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Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY : A NEW REPUBLIC – SOLO SHOW
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, VIRGINIA, USAFrom 06/11/2016 to 09/05/2016
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, showcasing the powerful and poignant work of one of America’s leading contemporary artists. Composed of approximately 60 works, including paintings, sculptures, videos, and stained glass windows, the exhibition provides an overview of Wiley’s prolific 14-year career, prominently featuring his signature figurative canvases of black men in which he ingeniously reworks the grand portraiture traditions of Western culture.
A fully illustrated catalogue published by the Brooklyn Museum and DelMonico Books/Prestel accompanies the exhibition.
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and Eugenie Tsai, the John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Philippe Cognée
FIGURES ENVISAGÉES – SOLO SHOW
LE RADAR, BAYEUX, FRANCEFrom 06/11/2016 to 09/18/2016
Le Radar hosts every year a summer exhibition devoted to one or more major contemporary artistes. After Fromanger, Viallat or Villeglé, selected works of another great name of the contemporary art scène will be on view.
Philippe Cognée defends a sensitive and accessible approach to art; his work reflects his constant research and his high requirements. Philippe Cognée screens reality and puts it to the test with a single gesture: at the risk of destruction, he shows us a powerful and fascinating representation of fragile and mysterious figures caught in an elusive world.
David LaChapelle
Kehinde Wiley
LA GRANDE GALERIE DU FOOT – GROUP SHOW
LA VILLETTE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 06/05/2016 to 07/10/2016
KEHINDE WILEY and DAVID LACHAPELLE are in ‘La Grande Galerie du Foot’ show, during #FootForaine festival at Paris’ La Villette
Jitish Kallat
TELLING TALES – GROUP SHOW
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAFrom 06/04/2016 to 10/09/2016
Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form explores the varied, inventive approaches taken by leading Australian and international artists to narrative form.
Gérard Garouste
SÈVRES OUTDOORS – GROUP SHOW
SEVRES OUTDOORS, CITE DE LA CERAMIQUE, SEVRES, FRANCEFrom 06/01/2016 to 10/24 2016
Gerard Garouste participates in the third edition of Sevres Outdoors, organized by the Cité de la ceramique. About thirty outdoor and monumental artworks are shown, some even for the first time, in the garden of the Cité.
DANIEL TEMPLON, UNE HISTOIRE D’ART CONTEMPORAINJULIE VERLAINEEDITIONS FLAMMARION
Available in bookstores on May 25
Daniel Templon, une histoire d’art contemporain published by Flammarion, will be available on May 25.
Placing Daniel Templon’s activity in its artistic, economic and political context, Julie Verlaine’s detailed account follows the career of a man whose position has made him a privileged witness to the making of art and the remaking of the art world. The accompanying interviews with Daniel Templon himself are rich in personal recollections of some of the leading artists of our time (such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Helmut Newton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ben, Daniel Buren, César, Gérard Garouste, and Jean-Michel Alberola). They also offer some frank and vivid insights into the workings of the French art scene.
The English version of the book Daniel Templon, a History of Contemporary Art is to be released mid-June.
480 pages / more than 200 images.
Philippe Cognée
PHILIPPE COGNÉE – STEPHAN BALKENHOL – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION FERNET-BRANCA, SAINT LOUIS, FRANCEFrom 05/22/2016 to 10/09/2016
Philippe Cognée is exhibiting at Fondation Fernet-Branca in St Louis, France (close to Basel), along with German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol * until October 9th *
Philippe Cognée is questioning the role of painting since 30 years. All of his images are omnipresent, but may also dim into banality. By establishing a relationship between the works of Philippe Cognee and Stephan Balkenhol, the notion of figuration established by each artiste since the 1980s can be examined.
Julião Sarmento
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS/ KULA GALLERY/ HAZU, SPLIT, CROATIAStarts 05/17/2016
Julião Sarmento, one of Portugal’s leading contemporary artists, began to develop a method combining painting, video and sound and modelled installations back in the 70’s. The exhibition, As Good as it Gets, planned to make use of three exhibition spaces in the city: the Kula Gallery, the Milesi Palace and the Museum of Fine Arts, offers viewers several points of entry into Sarmento’s work, by displaying works in various media such as video, paintings, drawings.
Jan Fabre
SPIRITUAL GUARDS – GROUP SHOW
FORTE BELVEDERE/ PALAZZO VECCHIO/ PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, FIRENZE, ITALYFrom 05/14/2016 to 10/02/2016
One of the most complex and multifaceted exhibitions that Belgian artist and author Jan Fabre has ever produced in any public space in Italy, Spiritual Guards will gather roughly 100 of Jan Fabre’s works dating from 1978 to 2016, pan out between the Forte Belvedere, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria in Firenze. For the very first time a living artist will be exhibiting his art in these three venues of outstanding historical and artistic importance.
Joel Shapiro
SOLO SHOW
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER, DALLAS, TEXASFrom 05/07/2016 to 08/21/2016
One of the most prominent and influential sculptors of the era, Joel Shapiro has long explored geometric form through structural compositions of rectangular elements that visually and physically challenge the possibilities of balance and weight On view in his Nasher exhibition will be a series of recent, brightly painted,suspended forms that hover in space at different heights and angles, along with a series of recent drawings as well as key works by Shapiro from the Nasher’s permanent collection.The current exhibition presents a new direction in Shapiro’s work: a single, site-specific installation conceived specifically for the space of the Renzo Piano-designed galleries of the Nasher.
