AGO Partners with Centre Pompidou to Bring Masterworks by Chagall, Kandinsky to Toronto

TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario is bringing the magic, whimsy and wonder of Marc Chagall to Toronto next fall with a major exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris on view from October 15, 2011 through January 15, 2012, features the lush, colourful, and dreamlike art of Marc Chagall alongside the visionaries of Russian modernism, including Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay, and Vladimir Tatlin. Drawn [...]

Galerie Gmurzynska Presents Exhibition by Award-Winning Architect Zaha Hadid

ZURICH.- Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize winning architect, has curated and designed her latest exhibition entitled ‘Zaha Hadid and Suprematism’ for the famed Galerie Gmurzynska on the historic Paradeplatz in Zurich. Recently named one of the 100 Most Influential of People of 2010 by TIME Magazine, Hadid’s exhibition will be the first to directly explore the connection between her works and those of the Russian Suprematist artists of the early twentieth century, the link between which has spanned her entire career. [...]

Exhibition Explores the Recurring Tension Between Figuration and Abstraction

EAST SUSSEX.- This spectacular exhibition comprises drawings, prints and experimental films, and explores the recurring tension between figuration and abstraction throughout the 20th century and the ways by which ideas and concepts evolve. Presented non-chronologically, it encompasses movements such as Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Vorticism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and comprises works by key artists, as well as works of artists who have been sidelined in the mainstream of art history. Film-maker, painter and curator Lutz Becker traces a personal [...]

New Series of Paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Sprovieri Gallery

LONDON.- The Kabakovs are Russia’s foremost living artists. In 2008 they launched the Garage Centre for contemporary art in Moscow, exhibiting their total installations for the first time in twenty years since they left the country, and their exhibition Incident at the Museum and Other Installations at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in 2004 was the first exhibition by living Russian artists ever to be held there. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Flying#13. Photo: Courtesy Sprovieri Gallery Ilya Kabakov [...]