Kunsthaus Zürich presents Encoding Reality: An exhibition featuring Weltbild by A.R. Penck

ZURICH.- From 11 November 2011 to 12 February 2012 the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging the exhibition ‘Encoding Reality,’ the latest in the ‘Picture Ballot!’ series. Taking as its starting point the painting ‘Weltbild’ (World Picture, 1961) by A.R. Penck and the pictographically encoded visual idiom in modern art, it explores works from Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others. Like Penck, these artists developed a language that was part figurative representation and part abstraction. The exhibition [...]

Museum of Desires: MUMOK exhibition places the collection’s potential in a new light

WIEN.- From classical modernism to contemporary art the exhibition combines chronological order and the confrontation of works from different generations of artists that exhibit correspondences in their subject matter. This makes art history since the beginning of modernism visible as a living dialogue between the past and the present. The focus is on art works that led to decisive changes and developments in both classical modernism and in the 1960s and 1970s. This is fundamental to an understanding of contemporary art [...]

Pinacotheque de Paris Announces Alberto Giacometti and the Etruscans Exhibition

PARIS.- It is the most eventful exhibition of the fall, an exhibition that the specialists and art lovers of Giacometti, have been expecting for over fifty years. Giacometti’s attraction to the primitive figure was present very early on in the artist’s oeuvre. Etruscan art, which he first of all discovered in the Louvre, in the archeological department, where he went regularly, then during the exhibition on the Etruscans in 1955 in Paris, was, however, to produce in the artist a very [...]

Christie’s to Hold Spring Sale of Outstanding Swiss Art at the Kunsthaus Zurich

ZURICH.- Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the elder tree (1911) (estimate SFr. 1,8 – 2,5 million). The family is one of the core subjects of Giovanni Giacometti’s oeuvre. Christie’s set a world record price [...]

China Overtakes Britain as the World’s Second Largest Art and Antiques Market

LONDON (REUTERS).- China overtook Britain as the world’s second largest art and antiques market last year, a new report showed, and British art officials voiced concern that an EU levy planned in 2012 would further undermine its position. “The Global Art Market in 2010: Crisis and Recovery” underlined what auction houses and consigners had seen throughout last year — a sharp rise in the number of wealthy Chinese buyers, and, with them, prices. The report, commissioned by the European Fine [...]

Exhibition Offers Sculptures, Paintings from All Phases of Alberto Giacometti’s Career

ZURICH.- From 11 March to 22 May the Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition entitled ‘Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Seeing’. Sight is the foundation of all visual art, and no artist has focused so centrally on the process of seeing as Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), the Swiss sculptor, painter and graphic artist. The exhibition offers some 100 sculptures, paintings and drawings from all phases of his creative life to demonstrate the way Giacometti lends the psychological process of seeing a material [...]

Family Gatherings at Christie’s Swiss Art Sale in Zurich

ZURICH.- Like father, Like son: Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the elder tree (1911) (estimate SFr. 1,8 – 2,5 million). The family is one of the core subjects of Giovanni Giacometti’s oeuvre. Christie’s set a [...]

Tel Aviv Exhibits the Recently Donated Wolloch Collection of Modern Sculpture

TEL AVIV.- This collection of modern sculpture was donated to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch from Scarsdale, New York. The collection encompasses over a century of sculpture, from Auguste Rodin of the late 19th century to Arnaldo Pomodoro of the 1980s. It includes works by major sculptors in modern art, among them Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Marino Marini and Alexander Calder. The collection was first exhibited in 1997 and constitutes [...]

Städel Museum Opens “In Chronological Order: Städel Works of the 14th to 21st Centuries”

FRANKFURT.- The holdings of the Städel Museum comprise masterpieces of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The temporary closure of its galleries in the course of the redevelopment measures carried out in the old building as part of the Städel’s extension and of making the new building accessible via the old building offers the unique opportunity to show the museum’s familiar treasures in an entirely new context. The temporary presentation of the Städel’s collection under the title “In Chronological [...]

Fifty Auctions Later, Los Angeles Modern Auctions is Still Going Strong, Sale Totals $1.55 Million

VAN NUYS, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) October 17, 2010 Modern Art & Design auction, LAMA’s 50th auction since 1992, totaled $1.55 million (including buyer’s premium) selling 65% of the 509 lots offered. Over 250 people registered for the auction, including in-house participants who filled the gallery to standing room only. Several buyers came from Italy, Japan, France, as well as an overwhelming amount of clients from California and New York. Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1970. Screenprint. Signed in ballpoint [...]

Comprehensive Survey of Surrealist Art Opens at the Dean Gallery

EDINBURGH.- A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, which brings together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, is the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, which is the centrepiece of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s 50th anniversary celebrations, offers a fascinating overview of arguably the most important art movement of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes major loans from public and private collections and offers visitors the [...]

Fondation Maeght Mounts a Retrospective of the Work of Alberto Giacometti

SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE.- From 27 June to 31 October 2010, the Fondation Maeght is presenting an exceptional retrospective of the work of Alberto Giacometti. Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966 will assemble the artist’s best-known masterpieces, including the bronze sculptures L’Homme qui marche (Walking Man), Le Chien (Dog) and Le Chat (Cat). The exhibition will also include paintings, plaster casts and drawings on loan from major French and international museums, and from private collections. The Fondation Maeght will also honour the man himself. Alberto [...]

Manet Sets $33.1 Million Record, Auction Hits Target as Two-Week Marathon Begins

LONDON (REUTERS).- Sotheby’s sold an Edouard Manet self-portrait for 22.4 million pounds ($33.1 million) on Tuesday, a record for the artist but toward the lower end of pre-sale expectations of 20-30 million pounds. The painting, one of only two self-portraits by the artist and the only one in private hands, was the centerpiece of the auctioneer’s main impressionist and modern art sale in London this summer. Overall the auction fetched 112.1 million pounds, within expectations of 101-148 million pounds, although [...]

Barbican Art Gallery Explores the Power and Mystery of the Surreal House

LONDON.- The Surreal House explores the power and mystery of the house in our collective imagination. It is the first exhibition to throw light on the significance of surrealism for architecture. Bringing together over 150 works, the exhibition also reveals the profound influence surrealism has had on a host of contemporary artists, filmmakers and architects. In an ambitious installation by acclaimed architects Carmody Groarke the exhibition is designed to be experienced as an extraordinary surreal house in its own right. [...]

Christie’s to Offer a Monet Water-Lily Painting Worth an Estimated $44-59 Million

LONDON (REUTERS).- Auction house Christie’s is offering a Monet water-lily painting worth an estimated 30 to 40 million pounds ($44-59 million) this month in what it expects to be the biggest sale it has ever mounted in London. With the international art market booming again after a slump when financial markets crashed, the Christie’s sale also includes a Blue Period portrait by Pablo Picasso, offered by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation founded by the composer, and carrying a price tag [...]

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