Villa Grisebach celebrates 25th anniversary with biggest sale of works of art to date

BERLIN.- To coincide with the auction house’s 25-year anniversary, Villa Grisebach was entrusted with the largest number of works of art to date. 1,463 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs will be auctioned in Berlin in six sales during four days for the first time (from November 23 to 26). Major works by the most important German Expressionists adorn the broad offerings: Emil Nolde’s “Sonnenblumen im Abendlicht” (estimate EUR 1,2-1,5 million), August Macke’s paradise version of “Landschaft mit Bauer, Junge und [...]

David Zwirner presents an exhibition of small and large new works by German artist Neo Rauch

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Neo Rauch, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. The exhibition, the artist’s fifth solo show at the gallery, consists of small and large format paintings—several larger-than-life—as well as a bronze sculpture, representing one of the first instances Rauch has worked in three-dimensional form. Born in 1960 in Leipzig, then East Germany, Rauch is part of a generation of artists who came of age in a war-torn, [...]

For the first time outside Germany: Sigmar Polke’s complete graphic works in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO.- After organizing the special and prized exhibition German Contemporary Painting and inaugurating the international tour of Places, Strange and Quiet, a photo show by Wim Wenders, MASP creates and produces Sigmar Polke – Capitalist Realism and other illustrated histories, an exhibition with the complete series of graphic works (edition prints, 1963-2009) and other objects by the German visual artist, plus the series Day by Day (mixed media) which was a thrill in the 13th Art Biennial of São Paulo in 1975, [...]

Sotheby’s to present Abstraction-Figuration: A private collection including works by Gerhard Richter

NEW YORK, N.Y.- This fall Sotheby’s will present Abstraction-Figuration: A Private Collection, a remarkable offering of paintings that thrive in the fertile space between abstraction and figuration. The collection is led by one of the most important groups of works by Gerhard Richter ever to appear at auction, which will be among the highlights of the Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2011. That sale will also include works from the collection by Francis Bacon, Sigmar Polke, and Lee Krasner. The Impressionist [...]

Photography collection of Swiss Zellweger Luwa on view for the first time at Kunstmuseum Bonn

BONN.- Kunstmuseum Bonn presents under the title ‘THROUGH THE LOOKING BRAIN’ the photography collection of Swiss Zellweger Luwa AG which has never been shown in public before. Established by Ruedi and Thomas Bechtler in 1990 and constantly complemented by Cristina Bechtler, Ruedi Bechtler und Bice Curiger (Kunsthaus Zürich), the collection has become over the last 20 years one of the best and most comprehensive international collections in the field of conceptual photography. The collection contains works from the 1970s until today, including [...]

Sotheby’s Establishes Highest Total for Any Sale of Contemporary Art Ever in London

LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale brought the extraordinary total of £108,803,550 / $174,129,201 /€120,923,897 – in excess of pre-sale expectations (estimate: £74-105 million) and establishing the highest total ever achieved for any sale of Contemporary Art in London. Buyers from 14 countries participated in the auction, which achieved remarkable sell-through rates of 89.8% by lot and 93.9% by value and established five new artist records. Twenty-nine works sold for over £1 million, and 45 lots sold for [...]

Exhibition at David Zwirner Explores Relationships Between Art and Mathematics

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents Proofs and Refutations at the gallery’s 519 West 19th Street space. The exhibition includes work by Francis Alÿs, Trisha Brown, André Cadere, VALIE EXPORT, Henry Flynt, Simone Forti, Dan Graham, Georg Herold, Alfred Jensen, Lee Lozano, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Adrian Piper, Sigmar Polke, R.H. Quaytman, Dorothea Rockburne, and Al Taylor. This exhibition explores relationships between art and mathematics from the point of view of conjecture and criticism. Among the artworks on [...]

Gagosian Gallery Presents a Mise-en-Scène of New Paintings by Piotr Uklański

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents Discharge! (on display until February 19, 2011), a mise-en-scène of new paintings by Piotr Uklański. If painting is traditionally defined as an accretive practice whereby pigments are applied to blank canvas to produce marks, Uklański’s new work moves in the opposite direction. Piotr Uklański, Discharge! January 21-February 19, 2011. © Piotr Uklański. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever. The process reveals a skepticism towards the act of painting that at the same time [...]

Major Presentation of the German Artist Anselm Kiefer at Louisiana

HUMLEBAEK.- Louisiana begins the autumn season with a major presentation of the German artist Anselm Kiefer, with 87 works ranging from the earliest years after his academy studies in 1969 until today. Kiefer’s works are one of the cornerstones of Louisiana’s collection. He has long been on the list of post-war artists the museum would like to show in this perspectivizing format. The exhibition will be shown in the period 10 September 2010 – 9 January 2011 and will round [...]

Kunstmuseum Bonn Opens One of the Largest Exhibition Projects It Has Ever Organized

BONN.- THE LUMINOUS WEST – one of the Kunstmuseum Bonn’s largest exhibition projects ever – brings 33 artists from two generations together in a total of 3500 m2 of exhibition space to achieve a broad-based definition of where the art landscape of the Rhineland and North Rhine-Westphalia stands. In connection with the large annual festivals, Kulturhauptstadt Europa Ruhr.2010 (European Capital of Culture) and the Quadriennale 2010 in Düsseldorf, the show marks the southern stop, so to speak, of a Grand [...]

Getty Museum Announces Exhibition of Still Life Photography

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Still Life, a survey of some of the innovative ways photographers have explored and refreshed this traditional genre, on view at the Getty Center in the Center for Photographs from September 14, 2010–January 23, 2011. “Still life photography has served as both a conventional and an experimental form during periods of significant aesthetic and technological change,” said Paul Martineau, assistant curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, [...]

New Exhibition Gives an Insight into the Collection Frieder Burda

BADEN-BADEN.- From March 25, 2010 to June 20, 2010, a selection of works from the Collection Frieder Burda will be on display at the Museum Frieder Burda, making for an inspiring encounter with important works from its inventory, as well as with recently acquired paintings. The exhibition, entitled “There is something about these pictures…”, will comprise more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and art installations by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Isa Genzken, Neo Rauch, Robert [...]

Pop Art from the Collection of Valencia’s IVAM Travels to Cuba

HAVANA.- The IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) and the SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior de España) openning today, February/5/2010 this co-production with the collaboration of the Embassy of Spain in Cuba and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba. The Pop Art exhibition at the IVAM Collection is curated by chief curator of the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg (USA) William Jeffett, and the Director of IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar. The exhibition brings together 59 works [...]