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René Wirths
OUT OF THE WORLD
KUNSTHALLE KREMS FACTORY, KREMS, AUSTRIA
From Sunday 13 July to Sunday 09 November 2014 Ever since the late 1990s, the Berlin-based artist René Wirths (b. 1967) has recurrently made one carefully chosen object the absolute center of his attention for the period of time it takes him to create its picture. His choice of motifs ranges from organic—a butterfly—to inorganic—a simple crumpled paper boat, an old sneaker—and to the metallic and shiny object of desire, a motorbike. But however strong the presence of each of these objects may seem, shown frontally or in strict profile mounted on a stretcher, larger-than-life and standing out against a white background, they still are but a means to an end, or the vehicle of a consistent analysis which, by balancing painterly potentials, generates iconic paintings. (…)
Julião Sarmento
JULIAO SARMENTO
MAMAC (MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET D'ART CONTEMPORAIN), NICE, FRANCE
Du 28 juin au 30 novembre 2014 Au plus près de la création, le MAMAC met en dialogue la scène artistique locale, nationale et internationale en portant un regard tout particulier sur les relations France-États-Unis et Nice-Italie du Nord. Plus largement, le musée est attentif à l’actualité artistique européenne : Barry Flanagan en 2002, Jan Fabre en 2003, Jean-Pierre Raynaud en 2006, Michelangelo Pistoletto en 2007, Jaume Plensa et Richard Long en 2008, Wim Delvoye en 2010 sont quelques-uns des artistes qui ont réalisé une exposition personnelle au musée. La monographie de Julião Sarmento s’inscrit dans cette démarche. Né en 1948 à Lisbonne, où il vit et travaille, Julião Sarmento est l’un des principaux représentants du renouveau artistique portugais ayant suivi la chute de l’Estado Novo. (…)
Claude Viallat
VIALLAT A RETROSPECTIVE
MUSEE FABRE, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
From June 28th to November 2nd 2014 Étudiant à l’École des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier en 1955-1959, puis à celle de Paris en 1962-63, Claude Viallat invente en 1966 une forme neutre, proche d’une palette ou d’un osselet. Il sera un des fondateurs, en 1969, du mouvement Supports/Surfaces, remettant en question les supports traditionnels de la peinture et libérera la toile de son châssis pour peindre sur des toiles libres. Composée d’une centaine d’oeuvres, l’exposition retrace le parcours de l’artiste de ses premières œuvres à aujourd’hui. Elle explore toutes les techniques et matériaux employés par l’artiste, des dessins d’étude aux formats les plus monumentaux. (…)
Joel Shapiro
JOEL SHAPIRO AT PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM, OREGON, USA
JUNE 21 – SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 Internationally celebrated sculptor Joel Shapiro has created a new installation work for the Museum’s Contemporary Art Series exhibition. Part of a recent body of work investigating the use of painted wood forms to activate space and dynamically alter the experience of it both in visual and physical terms, the Portland installation will be only the fifth suspended installation he has realized. Engaging the volume of the Schnitzer Sculpture Court, the suspended elements of the work defy gravity and the traditional restrictions ascribed to sculpture that place it of the ground or pedestal. The painted wood elements visually reorganize the architecture, and are continuously redefining the visitor’s optical and physical relationship to the work and architecture as they move through the work. Shapiro notes that this newest body of work is about “the projection of thought into space without the constraint of architecture.” Animated by position and the exuberantly vibrant colors, the work denies the static nature of sculpture and appropriates aspects of painting to suggest being inside an abstract painting or perhaps a stop-action digital game.
Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Jonathan Meese
Jean-Michel Alberola
LE MUR – WORKS FROM THE ANTOINE DE GALBERT COLLECTION(GROUP SHOW)
LA MAISON ROUGE, FONDATION ANTOINE DE GALBERT, PARIS, FRANCE
From June 14th to September 21st 2014
À l’occasion de son 10e anniversaire, la maison rouge présente du 14 juin au 21 septembre 2014,
Le mur – oeuvres de la collection Antoine de Galbert, onzième volet de la série d’expositions consacrées aux collections privées.
Après dix expositions proposant des univers de collectionneurs variés, cette date anniversaire est l’occasion de montrer enfin largement la collection du fondateur et président de la maison rouge, Antoine de Galbert, une part d’intimité qui lui est chère et qu’il n’a jusqu’à présent que peu dévoilée. Mais à l’inverse des précédents projets autour de collections particulières, réalisés avec des commissaires qui ont fait des choix représentatifs dans de larges corpus d’œuvres, l’accrochage imaginé par Antoine de Galbert comporte cette fois-ci une spécificité remarquable :
« L’idée de cette exposition est née de l’observation quotidienne de ma bibliothèque, où le classement alphabétique des monographies crée d’invraisemblables voisinages. Jean Dubuffet cohabite avec Marcel Duchamp sur le même rayonnage. Cette “arche de Noé” me donne la sensation que tous les artistes naviguent sur le même fleuve pour les mêmes raisons, comme le remarque Christian Boltanski : « Que ce soit Aloïse, moi ou un artiste du 16e siècle, ce sont les mêmes questions qui sont posées : la mort, la recherche de la beauté, la nature, le sexe… Les sujets en art sont très limités. Seuls les mots et les vocabulaires diffèrent (…)». La bibliothèque est tout à la fois archive de la collection, souvenirs visuels d’un long voyage et musée imaginaire du collectionneur. […] Délaissant l’idée déjà explorée par certains commissaires d’expositions, d’un accrochage par ordre alphabétique, j’ai choisi de présenter l’essentiel des œuvres de ma collection, s’accrochant au mur, à l’aide d’un logiciel renseigné seulement par leurs formats (encadrées) et leurs numéros d’inventaires. (…)
image : © Marc Domage
Iván Navarro
UNDER THE SAME SUN: ART FORM LATIN AMERICA TODAY
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK, USA
From June 13th to October 1st, 2014 Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress. The exhibition presents contemporary artistic responses to the past and present that are inscribed within this highly nuanced situation, exploring the assertions of alternative futures. (…)
Julião Sarmento
JULIAO SARMENTO. THE SELECTIVE GLANCE
GAM - GALLERIA CIVICA D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, TORINO, ITALY
From June 13th to July 31st 2014
Turin GAM pays a special tribute to Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento, mounting an exceptional show which opens the third chapter of Dialogues, the exhibition project aimed at creating a dialogue between accomplished artists active in the contemporary international art scene and works chosen from the permanent collections.
This exhibition, mounted in the spaces of GAM Underground Project on a surface of over 1000 sq m, is an important testimony to the artist’s work, more than 15 years after his first and only exhibition in a museum in Italy, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna.
GAM is showcasing the development of Sarmento’s art research following a rigorous curatorial point of view organised according to thematic criteria, analysing his oeuvre with a critical outlook. Starting from the works revolving around the feminine figure and the object, and finishing with the works devoted to architecture, including the two 2010 Cromlech and 2011 R.O.C. (40 plus one) videos, wherein the woman-architecture union is recomposed. (…)
Philippe Cognée
Jitish Kallat
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Pierre et Gilles
LE FESTIN DE L’ART(GROUP SHOW)
PALAIS DES ARTS ET DU FESTIVAL, DINARD, FRANCE
From June 7th to September 7th 2014
Au fil des ans, les expositions d’art présentées au Palais des arts et du festival ou à la villa Les Roches Brunes se sont inscrites dans la tradition
culturelle de Dinard. En 2014, la Ville de Dinard a confié le commissariat d’un programme estival à Jean-Jacques Aillagon qui a souhaité concevoir
deux expositions. Toutes deux, chacune à sa manière, parlent de la nourriture, de ses ingrédients, de sa préparation, de sa mise en scène et de
sa consommation. (…)
Tunga
IMAGINE BRAZIL(GROUP SHOW)
MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, LYON, FRANCE
From June 5th to August 17th 2014 Currently presented at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo (Norway), Imagine Brazil is a snapshot of Brazilian contemporary art. The exhibition presents fourteen young and most creative artists of the emerging scene of Brazil and who, for most of them, already have an international career. In their turn, each of them has been invited to select a Brazilian artist, considered to him as a reference in Brazilian contemporary art. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
A LONG DAY
DELLO SCOMPIGLIO, CAPANNORI LUCCA, ITALY
From May 24th to September 28th 2014 The Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio presents “A Long Day”, the new installation by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, curated by Franziska Nori, created specifically for the exhibition space at Dello Scompiglio. The exhibition features some of the most incisive aspects of the artist’s work, combining installation, sculpture and performance in a condensed space-time dimension. (…)
Iván Navarro
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
NORTHPARK CENTER, DALLAS, USA
From May 21st 2014 to May 21st 2015 (DALLAS, Texas) May 12, 2014 – NorthPark Center is pleased to present a FREE public art exhibition of Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro’s work, This Land Is Your Land. The installation, which was recently on view at Madison Square Park in New York City, features three elevated wooden water towers serving as metaphors for the experience of immigration. The works will be on view for one year at NorthPark Center on Level One between Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom near Gucci, TOD’S, Salvatore Ferragamo and Versace. “For nearly 50 years, NorthPark Center has been committed to presenting museum quality works of public art throughout the shopping center for all to enjoy, giving many individuals their first encounter with art,” said Nancy A. Nasher, co-owner of NorthPark Center with husband David J. Haemisegger. “It is a privilege to bring to NorthPark and to North Texas this stunning and thought-provoking work that will serve as a source of contemplation, inspiration and possibility. (…)
Philippe Cognée
PHILIPPE COGNéE
CHAMBORD CASTLE, 2ND FLOOR, DOMAINE NATIONAL DE CHAMBORD, FRANCE
From May 18th to October 12th 2014 Philippe Cognée est sans conteste aujourd’hui l’un des plus peintres les plus importants de la scène française. Profondément marqué par son enfance au Bénin, il commence à peindre au cours des années 1980 des paysages intrigants, peuplés d’animaux sauvages et d’être humains empruntant au douanier Rousseau. Au cours de son séjour à la villa Médicis en 1991, son travail prend une tournure différente et décisive : l’artiste développe une pratique singulière qui s’inspire de la photographie, associée à un travail sur les effets de la peinture à l’encaustique chauffée sur la toile. (…)
Pierre et Gilles
NUIT EUROPéENNE DES MUSéES – GALERIE DES GOBELINS – EXPOSITION CARTE BLANCHE à PIERRE ET GILLES
GALERIE DES GOBELINS, SALON CARRE, PARIS
Ouverture de la Galerie des Gobelins la nuit du samedi 17 mai 2014
Cette nouvelle carte blanche propose à Pierre et Gilles de dialoguer avec le monde décoratif du XVIIIe siècle, magnifiquement représenté dans l’exposition Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières – Un âge d’or de la manufacture royale.
Dans le Salon carré de la Galerie des Gobelins, ce couple artistique passionné de motifs iconiques apporte un souffle inimitable qui mêle comme à son habitude esprit baroque et scènes oniriques. (…)
Jean-Michel Alberola
MéMOIRES VIVES
FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN, PARIS, FRANCE
Du From May 10th to September 21th 2014 Peintre, Jean-Michel Alberola utilise les moyens de création les plus divers – film, texte, photographie, installation, sculpture, néon – pour mener une réflexion sur l’histoire et le pouvoir de l’image, la société et l’actualité, la légitimité de la peinture et le rôle de l’artiste. Pour l’exposition Mémoires Vives, Jean-Michel Alberola crée un « mur peint », Eclairage en groupe, sur lequel se rencontre la communauté des artistes, scientifiques, penseurs ou chamanes qui constitue le « grand orchestre » de la Fondation Cartier et souligne la dimension humaine qui est au cœur de son action.. (…) image : © Thomas Salva / Lumento 2014
Pierre et Gilles
CARTE BLANCHE à PIERRE ET GILLES
GALERIE DES GOBELINS, SALON CARRE, PARIS
From April 8th to October 4th 2014
Cette nouvelle carte blanche propose à Pierre et Gilles de dialoguer avec le monde décoratif du XVIIIe siècle, magnifiquement représenté dans l’exposition Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières – Un âge d’or de la manufacture royale.
Dans le Salon carré de la Galerie des Gobelins, ce couple artistique passionné de motifs iconiques apporte un souffle inimitable qui mêle comme à son habitude esprit baroque et scènes oniriques. (…)
Iván Navarro
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY, NEW YORK, USA
From February 20th to April 13st 2014 New York—Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces a new sculptural installation for late winter 2014: This Land Is Your Land by Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro. The site-specific installation will present three water towers inside of which neon reflections repeat infinitely. The sculptures merge a staple of the New York skyline with the street-level landscape of the Park. The artist takes the exhibition’s title from the beloved 1940 Woody Guthrie folk song, which is both an American anthem and a vocal pull to the freedoms offered in this country for an immigrant population. The towers will be elevated to a height above visitors’ heads, allowing them to walk underneath and look up into each sculpture to view the content within. The exhibition will be on view daily from February 20 – April 13, 2014 in Madison Square Park. (…)
Eric Fischl
FRIENDS, LOVERS AND OTHER CONSTELLATIONS
ALBERTINA, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
From February 13th to May 18 2014 The American painter, graphic artist and sculptor Eric Fischl (* 1948 in New York) is one of the most important representatives of contemporary figuration. His work is characterised by a style linked with American realism. The compositions, which capture scenes like snapshots, convey the impression of a film clip. The just completed or immediately imminent action is thus often only implied. (…)
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE. TRIBUTE TO BELGIAN CONGO (2010-2013)
PINCHUKARTCENTRE, KIEV, UKRAINE
From February 8th to April 27th 2014
In 1979 Jan Fabre started his artistic practice by erecting a tent-laboratory, called de Neus (the Nose), in the garden of his parents. Mesmerized by the insects’ capacity for metamorphosis, he subjected them to intensive artistic research and experiments. Insects continued to (re-)appear in Fabre’s early drawings, performances and sculptures. Especially beetles, with their unique sense of survival, remained a source of inspiration for the artist, and in his oeuvre they have come to represent a way of dealing with mortality, beauty and suffering – three essential themes, which define Fabre’s complex practice as an artist, theatre maker and writer. (…)
Anthony Caro
ANTHONY CARO. MASTERPIECES FROM THE WüRTH COLLECTION
MUSÉE WÜRTH FRANCE ERSTEIN
The Musée Würth France hosts a retrospective memorial exhibition devoted to the greatest English sculptor of his generation, Anthony Caro, who died October 2013. The exhibition titled, Anthony Caro. Masterpieces from the Würth Collection, showcases an exceptional range of his works drawn from the past 40 years. The Würth Collection of Caro is the largest in Europe. The large room on Musée Würth’s ground floor is unique in being able to display the artist’s most important sculpture of the 90’s, The Last Judgement. Shown for the first time in France, this narrative sculpture comments on the realities of a millennium torn by war, atrocities, greed and excess. It draws its inspiration from Greek mythology, Biblical writings and art history.
Kehinde Wiley
FùTBOL: THE BEAUTIFUL GAME(GROUP SHOW)
LACMA, LOS ANGELES, USA
From February 2nd to July 27th 2014 Fútbol: The Beautiful Game examines the subject of football—nicknamed by one sports commentator The Beautiful Game—and its interactions with societies around the world. As a subject, football touches on issues of nationalism and identity, globalism and mass spectacle, as well as the common human experience shared by spectators from many cultures. Celebrating the sport on the eve of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the exhibition includes approximately thirty artists from around the world, working in video, photography, painting and sculpture. Two room-sized video installations—Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, by the artists Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon, and Volta by Stephen Dean—anchor the exhibition. Other works by artists including Miguel Calderon (whose 2004 video Mexico v. Brasil represents a 17-0 victory for Mexico), Robin Rhode, Kehinde Wiley, and Andy Warhol provide a sense of the miraculous possibilities of the sport as universal conversation piece. (…)
