh brought his homes to life Jeremy Deller created a ‘speculative [Roman] mosaic’ for Scarborough’s art trail New play Port Talbot Gotta Banksy explores the impact of his visit to south Wales Masterpiece of the week | | | | | | | Salvator Mundi by Andrea Previtali, 1519
This painting of Christ as a mystical figure looking straight at you, holding up a crystal orb in one hand and giving a blessing with the other, has the same composition as the version of the same theme sold as a Leonardo da Vinci at a record price – but they don’t seem to be connected. Previtali makes no attempt to emulate Leonardo’s style. In fact this north Italian artist paints in a crisp, realistic way that’s the opposite of Leonardesque. Christ’s round face is very different from the Leonardo Salvator Mundi. His tunic is different, too. Rather than imitating Leonardo, it seems Previtali draws on the same inspirations. The Salvator Mundi icon was invented by Flemish artists in the 15th century. It seems this painting is influenced by those north European paintings. Which leads us to ask – why would an artist as great as Leonardo do the same, and copy Flemish art?
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