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• The Corey Helford Gallery Shows New Works by Eric Joyner
• The McMaster Museum of Art Celebrates the 125th Anniversary of the University
• The Ellen Noël Art Museum to Show the Mike & Linda Tilton Collection
• The Zorn Museum in Sweden Shows a Major Retrospective of Peter Dahl
• Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens new Renzo Piano-designed Wing
• Francis Bacon's Seductive Female Portrait at auction at Christie's London
• Jean Dubuffet's life explored in new exhibition at the Pace Gallery
• PAFA to mount Survey Exhibition of African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner
• Flowers Gallery opens David Hepher showing a Series of New Works
• The Norway National Museum exhibits "The Dance of Life ~ The Collection from Antiquity to 1950"
• Women Pop Artists at Kunsthalle Wien
• The Hebrew Union College hosts Mirta Kupferminc - "Wanderings"
• Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University to display “Pop to Present”
• Charles Avery exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
• Yayoi Kusama ~ "I Want to Live Forever" ~ Her Japanese Contemporary Art in Milan
• MoMA Opens "The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times"
• Exhibition Featuring Works by Alexander Calder to be Hosted at Palazzo delle Esposizioni
• Rossi & Rossi Ltd shows New Works by Tibetan Artist Gade
• Major Exhibition of the Work of Andreas Hofer at Sammlung Goetz in Munich
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Corey Helford Gallery Shows New Works by Eric Joyner Posted: 22 Jan 2012 01:06 AM PST Culver City, California.- The Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present " Eric Joyner : "It's a Jungle Out There", on view at the gallery from January 21st through February 8th. In "It's a Jungle Out There" Joyner's robots trade their domestic lives featured in "Donut Logic" (his 2010 exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery) for fantastical adventures in rough-and-tumble jungles. "I use the robots to reflect my adventures, real and imagined, in Thailand. It runs the gamut from fighting, encountering animals and hiking to having fun," Joyner says. The theme of the exhibition was inspired by Joyner's recent trip to Thailand. "The northern jungles of Thailand were so inspiring that I wanted to create a show that reflects some of the things that I experienced there," Joyner says. "There were beautiful trees, birds, mountains, elephants, tigers, butterflies, flowers and monkeys. Jungle paintings are easier said than done though—there are so many leaves, branches and foliage to paint. It really tested my patience." "It's a Jungle Out There" will feature 18 pop-surrealism paintings of robots interacting with jungle animals such as elephants, monkeys and snakes. For example, in "All Wrapped Up," a 48-by-36-inch oil painting, an anaconda coils around the body of a pink metallic robot, who holds a donut just out of reach. "It's a Jungle Out There"Joyner realizes that the jungle is a strange locale for robots, but relishes in creating new environments for his electronic muses. "The best thing about creating these new worlds is that it takes me out of this one," Joyner says. "I like discovering new places and things and this is one way for me to do it."In addition to new robots and animals, "It's a Jungle Out There" will also include Ultraman, a character from the 1960s Japanese television series. Eric Joyner attended the Academy of Art and the University of San Francisco and went on to establish himself as a commercial artist, creating illustrations for Mattel Toys, Levi's, Microsoft and Showtime. A member of San Francisco Society of Illustrators and New York Society of Illustrators, Joyner has been an instructor and speaker at San Francisco's Academy of Art University and California College of the Arts. His work has been featured in San Jose Museum of Art's exhibition "Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon", and he has shown in numerous galleries and cultural institutions worldwide. Located in the Culver City Art District, Corey Helford Gallery was established in April 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer and creator, Bruce Helford (The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez, The Oblongs). Passionate art collectors, the Helfords are producers on the art documentary The Treasures of Long Gone John and have partnered to open their first gallery. Corey Helford Gallery presents a wide range of artists, from members of the new fine art movement, such as Ron English , Josh Agle ( SHAG ), Buff Monster , COOP , Natalia Fabia , Korin Faught , Sylvia Ji , Eric Joyner, Chloe Early , Ray Caesar , and award-winning photographer Chris Anthony , to early Modernist William S. Schwartz . Renowned for its notable exhibitions, the gallery has presented "Charity By Numbers," which was co-curated by Gary Baseman and featured an unprecedented lineup of artists including Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, Shepard Fairey , Todd and Kathy Schorr, Camille Rose Garcia, and Michael Hussar, as well as "La Noche de la Fusion," an epic Carnivalesque festival and solo exhibition for Pervasive artist Gary Baseman . In 2010, Corey Helford Gallery partnered with Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery for the transatlantic collaboration "Art From The New World," a world-class United Kingdom museum exhibition showcasing work by a formidable group of 49 of the finest emerging and noted American artists. Corey Helford Gallery presents new exhibitions approximately every four weeks. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/

The McMaster Museum of Art Celebrates the 125th Anniversary of the University Posted: 22 Jan 2012 12:24 AM PST Hamilton, Ontario.- The McMaster Museum of Art is proud to present "125 & 45: An Interrogative Spirit", on view at the museum from January 20th through August 25th (in the Tomlinson Gallery, additional works will be on view in the Levy gallery from January 27th through May 5th). In 1887, while Canadian artist George Agnew Reid (1860-1947) was adding the final brushstrokes to his iconic Ontario genre painting, Call to Dinner; and English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) undertook his pioneering freeze-frame photography of human and animal motion that bridged science and art;McMaster University was founded. The McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) now celebrates both the 125th anniversary of McMaster University and the 45th anniversary of the Museum with a two part exhibition, "125 & 45: an interrogative spirit". This exhibition highlights some of the key donors and benefactors who have contributed to the development of the art collection interweaving landmark moments in the histories of the University and Museum.

The Ellen Noël Art Museum to Show the Mike & Linda Tilton Collection Posted: 22 Jan 2012 12:10 AM PST Odessa, Texas.- The Ellen Noël Art Museum is proud to present "The Mike & Linda Tilton Collection" on view at the museum from February 3rd through April 8th. These local collectors have assembled an eclectic, yet remarkable group of works for the simple love of art. Their passion for collecting works by living artists is revealed through a broad range of landscape, still life, portrait and abstract work on view. The exhibition, featuring 30 pieces selected from their vast collection, will provide a unique opportunity for other collectors and lovers of art, as well as those interested in starting a collection, to view an incredible assembly, put together by a local couple with an extraordinary appetite for contemporary art.

The Zorn Museum in Sweden Shows a Major Retrospective of Peter Dahl Posted: 21 Jan 2012 09:25 PM PST Mora, Sweden.- The Zorn Museum is proud to present "Peter Dahl", on view through March 11th. This is the largest exhibition of the artist's work to be held in more than 10 years. The exhibition follows his career from a young provocateur to his current position as one of Sweden's most beloved artists. Peter Dahl's big break came in the 1980s with the suite "Fredman's Epistles" - lush, lustful and burlesque scenes from Bellman's world with the great work "Proud city" forming the magnificent climax. The Zorn Museum now shows these classic images together with scenes from the bars and dance hall, portraits and poetic landscapes, from the artist's earliest works to his paintings of today.

Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens new Renzo Piano-designed Wing Posted: 21 Jan 2012 09:02 PM PST BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has opened to the public a new addition to its original building, kicking off an inaugural season of exhibitions, performances, and events that highlight the Museum's wide range of programming. The new 70,000-square-foot wing was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano to preserve the historic 1902 building and alleviate pressures caused by years of use. Situated behind the original building on its site along the Fenway, the new addition provides purpose-built spaces for concerts, exhibitions, and classes, along with enhanced visitor amenities. "This new wing is an extraordinarily elegant workshop, a bustling counterpoint to the historic building's serenity. Here, the thinking and the work of the Museum is performed, so that the Palace, which had been put to uses for which it was not equipped, can once again give visitors the experience Isabella Stewart Gardner intended: a personal confrontation with art," said Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Museum.

Francis Bacon's Seductive Female Portrait at auction at Christie's London Posted: 21 Jan 2012 08:25 PM PST LONDON.- On February 14th  Christie's will offer the extraordinary Portrait of Henrietta Moraes in their evening auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art in King Street, London. Having remained in the same private collection for almost thirty years, this rare painting depicts the artist's close friend and model Henrietta Moraes and comes to auction for the first time (estimate upon request; 65 x 56in. / 165 x 142cm.).  Executed in 1963, this painting was undertaken in a landmark year, which saw the artist perfect his technique. It followed a period of intense experimentation in which Bacon investigated the properties of paint and the architecture of the human form. This turning point is widely acknowledged; 3 out of the 7 large-scale paintings created in 1963 now form parts of major international museum collections including The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Tate Gallery, London. In the same year, Bacon also created a small-scale triptych Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) currently held in the Museum of Modern Art.

Jean Dubuffet's life explored in new exhibition at the Pace Gallery Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:54 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Jean Dubuffet: The Last Two Years, on view at 510 West 25th Street from January 20th through March 10th. During the final two years of Jean Dubuffet's life, his canvases exploded with raw emotion. The artist's mental landscapes described a non-place, made perceptible by fluid intertwining lines and radiant colors that seem drawn from an alternate reality. "To see the last works," Murphy writes, "is to see all of Dubuffet, his theories contracted into an energetic force comprised of wild, fluid brushstrokes that appear as if they could escape from the confines of any boundaries imposed upon them." After twelve years of working on his Hourloupe cycle (the longest series of his career) with a palette of primarily red, blue, and black, contained by thick black outlines, in 1983 Dubuffet unleashed an extended color palette across the canvas, removing the borders and a representational reference point. Nearly twenty works drawn from the final two bodies of work by the artist (Mires and Non-Lieux) will be on view.

PAFA to mount Survey Exhibition of African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:46 PM PST PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, on view from January 27th through April 15th. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the only two known sculptures that Tanner completed. The exhibition also includes Tanner's famed Resurrection of Lazarus, from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, a career-making canvas that earned Tanner his first international praise when it was exhibited in 1897 and which has never crossed the Atlantic. Showcasing Tanner's paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings, Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit is being organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where the artist studied from 1879 to 1885, and will tour to the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Flowers Gallery opens David Hepher showing a Series of New Works Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:45 PM PST LONDON.- This January, David Hepher will be exhibiting a new series of work based around the infamous Aylesbury estate, Walworth, South East London. These large format paintings depict the immense scale of the tower blocks and include a panoramic piece made up of five large canvases which amount to ten meters in length. The literalism of David Hepher's work conveys the very substance of the estate, blending building sand with oil paint to create a medium comparative to concrete and/or enlarged photographic images, allowing him to confront his subject directly. By incorporating the fabric of architecture into his paintings, he seeks not merely to represent the tower blocks, but to take over their very substance. On exhibition through 25th February at Flowers Gallery on Kingsland Road, London.

The Norway National Museum exhibits "The Dance of Life ~ The Collection from Antiquity to 1950" Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:12 PM PST Oslo, Norway - With more than 4,000 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and nearly 50,000 works on paper, the National Gallery's art collection is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging in Norway, and one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The public is invited on a journey through art history from antiquity to 1950, with an emphasis on Norwegian art after 1800. The National Museum holds, preserves, exhibits, and promotes public knowledge about, Norway's most extensive collections of art, architecture and design. It shows permanent exhibitions of works from its own collections and temporary exhibitions that incorporate works loaned from elsewhere. The Museum's exhibition venues in Oslo are the National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum – Architecture, and the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. The Museum's programme also includes exhibitions that tour both within and beyond Norway's borders.

Women Pop Artists at Kunsthalle Wien Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:08 PM PST VIENNA.- Rediscovering outstanding women Pop artists, POWER UP fulfills Dorothy Iannone's combative promise after fifty years. Currently on display until March 6, 2011 at Kunsthalle Wien, the show aims at the reinterpretation of an art movement that until today has primarily been associated with male protagonists. Plastic, loud colors, reduced forms, and graphic contours – the nine women artists' works on display resemble those of their male colleagues in many respects. Whereas their works appeal to the taste of the masses, these artists, as pioneers of Feminism, have remained belligerent and critical. They reveal the consumer culture's superficiality, exposing the commodity myth as an empty shell like Christa Dichgans, ironically transforming everyday objects to oversized kitsch objects like Jann Haworth, or exploring mass media clichés and superstar constructions like Rosalyn Drexler. Like Sister Corita, a committed peace activist, they took a clear stand on the sixties' social and political events such as the Vietnam War. The exhibition pursues its political perspective in those instances where the era's current notions of what a woman is are revised by different views: Kiki Kogelnik and Marisol describe the corset in which the representation of women by themselves and by others is caught, while Evelyne Axell or Dorothy Iannone provocatively display the nude body, love, and sexuality, and, like Niki de Saint Phalle, attract the viewer's attention with sophisticated modes of self-presentation. The next great moment in history is ours! - Dorothy Iannone "We choose to LOOK at LIFE all the TIME, and though we realize that they are in one sense adult comic books, they are also full of things that speak…" For Sister Corita, the world of signs, advertising slogans, and the culture of logos was not just some vast wasteland, but a sphere that supplied her with input for an art nourished by everyday life. Her work, like that of Evelyne Axell, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drechsler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Kiki Kogelnik, Marisol, and Niki de Saint Phalle, stands for feminine strategies of artistic self empowerment during the Pop Art era, particularly in the 1960s. While from an art historical point of view Pop Art is mainly associated with male protagonists, POWER UP – Female Pop Art intends to undertake a revision of this understanding through the presentation of outstanding women artists' positions. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, commodity cult and critique of capitalism, high and low art, the women artists' works on display in many aspects resemble those by their male colleagues in terms of material, subject matter, style, and working method. Documenting and hypostatizing the prosperity of the postwar era and reflecting upon the superficiality of consumerism, the artists unmask the commodity myth as an empty civilizational achievement like Christa Dichgans or affirm certain items by turning them into oversized kitsch objects like Jann Haworth with her Soft Sculptures. Through the graphic character of their simple language of forms, their use of new materials like plastic, and their choice of garish colors, women pop artists, as feminist pioneers attracting maximum attention with their self presentations like Evelyne Axell, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Kiki Kogelnik, satisfied the taste of the mass and yet remained militant, critical, and exceptional. The exhibition does not postulate some genuinely feminine art, but strives to focus on a number of outstanding women artists' oeuvres in the field of Pop Art and to shed light on their identity creating practice and their view of women's role in society which was very much determined by patriarchal notions in the 1960s. These artists' approaches have revised the male regime of viewing and such representations of women as Tom Wesselmann's deindividualized matrices of the female body, Mel Ramos's picturesque fusion of advertisements with lasciviously rendered nudes featuring as objects of desire, and Allen Jones's sadomasochistically arranged female sexual companions. Instead, they describe the corset in which women's self representation and representation by others seemed to be caught in those years like Jann Haworth, Kiki Kogelnik, and Marisol, highlight the attempt to shake off the fetters of domestic life and become visible in public by means of art like Christa Dichgans, and provocatively expose the female body, love, and sexuality like Evelyne Axell and Dorothy Iannone. Painting over newspapers in an iconoclastic gesture, Rosalyn Drexler explores the creation of clichés and gender typifications in Hollywood films as well as the construction of superstars. Open toward the popular culture surrounding her, Sister Corita, in an early act of culture jamming, relied on advertising propaganda for creating new messages which were democratically and serigraphically produced and sold at a low price. Her works, like Kiki Kogelnik's, Marisol's, or Niki de Saint Phalle's, comprise critical commentaries on contemporary events and political contexts such as the Vietnam War. The ladies of the "Années Pop" present strategies of self empowerment, celebrate female sexuality and lust, draw on pin ups, excerpts from consumer culture, and fragments of an occasionally very banal everyday world in a bad girl manner, comment upon social changes, and translate personal issues into political ones in their clearly autobiographically tinted oeuvres. Their proto feminist works counter the affective death of classical Pop Art and its cool and anonymous style. By also employing a traditional female language of forms, using textiles and ornamental elements, and relying on a naïve imagery, their approach idiosyncratically extends the established canon of art. What they share with this style is the humor and lightness of an attitude toward life whose facets and variations are still unfolding in today's art. Visit website : http://www.kunsthallewien.at/en/

The Hebrew Union College hosts Mirta Kupferminc - "Wanderings" Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:07 PM PST New York, NY - Mirta Kupferminc, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955, is a highly acclaimed artist who employs Magic Realism to illustrate loss and dislocation. Focusing on a personal micro cosmos with the intensity of a miniaturist, she fills her paintings with surprising juxtapositions of color, light, and perspective. The artist's Hungarian-born mother and Polish-born father emigrated as Holocaust survivors. There is a continuing reference in her work to their experiences of family loss, dislocation, and renewal. On view through 25 June, 2010 at The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University to display “Pop to Present” Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:06 PM PST Stanford, California - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces "Pop to Present," March 18 through August 16, 2009, the third in a yearlong series of exhibitions highlighting the museum's acquisitions from the past decade. This lively selection of modern and contemporary works — in particular American art made since the 1960s —  is built on pre-existing strengths, such as Bay Area painting, while the pursuit of new collecting arenas includes northern California ceramics and contemporary prints.

Charles Avery exhibition at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:05 PM PST EDINBURGH.- An exhibition by one of the most creative and thought-provoking Scottish artists of the last decade invites you on an expedition to an imaginary island. The Islanders: An Introduction is the latest installment in an epic four year project to describe life on an island created by the artist Charles Avery. Using texts, drawings, installations and sculpture Avery has detailed the landscape, customs, and culture of his island, creating a challenging space for philosophical inquiry. On view 29 November through 15 February, 2009 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The Islanders: An Introduction brings together the project so far, including several new works which will be shown in Scotland for the first time. Among these will be a large-scale sculptural installation, which was purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland in 2007. This sculpture depicts one of the most striking features of Avery's invented world - a motley group of deities, who live on a wasteland called The Plane of the Gods. This is the Island's most popular tourist attraction and is home to the erect and threatening August Snakes. Visitors to the exhibition will also discover mysterious landscapes such as the Eternal Forest, where the mythical beast the Noumenon is rumoured to live. Other exhibits include a large taxidermy sculpture of a fearsome Ridable, a magnificent specimen of the islands wildlife and the bitterly disgusting, but ruinously addictive gin-soaked pickled eggs which are sold in the island's marketplace. Inspired by his upbringing on the island of Mull - and by time spent in Rome, and Hackney Avery's work has its roots in figures as diverse as William Blake, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Kosuth, Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Wittgenstein and P.G. Wodehouse. Once complete, Avery plans for his Island project to be encapsulated in several large, leather-bound encyclopedic volumes. Avery's most high profile piece to date is the epic Islanders project, in which over a ten year period he has described the topology and cosmology of an imaginary island inspired by his childhood on the Inner Hebrides. On completion of the Islanders project Avery intends to publish the work within several large, leather-bound encyclopaedic volumes. Charles Avery was born in Oban in 1973 and is based in London. In 2007, he was selected with five other artists to represent Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale, as part of the Scotland and Venice exhibition. In 2003 he was one of four finalists in the Award for Italian Art, shown in that year's Venice Biennale. He has recently been selected for the forthcoming TATE Triennial in 2009. Following its exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Islanders: An Introduction will tour to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. The Islanders: An Introduction is organised in collaboration with Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art. A book published by Parasol unit will accompany the exhibition, with contributions by Nicolas Bourriaud, Tom Morton and Ziba de Weck Ardalan. The National Gallery of Modern Art Built in 1822 as John Watson's School, and based on designs by William Burn, it was converted in the '80s into The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It has a grassy area in front with some weatherproof sculptures. Although the interior architectural integrity has been lost by conversion to a gallery, it still just manages to avoid the usual characterless almost clinical exhibition spaces so common in many contemporary galleries. Everyone will enjoy visiting this fine and at times idiosyncratic collection of 20th century paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture, many international and many from Scotland.  Visit : www.nationalgalleries.org/

Yayoi Kusama ~ "I Want to Live Forever" ~ Her Japanese Contemporary Art in Milan Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:04 PM PST MILAN.- Councillorship for Culture and 24 ORE Motta Cultura present the exhibition Yayoi Kusama. I Want to Live Forever at PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, under the curatorship of Akira Tatehata (Director of Osaka National Museum of Art). A unique, exclusive event for Italy, dedicated to the unquestioned protagonist of Japanese contemporary art. In addition to recent figurative and abstract paintings, large-scale sculptures and installations from the last decade, there will be a selection of formative drawings from the 1950s and 60s. On exhibition through 14 February, 2010.

MoMA Opens "The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times" Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:03 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout history, humankind has sought to make sense of their world through myths. These stories, often taking visual forms, have been both preserved and transformed over the years as they have been repictured and retold. Artists have long considered mythology part of their aesthetic language, a tradition continued by modern and contemporary artists who address and reinterpret mythologies in their works. "The Modern Myth" features works on paper from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that engage elements of ancient mythological narratives, incorporating them into new visual repertoires.

Exhibition Featuring Works by Alexander Calder to be Hosted at Palazzo delle Esposizioni Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:02 PM PST ROME.- From October 23, 2009 to February 14, 2010 for the first time in Rome a major one-man exhibition featuring works by Alexander Calder will be held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. His famous Mobiles and Stabiles, wire sculptures, gouaches, drawings and oil paintings will be presented in an exhibition exploring the fundamental stages of the artist's creative cycle, organised by Alexander S.C. Rower, Chairman of the Calder Foundation in New York, with the Terra Foundation for American Art and sponsored by BNL and Lottomatica. "Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion" explained Alexander Calder in an interview for the "New York World Telegram" in 1932 presenting his Mobiles, the most significant expressive innovation of the modern era. In these sculptures, which were to become enormously popular, the artist harmonically fused shape, colour and movement into an essential whole, which he himself saw as a "universe" where "each element can move, shift and oscillate back and forth in a changing relationship with each of the other elements". Alexander Calder (Lawton, Philadelphia 1898- New York 1976), second child of a sculptor and a painter, first began to create toys and jewellery at the age of 8. An artistic genius who also majored in engineering, he is acknowledged as one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th century. The exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni will document Calder's entire creative cycle through a selection of his most important works along with some aspects of his work less known to the general public. The exhibition will open with figurative early works including oil paintings, gouaches and wire sculptures to continue with bronze figures produced in the 1930s, the discovery of Abstract art and the invention of Mobiles and Stabiles. The early years, marked by long periods in Paris and firm friendships with Léger, Duchamp, Miró, Mondrian and other representatives of the Avant-Garde movement, will be explored through masterpieces such as Romulus and Remus from the Whitney Museum (a very significant presence in Rome!), Hercules and Lion and Circus Scene, wire sculptures in which the artist experiments with the first forms in motion in a playful, ironical dimension. The general public has rarely been offered the opportunity to view the group of small bronze figures created by Calder in Paris around 1930 showing acrobats and contortionists modelled from original gesso forms, enabling visitors to see how the artist resorted to different techniques to experiment in expressing the notion of movement. The famous Croisière sculture dated 1931, and others of the same period, testify to how he embraced the Abstract movement after paying a visit to Mondrian's studio in Paris in October 1930. In some examples of this significant group of works, christened Mobiles by Duchamp, for the first time movement is caused by contingent or atmospheric forces. Calder's surrealist vein is evident in some of the masterpieces produced in the mid-Thirties, such as Gibraltar from the MoMA of New York and the sculpture titled Tightrope from the Calder Foundation, on view in the principal exhibitions of Calder's works since the Forties. Some of Calder's most celebrated Mobiles are among the great attractions of the exhibition in Rome, from Untitled, dated 1933 and one of the first examples of a Mobile, to 13 Spines, dated 1940 and now in the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Roxbury Flurry, 1946 and Big Red, 1959, from the Whitney Museum in New York, Cascading Flowers, 1949, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Le 31 Janvier, 1950, from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Y, 1960, from the Menil Collection in Houston. Visitors will also be able to view the monumental Mobile (over 8 metres in diameter) permanently located inside Pittsburgh airport and exceptionally on loan for the exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. The invention of the Mobile was only one of his revolutionary results. In the Thirties he created the first Stabiles, static sculptures that were given their name by Jean Arp to underline their non-kinetic nature of works "that you must walk around or pass through", unlike Mobiles who "dance in front of you". Colourful, exuberantly vigorous sculptures and monumental geometric abstractions such as La Grande vitesse, Sabot and Spiny will all be on view.  Calder introduced a new concept of sculpture based on the idea of movement, open space and transparency, expressed in yet another exceptional form in the monumental Stabiles. In these works Calder gives a new meaning to the concept of "public" sculpture by creating large-scale works that fit in perfectly with their settings. The exhibition will include the maquettes for some of these monumental sculptures, which have become so popular as to become prestigious emblems of many cities throughout the world. Among them the model for the Teodelapio in Spoleto from the MoMA in New York and the maquettes of Jerusalem and Man. The second floor of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni will host a considerable number of photographs of Calder by Ugo Mulas, taken in Europe and the United States during their long friendship. A retrospective of films by various authors regarding Calder is also scheduled. Visit the Palazzo delle Esposizioni at : http://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/

Rossi & Rossi Ltd shows New Works by Tibetan Artist Gade Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:01 PM PST   London- Making Gods ~ Gade, the fourth in a series of solo exhibitions devoted to contemporary Tibetan artists, will be staged by Rossi & Rossi at 16 Clifford Street, Mayfair, London W1, from Wednesday 3 December 2008 to Friday 16 January 2009.  A group of ten new works, a personal synthesis of traditional Tibetan painting with modern consumerism and pop culture, will be offered for prices from £9,000 to £26,000.

Major Exhibition of the Work of Andreas Hofer at Sammlung Goetz in Munich Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:00 PM PST MUNICH.- Sammlung Goetz will present a major exhibition of the work of Andreas Hofer. More than 70 individual and multi-part works from the years 1995 to 2009 are being shown throughout the museum and in the BASE. As in other recent shows at Sammlung Goetz, the exhibition is curated by the artist himself, based on works already in the collection. These range from large-scale installations to paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures. Andreas Hofer has pulled together some of the groups of works in the collection in order to create situations that echo the mood of concentration that informed the exhibitions in which these works were originally displayed. He creates new atmospheres and self-contained spaces within the architectural framework of the museum. On view 23 November through 1 April, 2010. Few artists have developed an iconography as complex as that which Hofer has devised, making his art a vehicle for so many different atmospheric and narrative strands of fiction and the imagination. He not only addresses modernism, with all its signs and spectres – from the parallel universes of contemporary popular culture – but he also sifts through the detritus of past and present. And he not only confronts them with reality, but also with the inconceivable future and the imaginary past. The result is what the artist himself describes as a "labyrinthine infinity". Hofer draws his inspiration from many sources. One of them is the world of comics, though he uses that only as a starting point. Instead of appropriating them as in Pop Art, or reading them in a narrative way, he embellishes the figures, stories and landscapes with his own narrative and his own painterly style, which is something of a cross between comic-strip, Suprematism and Expressionism, or between Jack Kirby and Paul Klee. His approach is eclectic, involving overpainting, collages and cut-outs. As in science fiction, Hofer's world defies the laws of physics, making it possible to journey to distant galaxies or travel through time to the prehistoric past and the utopian future. Extinct primordial beasts, SS thugs, flying superheroes, heroic warriors and aliens all meet in his works, sometimes embedded in landscapes reminiscent of Wassily Kandinsky's early paintings. Hofer engages with art history, notably with the work of Edvard Munch and Kasimir Malevich, just as he does with Hollywood classics of the 1930s onwards, trashy B-movies or sci-fi films and comic strips. Hedy Lamarr, Frances Farmer, Veronica Lake, Gene Tierney, John Wayne and Charles Manson all play a role in his work, as do Spiderman and Batman, albeit as fragmented characters that he transfers into new and unexpected contexts. In the installation Batman Gallery (2004), which introduces the exhibition on the upper floor of the museum, the superhero's billowing cloak becomes a dynamic and mobile architectural sculpture forming the gallery space in which Hofer has arranged a selection of his works since 1995 to create a kind of mini-retrospective. Andreas Hofer has created a new installation, Infinity Crisis, specially for this exhibition at Sammlung Goetz. Also located on the upper floor, it is an installation based on paintings from the collection, which he has worked into a wallpaper of repeated reproductions covering the entire room – like a futuristic sci-fi cabinet designed to astonish and impress. Only on second glance do we realise that the original paintings themselves are actually hanging there too. This is not just visually confusing; it also addresses the issue of original and reproduction and raises questions about the chronological order in which the wallpaper and the paintings were created – thereby presenting the exhibition situation itself as a mixture of fiction and reality. On the lower floor, visitors enter into the cave-like installation Trans Time (2006), in which they can become captivatingly immersed. Hofer's aim was to create a space that "gives you a feeling of putting your head into a 3D image: a space that seems like a screen, but isn't, a space that is real and yet seems like a hologram, a space that is here, and yet at the same time elsewhere". Hofer plays with fictitious identities and alter egos by taking on different roles and characters during the working process. This is reflected in his changing signatures, such as Andy Hope 1930, Ylla or Dead Jesus. These are not pseudonyms, but, as Hofer explains, the respective figures that stand between him and his work. As in a comic strip, lettering, title and graphic design all play an important independent role in Hofer's work. These components add a further dimension of content to the visual aspect and differ both formally, in their abbreviation, and semantically, considerably from the comic strip. The collector Ingvild Goetz particularly admires the independence and quirkiness of Andreas Hofer's art. His 2005 exhibition at the Lenbachhaus in Munich impressed her so much that she has been following his progress ever since, and regularly acquiring works by him. Andreas Hofer was born in Munich in 1963. From 1991-1997, he trained at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Since 2000, he has been living and working in Berlin. By the mid-1990s his work – including his large-scale installations – was being shown in solo and group exhibitions not only in Germany, but at international galleries and museums. Some of his early exhibitions include Welt ohne Ende at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich (2005), Goetz meets Falckenberg at the Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art in Hamburg (2005), and The Long Tomorrow at the MARTa Herford in Herford (2007). Hofer's exhibitions are frequently accompanied by publications designed by the artist himself. Visit : http://www.sammlung-goetz.de/

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