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- The Tate Liverpool Shows Major René Magritte Retrospective This Summer
- The Jane Sauer Gallery Shows Geoffrey Gorman's Magical Animals
- PHotoEspaña 2011 Attracts A Huge Following in Madrid
- American Painting Fine Art Gallery To Show "Historic Washington, DC"
- The Oceanside Museum of Art Presents Works by Françoise Gilot
- Contemporary Photography of Southern Africa Displayed at The Walther Collection
- Toledo Museum of Art Puts 300 Masterworks from Its Collection Online
- South Korea Turning Ex-Army Command into National Museum of Contemporary Art
- Gagosian Gallery's iPad App Launches ~ Taking Users on a Fine Art Journey
- Marx & Zavattero Celebrates Their 10th Anniversary With Works By 6 Artists
- The Carnegie Museum of Art Presents the First Exhibition Devoted to Andrey Avinoff
- The Kunstverein Hamburg Shows the Works Of Evelyne Axelle
- The Phantasmagorical World of Photographer Marco Sanges at Hay Hill Gallery
- The Legion of Honor hosts Women Impressionists ~ Morisot, Cassatt, Gonzales, Bracquemond on View
- Ryan Mosley's First Major Solo Exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery
- Kees Van Dongen Retrospective at The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris
- Carmichael Gallery to exhibit Dan Baldwin ~ "Disillusion"
- The Louvre presents a Major Retrospective of Andrea Mantegna’s Paintings
- Liechtenstein Museum Shows Glass and Porcelain from Two Private Collections
- This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News
The Tate Liverpool Shows Major René Magritte Retrospective This Summer Posted: 16 Jun 2011 01:12 AM PDT Liverpool.- The Tate Liverpool is proud to present "René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle", the biggest exhibition of the Belgian surrealist's work in England for twenty years from June 24th through October 16th. Renowned for witty images depicting everyday objects such as apples, bowler hats and pipes in unusual settings, Magritte's art plays with the idea of reality and illusion. Magritte's work has had an enduring effect on the art world, inspiring artists ranging from John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha to Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Magritte's impact has also been felt throughout popular culture. Musicians such as Paul Simon, directors Jean-Luc Goddard and Terry Gilliam, and many writers and advertisers have all been influenced by Magritte's famous images. Tate Liverpool's exhibition will reveal the inspiration behind the artist's celebrated style, focusing on the less explored aspects of Magritte's life and artistic practice. Paintings will feature alongside drawings, collages, examples of Magritte's early commercial work and rarely seen photographs and films. The exhibition will include iconic pieces by the artist as well as some more surprising works, offering visitors a fresh insight into the intriguing world of Magritte. René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina (née Bertinchamps), a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magritte's early life, but he began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt; she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. She was later discovered a mile or so down the nearby river, dead. According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse. Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927–1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants. Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style. From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring. The paintings he produced during the years 1918–1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the offshoot of Cubism practiced by Metzinger. Most of his works of this period are female nudes. In 1922 Magritte married Georgette Berger, whom he had met as a child in 1913. From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg. In 1922–1923, he worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926, when a contract with Galerie le Centaure in Brussels made it possible for him to paint full-time. In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting, "The Lost Jockey (Le jockey perdu)", and held his first exhibition in Brussels in 1927. Critics heaped abuse on the exhibition. Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton, and became involved in the surrealist group. Galerie la Centaure closed at the end of 1929, ending Magritte's contract income. Having made little impact in Paris, Magritte returned to Brussels in 1930 and resumed working in advertising. He and his brother, Paul, formed an agency which earned him a living wage. Surrealist patron Edward James allowed Magritte, in the early stages of his career, to stay rent free in his London home and paint. James is featured in two of Magritte's pieces, "Le Principe du Plaisir (The Pleasure Principle)" and "La Reproduction Interdite", a painting also known as "Not to be Reproduced". During the German occupation of Belgium in World War II he remained in Brussels, which led to a break with Breton. He briefly adopted a colorful, painterly style in 1943–44, an interlude known as his "Renoir Period", as a reaction to his feelings of alienation and abandonment that came with living in German-occupied Belgium. In 1946, renouncing the violence and pessimism of his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifesto 'Surrealism in Full Sunlight'. During 1947–48—Magritte's "Vache Period" — he painted in a provocative and crude Fauve style. During this time, Magritte supported himself through the production of faked works purporting to be by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Giorgio de Chirico - a fraudulent repertoire he was later to expand into the printing of forged banknotes during the lean postwar period. This venture was undertaken alongside his brother Paul Magritte and fellow Surrealist and 'surrogate son' Marcel Mariën, to whom had fallen the task of selling the forgeries. At the end of 1948, he returned to the style and themes of his prewar surrealistic art. His work was exhibited in the United States in New York in 1936 and again in that city in two retrospective exhibitions, one at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, and the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992. Magritte died of pancreatic cancer on 15 August 1967 in his own bed, and was interred in Schaerbeek Cemetery, Evere, Brussels. Popular interest in Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art. In 2005 he came 9th in the Walloon version of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version he was 18th. Tate Liverpool presents displays of work from the Tate collection alongside special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The special exhibition programme, presented on the Gallery's fourth floor, brings together works from national and international collections, both public and private. Since the gallery opened in 1988, Tate Liverpool has presented over 150 different exhibitions and collection displays of work by hundreds of different artists, some seen for the first time in the UK at Tate Liverpool. Major exhibitions in the past five years include Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (2005), Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People (2006-7), Peter Blake: A Retrospective (2007) and The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China (2007), Turner Prize (2007) and Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900 (2008). Tate Liverpool continues to play an active role in the Liverpool Biennial. Tate Liverpool has an established reputation for working with, and touring exhibitions to international institutions as far afield as France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, United States, Canada, Ireland, Korea, Austria, Italy and Japan, as well as other institutions within the UK. Visit the Tate Liverpool website at ... http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool |
The Jane Sauer Gallery Shows Geoffrey Gorman's Magical Animals Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:23 AM PDT Santa Fe, NM.- The Jane Sauer Gallery is pleased to present "Second Nature" by Geoffrey Gorman from June 17th through July 12th, with an opening reception for the artist on June 17th. Geoffrey Gorman is breathing life into what might be considered to be the detritus of our culture. He constructs artworks using sticks, rusted screws, washers, bicycle tires, old tools, bailing wire, discarded canvas, and other things that are housed in cluttered garages or the backs of closets suffering from neglect. An intense physical process goes into making each work as Gorman builds from a series of elements layer upon layer. He explores the shared identity between animals and humans. Gorman's artistic journey explores common moments and concerns. |
PHotoEspaña 2011 Attracts A Huge Following in Madrid Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:07 PM PDT Madrid.- PHotoEspaña 2011 attracts huge following in Madrid and other art centers until July 24. Lisbon, Cuenca, and Alcalá de Henares will also play host to the Festival. The fourteenth annual festival of photography and the visual arts will offer a program of 70 expositions – 21 in the Official Selection, 6 in OpenPHoto, 11 in other halls, and 32 as part of the Off Festival (Festival Off) – in 61 locations, among them museums, galleries, art centers, and exposition spaces. 370 artists and creators, of 55 nationalities, will be participating. |
American Painting Fine Art Gallery To Show "Historic Washington, DC" Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:06 PM PDT Washington, DC.- The American Painting Fine Art Gallery on MacArthur Boulevard, Washington is exhibiting "Historic Washington, DC : New Works by the Washington Society of Landscape Painters" from June 18th through September 10th. In this exhibition, the region's most venerable group of plein air landscape painters (founded in 1913) pays homage to the historic nature of the Nation's Capital, featuring works in oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastel and mixed media. |
The Oceanside Museum of Art Presents Works by Françoise Gilot Posted: 15 Jun 2011 09:33 PM PDT Oceanside, CA.- The Oceanside Museum of Art presents "Transitions: Works by Françoise Gilot" until November 13th. Interested in mythology, symbolism, and the power of memory, French/American artist Françoise Gilot expresses complex philosophical ideas with lyrical accessibility. Transitions: Works by Françoise Gilot features a collection of oil paintings and works on paper that highlight her interest in color relationships and the fine line between figuration and abstraction. |
Contemporary Photography of Southern Africa Displayed at The Walther Collection Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:25 PM PDT BURLAFINGEN, GERMANY - The complex layers of meaning embedded in the physical attributes of a place are explored in Appropriated Landscapes, an exhibition on landscape photography of Southern Africa, on view at the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm / Burlafingen, Germany. Bringing together the photography and video of thirteen contemporary artists—including Jane Alexander, Mitch Epstein, Ângela Ferreira, Peter Friedl, David Goldblatt, Christine Meisner, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Zanele Muholi, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis, Mikhael Subotzky / Patrick Waterhouse, and Guy Tillim—the exhibition examines the effects of war, migration, colonization, industrialization, and ideology on the landscapes of South Africa, Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique. |
Toledo Museum of Art Puts 300 Masterworks from Its Collection Online Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:24 PM PDT TOLEDO, OHIO.- Approximately 300 masterworks in the Toledo Museum of Art collection now can be explored online from anywhere in the world. Via the eMuseum link on the TMA website, users can search and browse the collection by object title, artist, material, date or type. Each entry features an extended description behind the work and, for many objects, users can zoom in and pan around images for highly detailed viewing. |
South Korea Turning Ex-Army Command into National Museum of Contemporary Art Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:07 PM PDT SEOUL, KOREA (AP).- For many, the stark structure built by the Japanese and then taken over by South Korea's military is a reminder of a painful colonial past and the torture allegedly overseen there later during decades of authoritarian governments. But rather than bulldozing the Defense Security Command building, South Korea's capital is trying to make peace with its difficult history by transforming the building into a branch of the National Museum of Contemporary Art. On Wednesday, the culture minister, Choung Byoung-gug, cut the tape at a groundbreaking ceremony for the museum just east of Gyeongbok Palace. Construction is slated to finish by the end of 2012. |
Gagosian Gallery's iPad App Launches ~ Taking Users on a Fine Art Journey Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:47 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced the launch of an application for the iPad, available as a free download from the iTunes store, beginning today. The app will be updated four times per year, providing content that features recent, current, and future Gagosian artists, exhibitions, and projects. The artists presented in edition #1 include Richard Avedon, Cecily Brown, John Currin, Vera Lutter, Kazimir Malevich, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel. |
Marx & Zavattero Celebrates Their 10th Anniversary With Works By 6 Artists Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:32 PM PDT San Francisco.- The Marx & Zavattero Gallery is thrilled to present "Sea Change", a thought-provoking two-part exhibition celebrating the gallery's 10-year anniversary through August 20th. With special focus on the six artists that have been part of the gallery's stable since the gallery's inception (Davis & Davis, Stephen Giannetti, Matt Gil, Liséa Lyons, William Swanson, Forrest Williams), the show will challenge the traditional idea of a retrospective. It will not be a rote presentation of the 'gallery greatest hits', but rather an exciting showcase of the myriad of relationships and aesthetics that have been formed by Marx & Zavattero artists – from the original six, to those no longer represented by the gallery, to those new to the stable – with an eye towards the gallery's aesthetic and curatorial future. |
The Carnegie Museum of Art Presents the First Exhibition Devoted to Andrey Avinoff Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:32 PM PDT Pisttsburgh, PA.- The Carnegie Museum of Art presents the first exhibition in more than 50 years devoted to the visionary art of the brilliant and talented Andrey Avinoff (1884–1949), who believed that beauty would save the world. His exotic story, from the court of the Russian tsar to the mountains of Tibet, from an upstate New York dairy farm to the laboratories of Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh and to the salons of Park Avenue, has never been told in full. Best known for his scientific research on butterflies, and as director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1926 to 1945, Avinoff created a rich body of fantastical, symbolist watercolor paintings that express ideas about metamorphosis, transience, and change. "Andrey Avinoff: In Pursuit of Beauty" is on view until August 28th. Andrey Avinoff sometimes referred to as Andrej Nikolajewitsch Avinoff or Andrei Avinoff, was a Russian entomologist and painter who became Director of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. He was especially interested in Lepidoptera among many, many other interests. He was the brother of the famous portrait painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff who most-famously was painting Frankin Delano Roosevelt when he died, and was a highly skilled artist himself who usually painted images of flora or fauna, or paintings with deep meanings with themes of religious or apocalyptic nature. Avinoff, was from a wealthy Russian family with ties to nobility, and who served a diplomatic role in the Tsar's court as an "adviser to the Tzar," left Russia after the Revolution. In 1924, he was hired as an assistant curator of entomology at The Carnegie Museum; he was promoted to director of the Museum in 1926 which he remained through 1946. One of his most famous series of paintings depict The Fall of Atlantis, a poem by George V. Golokhvastoff, published in limited edition in 1938. The Birth of Atlantis, illustrated in his series of paintings, exemplifies the Art Deco style popular in the 1930s. Whilst resident in the United States, Avinoff made six trips to Jamaica which he described as "a dreamland of tropical splendor" between 1926 and 1940, five of them with Nicholas Shoumatoff, the son of his sister Elizabeth Shoumatoff whose father had died in his arms at the age of 12 from a drowning at Jones Beach, New York, and who Avinoff largely served as a father figure for. Shoumatoff would eventually become a well-traveled engineer who may have been responsible for the development of up to 50% of the world's paper mills, and eventually became a president of the New York Entomological Society, traveled to Jamaica several times himself, and became an expert in mountainous alpine climates and mountain ranges including the Swiss Alps and the Himilayas. The two caught more than fourteen thousand bots (butterflies and moths in Jamaican patois), doubling the number of known species on the island to more than a thousand, including the Shoumatoff Hairstreak, a rare butterfly that they had discovered together. The Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works. Other collections of note include works of American art from the late 19th century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late 17th century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, opened as part of the museum in 1993, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. The Hall of Architecture contains the largest collection of plaster casts of architectural masterpieces in America and one of the three largest in the world. The marble Hall of Sculpture replicates the interior of the Parthenon. While most art museums founded at the turn of the century focused on collections of old masters, Andrew Carnegie envisioned a museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow." In 1896, he initiated a series of exhibitions of contemporary art and proposed that the museum's paintings collection be formed through purchases from this series. Carnegie, thereby, founded what is arguably the first museum of modern art in the United States. Early acquisitions of works by such artists as Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, and Camille Pissarro laid the foundation for a collection that today is distinguished in American art from the mid-19th century to the present, in French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and in significant late-20th-century works. Over the century, the museum has amplified its scope of interest to include European and American decorative arts from the late 17th century to the present. Architect-designed objects figure prominently among recent acquisitions and complement the Heinz Architectural Center. In addition, the museum's collection includes photography, film and video, Asian art (notably Japanese prints), and African art. In 1994, the museum completed a reinstallation of its pre-1945 American and European fine and decorative arts that combines them in a single chronological sequence. In 2003, the Scaife Galleries, home for many of the paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative arts in the museum's collection, reopened after a yearlong renovation. There is now a larger Works on Paper Gallery, and the contemporary art galleries incorporate decorative arts and works on paper along with paintings, sculpture, and film and video pieces. Some of the galleries now feature floor-to-ceiling, salon-style installations of the artwork. Resource areas and comfortable seating have also been integrated into the space. The Heinz Galleries are dedicated to the presentation of temporary changing exhibitions; they host three to five major exhibitions per year. In 2009, the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries of decorative arts and design reopened after a complete renovation. The first major reinterpretation of the decorative arts collection in two decades, the installation traces the evolution of style and design in the Western world from the mid-18th century to the present. Visit the museum's website at ... http://web.cmoa.org |
The Kunstverein Hamburg Shows the Works Of Evelyne Axelle Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:21 PM PDT Hamburg.- The Kunstverein Hamburg presents "Evelyn Axelle: The World is Round" until June 13th. Evelyne Axell (1935-1972) was an actress and newsreader, an icon in the French-speaking world, and for many, her beauty made her a sex symbol. But in 1963 she brought her film and television career to an end, reversing roles to become a painter. A key figure in Belgian pop art, she is among the artists whose work is just emerging from the shadow cast by male pop heroes for reassessment, for instance in the exhibitions "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958—1968" at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia last winter or "Power Up—Female Pop Art" at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, as well in recent publications. |
The Phantasmagorical World of Photographer Marco Sanges at Hay Hill Gallery Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT LONDON.- This summer, the Hay Hill Gallery brings a sense of the surreal to Cork Street and presents Big Scenes, the visionary and extraordinary world of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges. Big Scenes combines photography, video and performance, bringing together larger than life characters and stories to play out a world of fantasy, grandeur and drama. Big Scenes is a dreamlike, decadent world reminiscent of Surrealism and the visual and performing arts of the glamorous golden age of the 1920s and 30s. The artist Gavin Turk commented: "Marco Sanges's art is like going to a theatre through different doors, characters in photos come to life in various forms of tableaux vivant". On view 19 July through 11 September. |
The Legion of Honor hosts Women Impressionists ~ Morisot, Cassatt, Gonzales, Bracquemond on View Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:19 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In a day when a woman leads the House of Representatives and another campaigns for President of the United States, it might be hard to imagine a time when the work of four women painters was marginalized because of strict social rules and the artists' gender. For many decades, the four artists celebrated in Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond were treated with critical ambivalence and lacked major public exhibitions. It is only now that their innovative styles and contributions to Impressionism are showcased in a groundbreaking exhibition this summer at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the exclusive U.S. venue. Women Impressionists is on view from June 21 to September 21, 2008. |
Ryan Mosley's First Major Solo Exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT LONDON.- Already acknowledged as one of the most distinctive of the ʻNewspeak' painters, British artist Ryan Mosley's first major solo exhibition opened at Alison Jacques Gallery. Admired for what Art Review has described as 'hyperfigurative psychocubism', and an approach to painting which is at once both historical and fantastical, Mosley's work simultaneously acknowledges a profound debt to the received genres and traditions of art history and an exuberant willingness to subordinate such categories to a uniquely personal painterly vision. On exhibit until 13 February, 2010. |
Kees Van Dongen Retrospective at The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT PARIS.- The Musée d'Art Moderne offers a fresh appreciation of Kees Van Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a multifaceted personality: the socially-conscious Dutchman ever ready to caricature and denounce, the avant-garde artist and iconic Fauve, and one of the Roaring Twenties' leading figures on the trendy Paris scene. The exhibition includes and adds to "All eyes on Kees Van Dongen", shown at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (18 September 2010-23 January 2011). The exhibition is on display from March 25 through July 17, 2011. |
Carmichael Gallery to exhibit Dan Baldwin ~ "Disillusion" Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT
West Hollywood, CA - Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by English artist Dan Baldwin. This is Baldwin's debut US solo exhibition and his first with Carmichael Gallery. Fifteen paintings, four ceramic vases and an exclusive, limited edition print compose Disillusion, Baldwin's most mature and provocative body of work to date. His portrayal of a fantastic cosmos in which pop cultural icons, myths and symbolic imagery collide presents a heightened yet informed criticism of contemporary life. Baldwin began this work immediately following Dead Innocent, his successful solo exhibition at Forster Gallery, London, in September, 2008. Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009. On exhibition 10 September through 1 October, 2009. |
The Louvre presents a Major Retrospective of Andrea Mantegna’s Paintings Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT PARIS - Drawing on its remarkable collection of Andrea Mantegna's ( 1431-1506 ) paintings (by far the largest outside Italy), completed by exceptional loans from other French and international collections, the Louvre has mounted France's first major retrospective of this foremost Renaissance artist. On exhibition 26th September through 5th January, 2009. |
Liechtenstein Museum Shows Glass and Porcelain from Two Private Collections Posted: 15 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT
VIENNA.- Radiance and colour are the two elements that connect glass and porcelain, their motivation and motifs reflecting the spirit of the epochs – Baroque, Neoclassical and Biedermeier – in which they were created. A comprehensive assemblage of around 700 objects from the private collections of Christian Kuhn and Rudolf von Strasser provides rare insights into a fascinating aspect of these decorative arts. On exhibition at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna through 12 January, 2010. |
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