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Indian artist Subodh Gupta poses next to one of his pieces at the Parisian museum La Monnaie de Paris (Musee du Conti) during a photo session on April 5, 2018, in Paris. La Monnaie de Paris will present the first retrospective in France of Gupta's work through April 13 - August 26, 2018. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP.
PARIS.- Monnaie de Paris presents « Adda / Rendez-vous», the first retrospective exhibition in France of internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Subodh Gupta. Gupta (b. 1964) lives and works in Delhi and had trained as a painter before going on to work with a variety of media including painting, performance, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Subodh Gupta sees the exhibition as a place for meetings, rendezvous that would trigger discussions, exchanges and debates just like the indhi concept «Adda». Showcasing the diversity of Subodh Guptas practice, the exhibition features iconic sculptures using stainless steels pots and pans, such as Very Hungry God (2006), for which Gupta is best known and cast found objects, such as Two Cows (2003), alongside very new works, like Unknown Treasure (2017) and the video titled Seven Billion Light Years (2016). While varied in material, the body of work is defined by the ar ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Costumes for "Hansel and Gretel" by costume designer Anthony Ward are pictured during a press preview of the exhibition "Fairy Tales" (Contes de Fées) at the National Center for Stage Costume (CNCS, Centre National du Costume de Scéne) in Moulins on April 5, 2018. "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Nutcracker" or "Donkey Skin", an exhibition at the National Center for Stage Costume (CNCS) in Moulins reveals how the live show reinterprets the characters of fairy tales under a variety of aesthetics. The exhibition, which opens on April 7 and runs through September 16, 2018 brings together more than 150 costumes and many models and excerpts of shows from fifteen stories often known to all since childhood. Thierry Zoccolan / AFP
| North Carolina Museum of Art opens "You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences" | | The Art Institute of Chicago explores the ancient bronzes coveted and collected by China's emperors | | Bruce Museum opens "In Time We Shall Know Ourselves: Photographs by Raymond Smith" |
Olafur Eliasson, Sunset Kaleidoscope, 2005, wood, steel, mirrors, motor, color-effect filter glass, dimensions variable; © 2005 installation view at Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence; Photograph: courtesy of Fredrik Nilsen.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art presents You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, featuring immersive art installations by 14 contemporary artists, April 7 through July 22, 2018. You Are Here includes large-scale light works, sound installations, video works, room-size environments, and site-specific projects. The artistsBill Viola, Janet Cardiff, Durham-based Heather Gordon, Anila Agha, and many moreemploy a diversity of media to create intriguing experiences that engage the senses, activate the imagination, and provide connections between the visitor and the work of art. You Are Here brings contemporary art to the NCMA on a scale that has never been done before, says Director Larry Wheeler. These transformative, immersive spaces will delight art lovers, technology enthusiasts, and ... More | |
Bell (nao), Western Zhou dynasty (1046771 BC). China, probably Hunan province. The Art Institute of Chicago. Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- Mirroring Chinas Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes, through May 13, 2018, features more than 180 exquisite objects once collected by Chinese emperors and prominent scholars, to bring to life the fascinating artistic tradition and historical context of ancient bronzes. In this, the first exhibition of its kind, visitors can explore these bronzes from ancient China and their deep and rich social and cultural histories: evolving from every day use for cooking, drinking, and serving food; to embodying a spirituality that played an essential role in religion and ritual, as well as to powerful symbols of divine omens for dynastic rulers. They also played a role in forming social relationships among the elites. Behind each bronze is a fascinating story waiting to be discovered. Drawing from the museums own holdings, private collections, and US museums, Mirroring Chinas Past also introduces visitors to objects on ... More | |
Raymond Smith (American, born 1942), Fotomat Girl, Louisville, Kentucky, 1974. Gelatin silver print, 5.5 x 5 inches. Lent by the artist.
GREENWICH, CONN.- On April 7, 2018, the Bruce Museum will open In Time We Shall Know Ourselves, an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by New Haven photographer Raymond Smith. The exhibition will be on display in the Museums Bantle Lecture Gallery through June 3, 2018. The Bruce Museum will host a reception and artist talk for the exhibition on Sunday, April 15, 3 5 pm. At 3:30 pm, Raymond Smith will present a lecture titled, I Am a Camera, which will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Inspired by the photographs taken in the American South in the 1930s by Walker Evans, a teacher and mentor of Smith at Yale University, as well as by Robert Franks The Americans (1958), in the summer of 1974 Smith embarked on a photographic expedition of his own. Smith traveled with his friend Suzanne Boyd in an aging Volkswagen from New England through the South and into the Midwest, camping and photographing ... More |
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| Mozart's childhood violin heads to China | | Japan animation giant Takahata dies at 82: studio | | Solo exhibition of recent paintings by Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson on view at Hauser & Wirth Zürich |
Seven year old Anna Cacilia Pfoess after playing a violin used by Mozart in front of Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (not in picture) at the Chancellery in Vienna, Austria, April 6, 2018. HERBERT NEUBAUER / APA / AFP
VIENNA (AFP).- The violin that Mozart used as a child left Friday for a state visit by Austrian government members to China, where a seven-year-old girl will play it for President Xi Jinping. The girl, Anna Caecilia Pfoess, "will accompany us... as a musical ambassador and represent Austria as a land of culture," President Alexander Van der Bellen said. "She will do it quite brilliantly, I am sure," Van der Bellen told reporters before the 200-strong delegation of politicians, business people and others departed. "#Music is a common language understood and appreciated the world over," he added on Twitter alongside a photo of the grinning seven-year-old clutching the instrument and wearing traditional Austrian garb. The violin is believed to have been made in the 1740s and until 1820 ... More | |
Isao Takahata attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards Oscar Week Celebrates Animated Features at Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Valerie Macon/Getty Images/AFP
TOKYO (AFP).- Oscar-nominated Japanese anime director Isao Takahata, who co-founded the Studio Ghibli and was best known for his work "Grave of the Fireflies", has died aged 82, the studio said on Friday. "(His death) is true, but we can't comment further as we are trying to confirm some facts around it," a Studio Ghibli spokeswoman told AFP. Citing unnamed sources related to him, public broadcaster NHK said he had died at a Tokyo hospital after a recent bout of ill health. Takahata's latest film, "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" earned him an Academy nomination in 2014 for best animated feature. It was also selected for a slot in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar to the main competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. However, most consider the 1988 film "Grave of the Fireflies", a moving tale of two orphans during World War II, to be his best work. ... More | |
Keith Tyson, 9 Oil Rigs (Any Style), 2017 2018. Oil on canvas, 235.5 x 189 cm / 92 3/4 x 74 3/8 in (framed). Comprised of 9 framed canvases: 63 x 78.5 x 4.5 cm each. Overall dimensions: 235.5 x 189 cm / 92 3/4 x 74 3/8 in. © Keith Tyson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Keith Tyson Projects.
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth Zürich is presenting a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson. Created between 2012 and 2018, the works on display explore the varied approaches towards painting Tyson employs, from conceptual to mythological to formalist and beyond, and how these methodologies are united in the final result of paint on a canvas. The exhibition title BIG DATA references Tysons ongoing interest in interconnectivity, universal experiences and the effect of computing and data consumption on himself and society as a whole over the past several decades. Since 1975, computers, coding and data have been an inextricable element of Tysons life. From taking apart a motherboard as a teenager to ... More |
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| Brush and Beyond: Boers-Li Gallery opens a group show of rarely-exhibited works | | Perrotin Paris exhibits works by Matthew Ronay | | Rossi & Rossi inaugurates its partnership with Giovanni Martino with a solo exhibition of Aldo Mondino |
Wu Dayu, Untitled I-682, ca.1980s. Pastel on paper, 5 4/5 x 4 1/10 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Boers-Li Gallery is presenting Brush and Beyond, a group show of rarely-exhibited and ardently sought-after paintings and drawings by Wu Dayu (1903-1988), Yu Youhan (b.1943, Shanghai), and Zhang Wei (b.1952, Beijing). Curated by the scholar Gao Minglu, this exhibition presents a study of the evolution of mainland Chinese abstract painting, and embodies a dialogue between the tradition of Chinese ink and that of Western oil painting. Internationally-acclaimed painters in their own right, Wu Dayu, Yu Youhan and Zhang Wei represent three different conceptions of early abstract painting that anticipate more recent waves in Chinese contemporary art. Brush and Beyond brings together for the first time Wu Dayus intimate oil paintings and works on paper from the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s, and more recent pieces by Zhang Wei and Yu Youhan. Foregrounding abstraction as subject matter, ... More | |
(Background): Midnight Ascent, 2017. Basswood, dye, gouache, canvas, flocking, plastic, steel, 139.7 Ã 119.4 Ã 8.9 cm / 55 Ã 47 Ã 3 1/2 in (Front): Terra/Firmament, 2017. Basswood, dye, gouache, flocking, plastic, steel, 69.9 Ã 60.3 Ã 53.3 cm / 27 1/2 Ã 23 3/4 Ã 21 in.
PARIS.- The last time I visited Matthew Ronays studio, I found him sitting on a chair in the center of the room. He was wearing a pair of royal blue basketball shoes with an overlaid white mesh pattern and a milky translucent sole. To his right sat an identical pair, similarly worn and arranged in exactly the same position as the pair on his feet, as if an invisible Matthew were sitting on an invisible chair to his immediate left. The Jordan Horizon, Ronay explained, is a hybrid, a mutation within the Jordan speciescombining the clean lines of the Jordan Future with the distinctive lobular sole of the Jordan 13. He liked this variation so much that he got two identical pairs and, rather than setting one aside for later, put both to immediate use. Ronay works from drawingsdeceptively simple sketches in a small notebook he keeps with him at ... More | |
Aldo Mondino, Blaise Cendrars, 1991. Oil on linoleum, 50 x 40 cm (19 ¾ x 15 ¾ in).
LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi inaugurates its partnership with Giovanni Martino to show European art in Asia with an exhibition on the work of Italian postmodern provocateur Aldo Mondino (19382005). Centred on painting but also investigating sculpture and performance, Mondinos work developed through the appropriation of the stylistic and formal qualities of both the historical avant-garde (Surrealism and Dadaism) and works produced by his contemporaries. Mondino was fond of using unusual materials linking the concepts of Arte Povera with emotions, which he represented with sculptures made of chocolate, paintings on sheets of linoleum, mosaics of marshmallows, carpets of coffee and seeds, and chandeliers of biros, as well as sculptures in bronze, ceramic, wood and glass. Considered amongst his most significant innovations, painting on linoleum allowed the artist to exploit the irregular patterns and colours of the substrate to ... More |
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| Reflex Gallery presents a collection of Miles Aldrige's recent work | | Crocker Art Museum, Bank of America partner to conserve beloved Thiebaud paintings for future generations | | Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens exhibition of works by Kai Samuels-Davis |
Miles Aldridge, Love Always & All Ways (after Gilbert & George) #5, 2017 (detail). Courtesy Miles Aldridge and Reflex Gallery Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- The globally renowned photographer and artist, Miles Aldridge, is celebrated for his chromatically daring, highly finished works, which recall the glamour of cinema, the charge of the femme fatale set in the trappings of modern life. One of the worlds most inspiring image-makers, Aldridge combines a meticulous approach and a rare flair for drama and narrative. Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam presents a collection of his recent work in a show entitled ART HISTORY - a chance to see Aldridges response to the artists who have inspired him and shaped his visual idiom. The exhibition runs from 7 April until 22 May 2018. Aldridge, born in London in 1964, studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art and spent days wandering around the National Gallery, sketching. It was there that he fell for the work of the Northern Renaissance artists Lucas Cranach and Albrecht ... More | |
Wayne Thiebaud, Street and Shadow, 19821983. Oil on linen, 35 ¾ x 23 ¾ in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Artists family, 1996.3 © Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- This spring, the Crocker Art Museum is conducting a conservation project of five iconic paintings by one of Americas most beloved artists, Wayne Thiebaud. The oil-on-canvas paintings, which are among the most treasured works in the Crockers permanent collection, are currently being glazed and reframed thanks to a generous contribution of $15,000 from Bank of Americas Art Conservation Project. Often associated with the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) is known for his distinctive paintings of food, common household items, figures, and landscapes. Known for his bright palette, consumerist imagery, and graphic presentation, Thiebauds paintings are thick with impasto, emphasizing the paint as a compositional element in ... More | |
Kai Samuels-Davis, Found, 2018. Oil on panel, 36 x 30.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces The Shadows, an exhibition of new work by Kai Samuels-Davis. Each of Samuels-Daviss paintings are born of a long creative process. Some take years to complete as he reworks marks and rethinks colors in a struggle for balance and harmony. The constant negotiation of a distinct emotional pitcha task profoundly impacted by Samuels-Daviss changing life circumstancesalso defines his process. As the layers of paint and personal history build, so too does a sense of depth and dimensionality, lending a mystery to the works that precludes simple or linear readings. Samuels-Daviss style manifests a singular fusion of abstraction and representation. While the figurative elements provide familiar touch points for the viewer, the abstraction creates apertures within the composition that focus it on emotion. The triptych The Disruption IIII (2017), ... More |
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First Americans returns to the Bowers after a whirlwind world tour
SANTA ANA, CA.- The Bowers Museum presents its newest exhibition, First Americans: Tribal Art from North America, on view April 7, 2018 - August 19, 2018. This exhibition features over 100 highlights from the Bowers Native American collection, specifically presented to explore the diversity of North Americas native peoples. This fourth stop on First Americans international tour marks its homecoming to the Bowers after a critically acclaimed opening at the Museo del Oro in Bogota, Colombia in 2012 and three museums across China from 2014-2015. This groundbreaking Chinese tour was the first ever major exhibition of Native American art on view in China. First Americans includes artwork representative of native people from the Artic North, Northwest Coast, California, Southwest and the Great Plains. The diverse artistic traditions found in these ... More
Anna Walinska featured artist in Nassau County Art Museum Jazz Age exhibit
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Wild, hot, roaring, and free, the Jazz Age is immediately identified as the decadent heyday of such heroes as Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and other rebels who would live it up to write it down in New York, Paris and the Riviera. The giants among the painters were Picasso, Leger, Mondrian, Modigliani, Chagall, Lachaise, Maillol, Stuart Davis and Tamara de Lempicka. In the new exhibit, Anything Goes: The Jazz Age in Art, Music and Literature, on view at the Nassau County Museum of Art, there is one artist being featured whose name is less recognized, but whose art stands among the very best of the era: Anna Walinska. Born in London and raised in New York City, Anna Walinksas life and art spans the century of American modernism, paralleling the history of the New York ... More
Ikon exhibits new work by British artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell
BIRMINGHAM.- Ikon presents an exhibition of new work by British artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, marking the 40th year of their artistic partnership. Ben Langlands (born 1955) and Nikki Bell (born 1959) met while studying Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic, London, and have worked collaboratively since 1978. Featuring the new iconic architecture of the global technology companies such as Apple, Facebook, Alibaba and Google, the exhibition includes a new series of relief sculptures, installations, digital animations and portraits that explore the increasingly profound influence these huge companies have on our lives in the age of Big Data. Nearly all of our art explores human social and cultural relationships, from the personal to the political, through architecture and the coded structures of communication and exchange that surround us. We see ... More
Exhibition of new abstract encaustic paintings by Betsy Eby opens at Octavia Art Gallery
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery presents Bellwether, an exhibition of new abstract encaustic paintings by Betsy Eby. This body of work continues to draw from the rhythms and resonances in nature and music, while also capturing Ebys impressions of the cultural and physical climate today. Betsy Ebys lyrically abstract paintings are created using an encaustic technique. This ancient process is one by which layers of pigment, sap and wax are molten when applied to the canvas and are then reheated by torch flame in order to fuse each layer together. It is a laborious and delicate process that Eby has refined over the years, generating a signature method and language through which she intuitively composes her lush and dynamic works. Her resultant canvases have a luminous organic surface coupled with a spatial density that is created, not ... More
Long Distance Call: Galerie Gisela Clement presents the work of Alison Hall
BONN.- In her second solo exhibition at Galerie Gisela Clement, New York-based artist Alison Hall (b. 1980, Virginia) presents new work made while using the gallery's project space as her studio for eight weeks. The works of the artist are not only proof of an intense examination of recent american history, but also evidence for her deep attachment with art history, especially with italian frescoes of the 13th century. Her panels are layered with sanded/polished plaster and are then painted in shades of dark blue and black. The surface of her artpieces show an enormous fineness and sensuality. The filigree patterns of graphite which can be found in all her works, reflect the collected memories and experiences of the artists life. This creates a complex image that seems to change constantly, depending on the point of view. While having a closer look on her works, ... More
Exhibition surveys the award-winning editorial work of fashion illustrator and Denver resident Jim Howard
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum is presenting the award-winning editorial work of fashion illustrator and Denver resident Jim Howard (American, b. 1930) in Drawn to Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard March 25-Aug. 5, 2018. The exhibition surveys Howards four-decade fashion illustration career through more than 100 works on paper, starting with his early advertising campaigns for Neiman Marcus in the late 1950s. Howards career encapsulates the history of editorial fashion illustration, primarily at its height during the 70s and 80s, prior to the industrys shift towards photography. Organized by the DAM and curated by Florence Müller, Avenir Foundation Curator of Textile Art and Fashion at the DAM, and Jane Burke, senior curatorial assistant of textile art and fashion at the DAM, the exhibition offers a nostalgic look at fashion trends set by ... More
untilthen presents the first solo show of Gaëlle Choisne
PARIS.- The work of Gaëlle Choisne is an address to the disorder of the world. Impervious to pessimism and catastrophism, Choisne mirrors the complexity of our contemporary era through multiple medias and materials that she will fashion and organize into sprawling installations, blending sculptures, images and referential systems that conflate within bountiful environments inhabited by the artists gestures. Between occult tales and scientific objectivity, from the Carribean to the European literary traditions, Gaëlle Choisne navigates her way amongst layered mindscapes, as composite as the techniques implemented to make them come to life : molding, baking, print, hanging, collage, twisting, extraction. Choisnes keen interest in the work process is quite often left to be seen in the installations-sculpturesimages, which are always verging on the experimental. As ... More
Zidoun-Bossuyt gallery exhibits works by British artist Danny Fox
LUXEMBOURG.- Zidoun-Bossuyt gallery is presenting the first exhibition of British artist Danny Fox. The history of Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles, where Danny Fox works and which informs Blood Spots on Apple Flesh, pivots on the stories of migrants. Formerly an agricultural center, the 54-block area was transformed by railroads in the 1870s, becoming a hub for recent arrivals with its brothels, bars, and seedy hotels.[1] Throughout the twentieth century, the district welcomed those displaced by the currents of history. More than 10,000 homeless lived there during the Great Depression; in the 1960s, returning Vietnam veterans with addiction came to its treatment centers. Today, Skid Row has one of the countrys largest consistent homeless populations.[2] Its character has been forged by newly arrived young men, often immigrants or travelers looking ... More
Postmasters opens exhibition of works by Uruguayan artist Emilio Bianchic
NEW YORK, NY.- Uruguayan artist Emilio Bianchic returns to Postmasters for his solo exhibition ooh la la. Working with artificial nails, video, and performance, Bianchic unpacks the manufacturing of identity in domestic, intimate, and corporeal spaces. In the summer of 2015, Bianchics exhibition of video art at Postmasters was lauded as one of the most memorable exhibitions of the year, and he recently debuted a series of videos with his collective Básica TV at NADA New York. Una fiesta del error, which literally translates to a party of error, is the artists phrase to describe the absurdist, whimsical humor found in the videos, photographs, and installations comprising the exhibition. There are no mistakes, though, even if Bianchic is obsessed with doing things the wrong way or, at least not how one would expect them to be done. Its how he arrived at performing ... More
British soldier art from the Crimean War to today on view at Compton Verney
COMPTON VERNEY.- To mark the centenary of Armistice Day, artworks made by soldiers from the 19th century to the present day reveal intimate glimpses of soldiers lives - from the heroic to the mundane - at Compton Verney in spring 2018. Created in Conflict will not only explore the subject of soldier art, but also shine a light on life behind the battle lines, by the people who were there. The exhibition showcases the incredible diversity, resourcefulness and beauty of art produced in wartime, including works made by soldiers in the Crimean War and in the trenches during World War I. Exhibits include an exquisite tiny matchbox house; detailed quilts that reveal how making was often an act of both practical and emotional survival; an oil painting depicting a recuperating soldier during the Crimea, as well as toys produced by convalescing soldiers. The ... More
A whole from a different half: Works by Pratchaya Phinthong on view at gb agency
PARIS.- The idea of journey resonates and remains relevant in Pratchaya Phinthongs oeuvre. It is the mean by which experiences and materials are accumulated, measured, formulated and transmitted into the realm of art. Each journey defines sequences of his artistic operation, which can be interpreted as correspondences between diverse entities. The algorithm of his operation bases on movement and tension between divergent realities, processing an ensemble of narrative devices. For A whole from a different half, Phinthong starts with inquiry to regenerate his past works, notably One of Them, (2012) which has led him on a journey to Tövkhön Monastery, one of the oldest Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mongolia, on the sacred hill of Shireet Ulaan in Ãvörkhangai Province. The monastery was found in 1653 as a hermitage and workshop of apprentices for Ãndör Gegeen ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French painter Gino Severini was born April 07, 1883. Gino Severini (7 April 1883 - 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. In this image: A visitor looks at paintings, 'Femme a la Mandoline' (L) and 'Les joueurs de Cartes' (R) by Italian futurist and neo-classic artist Gino Severini,1883-1966, at the Orangerie Museum in Paris.
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