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Gregory Crewdson
GREGORY CREWDSON IN CONVERSATION WITH THE ART HISTORIAN MICHEL POIVERT
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PETITE SALLE, PARIS, FRANCEFriday, 9/9/2016, 7pm - 8:30pmFree entrance
On the occasion of the two concurrently exhibitions « Cathedral of the Pines » at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris and Brussels, the American artist Gregory Crewdson is presenting his most recent body of work in a talk with Michel Poivert, art historian specialized in photography. In images that recall nineteenth-century painting, Crewdson captures motionless figures in both natural environments and domestic interiors, charged with ambiguity. Ever since his nocturnal Twilight series (1998–2002), Crewdson has worked with a full crew, planning his elaborately staged images in a process similar to that of a movie director. His use of the codes governing the cinema of fantasy films, psychological drama and suspense conjures forebears such as Diane Arbus, Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper. These new works were shot on location in Becket, Massachusetts, where Crewdson retreated, in search of inspiration. ‘It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity,’ he explains.
Francesco Clemente
A NOMADIC LIFE – SOLO SHOW
SPRING CENTER OF ART, BEIJING, CHINAFrom 9/03/2016 to 10/31/2016
The Springs Center highlights with the solo exhibition « Nomadic Life » the work of the internationally known artist Francesco Clemente. Clemente is considered one of the most representative artists of the Transavantgarde. For this exhibition, he has spent one month to paint a large mural in the exhibition space, “The Tide of the Ocean of Stories”. His paintings on the wall are visual sediments that embody the deep and profound cultural tones of the two ancient civilizations – India and China. His understanding of the nomadic life is thinking globally and acting locally. The exhibition’s curator Huang Du brings together large–scale artworks, paintings, murals, works on paper as well as Clemente’s equipment, valuable photographs and documentary films.
Julião Sarmento
AS GOOD AS IT GETS – SOLO SHOW
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, ZAGREB, CROATIAFrom 07/15/2016 to 08/20/2016
The exhibition, titled As Good As It Gets in the three exhibition spaces represents 43 works of art in a wide range of media: painting, photography, video, sculpture, drawing, performance, mixed media; created by renowned Portuguese artist Juliao Sarmento in the period from 1977 to 2014. A selection of works by the curatorial concept of Portuguese art historian and art critic João Silverio, will enable thorough insight into the creation of one of the most prominent international contemporary Portuguese artists.
David LaChapelle
GAS STATIONS – SOLO SHOW
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE ART CENTER, NYACK, NY, USADu 07/09/2016 au 09/11/2016
Renowned photographer David LaChapelle will exhibit six large-scale photographs from his Gas Stations series. Inspired in part by Edward Hopper’s painting Gas (1940), LaChapelle created scale models using common, found objects, which he then photographed on location in the rainforest of Maui. The natural landscape of the rainforest envelops the fabricated structures of the gas stations, acting at once as a generative force and a destructive one. The work is a commentary on our reliance on fossil fuels and “the absurdity of our attempts to harness nature.”
Valerio Adami
VALERIO ADAMI – SOLO SHOW
SECESSION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA From 7/01/2016 to 08/28/2016
The illustrator and painter Valerio Adami is widely regarded as an eminent representative of Italian Pop art. His exhibition in the Secession’s Grafisches Kabinett is the artist’s first solo show in Austria and showcases a series of paintings from his less well-known early oeuvre. Created before 1964, these works stand out for the particularly dynamic interplay between expressive abstraction and stylized figuration.
Jonathan Meese
BETWEEN TWO HORIZONS. GERMAN AND FRENCH AVANT-GARDES FROM THE SAARLANDMUSEUM – GROUP SHOW
CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ, METZ, FRANCE From 06/29/2016 to 01/16/2017
The work «Love like Blood (dein Junker Meese “Babyface”) » by Jonathan Meese can be seen in this exhibition offering a dialogue between the German and the French art scene since impressionism. Pictures by Auguste Renoir stand alongside Max Libermann’s, the “fauve” André Derain faces flamboyant paintings by the expressionists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and works by Aurélie Nemours and Hans Hartung complete the presentation of a common history and present. The masterpieces from both sides of the Rhine testify of mutual influences and the fascination as well as the research and questionning the other.
Francesco Clemente
WINTER FLOWERS IN NYC – SOLO SHOW
COMPLESSO MUSEALE SANTA MARIA DELLA SCALA, SIENA, ITALYFrom 06/28/2016 to 10/16/2016
This exhibition is a tribute to Siena. The artist has created ten new works of art, divided into two distinct cycles, to be exhibited in the city. The series of “Winter Flowers in New York City” consists of five works that engaged the artist for more than five years (2010-2016). This cycle was created in collaboration with the artist’s wife, Alba Primiceri, well-known actress and choreographer, who has picked some flowers in New York in the winter months.
Jim Dine
I NEVER LOOK AWAY – SOLO SHOW
ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA, AUSTRIAFrom 06/24/2016 to 10/02/2016
The Albertina is showing 60 of Jim Dine’s fascinating self-portraits, a representative selection from the 81-year-old artist’s generous donation to the museum that presents him in a great number of his many facets. This group of works makes possible an independent, intense, and surprising dialogue with the artist and his output.
David LaChapelle
DIALOGOS IMAGINARIOS – SOLO SHOW
ESPACIO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO, From 06/09/16 to 08/26/16SALA DE AGADU, From 06/22/16 to 07/22/16CENTRO DE FOTOGRAFIA, From 06/24/16 to 9/04/16FUNDACION UNION, From 07/24/16 to 10/07/16MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
The exhibition circuit will be composed of 4 different venues in the city of Montevideo, and consists of multi-sections that present a total of 89 photos. It will be the first time that David LaChapelle opens 4 simultaneous exhibitions in the same city.
Jan Fabre
JACQUES CHIRAC OR CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 06/21/2016 to 10/09/2016
Jan Fabre is in the group show ‘Chirac ou le dialogue des cultures’ at Musée du Quai Branly until Oct 9.
Jaques Chirac’s positions regarding culture will be the subject of this show for the 10th anniversary of the museum. The exhibited works enable to rediscover the president’s passion for Asia or Japon. The 200 works of the exhibition will emphasize political and cultural, European and global, history as well as professional and personal decisions of Jacques Chirac.
