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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Little Devils Bridge, ca. 1806/07 Bleistift und Aquarell auf Papier, 18.4 x 26 cm, © Tate, London, 2019. LUCERNE.- The British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) travelled through Switzerland in search of spectacular motifs. During his travels he visited Lucerne several times in order to study the unique local interplay of light and weather conditions, lake and mountains. The artist first visited Central Switzerland in the year 1802, when tens of thousands of British travellers availed themselves of the brief period of the Peace of Amiens to go on the continent. The impressions of the sea and Alps were of major importance for Turner: here the beauty and the threat of nature culminated to typify the major theme of the sublime, which was central to Romanticism. With the advent of Romanticism, the Alps were no longer just an impediment on the way to the South, but a destination in themselves. At the same time they became a theme in art. Turner filled several sketchbooks with impressions of the rugged mountains. The depictions of the Schöllenenschlucht and the Mer de Glace testify t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dali: a history of painting now on view at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, offers the public an exceptional journey through Dali's artistic production and allows it to discover the different stages of the artist's creation.
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| Grimaldi Forum Monaco opens a major thematic exhibition dedicated to Salvador Dalà | | Frank Lloyd Wright buildings named UNESCO World Heritage sites | | Exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg surveys of the German photography scene around the year 1980 | Salvador DalÃ, Sans titre, Julien de Médicis d'après le tombeau de Julien de Médicis de Michel-Ange, c. 1982. Oil on canvas, 140 x 95 cm. Fundació Gala-Salvador DalÃ, Figueres. Succession DalÃ. MONACO.- Every summer, the Grimaldi Forum Monaco produces a major thematic exhibition, dedicated to a major artistic movement, to a heritage or civilisation theme, to a public or private collection, or to any subject in which the renewal of creativity is expressed. This provides an opportunity to highlight its assets and its specificities: the offer of a space of 4,000m² to create in complete freedom, making available the most powerful technological tools for the scenography of the event, being able to rely on the best specialists in each field to ensure the scientific quality of its exhibitions. In line with the great monographs of twentieth-century artists presented at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco (Super Warhol in 2003, Monaco celebrates Picasso in 2013 and more recently Francis Bacon, Monaco and French culture in 2016), the exhibition of summer 2019 ... More | | In this file photo taken on May 14, 2009 a view of the central dome and interior walkways is seen at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. STAN HONDA / AFP. WASHINGTON (AFP).- Eight masterworks by US architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, were selected as World Heritage sites Sunday, a first in the field of architecture for the United States. Wright, who died in 1959, was cited for his influential 20th-century designs that incorporated organic motives, blurred boundaries between the inside and outside, and made unprecedented use of steel and concrete. UNESCO's World Heritage Committee agreed on the designation at a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, along with the landscape of the Prosecco wine region in Italy. The Wright-designed buildings chosen for the designation include Fallingwater, a spectacular house built over a waterfall in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. The Guggenheim in New York, perhaps the architect's best-known creation, is famous for its spiral shape recalling a nautilus ... More | | Miron Zownir (*1953), New York, 1983. Gelatin silver paper, 23,2 x 15,4 cm © Miron Zownir. HAMBURG.- As part of its exhibition series Reconsidering Photography, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg is undertaking a survey of the German photography scene around the year 1980. The springboard for the examination is the journal Fotografie. Zeitschrift internationaler Fotokunst, published by Wolfgang Schulz (b. 1944) between 1977 and 1985. On the occasion of the exhibition, MKG is inviting photography experts Reinhard Matz (Cologne), Steffen Siegel (Folkwang University Essen), and Bernd Stiegler (University of Konstanz) to relate their research project on the 1980s to the historical photographs in the MKG collection. The aim of the collaboration is to create a historical archaeology of German photography around 1980 based on the example of the journal Fotografie and its protagonists. The exhibition will show some 150 photos by Wolfgang Schulz, Hans Christian Adam, Dörte EiÃfeldt, Verena von Gagern, André Gelpke, Dagmar Harti ... More |
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| Junya Ishigami's Serpentine Pavilion 2019 now open | | Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opens Paolo Scheggi's first solo exhibition in a British museum | | All-American supercar on offer now in Sotheby's & RM Sotheby's online only auction series | Serpentine Pavilion 2019 Designed by Junya Ishigami, Serpentine Gallery, London (21 June 6 October 2019), © Junya Ishigami + Associates, Photography © 2019 Iwan Baan. LONDON.- The Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, celebrated for his experimental structures that interpret traditional architectural conventions and reflect natural phenomena, has been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2019. Ishigamis design takes inspiration from roofs, the most common architectural feature used around the world. The design of the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a single canopy roof that appears to emerge from the ground of the surrounding Park. Within, the interior of the Pavilion is an enclosed cave-like space, a refuge for contemplation. For Ishigami, the Pavilion articulates his "free space" philosophy in which he seeks harmony between man-made structures and those that already exist in nature. Describing his design, Ishigami said: "My design for the Pavilion plays with our perspectives of the built environment against the backdrop of a natural ... More | | Paolo Scheggi, Inter-ena-cube, 1968. Modules of punched green cardboard and Plexiglas, 102 x 102 x 11 cm. Franca and Cosima Scheggi Collection, Milan. LONDON.- Paolo Scheggi (1940-1971) belonged to the neo-avant garde of the 1960s and was one of the protagonists of Spatialism. This exhibition spans his entire career, including his most famous works formed of overlapping layers of canvas pierced by biomorphic or geometric openings. Organized in collaboration with the Associazione Paolo Scheggi, Milan, this show provides a comprehensive overview of an extraordinarily experimental and multidisciplinary career. It is the first time a solo show by Scheggi has been presented in a British museum, and runs at Londons Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art from 3 July until 15 September 2019. Scheggi was born in Settignano (Florence) in 1940, and died in Rome in 1971. Over the course of a long decade (1958-1971), the artists research engaged with a range of disciplines, from the visual arts to architecture, fashion, poetry, and urban and theatrical performance. ... More | | The GT celebrates the highly successful GT40 program of the 1960s. Photo: Teddy Pieper © 2019 Courtesy of RM Sothebys. NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys and RM Sothebys have announced the offering of a 2006 Ford GT through their Online Only collector car auction series. The third automobile in the single-lot series to be offered on Sotheby's newly developed digital auction platform, the highly-desirable, all-American supercar is open for bidding as of 2 July and will run through 11 July at 12:00 pm EDT. Offered without reserve, the Ford GT is estimated to bring $280,000 - $340,000. A modern homage to Fords racing heritage, the GT celebrates the highly successful GT40 program of the 1960s, with which Ford won Le Mans an impressive four consecutive times. Produced just for the 2005 and 2006 model years, only 4,033 examples of the retro-styled Ford supercar were built. Powered by a 5.4-liter DOHC V-8 engine featuring a Lysholm twin-screw supercharger, the GT is rated at 550 hp and 500 foot-pounds of torque. The engine is paired to Ricardo six-speed manual t ... More |
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| The sad end of Joao Gilberto, the voice of the bossa nova | | Sculpture By The Sea, Cottesloe to return in 2020 after the Bendat Family Foundation & angel donors save the day | | Tate Modern opens Takis' largest exhibition in the UK to date | In this file photo taken on August 14, 2008, Brazilian singer and composer Joao Gilberto, 77, one of the trio of Brazilian artists who brought Bossa Nova to the world in 1958, performs during a concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Marco HERMES / AFP. RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- As if to say goodbye, Joao Gilberto emerged from seclusion a few days before his death and had dinner at a restaurant on Rio's Copacabana beach. The musician who gave the world the bossa nova and is remembered for his haunting version of "The Girl from Ipanema" died Saturday at age 88 after a life of international stardom but also mounting family, financial and health difficulties. On Tuesday, he made a final public appearance at a restaurant in Leme, at one end of the Copacabana beach, with his partner Maria do Ceu Harris and his lawyer, Gustavo Carvalho Miranda, who posted photos of the event. He had shellfish, his favorite dish, and drank Portuguese wine. On his way home, he reminisced about glorious dinners past, in New York after performing at Carnegie Hall, in Italy and in Rio ... More | | Norton Flavel, Dust. Sculpture By The Sea, Cottesloe, 2016. Photo: Clyde Yee. SYDNEY.- Sculpture by the Sea announced that Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, which faced the prospect of never happening again, will return to the sandy white shores of Cottesloe Beach in March 2020 thanks to The Bendat Family Foundation becoming the Perth Exhibition Patrons and 13 Angel Donors making substantial donations. Following the March announcement that this would be the last year of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe unless substantial new corporate, government or philanthropic funds were raised by the end of June, exhibition organisers were approached by The Bendat Family Foundation with an offer to help. After several very friendly and supportive conversations The Bendat Family Foundation agreed to become the Perth Exhibition Patrons for three years providing the largest annual philanthropic donation to date for the Cottesloe exhibition, which includes a significant new source of funding for WA sculptors. The Bendat Family Fo ... More | | Takis (b.1925), Musical Sphere 1985. Aluminium, iron, metal string, metal wire, paint, polyester, 160 à 100 à 114 cm. Takis Foundation © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019. Photo: Hlias Nak. LONDON.- Over a 70-year career, Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis, b.1925) has created some of the most innovative art of the 20th century. A sculptor of magnetism, light and sound, he seeks out the essential poetry and beauty of the electromagnetic universe. Takis was one of the most original artistic voices in Europe from the 1960s and remains a pioneering figure today. Bringing together over 80 works, this is Takis largest exhibition in the UK to date and includes a rarely-seen Magnetic Fields installation, musical devices generating resonant and random sounds, and forests of his pivotal Signals. Born in Athens in 1925, Takis is a self-taught artist who moved to Paris in 1954 and became a key figure in the artistic and literary circles of Paris, London and New York. His inventions earned him the admiration of the international avant-garde, from William S. Burroughs and the American ... More |
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| Massimo De Carlo London opens an exhibition by the New York based American artist Jamian Juliano-Villani | | Unseen announces the five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2019 | | Tate St Ives announces plans for Museum of the Year 2018 prize money | Lets Kill Nicole alludes to a friend, most likely in grade school, who makes a violently irrational suggestion, such as killing a bully or a friend. That suggestion is the vortex of the show. LONDON.- Massimo De Carlo London is presenting Lets Kill Nicole, an exhibition by the New York based American artist Jamian Juliano-Villani. Lets Kill Nicole alludes to a friend, most likely in grade school, who makes a violently irrational suggestion, such as killing a bully or a friend. That suggestion is the vortex of the show. Overtaci, a deer-cum-human figure, finds its origin from the obsessive work of a Danish outsider artist, Ovartaci. Ovartaci spent majority of her life as a patient mainly hidden in the Risskov Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark. Juliano-Villani reimagines the artists muse as a teenage American lacrosse player framed by a parents camera lens. The stale obsessive humanoid is frozen in activity, with the athletic shorts rolled up all the way up. When a veteran retires they are usually given ... More | | From the series Abzgram ® Karolina Wojtas. AMSTERDAM.- Unseen and ING announced the five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2019. The selected artists are: Elena Aya Bundurakis (1988, GR), Ulla Deventer (1984, DE), Irene Fenara (1990, IT), Kevin Osepa (1994, CW) and Karolina Wojtas (1996, PL). All five of them will undergo intensive coaching over the course of the next three months to produce a new body of work, under the direction of Adam Broomberg (1970, ZA) who, together with Oliver Chanarin (1971, GB), form the internationally renowned artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin. The works will be on view from 20 - 22 September in the ING Unseen Lounge during Unseen Amsterdam 2019. Through this award, ING seeks to support young talented artists who are pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium. The winners will be announced during the ING Unseen Talent Award Ceremony on 19 September. The ING Unseen Talent Award, a collaborative initiative by ING and Unse ... More | | Jamie Fobert Architects, Tate St Ives, Cornwall © Hufton+Crow. ST IVES.- Tate St Ives announced it will use the £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 prize money to develop a new community strategy with artists at its heart. The funds will support artist-led projects designed for, and in collaboration with, the communities of St Ives, alongside specially-commissioned public artworks in and around the gallery. The programme will deepen the gallerys longstanding commitment to local audiences, as well as honouring the unique history of St Ives as a place where artists put down roots. In the coming year, Tate St Ives will embed public art projects, devised for and with the town of St Ives, into the gallerys future programme. This will build on the success of pilot projects with artists who have enriched existing relationships with the town and engaged new audiences through dialogue and collaboration. Most recently this has included Another Hurling of the Silver Ball, a public art ... More |
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Time-Lapse: Installation of Mrinalini Mukherjee's Sculptures
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| More News | Galerie Cécile Fakhoury opens Armand Boua's second personal exhibition ABIDJAN.- Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is presenting Yopougon, Adjamé, Liberté, Armand Bouas second personal exhibition. Born in 1978 in Côte dIvoire, the Ivorian artist studied at Ãcole des Beaux-Arts in Abidjan and at Centre Technique des Arts appliqués in Bingerville, before choosing painting as the medium to develop his artistic practice. In the exhibition Yopougon, Adjamé, Liberté, Armand Boua invokes the neighbourhoods of Abidjan that inspire his body of work which consist of scenes of everyday life, both fleeting and persistent, singular and emblematic of a district, a city, a country and more broadly of a shared history. Successive to Brobrosseurs, his first solo show presented in Dakar in 2018, the new series on cardboards and canvases, appears as the fragmented depiction of the story of a youth struggling with a confused and restless, yet fascinating ... More Collect Art exhibits works by Hung Fai and Victor Wong at Duddell's Hong Kong HONG KONG.- Collect Art is presenting a group exhibition by Hong Kong contemporary ink artist Hung Fai and the first TECH-iNK artist Victor Wong at Duddells Hong Kong. On view from 26 June to 25 July 2019, Diverse Landscapes features Wongs works from the Escapism and Far Side of the Moon series, in dialogue with Hungs works from The Six Principles of Chinese Painting - Transmission and Splash series. From film to ink art, Victor Wong is the creator of A.I. Gemini, the worlds first robotic ink artist programmed with artificial intelligence to paint unique Chinese landscapes. The works from the Far Side of the Moon series are inspired by the ground-breaking contact with the unexplored side of the Moon in early 2019, when Chinas Change-4 probe landed on the distant hemisphere. Fed with the Change-4 images and 3D observation data from ... More Images of since-'erased' Sudanese protest art shown in London LONDON (AFP).- Sudanese anti-government protesters painted blistering images of defiance -- raised fists and rallying cries -- on the walls at their recent weeks-long sit-in demonstration in Khartoum that ended in a bloody crackdown. Much of their revolutionary street art was reportedly destroyed and now all that's left are photographs of their work, which are being exhibited at a central London university space turned into a temporary gallery. "Unfortunately a lot of this artwork has already been erased... we were lucky enough to have some pictures," Marwa Gibril, the organiser of the exhibition at SOAS University, told AFP as it opened on Friday. The 31-year-old member of the British chapter of the Sudanese Doctors Union said most of the works were painted over during a brutal June 3 raid on a longstanding protest camp that killed dozens of demonstrators ... More UNESCO adds Iranian forest to World Heritage List TEHRAN (AFP).- UNESCO's World Heritage Committee voted Friday to add Iran's Hyrcanian forests to its World Heritage List, praising the area for its "remarkable" biodiversity. The ancient Hyrcanian forests in northern Iran run 530 miles (850 kilometres) along the coast of the Caspian Sea, according to the global body. "Their floristic biodiversity is remarkable," UNESCO said, with some 44 percent of Iran's known vascular plants found in the Hyrcanian area. The forests, which date back up to 50 million years, are also home to the Persian leopard and nearly 60 other mammal species, as well as 160 bird species. They were just one of two natural sites added to the UNESCO list on Friday, the other in China, when the World Heritage Committee met in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku. Iran's only other natural site listed by UNESCO is the Lut Desert in the country's southwest, ... More The Art of Being Good: Tallinn Art Hall opens an international group exhibition TALLINN.- The international group exhibition The Art of Being Good is now open at Tallinn Art Hall. The exhibition looks at the ethics of making art in a complicated world that is struggling with global crisis, an attempt to produce a visual experience that takes the needs of our urgent situation seriously. It is likely that the inhabitants of every era have felt that they are living in a time of impending ruin. Almost daily, we read new reports in the news about the problems faced by a different species, the increased rate of glaciers melting, or the effect of climate change on human habitation. What we now know, is that the reason for all of this has been our eagerness to extract resources from the Earth and, for the first time, we are able to draw a direct line between our day-to-day behavior and these dire global developments. Truly, the art of being good is the art of moving, ... More The Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020 from the Akademie der Künste goes to Timm Ulrichs BERLIN.- Timm Ulrichs is to receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020, endowed with 12,000 euros. In the year of his 80th birthday, the artist born in Berlin is to be honoured for his life's work, which has proven to be a treasure trove and source of inspiration for subsequent generations of artists. The award ceremony and opening of the exhibition will take place on 23 January at the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg. The jury, consisting of Akademie members Ute Eskildsen, Wulf Herzogenrath and Gregor Schneider, stresses in particular that "Timm Ulrichs, far from the centres of art, has worked tirelessly as an autodidact to create his encyclopaedia of ideas. As a self-proclaimed 'Total Artist', he works in a variety of genres. In doing so, he does not pursue any overall concept with his wealth of ideas but rather searches for originality in each individual ... More The Center for Maine Contemporary Art opens a major exhibition of artist Ann Craven's paintings ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is presenting a major exhibition of artist Ann Cravens paintings on view through October 13, 2019. The exhibition, Ann Craven: Birds We Know, is the first show of the noted artists work in Maine, where she has been a seasonal resident and has been painting for more than 25 years. Ann Craven is widely known for her lushly colored, mesmerizing portraits of the moon, birds, flowers, and other images, which she revisits in serial fashion, as well as her painted bands of color, which document her process. Craven says, My paintings are a result of mere observation, experiment, and chance, and contain a variable thats constant and ever-changingthe moment just past. Birds We Know presents a comprehensive selection of the artists work, and is accompanied by an illustrated, hardcover ... More 26-metre-long tapestry installed in the Europa building in Brussels BRUSSELS.- A 26-metre-long tapestry titled Archipelago by artist and designer Kustaa Saksi was unveiled this past week in the Europa building in Brussels, in honour of Finlands third presidency of the European Union. The work was developed and produced in the TextielLab: the professional workplace for experimentation and innovation in the TextielMuseum in Tilburg. The tapestry will be on display in the Europa building until the end of December 2019. Archipelago was commissioned by the Finnish government. The tapestry comprises 18 separate woven sections that are joined together to form an imposing work that measures two metre wide and 26 metres long. The piece depicts an abstract image of the Finnish coast and its flora and fauna. The shapes reflect Finlands nature and landscape: from microscopic details of leaves and rhythmic structures that are ... More ACE Open welcomes new roles: Artistic Director and Executive Director ADELAIDE.- ACE Open announced the appointment of two new roles, Patrice Sharkey as Artistic Director and Louise Dunn as Executive Director to co-lead the organisation. Since its founding in 2017, ACE has focused on presenting a dynamic visual arts program that engages diverse communities and addresses pertinent cultural and social issues. It has become a critical pillar in sustainably supporting and developing a house of artist careers and contributing to contemporary Australian art discourse, such as interstate visibility for local Elyas Alavi through our partnership with Next Wave and firstdraft (2018), and the group exhibition Waqt al tagheer:Time of Change (2018) by Australian Muslim artist collective eleven- the first ever exhibition of this important collective. Under ACEs new leadership, we will see a breadth of skills and experience lead the organisation ... More Exhibition at ClampArt surveys three series of aerial photography by Zack Seckler NEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt is presenting Zack Seckler | Abovea mid-career retrospective of work surveying three series of aerial photography from Iceland, Botswana, and South Africa. In his mission to capture stunning aerial views of land, sea, and wildlife, Zack Seckler takes to the skies in tiny, single-propeller, light-sport aircrafts. His abstract photographs offer an extraordinary perspective of some of the planets most remote locations. Seckler uses the maneuverability of the small planes to his greatest advantage, instructing his pilots to fly precisely to locations which catch his interest. The artist describes the experience and the images he endeavors to capture: "From elevations between 50 and 500 feet, the landscape hovers on the line between things looking very real and recognizable and being more abstract. Thats what really draws ... More Decorative arts and wildlife art go up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Decorative Arts and Wildlife Art in a two-part estate sale on Sunday, July 14, 2019, at 10:30 am PDT. Offering 210 lots, the sale features a diverse range of items, mostly from two estates. Among the 163 lots in Part I the Cornish Estate of Decorative Arts are artworks from the 18th-20th centuries, including paintings, watercolors, drypoint, prints and lithographs; tableware from Herend and Quimper; silverplate decorative items; Royal Doulton, Rosenthal and Staffordshire figurines; a large selection of Limoges pill boxes; copper and brass vessels; Jim Beam golf tournament commemorative bottles; sterling silver bowls, flatware and a punch bowl; and several sculptures of foxes. Highlights include a numerous Lalique items, such a large rooster, Versailles and other vases, statuettes ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was born July 08, 1593. Artemisia Gentileschi or Artemisia Lomi (July 8, 1593 - c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following that of Caravaggio. In this image: Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Magdalene (detail). Oil on canvas, 81 x 105 cm; 32 by 411/3 in. €865.500 - World Auction Record for the Artist. Photo: Sotheby's.
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