ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia

VENICE.- ArtSway, the innovative contemporary art gallery based in England’s New Forest, in collaboration with the Arts University College at Bournemouth, presents the fourth iteration of ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion. Featuring a number of new commissions, each artist explores, in different approaches, ideas relating to nationhood, ecology and landscape as seen within a modern global context. Gayle Chong Kwan, Tait Tower (The Obsidian Isle series), 2011. C-type photographic print, 183 cm x 132 cm. Courtesy of: Gayle Chong Kwan & [...]

Paolo Baratta and Bice Curiger Present Concept for This Year’s Biennale:”‘ILLUMInazioni”

ZURICH.- The 54th International Art Exhibition, with the title of ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, directed by Bice Curiger and organized by la Biennale di Venezia under the presidency of Paolo Baratta, will be opening on Friday, June 3rd, and will be accessible to the publicfrom Saturday, June 4th to November 27th 2011 in the Giardini and the Arsenale. Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of international exhibitions. Her curatorial activity at Kunsthaus Zurich parallels her important work in [...]

Tim Davies Selected to Represent Wales at the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice

CARDIFF.- Tim Davies has been selected by the Arts Council of Wales to represent Wales at the 54th International Art Exhibition, at a new location for Wales at the Biennale, Santa Maria Ausiliatrice: the Ludoteca in Castello. One of Wales’s leading artists, Davies works in a range of different materials, including, found imagery, sculptural installation, collage, framed works, and film. He is a memorable image-maker. Often the images are wrought by painstaking and meticulous, repetitive labour, honouring ethics of work, production [...]

January’s 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show Returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center January 19-23, 2011. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management this encyclopedic art event will feature more than 100 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series, film screenings, special events program, live performance art, book signing, and special exhibit spaces. China, a powerhouse of Asian Art will be the focus of the 2011 show. A special program featuring [...]

Scotland + Venice Announces Karla Black to Represent Scotland at 54th Venice Biennale

EDINBURGH.- Scotland + Venice announced that Karla Black has been chosen to represent Scotland at the 54th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the world’s largest and most prestigious showcase for contemporary visual arts. The exhibition will be curated by The Fruitmarket Gallery and will, as in 2009, be presented at Palazzo Pisani (S. Marina), Venice , from 4 June – 27 November 2011. Karla Black makes sculpture which she has described as “actual physical explorations into thinking, feeling, [...]

Internationally Acclaimed Architects and Artists at the Venice Architecture Biennale

VENICE.- The Venice Biennale, which has its offices in Ca’ Giustinian (San Marco, 1364/A), has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, promoting new artistic trends and organising international events in contemporary arts. It is world-beating for the International Film Festival, for the International Art Exhibition and for the International Architecture Exhibition, and continues the great tradition of the Festival [...]

Steven Shearer to Represent Canada at the 54th International Art Exhibition

OTTAWA.- Steven Shearer is known for using a wide range of traditional and contemporary media in works that address the human subject and its relationship with the outside world. The Vancouver-based artist will represent Canada at the 54th International Art Exhibition − La Biennale di Venezia 2011 (Venice Biennale), from June 4 to November 27, 2011. The only international visual arts exhibition to which Canada sends official representation, the Biennale is among the most prestigious contemporary art exhibitions in the [...]

Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Arrive in Taipei for the First Time

TAIPEI.- “Manet to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art”is Taiwan’s first time to work with an American museum on an international art exhibition. The artworks are from 33 masters, including 53 oil paintings and 5 bronze sculptures. This exhibition provides an overview of the development and styles of Western art from Impressionism to contemporary Avant-garde art. Chen Wen-ling, Acting Director, Taipei Fine Arts Museum said, “Our cooperation with the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a special presentation on [...]

Bice Curiger Appointed Director of the 54th International Art Exhibition for 2011

VENICE.- The Board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, has appointed Bice Curiger as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility for curating the 54th International Art Exhibition to be held in 2011. A graduate of the University of Zurich, Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of exhibitions at an international level. Since 1993, she has been curator at the Zurich Kunsthaus, one of the most important museums in the world for [...]

“The Jesus Scandal: A Liebermann Painting in the Crossfire of Critics”

HAMBURG.- The exhibition The Jesus Scandal at the Hamburger Kunsthalle centres on an oil painting of pivotal standing, The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple, 1879. One of most important works by Max Liebermann (1847–1935), it is being highlighted to mark the 75th anniversary of the artist’s death. When the artist showed the painting for the first time in 1879 at the Munich International Art Exhibition it sparked a scandal. Contemporary critics took offence that the Jewish painter should dare to [...]

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson to Represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2011

REYKJAVIK.- The Spanish-Icelandic artist duo Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson have been chosen to exhibit on Iceland’s behalf at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2011. Their work is characterized by their at once attentive and critical, analytical and emotional gaze and their interest in identifying the many questions that the present raises. The trans-cultural tendency in today’s world and the complex relationships that spring from it is one of the artist’s main concerns. Castro, born [...]

Los Angeles Art Show Returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 15th Annual Los Angeles Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center January 20-24, 2010. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management this encyclopedic art event will feature more than 100 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series and special events program, a sculpture garden, and special exhibit spaces. The 2010 Los Angeles Art Show debuts a Guest Country Program and welcomes Uruguay. By invitation-only and launching in 2010, the [...]

National Gallery Embarks on New Partnership with the Art Gallery of Alberta

TORONTO.- As of January 31, visitors to the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) will have the opportunity to enjoy exceptional works of art drawn from the National Gallery of Canada (NGC)’s collections. The announcement of the three-year partnership was made today by the NGC and the AGA. In a designated space on the main floor of the new AGA, called The National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta, special exhibitions will be presented by both institutions. These [...]