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Chiharu Shiota
IN THE BEGINNING WAS… – PERMANENT WORK
Planta Project, Complejo industrial La Plana del Corb, Balaguer, Lleida, Spain
Chiharu Shiota created a site-specific installation for the Planta Project “In the beginning was…” in the industrial complex of La Plana del Corb. The colours, shapes and textures of the environment inspired Shiota to use stone for the first time in one of her installations. She chose it as a material, not only because of the relationship with the landscape of Planta, but also for its link with the origin of the universe.
Valerio Adami
Philippe Cognée
Gérard Garouste
Pierre et Gilles
« MOI JE » – GROUP SHOW
Biennale de l’UNAM (Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne)
Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut-de-Cagnes – Place du Château, Cagnes-sur-Mer
From June 12, 2021 to January 3, 2022
The UNAM Biennale gathers around forty artists who illustrate with originality and talent their vision of “Moi, Je” and its present and future challenges in the mutations of an obviously dangerous society and withdrawal into oneself.
Gregory Crewdson
« UN GOûT DE VACANCES, DES SAVEURS D’éTé » – GROUP SHOW
Abbaye Saint André – Centre d’art contemporain
Place du Bûcher, Meymac
From July 11 to October 17, 2021
Summer goes with vacation. It is a time for going out, for walking in the middle of nature, for bathing in the sea. It is the period when we pick up fruits, where we cultivate our garden, where we spend time with our family and friends, where we meet people. It is about camping, swimming, tanning on the beach, sailing, surfing, paragliding, discovering new places, traveling. Because of the pandemic we were likely to forget it. Through their works and installations, the guest artists bring this back to life, and rekindle our emotions.
René Wirths
« TIME ON MY SIDE » – SOLO SHOW
Museum in Kleihues-Bau
Stuttgarter Str. 93, Kornwestheim
From July to January 23, 2022
The exhibition “Time on my side” presents a selection of masterful works by Berlin-based artist René Wirths that shows some realistically painted patterns from the everyday life, which are larger than life, in front of a neutral white background. In his practice, René Wirths asks himself the most important question, the question of our own existence. Wirths’ work alternates between the objectivity of the things depicted and the subjectivity of the artist’s or viewer’s perception. In his reproductions, the artist does not use a photographic model or projection technique but paints the objects as he sees them in his studio.
David LaChapelle
“MARIA MAGDALENA” – GROUP EXHIBITION
Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, Netherlands
From June 24, 2021 to January 9, 2022
Mary Magdalen is a woman of extremes and has given rise to a multiplicity of interpretations: a wealth of representations, conspiracy theories and controversies. This special exhibition will introduce the visitor to the rich, paradoxical and constantly evolving imagery surrounding this mysterious biblical figure. From the time of the New Testament to the present day, Mary Magdalen has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists.
Iván Navarro
« SEEING & PERCEIVING » – GROUP SHOW
Ithra Museum
8386 Ring Rd, Gharb Al Dhahran, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
From June 24, 2021 to March 26, 2022
« Seeing & Perceiving » is an exhibition that challenges the viewer to question their reality. It encourages them to explore and perceive art in different ways and from different angles. With a critical thinking approach, it highlights the importance of how necessary it is for all of us to reflect, assimilate and take part in a dialogue about what is surrounding us. Ithra brings an exponential selection of highly recognized artists from the international and regional contemporary art scene to re-imagine the viewer’s perspective and their own perception. Drawn from Ithra’s art collection, this exhibition showcases a series of newly commissioned artwork, as well as site specifics and artworks on loan.
Jean-Michel Alberola
BOOK SIGNING
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2021 FROM 5PM TO 8PM
TEMPLON I 30 RUE BEAUBOURG, 75003 PARIS
On the occasion of our current Jean-Michel Alberola’s exhibition The King of Nothing, The Queen of England, and the Others, we are pleased to invite you to a meeting with the artist and the signing of the catalog of his exhibition Le Fleuve currently on view at the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (Imec) at the Abbaye d’Ardenne in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe (Caen) until September 26, 2021. About the catalog: Order on our online store
Philippe Cognée
« LES APPARENCES » 50 PEINTRES CONTEMPORAINS DE LA SCèNE FRANçAISE – GROUP SHOW
À cent mètres du centre du monde, contemporary art center
3 avenue de Grande Bretagne, Perpignan
From June 20 to September 12, 2021
The exhibition presents painters using the world of appearances as their reference. In a wide variety of theme, style and ambition, all of these painters question reality with this particular medium that plays with the visible with visible materials: pigments, surfaces, the sculptural aspect of the painting. The variety of the painters in the exhibition is reflected in their confidence in the medium that is the painting: this immemorial need to represent the unspeakable of appearances by the presence of a painting.
Jitish Kallat
EPICYCLES – SOLO SHOW
From June 19 to September 26, 2021
Norrtälje Konsthall, Galles gränd 7, Norrtälje, Sweden
Norrtälje Konsthall is presenting simultaneous solo exhibitions by two of India’s most successful artists – Reena Saini Kallat and Jitish Kallat – creating interesting continuity between their practices. Jitish Kallat’s exhibition titled “Epicycles” reveals his longstanding engagement with the ideas of time, transience, sustenance, the ecological and the cosmological. The exhibition is an assembly of conceptual and sensory propositions through a suite of large format paintings, drawings, sculptures and video.
Kehinde Wiley
THE OBAMA PORTRAITS TOUR – TRAVELING EXHIBITION
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: from June 18 to August 15, 2021
Brooklyn Museum, New-York: from August 27 to October 24, 2021
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles: from November 5, 2021 to January 2, 2022
High Museum of Art, Atlanta: from January 14 to March 13, 2022
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: from March 27 to May 30, 2022
Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of Mrs. Michelle Obama unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018 will travel to five cities across the U.S as part of The Obama Portraits Tour organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. In addition to the artworks themselves, the tour will feature audiovisual elements, educational workshops, curatorial presentations, and a richly illustrated book The Obama Portraits (2020) co-published by the National Portrait Gallery and Princeton University Press and select merchandise will also be available. This special presentation will exchange the conversations surrounding the power of portraiture and its potential to engage communities.
Jean-Michel Alberola
“LE FLEUVE” – SOLO EXHIBITION
From June 4 to September 26, 2021
Ardenne abbey, 14280 Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, France
The IMEC gave carte blanche to the artist Jean-Michel Alberola for the next exhibition at the Ardenne abbey. Over the weeks, the artist, whose work is nourished with literature, discovered the undergrounds where the archives are kept. He explored the library, and the reserves and little by little his research took shape around the work of Kafka with the animal of his short story “Le Terrier”. “When Kafka writes “Le Terrier”, he is the animal just for the time of the writing. Not more, not less. It is the story of an underground place, where, isolated, he can finally write : and isolated he could finaly get out.” The still unknown drawing of this carte blanche will appear in June at the Ardenne abbey.
Norbert Bisky
“D I S I N F O T A I N M E N T” – SOLO EXHIBITION
G2 Kunsthalle, Dittrichring 13, Leipzig, Germany
From June 4 to September 26, 2021
Norbert Bisky’s first exhibition in Leipzig, where he was born, combines earlier works from the holdings of the Hildebrang Collection with a new painting cycle and an expansive installation inspired by the altered conditions of communication in the pandemic age. The title refers to G2 Kunsthalle’s architectural history –it was meant to a host municipal data processing center. The show turns the spotlight on the use of data and information in a world ruled by digital technology. In the recent work “Trollfarmer” (2021), Bisky grapples with “doom-scrolling”, in which people compulsively search the web for fear-inducing images and information, and explores the ways in which such new cultural practices serve the interests of unseen actors.
Philippe Cognée
Pierre et Gilles
BLOOMING – GROUP EXHIBITION
From June 3 to November 15, 2021
Domaine Pommery, 5 Place du Général Gouraud, Reims
The exhibition “BLOOMING” is opening the new exhibition space of the Domaine de Pommery, the “Cellier Pompadour”, and celebrates the time of rebirth and blossoming of nature and men by bringing together artists from the past and from today. Dedicated to painting, ceramics, drawing and figurative photography, this majestic Eiffel-type space of over 900 square meters magnificently enriches the 55-hectare estate. This first exhibition in the ”Cellier Pompadour” gathers 61 artists including Pierre et Gilles and Philippe Cognée, and is curated by Nathalie Vranken, Catherine Delot – Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Reims, Chief Heritage Curator – and Fabrice Bousteau – Exhibition Curator and Director of the editorial staff of Beaux-Arts magazine.
Pierre et Gilles
DE(S)RIVES #4 – GROUP SHOW
Aline Vidal Paris
Passage véro-dodat
2 rue Bouloi ou 19, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paris
From June 3 to 19, 2021
(Opening on June 3 from 4pm to 8pm)
A mysterious passage that inspires surprise, fleeting encounters, “gastronomy for the eye, not a stroll” as Balzac said. Artists are invited to present works without taboos, political ramblings, diversions and rantings. With works by Pierre et Gilles, Elika Hedayat, Philippe De Gobert, Jacqueline de Jong, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Marie Losier, Javier Mayoral, Clémentine Mélois, Arthur Mirat, Honoré δ’O, Thibault Scemama de Gialluly, Stéphane Thidet, Didier Trenet, Clovis Trouille et une intervention de Mirat-Masson.
David LaChapelle
“BOTTICELLI. SON TEMPS. ET NOTRE TEMPS” – GROUP EXHIBITION
Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Corso Bettini 43, Rovereto, Italy
From May 22 to August 29, 2021
With its latest exhibition, the Mart continues comparing artists and art movements spanning different eras, overcoming temporal limits. The undisputed protagonist of “His Time” and “Our Time” is Sandro Botticelli. On display, as part of the exhibition are a series of masterpieces, including Pallade e il Centauro on loan from the Uffizi Gallery, Venere from the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, andCompianto sul Cristo morto from the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan. Botticelli’s influence also echoes the works of contemporary artists, including Giosetta Fioroni, David LaChapelle, Michelangelo Pistoletto and John Currin, and the worlds of film and fashion, comparing the image of Venus with that of Chiara Ferragni.
Pierre et Gilles
« SUR LES CHEMINS DU PARADIS » – GROUP EXHIBITION
Les Franciscaines, 145 B avenue de la République, Deauville, France
From May 19 to August 22, 2021
“Sur les chemins du paradis” explores the different aspects of heaven through what the three monotheisms – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have said about it and the work that artists have produced for two thousand years. The inaugural exhibition of the Franciscaines de Deauville, alongside artists from all centuries and from all western and eastern regions, explores the historical and artistic transcription of the founding texts of heaven, from the myth of Enki in Mesopotamia to the figuration of Incarnation by Bill Viola. It is therefore a question of identifying the influences, the exchanges, the interpenetration of iconographic codes from the 3rd millennium BC to the 21st century.
Pierre et Gilles
« ICONS » – GROUP SHOW
Boghossian Foundation
Villa Empain, Brussels
From May 6 to October 24, 2021
The exhibition shows a selection of ancient icons from Europe and Russia – depicting variously Christ, the Mother of God, or individual saints – the striking simplicity of which sets them apart as timeless objects of veneration. A second set of works by 19th and 20th century artists such as Pierre et Gilles, Charles Filiger and Lucien Levy-Dhurmer explores the frontal and depth-less composition of icons. The exhibition also discusses the use that contemporary artists like Yan Pei-Ming and Wim Delvoye make of iconographic language.
Julião Sarmento
JULIAO SARMENTO (1948 – 2021)
Photo: pf.Elle.J
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Juliao Sarmento, yesterday May 4, in Lisbon.
Born in 1948, Juliao Sarmento was a major figure of Portuguese art from the 1970s onwards. He was among the first of his generation to achieve wide international recognition, exhibiting in numerous prestigious museums (including the Tate Modern in London, the Centro Contemporáneo de Malaga in Spain, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and the Fundaçao Serralves in Porto). Throughout his life, he carved a place for himself among the great thinkers and artists of contemporary art. His work explored the terrain of desire and representation in an approach combining painting, video, sound and visual installations. Exploiting a huge variety of combinations, Sarmento created an oeuvre with recurring motifs: the archetypal woman, modernist architectural images, plant-like lines, references to literature and the cinema. A large part of his work addresses issues of fragmentation, the gap between the real and fictional.
Fluent in French and a lover of French culture and cinema, Juliao Sarmento was widely admired in our country, where his work was the subject of many museum exhibitions, including Pompidou, MAMAC in Nice or most recently the Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris.
A passionate artist, Juliao Sarmento radiated with relentless curiosity and fierce energy. Profoundly humane and generous, he we will greatly missed.
Our thoughts are with his family.
Chiharu Shiota
THE SOUL TREMBLES – SOLO EXHIBITION
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
No. 181, Sec. 3, Zhongshan N. Rd., Zongschan Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan
From May 1st to August 29, 2021
“The Soul Trembles” is the largest exhibition devoted to the internationally active artist Chiharu Shiota. On display are some one hundred works ranging from her 1990s output to her latest pieces. In addition to large-scale installation, there are sculptures, performance videos, photographs, drawings, and materials related to her stage design projects.
Among these works are large-scale installations in which black and red threads run through and envelop the entire space, constituting one of her most representative artwork series. The countless lines traced out in thread allude to various phenomena and a complex array of links and connections, while also beckoning us towards the deepest reaches of existence. At the root of these works lie Shiota’s incessantly-pursued themes of life and death, as well as a fundamental inquiry into what we all pursue in life, and where we are heading.
The subtitle of this exhibition, “The Soul Trembles,” refers to the emotional stirrings of the heart that cannot be put into words, in addition to being a manifestation of thoughts the artist hopes to convey to others.
Kehinde Wiley
NEW ACQUISITION – SAINT ADELAIDE, 2014
The Stained Glass Museum
South Triforium, Ely, Cambridgeshire (UK)
It is the first stained glass artwork designed by Kehinde Wiley to enter a public art collection in the world. The title and pose of Saint Adelaide derives from an original 19th century stained glass window depicting the 10th century saint and consort of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I in the Royal Chapel of St Ferdinand, Paris. In Wiley’s stained glass artwork, the figure of the female saint is substituted for Brooklyn model Mark Shavers – a young black man wearing pale jeans, a stripy jumper and gold trainers, with a fur around his neck.
It is one of three stained glass artworks (Saint Adelaide, Saint Remi and Saint Amelie) inspired by historic stained glass in this chapel designed by French painter Jean Auguste-Dominque-Ingres and made at Sèvres.
