Nina Canell’s “O Little Drops” opens at mother’s tankstation in Dublin

DUBLIN.- First energy, second heat, third water: O Little Drops, Nina Canell’s third solo exhibition made specifically for mother’s tankstation, bears witness to the single-minded focus of her work from its very outset. 1 With its recurrent attention set upon the themes of energies and forces, both visible and invisible, water has long been a preoccupation, with numerous and significant pieces that have explored its essentially differing forms and potentials: solid, liquid, vapour, life-giving, imprinting, eroding, soothing and wildly destructive. 2 [...]

“Sean Scully: Doric” on view at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

DUBLIN.- Doric is an exhibition of paintings by the internationally acclaimed abstract painter Sean Scully. The exhibition comprises seven monumental paintings, heroic in scale and concept, alongside smaller more intimate works in oil, pastel, watercolour and print, revealing something of the breadth and depth of this renowned artist’s oeuvre. Doric is one of the three orders of classical Greek architecture and was the inspiration for these recent paintings, created since 2008. The Doric order impressed Scully for its simplicity and force. [...]

Toshio Shibata and Toeko Tatsuno open their first joint exhibition in New York at Laurence Miller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents Toshio Shibata and Toeko Tatsuno: Given, their first joint exhibition in New York. Whereas Shibata’s photographs have been widely exhibited in the US, Tatsuno’s paintings have rarely been seen outside Asia. This exhibition follows their very large two person show last year at the National Arts Center in Tokyo. Shibata, born 1949, and Tatsuno, born 1950, founded the collective the Cosmos Factory while classmates at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He evolved into photography [...]

The monumental rooms of the Doge’s Palace in Venice exhibit Manet: Return to Venice

VENICE.- Manet. Return to Venice is the name of the exhibition the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia will host from 24th April to 18th August 2013 in the monumental rooms of the Doge’s Palace. It will include about 80 paintings, drawings and prints, and has been planned with the special collaboration of the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, which possesses the largest number of masterpieces by this extraordinary painter. The exhibition arises from a need to undertake a critical survey of the cultural [...]

RSA New Contemporaries 2013 showcases the best emerging artists and architects in Scotland

EDINBURGH.- The fifth annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition is taking place at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries in Edinburgh until 8 May 2013. Presenting work across a wide range of media, this carefully curated exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see the best of Scotland’s emerging talent under one roof. Art graduates have been chosen by exhibition convenor Francis Convery RSA, with assistance from members of the Royal Scottish Academy and representatives from the five main colleges of art. This year the six [...]

Bonniers Konsthall and Wanås Konst present two major solo exhibitions with artist Jeppe Hein

STOCKHOLM.- Danish artist Jeppe Hein’s installations and sculptures plays with our sensory experiences and invites the audience to take an active role. When visitors approach what may seem to be something familiar, like a mirror, they encounter something unexpected. In Light Pavilion the unfolding of a bright trail of lights is activated by a person peddling on a stationary bicycle, expanding into a circus-like tent. In the work You everyone who tries to look through a hole in the wall meets [...]

PAFA adds painting by alumna Njideka Akunyili to permanent collection

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has purchased a painting by rising art star and alumna Njideka Akunyili (Post-Bacc, ’06). “Njideka Akunyili’s large scale collage paintings weave her autobiographical narrative into complex compositions which bridge the particulars of her own story,” says Harry Philbrick, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum at PAFA. “[Akunyili] was born and raised in Nigeria, where she still has strong family connections, and lives and works in New York, with her American husband. Her [...]

Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre at the London Jewish Museum of Art

LONDON.- Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art announced the exhibition, Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre, c. 1917 ̶ 1929. Developed from an exhibition first conceived by Galerie Le Minotaure, Paris and Tel Aviv, in 2012 it explores the avant-garde costume and theatre designs of Ukrainian-born Jewish émigré painter, sculptor, set designer, theorist and art critic Boris Aronson (1898 ̶ 1980), a pioneer at the forefront of the international modernist movement. The exhibition presents more than 50 rare, original [...]

The 7th Drawing Now Paris a great success; Attendance stable at 19,000 visitors

PARIS.- Drawing Now Paris has again proven to be a major gold-standard event in the world of contemporary drawing. The show was a great commercial success, despite the economic climate and an enticingly sunny Sunday. • 85 galleries -­‐ including 30% international exhibitors -­‐ and 430 artists • 13 countries represented • a very international “ÉMERGENCE” platform: 50% foreign galleries • a “RÉFÉRENCE” platform of more than 45% return exhibitors Attendance remained stable with around 19,000 visitors, including more French and international [...]

First UK-solo exhibition of the work of Romanian painter Dan Voinea on view at Beers Lambert Contemporary

LONDON.- A Momentary Rise of Reason is the first UK-solo exhibition of the work of Romanian painter Dan Voinea. Hailing from a new school of contemporary realist painting, Voinea and his contemporaries (fellow Romanian Adrian Ghenie, Belgian Michaël Borremans, or the UK’s own Justin Mortimer, to name a few) have not only endured an early 21st century phase that appeared to prefer whimsy and liberty over realism (consider momentarily the surge in popularity of work by Peter Doig, Cecily Brown or [...]

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art celebrates Ellsworth Kelly’s 90th birthday with a special exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From April 20 through June 2, 2013, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art joined museums around the globe in celebrating the 90th birthday of Ellsworth Kelly, with Ellsworth Kelly at 90: Paintings from the Paris Years until Today. This focused presentation, organized by Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Gary Garrels, draws from the museum’s permanent collection and showcase six key paintings bracketing the artist’s sixty-five-year career. SFMOMA has a long history with Ellsworth Kelly. The [...]

“Empire State: New York art now” opens at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome

ROME.- “Empire State. Arte a New York oggi” (Empire State. New York Art Now) is an exhibition that asks how artists might reimagine urban life, and how the city of New York might continue to be a site of contestation. Bringing together an intergenerational selection of artists from the city’s five boroughs and related suburban and exurban regions, the exhibition includes works that meditate on the city as a means of distributing power. It comes at a crucial time, when people [...]

Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp: One hundred years of contemporary art in half a cubic meter

DARMSTADT.- The Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp has invited to replace the exhibition building Mathildenhohe Darmstadt, Germany, during its renovation. From 21 April to 3 November 2013 it is showing: La Broyeuse de Chocolat, an exhibition by Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz curated by Ralf Beil. The Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp is, for the first time ever, changing its location and exhibiting, throughout the summer of 2013, in front of the exhibition building of the Mathildenhöhe, which is temporarily closed for renovation. The high-caliber theme [...]

Judy Chicago contributor exhibits in New York’s first non-art fair

NEW YORK, NY.- With her unassuming modesty and intelligence, Meredith Dalglish is no ordinary artist from Portland Oregon. She was an original contributor to Judy Chicago’s 1979 feminist installation work ‘Dinner Party’ now on permanent display at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Dalglish, an exhibitor in Parallax ‘Art’ Fair at The Prince George Ballroom in New York 11-12 May, said of her contribution to Chicago’s famous work: “I volunteered for 7 months to help Judy get this monumental installation finished. It was my [...]

Into darkness: The art of troop life in Afghanistan with Archibald portrait prize winner

SYDNEY (AFP).- Watching the solemn parade of special forces soldiers climb into their trucks, blessed by a priest, and drive into the grey Afghan night, Australian artist Ben Quilty wondered if they would ever return. Quilty, winner of Australia’s prestigious Archibald portrait prize, spent 24 days embedded with troops in Kandahar and Tarinkot as the nation’s official war artist, sketching, photographing and filming life as a modern soldier. It is an “often very mundane existence, spiked with these extremely horrific, terrifying moments [...]