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• Stux Gallery in New York City Showing " Ruud van Empel ~ Wonder "
• Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam Exhibits 'Ryan McGinley: Somewhere Place'
• "Eduardo Martinez Bonati:Homecoming" at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago
• The Flomenhaft Gallery in New York Presents 'John Henry: Poetic Builder'
• Moderna Museet Stockholm Presents Major Siri Derkert Retrospective
• Staatsgalerie Stuttgart to show Edward Burne-Jones:The Earthly Paradise
• John Pence Gallery presents Recent Oil Paintings by Zack Zdrale
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Celebrates 19th Century Landscapes
• Statens Museum for Kunst Creates New Book of Rarely Seen Master British Drawings
• La Lanta Fine Art features Sculpture Exhibition by Chainapa Lepajarn
• Robert Bateman retrospective at Joslyn Art Museum
• Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to Present Exhibition Devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites
• Jacob Jordaens ~ The Making of a Masterpiece at Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht
• 'Pigs Can’t Fly in Plimsolls'
• Knoxville Museum of Art Exhibits Images of Nuclear Explosions
• ~ Images of Storms ~ at Oklahoma City Museum of Art
• "Rembrandt: A Childhood Dream" opens at the Frans Hals Museum
• MoMA Adds @ Symbol to Design Collection
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Stux Gallery in New York City Showing " Ruud van Empel ~ Wonder " Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:39 PM PDT New York City.- Stux Gallery is pleased to announce, "Wonder," their 4th and latest exhibition of large-scale digital-composite photographic works by Dutch artist Ruud van Empel. Van Empel creates photo-collages by meticulously stitching together fragments taken from an archive of thousands of images the artist photographs himself. Upon viewing the pristinely rendered images, however, no obvious trace of van Empel's Photoshop technique is evident. The viewer is instead drawn into van Empel's subtly conflicting worlds which simultaneously appear impossibly illusory and undeniably hyper-real. Portrayed as children alone, in pairs, or large groups, van Empel's subjects seem to be held captive in tantalizingly magical moments of sexualized innocence. Locating his subjects in various scenes of wilderness or minimal quotidian environments, they appear lost in a liminal state between youth and adulthood, psychologically invoking the kinds of "in-between" subjects captured in, for instance, Rineke Dijkstra's photographs of adolescents. Van Empel's Generation  series contains three different photographic works, each a panoramic view of what would appear as an otherwise ordinary class photo of a group of a few dozen young students. Each photograph, however, presents the uneasy reality of a seemingly mono-cultural student body. In one, an entire class of presumably Jewish children (most of whom wear the traditional kippah) is portrayed; another is composed entirely of black children and a third consists almost entirely of white children. Van Empel's images tackle the problem of representation by  over-representing. Van Empel offers hyperbolized representations of childhood and identity (race, gender, sexuality). One may notice that van Empel's photographs contain almost no depth of field. With this flattening out—everything is in focus—background and foreground appear equally detailed; context is replaced with fantasy, and the original photographic subject elides with its new function as icon. In van Empel's work appearance is but one component within a complex of relations completing the connection between image and reality. Van Empel's viscerally seductive photo-collages are most powerful as metaphor. They compel us to consider the entangled problematic of identity as a collage of forces, "race," for example, as beyond a purely socially-produced phenomenon secondary to class distinctions (to paraphrase the traditional Marxian and Frankfurt School lines of thought), while outside the construal of "essences" thought to belong to particular ethnically-related groups. Art historian Maartje van den Heuvel has argued, "Ruud van Empel is not primarily concerned with whether the portrayed people are black or white," but the artist "finds himself in the socially charged position of a white man who portrays blacks." The situation is transposed by moving the work of the Dutch artist to the context of an exhibition in the U.S. where contemporary issues of race rely less on migration as such and have more to do with historical social policy and current economic conditions. Born in 1958 in Breda, The Netherlands, Ruud van Empel lives and works in Amsterdam. Van Empel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Sint Joost Breda. Since the late 1990s, van Empel has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. His work appears in the permanent collections of the French National Foundation for Modern Art (Paris), Museum of photographic Arts (San Diego), Generali Foundation (Vienna), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and CB Collection (Tokyo). This year in addition to solo exhibitions at Stux Gallery (New York) and Paris Beijing Photo Gallery (Beijing), a major retrospective of van Empel's work will be presented at the Groninger Museum (The Netherlands). visit the artist's website at web.ruudvanempel.nl The Stux Gallery concentrates on exhibiting mid-career, emerging and well-established artists ranging from painting and photography to sculpture, installation, and performance artwork. The thrust of Stux Gallery's overall program is to cover a broad spectrum of artists from the United States, Europe, the Far East, Australia, Asia, and Africa whose work shares an interest in challenging the boundaries of genre and medium, often with a deeply conceptual bent, always with an aesthetically rewarding engagement with the material and formal presentation of the work. Originally founded more than twenty-five years ago by Stefan and Linda Stux in Boston in 1980, Stux Gallery first established its international profile in 1986 at its New York gallery on Spring Street in SoHo.  The gallery's success was recognized early on, with enthusiastic reviews of its emerging artists in the national and international art press, receiving the New York Times' year-end "Best of New York," several years in a row.  In this early phase of the gallery, the program emphasized development and promotion of gifted young artists including by now internationally famous artists such as Vik Muniz, Fabian Marcaccio, Lawrence Carroll, Elaine Sturtevant, Doug and Mike Starn and Andres Serrano among others. Relocating from SoHo to Chelsea early on in 1996, Stux Gallery continued this distinctive aesthetic program, introducing noteworthy artists that have since become international stars to the international art scene, such as Inka Essenhigh. More recently, the gallery has been representing additional mid-career and senior artists, such as Dennis Oppenheim, Shimon Okshteyn, Orlan, Kuno Gonschior, Zigi Ben-Haim, Tracey Moffatt, Margaret Evangeline and Joseph Zehrer. This program has been balanced with ongoing interest in discovering exciting young talent working in a variety of media, including Aaron Johnson, Heide Trepanier, Anna Jóelsdóttir, Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, James Busby, Dean Monogenis and Don Porcella. The gallery's historical connections to photography are underscored by Ruud van Empel, Iké Udé, Markus Wetzel, Suellen Parker and Lydia Venieri. Throughout the years the Gallery has fostered international relationships and collaborations over the years with an array of international galleries. Visit the gallery's website at www.stuxgallery.com

Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam Exhibits 'Ryan McGinley: Somewhere Place' Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:38 PM PDT Amsterdam.- Galerie Gabriel Rolt is delighted to present a new series of works by acclaimed American photographer Ryan McGinley. This will be his second solo exhibition in The Netherlands, following on from the 2007 exhibition at FOAM. 'Ryan McGinley: Somewhere Place' will be on show from April 9th to May 14th 2011, with an opening reception on Saturday 9 April from 17.00 – 19.30 hrs. Youth, liberation and the joy of losing yourself in the moment are elements that feature throughout Ryan McGinley's work, from his early roots in documenting the urban adventures of his downtown Manhattan friends to his subsequent cross-country travels in utopian environments throughout America to his most recent studio portraits. McGinley's elaborate and rigorous process of photo-making creates moments of breathtaking beauty: naked feral kids poised in ecstatic abandon. The lack of clothing and other contemporary signifiers along with the archetypical landscapes give the photos a sense of timelessness in which the viewer can project his or her own story.

"Eduardo Martinez Bonati:Homecoming" at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:37 PM PDT Santiago, Chile.- The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) in Santiago, Chile is showing "Eduardo Martinez Bonati: Homecoming" until May 22nd 2011. Containing oil paintings and watercolors produced during the artist's exile, this is the first major solo exhibition of Bonati's 'exile' work to be held in Chile since he returned to the country in 2005 ("Requiem" an earlier exhibtion featured his recent work). To celebrate Bonati's return from exile, a series of exhibitions are planned at the National museum of Fine Arts. This, the first one, concentrates on works created between 1978 and 1986, alongside some recent works, drawings and a video. The title of the exhibition references Bonati's pre-exile period, when he worked as a professor of engraving at the University of Chile's School of Arts on the nearby Forest Park campus, now home to the Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Flomenhaft Gallery in New York Presents 'John Henry: Poetic Builder' Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:35 PM PDT New York, NY - 'John Henry: Poetic Builder' opens at the Flomenhaft Gallery on April 28th 2011, with an opening Reception between 6 and 8 pm that day. The Flomenhaft Gallery is proud to exhibit the sculpture of John Henry, known world-wide for his boldly distinctive art.  Since the 1960's Henry's sculpture, both monumental and tabletop-size, has been defined by a minimalist and constructivist style, an incisive attitude toward composition united with an unerring harmony and grace. It is difficult to convey the magnitude of Henry's accomplishments.  His awards and commissions include the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation Educational Grant School of Art of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Alaska State Council on the Arts for the Anchorage International Airport, the Florida Art in State Buildings, and the Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyongju City, Korea, to mention just a few.  His works are in over fifty public collections and more than 200 private collections worldwide.

Moderna Museet Stockholm Presents Major Siri Derkert Retrospective Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:34 PM PDT Stockholm.- The Moderna Museet Stockholm presents a major retrospective of works by Siri Derkert from May 28 until September 4th 2011. Siri Derkert's early cubist paintings are attributable to international modernism, while her later work for the Östermalmstorg underground station (1965) in Stockholm marked a radical change in the notion of public art. For the first time since 1960, Moderna Museet is featuring Siri Derkert's unique and multifaceted oeuvre in a major retrospective exhibition jointly rganized with the National Library of Sweden. Works from her youth, cubist paintings, fashion drawings from the 1910s, profoundly psychological portraits of children and adults, drawings and later experiments with materials such as concrete, iron strips and clay are all presented in a comprehensive show that also highlights the life of Siri Derkert. Her works for public spaces often deal with the peace movement and feminism, issues that are as relevant today as they were for her generation. In connection with this exhibition and a current research project at the National Library of Sweden, a series of seminars will be held on Siri Derkert and Carlo Derkert. Siri was born in Stockholm in 1888 to merchant Carl Edward Johansson Derkert, one of seven children. She was educated at Althin art school in Stockholm from 1904 and the Royal Academy of Art 1911-1913 . Thereafter, she studied art in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and Académie de la Grande Chaumiere with Ninnan Santesson and Lisa Bergstrand until the First World War broke out in Autumn 1914. During and after the war she frequently stayed in Italy, where her first child, Carlo was born. Siri also visited the female citizen school run by the Fogelstad group and her 1943 stay at Fogelstad inspired her art and she painted a number of portraits of women who were active in Fogelstad, including Honorine Hermelin and Ada Nilsson. Siri had three children: son, Carlo (1915-1994) with the Finnish artist Valle Rosenberg (1891-1919) and daughters Life (1917-1938) and Sarah (born 1920) with the subscriber and bokillustratören Bertil Lybeck (1887-1945). Siri is known as an artist with a highly personal and expressionistic style. In early works, especially from her time in Paris, impressionist influences both from Cubism and Fauvism can clearly be seen. She also produced figurative paintings in gray tones, usually pastel, interiors and childrens portraits. Siri was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (in 1960). Also in 1960, she was awarded the Guggenheim Prize for the painting Bird in the state. Siri's works are in the collections of the National Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Sketches and the Gothenburg Museum of Art. She has also had her work featured on Swedish Post Office stamps. Moderna Museet has one of the world's finest collections of 20th and 21st century art. The photography collection contains works produced since 1840. Moderna Museet is commissioned to collect, preserve, exhibit and organise learning activities relating to all forms of 20th and 21st century art. Moderna Museet in Stockholm originally opened on 9 May, 1958, in what used to be a drill hall on Skeppsholmen. The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo designed the new building for Moderna Museet, after winning an international competition for the assignment. The new building was inaugurated, according to plan, in connection with Stockholm Cultural Capital in 1998. The event took place on 12 February, 1998. Moderna Museet Malmö opened on 26 December, 2009. The museum's aims are to promote artistic and cultural regeneration, promote knowledge in art history and understanding and interest in contemporary art, preserve, catalogue and research the Moderna Museet collection and procure new works to enhance it, make the collection accessible to the public, organise exhibitions and learning activities, and operate lending and deposition activities, research other government-owned or government-funded art collections and promote international contacts by organising exhibitions of Swedish contemporary art abroad, and be responsible for Swedish participation in international art biennials. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.modernamuseet.se

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart to show Edward Burne-Jones:The Earthly Paradise Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:29 PM PDT Stuttgart, Germany - Since 1971, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has been in the possession of a chief work of Pre-Raphaelite painting: Perseus , a cycle consisting of eight paintings and studies by Edward Burne-Jones. This is the most important Edward Burne-Jones collection in Germany is to be found here in the Staatsgalerie: in addition to the Perseus Cycle , the museum also holds nine of the master's drawings in its Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. These holdings serve as the point of departure for the first monographic exhibition on Burne-Jones to be presented in Germany, scheduled to open on 24 October 2009, and will continue until 7 Februay, 2010 at The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

John Pence Gallery presents Recent Oil Paintings by Zack Zdrale Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:27 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - On Thursday, June 26,  John Pence Gallery, near Union Square in San Francisco, will present a solo exhibition of recent oil paintings by Zack Zdrale.  The gallery will host a reception for the artist on June 26th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.  The exhibition will continue through July 26th, 2008. Zack has participated in past group shows at the John Pence Gallery but now this solo exhibition will give the public a chance to see all of this talented young artist's recent work in a formal setting.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Celebrates 19th Century Landscapes Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:25 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In appreciation for a group of paintings that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is lending next year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is reciprocating with paintings from the Hudson River School. The Hudson River School is one of the foundational and most influential traditions in the history of American landscape painting. Word of the upcoming display inspired a group of Philadelphia-area collectors to share with the Academy highlights from their own superlative collections of Hudson River School art. This exhibition, entitled Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Private Collections, will be in the PAFA Historic Landmark Building (118 North Broad Street) June 15, 2009 through September 30, 2009.

Statens Museum for Kunst Creates New Book of Rarely Seen Master British Drawings Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:23 PM PDT   COPENHAGEN.- English art is poorly represented in Danish museums due to the strained relations between the two countries in the past. The Collection of Prints and Drawings at Statens Museum for Kunst is an exception to this rule, however. A new, comprehensive and fully illustrated book maps out 350 years of English master drawings in the Collection of Prints and Drawings. This has been an overlooked chapter in the Museum's collections, as hardly anybody, including English specialists, has known about it before.

La Lanta Fine Art features Sculpture Exhibition by Chainapa Lepajarn Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:21 PM PDT   Bangkok, Thailand - Chainapa Lepajarn, one of the leading Thai female sculptors, exhibits small sized artwork selected from her newest creation in the "UNEVEN LIFE" collection. The exhibition will be on display from Feb. 3 until Feb. 28 at La Lanta Fine Art.

Robert Bateman retrospective at Joslyn Art Museum Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:19 PM PDT   Omaha, NE – The exhibition The Art of Robert Bateman at Joslyn Art Museum is a major tribute to Canadian artist Robert Bateman, whose wildlife art has earned him an international reputation and following. Bateman's paintings, while rendered in a realistic style, are essentially a celebration of wild things and wild places.

Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to Present Exhibition Devoted to the Pre-Raphaelites Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:17 PM PDT STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - In the coming spring, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm will present an exhibition devoted to the pictorial world of the Pre-Raphaelites. This group of nineteenth-century English artists sought inspiration in mediaeval art. Their style is characterized by a conscious striving for beauty, existential themes and moral seriousness. The exhibition The Pre-Raphaelites will run from 26th February to 24th May 2009.

Jacob Jordaens ~ The Making of a Masterpiece at Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:13 PM PDT MAASTRICHT, NL - Jacob Jordaens – The making of a masterpiece, until June 14th at the Bonnefantenmuseum, enriched with a surprising oil painting just after TEFAF. The study with three heads of a young woman from c. 1616, which was since 1953 in a private collection at an unknown location, fits perfectly in the show on Jordaens' early work (c. 1616-1623) and studio practice. The study has until recently been depicted as a production of Rubens' studio, but specialists recently agreed to reckon it as the work of the very hand of the Flemish master of Baroque Jordaens.

'Pigs Can’t Fly in Plimsolls' Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:11 PM PDT   Bangkok, Thailand - This series of Pigs Can't Fly in Plimsolls by BRETT is on a permanent display at La Lanta Fine Art.  On view March-April, 2008.

Knoxville Museum of Art Exhibits Images of Nuclear Explosions Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:09 PM PDT   KNOXVILLE, TN - The Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA) presents Michael Light: 100 SUNS, January 18 through June 1, 2008, which documents the destructive force unleashed during nuclear tests conducted by the United States following World War II. The photographs are both terrifying and beautiful at the same time.

~ Images of Storms ~ at Oklahoma City Museum of Art Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:04 PM PDT Oklahoma City, OK—On the eve of a record breaking hurricane season, The Oklahoma City Museum of Art presents Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art.  Organized by the Museum and curated by Hardy George, Ph.D., this unique exhibition illustrates the sublime and sometimes destructive power of nature through August 13, 2006.  With over 70 paintings, drawings, and prints from the seventeenth through the twentieth century, Tempests and Romantic Visionaries emphasizes the artists' dramatic portrayals of storms and their allegorical meanings.

"Rembrandt: A Childhood Dream" opens at the Frans Hals Museum Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT   HAARLEM,NL - There are only a few private collectors of Dutch art in the Netherlands. After all, museum quality works are very scarce. Assembling a good private collection requires extensive knowledge, ample financial means and even more patience. Leading collectors seldom seek publicity. In this respect, George and Ilone Kremer are an exception, for they have deliberately chosen to disclose their collection. Not only because they are both justly proud of their seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish masterpieces, but also because they are intent on conveying their enthusiasm and the pleasure of collecting to the public.

MoMA Adds @ Symbol to Design Collection Posted: 07 Apr 2011 08:59 PM PDT NEW YORK (REUTERS).- For the French, it may always remind them of delicious escargot, but for most everyone else the @ symbol has come to embody the age of the Internet and its constantly evolving language. In honor of the little squiggly's potency, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York announced on Monday that it had added the @ symbol to its architecture and design collection, citing its "design power." The symbol's association with the Internet dates back to 1971 when the @ symbol appeared in the first email ever, sent by engineer Ray Tomlinson.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 07 Apr 2011 08:59 PM PDT 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.

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