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Chiharu Shiota
A LONG DAY
DELLO SCOMPIGLIO, CAPANNORI LUCCA, ITALY
From May 24th to September 28th 2014 The Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio presents “A Long Day”, the new installation by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, curated by Franziska Nori, created specifically for the exhibition space at Dello Scompiglio. The exhibition features some of the most incisive aspects of the artist’s work, combining installation, sculpture and performance in a condensed space-time dimension. (…)
Iván Navarro
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
NORTHPARK CENTER, DALLAS, USA
From May 21st 2014 to May 21st 2015 (DALLAS, Texas) May 12, 2014 – NorthPark Center is pleased to present a FREE public art exhibition of Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro’s work, This Land Is Your Land. The installation, which was recently on view at Madison Square Park in New York City, features three elevated wooden water towers serving as metaphors for the experience of immigration. The works will be on view for one year at NorthPark Center on Level One between Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom near Gucci, TOD’S, Salvatore Ferragamo and Versace. “For nearly 50 years, NorthPark Center has been committed to presenting museum quality works of public art throughout the shopping center for all to enjoy, giving many individuals their first encounter with art,” said Nancy A. Nasher, co-owner of NorthPark Center with husband David J. Haemisegger. “It is a privilege to bring to NorthPark and to North Texas this stunning and thought-provoking work that will serve as a source of contemplation, inspiration and possibility. (…)
Philippe Cognée
PHILIPPE COGNéE
CHAMBORD CASTLE, 2ND FLOOR, DOMAINE NATIONAL DE CHAMBORD, FRANCE
From May 18th to October 12th 2014 Philippe Cognée est sans conteste aujourd’hui l’un des plus peintres les plus importants de la scène française. Profondément marqué par son enfance au Bénin, il commence à peindre au cours des années 1980 des paysages intrigants, peuplés d’animaux sauvages et d’être humains empruntant au douanier Rousseau. Au cours de son séjour à la villa Médicis en 1991, son travail prend une tournure différente et décisive : l’artiste développe une pratique singulière qui s’inspire de la photographie, associée à un travail sur les effets de la peinture à l’encaustique chauffée sur la toile. (…)
Pierre et Gilles
NUIT EUROPéENNE DES MUSéES – GALERIE DES GOBELINS – EXPOSITION CARTE BLANCHE à PIERRE ET GILLES
GALERIE DES GOBELINS, SALON CARRE, PARIS
Ouverture de la Galerie des Gobelins la nuit du samedi 17 mai 2014
Cette nouvelle carte blanche propose à Pierre et Gilles de dialoguer avec le monde décoratif du XVIIIe siècle, magnifiquement représenté dans l’exposition Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières – Un âge d’or de la manufacture royale.
Dans le Salon carré de la Galerie des Gobelins, ce couple artistique passionné de motifs iconiques apporte un souffle inimitable qui mêle comme à son habitude esprit baroque et scènes oniriques. (…)
Jean-Michel Alberola
MéMOIRES VIVES
FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN, PARIS, FRANCE
Du From May 10th to September 21th 2014 Peintre, Jean-Michel Alberola utilise les moyens de création les plus divers – film, texte, photographie, installation, sculpture, néon – pour mener une réflexion sur l’histoire et le pouvoir de l’image, la société et l’actualité, la légitimité de la peinture et le rôle de l’artiste. Pour l’exposition Mémoires Vives, Jean-Michel Alberola crée un « mur peint », Eclairage en groupe, sur lequel se rencontre la communauté des artistes, scientifiques, penseurs ou chamanes qui constitue le « grand orchestre » de la Fondation Cartier et souligne la dimension humaine qui est au cœur de son action.. (…) image : © Thomas Salva / Lumento 2014
Pierre et Gilles
CARTE BLANCHE à PIERRE ET GILLES
GALERIE DES GOBELINS, SALON CARRE, PARIS
From April 8th to October 4th 2014
Cette nouvelle carte blanche propose à Pierre et Gilles de dialoguer avec le monde décoratif du XVIIIe siècle, magnifiquement représenté dans l’exposition Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières – Un âge d’or de la manufacture royale.
Dans le Salon carré de la Galerie des Gobelins, ce couple artistique passionné de motifs iconiques apporte un souffle inimitable qui mêle comme à son habitude esprit baroque et scènes oniriques. (…)
Iván Navarro
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY, NEW YORK, USA
From February 20th to April 13st 2014 New York—Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces a new sculptural installation for late winter 2014: This Land Is Your Land by Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro. The site-specific installation will present three water towers inside of which neon reflections repeat infinitely. The sculptures merge a staple of the New York skyline with the street-level landscape of the Park. The artist takes the exhibition’s title from the beloved 1940 Woody Guthrie folk song, which is both an American anthem and a vocal pull to the freedoms offered in this country for an immigrant population. The towers will be elevated to a height above visitors’ heads, allowing them to walk underneath and look up into each sculpture to view the content within. The exhibition will be on view daily from February 20 – April 13, 2014 in Madison Square Park. (…)
Eric Fischl
FRIENDS, LOVERS AND OTHER CONSTELLATIONS
ALBERTINA, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
From February 13th to May 18 2014 The American painter, graphic artist and sculptor Eric Fischl (* 1948 in New York) is one of the most important representatives of contemporary figuration. His work is characterised by a style linked with American realism. The compositions, which capture scenes like snapshots, convey the impression of a film clip. The just completed or immediately imminent action is thus often only implied. (…)
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE. TRIBUTE TO BELGIAN CONGO (2010-2013)
PINCHUKARTCENTRE, KIEV, UKRAINE
From February 8th to April 27th 2014
In 1979 Jan Fabre started his artistic practice by erecting a tent-laboratory, called de Neus (the Nose), in the garden of his parents. Mesmerized by the insects’ capacity for metamorphosis, he subjected them to intensive artistic research and experiments. Insects continued to (re-)appear in Fabre’s early drawings, performances and sculptures. Especially beetles, with their unique sense of survival, remained a source of inspiration for the artist, and in his oeuvre they have come to represent a way of dealing with mortality, beauty and suffering – three essential themes, which define Fabre’s complex practice as an artist, theatre maker and writer. (…)
Anthony Caro
ANTHONY CARO. MASTERPIECES FROM THE WüRTH COLLECTION
MUSÉE WÜRTH FRANCE ERSTEIN
The Musée Würth France hosts a retrospective memorial exhibition devoted to the greatest English sculptor of his generation, Anthony Caro, who died October 2013. The exhibition titled, Anthony Caro. Masterpieces from the Würth Collection, showcases an exceptional range of his works drawn from the past 40 years. The Würth Collection of Caro is the largest in Europe. The large room on Musée Würth’s ground floor is unique in being able to display the artist’s most important sculpture of the 90’s, The Last Judgement. Shown for the first time in France, this narrative sculpture comments on the realities of a millennium torn by war, atrocities, greed and excess. It draws its inspiration from Greek mythology, Biblical writings and art history.
