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Wisteria (1917-1920) is one of the most expressive paintings Claude Monet ever produced. He was around eighty years old when he painted it in his garden at Giverny, near Paris.
THE HAGUE.- Conservator Ruth Hoppe got the surprise of her life when she looked at the x-ray of Wisteria. This masterpiece, one of three paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) in Gemeentemuseum Den Haags collection, was removed from the museum for the first time several months ago and taken to the conservation studio. To investigate the damage to the canvas Hoppe had it x-rayed and had several other tests carried out on it. She never imagined that, besides learning more about the damage the painting had sustained, she would also discover a group of water lilies. Wisteria was already a very special painting, actually, explains curator Frouke van Dijke. There are only seven paintings by Monet with this subject. But of course the water lilies are the iconic Monet image. The fact that there are also water lilies under Wisteria makes the painting all the more special, and it also adds a number of pieces to the puzzle in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Students attach a work at the Art of the Sudanese Revolution exhibition at SOAS University in London on July 5, 2019. The exhibition features pictures of street art made during the uprising against longtime president Omar al-Bashir. Tolga Akmen / AFP
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| | | OPEN's UCCA Dune Art Museum wins 2019 AZ Awards | | Exhibition explores the relevance and versatility of the sign 'X' - or cross in Antoni Täpies' work | | Paul Destribats: Bibliothèque des Avant-Gardes Part I achieves €8,1 million |
Outdoor Exhibition Terrace © Zaiye Studio.
BEIJING.- OPEN's UCCA Dune Art Museum in Qinhuangdao, China, was awarded the 2019 AZ Awards Winner in the "Buildings Under 1,000 Square Metres" category, at the Awards Gala held in Toronto on June 21. This year, the AZ Awards attracted 1,175 submissions from 50 countries. The judging panel comprised of 5 leading figures in the architectural and design fields including Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne. After two rounds of careful reviews and evaluations, 20 standout winners were selected, among which are many exceptional works by pre-eminent architectural studios, including Helsinki Central Library Oodi by ALA Architects, and 520 West 28th by Zaha Hadid Architects. The Dune Art Museum embodies a unique relationship between interior and exterior. The space speaks of the place, and the materiality coherently fosters the concept. Stefano Pujatti, the jury member Pure, simple and touching, the UCCA Dune Art Museum is a san ... More | |
Antoni Tà pies, Gran creu negra, Executed in 1990 (detail). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies Xhibition: Antoni Tà pies is now on view until 19 July 2019. Displayed in the St Jamess galleries at King Street, the exhibition showcases 35 paintings and works on paper that explore the relevance and versatility of the sign `X´ - or cross in Tà pies work. Potent, economical and multivalent, the symbol is highly charged yet refuses rigid interpretation. Throughout his oeuvre of richly varied media, crosses are carved, painted, scrawled and collaged, constantly shifting their impact. Tà pies ambiguous use of the cross exploited its commonplace uses of marking locations on maps or deriving religious connotations, he even used it as the first initial of his surname. Through his art, Tà pies evolved his own esoteric language to explore wider ideas about the relationship between matter and spirit. Developing his youthful interest in Surrealism, dreams and magic, he sought to physically incorporate ... More | |
Paul Eluard (1895-1952) and Pablo Picasso (1883-1971), La barre d'appui. Estimate: 100,000-150,000. Sold for 532,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- The top lot of the sale was La barre dappui by Paul Eluard and Pablo Picasso, which sold for 532,000 against a presale estimate of 100,000-150,000 (lot 428). Christies Books department is extremely pleased with the success achieved for the first part of Paul Destribatss collection (607 lots dating from the 1910s to 1945) which realised a total of 8,116,813, far beyond its presale global estimate of 5-7 million. International interest with buyers coming from 20 countries confirms the exceptional and unique character of this collection in the history of art. The emblematic texts about Surrealism attracted institutions and bibliophiles, aware of this rare opportunity to acquire iconic books, such as the Second Manifeste du Surréalisme by André Breton, enriched with a superb photographic binding executed by Paul Bonnet ... More |
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| | | The Museum der Moderne Salzburg opens a comprehensive survey of works by Sigalit Landau | | Shortlist announced for world's top photography prize | | Exhibition explores tea as a muse and its cultural significance throughout the centuries |
Installation view.
SALZBURG.- Sigalit Landau (b. Jerusalem, IL, 1969) is one of Israels most prominent contemporary artists of her generation. For over fifteen years, the Dead Sea has been a source of inspiration and a laboratory for Landaus video works, photographic series and salt sculptures. Her site-specific work, in a variety of mediums, relates to private and collective memory, archaic and utopic myths, and to present day issues of the human condition. Using a diverse range of materials, while interacting with the human body, Landau weaves the social with the intimate, the historical with the private, the local with narratives of epic scale. The exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg will premier salt-crystallized sculptures and installations created by Landau throughout her years of work at the Dead Sea. Almost as a ritual, she and her team have been immersing objects in the saturated saline waters of this ... More | |
Ross McDonnell, Limbs No. 1, 2012. From the series: Limbs, 2012© Ross McDonnell, Prix Pictet.
LONDON.- The shortlist of twelve photographers selected for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and sustainability, was announced last night, Thursday 4 July 2019, at a presentation at the opening of Les Rencontres dArles International Photography Festival. The shortlisted photographers are: Shahidul Alam, born 1955 Bangladesh, based in Dhaka Joana Choumali, born 1974 Côte dIvoire, based in Abidjan Margaret Courtney-Clarke, born 1949 Namibia, based in Swakopmund Rena Effendi, born 1977 Baku, based in Istanbul Lucas Foglia, born 1983 USA, based in San Francisco Janelle Lynch, born 1969 USA, based in New York Ross McDonnell, born 1979 Ireland, based in New York Gideon Mendel, born 1959 South Africa, based in London Ivor Prickett, born 1983 Ireland, based in Europe and the Middle ... More | |
Johann Zoffany (German, 1733 - 1810) John, Fourteenth Lord Willoughby de Broke, and His Family, about 1766 (detail), Digital image © of the Getty's Open Content Program.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Splosh, a brew, wink-tippling cordial, Rosie Lee, nectar of the gods, a cuppa, builders, char... Whatever you call it, or whether you put the milk in before or after, we can all agree that the British have a unique relationship with tea. This summer an immersive exhibition coming to Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, promises to take you on a journey across time and continents, to explore tea as a muse and its cultural significance throughout the centuries. A Tea Journey: from the Mountains to the Table will examine how a simple infusion of leaves from the Camellia Sinensis plant in hot water has travelled across the globe to permeate every strata of our society. From the plant to the pot, tea has inspired all manner of artistic expression; from ceramics, ... More |
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| | | International interest drives Bertoia's Spring Toy Sale to $1.3 million | | Pangolin London opens an exhibition of exquisite new work by Merete Rasmussen | | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opens a small retrospective of the work of Ben Akkerman |
Althof Bergmann Columbia ferry boat, 13 inches long, hand-painted, stenciled tin. Sold for $40,800 against a $20,000-$30,000 estimate.
VINELAND, NJ.- Premium-quality pieces from prestigious toy, bank and train collections attracted a strong contingent of bidders to literally every category represented in Bertoias May 23-24 Annual Spring Toy Sale. Just over 1,000 lots crossed the auction block, taking in $1.3 million. All prices quoted in this report are inclusive of 20% buyers premium. The star of the two-day event was a spectacular Althof Bergmann stenciled tin Columbia ferry boat that swept past its $20,000-$30,000 estimate to dock at $40,800. The buyer was an American collector known for his discerning eye and preference for especially fine tin toys. We had a nice turnout in-house, especially for still banks. The distance some collectors drove to compete in person was quite surprising to us, said Bertoia Auctions owner Jeanne Bertoia. The impressive array of still banks included more than 300 items from the estate collection of Ohioan Ned B ... More | |
Merete Rasmussen, Entwined Red, 2019. Ceramic with coloured slip. Unique, 41 x 50 x 40 cm.
LONDON.- This summer, Pangolin London presents exquisite new work by Merete Rasmussen. The highly anticipated ceramic artist is known for her signature abstract forms brought to life with colour. Her first solo show in four years, this exhibition brings together an exciting body of new work which Rasmussen has created since moving out of London and building her own studio in the beautiful countryside of East Sussex. Known for her instantly recognisable ceramics which are painstakingly hand-built using the coil technique, a highlight of the show, Dual Form, is a large piece in two segments, presented as one form and synergised by a flaming orange. Rasmussen has also been working on a new collection of smaller bronzes. The use of this material allows her the freedom to experiment with small scale works which are difficult in the ceramic. Another highlight is an impressive red form of complex, hand-crafted geometry. The idea focuses on g ... More | |
Ben Akkerman (1920-2010), No title, 1981-192, oil paint, canvas, panels (wood), 133,5 x 79,5 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
THE HAGUE.- In 1981-1982 Ben Akkerman (1920-2010) painted a monochrome, diamond-shaped canvas in yellow. From close it is possible to see how he applied the paint layer by layer. From 6 July this work will be on display in Gemeentemuseum Den Haags Project Gallery, among some thirty other paintings and drawings by Akkerman. In this exhibition the museum will present a small retrospective of the work of this Dutch artist, and symbolically bid farewell to the yellow diamond in its current logo, ahead of its change of name to Kunstmuseum Den Haag this autumn. In the 1970s Akkerman was one of the leading representatives of fundamental painting in the Netherlands. The diamond-shaped painting of 1981-1982 (Untitled) is representative of his oeuvre, in which every painting displayed elementary paint marks and brushstrokes. Akkermans impasto paint layers, in warm yellow, sombre grey or pale green, ... More |
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| | | Modern Art opens a major exhibition of paintings by Lois Dodd spanning the last six decades of the artist's career | | Exhibition of new large scale works by Natasha Law on view at Eleven | | Babylon, world wonder and jewel of Iraq's national narrative |
Falling Window Sash, 1992, oil on linen, 152.4 x 96.5 cm, 60 x 38 ins. Courtesy Modern Art, London & Alexandre Gallery, New York.
LONDON.- Modern Art opened a major exhibition of paintings by Lois Dodd spanning the last six decades of the artists career. This is Dodds first exhibition with the gallery and her first survey outside America. The show will include works encompassing the breadth of Dodds output and covering key motifs including landscapes, isolated architectural elements, nocturnal scenes and burning houses. Lois Dodd (b. Montclair, New Jersey, 1927) has spent more than seventy years attentively observing the natural and manmade architectures of her surroundings and recording them in paint. Her works preserve the beauty camouflaged in ordinary and occasionally enigmatic details such as windows, wood siding, greenery and washing lines. Dodds quintessentially American pictures recount a life spent painting outdoors, ... More | |
Natasha Law. Pink Shapes on Red.
LONDON.- Eleven is presenting Deliberations, an exhibition of new large scale works by Natasha Law, that runs until 28th September 2019. To accompany the exhibition the following text has been written by Lucy Davies. The act of putting on or taking off our clothes could not be more ordinary. We do it at least twice a day, every day probably fifty thousand times over a lifetime. And yet to catch sight of someone else engaged in the same undertaking can be an extraordinarily intimate thing. In Natasha Laws paintings, women are either fully absorbed in the task at hand, or lost in their own private reverie. They are at their most vulnerable alone, half-nude, aloof, unprepared for prying eyes though to redress the balance their faces are almost always turned away, hidden by falling hair or an astutely placed elbow, even cut out of the frame altogether. Anatomical accuracy is less important than expressing an emoti ... More | |
In this file photo taken on June 29, 2019, the Babel's Lion at the ancient archaeological site of Babylon, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Hussein FALEH / AFP.
HILLA (AFP).- Babylon was once hanging gardens and opulent temples before parts were excavated and smuggled to Europe. A bastion for Saddam Hussein, then the forces overthrowing him. A centre of enlightenment, repeatedly destroyed. Like Iraq, the 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian city has borne witness to the heights of grandeur and lows of destruction, a long legacy now recognised on the United Nations' list of World Heritage sites. The World Heritage Committee met on Friday in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku and voted to include Babylon on the prestigious list, a rank Iraqi authorities had been lobbying since 1983 to reach. Hundreds of kilometres away, under the setting summer sun, 38-year-old Farzad Salehi walked in awe with a friend and their guide along the processional ... More |
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Iceland glacier national park named World Heritage site
REYKJAVIK (AFP).- UNESCO on Friday added Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park, Europe's largest with a landscape of "fire and ice," to its World Heritage List. Shaped by volcanoes and surrounded by lava fields, the park is also home to the largest glacier in Europe, after which it is named. The protected area of some 14,500 square kilometres (around 5,600 square miles) -- or 14 percent of the whole country -- is "an exceptional example of both the interplay of ice and fire and of the separation of earth's tectonic plates on land," according to UNESCO. "This recognition of the outstanding universal value of the Vatnajokull National Park will benefit the area and further ensure its integrity," Education Minister Lilja Alfredsdottir told AFP. "We are all responsible for its magnificent nature and history." The glacier, which covers more than half of the park and eight percent ... More
Mansell's 'Red Five' sets world record price for Williams F1 car
LONDON.- The Williams-Renault FW14B Formula 1 car, in which legendary British racing driver Nigel Mansell won a record-setting five Grand Prix races (all from pole) in his Championship-winning 1992 season, set another world record today in Bonhams Festival of Speed sale, by achieving the highest price ever paid at auction for a Williams Grand Prix car - £2,703.000. Designed by celebrated Formula 1 engineer Adrian Newey, The FW14B is considered one of the most sophisticated, dominant and important Formula 1 racing cars of all time, featuring state-of-the-art technology, including 6-speed semi-automatic transmission, ride-levelling active suspension and cutting-edge aerodynamics, powered by Renaults RS3 3.5-litre V10 engine. The car which Bonhams successfully sold today, FW14B chassis 08, contested 13 of that years 16 qualifying ... More
ClampArt opens an exhibition of dramatic, black-and-white photographs by artist Victor Cobo
NEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt is presenting Remember When You Loved Me?, an exhibition of dramatic, black-and-white photographs by artist Victor Cobo. The show is Cobos first solo exhibition in New York City. Through his photography, Victor Cobo paints a dark, sometimes sinister world of ambiguity. At turns autobiographic and then entirely fabricated, he weaves blustery landscapes with high-contrast figurative imagery including animals, self portraits, and female subjects of adoration, awe, and dread. His lurid and playful melodramas address the primal mysteries of sex, birth, death, damnation, and salvation. Born in 1971 to a Spanish mother and an American father, Cobo is a self-taught photographer who draws inspiration from Surrealism, Film Noir, and German Expressionism. Repeated visits to The Museo del Prado in Spain with his taxi-driving ... More
Espai 13 exhibition series at the Fundació Joan Miró opens Paco Chanivet's 'Interregnum'
BARCELONA.- Paco Chanivet inquires into everyday, strange, regulated and intuitive experiences to produce projects in which humour allows for questioning truths and challenging automatic answers. His work emerges from the gap between the inability to grasp reality and the impossibility of envisaging any alternatives. His practice of art, profuse in forms and themes, is fragmented and defies any kind of categorization. Among his multiple obsessions we find the way in which we perpetuate myths, love as a way of evading the tragic nature of existence, technology as the key for dismantling the universal character of reality, and speculation through a unique mix of science fiction and costumbrismo about the materialization of all sorts of impossibilities. To close this season's Espai 13 series, Paco Chanivet presents Interregnum, a project that arose from ... More
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents two sprawling installations by Banu Cennetoğlu
DUSSELDORF.- The Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu deals with the political, social, and media conditions of contemporary information societies. Her conceptual works question the relationship between the private and the public spheres, as well as the difference between unfiltered information on the one hand and edited news on the other. Every day, decisions are made as to what is published when, how, and in what form, what information becomes news, and what social status the private sphere has. Banu Cennetoğlu points out in each of her works that these are political decisions, regardless of whether they concern the private or the public sphere. The exhibition focuses on two pieces that are central to her recent work: Since 2010, the artist has archived all available local and national daily newspapers published in a specific country on selected ... More
Canadian artist Vikky Alexander's first retrospective traces her 30 years of photographic investigations
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty, the first retrospective of the renowned Canadian artist, on view from July 6 to October 27, 2019. Alexander became known for her investigations of the appropriated image, the artificiality of nature and the seduction of space in the 1980s. Extreme Beauty showcases more than eighty works from this artists career whose practice includes photography, sculpture, collage and installation. With a focus on contemporary photo-based art, the Gallery has proudly committed itself to Alexanders work over several decades, says Daina Augaitis, Interim Director and curator of Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty. It has been presented in a number of Gallery exhibitions and was acquired for our permanent collection as early as 1983. This retrospective is an opportunity to view the ... More
Beaverbrook Art Gallery opens summer exhibitions
FREDERICTON.- The Beaverbrook Art Gallery announces a slate of new exhibitions. In addition to the previously-announced Studio Watch exhibition, three new exhibitions, Percy Sacobie Wolastoqiyik Storyteller, Carl Beam: One Who is Brave-Hearted, and Karen Stentaford The Process of Time, are currently on view for visitors to enjoy. An additional exhibition, Contemporary Printmakers of New Brunswick I, will be installed in the coming weeks. Local artist Percy Sacobie is a multidisciplinary artist of the St. Marys First Nation, whose paintings are characterised by their bright colours and bold lines. His works in the exhibition Wolastoqiyik Storyteller are both autobiographical and historical, and respond to themes of nature, community, and storytelling. The exhibition is presented with support from St. Marys Wolastoqiyik. Percys work speaks to the ... More
Exclusive art VR experiences openpen to the public at sp[a]ce gallery
PASADENA, CA.- sp[a]ce gallery at Ayzenberg announced its second VR exhibition, Robot Remix VR. Curated by Milo Talwani and Paisley Smith, Robot Remix VR will premiere some of the mediums most advanced and cutting-edge experiences to the public for the first time. Previously only available to select audiences at international film festivals, these immersive VR narratives will finally be available to the general public in a white-glove, VIP setting. The first phase of ROBOT REMIX Immersive XR (Saturday, July 6th, to Sunday, July 28th) grants audiences exclusive access to 6 award-winning experiences including Gloomy Eyes, Your Hands are Feet, Virtual Virtual Reality. Additional phases featuring more immersive experiences will be announced soon. Virtual Reality is supposed to be for everyone, says Smith. While working with different film festivals that ... More
Over the Influence opens an exhibition of new works by MeeNa Park
HONG KONG.- Over the Influence is presenting Korean Artist MeeNa Parks first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, Scream, a continuation of the theme of Parks 2005 and 2016 exhibitions of the same name. Scream opened on 4 July and runs until 9 August, 2019. Well-known for her artwork series Color Collecting, Scream, and Dingbat paintings, MeeNa Park is interested in exploring 'ready-made' structures found in contemporary society. Since her early work Orange Painting (2002-2003), Park has explored the origin and the influence of icons and visual symbols. Such visual languages as paint colors readily available in the market or dingbat font symbols are redrawn onto canvas in order to produce a new narrative interpretation of the original icon. Parks Scream paintings evoke Charles Schulzs unmistakable character, Charlie Brown, abstracted as an icon. ... More
Guy Oliver and Reman Sadani each awarded £25k moving-image commission
LONDON.- Guy Oliver and Reman Sadani are today announced as the recipients of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2020. Responding to the theme of Hindsight, each artist explores the power of reflection through the prism of artists film, and how moving-image can move us back and forwards through time, assisting recollection, engendering nostalgia, and enhancing collective wisdom. Reman Sadanis project considers the urge for travel as a strange and mysterious element of the human condition, by renegotiating ideas around the modern displacement of people from forced migration to cultural exploration. The project follows a nomad protagonist who has resettled in a UK city through a narrative that breaks beyond realism to introduce fragments of fantasy. The protagonist is visited by a group of young people who seek to live out a nomadic way of being within the urban ... More
Kunsthalle Wien presents Gelatin & Liam Gillick: Stinking Dawn
VIENNA.- For many years Gelatin and Liam Gillick have discussed how to work together. The result is the exhibition Stinking Dawn: the production of a full length feature film at Kunsthalle Wien. The concept, script and staging have been developed in a constant exchange between the artists. The film will examine the limits of human tolerance in the face of oppression, political crisis and excessive self-delusion. It follows the destiny of four privileged young people who grow up at a time of crisis and move through various stages of development and self-reflection towards a final moment of collapse. During the shooting period (July 413), the artists will be joined by many artist friends and long term collaborators. All visitors to the exhibition will be potential extras inside a sprawling modifiable stage settinga monumental faux-stone toyblock architecture of colonnades, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Marc Chagall was born July 06, 1887. Marc Zakharovich Chagall (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. In this image: Marc Chagall, Paradise, 1961. Oil on hardboard. H: 43.5 cm, W: 58 cm. Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Marc Chagall) / Gérard Blot / ADAGP, Paris - SACK, Seoul, 2018
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