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Chiharu Shiota
THE FIRST KYIV INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE, ARSENALE 2012(GROUP SHOW)
Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
From May 24th to July 31th 2012 THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES – REBIRTH AND APOCALYPSE IN CONTEMPORARY ART Echoing the first words of A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens’ famous novel set at the time of the French Revolution, this exhibition jumps forward to the present to consider how contemporary art and aesthetics use the past to express the future. The ideals of Human Rights developed during 18th Century European Enlightenment found their first political expression in the American and French Revolutions. Combining ideology with action, these initiated a continuing wave of national uprisings that still continue to form the world. Yet in spite of good intentions Human Rights have been constricted and each revolution has contained at its core the worst as well as the best of human thought and action. This exhibition reflects on utopian dreams of freedom, equality, and security that are very much at the heart of our lives today, as well as on their opposite: terror, inequity and war. It is the destructive forces of both man and nature that seem to make a more ideal life impossible. (…)
Norbert Bisky
LABORATORIES OF THE SENSES(GROUP SHOW)
Marta Herford, Garmany
From May 12th to September 16th 2012 This top-class exhibition developed at Marta Herford addresses the diverse relationship between two creative production centres: the artist’s studio and the kitchen. Connected by the pleasurable use of new materials and ingredients as well as the close involvement of the senses, both these rooms have also undergone a process of transformation over the centuries. Artists’ studios have developed from master craftsmen’s workshops into mysterious studios of brilliant creators and later factory-like studios or multimedia laboratories. And a parallel path has been charted by the kitchen, which has evolved from an archaic fireplace into a rural kitchen-cum-living-room, the small kitchens found in blocks of flats, and modern open high-tech units. (…)
Iván Navarro
James Casebere
FRAGMENTS D’UN DISCOURS ONIRIQUE(GROUP SHOW)
Domaine National, Chambord
From May 12th to October 7th 2012 Du 12 mai au 7 octobre Chambord vous propose un parcours d’art contemporain initié par les Frac Centre, Poitou-Charentes et Pays de la Loire. Sont exposées certaines des oeuvres de Christian Boltanski, Mircea Cantor, Alain Fleischer, Pierre Ardouvin, Marie-Céline Delibiot, James Casebere et Philippe Oudard. (…)
Iván Navarro
HAVANA BIENNIAL
La Havane, Cuba
From May 11th to June 11th 2012 “Artistic practices and social imaginaries“
Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY – MONOGRAPH
May 2012 – Publication of a new monograph of Kehinde Wiley, Rizzoli Editions
Chiharu Shiota
LABYRINTH OF MEMORY
La Sucrière, Lyon
From May 4th to July 31th 2012 Pour ce premier événement culturel produit par La Sucrière l’artiste réalise une installation monumentale dans une totale intégration de l’architecture du bâtiment. 16 robes blanches, suspendues au plafond dans un réseau de corde noire qui nécessiteront environ 1000 mètres de coton satin et un camion de laine noire (600km de laine). Chaque robe est réalisée par le créateur Mongi Guibane. (…)
WHO IS ALONE NOW WILL STAY ALONE FOREVER
TOP Contemporary Art Space, Shangai, Chine
From April 26th to May 25th 2012 This exhibition shall present a site-specific project by He An that explores urban memory and the scars of time.
Jean-Michel Alberola
LA CHAMBRE DES INSTRUCTIONS
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
From April 21th 2012 Constatant l’impossibilité de formuler aujourd’hui toute aspiration utopique, Jean-Michel Alberola conçoit La Chambre des instructions, une salle d’attente, un espace pour reprendre une conversation conjuguée au temps présent, pour le régénérer. Jean-Michel Alberola y déploie des couleurs intenses, un chant coloré, des silhouettes empruntées à la presse écrite ou encore des phrases comme autant d’injonctions lisibles d’un point de vue personnel, philosophique ou souvent même politique. (…)
Norbert Bisky
I AM A BERLINER(GROUP SHOW)
Museo dell’arte del novecento e del contemporaneo – Covento del Carmelo, Sassari, Italy
From April 13th to June 13th 2012 What does it mean to speak of “the persistence of painting”? In Berlin today, this expression represents a remarkable diversity of practices ranging from abstraction and realism to highly expressive, narrative, and post-narrative painting. These distinct painterly positions, which are represented by the 18 artists featured in this exhibitions, all involve a self-reflexive investigation of the painterly process and of the nature of contemporary painting. (…)
Iván Navarro
MOUVEMENT ET LUMIÈRE(GROUP SHOW)
Villa Datris, L'Isle sur la Sorgue
From April 6th to November 4th 2012
L’exposition « Mouvement et Lumière » est un voyage dans l’histoire de l’art cinétique et optique.
Au total 85 œuvres illustrent le thème du mouvement et de la lumière que Tinguely définissait par cette phrase « l’unique chose stable, c’est le mouvement partout et toujours ».
Qu’il s’agisse d’un mouvement réel créé par le moteur ou la lumière ou d’un mouvement virtuel créé par l’illusion optique, toutes les sculptures exposées font appel à la participation du public invité à faire partie intégrante de l’oeuvre en jouant avec celle-ci. (…)
