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The exhibition comprises approximately 120 works that explore how these two artists, each in his own very different ways, engaged with the void and all that it implies about a world where mass is unsettled by the absence of mass and where, at the center of anything and everything, what we discover is a vacuum.
PARIS.- Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso two of the most seminal figures of twentieth-century art innovated entirely new ways to perceive grand themes. While the resonances between them are filled with endless possibilities, a key connection can be found specifically in their exploration of the void, or the absence of space, which both artists defined from the figure through to abstraction. Calder and Picasso wanted to present or represent non-space, whether by giving definition to a subtraction of mass, as in Calders sculpture, or by expressing contortions of time, as in Picassos portraits. Calder externalized the void through curiosity and intellectual expansion, engaging unseen forces in ways that challenge dimensional limitations, or what he called grandeur-immense. Picasso personalized the exploration, focusing on the emotional inner self. He brought himself inside each character and collapsed the interpersonal space between author and subject. The ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Super Snow Moon rises next to the Parthenon Temple at the Acropolis archaeological site on February 19, 2019. Super Moon is a term used with a full moon that occurs when the Moon is at or near its closest approach to Earth. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP
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 | | Pop Art exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts displays the turbulent times of the 60s and 70s | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of paintings by Tamuna Sirbiladze | | Companion exhibitions explore Bauhaus prints & Postwar photography at MFA Boston | 
"Sweet Dreams, Baby!," 1965, Roy Lichtenstein, American; screenprint printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts presents From Camelot to Kent State: Pop Art, 19601975, an exhibition that embraces the generation of artists known as Pop artists. In reaction to consumerism and popular mass media, these artists took inspiration from advertisements, logos, comic strips and television using new technologies of the time, working with master printers and publishers. The exhibition highlights many works acquired by the DIA in the 1960s, when the museum and donors were early supporters of this new style. This exhibition is on view at the DIA from Feb. 17Aug. 25, 2019 and is free with museum admission, which is free for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb county residents. In the early 1960s, many Pop artists celebrated American modern culture, echoing the optimism under the young President John F. Kennedy whose brief presidency was likened to Camelot. By the early-to-mid- ... More | | 
Tamuna Sirbiladze, Pink Flower, 2015. Oil on Canvas. Courtesy David Zwirner and Estate Tamuna Sirbiladze © Estate Tamuna Sirbiladze.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Tamuna Sirbiladze (19712016) in The Upper Room at the gallerys London location. Including works from throughout her career, this exhibition offers an illuminating overview of Sirbiladzes singular and vital oeuvre. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sirbiladze attended the countrys State Academy of Arts before continuing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Informed equally by the traditional underpinnings of her early education in the Soviet republic and the liberalism of her later training, her works are characterised by a bold treatment of form and light and an iconoclastic approach to style and subject matter. Most of the artists canvases oscillate between abstraction and figuration, with brisk strokes ripe with expressive and symbolic meaning. Sirbiladze was deeply engaged with the represen ... More | | 
László Moholy‑Nagy (American (born in Hungary), 18951946), Untitled, from the portfolio Constructions, 1923. Lithograph. Promised gift of Richard E. Caves. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Bauhaus, Germanys legendary school of art, architecture and design, was founded in Weimar by architect Walter Gropius in the spring of 1919. Gropius assembled an international group of faculty members including Josef Albers (German), Lyonel Feininger (American), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian), Paul Klee (Swiss) and László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian). The school relocated twice during its brief existence (to Dessau in 1925 and Berlin in 1932) before its closure by the National Socialists in 1933, but its aesthetic of geometric abstractionand its stated goals of collaboration across disciplines and harmony between form and functionhave had a lasting impact on the fields of architecture and industrial and graphic design. Radical Geometries: Bauhaus Prints, 191933 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus with a group of more ... More |
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| | | Bargain auctions offer Istanbul consumers more bang for buck | | Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie brings together works by Lars Christensen, Nils Erik Gjerdevik, and Per Mårtensson | | Works by Lutz Bacher, Nayland Blake, Vincent Fecteau on view at Matthew Marks | 
Auctioneer Ali Tuna shows items to the audience at an auction house in Istanbul's Balat district on February 3, 2019. OZAN KOSE / AFP.
ISTANBUL (AFP).- "Going, going, gone!" resonate the enticing chants of auctioneers in the narrow streets of a trendy Istanbul neighbourhood, fascinating onlookers who are surprised, not so much by the fast pace of the bidding, but by the prices in such economically troubled times. Auctions may have a reputation for being the staid preserve of the wealthy to joust politely for rare collectibles or master paintings that can go for millions of dollars. But this is not the case in Balat, a historic neighbourhood on the shores of the Golden Horn estuary frequented by tourists and locals alike who enjoy the hipster cafes and historic churches. Here, secondhand objects, from used furniture to toys, go for knockdown prices. Istanbul doesn't have a tradition of jumble sales, although there are secondhand shops. But, about five years ago, low-price auction houses began to spring up in Balat, giving residents another way to rid themselves of unwanted goods. And with ... More | | 
Nils Erik Gjerdevik, Untitled, 2013. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 x 2.50 cm, signed and dated on reverse.
BASEL.- Paintings from artists Lars Christensen, Nils Erik Gjerdevik, Per Mårtensson of the neighboring cities of Copenhagen (DK) and Malmö (SE) are gathered together for the first time. Each has his own individual style and manner of expressing himself. Nils Erik Gjerdevik painted abstract worlds and universes with two strongly contrasting colors while Lars Christensen invites us to see light and colors through three dimensional painting-objects. Per Mårtensson presents us with a set of reflecting visors, allowing us to see only what others may see. Small format oil paintings by Gjerdevik are exhibited on a long wall, displaying positive and negative space, precise brushstrokes and amorphous shapes that invite us to navigate through different planes, structures and travel, imagine scenarios and free ourselves of boundaries. The shapes appear as if frozen in transit while moving in globular structures. Christensens acrylic paintings and works on paper bring light and lightness ... More | | 
Lutz Bacher, Big Boy, 1992. Fabric, stuffing, faux fur, paint, 98 x 46 x 24 inches, 249 x 117 x 61 cm. © Lutz Bacher, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks is presenting Magic Ben Big Boy: Lutz Bacher, Nayland Blake, Vincent Fecteau, the new exhibition in his gallery at 526 West 22nd Street. Conceived by Vincent Fecteau, the exhibition centers on a re-creation of the artists first one-person show, Ben, originally presented twenty-five years ago at Kiki, a short-lived but influential artist-run gallery in San Franciscos Mission District. (A copy of the original checklist is below). The title "Ben" comes from a 1972 movie and its theme song of the same name, sung by Michael Jackson. A love song from a boy to his pet rat, it became a #1 hit single and was nominated for an Academy Award. The works in the exhibition include collages of found photographs of cats, sculptures made from old shoeboxes, and eggshells painted to look like eyes. Two important works made in San Francisco a few years earlier by Nayland Blake and Lutz Bacher are installed in t ... More |
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| | | Merry Alpern's controversial and celebrated series 'Dirty Windows' on view at Galerie Miranda | | The Flippo Gallery of Randolph-Macon College opens an exhibition of works by Peri Schwartz | | Bombas Gens opens an exhibition of Japanese artworks that radically transformed the language of photography | 
Merry Alpern, Dirty Windows (1994). © Merry Alpern / Galerie Miranda.
PARIS.- Galerie Miranda announced its spring 2019 exhibition, Dirty Windows' by American artist Merry Alpern (b. 1955, New York), in the artists first solo European exhibition of this both controversial and celebrated series. In the winter of 1993-94, photographer Merry Alpern visited a friends New York loft, situated in the Wall Street district. He led her to a back room and from his window, one floor below, she could see a tiny bathroom window from which pounded the heavy bass of nightclub music. She realized that she was looking into the bathroom of an illegal lap-dance club, where stock-brokers and other well-to-do businessmen handed over hundreds of dollars and drugs to women in G-strings and black lace." Transfixed by the spectacle, the artist started taking pictures of what she saw, using a fast black and white film that gave the photos a peep-show quality. In 1994 she ... More | | 
Self-portrait, 1983, etching, 10.9 x 9.
ASHLAND, VA.- The Flippo Gallery of Randolph-Macon College is presenting an exhibition of works by New York artist, Peri Schwartz, titled 45 Years, Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Schwartz's work stand on the boundary line between representation and abstraction. Process is paramount in Schwartz's work. With each painting, drawing, and print, Schwartz asks questions of her visual perception rather than seeking answers. Her subjects include the interior of her New Rochelle artists studio, bottles and jars decisively filled with brightly colored tinctures, and self-confident self-portraits. Her media ranges from oil paint and charcoal to aquatint and monotype collages. Like Mondrian, she is enthralled with the grid. In many of her works she imposes intersecting verticals and horizontals, both physically applied to her subject matter and subsequently painted, as a method of deeply investigating ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Jabali Studio.
VALENCIA.- Bombas Gens Centre dArt has opened The gaze of Things. Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke: A selection of pieces from the Per Amor a l'Art Collection signed by the following members of VIVO Agency (1959-1961)Ikkō Narahara, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Akira Satō and Kikuji Kawada, as well as the members of the Provoke Collective (1968-1970)Yutaka Takanashi, Takuma Nakahira and Daidō Moriyama. The exhibition also includes the bodies of work of Hiroshi Hamaya, Takashi Hamaguchi, Toyoko Tokiwa, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tamiko Nishimura, Ishiuchi Miyako, Kōji Enokura and Michio Harada. All these photographers were responsible for the radical transformation photography experienced between 1957 and 1972. "This exhibition is very special for us since it shows one of the most powerful bodies of work within the Per Amor a l'Art Collection. In fact, ... More |
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| | | Asya Geisberg Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen | | Exhibition encompasses all aspects of Rosemarie Castoro's multi-faceted practice | | Exhibition of new work by American artist Katherine Bernhardt opens at Xavier Hufkens | 
Guðmundur Thoroddsen, Prankster, 2018. Oil on linen, 23.75h x 17.50w in. 60.33h x 44.45w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Earth to Earth, a solo exhibition by Icelandic artist Guðmundur Thoroddsen. This is the artist's fourth exhibition at the gallery. Still situated in a muted color palette paying homage to his homeland, Earth to Earth, continues Thoroddsen's exploration of masculinity, and more extensively, the painted surface. Through ceramics and painting, Thoroddsen eradicates his previous population of males that flagrantly pissed, farted and romped through institutions, coliseums and scenes of domesticity, in favor of a more plaintive arena for abstraction. In doing so, the artist heroically erodes his idée fixe - the notion of Maleness - and strips it down to its wretched bare bones. Thoroddsen performs a cleansing, an extinction of his subjects and their bravado and offers an apology by means of woeful barely-there figuration. What remains is a lugubrious cartoon, maleness ... More | | 
Land of Lashes, 1976. 8 sculptures: Steel, fiberglass, epoxy, styrofoam, and pigment Installation area, 322 x 122 cm. Courtesy Anke Kempkes Art Advisory and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg © The Estate of Rosemarie Castoro.
PARIS.- Following her first major European retrospective last year at MACBA, Barcelona, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opened its first solo exhibition of American Minimalist Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) at the Paris Marais gallery. Coinciding with what would have been the 80th anniversary of the artists birth, the exhibition encompasses all aspects of Castoros multi-faceted practice, spanning the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties. Presenting seminal pieces from each of her distinctive bodies of work, this survey exhibition explores her pivotal contribution to the development of abstract painting, sculpture, conceptual drawing, concrete poetry and performance. From her early paintings, which led Frank Stella to proclaim her among the greatest colourists of their time, to her ... More | | 
Katherine Bernhardt, Scotch Tape + Matcha + Nike + Cigarettes, 2018. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 304,8 x 244 cm. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: HV-studios, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens opened an exhibition of new work by American artist Katherine Bernhardt. Visiting Bernhardts exhibition is an immersive experience: a kaleidoscopic universe of electric colours that run like stain paintings and which can depict cartoon characters as well as a host of recognizable consumer goods. At the heart of the presentation is the monumental 3x6 metre canvas pattern painting entitled Garfield on Scotch Tape (2018), while many other works depict large colourful Nike shoes and various other elements of 21st-century New York street culture and the global world of Instagram. Bernhardt dips in and out of history with ease: Scotch Tape has been an office staple since 1930, while the first Babar the Elephant book made its appearance the very next year. The Pink Panther burst onto screens ... More |
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 Paris gets in breakdance groove ahead of 2024 Olympic bowPARIS (AFP).- Dancers executing backflips and freezes, gyros and headspins with gravity-defying agility in front of an adoring audience - welcome to the world breakdance championships. The staple of urban street culture is set to make a splash on its Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Games. And on Saturday night a 4,000 crowd came to be mesmerised by the moves performed by some of the most skilled exponents of 'breaking' at Battle Pro in the French capital. One b-boy, Stephane Sabotinov, took time out before going on stage to celebrate Thursday's announcement by Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet that breaking was set to become "a future Olympic sport". "Breakdance is impressive," Sabotinov, kitted out in white and black and baseball cap, told AFP. "There's the battle side of it, we're here to engage, but with respect. "We bump fists at the end even if we're going to war." ... More mumok opens largest presentation of Pattern and Decoration in German-speaking Europe since the 1980sVIENNA.- Ornament as promise. This could have been a motto for the Pattern and Decoration movement, formed in the mid-1970s in the USA. In this exhibition, with its reference to Adolf Looss assertion concerning ornament and crime, mumok presents the rich collection of works from this movement of Peter and Irene Ludwig, in the largest presentation of Pattern and Decoration in German-speaking Europe since the 1980s. With oriental-style mosaics, monumental textile collages, paintings, installations, and performances, in the 1970s committed feminist artists like Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff, Valerie Jaudon, and Robert Kushner aimed to bring color, formal diversity, and emotion back into art. Decoration played a key role, as did the techniques of artisan- ship associated with it. Various ornamental traditions, from the Islamic ... More First solo exhibition in Germany to focus on the work of the Estonian artist Marge Monko opens in EssenESSEN.- With Diamonds Against Stones, Museum Folkwang is hosting the first solo exhibition in Germany to focus on the work of the Estonian artist Marge Monko (born 1976). In her photographic and installation works, Monko uncovers the complex relationships between art and design. To do so, she utilises the seductive promotional imagery of the luxury goods industry from recent decades. Through the act of re-photographing and re-contextualising, Monko transforms practices from commercial photography into artistic statements informed by feminist and psychoanalytical perspectives. Monko occupies the space of the museum with around 30 photographic works and videos. In addition to the works in the museum space, Monko is also producing an installation entitled Todays Woman at Berliner Platz in Essen. In her current group of works, Women of the ... More Ansel Adams exhibition opens at California Museum of Art Thousand OaksTHOUSAND OAKS, CA.- Works by one of the worlds most widely recognized and acclaimed photographers are on view as part of a limited engagement at the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks. In Focus: Ansel Adams Highlights from Lawrence Janss Collection features several of the artists iconic photographs, on loan from entrepreneur, community leader and CMATO Board of Directors member, Larry Janss. In Focus runs February 21 through March 24, 2019. The exhibition includes Adams elegant, detailed images of nature including his seminal work, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, described by art historians as a perfect marriage of straight and pure photography. In this intimate exhibition, museum visitors will have the opportunity to examine a curated selection of Adams most iconic works including Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite ... More Important estate art, jewelry to lead Clarke Auction Gallery saleLARCHMONT, NY.- Provenance, quality and craftsmanship are three hallmarks of Clarke Auction Gallerys sale on Sunday, March 10, at 10 am, that highlights the best of the best when it comes to varied collecting tastes with pieces hailing from several important estates. Fine art and jewelry are especially well represented in this auction but the sale runs the gamut from midcentury furniture and traditional antiques to decorative arts and Asian art. Among the fine estates featured in this sale is a well known midcentury builders home in Pound Ridge. I went on a house call here and this house was literally filled top to bottom with important midcentury pieces from paintings to furniture, said owner and auctioneer Ronan Clarke. This looks to be a very strong sale across the board and after buyers have been cooped up all winter, this auction is a terrific way ... More Winner announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019CANBERRA.- From an outstanding field of more than 3,000 entries, culminating in a shortlist of 39 exceptional finalists, the Winner and Highly Commended entries for this years National Photographic Portrait Prize have been named. The Winner for 2019 is Alana Holmberg for her portrait titled Greta in her Kitchen, 36 weeks. The Highly Commended has been awarded to Alex Vaughan for her portrait Sumbawa pride life on a boat with eleven kids. Dr Christopher Chapman, Senior Curator at the National Portrait Gallery and co-judge of this years Prize, said the portrait of Greta captures an intimate moment. This unconventional portrait is quiet and contemplative. The judges agreed that a compelling portrait photograph could be one that conveys a reflective moment experienced by many. The quality of light, the composition of the image and the subtle communication ... 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More Akademie der Künste exhibits works by Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019 winner Hito SteyerlBERLIN.- By awarding the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019 to Hito Steyerl, the Akademie der Künste is honouring an international artist who is particularly interested in the media, technology and the dissemination of images. Her discourse revolves around several socio-political processes: in a diverse panoply of media, Steyerl visualises postcolonial critique, abuse of power, violence, feminist representation logic and the influences of globalisation on the financial, labour, and commodities markets. The jury consists of Akademie members Douglas Gordon, Katharina Grosse and Ulrike Lorenz. On the occasion of awarding the prize, the Akademie der Künste is, among other things, showing Hell Yeah We Fuck Die (2016), a room-filling installation made of steel dividers and walls with compiled audio-video sequences of humanoid robots. Here, Steyerl concretises ... More Overpass illuminated public art project completed in the City of New RochelleNEW ROCHELLE, NY.- The City of New Rochelle continues to expand its public art offerings as part of its downtown transformation with the recent completion of the Overpass Illuminated Art Project, Radiant Passage, a multidimensional art installation located at the overpass of North Ave. & Memorial Highway. Oshi Rabin, the leading artist of the Public & Urban Art team at New Rochelles Mahlstedt Gallery, designed the overpasss LED interactive mural and led the projects installation in collaboration with muralist Misha Tyutyunik. Spearheaded by New Rochelles Department of Development, the project was initiated last Fall with an open request to artists throughout the region to design an innovative, dynamic and contemporary art light installation to highlight a critical gateway to the downtown, improve pedestrian safety by eliminating the blighted ... More The Bronx Museum of the Arts expands board of trusteesBRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced the appointment of seven new members to the museums board of trustees. We are very pleased and fortunate to welcome such a strong and diverse group of industry leaders in academia, art, architecture, finance, and social media who all share the museums dedication to making art accessible to all, said Joseph Mizzi, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. The appointees are as follows: Angel Otero, Artist Dana Emmott, Owner, Elden Services Company Debbie Landau, Co-Founder and first President/CEO, Madison Square Park Conservancy Karen Robinovitz, Co-Founder / Former Co-CEO, Digital Brand Architects Mark Lu, Principal, Terracina Real Estate Management Nathaniel Wilcox, Associate Dean for Finance and Human Resources, The School of General Studies at Columbia University ... More Two 'flying angels' mark start to Venice Carnival festivitiesVENICE (AFP).- Venice Carnival kicked off on Sunday with not one but two traditional "flight of the angel" ceremonies, a highlight of the festival before thousands of onlookers in the Italian Renaissance city's St Mark's Square. Each first Sunday of the carnival, a young woman chosen as "Marie" has the honour of performing the stunt, gliding through the air on a harness attached to a cable from the 99-metre (325-foot) bell-tower of the Basilica to a stage below. As she soars overhead, the angel tosses confetti over onlookers below, many wearing costumes and disguised in masks. Erika Chia, 20, descended to music from David Bowie's "Space Oddity". In an exception this year, she was preceded by "warrior angel" Micol Rossi, 27, who was chosen as a symbol of hope and tenacity for her battle with Crohn's disease. "It has been so emotional to see the whole city ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born February 25, 1841. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 - 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." In this image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Child with an Apple or Gabrielle, Jean Renoir and a Little Girl, circa 1895-1896. Pastel sobre papel. 560 x 760 mm. Mrs. Léone Cettolin Dauberville.
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