One of Malta’s leading contemporary artists, Austin Camilleri, exhibits at Art..e Gallery in Victoria, Gozo

VICTORIA.- For its final exhibition this year, Art..e Gallery is presenting a series of intimate new works by one of Malta’s leading contemporary artists: Austin Camilleri. Returning to exhibit in Gozo after a five year absence, Camilleri is presenting a series of new works on paper, a first in Gozo for the artist. Ideas at embryonic stage or whimsical scribbles? These new mixed media interventions are immediately recognisable as belonging to Camilleri’s output of the past two years. They were produced [...]

China Guardian Auctions Co, Ltd. presents its anticipated 2011 Autumn sale

BEIJING.- China Guardian Auctions Co, Ltd., presents its eighteenth annual Autumn Auction, a series of sales held in Beijing from November 12-16, 2011. Featuring over 4,500 lots of Chinese paintings and calligraphy, Porcelain, furniture, works of art, oil paintings, sculpture, rare books, watches and jewelry. The most anticipated items for sale include Qi Baishi’s Landscape, which set an auction record for highest sale at China Guardian’s 1994 Autumn Auction; Wu Bin’s Stream Under Lofty Peaks; and Royal furniture dating back to [...]

Exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian Gallery in Paris

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg stands as one of the most inventive artists in American art, arguably the first of his generation to chart a viable course out of Abstract Expressionism towards the formal integration of art and the mess of life. His approach to making art using discarded materials, everyday objects and appropriated images eviscerated the distinctions between medium and genre, abstraction and representation, while his “flatbed picture plane” created an [...]

A Selection of Murals Made by Diego Rivera During the 1930s to Be Shown at MoM

NEW YORK, N.Y.- For the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA will reunite five “portable murals”-freestanding frescoes with bold images commemorating events in Mexican history-that were made for a monographic exhibition of the artist’s work at the Museum in 1931. On view from November 13, 2011, to May 14, 2012, the exhibition will also feature three eight-foot working drawings, a prototype “portable mural” made in 1930, as well as smaller working drawings, watercolors, and prints by Rivera. [...]

Art Institute of Chicago Announces Major Acquisition of an Early 17th Century Painting

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announce a major acquisition of an early 17th-century painting by Ludovico Carracci, The Vision of Saint Francis (c. 1602). The work, acquired by the Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture at the museum, is the first painting by Ludovico Carracci to enter the collection. While the museum does hold a generous amount of works on paper by Ludovico and his cousins Annibale and Agostino, generally recognized as the artists who [...]

Solo Exhibitions by Don Porcella and Susanne Ring at Cain Schulte Gallery

BERLIN.- Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin opens the fall season with a double solo exhibition, presenting New York artist Don Porcella and Berlin artist Susanne Ring. Porcella’s installation Natural Selection and Ring’s Lignification create a humorous and peculiar dialogue about the meaning of life and the appended questions about human existence. The exhibitions will be opened with a reception on September 3rd at 7 pm. Both artists will be present. Porcella’s installations combine sculptures, made out of braided pipecleaner with encaustic [...]

Venice Pays First Major Tribute to Louise Bourgeois with Exhibition

VENICE.- During the preparation of her exhibition at the Magazzino del Sale in Venice, the sudden news arrived in the afternoon of Monday 31st May of Louise Bourgeois’s death. Louise continued to work in her studio home in New York until the end, with the great energy and creative ability that typified her visual research: a life that coincides with her art. “Louise Bourgeois. The Fabric Works” is thus the last exhibition in which she was actively involved, participating with [...]

Akron Art Museum Acquires Two New Artworks from Pattern ID Exhibition

AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum added two of the artworks from the recently closed Pattern ID exhibition to its collection: Mickalene Thomas’ painting Girlfriends and Lovers and Yinka Shonibare’s photograph La Méduse. Diverse cultural and art historical references are explored in Girlfriends and Lovers. Thomas’ richly patterned and rhinestone-studded work draws on everything from the group portraits of Picasso and the Dutch masters to 1970s interiors. In this piece, the artist addresses stereotypes of black femininity while also exploring [...]

Exhibition of New Painting and Sculpture by Konstantin Bessmertny at Rossi & Rossi

LONDON.- Rossi & Rossi presents Konstantin Bessmertny: Causarum Cognitio, an exhibition of new painting and sculpture in what is his first exhibition with the gallery, presented in association with Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong. A technical impresario who underwent rigorous formal training, the works of Konstantin Bessmertny address the many absurdities of contemporary living and our understanding of history through lush paintings, thick with coded references and allusions to high and low culture. Raised in far eastern Russia on the [...]

First Solo Exhibition in a UK Public Gallery for Angela de la Cruz Opens at Camden Arts Centre

LONDON.- London-based artist Angela de la Cruz presents new and existing work in her first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery. Situated in-between painting and sculpture, de la Cruz’s works hide in corners, bully each other and fall from the wall as they fight against the physical constraints of gallery spaces. Angela de la Cruz’s practice stems from a feeling of exhaustion with painting as a medium and from a desire to escape the illusion of the picture-plane. “My [...]

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Opens Exhibition of Works by Stefan Müller

BADEN-BADEN.- Central to Stefan Müller’s (b. 1973) approach to his art are the engagement with painting and the question of what its formal significance may yet be for the present, after the problems raised by Conceptual Art and Minimal Art. Employing a minimalist approach, Müller explores the picture, often considering it finished at the earliest possible moment. Framing and stretching the canvas and leaving minimal traces that seem to be the products of accident are often enough to form a [...]

The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today Exhibition Opens at Saatchi Gallery

LONDON.- In October 2008, the Saatchi Gallery re-opened in the 70,000 sq. ft Duke of York’s HQ building on King’s Road in the heart of London. With free admission to all shows, the Saatchi Gallery aims to bring contemporary art to the widest audience possible. Its first three shows, “The Revolution Continues: New Art from China”, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East” and “Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture”, have attracted over one million visitors to date. On 29 [...]

Amon Carter Museum Acquires Rediscovered Indian Series Painting by George de Forest Brush

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum has acquired a rediscovered painting by American artist George de Forest Brush. The Potter, painted in 1889, had been in private hands since 1946, when it was sold from the collection of the Galveston financier William L. Moody III. “The acquisition of one of Brush’s ‘lost’ Indian pictures is a major addition to our collection of material relating to the American West,” says Dr. Ron Tyler, director of the Amon Carter Museum. “Now, [...]

The Joan Miró Foundation Acquisition of New Works on Paper Offer a New Approach to View Joan Miró

BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation is adding seventeen new original works on paper, loaned by the Miró family, to its permanent displays. With the assistance of the Catalan Government, it has also remodelled its Permanent Collection. The Miró Foundation opened its doors in 1975 as a centre for contemporary art where both experts and the general public could come into contact with Miró’s work through the pieces the artist, as well as his friends and relatives, donated to the institution. [...]

Galerie Lelong Presents “Hélio Oiticica: Drawings, 1954-58″

NEW YORK, NY.- “Drawings, 1954-58″ brings together over twenty rare works by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980), a pioneer in Modernism and multi-disciplinary practice whose works-on-paper have not yet been exhibited independently. The exhibition features works from the artist’s three major drawing series: “Grupo Frente”, “Sêco”, and “Metaesquema”. “Hélio Oiticica: Drawings, 1954-58″ will be on view at Galerie Lelong from December 17, 2009, to February 6, 2010. Oiticica’s works form a bridge between painting and sculpture; furthermore, they connect [...]

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