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David LaChapelle
ATTI DIVINI – SOLO SHOW
REGGIA DI VENARIA - CITRONIERA, TURIN, ITALY From 14/06/2019 to 06/01/2019
The exhibition Atti Divini (acts of god), curated by Denis Curti and Reiner Opoku, presents 70 of the most significant and emblematic works of the artist’s career. The exhibition proposes a set of large and very large works. These are the most iconic and significant works of La Chapelle that have contributed to making him one of the most influential artists in the world.
Claude Viallat
RE – COMMENCER – SOLO SHOW
CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN LA HALLE BOUCHERS - VIENNE, FRANCE From 14/06/2019 to 18/08/2019
Claude Viallat is a confirmed artist, one of the very first French artists of his generation, but his work finds today a very contemporary resonance as the ecological consciousness develops, the return to practices and craft techniques, to a know-how that is a way of resisting hyper mechanization, technological development, digital dematerialization and the reversal of man’s position in his environment. The unseemly part that we perceive in Claude Viallat’s work, this impertinence sought in support, form or color, this unexpected, this unfinished, this precariousness, has the character of an absolute youth.
Claude Viallat
CLAUDE VIALLAT. LIBéRER LA COULEUR – SOLO SHOW
VENET FOUNDATION - LE MUY, FRANCE From 13/06/2019 to 13/09/2019
Curated by Alexandre Devals, director of the foundation, “Claude Viallat – Unleashing the color” presents some twenty works of Claude Viallat large format carried on military tarpaulins, a series started in the late 1970s that extends until the last years. The heart of the exhibition is the works shown in 1980 at CAPC de Bordeaux, a major and pivotal exhibition in Viallat’s work through the use of a dense support, the exploration of polychrome and the cutting of the canvas in colour charts. This exhibition marked a turning point in Viallat’s practice and consecrated him as one of the greatest colourists of his time
Gérard Garouste
CAIRO BIENNALE – GROUP SHOW
CENTER OF ART - AICHA FAHMY PALACE, CAIRO, EGYPTFrom 10/06/2019 to 10/08/2019
Cairo Biennale, Center of Art, Aicha Fahmy Palace, Gérard Garouste guest of honour
Philippe Cognée
EIGHTIES AND ECHOES – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE DE L'ABBAYE SAINTE_CROIX, LES SABLES D'OLONNE, FRANCE From 09/06/2019 to 22/09/2019
The new pictorial approaches that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s set themselves against a domination of abstraction and a reductive avant-garde ideology: dictate of rupture, death of the painting, linear and progressive vision art. However, since the beginning of their training at the Beaux-Arts, a new generation of painters choose to re-examine the tradition of painting, the figure, the illusion of depth, feeding on a multitude of models. The exhibition “Aux sources du 1980s” questions their imaginary museum. Looking at different relationships to the past, understood as a way of renewing painting, the works that are showcased interact sometimes with a specific model, sometimes reactivate traditional subjects around three major themes: the individual and society, love and otherness, nature and the sacred.
Abdelkader Benchamma
« 100 ARTISTES DANS LA VILLE » – COSMA – PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
MONTPELLIER, FRANCE From 08/06/2019 to 28/07/2019
At the invitation of Nicolas Bourriaud, director of the MOCO Collection Hotel in Montpellier, Abdelkader Benchamma has created a permanent installation in the public space of the city as part of the “100 artists in the city” program. The Cosma installation is made from incrustations of marble slabs and is completed with paintings. The title refers to the art of marble mosaic pavements developed by the Cosmati between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries in Rome.
Prune Nourry
BêTES DE SCèNE – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION VILLA DATRIS, ISLE SUR LA SORGUE, FRANCE From 31/05/2019 to 03/11/2019
For its ninth exhibition, the Villa Datris Foundation questions through contemporary sculpture, the relationship between humans and animals. With seriousness, humor or derision, the works presented reveal sensitive images of animals. The exhibition also celebrates their beauty, the fluidity of their bodies or the extravagance of their feathers. 78 artists and 110 works will be exhibited in the villa and its gardens.
Omar Ba
OMAR BA, SAME DREAM – SOLO SHOW
MBAM, MONTREAL, CANADA From 30/05/2019 to 10/11/2019
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting the first Canadian monographic exhibition dedicated to Omar Ba, one of the most influential artists of his generation. Omar Ba : same Dream showcases a selection of Ba’s major works from different periods in his career. In addition, the artist is creating a large-scale mural for the Montreal public, directly on one of the gallery walls. Ba’s work is at once a bold critique of tyranny, a celebration of the strength of the human spirit and an ode to the resilience of the world’s youth.
Oda Jaune
HANDS – SOLO SHOW
SEEN, ANTWERP, BELGIUM From 23/05/2019 to 13/07/2019
Oda Jaune’s installation Hands created especially for SEEN shows a symbiosis of light and shadow, confronting the viewers with the question of their own existence. Under the candle flame, the sculpture becomes animated: shadows start to dance, candles melt away. The installation functions as a memento, created through life and death. SEEN is a new project space curated by Joanna De Vos. The concept is simple: one room, one previously unseen artwork, one artist.
Claude Viallat
Daniel Dezeuze
MOUVEMENT SUPPORTS/SURFACES : RETROUVER L’éCONOMIE DES GESTES SIMPLES – GROUP SHOW
FESTIVAL CROISEMENT, BEIJING, CHINA From 21/05/2019 to 20/08/2019
As part of the Croisements 2019 Festival organized by the French Institute in Beijing, the Meymac Center for Contemporary Art presents the first exhibition of the Supports / Surfaces movement in China. This group of artists, who emerged in France in the mid-1960s, revolutionized the visual arts through a new use of materials. Their project: to free the pictorial art from the historical and cultural straitjacket represented by the canvas.
James Casebere
MODEL NATURES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY – GROUP SHOW
MUSEUM HAUS LUDWIG, SARRELOIS, ALLEMAGNE From 19/05/2019 to 25/08/2019
The international group exhibition “Model Natures” is dedicated to a fascinating area of contemporary photography: Iandscape. The exhibition presents impressive landscapes. But on closer inspection, it turns out that these are not photographs of actual landscapes, but deceptively real images of models.
Franz Ackermann
ÉTé POURRI, PEINTURE FRAICHE – GROUP SHOW
FRAC CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE, REIMS, FRANCEFrom 17/05/2019 to 15/09/2019
The FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection includes a series of remarkable paintings that, without retracing the entire history of this medium, highlight high-quality individual practices. “Eté pourri fresh paint” (rotten Summer, fresh paint) is the title of a series of drawings by Robert Malaval (FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection) whose work, mixing rock, pop aesthetic, the end of the world, the festive and the tragic participated in the decompartmentalization of artistic practices. Painting, sculpture, performance and music were intertwined by Robert Malaval, whose practice has inspired many artists. A discrete tribute to this total and excessive commitment, the exhibition brings together artists whose approach is free from the weight of the millennial history of painting to reinvent it, to divert it, to imagine new rules.
Claude Viallat
PATTERN, CRIME & DECORATION – GROUP SHOW
LE CONSORTIUM, DIJON, FRANCEFrom 16/05/2019 to 20/10/2019
Le Consortium examines in this large group exhibition the “Pattern & Decoration” movement, formed in the 1970s and that enjoyed international success in the 1980s. Most of the artists involved were reacting against the dominance of abstract schools in the Post-War era, with a particular opposition to Minimal and Conceptual art. The group organized around “pattern and decoration” reconnected with what was widely perceived as “minor” art forms and asserted decoration as the true repressed of modernity. The exhibition, co-organized with MAMCO in Geneva, also includes several pieces by artists associated with the Supports/Surfaces group: Noël Dolla and Claude Viallat.
Jitish Kallat
OUR TIME FOR A FUTURE CARING – INDIAN PAVILLON – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIA PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
We are honoured to announce that Jitish Kallat is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
Atul Dodiya
OUR TIME FOR A FUTURE CARING – INDIAN PAVILLON – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIAN PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
Atul Dodiya is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
He An
ENTROPY – GROUP SHOW
FONDATION FAURSCHOU, VENICE, ITALYFrom 10/05/2018 to 01/09/2019
Faurschou Foundation is a privately-owned contemporary art institution, committed to presenting seminal public exhibitions globally. With the core desire of introducing visitors to the most acclaimed artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Faurschou Foundation utilizes its sizeable and continuously growing art collection, and creates both solo and thematic group shows. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Faurschou Foundation has permanent exhibition venues in Beijing’s 798 Art District and Copenhagen’s North Harbor. Since 2015, Faurschou Foundation has been organizing exhibitions in Venice as a parallel program during the Venice Art Biennale. For the 2019 edition of Venice art Biennale, Faurschou is showing Entropy, a group exhibition that brings together works by He An, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Sun Xun, Zhao Zhao, Yu Ji, Chen Tianzhuo.
Prune Nourry
Jan Fabre
Sudarshan Shetty
GLASSTRESS – GROUP SHOW
FONDAZIONE BERENGO, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
On the occasion of the 58th Biennale di Venezia, Jan Fabre, Prune Nourry, Sundarshan Shetty is participating in Glasstress 2019, show curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen. The sixth edition of Glasstress brings together a new lineup of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass. Glasstress is a project by Adriano Berengo dedicated to supporting his mission of marrying contemporary art and glass. Since its debut in 2009 as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Glasstress has revived the traditional craft of Murano glassblowing by forging new alliances with internationally renowned artists and designers and has since become an unparalleled platform showcasing ground-breaking new works in glass.
Julião Sarmento
EXPANDED – GROUP SHOW
FONDAZIONE GIORGIO CINI, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
Julião Sarmento is participating in Expanded, the new exhibition of First Stone, an experimental international research programme that explores the potential of Portuguese Stone. Expanded features original works by Marina Abramović, Carsten Holler et Julião Sarmento. Produced in Portuguese stone, a million-year-old natural resource, they share this unifying element that bestows them with a deep timelessness and resilience, somewhat contradicting the chaos and superficiality of the contemporary world. Placed within the gardens of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, immersed in nature and displayed together, these pieces provide visitors with moments of experimentation and confrontation, underlining the value of art and culture in public spaces.
Jan Fabre
THE MAN WHO MEASURES THE CLOUDS – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
GARDEN OF PALAZZO BALBI VALIER, VENICE, ITALYFrom 6/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
On the occasion of the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Jan Fabre returns to the Lagoon with the presentation of a special public art project. Installed inside the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier and visible from the Grand Canal, the monumenal sculpture in gold leaf “The Man who Measures the Clouds (Monument to the Measure of the Immeasurable)”, stands nine meters high . Designed specifically for Venice, it recalls a deep bond with this city, established over the past decades. Leaning over the arch leading to the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier from the Grand Canal, this imposing man of gold reflects not only the drift of the artist and humanity, but also the meaning and historical values of this mythical floating city.
Claude Viallat
GIGANTISME – ARTS & INDUSTRIE – GROUP SHOW
FRAC GRAND LARGE - HAUTS DE FRANCE, DUNKERQUE, FRANCEFrom 4/05/2019 to 5/01/2020
GIGANTISM – ART & INDUSTRIE is an original collective initiative on the territory of Hauts-de-France, in Dunkerque: the creation of a new triennial art and design in Europe.
From May 4, 2019, an exhibition of off-scale installations created for the occasion, of in situ works, sculptures, paintings, films and performances will embody encounters between artists, engineers, designers and architects. It will unfold on different exhibition venues and urban and port sites. An original journey that rethinks at the level of the landscape of Dunkerque a history of European modernity from 1947 to the present day; between living heritage and contemporary creation.
