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Chiharu Shiota
LETTERS OF THANKS
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
From Sunday 7th July to Monday 23th September 2013 Our next exhibition will feature new works by Chiharu Shiota, an artist who is the focus of attention in art circles all over the world. Born in Osaka, Chiharu Shiota is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Deemed a young artistic master with artworks of epic proportions, she actively creates new works in various countries, and her next move constantly attracts much attention. Her roots lie in Kochi’s Ogata Town (current Kuroshio Town)—her parents’ hometown—and her memories of the many childhood summers spent here were the catalyst for her creation of art. (…)
Jan Fabre
Jean-Michel Alberola
Jim Dine
Gérard Garouste
Kehinde Wiley
ADVENTURES OF TRUTHPAINTING AND PHILOSOPHY: A NARRATIVECURATOR : BERNARD HENRI-LÉVY(GROUP SHOW)
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
From Saturday 29th June to Monday 11th November 2013 Painters and sculptors collaborated with the Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, creating works which were integrated into the building and the surrounding natural environment: the Giacometti courtyard, the Miró labyrinth with its sculptures and ceramics, the mosaic murals of Chagall and Tal Coat, Braque’s pond and stained glass window and Bury’s fountain. Indoor and outdoor spaces link up with each other through the sculpture garden, the courtyards, terraces and patios. The Maeght Foundation is already famous for its architecture and gardens; it is also home to one of Europe’s richest collections of modern and contemporary art. The greenery of its grounds makes the Maeght Foundation the ideal place to discover the great artists of our time. (…)
Kehinde Wiley
THE WORLD STAGE : ISRAEL
Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA
From Saturday 22th June to Sunday 27th November 2013 One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting. The World Stage: Israel is part of the artist’s series exploring the global black diaspora and the international phenomenon of urban youth culture. Paintings in The World Stage: Israel are based on photographs the artist took of men of diverse religions and ethnicities living in Israel. The elaborate decorative backgrounds are based on historical Jewish designs and motifs. The portraits are complemented by a selection of Jewish textiles and works on paper, loaned by Ahavath Beth Israel synagogue in Boise, to provide examples of the types of traditional artifacts that inspired Wiley, including Torah ark curtains and a marriage contract. (…)
Julião Sarmento
INDEX
MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal
From Saturday 22th June to Tuesday 31st December 2013 Opening in June at MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art) will be Julião Sarmento’s solo exhibition INDEX, curated by João Silvério. A catalogue designed by Pedro Falcão, with a text by João Silvério (Portuguese and English), will be published to accompany the exhibition. (…)
David LaChapelle
DAVID LACHAPELLE
LECTURE AT ENSBA, PARIS – WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE 2013 AT 06:00 PM
ENSBA, Paris, France
On the occasion of Still Life, his first exhibition in Paris at Galerie Templon (June 6 – July 26), American photographer David LaChapelle will be retracing his practice and presenting his new series during a lecture held at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. World-renowned for his highly colorful fashion photography and flamboyantly baroque portraits of celebrities, David LaChapelle surprises us here with a new approach that bears witness to his interest in the underside of the American dream and the history of art. David LaChapelle is an icon hunter obsessed by the question of notoriety, and when vandals had attacked the Dublin Wax Museum he traveled there to make a record of the broken lookalikes, which led him to investigate many wax museums in the United States (California and Nevada). One of the most widely published photographers of the last twenty years, since 2006 David LaChapelle has been focusing on the experimental artistic sides of his art. In recent years he has exhibited his works at many one-man shows around the world, including the Barbican Museum in London (2002), Palazzo Reale in Milan (2007), the Musée de La Monnaie in Paris (2009) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel (2010), from which he received the honor of Artist of the Year in 2011. Also recently, major retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico (2011), Hangaram Museum in Korea (2012), Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague (2011/2012), and the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm (2012/2013).
Anthony Caro
CARO AT CORRER MUSEUM
Correr Museum, Venice, Italy
From Saturday 1st June to Sunday 27th October 2013 The splendid rooms of the Museo Correr will be the setting for the first major Italian retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest of living sculptors: Sir Anthony Caro (New Malden, Surrey, 1924). The versatile British artist has radically “revolutionised” his art. After a strictly figurative beginning, under the influence of his teacher, Henry Moore, he drifted away from sculptural tradition to create revolutionary assemblages, welded and bolted together, painted in bright colours and positioned on the floor within the viewer’s space; these were abstract works but rich in ideal content. This new, fascinating sculptural language established him as a key figure in the development of 20th century sculpture alongside David Smith, Mark Di Suvero and Richard Serra. (…)
Yue Minjun
PASSAGE TO HISTORY: 20 YEARS OF LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA AND CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART(GROUP SHOW)
Venice Biennale, Arsenal, Venice, Italy
Du samedi 1er juin au dimanche 24 novembre 2013 Italian art criticand curator Achille Bonito Oliva, together with Chinese art historian LüPengare invited to co-curate “Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art”.They will offertheir historical perspectives on this exhibition and its cultural subjects.Thanks to the former’s participation, we may gain a clearer understanding ofand affinity for the Chinese contemporary art exhibitionat La Biennale di Venezia, its background andhistorical significance. As for the participation of the latter, he has fortwenty years been in the position of clarifying contemporary art in China for international audiences. (…)
Jan Fabre
THE TRAGEDY OF A FRIENDSHIP
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France
From May 29th to June 3rd 2013
Jan Fabre direction
Troubleyn Company
BETWEEN NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER
“Every artist, face to face with his lone self, like a man wrecked at sea…” such were Jan Fabre’s words used in Sanguis/Mantis. The Tragedy of a Friendship is a meditation on the relationship between Nietzsche and Wagner. Prodding the artist’s intimate dualities, Jan Fabre digs into the clefts that torment the creator torn between his aspiration to transcendence and his temptation to the mundane, between his attraction to intellectual speculation and the call of intuition. (…)
Atul Dodiya
Jan Fabre
Jitish Kallat
Mao Yan
Chiharu Shiota
Kehinde Wiley
Yue Minjun
ART BASEL HONG KONG 2013
Gérard Garouste
LE DÉFI DU SOLEIL
Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, France
From May 23 2013 Le CNAP, en partenariat avec le Centre des monuments nationaux et la Direction générale des patrimoines installe au domaine national de Saint-Cloud Le défi du soleil, commandé à l’artiste en 1985 et prévu à l’origine pour le jardin du Palais-Royal. (…)
