Urban Renewal: Seo Young-Deok, Olivier Dassault, Nick Gentry, Yves Krief exhibit at Opera Gallery

HONG KONG.- This spring, Opera Gallery presents Urban Renewal, a social commentary on the evolution of urban culture. Inspired by global initiatives to ‘Recycle, Renew, and Reinvest’ in the city, the contemporary group exhibition showcases four international new media artists: Seo Young-Deok, Nick Gentry, Yves Krief and Olivier Dassault. The presented mixed media works integrate technology in art as well as cleverly re-use discarded objects such as industrial chains and floppy disks, all breathing ‘life’ again into the original foundations of urban [...]

Gagosian Paris presents an exhibition of new work by conceptual artist Piero Golia

PARIS.- Master of the coup de grâce and the impossible action, Golia is the grain of sand in the oyster shell of contemporary art, invoking the destabilizing irreverence of the modern avant-garde in relation to situations in contemporary art and society. In January 2006, he vanished from New York City, leaving no trace of his plans or whereabouts. He resurfaced three weeks later at the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen to give a lecture on his disappearance. In 2008, he [...]

Basque artist Ibon Aranberri opens first solo exhibition in Austria at Vienna’s Secession

VIENNA.- In his first solo exhibition in Austria, titled Finite Location, the Basque artist Ibon Aranberri performs a reconfiguration of the large-format photography installation Política Hidráulica (2004–2010) and the sculpture Found Dead (2007-2011), initiating a constructive dialogue between these earlier works and the new The Partial Use of Senses (2014). With a view to the idea of an imaginary landscape, he deliberately does not highlight the thematic nexus between the works or construct a compelling narrative, instead directing attention to the [...]

Lotus Dome: Daan Roosegaarde’s luminous work of art on view at the Rijksmuseum

AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is presenting the Lotus Dome by Daan Roosegaarde for the first time in the Netherlands, from 7 February through 5 May 2014. The Lotus Dome is a ‘living’ Dome consisting of hundreds of ultralight aluminium foils that unfold in response to human behaviour. The high-tech work of art has been travelling the world since it was created in 2012. Having been on display at a number of historical locations abroad, the Lotus Dome will now face a contemporary juxtaposition [...]

Wright presents Harry Bertoia Sculpture: 15 Years at Wright

NEW YORK, NY.- Wright announces Harry Bertoia Sculpture: 15 Years at Wright, an exhibition showcasing select sculptures from their history of selling Bertoia at auction alongside works never before offered to the public. The exhibition runs from January 21 to February 15, 2014 in their New York gallery at 980 Madison. Since 2000, Wright has sold more than 550 sculptures by Bertoia — more than any other auction house or gallery. The categories of sculpture established by Wright have become the marketplace [...]

Alberto Giacometti exhibit at the Villa Borghese Gallery in Rome explores power of human body

ROME (AFP).- The striking, skeletal forms of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti are juxtaposed with corpulent neo-classical and baroque Italian masterpieces in a new exhibition in Rome exploring the evocative power of the human body. Forty Giacometti gems, including his famous spindly “Walking Man” in bronze, have been scattered around the permanent collection at the Villa Borghese Gallery in the Italian capital, dotted in among classics such as Bernini’s “David” or Canova’s “Pauline Borghese”. The contrast is dramatic: the Swiss sculptor’s works are [...]

Exhibition of of Abstract Expressionist sculptures Seymour Lipton on view at Driscoll Babcock Galleries

NEW YORK, NY.- Driscoll Babcock Galleries presents Seymour Lipton: Structural Metaphors, 1951-1964, an exhibition featuring a carefully selected group of Abstract Expressionist sculptures and drawings from Lipton’s most important period. During the 50s and 60s, Lipton established himself as a central figure of the postwar American avant-garde, and he was the lead American artist at the 29th Venice Biennale, where he gained international recognition as one of the principal Abstract Expressionist sculptors of his time. This period spans the height of both [...]

Gavin Kenyon’s first solo-presentation in Los Angeles opens at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe announces New York artist Gavin Kenyon’s first solo-presentation in Los Angeles, featuring a selection of new sculptures that address size and scale. Two large sculptures – an arch and a column – are comprised of multiple forms stacked from floor to ceiling. Their architectural proportions contrast with several mid-sized sculptures whose humanistic scale alludes to bodies loosely arranged in groups. Kenyon’s anthropomorphic works are seemingly approachable figurative forms, yet they elicit a sense of deviance upon [...]

Orly Genger’s outdoor installation, including 1.4 million feet of painted rope, on view at deCordova

LINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is presenting 2011 Rappaport Prize recipient Orly Genger’s monumental installation Red, Yellow and Blue in the Sculpture Park this winter. Slated to be on view at deCordova through summer 2014, it is among deCordova’s largest and most ambitious installations to date. Originally commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy (MSPC) in New York City, where it was on view during the summer of 2013, Genger’s project is a notable collaboration for both MSPC and deCordova, [...]

National Gallery of Art presents The Dying Gaul: An ancient Roman masterpiece

WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Roma Capitale, and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC, present one of the most famous works from antiquity, the Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman sculpture created during the first or second century AD, traveling outside of Italy for the first time in more than two centuries. On view from December 12, 2013, through March 16, 2014, The Dying Gaul: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece from the Capitoline Museum, Rome celebrates the marble masterwork and [...]

Royal Academy celebrates the career of British sculptor Bill Woodrow with exhibition

LONDON.- This exhibition spans Bill Woodrow RA’s entire career and explores the themes of his oeuvre from the early 1970s to the present day. Comprising over 60 works, it highlights his humour and inventiveness as well as underpinning his influential role in contemporary sculpture. The exhibition is held in Burlington Gardens, the Royal Academy’s new venue for contemporary art. Bill Woodrow RA is one of the group of celebrated British sculptors born in the late 1940s and early 1950s, who have helped [...]

Sculpture: An exhibition by Yutaka Sone opens at David Zwirner in London

LONDON.- David Zwirner presents Sculpture, an exhibition by Yutaka Sone in the London gallery. The show brings together the artist’s three sculptures of island cities—Hong Kong Island (Chinese) (1998), Little Manhattan (2007–2009), and the recently completed Venezia (2013)—each metropolis intricately miniaturized into a single block of marble. Exhibited together for the first time, they span over twenty years of Sone’s practice, and occupy a momentous part of his oeuvre. Across a wide range of media—predominantly sculpture but also painting, drawing, photography, video, [...]

“The Nearest Air: A Survey of Works by Waltercio Caldas” opens at the Blanton Museum of Art

AUSTIN, TX.- The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin and the Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil, have joined together to organize the first comprehensive career survey of one of Brazil’s most important contemporary artists, Waltercio Caldas. Comprised of over 75 works—including several that have never before been publicly exhibited—The Nearest Air: A Survey of Works by Waltercio Caldas explores highlights of the artist’s production since the 1960s through the present. It investigates Caldas’s centrality within modern [...]

Qatar Museums Authority unveils British artist Damien Hirst’s ‘Miraculous Journey’

DOHA (AFP).- Qatar unveiled 14 massive bronze sculptures by British artist Damien Hirst charting the gestation of a human being from conception to birth. The “Miraculous Journey” statues were uncovered for a day this week outside the Sidra Medical and Research Centre, still under construction on the outskirts of Doha. They were put back under wraps until January 14 to “protect them while work is ongoing” in the area, the Qatar Museums Authority explained. The project is an initiative by Sheikha Al-Mayassa [...]

Children of the Sky: Exhibition of works by Calder & Melotti opens at Ronchini Gallery

LONDON.- Ronchini Gallery presents Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky, 11 October – 30 November 2013, in collaboration with Museo Carandente Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy, curated by Director Gianluca Marziani. The exhibition features works by American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and his Italian contemporary, Fausto Melotti (1901-1986). It tells the stories of two artists who took inspiration from the city of Spoleto and Italian cultural life in the post-War period. This scholarly exhibition – including loans from private European collections and [...]