Exhibition shows the backbone of Moderna Museet’s Marcel Duchamp collection

STOCKHOLM.- The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Moderna Museet present De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde. The focus is not on an artwork and an artist, but on half a century of acute visual and intellectual interpretation, by Ulf Linde. The results include the backbone of Moderna Museet’s Duchamp collection, supplemented for the exhibition by replicas of Duchamp’s works never previously exhibited. At the end of the 1950s, few people suspected that Marcel Duchamp would come to be seen [...]

New paintings by Philadelphia-born artist Lisa Yuskavage on view at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage, on view at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. This will be the artist’s third solo show since her first exhibition at the gallery in 2006. Over the past two decades, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young women cast within fantastical landscapes or dramatically lit interiors. They appear to occupy their own realm while narcissistically contemplating themselves [...]

Valencian Institute for Modern Art exhibition opens with the work of José Manuel Ciria: The Last Decade

VALENCIA.- The director of the IVAM, Mrs. Consuelo Ciscar; the artist, José Manuel Ciria, and the curator of the exhibition, Kara Van der Weg, inaugurated the exhibition ‘Ciria. States of opposition (2001-20011) which will run until on 8 January. The exhibition, sponsored by Telefónica, gathers 28 paintings and 82 drawings series between abstraction and figuration, with features ranging from the spontaneous gesture to the precise rigor of the grid. The artist works between Madrid and New York in the decade from 2001 [...]

New collection of works by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo at Franklin Bowles Galleries

NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Bowles Galleries announces the opening of a new collection of works by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo. The joint exhibition features works on canvas and paper along with a series of unusual sculptures and drawings. Within the Spanish context, Eduardo Arranz-Bravo is amongst the most representative artists of his generation. His work breaks with the dramatic, transcendent painting of postwar Spain (represented by Tàpies and the informalist generation) and instead reflects a passion for color, a return to the figurative and [...]

Major Collection of Frederick Kiesler Drawings and Sculptures Donated to Philadelphia Museum

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A major collection of 31 drawings and two sculptures by the architect, artist, designer, poet, and philosopher Frederick Kiesler (American, born Austria-Prussia 1890–1965) has been donated to the Museum by Ronnie L. and John E. Shore, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Shore were inspired to make this gift by the close connection of Kiesler to Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968), whose work is so well represented in the collection of thePhiladelphia Museum of Art. Ranging in date [...]

Fotomuseum Winterthur Opens Major Exhibition of Photographs and Videos by Ai Weiwei

WINTERTHUR.- Ai Weiwei – Interlacing is the first major exhibition of photographs and videos by Ai Weiwei. It foregrounds Ai Weiwei the communicator – the documenting, analyzing, interweaving artist who communicates via many channels. Ai Weiwei already used photography in his New York years, but especially since his return to Beijing, he has incessantly documented the everyday urban and social realities in China, discussing it over blogs and Twitter. Photographs of radical urban transformation, of the search for earthquake victims, [...]

Marcel Duchamp and Early Modernism on View at the Moderna Museet in Malmo

MALMO.- Today, Marcel Duchamp is regarded as one of the most prominent and innovative artists of the 20th century, and his famous work Fountain was selected as the most influential work of the 1900s. Through September 11, 14 of his works, including The Large Glass, are being shown at Moderna Museet Malmö. Another exhibition opened simultaneously, featuring works from the Moderna Museet collection by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Sigrid Hjertén. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) emphasised [...]

Fernando Sánchez Castillo and the Bomb Disposal Squad Create an Exhibition at the CAC Málaga

MALAGA.- Method of Discourse is a clear example of the creative play that underpins the work of Fernando Sánchez Castillo. Using a title based on the celebrated Discourse on Method by the French philosopher René Descartes, Sánchez Castillo deliberately inverts and alters the terms to reveal that absolute truth and certainties do not exist and to emphasise the need to question official versions and precepts established by technological progress. Contemporary art becomes a tool with which to demonstrate that things [...]

Tate Britain Provides a Timely Focus on a Selection of Key Works by Susan Hiller

LONDON.- Susan Hiller (b. 1940) is one of the most influential artists of her generation. This major survey exhibition at Tate Britain provides a timely focus on a selection of her key works, including many of the pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections for which she is best known. It will be the largest presentation of her work to date, providing a unique opportunity to follow her exploration of dreams, memories and supernatural phenomena across a career of almost four [...]

British Sculpture Survey at the Royal Academy in London Sharply Divides Critics

LONDON (REUTERS).- By replacing a traditional survey of 20th century British sculpture with a “provocative set of juxtapositions,” London’s Royal Academy has made both friends and enemies among the critics. Some welcomed what the gallery called a “fresh approach,” but others attacked it for omitting several important British and foreign sculptors. Most outspoken was Andrew Graham-Dixon, writing in the Sunday Telegraph’s Seven magazine in his no-star review: “This lamentable exhibition has no coherence, no clear purpose and fails to mention [...]

Special Installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris During the Week of FIAC 2010

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery and Colette present ‘En Grève’ (On Strike), a special installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris during the week of FIAC 2010. At Colette, ‘En Grève’ is Colen’s use of the ubiquitous velibs of Paris. Applying pressure to the mass availability and implicit trust embedded in the system of public transportation, Colen has realized an absurd, vaudevillian gesture which functions both as sculpture and event. This site-specific work will occupy the space for seven days, after [...]

Metropolitan Museum of Art Honors Artist John Baldessari with Retrospective Exhibition

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- More than 120 works, including two huge canvases commissioned for the exhibition, are included in a retrospective of legendary American artist John Baldessari at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show, “John “Baldessari: Pure Beauty” which opens on Tuesday, is the first for the Los Angeles-based artist in New York for 20 years and includes works dating back to 1962. John Baldessari’s Palm Tree/Seascape hangs in the museum lobby of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in [...]

Christie’s to Offer 69 Important Works of Art from the Collection of Robert Shapazian

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of The Collection of Robert Shapazian. Shapazian’s passion for the arts was reflected in his life-long dedication to the field, his friendships with those in it and his personal, yet masterful collection which Christie’s will offer in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening and Day Sales and other various auctions, beginning this fall. The Collection of Robert Shapazian includes 69 works of art including standout examples by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and Roy [...]

Tatiana Trouvé Creates a New Installation in the Main Gallery at South London Gallery

LONDON.- Tatiana Trouvé’s work spans drawing, painting and sculpture, often brought together in precisely-scaled architectural installations which suggest the possibility of underlying narratives. Trouvé was winner of the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007, has exhibited widely internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, and had a solo show at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2008, yet this is her first major solo show in the UK. For the South London Gallery she creates a new installation in the main gallery [...]

Hauser & Wirth’s First Posthumous Show of Jason Rhoades’ Work Opens

LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth presents the gallery’s first posthumous show of Jason Rhoades’ work and the artist’s first European solo exhibition since his death in 2006. The exhibition features ’1:12 Perfect World’, Rhoades’ scale model of his groundbreaking 1999 exhibition, ‘Perfect World’ at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Originally existing as four quarters, the sterling silver model will be brought together at Hauser & Wirth’s Piccadilly gallery, viewable in its entirety for the first time. Like his previous exhibition, ‘The Black Pussy… [...]

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