Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951-2010 opens at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels

BRUSSELS.- As a tribute to the recently deceased artist, the Centre for Fine Arts is turning the spotlight on a less familiar aspect of his oeuvre. The exhibition includes more than 100 dryprint Polaroid photographs (selected by Twombly himself), along with a selection of other works by Twombly and a film portrait by Tacita Dean. Cy Twombly (who was born in Lexington in 1928 and died in Rome in 2011) was one of the most important US artists of his generation. He made [...]

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance at the Guggenheim in Bilbao

BILBAO.- From November 6, 2010, until March 13, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. The exhibition was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in [...]

LOOP – THE PLACE FOR VIDEOART LOVERS 2010 at Barcelona

Barcelona, Catalonia. – LOOP was born in 2003 to celebrate video and its infinite creative possibilities. The two week-long festival and accompanying 3-day fair have grown since their inception without sacrificing its distinctly independent, local flavour. The LOOP 2010 Festival will take place from May 12-22 and the LOOP 2010 Fair from May 20-22. The Fair is an excellent opportunity to check out new experimental and independent video pieces as well as to hobnob with gallery owners, collectors, critics, museum [...]

Romanesque Sculptures by Tacita Dean at Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- The monumental cycle of Romanesque sculptures in the cloister at Santo Domingo de Silos has long attracted visitors, including generations of artists. When Tacita Dean made her first visit there, many features in this historic complex engaged her attention, not least the Gregorian service of Vespers with which the monks end the day. Some months later, she returned in order to study more closely doodles and graffiti on and around the cloister’s colonnade, marks that she imagined might have [...]

Director Theodora Vischer Resigns from her Duties at Schaulager

BASEL.- Schaulager in Münchenstein opened in spring 2003. It was set up and operated by the Laurenz Foundation, which was founded in 1999. Schaulager quickly established itself internationally by implementing in exemplary fashion its concept, which focused on a new way of preserving and storing the contemporary art in the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and on related activities in the areas of research and education. This successful start-up period has now moved into a phase of consolidation. Theodora [...]