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James Casebere
AFTER SCALE MODEL : DWELLING IN THE WORK OF JAMES CASEBERE – SOLO SHOW
BOZAR, BRUSSELS, BELGIUMFrom 06/17/2016 to 09/04/2016
Following a major retrospective at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, BOZAR opens its doors to James Casebere. This American photographer a pioneer of staged photogrpahy – studied with John Baldessari and obtained his Master of Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His work is marked by a profound interest in architecture. Yet rather than focusing his lens on the actual buildings, he makes scale models of them, which he then photographs. During the International Biennial of Photography Casebere presents an intricate ensemble of domestic interiors and settings in the antechambers of Victor Horta’s Centre for Fine Arts.
Saint Clair Cemin
SCULPTURES – SOLO SHOW
BRASILEA FOUNDATION, BASEL, SWITZERLAND From 06/15/2016 to 06/18/2016
This exhibition offers a panorama of works, original and multiple sculptures from 1995 to 2012 as well as some drawings that will allow the public to travel with this limitless Brasilean artist. Curator Marc Pottier
Jim Dine
MUSCLE AND SALT, ART PARCOURS – SOLO SHOW
ANTIKENMUSEUM, BASEL, SWITZERLANDFrom 06/13/2016 to 08/07/2016
Monday, June 13, 2016 7pm Opening and Performance First presented at the Getty Museum in 2008, ‘Muscle and Salt’ (2016) by Jim Dine is an immersive installation in the Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig, inspired by two forms of classical art: figural sculpture and lyric poetry. On Monday at 7.30pm, Dine will read from his poems while being accompanied by a double bass player.
Chiharu Shiota
UNLIMITED, ART BASEL
UNLIMITED HALL 1.0 BOOTH U11, ART BASEL, BASEL, SWITZERLANDFrom 06/13/2016 to 06/19/2016
‘Accumulation: Searching for Destination’ Shiota’s installation is inspired by the everyday movement, life, and thoughts of the individual. When travelling, we hold a general wish and try to follow that path, and while the red strings connect the suitcases to the starting point of each personal journey, we cannot control the unexpected which continuously shapes our destination.
Iván Navarro
PARCOURS, ART BASEL
BIRSIGTUNNEL, ART BASEL, BASEL, SWITZERLANDFrom 06/13/2016 to 06/19/2016
‘Traffic’ is a mobile composed of seven pairs of traffic lights that loop continuously from soft green to yellow to red. By employing the lights in this way, Navarro detaches a ubiquitous element from daily life and transforms it into a new perpetual experience, igniting an unconscious awareness of something that in ordinary use conditions the public’s psychological behavior.
Pierre et Gilles
SUMMER EXHIBITION – GROUP SHOW
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON, GREAT BRITAINFrom 06/13/2016 to 08/21/2016
L’oeuvre de Pierre et Gilles, “Le Hameau de la Reine”, est présentée à la Summer Exhibition de la Royal Academy de Londres avec le modèle Zahia Dehar en Marie-Antoinette. Célèbre pour être la plus grande exposition à soumission ouverte, cet évènement révèle chaque année un panorama de l’art, tous médiums confondus, ainsi qu’un remarquable mélange d’artistes émergents et d’artistes reconnus. Comme les années précédentes, la majorité des oeuvres sont à vendre. Cela vous offre l’opportunité de posséder des pièces originales réalisées par des artistes importants d’aujourd’hui et de demain.
Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY : A NEW REPUBLIC – SOLO SHOW
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, VIRGINIA, USAFrom 06/11/2016 to 09/05/2016
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, showcasing the powerful and poignant work of one of America’s leading contemporary artists. Composed of approximately 60 works, including paintings, sculptures, videos, and stained glass windows, the exhibition provides an overview of Wiley’s prolific 14-year career, prominently featuring his signature figurative canvases of black men in which he ingeniously reworks the grand portraiture traditions of Western culture.
A fully illustrated catalogue published by the Brooklyn Museum and DelMonico Books/Prestel accompanies the exhibition.
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and Eugenie Tsai, the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Philippe Cognée
FIGURES ENVISAGéES – SOLO SHOW
LE RADAR, BAYEUX, FRANCEFrom 06/11/2016 to 09/18/2016
Le Radar hosts every year a summer exhibition devoted to one or more major contemporary artistes. After Fromanger, Viallat or Villeglé, selected works of another great name of the contemporary art scène will be on view.
Philippe Cognée defends a sensitive and accessible approach to art; his work reflects his constant research and his high requirements. Philippe Cognée screens reality and puts it to the test with a single gesture: at the risk of destruction, he shows us a powerful and fascinating representation of fragile and mysterious figures caught in an elusive world.
David LaChapelle
Kehinde Wiley
LA GRANDE GALERIE DU FOOT – GROUP SHOW
LA VILLETTE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 06/05/2016 to 07/10/2016
KEHINDE WILEY and DAVID LACHAPELLE are in ‘La Grande Galerie du Foot’ show, during #FootForaine festival at Paris’ La Villette
Jitish Kallat
TELLING TALES – GROUP SHOW
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAFrom 06/04/2016 to 10/09/2016
Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form explores the varied, inventive approaches taken by leading Australian and international artists to narrative form.
Gérard Garouste
SèVRES OUTDOORS – GROUP SHOW
SEVRES OUTDOORS, CITE DE LA CERAMIQUE, SEVRES, FRANCEFrom 06/01/2016 to 10/24 2016
Gerard Garouste participates in the third edition of Sevres Outdoors, organized by the Cité de la ceramique. About thirty outdoor and monumental artworks are shown, some even for the first time, in the garden of the Cité.
DANIEL TEMPLON, UNE HISTOIRE D’ART CONTEMPORAINJULIE VERLAINEEDITIONS FLAMMARION
Available in bookstores on May 25
Daniel Templon, une histoire d’art contemporain published by Flammarion, will be available on May 25.
Placing Daniel Templon’s activity in its artistic, economic and political context, Julie Verlaine’s detailed account follows the career of a man whose position has made him a privileged witness to the making of art and the remaking of the art world. The accompanying interviews with Daniel Templon himself are rich in personal recollections of some of the leading artists of our time (such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Helmut Newton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ben, Daniel Buren, César, Gérard Garouste, and Jean-Michel Alberola). They also offer some frank and vivid insights into the workings of the French art scene.
The English version of the book Daniel Templon, a History of Contemporary Art is to be released mid-June.
480 pages / more than 200 images.
Philippe Cognée
PHILIPPE COGNéE – STEPHAN BALKENHOL – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION FERNET-BRANCA, SAINT LOUIS, FRANCEFrom 05/22/2016 to 10/09/2016
Philippe Cognée is exhibiting at Fondation Fernet-Branca in St Louis, France (close to Basel), along with German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol * until October 9th *
Philippe Cognée is questioning the role of painting since 30 years. All of his images are omnipresent, but may also dim into banality. By establishing a relationship between the works of Philippe Cognee and Stephan Balkenhol, the notion of figuration established by each artiste since the 1980s can be examined.
Julião Sarmento
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS/ KULA GALLERY/ HAZU, SPLIT, CROATIAStarts 05/17/2016
Julião Sarmento, one of Portugal’s leading contemporary artists, began to develop a method combining painting, video and sound and modelled installations back in the 70’s. The exhibition, As Good as it Gets, planned to make use of three exhibition spaces in the city: the Kula Gallery, the Milesi Palace and the Museum of Fine Arts, offers viewers several points of entry into Sarmento’s work, by displaying works in various media such as video, paintings, drawings.
Jan Fabre
SPIRITUAL GUARDS – GROUP SHOW
FORTE BELVEDERE/ PALAZZO VECCHIO/ PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, FIRENZE, ITALYFrom 05/14/2016 to 10/02/2016
One of the most complex and multifaceted exhibitions that Belgian artist and author Jan Fabre has ever produced in any public space in Italy, Spiritual Guards will gather roughly 100 of Jan Fabre’s works dating from 1978 to 2016, pan out between the Forte Belvedere, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria in Firenze. For the very first time a living artist will be exhibiting his art in these three venues of outstanding historical and artistic importance.
Joel Shapiro
SOLO SHOW
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER, DALLAS, TEXASFrom 05/07/2016 to 08/21/2016
One of the most prominent and influential sculptors of the era, Joel Shapiro has long explored geometric form through structural compositions of rectangular elements that visually and physically challenge the possibilities of balance and weight On view in his Nasher exhibition will be a series of recent, brightly painted,suspended forms that hover in space at different heights and angles, along with a series of recent drawings as well as key works by Shapiro from the Nasher’s permanent collection.The current exhibition presents a new direction in Shapiro’s work: a single, site-specific installation conceived specifically for the space of the Renzo Piano-designed galleries of the Nasher.
Jitish Kallat
PUBLIC NOTICE 2
ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH, AUSTRALIAFrom 05/07/2016 to 08/22/2016
Jitish Kallat’s Public Notice 2 installed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth.
Iván Navarro
Chiharu Shiota
SCULPTURES EN PARTAGE
FONDATION VILLA DATRIS, L’ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE, FRANCE From 5/06/2016 to 11/01/2016
This year’s exhibition “Sclptureen Partage (Shared Sculptures) at the Villa Datris offers a wide range of works purchased during the last five exhibitions, including works by Chicharu Shiota and Ivan Navarro. The Foundation Villa Datris wants to highlight artistic key moments since its opening in 2011. The exhibition suggests a renewed reading of the works and themes.
Asim Waqif
MEGACITIES ASIA – GROUP SHOW
MUSEUM OF FINE ART, BOSTON, USAFrom 04/03/2016 to 07/17/2016
Asia is home to more megacities than any other continent: the works by the 11 artists in this exhibition respond to the political, environmental, and social conditions of their home cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, and Seoul, conveying their textures, proportions, and striking material and visual juxtapositions. Their large-scale works appear in indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the Museum, reflecting critical issues including rural-to-urban migration, consumption, construction, and pollution —while celebrating the vibrancy of today’s urban environment.
Jitish Kallat
SETOUCHI TRIENNALE JAPAN
ISLANDS OF SETO INLAND SEA, JAPANFrom 03/20/2016 to 11/06/2016
Indian artiste Jitish Kallat will be part of The Setouchi Triennale, a contemporary art festival taking place on multiple islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea (separating Honshu and Shikoku, two of Japan’s main islands).
