Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection at the Santander Art Gallery

MADRID.- “Spirit and Space”, is the title of the exhibition that Fundación Banco Santander organises at the Santander Art Gallery at Boadilla’s Financial City from February 9th until April 29th. 124 works of art, 69 artists from 20 different countries that not only form a selection of what stands out most of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s Collection –one of the most important in the world- and in contemporary art of the last thirty years, that also reflects its essence in [...]

Maurizio Cattelan shows a finger in Milan

MILAN (REUTERS).- A marble sculpture of a cut-off hand with the middle finger stuck up has gone on display in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, provoking a lively debate in Italy’s financial capital. The 11-meter high installation, called “L.O.V.E.” and unveiled for the first time in Milan, is part of a retrospective dedicated to the Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose provocative works include a sculpture of Pope John Paul being hit by a meteorite. “(Cattelan’s works) call our [...]

Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces Highlights from Contemporary Art Sale

LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announced the highlights from its October Contemporary Art auctions featuring 56 lots in the Evening sale and 148 lots in the Day sale with a total low estimate of £8,543,500/$13,387,664 and a high estimate of £12,266,500 / $19,221,605. Included in the Evening sale are important works by David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Maurizio Cattelan and Ed Ruscha. Also included are highlights from the KIT Finance Collection; a selection of 13 works from the Adam Lindemann [...]

Sotheby’s Announces a Special Exhibition in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Sotheby’s will present Divine Comedy, an exhibition that will spotlight humor in the visual arts through the lens of Dante’s epic poem. Drawing on Sotheby’s expertise across many different collecting categories and time periods, the exhibition of approximately 80 works will place Contemporary art in dialogue with Antiquities, African Art, Old Master paintings, 19th Century European art, Modern and Surrealist works, Latin American paintings and 20th Century Design. Following the journey Dante takes in the [...]

Headbones Gallery to Show “NeoBeast ~ Beastly Explorations Aesthetically Stating Truisms”

Toronto, ON – NEOPRIEST, an exhibition at Headbones Gallery in March, 2009, was based on an identified aesthetic that was expressed with an acronym to more succinctly impart the essence of thirteen artist’s work. From this original exhibition an over-riding identifiable subject has revealed itself. And in order to pin it down through language and to carry on the intellectual rigour, NeoBeast has been coined – Beastly Explorations Aesthetically Stating Truisms. This exhibition on view 19 February through 14 March, [...]