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Oda Jaune
HEARTLAND – SOLO SHOW
NATIONAL GALLERY/PALACE, SOFIA, BULGARIAFrom 23/11/2018 to 13/01/2019
The National Gallery is presenting Oda Jaune in Bulgaria for the first time ever, with a large-scale retrospective exhibition gathering 50 of the artist‘s work in painting, sculpture and water-colours from the earliest periods of her carеer to present times. Oda Jaune’s style is remindful of the Old Masters yet jettisons the viewer into the world of surrealism, and German expressionism alike. For she has created a world of her own, where the artist does not have to bow to the conventional, and her work probes deep into the subconscious. Oda Jaune creates an alternative universe full of omnipowerful beauty and calm, poetry and romanticism while remaining mindful of the potent forces of violence, eroticism and irony. Mindful of detail and proportions, careful of how she changes the scale, applying a photorealistic precision in her creation of individual shapes, the artist engages in a juxtaposition of the elements, a principle that becomes prominent in her visual narrative. Emotional states and images emerging from the subconscious, come out of the depths to materialize on the surface into part horrible, part entertaining images. The viewer freely enters the fairy world of fantasies, only to be submerged into a vortex of emotions. For this viewer has been entangled in a crossword, a visual enigma whose central part contains the whole truth about the artist‘s attitude to love and eroticism, to fear and pain. Curated by Nadezhda Dzhakova
Jean-Michel Alberola
Jan Fabre
FUTURS ANTÉRIEURS – GROUP SHOW
MAISON GUERLAIN, PARIS, FRANCE From 19/10/2018 to 09/11/2018
For the 12th consecutive year, Guerlain is once again taking part in FIAC’s Parcours Privé and marking the occasion by presenting the group exhibition Past Futures, which can be discovered at the Maison Guerlain, 68 avenue des Champs-Élysées. Past Futures offers a journey on three levels through multiple worlds – installations, videos, photos, drawings, paintings, interactive objects, etc. – bringing together young creative figures and established artists, such as Jean-Michel Alberola, Jan Fabre, Christian Boltanski, Arotin & Serghei, Charlotte Charbonnel, Fabrice Hyber, Mehdi Meddaci, Albertine Meunier and Claire Morgan. Curator: Caroline Messensee
Jim Dine
JIM DINE. FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE POMPIDOU CENTER – SOLO SHOW
MULTIMEDIA ART MUSEUM, MOSCOW, RUSSIA From 14/09/2018 to 11/11/2018
The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents an exhibition by eminent American artist and classic of contemporary art Jim Dine. Works included in the exhibition were donated by Dine to the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where his retrospective was held to great acclaim in the autumn of 2017. The artist himself selected 28 works from the period 1961 to 2016 to be showcased in the exhibition, motivated by his desire to give the public a more comprehensive view of his art. Curators: Bernard Blistène (Director of the Centre Pompidou), Annalisa Rimmaudo
Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Hans Op De Beeck
THE SENSATION OF THE SEA. IN HONOUR OF BAS JAN ADER – GROUP SHOW
MESDAG COLLECTION, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS From 14/09/2018 to 06/01/2019
From 14 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 The Sensation of the Sea: In Honour of Bas Jan Ader is presented at The Mesdag Collection in The Hague. For this exhibition, guest curator Joanna De Vos has invited several international artists to engage in a dialogue with The Mesdag Collection. These contemporary artists are captivated by the grandeur and tempestuousness of the ocean. The attraction of the sea is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for them, a ‘battery for the imagination’. Odes to the performance In Search of the Miraculous by the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) form the exhibition’s connecting thread. Ader disappeared in 1975 as he attempted to sail across the Atlantic. His soul became one with the untameable power of the sea. The tributes to Ader’s artistic practice highlight the enticement and mystery of the ocean. Visitors are encouraged to discover how the contemporary artworks integrate into the nineteenth-century museum and to prepare themselves for a series of surprising and special ‘encounters’.
Chiharu Shiota
EMBODIED – SOLO SHOW
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUTRALIA, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA From 24/08/2018 to 28/10/2018
The solo exhibition features recent drawings and sculptures as well as photographs and videos of early performance work. In addition, the site-specific installation “Absence Embodied”, which has been acquired by the Gallery, is displayed at the Melrose Wing of European Art along with the installation “Internal” which is suspended from the galleries facade, allowing a glimpse of what lies inside.
Oda Jaune
MADEMOISELLE – GROUP SHOW
CRAC, SETE, FRANCE From 21/07/2018 to 06/01/2019
MADEMOISELLE, is a group exhibition that brings together a generation of international women artists exploring the issues and paradoxes of being a young woman today, through a variety of mediums and a broad range of subjects. Referencing France’s recent ban on the title ‘Mademoiselle’ and drawing upon the past years’ global interest in women’s rights, best characterized as the #MeToo phenomenon, the exhibition exposes the manifold heritage, expansion and evolution of feminist art strategies and theories today. With among others Oda Jaune, Laure Prouvost, Mai-Thu Perret, Pilar Corrias, Anna Uddenberg, Mimosa Echard, Gery Georgevia
Chiharu Shiota
WATER AND LAND – NIIGATA ART FESTIVAL 2018 – GROUP SHOW
NIIGATA CITY, JAPAN From 14/07/2018 to 08/10/2018
From ancient times, Niigata has had a strong connection with water and land as a port town and a major river town. This connection is the theme for the Water and Land Art Festival. Artists from around the world will display their artwork in the lower Shinano River area in the heart of Niigata City. With among others Jaume Plensa, Yoichi Takada, Chiharu Shiota.
Chiharu Shiota
DE FILS OU DE FIBRES – GROUP SHOW
ABBAYE SAINT ANDRE CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, MEYMAC, FRANCEFrom 08/07/2018 to 14/10/2018
Many artists today reappropriate, explore, or rework artisanal techniques that were long ignored: from yarn and weaving to knitting, patchwork, and even embroidery. The return to textiles goes far beyond the femininity with which it was traditionally associated. The experimentation leads to abundant artistic practices from protean installations to the object. The exhibition brings together the works of artists who use as their material yarn, rope, string, and even iron or plastic wire so long as these materials are shaped, knotted, or woven. Also featured are canvas, veil, felt … All of which is on show across the five floors of the abbey. With among others Chiharu Shiota, Mona Hatoum, Kapwani Kiwanga, Claire Morgan
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE : ECSTASY & ORACLES – SOLO SHOW
CATTEDRALE DI MONREALE, PALERMO, ITALYFrom 06/07/2018 to 04/11/2018
For the first time in Europe Jan Fabre presents Ecstasy and Oracles for the occasion of Manifesta12 organised by Mondo Mostre, Palermo Capitale della Cultura 2018, Regione Siciliana. The scarab, ancient symbol of metamorphosis and an early alter-ego of artist Jan Fabre – the holy dung beetle of Antwerp – is central to the exhibition in Monreale. Small bronzes refer to the vital quest of the artist while the life-size bronze sculpture, The man who bears the cross, balances the limits of faith. A cycle of large mosaics made with jewel beetle wing-cases explores the eternal cycle of life and death, reoccurring in Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas. Curated by Joanna De Vos and Melania Rossi. Monday to Saturday, 9.00 – 19.00, Holidays, 9.00 – 13.30
Jan Fabre
THE OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF JAN FABRE’S NEWLY CREATED PERMANENT ALTARPIECES FOR AMUZ – PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
SAINT AUGUSTIN CHURCH OF ANTWERP (AMUZ), ANTWERP, BELGIUM From 02/07/2018
In 1628, the Antwerp trinity of Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck received the assignment from the Augustinian monks to make altarpieces for their cloister church in the Kammenstraat. This year, Jan Fabre is receiving the same honour upon the occasion of Antwerp Baroque 2018. He translates – or rather ‘re-tells’ – the altarpieces of Jordaens, Van Dyck and Rubens in the language of 2018 and frames them in their contemporary context.
