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Kehinde Wiley
A NEW REPUBLIC
THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, USAFrom 09/20/2015 to 01/10/2016
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, an overview highlighting the range of the artist’s prolific 14-year career and comprising approximately 60 works. This exhibition is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and Eugenie Tsai, the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Following its New York showing, the exhibition will travel to the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas (October 16, 2015 – January 10, 2016), the Seattle Art Museum, Washington (February 12 – May 8, 2016) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia (June 3 – September 5, 2016).
Chiharu Shiota
SOLO SHOW, SEARCHING FOR A DESTINATION
SESC, SAO PAULO, BRAZILFrom 09/12/2015 to 01/10/2016
Artist Chiharu Shiota, currently representing Japan at the Venice Biennale 2015, will be exhibiting for the first time inLatin America, at the SESC Pinheiros in Sao Paulo in Brazil. She will be presenting three new immersive installations until January 10, 2016.
Chiharu Shiota
« EAST ASIA FEMINISM : FANTASIA », GROUP SHOW
SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART, SEOUL, KOREA
From 08/15/15 to 11/08/15
The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) will be hosting the exhibition “East Asia Feminism: FANTasia,” an exploration of the current state and implications of East Asian women’s art from a feminist perspective. The exhibition gathers the diverse works of 14 participating artists from various countries, includingKorea, China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and India.
Iván Navarro
UNA GUERRA SILENCIOSA E IMPOSIBLE
CENTRO DE LAS ARTES 660, SANTIAGO, CHILIFrom 08/10/2015 to 10/18/2015
Ivan Navarro : Una guerra silenciosa e imposible is the very first retrospective exhibition of the Chilean artist in Chile. It will explore his artistic path through emblematic works such as light sculptures, altered objects, videos and installations.
David LaChapelle
FOTOGRAFIAS 1984-2013
MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, SANTIAGO, CHILEFrom 07/29/2015 to 09/27/2015
Fotografias 1984-2013 features more than 90 photographs and video pieces that represent David’s diverse career. This major retrospective is presented and funded by WADA Foundation to the Museum of Contemporary Art and will be exhibited to the public from July 29 to September 27th, 2015 at MAC Forest Park in Santiago, Chile.
Jonathan Meese
PERFORMANCE AND COLLECTIVE SHOW, ARTISTS AND PROPHETS
THE NATIONAL GALLERY, PRAGUE From 07/21/2015 to 10/18/2015
On the occasion of the opening of ‘Artists and Prophets/Schiele, Hundertwasser, Kupka, Beuys and Others’, German artist Jonathan Meese proposes a unique performance and installation at the National Gallery in Prague, on July 21 2015 at 8 pm.
Anthony Caro
CARO IN YORKSHIRE
HEPWORTH WAKEFIELS, YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK CENTRE AND OPEN AIR, GREAT BRITAINFrom 07/18/2015 to 11/01/2015
Caro in Yorkshire is a major Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle project that celebrates and commemorates the extraordinary career of SIr Anthony Caro (1924–2013). Distinct yet complementary exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park consider respectively Caro’s concerns with the horizontal plane and painting, given context through an academic programme at the prestigious Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
Jan Fabre
TRIBUTE TO HIERONYMUS BOSCH IN CONGO
ESPACE CULTUREL LOUIS VUITTON, TOKYO, JAPANFrom 07/08/2015 to 09/23/2015
The Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Tokyo is showing for the first time in Tokyo a set of mosaics from the serie: Hommage à Jérôme Bosch au Congo, fruits of an artistic process that ran from 2011 to 2013. Using his materials of predilection, beetle wing sheathes – or elytra – Fabre decided to turn his focus to his country’s colonial past. He also summons his predecessor Hieronymus Bosch — Fabre is fascinated by his superlative creativity and the power of his images. He draws inspiration from scenes depicted in the Garden of Earthly Delights, reinterpreting them as allegories of injustice, cruelty and indifference.
Chiharu Shiota
ARTIST’S ROOM
K21 (KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALE), DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY From 07/07/2015 to 27/02/2016
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota created two new installation pieces especially for K21, A Long Day et State of Being (Dress), on view from July 7th.
GROUP SHOW: LA CHINE ARDENTE, CONTEMPORARY MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES
LES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS, MONS, BELGIUMFrom 07/04/2015 to 10/04/2015
Monumental sculptures by 20 Chinese artists, from the pioneers of the late 70’s to contemporary generations, will be presented as so many artistic proposals to ‘change the world’ .
Philippe Cognée
AUX ORIGINES
ABBAYE SAINT-JEAN D'ORBESTIE, LE CHATEAU D'OLONNE, FRANCEFrom 07/04/2015 to 09/06/2015
The exhition at Château d’Olonne focuses on a more confidential aspect of painter Philippe Cognée’s artistic creation : sculpture. The title of the show ‘Back to the roots’ is very evocative, as the works brought together at the Abbaye date back from the 1990’s. Curator Philippe Piguet
Jean-Michel Alberola
GROUP SHOW: LA FIGURATION LIBRE, THE HISTORY OF AN ADVENTURE
MUSEE PAUL VALERY, SETE, FRANCEFrom 07/03/2015 to 11/15/2015
The exhibition brings together works by the French painters who initiated the Figuration libre adventure such as Robert Combas or Hervé di Rosa, as well as international and American painters along with whom they came to light – such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Crash, Kenny Scharf…
Gérard Garouste
EN CHEMIN
FONDATION MAEGHT, ST PAUL DE VENCE, FRANCE
The Maeght Foundation dedicates its summer exhibition, which will exceptionally run until the 29 November, to French painter Gérard Garoust. En chemin is an opportunity to discover a set of about 80 paintings, sculptures and drawings with new works, specially created in 2015. The exhibition’s retrospective dimension is completed by a strong focus on the current researchs of Gérard Garouste. It also presents unpublished notebooks, offering the visitor a look behind the scenes of the painter-alchemist. The exhibition layout proposes a provocative journey of interpretations and free associations. Gérard Garouste’s popularity is only equaled by his singularity. “Never ask directions from someone who knows the way, you risk not getting lost”*: this quote tells all about the whole process of the artist, who chooses figuration, the study of myths and founding archetypes to better explore human intimacytoday. *Rabbi Nachman
Jan Fabre
PERFORMANCE: MOUNT OLYMPUS, TO GLORIFY THE CULT OF TRAGEDY, A 24 HOURS PERFORMANCE
WORLD PREMIERE BERLINER FESTSPIELE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, BERLIN
Mount Olympus. To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24-hour performance is one huge slab of history dipped in a sea of time. It is humanity’s time, time of the birth of tragedy.
Simultaneously distant and nearby, we recognize outlines of stories and characters taken from Greek tragedy. These characters have their faults torn open by Fabre, are left intatters, beaten by violence and Homeric laughter and fervent ecstasy.
Mount Olympus is shaping up to be a unique experience. Come climb that mountain, dive into that ocean. This will be unforgettable.
The creative process of this major project is also worth sharing. Follow the rehearsals online on the website with testimonials, snapshots, videos, quotes and much more.
Oda Jaune
GROUP SHOW, WHO’S AFRAID OF PICTURE(S)
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN 'A CENT METRES DU MONDE', PERPIGNAN
With Gilles Balmet / Marcos Carrasquer / Marc Desgrandchamps / Léo Dorfner / Erró / Hervé Ic / Oda Jaune / Kosta Kulundzic / Jean-Jacques Lebel / David Lefebvre / Frédéric Léglise / Thomas Lévy-Lasne / Li Tianbing / Simon Pasieka / Stéphane Pencréach / Nazanin Pouyandeh / Johann Rivat / Lionel Sabatté / Claire Tabouret / Davor Vrankic / Duncan Wylie / Lamia Ziadé.
The exhibition questions the way that painters deal with the images today, how they capture or defy them.
Curator Frédéric Leglise volontarily chose to exhibit artists from different generations, most of them based or having been based in France.
Pierre et Gilles
GROUP SHOW, ÊTRE éTONNé C’EST UN BONHEUR
CHAPELLE DE LA VISITATION, THONON LES BAINS
The exhibition concept resides in this statement by famous English writer Edgar Allan Poe : ‘It is a happiness to wonder’. It questions the spectator’s point of view through a selection of artists whose both approaches and visual processes are idiosyncratic. With Pierre et Gilles, Pierre Ardouvin, Clément Bagot, Gaelle Chotard, Nicolas Darrot , Gael Davrinche, Jean-François Rozier, Samuel Rousseau, Jacques Villeglé
Philippe Cognée
GROUP SHOW, C’EST LA NUIT
VILLA TAMARIS, TOULON
Villa Tamaris Art Center holds an exhibition dedicated to theme of the night. Staged as an ambulatory fiction, a track running from the periphery to the heart of the city, it interweaves without hierarchy some paintings, photographs, comics, visual and acoustic installations.
With Antoine d’Agata, Philippe Cognée, Gérard Fromanger, Jacques Monory, Antonio Segui, Hans Op de Beeck, and others.
Iván Navarro
GROUP SHOW, STORYLINES : CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE GUGGENHEIM
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NYC
Bringing together over one hundred works from the Guggenheim’s contemporary collection, Storylines examines the diverse ways in which artists today engage narrative through installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance. For these artists, storytelling does not necessarily require plots, characters, or settings. Rather, narrative potential lies in everyday objects and materials, and their embedded cultural associations.
Philippe Cognée
Iván Navarro
GROUP SHOW, FUTURES
LA VIEILLE CHARITE, MARSEILLE
French painter Philippe Cognée and Chilean sculptor Ivan Navarro join in the large summer exhibition at the Vieille Charité in Marseille. From the beginning of the 20th century until nowadays, gathering works by major artists such as Matisse, Calder or Kandinsky, the exhibition recounts the links and reverse influences in between Art, architecture, science, robotics, scifi and astronomy. More than a hundred works coming from the most prestigious international institutions are offering to view the futuristic universe of modern and contemporary artists.
Jitish Kallat
JITISH KALLAT, PUBLIC NOTICE 2
ART GALLERY NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY
Large-scale work Public notice 2 (2007) by Indian artist Jitish Kallat is being installed at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, in an exhibition of works from Gene and Brian Sherman’s Asian art collection, until October 5.
The work renders Gandhi’s historic speech calling for non-violence and civil disobedience before the famous Salt March in 1930 – in its entirety, letter by letter. Each letter appears to be made from bone, as though Kallat has exhumed these words from their historical resting place. As Kallat says: ‘In today’s terror-infected world, where wars against terror are fought at prime television time, voices such as Gandhi’s stare back at us like discarded relics.’
