Kamis, 07 Juli 2011

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The Ferrin Gallery Shows "The Pursuit of Porcelain" Installation

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:46 PM PDT

artwork: Kendrick Moholt/Chris Antemann - "Dining in the Altogether", 2010 - Archival print - Edition of 5 - 40" x 60".  Courtesy the Ferrin Gallery, MA. On view in "The Pursuit of Porcelain" until July 24th.

Pittsfield, MA.- The Ferrin Gallery is proud to present "The Pursuit of Porcelain" an installation of ceramic sculpture, photography and works on paper, based on a is an a European 18th century porcelain room filled with a collection of figurines, plates and objects. The installation, conceived by sculptor Chris Antemann includes her own sculpture and photography shown along with interpretations of the concept by other invited artists who share her passion for porcelain and its history. "The Pursuit of Porcelain" is on view at the gallery until July 24th.


Sergei Isupov - "Traveler" - Ceramic - 14" x 7" x 5.5" - 2011 Courtesy the Ferrin Gallery.Amongst the artists included in the show are Chris Antemann, Christa Assad, Barnaby Barford, Sean Capone, Lucy Feller, Gesine Hackenberg, Molly Hatch, Giselle Hicks, Sergei Isupov, Garth Johson, James Klein & David Reid, Steve Lee, Frances Palmer, Kelly Garrett Rathbone, Vipoo Srivlasa, Mara Superior, Jason Walker, Kurt Weiser, Gerit Grimm, Red Weldon Sandlin, Bill Wright, and Gwendolyn Yoppolo. Bill Wright, Portrait Photographer captured the group of artists assembled in NYC for the opening of Pursuit of Porcelain in group and individual portraits. A show of these photographs is included in the exhibtion.

Chris Antemann is one of seven artists designated by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson to receive the Portland Art Museum's Northwest Art Awards in June. Of the seven, one person will be awarded the $10,000 Arlene Schnitzer Prize, named after the former art dealer and local patron who funded the museum's Northwest art program. Antemann has been chosen for 'MEISSEN artCAMPUS' Experiencing Porcelain, a program initiated in 2010 by MEISSEN Porcelain Manufactory' as the company looks back over three centuries of fine porcelain art, jewellery and architecture in fine porcelain. Meissen's CEO, Christian Kurtzke adds, "Meissen has always been committed to nurturing and promoting both up and coming and established international artists. We look forward to welcoming Antemann whose work perfectly captures the traditional style and craftsmanship of the brand yet in a characteristically contemporary and witty way."

Antemann, 41 years old, earned her M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Minnesota and her B.F.A. in ceramics & painting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited extensively in the United States and China. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design, The 21 C. Hotel Museum, The KAMM Teapot Foundation, The Archie Bray Foundation, and the Foshan Ceramic Museum in China. Her artist residencies include The Archie Bray Foundation and The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, where she was the NEA funded resident. Most recently, she is the 2010 First Place Winner of the Virginia A. Groot Grant, a prestigious grant awarded to artists working in 3D to allow them time to further their work.





artwork: Chris Antemann - "Sideboard", 2011 - Ceramic - 14" x 16" x 7". Courtesy the Ferrin Gallery On view in "The Pursuit of Porcelain" until July 24th.

Ferrin Gallery, established in 1979, is one of the nation's premier ceramic art and sculpture galleries. The gallery program presents changing exhibitions featuring contemporary art, photography and sculpture from throughout the region along with nationally known ceramic sculptors and studio potters. The gallery is located in downtown Pittsfield in the heart of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, an area known for its cultural offerings. Ferrin Gallery, was located in Northampton, MA, a college town in Western Massachusetts, for over twenty years. It shared its location with Pinch Pottery, a shop that featured functional ceramics and affordable handmade objects. Established in 1979, Pinch Pottery began as a studio and showroom with founding partners, Leslie Ferrin, Mara Superior and Barbara Walch. In 1987 Ferrin Gallery was established when the business moved to Main Street. Donald Clark joined the team in 1990. In Northampton, Ferrin Gallery showed work in ceramics from local and regional artists, periodic theme shows of work in all media and specialized in contemporary teapots. In July, 1999, the combination shop and gallery formally separated, with the Ferrin Gallery relocation to Lenox, MA. Renovation of the space in Northampton took place and the shop reopened with a new name, P!NCH. In February of 2006, P!NCH was sold to Jena Sujat. In 2004, Ferrin Gallery took over the space occupied in Lenox, MA by the Ute Stebich Gallery and began showing painting, photography and mixed media sculpture and continued the tradition of both solo and thematic group shows. In June 2007, the gallery opened a 2600 sq ft space in downtown Pittsfield. and closed the Lenox location in the fall of 2007. During the "off season" the gallery participates in national art fairs in Miami, Palm Beach, Chicago and New York. Visit the gallery's website at ... www.FerrinGallery.com

Avenue 50 Studio Shows Glass Gourd Mosaic Contemporary Artworks

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:58 PM PDT

artwork: Carole Choucair Oueijian - "Dreamer" - Mosaic and stained glass - 26" x 20". Courtesy of the artist. On view at the Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles in "Glass Gourd Mosaic" from July 9th until August 7th.

Los Angeles, CA.- The Avenue 50 Studio is proud to present "Glass Gourd Mosaic", on view at the gallery from July 9th until August 7th.  Howard Swerdloff, artist and owner of Howeeduzzit Gallery, curates an exhibition of fine art glass, gourds and mosaic. Each artist chosen by Mr. Swerdloff, demonstrates their unique creative powers in a variety of forms and media.  It is the artists' desire to use these centuries-old crafts to elevate glass gourd and mosaic into fine art.


The Rijksmuseum Exhibits A Large Selection Artist Dick Bruna's Works

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:39 PM PDT

artwork: Dick Bruna - Creator of " The World of Miffy " on exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

AMSTERDAM.-
Graphic designer, illustrator and author of children's books Dick Bruna (1927) has agreed a long-term loan of a selection of his work to the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands. His designs for paperback covers, advertising material and children's books, obviously including Miffy, cover the period from 1953 to 2007. On exhibition from 5 July through 29 August at The Rijksmuseum.

Italian Masterworks from the BAM/PFA Collection On View

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:22 PM PDT

artwork: Giovanni Battista Caracciolo (Battistello), 1610-20 - "The Young Saint John in the Wilderness" - Oil on canvas; 37 3/4 x 50 1/8 inches. Collection of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

BERKELEY, CA.-
When the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was founded in the mid-1960s, among the earliest and most important works acquired were paintings and works on paper by Italian artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These have remained enduring cornerstones of the collection. In celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Republic, we present Rome, Naples, Venice: Italian Masterworks from the BAM/PFA Collection. The exhibition brings together striking Mannerist and Baroque works by Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giambattista Tiepolo, Carlo Maratta, Giovanni Caracciolo, and Guiseppe Cesari (called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino), among others, reflecting a vibrant range of artistic innovation from three of Italy's great cities. On exhibit 6 July through 15 October.

Idea Generation Gallery Presents Brian Duffy: A Photographic Genius

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:53 PM PDT

artwork: Brian Duffy was not only a pioneering force in fashion photography from the late 1950's onwards but also a technical innovator who developed many of the practices now employed in modern photography. - Photo : Fashion shoot on Westminster Bridge in London.

LONDON.- Idea Generation Gallery presents the first ever full retrospective of Brian Duffy - a man who changed the face of British photography. The first ever full-career retrospective of the legendary British photographer Brian Duffy will open July 8th at Idea Generation Gallery, coinciding with the publication of Duffy – the first and only book of his work. Duffy infamously quit photography in 1979 when, at the height of his career, he took the majority of his photographic work into the back garden and set it on fire. Featuring more than 160 images painstakingly rediscovered by Duffy's son after years of searching through archives and publications around the world, this exhibition has truly risen from the ashes.

Devotion by Design: Altarpieces Before 1500 at the National Gallery in London

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:09 PM PDT

artwork: Mathias Grünewald, (c. 1475-1528) - Crucifixion, Isenheim Altarpiece, ca.1498 - Courtesy of Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar The Isenheim Altarpiece embodies the human condition laid bare—from catastrophic darkness to the rapture of resurrection.

LONDON.-
Altarpiece: An image-bearing structure placed upon or behind an altar in a Christian church. Usually forms the focus of devotion for worshippers and is normally decorated by painters and/or sculptors. Altarpieces can vary considerably in size and in complexity of construction, ranging from simple dossals (a horizontal panel or cloth either fronting or set at the back of an altar) to huge polyptychs (a painting divided into multiple sections or panels). They are decorated with a range of imagery which often reflects the circumstances of their original commission and location. As part of a new series of summer exhibitions drawn from the National Gallery's permanent collection, 'Devotion by Design' focuses on Italian altarpieces ranging from the 13th century to the end of the 15th century. This exhibition of over 40 works will investigate the original functions and locations, as well as formal, stylistic and typological developments of altarpieces, drawing on the wealth of scientific examination and scholarly study undertaken in this field over the past 30 years. On view 6 July until 2 October.

Pennsylvania Family Fights United States Treasury Over Rare 1933 Gold Coins

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:49 PM PDT

artwork: The two sides of a 1933 "double eagle" gold coin. U.S. officials said 10 of the rare coins possessed by a Philadelphia jeweler's family were stolen from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1933. The family is fighting the U.S. in federal court, in a trial set to start Thursday, July 7, 2011, for the return of the seized coins. - AP Photo / U.S. Mint.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (AP).- A jeweler's heirs with a cache of rare $20 gold coins will fight for the right to keep them when they square off in court this week against the U.S. Treasury. Treasury officials charge that the never-circulated, and last minted "double eagles" were stolen from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1933. They could be worth $80 million or more, given that one sold for nearly $7.6 million in 2002. The coins come from a batch that were struck but melted down after President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the country off the gold standard in 1933.

Two double eagle gold coins were preserved for the Smithsonian Institute. But a handful more mysteriously got out of the US Mint in Philadelphia.

The daughter and grandsons of Israel Switt, a jeweler and scrap metal dealer on nearby Jeweler's Row, say they discovered 10 of them in his bank deposit box in 2003. Joan Langbord of Philadelphia and her sons went to the U.S. Treasury to authenticate the coins, but the government instead seized them. Authorities noted that the box was rented six years after Switt died in 1990, and that the family never paid inheritance taxes on them.

What's more, the Secret Service has long believed Switt and a corrupt cashier at the US Mint were somehow involved in the double-eagle disappearance.

"A thief cannot convey good title to stolen property," Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel M. Sweet wrote.

The 2011 trial that starts Thursday, July 7th might therefore have echoes of a 1930's-era criminal case.

Double eagles, first struck in 1850, feature a flying eagle on one side and a figure representing liberty on the other. They get their name from their $20 value, twice that of gold coins known as eagles. Collectors would love to see the 1933 coins go to auction since they are so rare.

Lawyer Barry Berke, who represents the Langbords, previously won a 50-50 split with the government in the only other double eagle case, involving the coin that was sold at auction $7.59 million.

He argues that the family's coins could have left the Mint legally, since it was permissible to exchange gold coins for gold bullion. The government instead insists that no double eagles lawfully left the Mint, and that the coins were legally seized. The gold coins are being kept at Fort Knox in Kentucky.

artwork: The US gold reserves are guarded at Fort Knox located on a US Army base near Louisville, Kentucky.

Switt had been investigated at least twice by 1944 over his coin holdings. In 1937, U.S. officials seized nearly 100 pre-1933 double eagles from him as he prepared to board a train to Baltimore to meet with a coin dealer. Switt said he knew it was illegal to possess the gold coins, and said he had eventually planned to surrender them, according to a ruling issued by the trial judge this week.

In 1944, the Secret Service traced 10 separate double eagle coins that had surfaced to Switt. He acknowledged selling nine of them, but said he did not recall how he had gotten them. The statute of limitations prevented authorities from prosecuting Switt.

However, his license to deal scrap gold, which sometimes took him to the Mint, was revoked.

U.S. District Judge Legrome Davis will allow that evidence in, despite the family's efforts to block it.

"The documents appropriately go to Switt's knowledge of the repercussions from breaking the gold laws and provide evidence of a motive to conceal his possession of the ten 1933 Double Eagles presently at issue," Judge Legrome Davis wrote. The trial is expected to last two to three weeks.

"What the Langbords are trying to say here is it's not clear what happened, that there's at least a possibility the coins were just exchanged for ounces of gold," said Armen R. Vartien, general counsel of the Professional Numismatists Guild.

"The records are incomplete, inconclusive," he said. "No one can really know what happened, and none of the people involved are alive to tell (the tale)."

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.







The Eclectic ~ Unconventional And Always Fascinating ~ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:31 PM PDT

artwork: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Opened in 1995, the new building was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta and provides 225,000 square feet of space. Further expansion designed by architecture firm Snøhetta is underway and expected to open in 2016.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art. SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera, established the basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund. SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter. The museum rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 80s under director Henry T. Hopkins, adding "Modern" to its title in 1975. Since 1967, SFMOMA has honored San Francisco Bay Area artists with its biennial SECA Art Award. In the 1980s SFMOMA took on an active special exhibitions program, both organizing and hosting traveling exhibitions. In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SoMa district. Swiss architect Mario Botta designed the new US$60 million facility which is now an iconic presence within the cityscape of San Francisco. Since it opened in 1995, the building has become a hub of the downtown South of Market (SoMa) area. The current five-story structure features a stepped and patterned brick facade topped by a soaring cylindrical turret. In Botta's signature style, the turret is finished in alternating bands of black and white stone and topped with a radial pattern of the same material. The rooftop Sculpture Garden opened in 2009. Visitors enter the 14,400-square-foot garden from a spectacular glassed-in bridge created by local architect Mark Jensen. Works on view include those by Ellsworth Kelly, Henry Moore, and Alexander Calder. Visitors can enjoy impressive views of the cityscape and take in lunch or coffee at the new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe. Since opening the new building the museum's collection has more than doubled in size and annual attendance has tripled to around a million visitors annually. The 225,000 square foot building is about to be expanded further, architecture firm Snøhetta having been commissioned to create a new extension to accommodate the ongoing growth of the museum's programs and audiences and to showcase the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. The total projected budget for the expansion is $480 million and is expected to take approximately six years to complete. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists' files, and lecture recordings. SFMOMA also contains the Phyllis Wattis Theater, accommodating lectures, symposia, seminars, film presentations and performances and the Schwab Room, a multiple-use event space. The innovative Koret Visitor Education Center offers both drop-in access and scheduled programs and activities while the basement houses the museum's Library and Archives and the photography and graphic arts study area. The museum also houses a restaurant, Caffè Museo and museum shop. Visit the museum's re-designed website (which enables users to browse the museum's permanent collection) at … http://www.sfmoma.org

Exhibition at Onassis Cultural Center Analyzes the Origins of El Greco

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT

artwork: "Pietà", Ca. 1500. Probably by Nikolaos Tzafouris or his circle. From Crete or Venice. Mixed technique on wood (cypress), priming on textile, 46.8 x 59.3 cm. © Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum /  Photo: © The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

NEW YORK, NY.- The Onassis Cultural Center will present an extraordinary group of 15th and 16th century paintings, including early works by El Greco. Curated for the Onassis Cultural Center by Dr. Anastasia Drandaki, Curator of the Byzantine Collection at the Benaki Museum, Athens, "The Origins of El Greco" will present 46 exceptional works from public and private collections in Greece, Europe, the United States and Canada, many of which will be traveling to the U.S. for the first time. On exhibition 17 November through 27 February 2010.

RxArt Unveils Works by Jeff Koons at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:29 PM PDT

artwork: Jeff Koons installed his famous artworks at Chicago''s Advocate Hope Children's Hospital.

CHICAGO, IL.- RxArt, the non-profit organization that curates contemporary art installations in hospital settings, and Kiehl's Since 1851, the venerable New York-based purveyor of fine quality skin and hair care, have partnered to bring the artwork of Jeff Koons to Chicago''s Advocate Hope Children's Hospital. Kiehl's underwrote the fabrication and installation of works by world-renowned pop artist Jeff Koons on a CT Scanner and throughout the scanner room at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital for RxArt. As a result of this project, Koons' iconic characters will find a permanent home in the hospital's radiology department, to soothe and cheer young patients and brighten the typically sterile and potentially scary testing environment.

Tate Modern Presents First Large-Scale Showing of Futurism in Britain in Thirty Years

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:28 PM PDT

artwork: Umberto Boccioni - "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space", 1913, cast 1972 - © Tate. Photo: Tate Photography

LONDON.- The Tate Modern presents today Futurism, on view through September 20, 2009. This exhibition will be the first large-scale showing of Futurism in Britain in thirty years. The movement set out to modernise Italian art and social attitudes and its influence spread across Europe and beyond, revolutionising the response to the dynamism of modern life. Its master of ceremonies was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and this exhibition celebrates the centenary of his publication of The Founding and First Manifesto of Futurism in 1909. Artists who will feature include Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Natalya Goncharova, Liubov Popova, David Bomberg, Wyndham Lewis, C.R.W. Nevinson and Jacob Epstein.

Double-Header of Andy Warhol Exhibitions Opening this Fall in Athens

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:27 PM PDT

artwork: Andy Warhol - Alexander the Great, 1982 -  Haunch of Venison, Athens

ATHENS.- Potnia Thiron Gallery and Haunch of Venison will present a double-header of Warhol exhibitions in Athens this autumn. Opening simultaneously, Warhol/Icon: The Creation of Image at the Byzantine and Christian Museum and Warhol: Screen Tests at Potnia Thiron Gallery, will explore Warhol's obsession with fame through his work as a painter and filmmaker of 'icons'. The emphasis across both exhibitions will be on the relationship between his Byzantine religious beliefs, Slavic background and devotion to his mystical mother, and his apparently unfettered celebration of an American celebrity culture. On view 7 October through 10 January, 2010.

Results Show Strong Demand for Fine Art Photographs at artnet Auctions

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:26 PM PDT

artwork: Dali and His Muse Gala by Marc Lacroix. - Sold at artnet Auctions for $6,053, 400% above the low estimate.

NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions sale of Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits showed strength in the photographs market as the ten-day online photographs auction concluded June 25 with $135,000 in sales (including 10% buyer's premium). The sale featured over 200 original fine art photographs of legends of fashion, film, music, politics, sports, arts and literature from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna. "The success of the sale points to the continued demand for high quality photographs at the right estimates" said Bill Fine, President of Artnet Worldwide. "Buyers and sellers alike are increasingly turning to artnet Auctions due to the quality of the works offered on our site, and our comparatively low 10% buyer's and seller's premiums."

Erró - Prints at the Reykjavík Art Museum

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:25 PM PDT

artwork: Guomundur Guomundsson Vermeer

Reykjavík, Iceland - Erró is a master narrator with images.  His works when viewed in series as he has created is somewhat like glancing through chapters of a colorful and complex story.  He combines cut-outs from cartoon strips, art history books, magazines, and postcards and makes new visual episodes that seize viewers one way or the other regardless of their interests, prior knowledge and cultural background.

Kunst Haus Wien presents Pablo Picasso ~ Myths, Fables and Models

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:24 PM PDT

artwork: Pablo Picasso - Woman at the MIrror, 15. 12. 1950 - Feder, Sandpapier auf Zink, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster - © Succession Picasso / VBK, Wien 2009

Vienna, Austria - Kunst Haus Wien presents Picasso – Myths, Fables and Models, on view through July 5, 2009. With 120 graphic works by Pablo Picasso, taken from five creative periods spanning approximately a decade each, the exhibition leads us into Picasso's universe of motifs and obsessions. We encounter fabulous creatures from Greek mythology, such as the Minotaur or the centaurs, as well as the bullfight theme and several of Picasso's favourite models. The exhibition, conceived especially for Kunst Haus Wien, presents works selected from the extensive collections of the Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster and offers unique insights into Picasso's methods.

Last Carnegie Hall Resident, Elizabeth Sargent, Forced Out of Carnegie Towers

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:23 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP).-
All of her neighbors are gone, forced out. Now Elizabeth Sargent, the last holdout tenant of Carnegie Hall's towers, is preparing to leave the her affordable studios that for more than a century housed some of America's most brilliant creative artists. Red scaffolding surrounds Carnegie Hall as the city-owned towers are being gutted this summer in a $200 million renovation that includes adding a youth music program. Celebrities like Robert De Niro and Susan Sarandon had fought to save the homes, petitioning the city not to "displace these treasured artists and master teachers."

The Rebecca Molayem Gallery Unveils Two "Pep Art" Pioneers

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:22 PM PDT

artwork: David Willardson and Marshall Swerman - Elvis #2 - Courtesy of The Rebecca Molayem Gallery in West Hollywood

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Rebecca Molayem Gallery in West Hollywood will be opening a solo exhibit on February 13, 2010 from 6-10 PM of the newest work from "Pep Art" pioneer David Willardson in collaboration with digital impressionist and photographer, Marshall Swerman. Willardson and Swerman's "IKONXART Series" renders American and International superstars like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis Presley, And Warhol, Audrey Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, the Beatles, Muhammad Ali and others. All are represented in larger-than-life scale that reflects their influence on global pop culture and history. Willardson's use of rich texture, bold colors, and accentuated movement working with Swerman's creative digital manipulations offer a unique perspective on the scope and meaning of fame and power.

Andreas Hofer Exhibits at Charles Riva Collection in Brussels

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:21 PM PDT

artwork: Andreas Hofer - Trans Time, 2006 - Installation view, 'Andreas Hofer. Andy Hope 1930' - Goetz Collection, Munich, 2009 Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth, London/ Zurich

BRUSSELS.- Charles Riva Collection presents the exhibition about the work of Andreas Hofer, one of the leading German contemporary artists. The show will display drawings, collages, paintings, and sculptures. In his work, Andreas Hofer creates complex visual worlds based on narrative structures. His thematic and formal references defy any categorization. His vocabulary ranges from Christian, Satanist, astrological or mythological symbolism to recollections from art history.  He juxtaposes figures from the fifties, pop culture and comic strip with icons of modernism or science-fictions, and confronts elements of horror from western mass media with the disgraced, banned stylistic features that marked the art of the Third Reich.

Baibakov Art Projects & Paul Pfeiffer Announce Project for Third Moscow Biennale

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:20 PM PDT

artwork: Paul Pfeiffer - Photo - Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery, London

MOSCOW.- Baibakov art projects announced a collaboration with American artist Paul Pfeiffer, a special project of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Opening October 22, 2009 "Perspective Machine" is the artist's first solo exhibition in Russia. For this site-specific project, the artist will develop on his critique of the spectacle, converting the unique space of the former Red October Chocolate Factory into a "Perspective Machine." In his photographic and video work, Pfeiffer explores the processes of image making within the context of the entertainment industry. Using found footage from television, film, and sports events, he interferes with the construction of the spectacles they produce. The artist gives his images pseudoheroic titles, often culled from Judeo-Christian mythology. By suggesting contemporary celebrities as the new saints, he reminds his viewers that sainthood has always been inherently dependent on the power of the image.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:19 PM PDT

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