Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art...

---

• The Kunsthaus Bregenz (the "KUB") ~ Outstanding Exhibition Spaces for Contemporary Art In Austria ~ Is Toured By AKN Editor
• The Portland Art Museum to exhibit Raphael's Renaissance Masterpiece
• California in Relief: A History in Wood and Linocut Prints opens at Hearst Art Gallery
• Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Opens Exhibition on the Splendor of the Renaissance in Aragon
• The Tate Britain Re-stages William Blake's 1809 One-Man Exhibition
• “Dreaming Cows” at the Waterloo Center for the Arts
• The Detroit Institute of Arts Revised and Re-Opened
• The Portland Art Museum to exhibit "Sensitive Vision ~ The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen"
• Portland Art Museum opens China Design Now: A Multi-Sensory Experience
• V & A Fantastic Photos
• The J. Paul Getty Museum Sets the Scene with Creative Staged Photography
• British Museum to display Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960
• A Veteran MAD Man Artist Remains in the Fold
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Kunsthaus Bregenz (the "KUB") ~ Outstanding Exhibition Spaces for Contemporary Art In Austria ~ Is Toured By AKN Editor Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:33 PM PST In August 1993 the district administration office of Bregenz issued the building permit for the construction of a new art museum. Planning and negotiation had begun some years before, and construction started the following year. Both the museum itself and adjacent administration building were designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor a Pritzker Prize winner. The Kunsthaus Bregenz ( the KUB) was opened on July 25, 1997. The architect described the building as: "The art museum stands in the light of Lake Constance. It is made of glass and steel and a cast concrete stone mass which endows the interior of the building with texture and spatial composition. From the outside, the building looks like a lamp. It absorbs the changing light of the sky, the haze of the lake, it reflects light and colour and gives an intimation of its inner life according to the angle of vision, the daylight and the weather." Within the Urban Context The Kunsthaus Bregenz was built as a solitary construction in a prominent location not far from the lakefront bank. It filled the space on "Seestraße" between the Theater for Vorarlberg and the main post office. Fresh air is conducted through a gap between the floor and the outer walls to the halls. The used air is sucked in through the gaps between the sheets of glass of the light ceiling and flows out through this space, requiring no mechanical air conditioning. The entrance lies on the eastern side of the building facing the town. The administration building, situated in front of the museum towards the city centre, acts as a transitional structure to the smaller and low buildings of the old part of the town. All functional facilities of the Kunsthaus other than those directly associated with the presentation of art are housed separately in this smaller building, which accommodates a library, the museum shop and a café besides the administrative offices. The striking facade consists of etched glass shingles that lend the building lightness and transparency, provide insulation and form an essential part of the lighting arrangement for the building. The refractive properties of the glass shingles and a 90-centimetre wide light pit between the glass cladding and the concrete structure of the building proper makes it possible to direct daylight to the first subterranean level and illuminate the building at night. Three exhibition floors are used to exhibit the museum's own collection and featured thematic or solo artist exhibitions. As a new institution, the Kunsthaus' own collection is still very young, but focuses on contemporary Austrian art The collection begins in the 1980s with works by the younger generation of artists which broke away from the determining traditions of postwar Austrian art in favor of a more international orientation (for example Bohatsch, Brandl, Kogler, Kopf, F. Pichler, Rockenschaub, Scheibl, Schmalix, Ströhle, Türtscher, West, Wurm, Zobernig, among others). Acquisitions of groups of works by the most important artists set focal points. In parallel to these exhibitions, the KUB Arena's program examines examples of differing forms of curatorial practice (such as the current Antony Gormley installation in the high Alps). Visit the museum's website at : www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at Currently, the Kunsthaus are showing three exhibitions. Haegue Yang's "Arrivals" runs until 4th March 2011 and features both the artist's older work as well as 33 new light sculptures, which enigmatically populate the third floor like alien life-forms and her largest installation to date, specifically for the Bregenz show, consisting of approximately 200 aluminum venetian blinds, which occupy KUB's entire second floor with an impressive weightlessness. These complex installations, sculptures, objects, photographs, videos, and slide projections, which in their atmospheric intensity appear equally poetic and conceptual, negate any unequivocal interpretation. Haegue Yang's work captivates precisely because of its ambiguity, which is rooted as much in the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as in an engagement with current theoretical discourses. Also 'Living Archives' - Cooperation Van Abbemusem (which runs until 4th March 2011) explores artistic archives. What is an archive? What is a collection? What are the relationships between the documents stored in archives and objects stored in collections concerned with memory, identity, history, and politics? The collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is a joint consideration of the significance of archives and collections, which play a major role in the current reconsiderations of artistic practices and conservations in the realm of the museum. Alongside the exhibit Living Archive – Mixed Messages of the Van Abbemuseum, which includes works by Francis Bacon, Robert Indiana and Paul McCarthy, works by Michal Heiman, Hannah Hurtzig (both from the collection of the Van Abbemuseum) and Katrin Mayer offer a range of processual and amenable strategies of collecting and archiving. Meanwhile, for the more adventurous visitor, The KUB Arena presents Antony Gormley's "Horizon Field" which can be found in the High Alps of Vorarlberg, a short journey from Bregenz. The Kunsthaus Bregenz and the British artist Antony Gormley (born in 1950) realized a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg. Horizon Field is the first art project of its kind erected in the mountains and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date. Horizon Field consists of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body spread over an area of 150 square kilometers. The work forms a horizontal line at 2,039 meters above sea level. This height has no specific metaphorical or thematic relevance in the placement of the figures. It is an altitude that is readily accessible but, at the same time, lies beyond the realm of everyday life. Some of the figures are installed in places one can hike to or ski past in the winter. Others are unapproachable though visible from certain vantage points. The works are neither representations (statues) nor symbols, but represent the place where a human being once was, and where any human being could be. Horizon Field engages the physical, perceptual, and imaginative responses of anyone coming within its relational field. Over the 2 years during which this installation is in place, the work will be exposed to the elements, to different lighting conditions, and to the changing seasons, thus enabling constantly new perceptions and impressions. ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites in mainland China, Korea, Vietnam. Myanmar, Thailand (Siam), Singapore, Bali and mainland Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Malaysia, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and now Austria. Because of the Editor's travel we will be posting many interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . Enjoy.

The Portland Art Museum to exhibit Raphael's Renaissance Masterpiece Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:32 PM PST PORTLAND, OR.- This October, the Portland Art Museum will present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view Raphael's renowned painting The Woman with a Veil. This single-painting exhibition will bring one of the most important paintings of the Renaissance to Oregon for the first time. The Woman with a Veil (la velata or la donna velata) was painted in 1516 and depicts a serene woman looking intently at the viewer. It is believed that the model for the painting is the same woman depicted in other Raphael works including La Fornarina. Scholars have suggested that the woman was Raphael's lover, Margherita Luti.

California in Relief: A History in Wood and Linocut Prints opens at Hearst Art Gallery Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:31 PM PST MORAGA, CA.- Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary's College will present California in Relief: A History in Wood and Linocut Prints, on view July 25 – September 13, 2009. California in Relief presents a historical survey of relief prints in Northern California. Relief prints include, woodcuts, linocuts and wood engravings. This exhibition traces the history of one printmaking media and by doing so brings to light both long standing artistic movements; fascinating groups of artists working outside the mainstream; as well as well known artists from across the last century. Art movements that focused on relief prints over the past century continue to have esthetic heirs working today. Important and influential artists who are often overlooked in the traditional art historical narrative created powerful prints that became part of the history of California. Significant numbers of women were pioneers in all the various traditions of relief prints. Influences from Japan and Mexico played an influential role in the development of different styles. The overall diversity of voices and imagery is held together in this exhibition by the unity of the technique which imparts a distinctive graphic quality to the work of artists today as it did in 1900.

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Opens Exhibition on the Splendor of the Renaissance in Aragon Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:26 PM PST BILBAO, SPAIN - An exhibition of more than one hundred works illustrates how art evolved in Aragon from the Gothic style favored in the 15th century to the splendor of the Renaissance in the 16th century. Through a selection of one hundred or so works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and articles in precious metals, the exhibition shows how art evolved in Aragon in the 15th and 16th century. Many of the works on show come from the Museum of Zaragoza, where ongoing reformation work has made this exceptional loan possible. Section one of the show includes a small but valuable selection of works that reflect the influence of the international Gothic style and models from Flemish art. One outstanding sculpture is Pere Joan's Guardian angel in polychromed alabaster—an essential material in Gothic and Renaissance sculpture in Aragon. On exhibition 15 June through 20 September, 2009 at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.

The Tate Britain Re-stages William Blake's 1809 One-Man Exhibition Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:24 PM PST LONDON - The Tate Britain unveiled the first display devoted to William Blake's only one-man exhibition, reuniting nine of the surviving works two hundred years after they went on display in May 1809. The original exhibition was Blake's most significant attempt to create a public reputation for himself as a painter and provided a vital insight into the artist's self-image and ambitions. A new edition of Blake's Descriptive Catalogue (1809) was published by Tate Publishing to coincide with the display.

“Dreaming Cows” at the Waterloo Center for the Arts Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:23 PM PST Waterloo, Iowa - Who said cows don't dream? They do and they even dream in color. This will become abundantly clear as the Waterloo Center for the Arts presents the exhibition Dreaming Cows by Betty LaDuke. Dreaming Cows captures the spirit, culture and lives of those who strive for self-reliance in some of the world's most beautiful, yet impoverished areas. From July through December 2009, this exhibit will showcase vibrant paintings, pen drawings and color photographs by renowned artist/educator/storyteller Betty LaDuke. On exhibition through 30 December, 2009.

The Detroit Institute of Arts Revised and Re-Opened Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:21 PM PST   DETROIT, MI - The Detroit Institute of Arts, one of the country's small but classic encyclopedic museums, could be on an open prairie rather than in the center of a city, so faint is the urban buzz around it. Little commercial energy warms the nearby streets. Residential neighborhoods are at a distance. Traffic on the broad thoroughfare running past the museum is sparse, even as this institution, closed for the last six months, celebrated a reopening on Nov. 23 that is being advertised as a resurrection.

The Portland Art Museum to exhibit "Sensitive Vision ~ The Prints of Beth Van Hoesen" Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:19 PM PST PORTLAND, OR - A retrospective of prints by San Francisco artist Beth Van Hoesen will be on view at the Portland Art Museum May 2 through August 16, 2009. Over the course of five decades, Van Hoesen has created intimate prints that bring out the beauty and eccentricities of her subjects—people, animals, still lifes, and landscapes. Approximately 70 prints by Van Hoesen, drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum , will be on display.

Portland Art Museum opens China Design Now: A Multi-Sensory Experience Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:17 PM PST PORTLAND, OR.- This October, the Portland Art Museum opens China Design Now, a multi-sensory experience reflecting the new Chinese urban environment and encapsulating the scale, speed, and energy of change in China today. Visitors will embark on a journey of discovery through China, focusing on the graphic design, fashion, interior design, and architecture emerging from three vibrant and rapidly evolving cities. On exhibition 10 October through 17 January, 2010.

V & A Fantastic Photos Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:16 PM PST   LONDON.- A fantastic collection of contemporary photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will take centre stage at The Herbert in Coventry.  "Something That I'll Never Really See" will feature over 30 artists in the new Gallery 1 at the venue which has undergone a £20 million refurbishment and extension in Jordan Well in the city centre. The exhibition, which is organized by the V&A, will run from September 16, 2008 until January 11, 2009 and admission is free.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Sets the Scene with Creative Staged Photography Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:14 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA.- In Focus: Making a Scene presents more than thirty tableaux, or staged photographs, from the J. Paul Getty Museum's world-renowned photography collection, on view at the Getty Center from June 30 through October 18, 2009. Ranging from early daguerreotypes to contemporary color compositions, the exhibition highlights creative works by both recognized and lesser-known masters. Among the artists included are Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, Eileen Cowin, Man Ray, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Guido Rey, Henry Peach Robinson, and Lucas Samaras. This will be the fifth installation of the ongoing "In Focus" series of exhibitions, which present photographs from the Getty's permanent collection thematically. Previous exhibitions have included The Nude, The Landscape, and most recently, The Portrait.

British Museum to display Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910-1960 Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:12 PM PST LONDON.- The exhibition will be the first in Europe focusing on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the twentieth century. Between 1910 and 1920 the country was convulsed by the first socialist revolution, from which emerged a strong left-wing government that laid great stress on art as a vehicle for promoting the values of the revolution. This led to a pioneering programme to cover the walls of public buildings with vast murals, and later to setting up print workshops to produce works for mass distribution and education. All the prints in the exhibition come from the British Museum's collection which has been compiled thanks to the generosity of James and Clare Kirkman, Dave and Reba Williams and The Art Fund.

A Veteran MAD Man Artist Remains in the Fold Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:10 PM PST   New York City - Al Jaffee, a man who could lay claim to being the world's oldest adolescent and who just now is enjoying a fresh burst of public and professional recognition. The idea was to look in on him as he created the latest installment of a feature he has been drawing for Mad magazine since, incredibly, 1964. The Mad Fold-In, which embeds a hidden joke within a seemingly straightforward illustration, it should come as no surprise that the simple article ended up being not so simple after all.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 26 Jan 2011 08:09 PM PST This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

You are subscribed to email updates from Art News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610