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Kehinde Wiley
RUMORS OF WAR – KEHINDE WILEY’S INSTALLATION
TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK, USA September 27 – December 1, 2019
Late September, Kehinde Wiley has unveiled a bronze sculpture of an African American man riding a horse in the center of Times Square at Broadway Plaza . Titled Rumors of War, the statue references controversial Confederate War monuments that still stand in Richmond, Virginia, over a century after they were erected.
Chiharu Shiota
COUNTING MEMORIES – SOLO SHOW
From September 7, 2019 to October 4, 2020
Muzeum Slaskie, Dobrowolskiego 1 40-205 Katowice, Poland
Talented Chiharu Shiota laid her artistic web entitled ‘Counting memories’ in a polish museum, in Katowice.
The immersive works gives a tangible perception of the universe, as the artist explains : “With this installation, I want to visualize the universe within this space. A massive cloud of intertwined lines fills the room; it floats above a collection of nine tables and chairs. The network holds hundreds of white numbers like stars in the night sky.”
Pierre et Gilles
1989 – CULTURE AND POLITICS – GROUP SHOW
NATIONAL MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM, SWEDENFrom 05/09/2019 to 12/01/2020
The autumn of 2019 will mark the thirty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. It became the political symbol of a political world order that has endured since the end of the second world war. The exhibition examines what took place in the visual culture in the broadest sense in this radical historical period, associating popular culture and high culture.
Oda Jaune
THE CARESS
TRAVELLING PROJECT, BULGARIAFrom September 2018 to May 2019
Oda Jaune is presenting a new artistic project travelling through the remote, unspoiled landscapes of Bulgaria. Her sculpture The Caress, created in summer 2018, has been on the move since September, following a secret itinerary that will conclude near Sofia in spring 2019. The sculpture, first installed on the rocky shores of the Black Sea in Varvara, currently overlooks the Kaolin quarries in Vetovo, close to the Danube. Oda Jaune’s dream was to rise to the challenge of creating an encounter, where a subtle work, open to interpretation, meets nature and local people. Her Caress, with its delicate and sensual draping, evokes the Pietà artistic tradition. The work is unsettling, questioning the concept of fusion and the nature of the love that binds the protagonists: are they mother and son, lovers, twins? The reactions of local residents and passers-by to this enigmatic work, displayed far from a museum setting, are an integral part of the project.
Abdelkader Benchamma
SYNCOPATION, CONTEMPORARY ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MODERN MASTERS MONET, CéZANNE, PICASSO – GROUP SHOW
POLA MUSEUM OF ART, KANAGAWA, JAPONFrom 10/08/2019 to 01/12/2019
As our first full-fledged exhibition featuring contemporary art, Syncopation will present a wide range of works of art from the Pola Museum of Art collection, including paintings, sculptures, and Oriental ceramics, along with works by artists active on the front lines of contemporary expression. Here various works by contemporary artists, including installations filling entire rooms, sound art, video art, and a piece exhibited outdoors, are shedding new light on works by the modern masters, encouraging multifaceted interpretation.
Jitish Kallat
CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS: CONTEMPORARY ART AND BIOLOGICAL TIME – GROUP SHOW
THE LEWIS GLUCKSMAN GALLERY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELANDFrom 01/08/2019 to 03/11/2019
All life on earth – humans, other animals, plants and even bacteria – carry out biological processes to a 24-hour pattern of activity that mirrors the length of the earth day. Such processes are said to be subject to certain rhythms as they oscillate at different points during the 24-hour cycle, always following the same pattern of activity. Circadian Rhythms presents the work of Irish and international artists who explore these invisible forces through reflections on time, the cadence of working life, sleeping patterns, as well as through the impact of modern technologies that disrupt the natural world.
Kehinde Wiley
COMEBACK. ART HISTORICAL RENAISSANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART – GROUP SHOW
KUNSTHALLE TÜBINGEN, TÜBIGEN, GERMANYFrom 20/07/2019 to 10/11/2019
Art history is making a comeback in the visual arts. Artists not only copy and appropriate paintings from bygone eras, but also respond more freely and playfully to the “mnemic energies” (Aby Warburg) stored in ancient works. More and more frequently, they try to summon up the collective heritage through performative strategies as well as through photographic and cinematic media.
Jonathan Meese
TICKET TO THE MOON – GROUP SHOW
KUNSTHALLE KREMS, KREMS, GERMANYFrom 14/07/2019 to 03/11/2019
The show is dedicated to artistic comments on the moon landing and to the moon as a symbol of human dreams, desires, and speculation. Featured in it are works from the time when the race to the moon started in the 1950s, direct reactions to the moon landing after 1969, and also very recent positions of younger artists.
Jim Dine
JIM DINE – GROUP SHOW
CENTRE POMPIDOU/MALAGA, SPAINFrom 10/07/2019 to 7/10/2019
The Center Pompidou Málaga presents the exceptional donation made by Jim Dine in 2017-2018 to the Musée National d’Art Moderne and which includes works from the period 1961 to 2016. It is a coherent set of paintings and sculptures that reveal his incessant autobiographical exploration through his recurring motifs: tools, hearts, bathrobes, venuses, pinocchios … With this donation, Jim Dine wanted to thank France for having inspired an aesthetic that has fueled his work.
Gérard Garouste
GéRARD GAROUSTE ET L’éCOLE DES PROPHèTES – SOLO SHOW
LIEU DE MEMOIRE, CHAMBON-SUR-LIGNON, FRANCEFrom 05/07/2019 to 29/09/2019
This Summer, Gérard Garouste has expressed the wish to install some of his works in the new rooms of the Remembrance Place of Chambon sur Lignon. Familiar with the Talmud, the artist wanted to know more about these young Jews, who in the darkest hours of Nazism had reflected on the revival of Jewish thought by calling themselves, with a touch of provocation, the School of prophets. Gérard Garouste’s painting draws its inspiration from the Talmudic tradition, the horror of the Shoah and its personal history. The exhibition offers a journey between painting and biblical texts, between art and history, around a selection of paintings that resonate with the reflections of this group of thinkers.
