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Basel, Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler
Jenny Holzer
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Baselstrasse 101 Basel CH-4125
Tel: +41 (0)61 645 97 00 Website
US artist Jenny Holzer’s text works are so prolific she even has a regular Twitter feed, posting in uppercase (as with her other text works). The exhibition of her works at Fondation Beyeler shows pieces from various phases of her career, and she has been closely involved in its presentation. The show was first displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, last year, and its basic structure remains the same, but some works have been added here, including early paintings and painted signs. The show includes text works from the late 1970s onwards and objects from the early 1980s to the present. The majority of works are LED installations, shown alongside new paintings and sculptural works that are not well known in Europe. “Another topic of the exhibition is the presentation of these works in the exceptional museum space created by Renzo Piano,” said curator Philippe Büttner. “Great art will meet great architecture.”
The exhibition will extend beyond the gallery, said Büttner: “Together with the artist we are planning a number of projections onto different buildings and sites in Basel and Zurich.” Among these is a projection onto the historic Basel City Hall.
Holzer is also curating her own room within the Fondation Beyeler. “We have invited the artist to select works from our collection to be shown in two rooms just beside the first room of her exhibition,” said Büttner, adding that a work of hers may be displayed within the collection. “This special presentation will establish a link between the Beyeler collection and the Holzer exhibition. The artist has a very rich knowledge of the history of art and it is an important opportunity and challenge for her to get into a dialogue with works by former great artists of our time,” he said.
Monument, 2008
Chicago, USA
Art Institute of Chicago
Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Design
Modern (1900-1945)
1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 15 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
On the Scene: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, Zoe Strauss
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: On the Scene: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, Zoe Strauss
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
Playing with Pictures: the Art of Victorian Photocollage
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Photography
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
James Castle: a Retrospective
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
Focus: Monica Bonvicini
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60603-6110
Tel: +1 312 443 3600 Website
Donald Young Gallery
James Welling
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 31 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 266 Chicago 60604
Tel: +1 312 322 36 00 Website
Field Museum
The Nature of Diamonds
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago 60605-2496
Tel: +1 312 922 9410 Website
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
Liam Gillick: Three Perspectives and a Short Scenario
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Daria Martin: Minotaur
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Video & New Media
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008
Dates: 14 Nov 09 - 14 Feb 10
Categories: Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Daria Martin: Minotaur
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Liam Gillick Curates the MCA Collection
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 220 East Chicago Avenue Chicago 60611-2604
Tel: +1 312 280 2660 Website
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Reversed Images
Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Photography
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Columbia College 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago 60605-1996
Tel: +1 312 663 5554 Website
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Jan Tichy
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 24 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: John Hancock Center, 875 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2503 Chicago 60611
Tel: +1 312 642 8877 Website
Jim Dine
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 16 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: John Hancock Center, 875 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2503 Chicago 60611
Tel: +1 312 642 8877 Website
Smart Museum of Art
Sites to Behold: Travels in 18th-century Rome
Dates: 3 Nov 09 - 11 Apr 10
Categories: Old Master
1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: University of Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Chicago 60637
Tel: +1 773 702 0200 Website
Heartland
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: University of Chicago, 5550 South Greenwood Avenue Chicago 60637
Tel: +1 773 702 0200 Website
The Smart Museum of Art delves into the heart of middle America and comes up with surprising results in this two-part exhibition, organised with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. The Dutch segment, on view last year, presented to a European audience a broad
survey of the Midwest’s culture, art and music. The Smart’s version looks at independent artist
communities in centres such as Detroit and Kansas City. Design 99 (Gina Reichert & Mitch Cope) have been towing an old speedboat through the Midwest. “By the time they arrive in Chicago, they’ll have transformed it into a portable, carnivalesque sculpture,” says curator Stephanie Smith. Kansas City’s dance and variety show Whoop Dee Doo performs in Chicago in its first ever museum commission. H.S.
Whoop Dee Doo
Graz, Austria
Kunsthaus Graz, Museum Joanneum
Warhol, Wool, Newman: Painting Real
Dates: 26 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Lendkai 1 Graz A-8020
Tel: +43 (0) 316 8017 9200 Website
The place of Andy Warhol as the leading figure of late 20th century art is explored in this show of 20 works by the late American artist dating from the 1960s, which are shown with art by Barnett Newman and Christopher Wool. Curator Peter Pakesch has focused on a period in the 1960s when Warhol was looking particularly towards work from the previous decade by Newman. The works on show include Warhol’s disaster paintings, which are seen as owing a debt to Newman’s monochrome pieces. Chicago-born artist Christopher Wool is represented by about 20 word paintings seen as being influenced by Warhol. Items have been loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate, London, and private collections. James Hobbs
Andy Warhol, Flowers (Large Flowers 1 Orange, One Purple), 1964
London, United Kingdom
National Gallery
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700
Dates: 21 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Latin American
Old Master
Address: Trafalgar Square London WC2 5DN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 2885 Website
Today’s audience is familiar with the quest for the hyper-real in work by contemporary artists such as Duane Hanson, Robert Bechtle and Ron Mueck. But what are the precedents for this tradition? The National Gallery mounts an exhibition devoted to religious art from 17th-century Spain—the country’s artistic Golden Age—when hyperrealistic paintings and polychrome sculpture reigned supreme. This landmark presentation pairs 15 paintings by artists such as Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbáran alongside 14 examples of Spain’s lesser known art form—painted sculptures—to show how artists who painted on canvas were inspired and often competed with those who painted sculpture. This is the first major exhibition of Spanish polychrome sculpture ever staged and contains many pieces never before shown outside of the Iberian peninsula. Works are drawn from the museum’s collection as well as private and public collections in Spain, the UK and the US.
According to the exhibition’s curator, Xavier Bray, from the museum’s 17th- and 18th-century paintings department: “In Spain, sculpture was the preferred artform to make religion more immediate, more direct. It was a shock to the senses,” adding: “We want to reintroduce this lost art form.” Scenes of the Passion were especially popular, with artists exercising their entire repertoire, including using glass for eyes, pieces of bark to simulate coagulated blood and real bone for toe and fingernails, to create the most realistic pieces.
As some of the sculptures are still used as devotional objects, Bray was presented with difficulties in term of both negotiating loans and displaying the objects. In order to secure the loan of an Immaculate Conception work from a Spanish convent, Bray agreed, after a five-hour conversation, to mark the feast day (8 December) by bringing a priest into the museum. “We want to respect religious decorum as much as we can,” said Bray. One of the biggest coups is the sculpture St Francis Standing in Meditation, 1663, by Pedro de Mena. The work has never before left the sacristy of Toledo Cathedral and access to it is so limited that an Emperor of Brazil was even denied access.
The exhibition also sees the return to Europe of two major paintings by Zurbáran. St Serapion, 1628, is on loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US, and The Crucifixion, 1627, considered lost until it was purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952. Both pieces have not been on view in Europe in more than 50 years.
Accompanying this presentation is the focused exhibition “The Making of Spanish Polychrome Sculpture”, which features as its centrepiece the recently conserved sculpture St John of the Cross, 1675, by Francisco Antonio Ruiz Gijón. Above, Pedro de Mena, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, 1673.
Coinciding with the National Gallery show is “The Mystery
of Faith: an Eye on Spanish Sculpture 1550-1750” at Matthiesen Gallery. The display features 30 terracotta, stone and wood sculptures by leading Spanish artists. E.S.
Pedro de Mena, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, 1673
St Louis, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM)
Five Centuries of Japanese Screens: Masterpieces from the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago
Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Far East
Address: One Fine Arts Drive St Louis 63110
Tel: +1 314 721 0072 Website
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