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Iván Navarro
GRAND PARIS EXPRESS IN COLLABORATION WITH DOMINIQUE PERRAULT
FUTUR TRAIN STATION "GARE DE VILLEJUIF"
As part of its artistic and cultural brief, GRAND PARIS EXPRESS has announced that Iván Navarro will be one of its guest artists, working with architect Dominique Perrault (DPA) on the future Villejuif-Institut Gustave Roussy station. Grand Paris Express is Europe’s largest urban infrastructure project, with 200-km of new automated metro lines and 68 new stations to build by 2030, designed by influential modern architects. As part of this unprecedented urban transformation project, and to promote the emergence of a unified city-wide identity, Société du Grand Paris (SGP) has launched a major arts programme under the direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès. Each new station will be the setting for a lasting artistic intervention, fruit of the convergence between two creative worlds, architect and artist working in tandem. The programme will lead to the creation of a vast body of multi-disciplinary art, with an impact simultaneously local and city-wide. Iván Navarro and Dominique Perrault are one of the first architect-artist pairs to be announced. They will work together on the Villejuif Institut-Gustave Roussy station, collaborating on a project focused on sensations of depth and the interplay of light.
Jan Fabre
INSTALLATION OF JAN FABRE’S SCULPTURES – OPENING
CHAPEL OF PIO MONTE DELLA MISERICORDIA, NAPLES, ITALY On December 21, 2019
On December 21, 2019, occurred the inauguration of the four new red coral sculptures that Jan Fabre created for the chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples, Italy. They will be permanently installed in the church.
The sculptures have as a central element a heart, symbol at the same time physical and spiritual, of compassion and universal love, feeling and thought. Curated by Melania Rossi in collaboration with Studio Trisorio.
Sudarshan Shetty
LOOK OUTSIDE THIS HOUSE – GROUP SHOW
OLD GMC, PANJIM, INDIA From 15 to 22 December 2019
Sudarshan Shetty will be the curator of the Visual Arts exhibition at Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF), one of the largest multi-disciplinary arts initiatives in the South Asian region.
His project Look Outside This House aims to present indigenous inventions and informal industries that have origins in catering to real life circumstantial needs with lasting social impact on communities at large. The exhibition will highlight the need to support and nurture various indigenous approaches for the production of knowledge that sit outside the framework of mainstream institutions.
Anju Dodiya
Jitish Kallat
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2018
KOCHI, INDIAFrom 12/12/2018 to 29/03/2019
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, and create a platform that will introduce contemporary international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, and the public. Curated by Anita Dube
Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES : LE GOûT DU CINéMA – SOLO SHOW
CENTRE D'ART LA MALMAISON, CANNES, FRANCEFrom 12/12/2019 to 26/04/2020
From December 12, 2019 through April 26, 2020, the Art Center La Malmaison in Cannes welcomes the French duo Pierre and Gilles for an exhibition gathering over 40 exceptional pieces exploring their passion for cinema.
“Pierre and Gilles, the Taste of Cinema » explores the many facets of their complex relationship to cinema, whether they choose actors as models, pay homage to their own cosmogony of film references, or simply create atmospheres intrinsically connected to the Seventh art.
For the first time, a part of their creative process will be unveiled with the installation that served as the stage of one their most recent pictures “The Seller of Eiffel Towers”.
Curator: Numa Hambursin
Opening: Wednesday December 11, 6 pm, by invitation only.
Kehinde Wiley
RUMORS OF WAR – PUBLIC ART
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, US From 10 December, 2019
Kehinde Wiley’s sculpture Rumors of War was permanently installed on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia’s capital city . The statue dominates the square in front of the Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, not far from one of the country’s most prominent displays of Confederate monuments.
Atul Dodiya
CONNECTING THREADS: TEXTILES IN CONTEMORARY PRACTICE – GROUP SHOW
DR. BHAU DAJI LAD MUSEUM, MUMBAI, INDIAFrom 02/12/2018 to 17/02/2019
The exhibition attempts to trace textile practices, traditions and histories in Contemporary Indian Art. As a medium, textile has an intrinsic meaning and context. Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta & Puja Vaish Participating Artists: Anita Dube, Anju Dodiya, Archana Hande, Desmond Lazaro, Lavanya Mani, Manish Nai, Manisha Parekh, Monali Meher, Nilima Sheikh, Paula Sengupta, Priya Ravish Mehra, Pushpamala N, Rakhi Peswani, Reena Saini Kallat, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Sharmila Samant, Shezad Dawood
Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES – IDOL FACTORY – SOLO SHOW
CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE - PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS MUSEE DE LA MUSIQUE, PARIS, FRANCE From 20/11/2019 to 23/02/2020
Working together since the 1980s, the artistic duo known as Pierre and Gilles have captured the iconic aura of multiple generations of stars in their photo-paintings. With this exhibition conceived as musical and visual installation, they reveal the secrets of their art of image creation.
Jonathan Meese
DIE IRRFAHRTEN DES JONATHAN MEESE – SOLO SHOW
PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE, MUNCHEN, GERMANY From 15/11/2018 to 03/03/2019
In the Greek saga, the hero Odysseus survives dangerous adventures on his odyssey and completes mysterious tasks – returning home at the end perhaps as a different person. Like a contemporary Odysseus, in this exhibition, the artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970 in Tokyo and based in Berlin) sets off on an imaginary journey, making various stops along the way. In drawings, pictures and sculptures from over 20 years of artistic production, encounters with the most diverse, ambivalent protagonists and situations take place, which the artist approaches in his archaic role as symbolic redeemer and liberator. Visitors to the exhibition get to accompany the plucky, provocative artist on his voyage, but where will it end?
Iván Navarro
IVáN NAVARRO : BIFOCAL
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE BUENOS AIRES, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA November 15, 2019 - March 1, 2020
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires presents BIFOCAL, a solo exhibition of the internationally recognized Chilean artist Iván Navarro. In collaboration with Revolver Galería (Buenos Aires and Lima), Templon Galerie (París), Galería Isabel Aninat (Santiago de Chile) and Luciana Brito Galeria (SãIno Paulo), the show will feature a selection of more than fifteen artworks, including neon sculptures and audio-visual installations. Navarro’s work seeks to explore the aesthetic and political dimensions of electricity through perceptual alterations stimulating the spectator in a sensorial and psychological way. Thereby, the artist achieves to reinvent everyday objects to criticize power institutions and ponder about Chilean history.
Gérard Garouste
MEETING WITH GéRARD GAROUSTE, A MAJOR FIGURE IN FRENCH PAINTING – CONFERENCE
GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCE Wednesday 13/11 at 6:30 pm
Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, co-curator of the ongoing Greco exhibition in Paris, interviews Gérard Garouste, a major figure in French painting and great admirer of the Spanish master, at the Grand Palais as part of the “Greco à deux voix” series of talks.
Gérard Garouste questions the origins of our culture, ancient masters’ heritage and the myths. His paintings are in turn disturbing and joyful, populated by different characters sometimes close to those of Greco. Spanish painting, of which he loves the strength, the colours, the profusion of blacks and the mystical side, had a fundamental role in his decision to become a painter.
Chiharu Shiota
INTERNAL LINE – SOLO SHOW
JAPAN HOUSE, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Until February 2020, Japan House – São Paulo is presenting Chiharu Shiota’s new work, Internal Line. Inspired by Japanese folklore, the work refer to the legend saying that a red thread tied to the finger of a newly born child runs from the heart to fingertips and intertwines with others’ thread, connecting them to each other.
Chiharu Shiota
LIFELINES – SOLO SHOW
CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - January 27, 2020
Chiharu Shiota’s body of work is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition Linhas da Vida (Lifelines), on view this fall at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – São Paulo.
The exhibition presents seminal works by the artist, including The Key in the Hand (2015) and the brand new work Além da Memória (2019), inspired by the diversity of the Brazilian people and the historical architecture of the CCBB-SP.
Francesco Clemente
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: WORKS 1978–2018 – SOLO SHOW
THE BRANT FOUNDATION ART STUDY CENTER, NEW YORK, USA From 12/11/2018 to 01/04/2019
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is pleased to announce a survey of works by Francesco Clemente, on view from November 12, 2018 through March 2019. The exhibition brings together a concise but comprehensive selection spanning 40 years of the artist’s work including self-portraits and portraits, works on paper, frescoes, monumental oil and watercolor paintings, and one of the artist’s notable hand painted tents. Executed in Rome, New York, Taos, Varanasi, Jodhpur, Orissa, Pondicherry, and Madras, the works have traveled far and been dispersed among museum collections and art patrons. They now come together for Francesco Clemente: Works 1978–2018, each with its own story to tell. Non-chronological in nature, the exhibition interweaves threads that have been a constant in Clemente’s long-spanning oeuvre, and presents ideas and questions that persist throughout his various transformations in medium.
Julião Sarmento
WITHOUT – SOLO SHOW
CENTRO GALEGO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, CORUNA, SPAINFrom 09/11/2018 to 02/02/2019
The work of Julião Sarmento is shaped from the borderline. Many of his works contain images of images which, while inter-related, also function independently, embracing the ambiguity of their meaning. They are microstories that take on the multiple potential of cinema, somewhere between the explicit and secret; between what is personal and what is alien. They also share a kind of suspended duration. Julião Sarmento’s entire body of work projects this cinematographic sensation because when we look at his works we always get the feeling that there is something else there that is absent, something kept offstage. The exhibition at the CGAC is a panoramic view including works that reflect this feeling that cuts across his whole trajectory: cinematographic expression. It is not so much a question of highlighting a literal relationship—which is evident in many cases—but rather we seek to project how Sarmento has always explored this intermediate space between suspension and desire, in an interstitial space where the spectator becomes immersed, treading disturbing terrain like an foreigner, like a spectator. Curators: Santiago Olmo, David Barro
Norbert Bisky
POMPA AND RANT – SOLO SHOWS
RANT – Solo show VILLA SCHÖNINGEN, POTSDAM, GERMANY From 9 November, 2019 to 23 February, 2020 POMPA- Solo show ST. MATTHÄUS-KIRCHE, BERLIN, GERMANY From 10 November 2019 to16 February, 2020
“I would never have been an artist without the fall of the Wall.” In November 2019, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, painter Norbert Bisky reflects on the end of the GDR, the chaos of the post-reunification era and his personal experience with two parallel exhibitions, POMPA and RANT, in Berlin and Potsdam.
Kehinde Wiley
ICONS: WORSHIP AND ADORATION / 30 AMERICANS / AFROCOSMOLOGIES: AMERICAN REFLECTIONS – GROUP SHOW
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany October 19, 2019 - March 1, 2020
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA From October 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA From October 19, 2019 – January 20, 2020
Kehinde Wiley is currently taking part in three group exhibitions in different parts of the world. In the United States with American Reflections at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut ; 30 Americans at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia; and in Germany with Icons – Worship and Adoration at the Kunsthalle in Bremen. https://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/en/view/exhibitions/exb-page/icons https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/30-americans https://www.thewadsworth.org/afrocosmologies-american-reflections/
Abdelkader Benchamma
FATA BROMOSA – SOLO SHOW
MUSÉE RÉGIONAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN OCCITANIE /PYRÉNÉES - MÉDITERRANÉE, SÉRIGNAN, FRANCEDu 23 /11/2019 au 20/09/2020
For his first solo exhibition in a French museum, Abdelkader Benchamma invests three rooms at Mrac Occitanie with an immersive installation drawing inspiration from his residence at Villa Médicis in autumn 2018. In Rome, Abdelkader Benchamma is fascinated by the richness of church decorations, in particular by the representation of marbles in the works of the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico. The Old Master’s depictions render the illusion of precious stones by playing on symmetry of veins, thus creating spiritually charged abstract forms. The title of the exhibition, Fata Bromosa, (literally Fairy of the Mists) refers to that blurring of perception dear to Fra Angelico. The term indicates an optical phenomenon observed by navigators in the Middle Ages which gives the impression of a bright-rimmed fog perceptible on the horizon. To depict without representing seems to be the artist’s ambition: drawing become an emanation of nature, but of a different kind, intimate and unfathomable.
Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY: SAINT LOUIS – SOLO SHOW
SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM, SAINT LOUIS, USA From 19/10/2018 to 10/02/2019
The Saint Louis Art Museum is proud to present Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis, an exhibition that is deeply connected to this city and informed by visits Wiley made in 2017. Through a process of street casting, he invited strangers he met in neighborhoods in north St. Louis and Ferguson to pose for his paintings. Wiley then created eleven original portraits that are inspired by carefully chosen artworks in the Museum’s collection. Curators: Simon Kelly, Hannah Klemm, Molly Moog
Prune Nourry
SERENDIPITY, A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY PRUNE NOURRY, SOON IN CINEMAS
PRUNE NOURRYOctober – November 2019, Serendipity - Documentary
Prune Nourry’s documentary film Serendipity will soon be in cinemas in France and the United States. Serendipity, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, was also presented at MoMa Doc Fortnight, at TriBeca Film Festival and ArtBasel – Film Section 2019. The film has received the support of notable women who have faced severe diseases, including Angelina Jolie who acts as Executive Producer. Serendipity is about random coincidences that started to coalesce in Prune Nourry’s art and life. While Prune Nourry has spent her entire working life exploring issues around the human body, she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31. She turns then her medical odyssey into an epic artistic adventure.
