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| | Antony Gormley's most significant show in the UK for over a decade opens in London | |
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Antony Gormley, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 21st September to 3rd December 2019 © the Artist. Photo: David Parry / © Royal Academy of Arts.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a solo exhibition of the internationally acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley (b. 1950), the most significant in the UK for over a decade. The exhibition brings together both existing and especially conceived new works for the occasion, from drawings and sculptures to experiential environments, that have taken on the RAs Main Galleries across all 13 rooms. Gormley sees the exhibition as a test site; engaging the senses, employing scale, darkness and light, and using elemental, organic and industrial materials. The works interact with the BeauxArts galleries, creating a series of distinct encounters that come together as a collective experience. It is a summation of Gormleys enduring concern with the inner dark space of the body itself and the bodys relation to its surroundings: the body as space and the body in space. ... More |
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 | | Zeit Contemporary Art presents an online exhibition devoted to the work of Eduardo Chillida | | Record price for an Inverted Jenny unique centerline block of four | | Hauser & Wirth opens the first solo exhibition in Greater China of Hans (Jean) Arp | 
Eduardo Chillida, Euzkadi II, 1975. Etching on paper Arches, 54 3/10 à 37 4/5 in. (138 à 96 cm.) Signed and numbered in pencil, from the edition of 50 ©2019 Zabalaga-Leku, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid. Image courtesy of Zeit Contemporary Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Zeit Contemporary Art is presenting an online exhibition devoted to the role of paper in the work of Eduardo Chillida as a medium for his prints and drawings as well as an innovative material for his sculptures. A well-known master of post-war sculpture, Chillida's work as a draftsman and printmaker remains underappreciated and not fully explored. This exhibition brings together more than 50 rarely seen works by the Spanish master dating from the late 1950s to the early 2000s. The works in this exhibition reveal Chillida as a radical inventor that used paper to explore the referential expression of his work, to reformulate the concept of collage, to expand the possibilities of printmaking, as well as to create unique tridimensional paper structures his Gravitations. Chillidas oeuvre is a physical meditation on the qualities and ... More | | 
Positions 45-46, 55-56, Well centred and disturbed original gum. A spectacular showpiece that is ranked among the top philatelic items in the world. Sold for: $1,740,000 (Including Buyers Premium).
NEW YORK, NY.- The iconic Inverted Jenny centerline block of four has been sold at Spink New York for a record-setting $1,740,000 million dollars, becoming the most expensive United States philatelic item sold at auction this year. The Inverted Jenny is one of the world's most recognizable stamps, and this spectacular realization for the unique centerline block cements its status as one of philately's legendary rarities. On 21st May 2014 Spink sold one of the most recognised and desirable errors in all American philately, the 24c. Inverted Jenny. Sold in a single lot auction the error from the J.E. Safra collection the single stamp realised $575,100. After handling such a rarity Spink was honoured to offer for auction not only a Single Inverted Jenny but a block of four. The single Inverted Jenny and the block of four were offered in two separate lots. The single Inverted Jenny described as one of the finest singles by our specialist Chr ... More | | 
Arp (1886 - 1966), Träumender Stern / Astre en rêve (Dreaming Star), 1958 (cast 2012) Bronze. AP, Ed. of 3 + 1 AP. 98 x 85 x 60 cm / 38 5/8 x 33 1/2 x 23 5/8 in. © Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin / Rolandswerth / 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich. Courtesy Stiftung Arp e.V. and Hauser & Wirth.
HONG KONG.- Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong is presenting the first solo exhibition in Greater China of Hans (Jean) Arp (1886 1966), one of the Masters of 20th Century Modern Art. Arp was at the forefront of the 20th Century Avant Garde, and associated strongly with Surrealism and the international Dada movement. Over a period of more than sixty years Arp produced an extraordinarily influential body of work that shifts fluidly between abstraction and representation, and between organic and geometric forms. The list of artists Arp befriended and collaborated with reads like a Whos Who of the avant garde: Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters to name just a few. Born in 1886 in Strasbourg, Alsace, a historically ... More |
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| | Brazil artists fear LGBT shows doomed under Bolsonaro | | Tacita Dean announced for Government Art Collection commission | | Major exhibition of David Nash's work opens this autumn at Towner Eastbourne | 
The director of the French-Brazilian Dos a Deux Company, Artur Luanda Ribeiro, poses for a photograph during an interview with AFP in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 19, 2019. MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- After a state-run theater in Brazil suddenly dropped his LGBT-themed stage show "Gritos," Artur Ribeiro began to worry it was curtains for his company under President Jair Bolsonaro. Ribeiro said the Caixa Cultural theater in the capital of Brasilia last week canceled the show, in which he plays a transgender character. "We knew Bolsonaro's arrival in power (in January) was going to be a dramatic turning point, but even in my worst nightmare I could not have imagined that it would be so terrible," said Ribeiro. His French theater company, Dos a Deux, opened its doors in Brazil in 2015 and Ribeiro now fears any new project by the company will be targeted by Brazil's censors. "They can very well say: 'Dos a Deux, no,'" Ribeiro said. Andre Curti, who ... More | | 
Tacita Dean, Foreign Policy (screenprint edition) 2019 (detail). Edition of 32 + 6 APs. Robson Orr TenTen Award: A Government Art Collection/Outset Annual Commission. Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris © Tacita Dean.
LONDON.- Leading British European artist Tacita Dean has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2019 by the Government Art Collection. The new work was unveiled at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Friday 27 September 2019 by Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Head of HM Diplomatic Service, and Penny Johnson, Director of the GAC. The Robson Orr TenTen Award is presented jointly by the Government Art Collection with Outset Contemporary Art Fund and is sponsored by leading philanthropists Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr. Every year a British artist is commissioned to create a unique, limited edition print to be shown in diplomatic buildings across ... More | | 
David Nash, Ancient Table, 1983. Photo © Noel Brown courtesy David Nash.
EASTBOURNE.- David Nash: 200 Seasons is one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of David Nashs work presented in England. The exhibition, from 28 September 2 February 2020, is a major survey of Nashs career from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his unique contribution to British sculpture and the international Land Art movement, and includes new work. 200 Seasons also marks a key moment in Towners programme of events and exhibitions, celebrating 10 years in the gallerys current building. The exhibition reflects the artists long relationship with Wales and East Sussex, in particular Capel Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog, his home and studio for over half a century. Installed across Towners four major gallery spaces, 200 Seasons feature key sculptures, films and drawings from the late 1960s to the present day. The sculptures explore the different ways the artist has cut, ... More |
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| | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens a major exhibition of works by Hannah Ryggen | | Exhibition presents a selection of prints from Cowboy Kate & Other Stories by Sam Haskins | | Ghosts of China's past haunt former capital Nanjing | 
Exhibition View © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2019, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- With her monumental tapestries the artist Hannah Ryggen (18941970) created a powerful, politically inspired oeuvre. Working from a small self-sufficient farm on the west coast of Norway, through her artworks she launched attacks on Hitler, Franco, and Mussolini, and made strong statements of support for the victims of fascism and National Socialism. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a major exhibition to the Swedish-Norwegian artist, running from September 26, 2019, to January 12, 2020. On the occasion of Norway being Guest of Honour at the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn is providing the first in-depth insight into Ryggens oeuvre to the German public. In the about twenty-five tapestries presented, she takes on the fundamental issues in society: the atrocities of war, the abuse of power, our dependence on nature, and familial relationships as well as those with our fellow men and ... More | | 
Cowboy Kate & Other Stories by Sam Haskins. © Sam Haskins Estate, 2019. All rights reserved.
LONDON.- Atlas Gallery is presenting a selection of cinematic black and white prints from the historic photobook Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964) shot by South African-British photographer Sam Haskins. Haskins and his wife Alida dreamt up the spirited Cowboy Kate after a model playfully posed in Haskins studio with her own black suede hat. Haskins dynamic photographs tell the tale of Kates youthful adventures fighting for justice in the Old West as she leaps lightly from page to page with a spring in her step. Cowboy Kate is a benchmark in the history of photography. Executing his photographs with technical and directorial mastery, Haskins cinematic approach and sensitivity to his subject matter made the book one of the most original photographic developments of the Sixties. It was the first photo book to offer a purely visual fictional narrative, and in doing so turned an unknown model into a fashion industry ... More | | 
This picture taken on September 4, 2019 shows a man walking past the oil painting "Seizing of the Presidential Palace " by Chen Yifei at a memorial commemorating the 1949 Yangtze River crossing campaign in Nanjing. STR / AFP.
NANJING (AFP).- The eastern city of Nanjing contains vestiges of China's past that represent an inconvenient truth for the government today: the Chinese world has not always revolved around the Communists and Beijing. China is preparing for grand celebrations next month to mark 70 years since Mao Zedong founded the Communist government based in the northern capital. But Nanjing locals still remember when Mao's Nationalist rivals controlled China from their city, and some hint at dismay over its lost stature. "Nanjing was the capital of short-lived dynasties in history, and regimes died away quickly," Jiang Shaojian, a Nanjing resident, told an AFP journalist. "It is cursed," he lamented. The two cities have long vied for the mantle of national capital, which ... More |
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| | Modern Art Oxford opens 'Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer' | | Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by John Zurier | | Three recent video installations by Jennifer Steinkamp on view at Lehmann Maupin | 
Kiki Smith, Shell, 1995. 24 carat gold © Kiki Smith. Courtesy Pace Gallery. Photograph by Tom Barratt, courtesy Pace Gallery.
OXFORD.- Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg, Germany, lives and works in New York, USA) is a pioneer of contemporary printmaking and sculpture who has created a materially experimental and multifaceted body of work that explores the political and social aspects of human nature. I am a Wanderer is Smiths first solo UK institutional show in 20 years, and represents a rare opportunity to experience her rich and vividly imaginative practice. Presenting over 80 works, selected in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition focuses on three key areas of Smiths practice. There are the large-scale tapestries produced between 2012 and 2016, a selection of small-scale sculptures dating from 19852015 (presented in dialogue with photographs that capture her larger sculptural installations), and a room of prints chosen from over 30 years of the artists innovative printmaking practice. ... More | | 
John Zurier, North from Here 1, 2019. Oil on linen, 78 x 48 inches (198.1 x 121.9 cm) Courtesy of Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery opened an exhibition of new paintings by John Zurier entitled, North from Here, at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists fifth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition runs through November 9. The title of the exhibition, North from Here, is shared by a series of three large paintings. For Zurier, the north evokes stark austerity and desolation; it is inhospitable and hostile, yet terrifyingly beautiful nature. Zuriers paintings of atmospheric color fields examine qualities of evanescent light as well as solid radiance. Offering nuanced examples of the mediums possibilities, Zurier pares down painting to the essentials with a sensory and allusive richness embedded in their asperity. The structural vocabularies and limited palette emphasize the beauty inherent in nature without reference to landscape. This subtle beauty is apparent in the subdued ... More | | 
Jennifer Steinkamp. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
HONG KONG.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Still-Life, an exhibition featuring three recent video installations by Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Steinkamp. A pioneer in the field of 3-D animation, Steinkamp works exclusively in digital media, using computer technology to render organic and abstract forms in motion. These immersive installations are projected at a large scale in response to the architectural interiors in which they appear. Each work alters the viewers typical experience of an object within a gallery and invites a more comprehensive understanding of space and time. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Still-Life (2019), which is part of a larger series the artist began in 2016. This body of work is a critical nod to the 16th century genre of Dutch and Flemish still life painting, in which still life paintings offered visual allegories about the fragility of life and the passage of time. Composed ... More |
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 Bonhams appoints Molly Ott Ambler as head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the AmericasNEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams has appointed Molly Ott Ambler to be Senior Vice President, International Director, Head of Americas: Impressionist & Modern Art. She takes up her new position on October 1, and will be based in Bonhams, New York. Molly joins Bonhams from the leading international art appraisal and acquisition firm, Gurr Johns, where she was Executive Vice President and the Director of Advisory, Americas. She began her career in the art world at Sothebys, and during her 21-year tenure, rose to the position of Senior International Specialist and Senior Vice President in the Impressionist & Modern Art Department. Among many notable achievements, Molly facilitated the consignment of Picassos powerful LAubade, which sold for $23m, the first 1960s Picasso painting to break the $20m mark. Bonhams Executive Chairman, Bruno ... More Banksy's chimpanzee parliament goes under the hammerLONDON.- A painting by British street artist Banksy depicting parliament populated by chimpanzees is to go on show on Saturday before going under auction. "Devolved Parliament", painted in 2009, is due to go on display until October 3, when it will go under the hammer at Sotheby's auction house. The derisive work is expected to fetch £1.5 million to £2 million ($1.85 million to $2.45 million, 1.7 million to 2.25 million euros). The current auction record for a Banksy artwork is $1,870,000, achieved by "Keep it Spotless" at Sotheby's New York in 2008. The sale comes after the controversial five-week suspension of Britain's parliament by Prime Minister Boris Johnson was deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court, with time running out before Britain is due to leave the European Union on October 31. Parliament was due to return on October 14 but instead ... More Artist-scientist breathes new life into ancient fossilsJOHANNESBURG (AFP).- It measures up to 10 metres (32.5 feet) from snout to tail, has four stumpy legs and -- most noticeable of all -- boasts a jaw lined with scary, jagged teeth. Even in pastel colours, this depiction of a rauisuchian -- a forerunner of today's crocodiles that roamed the world more than 200 million years ago in the Triassic period -- causes a shiver to run down the spine. Yet the drawing of the dino-chomping terror is not part of a teen sci-fi magazine, but an illustration to accompany a deeply serious scientific study published by South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand. It is the work of Viktor Radermacher, a South African who is half scientist and half artist. He is a "palaeo-artist" -- his job is to give the world an idea of what these long-extinct species looked like, but rooted in scientific scrutiny of their fossilised remains. "Palaeo-art ... More Kent Monkman painting donated to the Winnipeg Art Gallery for the CommunityWINNIPEG.- The Winnipeg Art Gallery announced the donation of a major painting by Kent Monkman to the WAG collection. Entitled The Deposition, the artwork is featured in Monkmans solo show, Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, which opens today and runs until February 9, 2020. Generously given by an anonymous donor, The Deposition is part of the Urban Res series, in which themes relating to historic and contemporary Indigenous experience such as colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience are transposed against contemporary urban backdrops. The Urban Res streets are populated with tattooed Renaissance angels, gang members protecting their neighbourhoods, ancestors visiting from the spirit world, observing and waiting - medicine men in beaded sports jerseys and a spirit buffalo herd. In The Deposition, Monkman references ... More First solo exhibition in London by artist Praneet Soi opens at The Mosaic RoomsLONDON.- Anamorphosis is the first solo exhibition in London by the Amsterdam based Indian artist Praneet Soi. The Mosaic Rooms has commissioned Soi to create a new body of work comprising paintings and drawings and a video work informed by his recent stays in Palestine. Anamorphosis also shows recent work based on the artists immersions in the workshop of a master craftsman in Kashmir. Running from 27 September 7 December 2019, the exhibition begins with Yalla Yasmeen. This latest single-channel video expands on his recent audio-visual installations which implement a cut and paste aesthetic, stitching together moving image, still image and drawings to generate a polyphonic narrative. During Sois visits to Palestine this year he travelled across the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, through the occupied Golan Heights, south ... More mumok opens exhibition of photographs by Heimrad BäckerVIENNA.- Heimrad Bäcker started photographing the premises of the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps in the 1960slong before remembering Nazi atrocities became a collective endeavor in Austria. The project became an extensive photographic record of the initially abandoned and later repurposed site: an inventory of a place in more than 14,000 photographs. Bäcker, whose work as an author and publisher stands out in Austrian literature after 1945, saw Mauthausen and Gusen as realms of memory in the sense of the French historian Pierre Nora. Nora coined the phrase lieux de mémoire to describe places where collective memory becomes manifest, thus allowing a culture of remembrance and historically motivated identity formation to emerge. In contrast to Nora, Bäcker was not primarily interested in national concerns but ... More Lee Ufan opens largest single outdoor sculpture project in the USWASHINGTON, DC.- Lee Ufan: Open Dimension is an ambitious site-specific commission by the celebrated Korean artist Lee Ufan. The expansive installation, featuring 10 new sculptures from the artists signature and continuing Relatum series, marks Lee Ufans largest single outdoor sculpture project in the US, the first exhibition of his work in the nations capital, and the first time in the Hirshhorns 45-year history that its 4.3-acre outdoor plaza has been devoted, almost in its entirety, to the work of a single artist. Each of Lees sculptures responds to the Museums unique architecture and continues his practice of placing contrasting materials, such as stainless steel plates and boulders, in dialogue with each other to heighten awareness of the world, in his words, exactly as it is. Leaving the materials mostly unaltered, Lee arranges them with careful attention ... More Henry Moore drawing and correspondence comes to light at Cheffins' Art & Design SaleCAMBRIDGE.- A sketch by one of the most significant British artists of the 20th century with accompanying correspondence which details a visit to his hometown is sure to draw plenty of attention when offered in Cheffins Art & Design Sale. The sketch of eight goats by Henry Moore, with a further sketch of five goats on the reverse, will come to market for the first time on Thursday 10th October with a postcard and letter to his old school friend, Gladys Atkinson Waring. Entered as Lot 402, it has been given an estimate of £3,000 - £5,000. Both addressed to Mrs Waring from Moores home at the time, 11A Parkhill Road, London, the postcard details his planned journey: Im coming early because I should like to have a look round Castleford, its so many years since I was last there. The letter thanks Mrs Waring for letting him stay and details the gift ... More Bonhams NY Jewels sale led by a rare blue diamond ring by Van Cleef & ArpelsNEW YORK, NY.- On September 26, Bonhams New York Jewels auction was led by a rare and impressive fancy intense blue diamond ring by Van Cleef & Arpels, which achieved $2,540,075, tripling its pre-sale estimate, weighing 2.17 carats, with a price per carat of $1,170,541. Brett OConnor, Bonhams Senior International Jewelry Director, comments: This sale demonstrated an appetite for signed iconic and unique jewels. In particular, rare and colored diamonds achieved notable prices in a full auction room with bidding coming from around the globe. The sale achieved nearly $6.8 million, far exceeding its presale estimate. Clients also competed for Van Cleef & Arpels jewels, which included a very fine emerald-cut Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond ring, weighing 6.09 carats, which sold for $312,575; an attractive oval-shaped Burma sapphire ring weighing ... More Signed Apollo 11 memorabilia heads to auction on Oct. 6 at L.A.'s Abell Auction Co.LOS ANGELES, CA.- An exclusive assortment of items from the estate of the late National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Thomas O. Paine, who oversaw the U.S. space program during the first manned missions to the moon, will be auctioned on Oct. 6 by Abell Auction Company in Los Angeles. Live bids will be accepted online and at the gallery (2613 Yates Ave.) starting at 10 a.m. PST. Named the third administrator of NASA by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969, Paine served during the first seven Apollo missions in which 20 astronauts orbited the earth, 14 flew to the moon and four walked on its surface. An array of rare NASA memorabilia signed by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins will be offered, including: Framed American flag with Apollo IX patch carried into space aboard Apollo IX ... More |
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