Galerie Lelong presents an exhibition featuring a new generation of contemporary artists

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Galerie Lelong presents An Other Place, an exhibition featuring a new generation of contemporary artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru whose works explore environmentalism, urbanism, and the relationship between interior and exterior spaces. For the majority of the artists included in An Other Place, this is their first public presentation in New York City. The show’s title, An Other Place, highlights the concept of “other” in regard to identity and physical and metaphorical place. The “other,” whom [...]

Spreading the tentacles of public art: Octopus by Marialuisa Tadei comes to Thomas More Square

LONDON.- Renowned international artist, Marialuisa Tadei, is now exhibiting her landmark installation Octopus at Thomas More Square, St Katherine’s Dock. Octopus featured in Art London this year and was chosen as pick of the week in Country Life Magazine, following a very favourable reception from art critics. The work seeks to bridge the gap between the material and spiritual worlds in response to the extreme consumerism of the modern world. The installation is created entirely of hand-cut coloured-glass tiles, laid as [...]

Current museum curator John Peter Nilsson appointed Director of Moderna Museet Malmö

STOCKHOLM.- John Peter Nilsson has been appointed director of Moderna Museet Malmö. He currently works as a curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and will take up his new position on 1 March, 2012. John Peter Nilsson (born 1957) has worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm since 2004, where he has been responsible for some of the museum’s most acclaimed exhibitions, including Dalí Dalí featuring Francesco Vezzoli, which broke the visitor record in 2009, and Klara Lidén, who received an honorary mention [...]

Toledo Museum of Art’s Small Worlds exhibition offers new perspectives on size, scale

TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art challenges us to look at the world from new perspectives through its Small Worlds exhibition on view Nov. 18, 2011–March 25, 2012. Five contemporary artists in the exhibition offer engaging works that create an intimate space or environment or show scenes which are familiar but perhaps slightly askew. Intricate and intriguing, the drawings, relief paintings, photography and sculpture explore the realms of the home, the studio, the neighborhood, the city and the natural world, said Amy [...]

New works by Jannis Kounellis, master of Arte Povera, on view in China for the first time

BEIJING.- Art Povera and its representative Jannis Kounellis may sound strange to Chinese audiences. Yet Art Povera has been widely acknowledged as a hugely influential school in art history. As an internationally renowned artist, Kounellis is highly acclaimed for his achievements. Some of his works are regarded as significant connecting points in art history. In 1967, works by Kounellis first became typical of Arte Povera and they were internationally recognized in first contemporary Italian art movement. In late 1980s, his works [...]

Major exhibition that concentrates on early works by Barry Flanagan at Tate Britain

LONDON.- Barry Flanagan (1941-2009) was one of Britain’s most original and inventive artists. This autumn Tate Britain presents a major exhibition which concentrates on his early works and positions him as a key figure in the development of British and international sculpture. Although Flanagan is well known for bronze hare sculptures which can be seen in prominent public spaces around the world, the success of these works relatively late in his career has somewhat obscured the achievements that characterised his early period. This [...]

Kunsthaus Zürich Presents “Enter the Orbit” with New Works by Roman Ondak

ZURICH.- From 10 June to 28 August 2011 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents a solo show of works by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák – the first such exhibition at a museum in Switzerland. Ondák, one of the leading proponents of a new conceptual art, has been invited to contribute to both the 2011 Venice Biennale and documenta 2012. His two new works about the first satellite in orbit, Sputnik 1, were created especially for the Kunsthaus and are shown exclusively in Zurich. [...]

Living Legend of the International Avant-Garde, Yayoi Kusama, at Gagosian in Rome

ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is a living legend of the international avant-garde who has emphatically eschewed the categorizations of modern art. Flamboyant yet profound, her oeuvre runs the gamut from unique masterpieces to mass-produced pop culture commodities, consistent in their constant and manifold appeal to the imagination and the senses. In a protean career spanning more than sixty years, she has made cosmic infinity and personal obsession the twin [...]

Indian Artist Zarina Hashmi’s First Solo Show in Paris Opens at Jaeger Bucher Gallery

PARIS.- First presented as part of the inaugurated exhibition in our new space in the Marais in October 2008, Zarina Hasmi was subsequently exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in 2008. From 26 March to 21 May 2011, the Jaeger Bucher Gallery presents an exhibition entitled Noor, Zarina Hashmi’s first solo show in Paris with works on paper, recent installations and historic papier mâché sculptures from the 80s. Zarina Hashmi is one of the artists selected to exhibit [...]

Over One Hundred Works of Art Made by Michelangelo Pistoletto Presented at MAXXI

ROME.- Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 and Cittadellarte are the two exhibitions that MAXXI, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is devoting to the great Italian artist and will open to the public from March 4th to August 15th 2011. With more than 100 works on view coming from public and private, Italian and international collections, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 presents one of the most important living Italian artists, internationally recognised as a key [...]

Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali Works Boost Bumper Sotheby’s “Looking Closely” Sale

LONDON.- A triptych of British painter Lucian Freud by his friend Francis Bacon fetched 23 million pounds ($37 million) on Thursday at a Sotheby’s auction in London, more than double its high estimate. Combined with a new auction record for any surrealist work of art — Salvador Dali’s “Portrait de Paul Eluard” sold for 13.5 million pounds — the sale of works from a private collection titled “Looking Closely” raised 93.5 million pounds. Artist Francis Bacon’s oil on canvas “Studies [...]

Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Exhibition by the South Korean Artist Haegue Yang

BREGENZ, AUSTRIA- The artist Haegue Yang, born in 1971 in Seoul, surprised visitors to the 53rd Venice Biennale at two separate exhibition locations. As part of the large-scale thematic group show »Fare Mondi« in the Arsenale she presented seven sculptures from her work Series of Vulnerable Arrangements – Domestics of Community, consisting of metal stands, from which electric cables in differing diameters and colors along with various kinds of objects and light bulbs opulently cascaded. In their vertical orientation these [...]

Seven Recent Pieces by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Featured at Manchester Art Gallery

MANCHESTER.- Recorders is a major exhibition by Mexican-Canadian electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The artworks in Recorders see, hear and feel the actions of people around them, using technology to create a playful yet ominous experience. This solo exhibition features seven recent pieces by the artist, including the world premieres of two specially commissioned new installations. Close-up shadow box, 2006, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. © Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Photo: Peter Mallet. Lozano-Hemmer’s artworks depend on the participation of visitors to exist and develop, as [...]

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, [...]

Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective Opens Sperone Westwater’s New Building

NEW YORK, NY.- For its inaugural exhibition at 257 Bowery, Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Kuitca. This is Kuitca’s eighth solo show with Sperone Westwater. Kuitca’s new paintings developed from a series he first showed in 2007, when he represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale. While the subject of the canvases in Venice was by and large abstraction itself, in this new group Kuitca mixes the abstract with compositional motifs of his own past series. [...]

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