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Julião Sarmento
EXPENSES – GROUP SHOW
LABANQUE, BETHUNE, FRANCEFrom 10/8/2016 to 2/26/2017
The exhibition Expenses opens on October 8th at Labanque, the production and diffusion center for visual arts recently restructured at Béthune in the spaces of the old Banque de France. The exhibition launches a three-part cycle; conceived like a trilogy by Léa Bismuth and dedicated to Georges Bataille. For its first part, as for the following ones, the curator takes advantage of the 1500 square meters of this extraordinary space and confronts artworks of French and international as well as contemporary and historical artists whereas the majority was conceived especially for this occasion.
Iván Navarro
Chiharu Shiota
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – GROUP SHOW
MAISON PARTICULIERE, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 10/06/2016 to 4/30/2017
From “Where do we come from?” to “Where are we going?” From beginning to end, from origins to eternity, such is the guiding theme and framework of the exhibition, From here to eternity. In his works, guest artist Angelo Musco tirelessly explores the cycles of existence: birth—a recurrent theme in his work; origins and evolution ; the metamorphoses of the human being and nature; mystery; and abysses. Accompanying Angelo Musco on his journey are works, among others from Chiharu Shiota and Ivan Navarro, that encounter his, engaging in a dialogue and free falling weightlessly into an open space with no beginning or end. Existence can therfore be the intertwining of connections and relationships, sometimes due to chance, other times intentional, like the threads that are woven and (out)stretched, as in the work by Chiaru Shiota.
Jan Fabre
STIGMATA, ACTIONS & PERFORMANCES 1976–2013 – SOLO SHOW
MAC LYON, LYON, FRANCEFrom 9/00/2016 to 1/15/2017
In 2016, ‘Stigmata’ presents the totality of Jan Fabre’s actions and performances since 1976. A journey around the memory of Jan Fabre, involving 40 years of creation, it has the merit of interrogating, not the action or the performance, but the way to exhibit it, the way to present it. The mise en scene by Jan Fabre and Germano Celant, an overview of all performances and actions, gathers 87 glass trays, 800 objects, drawings, photographs, artefacts, costumes, models which he calls “thought models”, films, works in blue ballpoint pen, and more. THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2016, 6 PM : NEW PERFORMANCE WITH EDDY MERCKX AND RAYMOND POULIDOR “An attempt to not beat the world hour record set by Eddy Merckx in Mexico City in 1972 (or how to remain a dwarf in a land of giants)”, created for Lyon at the Parc de la Tête d’Or velodrome, with commentary and live filming, in the presence of Eddy Merckx. Jan Fabre pays tribute to the Belgian cyclist. The artist grabs the handlebars and thrusts his feet into the toe clips in an attempt not to beat the world record set in Mexico City in 1972. In a salute to the talent of the man they called “The Cannibal” because of his insatiable hunger after victories, Jan Fabre allows himself to be caught up and swallowed by the beauty of failure.
Gérard Garouste
À LA CROISéE DES SOURCES – SOLO SHOW
BEAUX-ARTS MONS, MONS, FRANCE From 9/24/2016 to 1/29/2017
The Museum of Fine Arts in Mons (BAM) is dedicating a major exhibition to French painter Gérard Garouste, gathering over 80 works, some of them monumental in size. This selection will give an original overview of his entire career. The exhibition was mainly and for the first time conceived following the framework of Cervantes novel Don Quixote . Salle Saint-Georges – at a stone’s throw from BAM – will host an installation specially designed by Garouste. It invites visitors to lose themselves among the twists and turns of a labyrinth created out of around 35 monumental canvases – a unique physical and visual experience. This exhibition, curated by Bernard Marcelis and Xavier Roland, BAM’s Director, will also exclusively reveal two of his sketch books – a rare opportunity that allows us to enter the private world of his artistic process. Press visit on Friday, September 23, 2016, 11 a.m. Opening on Friday, September 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Francesco Clemente
AFTER OMEROS – SOLO SHOW
CORO DELLA MADDALENA, ALBA, ITALY From 9/15/2016 to 11/13/2016
Francesco Clemente this year will be to bring together contemporary art with the marvelous setting of the Baroque Choir. The artist will lead to Alba his recent works never exhibited in Italy. After Omeros will be composed of two installations and forty watercolors inspired by the epic poem Omeros which earned the writer Derek Walcott the Nobel Prize for literature. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of readings, taken from the work of Derek Walcott.
Ben
IS EVERYTHING ART ? – SOLO SHOW
MUSEE MAILLOL, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 09/14/2016 to 01/15/2017
Museum Maillol presents the first ambitious retrospective in Paris dedicated to, a major figure of the contemporary French art scene. Gathering more than 200 works, coming from his personal collection as well as from private collections, this exhibition explores the multi faceted work of an irreverent artist fighting against ‘pensée unique’ (forms of unique thought) for 50 years.
Pierre et Gilles
FESTIVAL IMAGES VEVEY – GROUP SHOW
VEVEY, SWITZERLANDFrom 09/10/2016 to 10/02/2016
Pierre and Gilles will exhibite two photographs during the Festival Images Vevey which will once again transform the little town of Vevey into the Swiss capital of photography. Visitors will get to discover 75 projects based on the theme of ‘immersion’: large-scale outdoor exhibitions on façades, on the lake, in parks and indoor exhibitions in unusual venues. Opening on September 10 All exhibition open at 11am, free entrance
Gregory Crewdson
GREGORY CREWDSON IN CONVERSATION WITH THE ART HISTORIAN MICHEL POIVERT
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PETITE SALLE, PARIS, FRANCEFriday, 9/9/2016, 7pm - 8:30pmFree entrance
On the occasion of the two concurrently exhibitions « Cathedral of the Pines » at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris and Brussels, the American artist Gregory Crewdson is presenting his most recent body of work in a talk with Michel Poivert, art historian specialized in photography. In images that recall nineteenth-century painting, Crewdson captures motionless figures in both natural environments and domestic interiors, charged with ambiguity. Ever since his nocturnal Twilight series (1998–2002), Crewdson has worked with a full crew, planning his elaborately staged images in a process similar to that of a movie director. His use of the codes governing the cinema of fantasy films, psychological drama and suspense conjures forebears such as Diane Arbus, Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper. These new works were shot on location in Becket, Massachusetts, where Crewdson retreated, in search of inspiration. ‘It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity,’ he explains.
Francesco Clemente
A NOMADIC LIFE – SOLO SHOW
SPRING CENTER OF ART, BEIJING, CHINAFrom 9/03/2016 to 10/31/2016
The Springs Center highlights with the solo exhibition « Nomadic Life » the work of the internationally known artist Francesco Clemente. Clemente is considered one of the most representative artists of the Transavantgarde. For this exhibition, he has spent one month to paint a large mural in the exhibition space, “The Tide of the Ocean of Stories”. His paintings on the wall are visual sediments that embody the deep and profound cultural tones of the two ancient civilizations – India and China. His understanding of the nomadic life is thinking globally and acting locally. The exhibition’s curator Huang Du brings together large–scale artworks, paintings, murals, works on paper as well as Clemente’s equipment, valuable photographs and documentary films.
Julião Sarmento
AS GOOD AS IT GETS – SOLO SHOW
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, ZAGREB, CROATIAFrom 07/15/2016 to 08/20/2016
The exhibition, titled As Good As It Gets in the three exhibition spaces represents 43 works of art in a wide range of media: painting, photography, video, sculpture, drawing, performance, mixed media; created by renowned Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento in the period from 1977 to 2014. A selection of works by the curatorial concept of Portuguese art historian and art critic João Silverio, will enable thorough insight into the creation of one of the most prominent international contemporary Portuguese artists.
