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Neïl Beloufa. Global Agreement, © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2018, Photo: Marc Krause.
FRANKFURT.- The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a new work by the award-winning video and installation artist Neïl Beloufa from August 23 to October 28, 2018. For this the artist has created walkable sculptural installations in the Schirn Rotunda, which is freely accessible to the public, as well as in an adjoining exhibition space. The exhibition Global Agreement is dedicated to the human body and its discursive and political importance. It shows Neïl Beloufas latest interest in the army, weapons, fitness, beauty, and the body cult as well as in the staging of power. Power is a central, recurring theme in his workthe social conflict between majority and minority, between dominance and oppression, as well as the power of images for our perception of reality. The question why people join the army was the starting point for several interviews with male and female soldiers from different countries via the video chat ... More |
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| Exhibition at Fondation Vincent van Gogh pursues a free exploration of the sun | | US playwright, 'king of comedy' Neil Simon dead at 91 | | Exhibition offers a chronological survey of Victor Vasarely's artistic evolution |
Vincent van Gogh, Skull, Paris, May 1887. Oil on canvas, 42.4 Ã 30.4 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Vincent van Gogh Foundation.
ARLES.- This thematic exhibition pursues a free exploration of the sun, understood as a metaphor interrogating the artists respective relationships on the one hand with the Mediterranean region, home to experimentation, and on the other with Modernism and Postmodernism. It brings together outstanding loans of paintings by Vincent van Gogh and late paintings by Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder, as well as works by Etel Adnan, Giorgio de Chirico, Adolphe Monticelli, Sigmar Polke, Germaine Richier, Joan Mitchell and the musician Sun Ra. Hot Sun, Late Sun. Modernism Untamed thereby seeks to identify a family of artists whose origins go back to Monticellia member, alongside Jean-François Millet, of the pantheon of painters who inspired Vincent van Gogh. The hot sun of the title symbolises a Modernism at its blazing zenith, embodied in the work of Van Gogh as from February 1888, when the Dutch artist discovered Provence. The late sun, belonging to the end of the ... More | |
In this file photo taken on July 27, 2006 playwright Neil Simon from "The Kennedy Center Presents: The 2006 Mark Twain Prize For American Humor" speaks onstage during the 2006 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour for PBS. FREDERICK M. BROWN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Neil Simon, the prolific and Pulitzer Prize-winning US playwright celebrated as the king of comedy who won more Oscar and Tony nominations combined than any other showbiz writer, died on Sunday. He was 91. The brains behind more than 30 plays, 20 screenplays and five musicals, Time magazine dubbed him the "patron saint of laughter." Many of his works are classics of 20th century American theater and Simon has been credited with playing a seminal role -- along with film director Woody Allen -- in re-crafting US humor in the 1960s and 1970s. His influence has been felt through the generations, The New York Times drawing a line between Simon's early comedies and the character-based comedy in the 1990s hit sitcom "Seinfeld." Longtime friend Bill Evans announced his death early Sunday in a New York hospital of complications ... More | |
Victor Vasarely, Naissances (From the album Hommage à J.S. Bach, Supplement No.3), 1954-1960. Multiple. Silkscreen on glass, 56 x 49,5 x 7,5 cm. Vasarely Múzeum, Budapest.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting a monographic exhibition devoted to Victor Vasarely (Pécs, 1906 Paris, 1997), the founding father of Op Art. Comprising works from the Vasarely Museum in Budapest, the Victor Vasarely Museum in Pécs, the Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en- Provence and prominent loans from private collections, the exhibition aims to offer an overall vision of the life and work of this Hungarian painter whose best output was created in France. The exhibition includes works from all the principal phases of Vasarelys career in order to present a chronological survey of his artistic evolution. Visitors thus be able to appreciate the key role played by the artist in the development of geometrical post-war abstraction and to learn about the experiments based on his artistic principles and theoretical reflections which he undertook with the aim of bringing art and society closer together. Vi ... More |
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| Andrew Huffman's debut exhibition opens at David Richard Gallery | | The Kestner Gesellschaft opens an extensive solo exhibition with new works by Roman Signer | | Johannesburg Art Gallery exhibits Wolfgang Tillmans' touring exhibition 'Fragile' |
Andrew Huffman, Modulated 62, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 60" x 60". © Andrew Huffman. All rights reserved.
SANTA FE, NM.- In Andrew Huffmans debut exhibition with David Richard Gallery, he presents a series of new paintings entitled, Modulated. Based on the grid and utilizing an overlapping lattice structure, these hard edge paintings have many different combinations of hues and color interactions that explore illusory space and depth in a two-dimensional picture plane and challenge the viewers visual perception. Huffmans art-making practice includes painting, installation and sculpture in a variety of media. He uses color and color interactions combined with scale and bold compositions to push the boundaries of each medium and explore real and illusory space. His radical approaches and combinations of media, symbols and hues create a very personal and unique experience for viewers and evokes design and architectural references, particularly in his installations. The focus of this exhibition ... More | |
Roman Signer, Fass mit Quadrokopter, 2018. Skulptur. Photo: Aleksandra Signer. Courtesy der Künstler.
HANNOVER .- The Kestner Gesellschaft is featuring the artist Roman Signer (*1938, Appenzell) in an extensive solo exhibition with new works mainly from the past three years. The diverse oeuvre of this internationally renowned Swiss sculptor will be presented with thirteen sculptures and installations as well as five films on both floors of the exhibition venue. Known for his explosive performances, the artist has been working on an expanded concept of sculpture since the early 1970s. Signer focuses on processes, material properties, and working with ordinary objects. His works thus show connections to conceptual art, Land Art, and Arte Povera. Signer augments the three dimensions of sculpture with a fourth: time. Using moving everyday objects such as a moving lawnmower and flying model helicopters, the passing of time and traces of past events are also made visible and tangible as metaphors for transience. The exhibition Roman Signer: Ne ... More | |
Freischwimmer 130, 2009. C-print mounted on aluminum composite panel in artist's frame, 92.13 x 69.69 inches (234 x 177 cm).
JOHANNESBURG.- Wolfgang Tillmans touring exhibition, Fragile, is on view at the Johannesburg Art Gallery after making stops in Kinshasa and Nairobi. This exhibition, which will be touring many more cities on the continent over the next few years, is presented by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen/ Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) in collaboration with Tillmans and the Goethe-Institut. Tillmans holds a prominent place in the world of contemporary art. As an artist, he has redefined the medium of photography both as an image and as a material artefact since the early 1990s. The artist sees the acceptance of human fragility as a strength rather than a weakness when it comes to how we relate to one another and believes when we make mistakes and are fragile, it often leads to new developments. According to a press release issued by the Goethe-Institut and ifa, the body of work includes: his pictures of ... More |
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| Centro BotÃn presents 'The Reconfigured Landscape', a journey through visual arts in the last decade | | 1770s cartoon cheering the Boston Tea Party sold for $37,500 at Heritage Auctions | | Abstract artist Nicolas Manev dies at 78 |
The exhibition includes a selection of works from the Fundación BotÃn collection by renowned Spanish and international artists.
SANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn is showing the exhibition The Reconfigured Landscape, a selection of works from the Fundación BotÃn collection by renowned Spanish and international artists who started working in the late twentieth century. Names such as Leonor Antunes, Lothar Baumgarten, Tacita Dean, Joan Jonas, Irene Kopelman, Julie Mehretu and Oriol Vilanova showcase different ways of representing our surrounding world and offer visitors to the exhibition a historical overview of Fundación BotÃns ongoing engagement with the visual arts over the last ten years. The majority of the artworks are being shown for the first time. The exhibition, which is on view until 6 October on the first floor of Centro BotÃn, includes works by artists who have directed some of Fundación BotÃns Visual ... More | |
Revolutionary War: "Liberty Triumphant or the Downfall of Oppression" Prohibitively Rare Copper Engraved Cartoon Celebrating the Boston Tea Party. 13.5" x 10" [sight] copper engraved cartoon on laid paper, double-matted and framed to an overall size of 19" x 15.5".
DALLAS, TX.- America"s rarest, rabble-rousing poke-in-the-eye to British Parliament a seldom-seen political cartoon celebrating the 1773 Boston Tea Party sold for $37,500 Saturday, Aug. 25, at a public auction of rare Americana memorabilia. Sold by Heritage Auctions, the rare political cartoon was published was published after December 23, 1773 and before April 1774, mere months after the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Indians, took to Boston Harbor and destroyed more than 92,000 pounds of tea. Just six copies of the copper engraved cartoon are known in institutional holdings. The winning bidder does not wish to be identified at this time. "This political cartoon is a ... More | |
A landscape artist and creator of abstract compositions, Manev held more than 140 solo exhibitions, including in Paris, London and Geneva.
SOFIA (AFP).- French-Bulgarian artist Nicolas Manev, who worked in France for 50 years, died Saturday in Paris at the age of 78, his family told the Bulgarian BTA news agency. Manev was hospitalised on Thursday after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage. His funeral will be held in Bulgaria, his son Alexandre Manev told BTA. After graduating from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, Manev moved to France before making a series of trips around the world. A landscape artist and creator of abstract compositions, Manev held more than 140 solo exhibitions, including in Paris, London and Geneva. More than 3,000 of his works are housed in collections and museums in some 30 countries. After the fall of communism in Bulgaria in 1989, Manev often returned for exhibitions in his ... More |
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| Fusion of photography and fashion at the Bowes Museum's summer exhibition | | Zdeněk Vacek and Daniel Poŝta grow a unique and opulent chandelier right before the public's eyes | | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst displays a sprawling installation by Pipilotti Rist |
These atmospheric photographs are being presented alongside 40 original catwalk outfits in a unique collaboration with the worlds leading fashion houses.
CO DURHAM.- The Bowes Museums exclusive summer exhibition, Catwalking: Fashion through the Lens of Chris Moore is on view through 6 January, 2019. Chris Moore is one of the first photographers to capture live fashion when Parisian salons opened their doors in the late 1960s. He has remained at the forefront of fashion photography for over 60 years and is still capturing stunning images at every major international catwalk show. This comprehensive review of the fashion industry brings together 230 original images by Moore, charting the evolution of fashion as captured through his lens. These atmospheric photographs are being presented alongside 40 original catwalk outfits in a unique collaboration with the worlds leading fashion houses. They include unseen 1970s photographs from Yves Saint Laurent catwalk shows, which complement loans from Musée ... More | |
Construction of the crystal chandelier. © Karin Zadrick.
DRESDEN.- Crystals grow before the public's eyes into a unique and opulent chandelier. The Prague-based designers Zdeněk Vacek and Daniel Pota, who work under the name ZORYA, conceived of the festive light fixture within the framework of the project "From Dust to Glitter - or: How a Crystal Chandelier Grows" for the Bergpalais of the Kunstgewerbemuseum at Schloss Pillnitz. The design duo are growing the individual components of the chandelier onsite. The exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden is the last presentation by Tulga Beyerle in Pillnitz. The show, which is on view from 25 August until 4 November 2018, shows both the growth process of the material, a crystallizing alum, as well as the finished product. Over the course of three weeks, the genesis of the crystal chandelier can be observed and a fascinating insight into the individual stages of development can be gleaned ... More | |
Pipilotti Rist, Show a Leg (Raus aus den Federn), 2001. 4-channel video projection (color, sound), net curtains, childrens chairs Sound: Anders Guggisberg, Roland Widmer. Dimensions variable. Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.
ZURICH.- Collection on Display presents a work by the video artist Pipilotti Rist from the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: Show a Leg (Raus aus den Federn) (2001), a sprawling installation composed of video sequences and colorful spotlights sweeping over panels of variously textured curtain fabric; in conjunction with the hypnotic soundtrack, they immerse the visitor in a dreamlike scenery. The protagonists of Show a Leg as of many of Pipilotti Rists worksare strong female figures: conscious of their own vulnerability, they rebel against social and moral as well as self-imposed constraints and playfully savor their newfound self-determination. Pipilotti Rist (b. Grabs, Switzerland, 1962) is widely regarded as a preeminent artist working with ... More |
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Centre d'art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme opens exhibition of works by Jean-Luc Moulène
DELME.- Jean-Luc Moulène is a major artist on the French scene. For nearly 40 years, he has been charting a unique course that eludes categories of genre and style, through a dizzying body of work that includes photographic images, books, sculptures, paintings and installations. The exhibition Objets et faits (Objects and facts) brings together 24 works created between 1978 and 2018. It offers a journey through the artists multifarious practice in the form of objective poetrya writing in space without plinth or ceremony, in which each work simultaneously refers to all of the others. It is a chance for Jean-Luc Moulène to present new works in which questions of heritage, genealogy and kinship open new perspectives in his approach. At the centre of the exhibition, an installation entitled Cosmos, consisting of two continuously moving mirrors, induces a physical ... More
Exhibition of works by N.S. Harsha on view at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
SWANSEA.- Artes Mundi and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery are presenting N.S. Harshas largest solo UK exhibition to date. ᖷacing takes place in several spaces across the Glynn Vivian in Swansea, Wales. The exhibition is part of #IndiaWales, a major season of artistic collaboration between the two countries to mark the UK-India Year of Culture and is generously supported by the British Council and Wales Arts International. This major partnership exhibition includes three core worksa new installation ᖷacing (2018), the UK premiere of Reclaiming the inner space (2017), and the seminal earlier work Sky Gazers (2010). In addition to these works the exhibition also includes several other wall and floor based paintings, recent sculptures and the recreation of Future (2007), a collaborative workshop with local children and young people where they are invited to imagine their ... More
Most successful Darwin Festival in history
WATERLOO.- The 2018 Darwin Festival (9-26 August) has drawn to a close following 18 glorious hot August nights. The stellar program of shows has seen a second, consecutive record-breaking year, with the 2018 event the most successful season in Darwin Festivals 39-year history. The 2018 Darwin Festival smashed all previous ticket sales records with over 44,000 tickets sold, representing 6,800 more tickets sold than 2017 and 22,567 more tickets sold than 2016. The 2018 Festival achieved its highest gross box office since its inception in 1979. The 2018 program featured 703 performers, including 400 local NT artists, in 228 free and ticketed performances across 31 Darwin venues. 55% of ticketed shows sold out - a total of 93 sold-out performances - with the Festival scheduling additional theatre, comedy and cabaret shows to meet demand. The Festival ... More
Modernism in San Francisco presents the work of Shawn Huckins
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Since construction was completed in 1800, the White House has served not only as home to each successive US President, but also as a repository of American history, preserved in portraits and landscapes collected by the White House Historical Association. The collection contains iconic works ranging from Gilbert Stewart's famous portrayals of George Washington to Albert Bierstadt's epic scenes of the American frontier. For the contemporary American artist Shawn Huckins, who straddles the divide between traditional figurative painting and bleeding-edge digital culture, the archive is a provocation to consider how the past is treated today and how history might be remembered in the future. The eighteen paintings in Fool's Gold, Huckins' second solo exhibition at Modernism, mash up past and present by imagining masterpieces ... More
The Henry shows large-scale, multi-textured paintings by Mickalene Thomas
SEATTLE, WA.- The Henry welcomes artist Mickalene Thomas (U.S., born 1971) for an exhibition of her photographic images and influences. Best known for her large-scale, multi-textured paintings of domestic interiors and portraits, Thomas first began to photograph herself and her mother as a student at Yalea pivotal experience for her as an artist. While working across multiple series, much of her photographic work functions as a personal act of staging and reappropriation. With each series, she grapples with and asserts new definitions of beauty and inspiration. Thomas portraits draw equally from 1970s black-is-beautiful images of women such as supermodel Beverly Johnson and actress Vonetta McGee; Ãdouard Manets odalisque figures; and the mise-en-scène studio portraiture of James Van Der Zee and Malick Sidibé, to mention a few. Perhaps ... More
Exhibition of new works by Kirstin Mitchell on view at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
ATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is showing Miecznikowski: new works by 2017-2018 Working Artist Project Fellow Kirstin Mitchell. The exhibition takes place in the upper-level galleries at MOCA GA. Exhibition dates are July 14 September 8, 2018. Kirstin Mitchell is a painter, installation, and performance artist who creates experiential environments. Mitchell is a recent MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellow and has a studio through the Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program. She has performed with the support of the Franklin Furnace Fund in Manhattan, New York. Her work has been shown throughout the East Coast and Internationally, in Austria and Italy. Mitchell's work has been featured in publications including Art in America, Art Papers and Flash Art Magazines. Miecz means sword dating back to the 9th century. ... More
Glamorous Venice Film Festival courts controversy
ROME (AFP).- Global superstars Lady Gaga, Ryan Gosling and Vanessa Redgrave descend on Venice this week as the annual film festival kicks off Wednesday to controversy over the inclusion of Netflix productions and there being just one female director in competition. Some 21 features will be locking horns for the prized Golden Lion, which will be awarded on September 8 at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Venice Lido, the iconic setting for Luchino Visconti's masterpiece "Death in Venice". The festival jury is chaired by Guillermo Del Toro, last year's winner with "The Shape of Water". Australian Jennifer Kent is the only woman gunning for the Golden Lion this year, with "The Nightingale". The lack of female directors was blasted by feminist associations in an open letter sent on August 11 to the festival's artistic director Alberto Barbera. The letter was a reaction ... More
art berlin 2018 announces participating galleries
BERLIN.- art berlin announced its second edition, taking place from September 2730, 2018. Around 120 galleries from 21 countries offer the international art world a comprehensive overview of contemporary positions while also showcasing works of classic modernism. The fair takes place for the first time in two hangars of the historical Tempelhof Airport, since its decommissioning becoming a central Berlin location for a variety of cultural activities. This year more than 90 galleries present highlights from their programs in the fairs Galleries section. Of note are two collaborative initiatives: six Brazilian galleries join together to bring contemporary Latin American art to Berlin, while four Austrian galleries focus on the medium of sculpture. The Special Projects section is reserved for 28 solo presentations and curated projects that offer ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, photographer and painter Man Ray was born August 27, 1890. Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 - November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. In this image: Man Ray, L'Ãnigme d'Isidore Ducasse, 1920/1971. Empaquetage (Nähmaschine, Wolle, Seil) Sammlung Marion Meyer, Paris © Xavier Lahache, courtesy Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris © MAN RAY TRUST/Bildrecht, Wien, 2017/18.
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