A giant mask is seen on the sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero called "Cabeza" after it was put as a symbolic demonstration against air contamination, in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia, on April 8, 2016. City authorities declared an environmental emergency due to high leves of pollution. RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP.
MEDELLIN(AFP).- Sculptures by Colombia's most famous artist, the world-renowned Fernando Botero, unwittingly found themselves thrust into the midst of an anti-pollution protest Friday when activists strapped surgical masks on their giant faces. The iconic sculptures are in a downtown plaza in Medellin, Colombia's second most populous city and the 83-year-old Botero's hometown. "We came to the place that we love the most, Plaza Botero... but which is also the most polluted part of the city of Medellin according to our sensors," said Carlos Cadenas of the Green City collective environmental group. "We designed masks for all of the sculptures and we installed them," Cadenas told AFP. Group members are also petitioning the government for "a real solution" to the pollution problem, not just "waiting for the weather to change" so that the wind and rain will clean the air. Some surprised pedestrians put on surgical masks that the activists handed out. Officials declared an environmental alert in Medellin in ... More
Bartolomeo Montagna, "Madonna with the Child between Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis".
VENICE.- An exceptional exhibition of Veneto masterpieces once owned by Vittorio Cini opened the 2016 season at the Palazzo Cini. The Fondazione Cini pays homage to the great patron of the arts by presenting the Veneto paintings from his collection together to the public for the first time. Some absolute masterpieces, never previously seen together, from the personal collection of Vittorio Cini, including paintings by Titian, Lotto, Guardi, Canaletto and Tiepolo are on show to the public for the first time in the same selection from 8 April to 15 November 2016 on the second floor of the Palazzo Cini Gallery at San Vio, the house museum, once the residence of the great patron. Thanks to the partnership between the Cini Foundation and Generali, Palazzo Cini re-opens to the public until 15 November 2016. Generali has been a supporting partner of the Cini Foundation for many years, in the belief that ... More
"Make America Great Again was created to evoke a reaction from its audience, good or bad, about the significance we place on our physical selves," said the 24-year-old artist.
LONDON(AFP).- An unflattering painting depicting a nude Donald Trump went on show in London this weekend having being censored in the United States, where its creator claims to have received a thousand death threats from his supporters. Los-Angeles based artist Illma Gore's "Make America Great Again", named after the Republican candidate's campaign slogan, went on display at the Maddox gallery in the exclusive Mayfair neighbourhood on Friday, and is valued at £1 million ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros). "Make America Great Again was created to evoke a reaction from its audience, good or bad, about the significance we place on our physical selves," said the 24-year-old artist. "I drew Trump nude, I was evoking a reaction from people... so I tried not to think about it until I spoke to a lawyer who suggested I go to the police about it ... More
Revisió del nou dipòsit La nit, 1974. Photo: Pere Pratdesaba.
BARCELONA.- As the culmination of its 40th anniversary, the Fundació Joan Miró is updating its permanent exhibition in order to offer visitors a multifaceted approach to the artist’s work. The public will discover the creative complexity of an artist who, grounded in a strong connection to his origins, became a universal figure. The collection is now enriched with the addition of new works in large part from the Miró family, the integration of the Kazumasa Katsuta collection that had previously been housed in a separate gallery space, and the recovery of some key pieces from the Fundació’s holdings, such as the triptychs Painting on white background for the cell of a recluse (1968) and The hope of a condemned man (1974), or the Barcelona Series, among others. The permanent exhibition now includes some 150 works presented in eight sections that highlight different aspects of the artist’s creative investigations. Closing the exh ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-Marlborough Gallery announces a group exhibition entitled Large Sculptures with works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alice Aycock, Fernando Botero, Santiago Calatrava, Red Grooms, Robert Lazzarini, Clement Meadmore, Michele Oka Doner, Tom Otterness, Beverly Pepper, Arnaldo Pomodoro, George Rickey, David Rodríguez Caballero, Kenneth Snelson, Manolo Valdés and Ursula von Rydingsvard. The exhibition opened on April 7th and remains on view through May 7th, 2016. The 16 artists included in this exhibition have each produced critically acclaimed bodies of work that are internationally recognized through their placement in important public and private art collections. The collective artists’ oeuvre spans the breadth of 20th and 21st Century sculpture, breaking aesthetic ground and defining new categories of sculptural experience and expression. The ... More
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ascending Youth, 1913/14. Bronze with dark brown, anthracite-colored patina, 226 × 76 × 56 cm. Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg. Photo: Bernd Kirtz.
VIENNA.- Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881–1919) is doubtlessly among the most eminent artists of the 20th century. The Leopold Museum is dedicating the most comprehensive retrospective to date in Austria to this influential innovator and pioneer of modern European sculpture. Featuring around 50 sculptures as well as some 100 paintings, drawings and etchings, the exhibition initiated and curated by Hans-Peter Wipplinger affords detailed insights into Lehmbruck’s oeuvre. “The genesis of Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s oeuvre is impressively illustrated through eminent groups of exhibits that include all the artist’s central works.” --Hans-Peter Wipplinger This largely chronological presentation traces Lehmbruck’s artistic development from his early years at the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts (1895–1899) and his time as a student at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts (1901–1906) all the way to his most famous wo ... More
LONDON.-David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of works by Richard Hamilton on view at The Upper Room at the gallery’s London location. Widely regarded as one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century, Hamilton worked across a diverse array of media and styles over the course of his six-decade career to create a singular oeuvre that, while formally disparate, remained conceptually consistent in its sustained interrogation of modernity and everyday life. This exhibition brings together a group of rarely seen works made by Hamilton in Cadaqués, Spain, an important site of production for the artist. Hamilton was first invited to Cadaqués in 1963 by Marcel Duchamp, with whom he had a correspondence since the late 1950s. Located on the Costa Brava in Northeastern Spain, not far from the French border, Cadaqués was known as a favoured destination for artists like Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, ... More
JACKSON, MISS.- Revealing the pursuits of one of the twentieth century’s most important collectors, the American Federation of Arts (AFA) and the Neuberger Museum of Art present When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection, the first traveling exhibition of this groundbreaking collection of American modern art in over forty years. Roy R. Neuberger was a devoted champion of the art of his time, and he acquired works by a remarkable selection of modern masters, including Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and numerous others. The first venue on this unprecedented traveling tour is the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, which hosts the exhibition ... More
The exhibition has smashed the previous summer record for attendees, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, which attracted 226,918 visitors in 2014-15.
MELBOURNE.- The Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria has welcomed its 300,000th visitor, making it the most popular ticketed summer exhibition in the NGV’s history. Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley today visited the NGV to welcome Sebastian Williams, aged 11 years old, through the doors as the popular exhibition’s 300,000th visitor. Sebastian came to the exhibition with her family from Hawaii as part of a holiday to Melbourne. Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei opened in December, and it’s proven a showstopper ever since. Some 11,000 students have explored the mark the two artists have made on modern art and contemporary life. Nearly 20 per cent of ticketholders have travelled from interstate, and 10 per cent from overseas. The exhibition has smashed the previous summer record for attendees, The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier, which attracted 226,918 visitors in 2014-15. The NGV has bee ... More
Kazimira Rachfal, and now zeus awoke, Oil on canvas, 14” x 11”.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery announces its Inaugural exhibition featuring prints by Robert Motherwell and Brice Marden along with original paintings by George Negroponte, Eric Holzman and Kazimira Rachfal. Taken together as a whole, this collection encompasses five artists whose works create a conversation about the nature of abstraction, the line between abstraction and representation and the inextricability of the natural world from art. Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991) emerged as one of the most influential painters from the abstract expressionist generation of the 1950s and 1960s. He was the youngest of the New York School (a term conceived by Motherwell himself), along with Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Deeply influenced by surrealism, philosophy, modernism and the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce, and Octavio Paz, Motherwell created a distinct abstract style ... More
James Dodds, “Peapod” Under Construction. Oil on linen. H 97 x W 76 cm (H 38 x W 29 7⁄8 in).
LONDON.- “James Dodds’ pictures look as though they’ve been created with the use of an adze, a caulking mallet and a rip saw, but that’s not surprising when you discover that these were the tools he once wielded as a shipwright before ever he picked up a paintbrush.” These words from Yachting Monthly journalist Dick Durham give as good an insight as any into the former merchant sailor and apprentice shipwright whose latest exhibition of oils, some on wood, others on linen, opened at Messum’s in Cork Street, Mayfair on April 6. From boyhood, when he first took to the wetlands of East Anglia in a dinghy, Dodds has lived and breathed boats and the water. As Durham explains: “The disappearing shipbuilding skill of ‘lofting out’, of preparing a boat’s lines with battens, is alive and well in James’ work; which is why his paintings come as such a shock. The scantlings of his art are more than j ... More
Blair Thurman, DAY-GLO TRIPPER, 2016. Acrylic and canvas on wood, 216,9 x 117,8 x 6,4 cm. 85 3/8 x 46 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Photo: Melissa Castro Duarte. Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
LONDON.-Almine Rech Gallery is presenting American artist Blair Thurman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Mature Blonde, the exhibition comprises entirely new paintings. Nicolas Trembley, art critic and curator, took this opportunity to interview Blair Thurman about his inspirations and practice. Nicolas Trembley: What’s your background? Where did you study and what did you study? Blair Thurman: As I’ve said, I had a very fortunate childhood in regards to art. In my teenage years, I drifted away from it — typical ‘70s high school — sex, drugs, a lot of road trips to the beach. When the time came for me to find a profession, the only thing that I was cut out to do really was to be an artist. Perhaps we had always assumed that’s what I would do. In Nova Scotia where I went to school, ... More
David Pirrie's new body of work reflects his continued reverence to mountains.
VANCOUVER.-The Ian Tan Gallery presents, Mapping the Rockies, a solo exhibition of new works by artist David Pirrie. The show runs April 9-30th, 2016. Following on from the success of his previous and ongoing collection – ‘Pop Art Mountains’, his new body of work reflects his continued reverence to mountains and his ever-growing concerns regarding the depiction and understanding of mountain geography, cartography, and the way we employ technological filtering to suit our perception of seemingly wild, unattainable places. For this show, Pirrie focuses on the Canadian Rockies. Three lines of investigation form the basis of the show: The ‘Map series’ - exploded contour maps of the ice fields the artist uses to navigate complex mountain environments; ‘Mountain series grids’ - portraits of mountains he has skied or climbed with grid overlays, extending the concept of ... More
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Public Secrets: Solo show of new paintings by Abel Alejandre opens at Coagula Curatorial LOS ANGELES, CA.-Coagula Curatorial presents “Public Secrets” a solo show of new work by Abel Alejandre. The exhibit opened Saturday, April 9 and runs thru May 22. This exhibit comes just weeks away from a major public work installation by Alejandre, opening to the public this spring. Twelve permanent artwork panels by the artist are now in place at the Westwood/Rancho Park Metro Station, part of the Expo Line extension opening May 20. “Public Secrets” is a show of new paintings by Alejandre, who is mostly known for his meticulous graphite drawings. Events of significance are reframed or colored by the secrets we laugh at, evangelize, believe, or run away from. “Public Secrets” is a new painting series that deals with conspiracies, family secrets, and UFOs. Such secrets can provide comfort as they surround us in an ordinary sort of way. The ... More
Kewenig in Palma de Mallorca exhibits the work of Pedro Cabrita Reis PALMA DE MALLORCA.- Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of the most prominent Portuguese artists of today. Among other venues, his works have been presented in the Documenta IX, at the 50th and the 55th Venice Biennale. Cabrita Reis’s oeuvre is strongly defined by his origins and his surroundings. At the same time, he concerns himself again and again with fundamental issues of art, for example the concepts of painting and sculpture or drawing in space with sculptural mediums. In his work he breaks all the formal rules and artistic conventions, reinterpreting abstract forms and often, as if by magic, converting them into enigmatic objects. Painting forms the foundation of Cabrita Reis’s complex works. His development of this medium has led him to three-dimensional works and installations, towards what he considers works resembling construction. In addition to abstract and ... More
Amalia Amoedo presents a unique exhibition where mythology and astrology give some answers about life MIAMI, FLA.-Curator’s Voice Art Projects presents Vestales, a solo show, curated by Milagros Bello PhD, an exhibition of 12 sculptural pieces plus an installation by Argentine artist Amalia Amoedo. The show highlights Amoedo’s powerful body of work recently produced by the artist, and is on display in Wynwood Art District in Miami from Saturday April 2 to June 4, 2016. With a unique style and inspired by what she describes as “colorful and unconventional”, she features a group of 12 unicorn sculptures, each of one representing the 12 zodiac signs plus an immense tent in which there is a gigantic unicorn inside a rotating metal cage. The unicorn’s heart in live purple color is constantly beating and flashing as being alive. The inspiration of her artwork is based on mythology and astrology, delivering a strong philosophical message with vibrant colors and textures in collage. ... More
Catherine Fairbanks's first solo show in Los Angeles opens at Wilding Cran Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.-Wilding Cran Gallery is presenting Two Chimneys, Catherine Fairbanks’s first solo show in Los Angeles. The exhibition features new sculptures and works on paper. The exhibition is structured around two large chimney sculptures that reflect on the ruins of domestic buildings across the West. Originally constructed according to a particular purpose, over time abandoned chimneys gradually assume the function of a monument. Like these chimneys, Fairbanks often makes use of forms and materials which first appear in culture one way, only to reappear later in another way, transformed. With her Ceramics/z series she challenges the way ceramic vessels are often disregarded as sculpture. An object appears at first glance as a classic ceramic vessel but then resists such an easy categorization. Clay pitchers and cups are combined with paper mâché ... More
Lifting the Veil: A themed exhibition on view at rosenfeld porcini in London LONDON.-rosenfeld porcini is presenting ‘Lifting the Veil’ a themed exhibition including works by Claudia Fontes, Argentina; Silvia Hatzl, Germany; Bongsu Park, Korea; Rossana Zaera, Spain; Marianna Gioka, Greece; Firelei Baez, Dominican Republic; Alice Cattaneo, Italy; Luisa Rabbia, Italy; Teodora Axente, Romania; Arushee Suri, India; and Miyuki Tsugami, Japan. The exhibition intends to look beyond the artists’ narratives to examine the formal and poetic interpretations they adopt in their chosen artistic languages. ‘Lifting the Veil’ is rosenfeld porcini’s sixth themed exhibition, following ‘Around Drawing’ last year. There has been a visible increase in recent years of all-female contemporary art exhibitions notably The Rubell Family Collection’s ‘No Man’s Land’ (Miami) and Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Champagne Life’ (London). This attention is primarily a reaction to ... More
First UK solo show of Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová on view at Alison Jacques Gallery LONDON.-Alison Jacques Gallery is presenting the first UK solo show of Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová (1936 - 1996), in collaboration with Gabriela Garlyatová, curator of the Estate of Maria Bartuszová, Košice. The works selected for the show span Bartuszová's entire career dating from the early 1960s through to 1996. The majority of Bartuszová's works were made in plaster, a material that possesses an inherent temporal beauty. Inspired by nature many of her works appear to take shape as the result of gravity, compressing and expanding to simultaneously reference movement and hesitation. The artist's work was produced in a Czechoslovak environment removed from contact with European events, yet despite this isolation she collected the monographs of Brancusi, Fontana, Hepworth, Moore and Noguchi which inspired her practice alongside a variety of other ... More
First UK solo exhibition of French designer and sculptor Eric Schmitt opens at Dutko Gallery LONDON.- This spring Dutko Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition of French designer and sculptor Eric Schmitt. Out of the ordinary and self-taught, combining the skills of a trained musician, architect, designer and sculptor with an addictive passion for equestrian sports, Schmitt has produced a most compelling oeuvre over the past 30 years. His workshop, set at the edge of the Fontainebleau forest is the hub where hundreds of models have been created, designed and shaped before being produced by France’s finest craftsmen. Schmitt’s work, widely exhibited in Paris, New York and Los Angeles, draws inspiration from the French tradition of decorative arts, the harmony of the late 20s and 30s (René Herbst, Pierre Chareau, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Eugène Printz) with echoes of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Yet his approach to design remains resolutely contemporary ... More
V&A joins China Merchants Shekou Holdings in launching Design Society LONDON.- As Design Society, the name of a new cultural hub located in Sea World Culture and Arts Centre was announced in Shekou (Shenzhen), the V&A revealed more details of the pioneering collaboration with China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK). The first of its kind between a UK museum and a Chinese partner, the collaboration comprises the provision of professional advice and training to help CMSK establish and develop a world class design museum; the concept, development and design of a V&A Gallery devoted to 20th and 21st century international design; and the presentation of two major touring exhibitions in 2017 and 2018. The V&A Gallery will consider how values drive design, and how design is valued, from a chandelier that unites nature and lighting technology; a meticulously embellished Christian Dior dress; a Braun transistor radio and portable record ... More
David Risley Gallery's first solo show of works by Danish artist Torben Ribe opens in Copenhagen COPENHAGEN.-David Risley Gallery announces Indoor Paintings, the gallery's first solo show of new works by Danish artist Torben Ribe. Torben Ribe's new works, Indoor Paintings, cut and paste literal objects into the language of abstraction. The status of these works is fluid but they are definitely paintings. We can be sure of that. Enough of the language of painting is there to reassure us of this. These works are not merely painted, though. They are constructed, put together, taken apart, messed up, fixed. They are, at once, abstraction and concrete realism. Woodchip wallpaper--insisted on by landlords to cover dents and knocks in walls and later painstakingly removed by aspirational property buyers--re-enters the home as the surface of a seemingly abstract painting. Other unavoidable daily inanities find a place in Ribe's work: among them, oatmeal and other cereal ... More
Exhibition by The Propeller Group opens at James Cohan NEW YORK, NY.-James Cohan announces the opening of an exhibition by The Propeller Group, running from April 8 through May 15 at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. The exhibition presents the New York premier of The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, a film work originally created for Prospect.3 New Orleans biennial in 2014. Also on view is AK-47 vs. M16, made in collaboration with Grand Arts, Kansas City and presented at Venice Biennale in 2015. This is the artist collective’s first exhibition at James Cohan. Founded in 2006, The Propeller Group (TPG) is a collaboration between three multi-disciplinary artists based in Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles; Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Their multimedia works use the languages of advertising and politics to initiate conversations about power, propaganda and manipulation, especially as they ... More
Calais - From Jungle to City by photographer Henk Wildschut on view at Foam AMSTERDAM.- From April, Foam presents the exhibition Calais - From Jungle to City by photographer Henk Wildschut (b. Harderwijk, the Netherlands, 1967). Close to the seaport of Calais in France, the heart of democratic Europe, a parallel world has existed for ten years. Here refugees from Africa and the Middle East wait for a chance to cross to the United Kingdom. Henk Wildschut has been following the growing influx of refugees in Calais since 2005. Over the past year he stepped up his visits and watched ‘The Jungle’, as it is known, increasingly become a city in its own right – a city that, by political decisions, has started to being dismantled from 29 February 2016. In 2011 Henk Wildschut published his book Shelter, with photos of huts built by refugees in the woods around Calais. Those places, once seized by the refugees, have now been taken back by nature. ... More
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On a day like today, British painter Ben Nicholson was born
September 10, 1894. Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 - 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. In this image: Ben Nicholson, 1936 (gouache) 38.1 x 50.2 cm. (15 x 19 3/4 in.).
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