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Julião Sarmento
JULIAO SARMENTO. THE SELECTIVE GLANCE
GAM - GALLERIA CIVICA D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA, TORINO, ITALY
From June 13th to July 31st 2014
Turin GAM pays a special tribute to Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento, mounting an exceptional show which opens the third chapter of Dialogues, the exhibition project aimed at creating a dialogue between accomplished artists active in the contemporary international art scene and works chosen from the permanent collections.
This exhibition, mounted in the spaces of GAM Underground Project on a surface of over 1000 sq m, is an important testimony to the artist’s work, more than 15 years after his first and only exhibition in a museum in Italy, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Bologna.
GAM is showcasing the development of Sarmento’s art research following a rigorous curatorial point of view organised according to thematic criteria, analysing his oeuvre with a critical outlook. Starting from the works revolving around the feminine figure and the object, and finishing with the works devoted to architecture, including the two 2010 Cromlech and 2011 R.O.C. (40 plus one) videos, wherein the woman-architecture union is recomposed. (…)
Philippe Cognée
Jitish Kallat
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Pierre et Gilles
LE FESTIN DE L’ART(GROUP SHOW)
PALAIS DES ARTS ET DU FESTIVAL, DINARD, FRANCE
From June 7th to September 7th 2014
Au fil des ans, les expositions d’art présentées au Palais des arts et du festival ou à la villa Les Roches Brunes se sont inscrites dans la tradition
culturelle de Dinard. En 2014, la Ville de Dinard a confié le commissariat d’un programme estival à Jean-Jacques Aillagon qui a souhaité concevoir
deux expositions. Toutes deux, chacune à sa manière, parlent de la nourriture, de ses ingrédients, de sa préparation, de sa mise en scène et de
sa consommation. (…)
Tunga
IMAGINE BRAZIL(GROUP SHOW)
MUSEE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, LYON, FRANCE
From June 5th to August 17th 2014 Currently presented at the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo (Norway), Imagine Brazil is a snapshot of Brazilian contemporary art. The exhibition presents fourteen young and most creative artists of the emerging scene of Brazil and who, for most of them, already have an international career. In their turn, each of them has been invited to select a Brazilian artist, considered to him as a reference in Brazilian contemporary art. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
A LONG DAY
DELLO SCOMPIGLIO, CAPANNORI LUCCA, ITALY
From May 24th to September 28th 2014 The Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio presents “A Long Day”, the new installation by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, curated by Franziska Nori, created specifically for the exhibition space at Dello Scompiglio. The exhibition features some of the most incisive aspects of the artist’s work, combining installation, sculpture and performance in a condensed space-time dimension. (…)
Iván Navarro
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
NORTHPARK CENTER, DALLAS, USA
From May 21st 2014 to May 21st 2015 (DALLAS, Texas) May 12, 2014 – NorthPark Center is pleased to present a FREE public art exhibition of Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro’s work, This Land Is Your Land. The installation, which was recently on view at Madison Square Park in New York City, features three elevated wooden water towers serving as metaphors for the experience of immigration. The works will be on view for one year at NorthPark Center on Level One between Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom near Gucci, TOD’S, Salvatore Ferragamo and Versace. “For nearly 50 years, NorthPark Center has been committed to presenting museum quality works of public art throughout the shopping center for all to enjoy, giving many individuals their first encounter with art,” said Nancy A. Nasher, co-owner of NorthPark Center with husband David J. Haemisegger. “It is a privilege to bring to NorthPark and to North Texas this stunning and thought-provoking work that will serve as a source of contemplation, inspiration and possibility. (…)
Philippe Cognée
PHILIPPE COGNéE
CHAMBORD CASTLE, 2ND FLOOR, DOMAINE NATIONAL DE CHAMBORD, FRANCE
From May 18th to October 12th 2014 Philippe Cognée est sans conteste aujourd’hui l’un des plus peintres les plus importants de la scène française. Profondément marqué par son enfance au Bénin, il commence à peindre au cours des années 1980 des paysages intrigants, peuplés d’animaux sauvages et d’être humains empruntant au douanier Rousseau. Au cours de son séjour à la villa Médicis en 1991, son travail prend une tournure différente et décisive : l’artiste développe une pratique singulière qui s’inspire de la photographie, associée à un travail sur les effets de la peinture à l’encaustique chauffée sur la toile. (…)
Pierre et Gilles
NUIT EUROPéENNE DES MUSéES – GALERIE DES GOBELINS – EXPOSITION CARTE BLANCHE à PIERRE ET GILLES
GALERIE DES GOBELINS, SALON CARRE, PARIS
Ouverture de la Galerie des Gobelins la nuit du samedi 17 mai 2014
Cette nouvelle carte blanche propose à Pierre et Gilles de dialoguer avec le monde décoratif du XVIIIe siècle, magnifiquement représenté dans l’exposition Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières – Un âge d’or de la manufacture royale.
Dans le Salon carré de la Galerie des Gobelins, ce couple artistique passionné de motifs iconiques apporte un souffle inimitable qui mêle comme à son habitude esprit baroque et scènes oniriques. (…)
Jean-Michel Alberola
MéMOIRES VIVES
FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN, PARIS, FRANCE
Du From May 10th to September 21th 2014 Peintre, Jean-Michel Alberola utilise les moyens de création les plus divers – film, texte, photographie, installation, sculpture, néon – pour mener une réflexion sur l’histoire et le pouvoir de l’image, la société et l’actualité, la légitimité de la peinture et le rôle de l’artiste. Pour l’exposition Mémoires Vives, Jean-Michel Alberola crée un « mur peint », Eclairage en groupe, sur lequel se rencontre la communauté des artistes, scientifiques, penseurs ou chamanes qui constitue le « grand orchestre » de la Fondation Cartier et souligne la dimension humaine qui est au cœur de son action.. (…) image : © Thomas Salva / Lumento 2014
Pierre et Gilles
CARTE BLANCHE à PIERRE ET GILLES
GALERIE DES GOBELINS, SALON CARRE, PARIS
From April 8th to October 4th 2014
Cette nouvelle carte blanche propose à Pierre et Gilles de dialoguer avec le monde décoratif du XVIIIe siècle, magnifiquement représenté dans l’exposition Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières – Un âge d’or de la manufacture royale.
Dans le Salon carré de la Galerie des Gobelins, ce couple artistique passionné de motifs iconiques apporte un souffle inimitable qui mêle comme à son habitude esprit baroque et scènes oniriques. (…)
Iván Navarro
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY, NEW YORK, USA
From February 20th to April 13st 2014 New York—Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces a new sculptural installation for late winter 2014: This Land Is Your Land by Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro. The site-specific installation will present three water towers inside of which neon reflections repeat infinitely. The sculptures merge a staple of the New York skyline with the street-level landscape of the Park. The artist takes the exhibition’s title from the beloved 1940 Woody Guthrie folk song, which is both an American anthem and a vocal pull to the freedoms offered in this country for an immigrant population. The towers will be elevated to a height above visitors’ heads, allowing them to walk underneath and look up into each sculpture to view the content within. The exhibition will be on view daily from February 20 – April 13, 2014 in Madison Square Park. (…)
Eric Fischl
FRIENDS, LOVERS AND OTHER CONSTELLATIONS
ALBERTINA, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
From February 13th to May 18 2014 The American painter, graphic artist and sculptor Eric Fischl (* 1948 in New York) is one of the most important representatives of contemporary figuration. His work is characterised by a style linked with American realism. The compositions, which capture scenes like snapshots, convey the impression of a film clip. The just completed or immediately imminent action is thus often only implied. (…)
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE. TRIBUTE TO BELGIAN CONGO (2010-2013)
PINCHUKARTCENTRE, KIEV, UKRAINE
From February 8th to April 27th 2014
In 1979 Jan Fabre started his artistic practice by erecting a tent-laboratory, called de Neus (the Nose), in the garden of his parents. Mesmerized by the insects’ capacity for metamorphosis, he subjected them to intensive artistic research and experiments. Insects continued to (re-)appear in Fabre’s early drawings, performances and sculptures. Especially beetles, with their unique sense of survival, remained a source of inspiration for the artist, and in his oeuvre they have come to represent a way of dealing with mortality, beauty and suffering – three essential themes, which define Fabre’s complex practice as an artist, theatre maker and writer. (…)
Anthony Caro
ANTHONY CARO. MASTERPIECES FROM THE WüRTH COLLECTION
MUSÉE WÜRTH FRANCE ERSTEIN
The Musée Würth France hosts a retrospective memorial exhibition devoted to the greatest English sculptor of his generation, Anthony Caro, who died October 2013. The exhibition titled, Anthony Caro. Masterpieces from the Würth Collection, showcases an exceptional range of his works drawn from the past 40 years. The Würth Collection of Caro is the largest in Europe. The large room on Musée Würth’s ground floor is unique in being able to display the artist’s most important sculpture of the 90’s, The Last Judgement. Shown for the first time in France, this narrative sculpture comments on the realities of a millennium torn by war, atrocities, greed and excess. It draws its inspiration from Greek mythology, Biblical writings and art history.
Kehinde Wiley
FùTBOL: THE BEAUTIFUL GAME(GROUP SHOW)
LACMA, LOS ANGELES, USA
From February 2nd to July 27th 2014 Fútbol: The Beautiful Game examines the subject of football—nicknamed by one sports commentator The Beautiful Game—and its interactions with societies around the world. As a subject, football touches on issues of nationalism and identity, globalism and mass spectacle, as well as the common human experience shared by spectators from many cultures. Celebrating the sport on the eve of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the exhibition includes approximately thirty artists from around the world, working in video, photography, painting and sculpture. Two room-sized video installations—Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, by the artists Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon, and Volta by Stephen Dean—anchor the exhibition. Other works by artists including Miguel Calderon (whose 2004 video Mexico v. Brasil represents a 17-0 victory for Mexico), Robin Rhode, Kehinde Wiley, and Andy Warhol provide a sense of the miraculous possibilities of the sport as universal conversation piece. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
“TRISTAN UND ISOLDE”, WAGNERSTAGE DESIGN BY CHIHARU SHIOTA
KIEL OPERA HOUSE, VIENNE
Saturday January 25, 2014, 5 pm is the premiere of the opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’, directed by Daniel Karasek at Oper Kiel.
Additional performances in 2014: February 02, March 03 and 23, April 18, May 24, June 09
Artist Talk at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
In addition, an artist talk will take place together with opera director Daniel Karasek:
Sunday, January 26, 3 pm at Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 1, 24105 Kiel).
Joel Shapiro
FESTIVAL SAINT-ETIENNE NOUVEAU SIèCLE – THE NEW-YORK MOMENT
Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
From January 18 to May 18 2014 Dans la salle centrale du Musée, Joel SHAPIRO déploie deux sculptures monumentales en acier. Les morceaux de métal s’articulent entre eux pour donner à cette forme apparemment abstraite les contours d’une figure ou d’un objet sur le point de se mouvoir dans l’espace. Ce sculpteur américain (né en 1941), largement reconnu aux États-Unis et présent dans les collections des plus grands musées américains, il est connu pour ses oeuvres aux formes simplifiées et géométriques. Celles-ci contiennent pourtant toute la force du mouvement et expriment une grande vitalité notamment grâce à la couleur. Il appartient à la génération d’artistes qui a refusé la rigueur de l’art minimal en recherchant notamment des liens avec les activités humaines. (…)
Chiharu Shiota
CHIHARU SHIOTA
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
From January 17th to March 30st 2014 Chiharu Shiota frequently uses found objects within her sculptural installations, particularly those that resonate with personal and emotional histories. Doors and windows from demolished and derelict buildings, clothing, shoes, old furniture and vintage suitcases are frequent motifs within her work. Such objects evoke powerful and emotive human stories of journeys, of migration, of love and loss. (…)
Jonathan Meese
MALERMEESE – MEESERMALER
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
From November 16th 2013 to March 09th 2014 The exhibition in the MdM Mönchsberg aims to provide, for the first time, a survey of the most extensive complex of his œuvre: painting. This was not Meese’s first medium, but came second to drawing, long before he turned to installation and the stage. His first oil paintings date from 1993/4 – the period immediately preceding his academic training. After an interval of several years, during which he devoted himself exclusively to performance and installation, he returned to painting with increased attention. From then on, he transferred his fundamental idea of the stage as a counter-world, and the element of staging, on to large-scale historical paintings. The expressive power of the original, unmistakable painterly language he developed over twenty years has attained a unique status in the contemporary art world.(…)
Atul Dodiya
EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH: ATUL DODIYAWORKS 1981-2013
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
From Novembre 15th to Decmeber 29th 2013 Curated by Ranjit Hoskote The exhibition, Experiments with Truth: Atul Dodiya, Works 1981-2013, offers viewers an extensive survey of the career of one of India’s most significant contemporary artists. Curated by cultural theorist and poet Ranjit Hoskote, this exhibition brings together more than 80 works by Dodiya, spanning a versatile artistic practice that includes paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour, mixed-media works, sculpture-installations, assemblages and photography.(…)
Jan Fabre
JAN FABRE / ILLUMINATIONS / ENLUMINURES – TRéSORS ENLUMINéS DES MUSéES DE FRANCE
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
From November 8th 2013 to February 10th 2014 En partenariat avec l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille présente une centaine des plus remarquables manuscrits et feuillets enluminés conservés dans les musées et sociétés savantes du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais, de Picardie et de Champagne-Ardenne. Simultanément, le musée des Augustins de Toulouse et le musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers présentent les collections d’enluminures conservées dans le Centre et le Sud de la France. Ces livres et feuillets enluminés sont accompagnés d’objets d’art du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance issus des collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, où se mêlent imagerie médiévale et enchantement allégorique, ainsi que de sculptures en bronze de l’artiste contemporain Jan Fabre. (…)
