Reflex Gallery offers rare opportunity to view a selection of Roger Ballen’s work in Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- Roger Ballen is regarded as one of the world’s foremost practitioner’s of black and white photography. He has been shooting in monochrome for nearly half a century, from his renowned documentary images of South African villagers to his recent extraordinary explorations of the psyche and its aesthetic. Ballen’s work has been exhibited across the globe, and is widely collected by the world’s important art institutions, from Moma in New York, to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris to the Stedelijk [...]

Francois Morellet’s interest in Kasimir Malevich in new exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art

LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art presents this exhibition of works by François Morellet and Kasimir Malevich. The gallery has had a long standing relationship with both artists’ works. François Morellet’s first solo-exhibition at Annely Juda Fine Art was in 1977 and they have had several collaborations since then. Kasimir Malevich’s work was included in their first Non-Objective World exhibition in 1970 and has played a strong role in many of their historical exhibitions since then. The exhibition includes recent works by Morellet, [...]

Rodney Graham to Receive Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts

VANCOUVER, BC.- British Columbia’s most prestigious annual awards for the visual arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and the VIVA Awards, will be presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 5, 2011 at 7pm. The 8th annual Audain Prize, awarded by the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, will go to acclaimed artist Rodney Graham. Vancouver artists Reece Terris and Althea Thauberger are the 2011 recipients of the VIVA Award prizes granted annually by [...]

The IVAM is hosting a major retrospective of Jasper Johns (1930).

Valencia – Today opens its doors at the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia) the exposition Jasper Johns. The memory traces. Exhibitions dedicated to this American artist are rare in general and even more in Europe. The IVAM presents today, including a hundred pieces, consists of works spanning a 50-year career. Jasper Johns This selection of paintings -23 paintings, 9 sculptures and 59 technical-paper comes from American and European museums (National Gallery of Art, Washington, MFAH, Houston, Whitney Museum, New [...]

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 [...]

World Record Price for a Modigliani Sculpture Sold at Auction at Christie’s in Paris

PARIS (AP).- A sculpted stone head by artist Amedeo Modigliani sold at Christie’s in Paris on Monday for euro 43.18 million ($52.8 million), breaking the record for a work by the Italian artist, the auction house said. It was also the highest-priced work sold at an auction in France, Christie’s said. An anonymous buyer bid for the piece by telephone. The piece, sculpted between 1910 and 1912, depicts an elongated head with almond-shaped eyes and flowing hair, and it is [...]

Museo Picasso Málaga Explores the Symbolic Importance of the Horse in Picasso’s Work

MALAGA.- Pack-animal, weapon of warfare, element of the bullfight, graceful circus acrobat, fighting stud, harmless wooden toy, winged Pegasus… The horse appears constantly in the work of Pablo Picasso, from the time he painted The Little Yellow Picador after attending a bullfight in Malaga’s La Malagueta bullring in 1889, right up to his latter years in the 1960s, in Mougins (France), where he died in 1973. The Picasso. Horses exhibition brings together over fifty works: oil paintings, drawings and engravings [...]

Top Designers and Glassmakers Present Glass Design Performances on the Vitra Campus During Art Basel 2010

CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass will bring GlassLab to the Vitra Design Museum during Art Basel 2010, pairing international designers with Corning Museum glassmakers for a series of collaborative “design performances.” GlassLab design sessions will take place on the newly expanded Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, from June 14 to June 20, 2010. Participating designers will include Kiki van Eijk, Atelier Oi, Wendell Castle, Tomas Libertiny and Jeff Zimmerman, among others. The designers will bring their [...]

Colombian Sculptor Doris Salcedo Awarded the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize 2010

MADRID.- The Spanish Ministry of Culture has distinguished Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo, with the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize 2010, worth 125,000 euros. The jury has unanimously acknowledged “the maturity of the career of Doris Salcedo and quality of her work. The jury took into account the decisive role in opening up the international stage of the work of a new generation of artists in Latin America and the rigor of its proposal, both in the formal and in terms of [...]

Pinta London: A New Chapter in the Expansion of Latin American Art

LONDON.- The inauguration of the first Pinta London Art Show, from 4-6 June 2010, at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, will open a new chapter in the global expansion of Latin American art. Following the three preceding shows, which established the prestige of Pinta New York, Pinta London participates in the process of globalization of modern and contemporary Latin American art through a program that includes around fifty renowned galleries, as well as curatorial strategies and visions that broaden the artistic [...]

Julian Schnabel Elected Honorary Royal Academician

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts announced that Cornelia Parker was elected a Royal Academician in the category of Sculpture at the General Assembly held in December 2009 and that Julian Schnabel was elected Honorary Royal Academician. Cornelia Parker was born in Cheshire in 1956 and studied at Gloucestershire College of Art and Design (1974-75) as well as Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1975-78). She received her MFA from Reading University in 1982 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton in [...]

200 Photographs by W. Eugene Smith Included in Exhibition at La Lonja in Zaragoza

ZARAGOZA.- The exhibition includes over 200 images from the most emblematic series taken for Life magazine in the 1940’s and 1950’s and the projects Pittsburgh and Minamata. A full review of the series Country Doctor, Nurse Midwife, A man of Mercy and Spanish Village is made. W. Eugene Smith is one of the main figures in humanist photography and his career centred on his obsession with the truth, resulting in passionate, idealistic, sensitive and optimistic images. As a photojournalist, between [...]

Museu d’Art de Catalunya Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Exhibition

BARCELONA.- It is now 75 years since the inauguration of the Museu d’Art de Catalunya, and the MNAC is celebrating it by bringing together 75 masterpieces of Catalan art belonging to private collections, Catalan, European and American museums, and ecclesiastic patrimony. The show enables us to journey through the history of Catalan art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, through works of great artistic quality from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods, the nineteenth century, and the [...]

Frantisek Kupka Exhibition at Fundación Miró Explores His Influence on Abstract Art

BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting František Kupka, an exhibition curated by Brigitte Léal, Assistant Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, and sponsored by BBVA. The exhibition will show for the first time in Spain a selection of around 80 paintings and drawings by the Czech artist, all from the Centre Georges Pompidou, and documents from the collection of Pierre Brullé, a leading expert on Kupka, who was considered the first painter to explore [...]