Michel Majerus’ complex and comprehensive oeuvre on view at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

STUTTGART.- -Michel Majerus only lived to the age of thirty-five and nevertheless the artist left behind a complex and comprehensive oeuvre. In a creative period of just ten years he produced a unique statement about painting that remains relevant today. Majerus worked with diverse techniques and varied subjects and motifs taken from the realm of computers, comics, and advertising. At the same time he made use of art history, drawing on works by artists such as Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Willem [...]

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 [...]

Exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art follows the chronological development of Modernism

TEL AVIV.- A display of works from the Tel Aviv Museum‘s collection that follows the chronological development of modernism and its varied expressions in Europe and the USA in the second half of the 20th century. Different manifestations of Art Informel that developed in post-war Europe, favored an intuitive approach, spontaneous brushwork and tactile surfaces (Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier and Karel Appel). At the same time, American Abstract Expressionism, inspired by European Surrealist immigrant artists, conceived the canvas as a field of [...]

The Tampa Museum of Art Presents Syntax: Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection

TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art presents Syntax, an exhibition that examines the current generation of artists’ interest in text, symbolism, and means of information transference. Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher collection in Miami, this project is the first opportunity to experience the depth of this fascinating new collection of contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from July 9 through September 25, 2011. The 20th century began with the inclusion of written text within the collages of Pablo Picasso and [...]

Swiss Artist Sylvie Fleury Presents Wall Piece at Lenbachhaus

MUNICH.- Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury combines in her work divergent topics like esotericism and trash, fashion and motorsports, science fiction and art history. By connecting separate spheres she often plays off gender differences against each other: Soft, feminine bodies counter the masculine geometry of Stacks by Donald Judd. In advertising slogans for cosmetics she discovers an aesthetic relationship with the text pieces of Joseph Kosuth. Phallic rockets are covered with long-haired fake fur, Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes are replaced by [...]

SFMOMA Acquires Conceptual Art Collection with Works by Bruce Nauman

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced today a major acquisition of 25 works from the collection of Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo of Milan, Italy, featuring five important early works by American artist Bruce Nauman. Part gift from SFMOMA Trustees and part museum purchase, the acquisition also includes major works by Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner, among others, and further strengthens SFMOMA’s collection of American and [...]