Art Limited: Agenda de l'Art (récentes)

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:23:20 +0200

Exhibition
Other, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United-States
10 mai 2012 - 19 août 2012
The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias's "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work.

The Retrospective

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:24:50 +0200

Frank Stella
Painting, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
8 septembre 2012 - 20 janvier 2013
Frank Stella is one of the last living heroes of American painting from the 1950s and 1960s, the time when American art found its way to its own identity, reaching its historic zenith in the process. The hardly twenty-year old artist conquered the New York art scene in the late 1950s with a sensation: His large Black Paintings not only intensified the discussion of Minimalism in painting, but also prepared the way for the “exit from the picture in space”.

World War II Veterans

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:06:07 +0200

Jonathan Alpeyrie
Photography, Anastasia Photo, New York, United-States
11 avril 2012 - 31 mai 2012
Anastasia Photo is pleased to present Jonathan Alpeyrie’s first exhibition with the gallery. Born in Paris in 1979, Jonathan Alpeyrie’s career as a photojournalist stretches over a decade, and has brought him to over 25 countries, covering 11 conflict zones, mostly in East Africa, the South Caucasus, and central Asia. He is a staff photographer for Polaris Images and his photographs have been widely published in magazines and newspapers around the world including Paris Match, Times (Europe), Newsweek, Boston Globe, Glamour (France and Spain) and The New York Times.

Bauhaus: Art as Life

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:16:55 +0200

Exhibition
Mixed-media, Barbican Centre, London, United-Kingdom
3 mai 2012 - 19 août 2012
The biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years presents the modern world’s most famous art school. From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology, this London exhibition presents the Bauhaus’ utopian vision to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age.

Various Arrangements

Sat, 05 May 2012 11:04:38 +0200

Jamie Shovlin
Installation, Haunch of Venison Yard, London, United-Kingdom
18 avril 2012 - 26 mai 2012
This exhibition will present a series of seventeen new large-scale paintings based on the cover designs of the Fontana Modern Masters series, a set of pocket guides published in the 1970s on eminent writers, philosophers and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.

Planet Lovigin

Fri, 04 May 2012 13:34:16 +0200

Petr Lovigin
Photography, ° C L A I R Galerie, Munich, Germany
8 mai 2012 - 7 juillet 2012
In "Planet Lovigin" the artist takes the reader along in a fairy-tale road trip through his Russian homeland and the Caucasus region. The pictures frequently sport the artist’s handwritten commentaries, or he furnishes them with ornaments. Lovigin travels the planet, casting his ironic gaze on things and people, overdrawing a cliché here and there, and yet always displaying evident affection for his subjects. The artist likes to call his work the »Soul Kitchen« of photography (Kehrer Verlag)

The London Festival of Photography

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:52:14 +0200

Exhibition
Photography, London Festival of Photography, London, United-Kingdom
1 juin 2012 - 30 juin 2012
Only one month remains until the 2012 London Festival of Photography takes over some of London’s most celebrated venues. A total of 18 exhibitions and over 30 events will transform King's Cross into a hive of photographic activity, with most exhibitions within convenient walking distance of one another.

The Gender Studies

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:34:30 +0200

Bettina Rheims
Photography, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
21 avril 2012 - 17 mai 2012
The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf shows the first presentation of the latest work of Bettina Rheims "gender studies" in a show with sound installation - 27 almost supernaturally beautiful photos of androgynous young people from around the world are surrounded by a soundscape of their own voices to be seen. The viewer hears "the voice of the new third sex," the artist says about this installation.

Photography

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:44:43 +0200

Franco Fontana
Photography, Rosphoto - Russian National Centre of Photography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
13 avril 2012 - 20 mai 2012
ROSPHOTO introduces to audience the work of Franco Fontana, one of the most outstanding masters of contemporary art photography in Italy. The retrospective exhibition embraces photographs from the period of 1970-2007, from the author's own collection.

Photographs of Jewish Amsterdam, War and Liberation

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:37:32 +0200

Emmy Andriesse
Photography, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
27 avril 2012 - 30 septembre 2012
The Jewish Historical Museum is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Emmy Andriesse, one of the twentieth century’s leading Dutch photographers. Visitors have a chance to see photos of Jewish life, war and liberation – all taken in Amsterdam, the city where the photographer spent most of her working life. The JHM purchased these photographs in 2008 from the Special Collections Department of the Leiden University Library. This unique acquisition is being exhibited to the public for the first time.

In Between. Sibirien - China - Mongolei

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:06:39 +0200

Katrin Streicher
Photography, Only-Photography, Berlin, Germany
26 avril 2012 - 19 mai 2012
In Between: the starting point and the final destination of a long journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In between the centers of the big cities, where the eyes and the imagination find room to wander. In between ambiguous perceptions and away from ones own culture. In between a different experience of space and time, within the confining walls of the train compartment, for many days, with complete strangers.

Compulsion

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:23:49 +0200

Alex Prager
Photography, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
20 avril 2012 - 26 mai 2012
Michael Hoppen is pleased to present Compulsion, an exhibition of new work by contemporary artist Alex Prager. The exhibition will feature 22 colour photographs from the series, as well as the artist’s new short film, La Petite Mort, with accompanying film stills. The exhibition will be shown simultaneously in London, Los Angles and New York.

Inwards and Onwards

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:19:28 +0200

Anton Corbijn
Photography, CAMERA WORK Gallery, Berlin, Germany
21 avril 2012 - 2 juin 2012
The large-format portraits featured in the exhibition »Inwards and Onwards« testify to the substantial body of artistic work that Anton Corbijn has created. Apart from striking photographs of true music legends such as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith or Tom Waits, who have always fascinated Corbijn, the photographer has focussed in his recent work on modern personifications of artistic inspiration such as Marlene Dumas, Gilbert & George or Jeff Koons.

Hokkaido to Huangshan

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:09:38 +0200

Michael Kenna
Photography, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
17 mars 2012 - 5 mai 2012
Michael Kenna is widely known for his enigmatic and ethereal landscape photographs, and is regarded as a present-day master of the black and white genre. Often using minimal elements and compositions, Kenna creates works of extreme beauty that touch the pinnacle of the viewer’s imagination.

Light and Shadow

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:29:43 +0200

Barbara Klemm
Photography, Rosphoto - Russian National Centre of Photography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
25 avril 2012 - 27 mai 2012
The exhibition of well know German photographer Barbara Klemm takes place at ROSPHOTO within the official program of the German Week in St.-Petersburg. Most of the photographs on display were made for Frankfurter Allgemeime Zeitung which Barbara Klemm has collaborated with for a long time.

Natures

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:27:07 +0200

Yumiko Utsu & Mayumi Hosokura
Photography, Galerie Lucie Weill & Seligmann, Paris, France
19 avril 2012 - 19 mai 2012
From a collective show on the theme of water involving five Japanese women photographers - Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi, Lieko Shiga, Yumiko Utsu and Mayumi Hosokura - to Natures, a real and metaphorical dialogue between two of Japan’s most interesting contemporary women photographers.

Totem Recollection

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:46:53 +0200

Tian Taiquan
Photography, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong, China
21 avril 2012 - 22 juin 2012
Chongqing born artist, Tian Taiquan has created series of photographic works out of his fragmented and vague childhood memory during Cultural Revolution. The artist revisited Chongqing Red Guard cemetery four decades after and which gave him enormous creative power.

Les Amies de Place Blanche

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:04:02 +0200

Christer Strömholm
Photography, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
20 avril 2012 - 26 mai 2012
"These are images from another time…These are images of people whose lives I shared…These are images of women - biologically born as men - that we call 'transsexuals'. As for me, I call them 'my friends of Place Blanche'. This friendship started here, in the early 60s and it still continues." Christer Strömholm, 1983.

Anamorphosen – Figure Libre

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:24:57 +0200

Bernard Pras
Painting, Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin, Germany
15 avril 2012 - 2 juin 2012
Starting from a drawing or photograph, Bernard Pras creates amazing pieces of art, by adding ordinary objects like used toys, tools, pieces of rubber, or whatever else you can think of. From up-close his works look like nothing more than random stacks of stuff, but from a certain angle and distance, they reveal their true beauty.

Chairs without legs

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:10:07 +0200

Exhibition
Design, Bauhaus Archive / Museum for Design, Berlin, Germany
21 mars 2012 - 10 juin 2012
The International Design Museum Munich is showing a special exhibition on a guest basis at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin. The world’s oldest and largest design collection from Munich is presenting “chairs without legs” in the tradition of the cantilever chair, with exhibits specially selected from its own holdings

Nothing Special

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:41:16 +0200

Alexey Kiselev
Photography, POBEDA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
5 avril 2012 - 4 juin 2012
Five years ago occurred the opening of Pobeda Gallery, one of the first professional photo galleries of Moscow. Ellen von Unwerth, a legend in the world of fashion photography, became the first photographer whose works had been presented at the gallery in the spring of 2007.

The Flaxen Diary

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:20:52 +0200

Christian Vogt
Photography, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, United-States
22 mars 2012 - 5 mai 2012
Rick Wester Fine Art is very pleased to announce the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Christian Vogt, marking the Swiss photographer’s return to New York after almost 25 years although he is well known in his home country and throughout Europe. With a successful career in advertising and editorial photography he was well known in the 1970s and 80s for his reductive, elegant yet subversive approach to the formal aspects of photography.

L.A. Style

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:53:44 +0200

Herb Ritts
Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United-States
3 avril 2012 - 26 août 2012
He revolutionized fashion photography, modernized the nude, and transformed celebrities into icons. Ritts's intimate portraiture, his modern yet classical treatment of the nude, and his innovative approach to fashion brought him international acclaim and placed him securely within an American tradition of portrait and magazine photography that includes Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Irving Penn.

California Design, 1930–1965:

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:55:34 +0200

Exhibition
Design, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United-States
1 octobre 2012 - 3 juin 2012
This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design—the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country.

Prints and Paintings

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:44:55 +0200

Ellsworth Kelly
Painting, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United-States
22 janvier 2012 - 22 avril 2012
American artist Ellsworth Kelly is universally recognized as one of the most important purveyors of American abstraction. Born in Newburgh, New York, Kelly studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn until he was drafted into the U.S. Army at the age of 20, spending the majority of his military service in Europe. From 1948 through 1954, he lived in France, teaching, traveling and studying art and architecture.

The Place We Live

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:39:22 +0200

Robert Adams
Photography, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United-States
11 mars 2012 - 3 juin 2012
Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s as a response to the rapidly changing landscape of his native Colorado, Robert Adams has been widely regarded as one of the leading chroniclers of the American West. Edited and sequenced by Adams himself, The Place We Live surveys a career spanning four decades.

Hide In The City

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:11:10 +0200

Liu Bolin
Photography, The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
13 mars 2012 - 13 mai 2012
In the frames of the 9-th Moscow International Festival “Photobiennale-2012” MAMM, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation and Paris-Beijing Gallery present the exhibition of works by Liu Bolin ─ famous Chinese photographer, well known under the pseudonym “The Invisible Man”.

America By Car

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:06:08 +0200

Lee Friedlander
Photography, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
23 février 2012 - 15 avril 2012
The project of Lee Friedlander America By Car charts numerous journeys made by the photographer during the last decade across most of the fifty US states. Shot entirely from the interiors of rental cars, typically from the driver’s seat, Friedlander makes use of side and rearview mirrors, windscreens, and side windows as framing devices for a total of 192 images.

Shadow Land

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:59:37 +0200

Roger Ballen
Photography, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United-Kingdom
30 mars 2012 - 13 mai 2012
Shadow Land is a major exhibition of work by internationally-acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen whose work offers a powerful social critique and an extreme, uncanny beauty. The exhibition explores three decades of Ballen’s career, charting the evolution of his unique photographic style and demonstrating the contribution he has made to contemporary photography.

Brain Fashion

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:49:44 +0200

Concept Art Confession Group
Mixed-media, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
31 mars 2012 - 7 avril 2012
This exhibition brings together the Concept/Art/Confession Group’s most progressive artworks created by Alexey Shlyk and Maksim Makarevich from the last few years. These artists are two of the numerous artists that compose the CAC Group. Putting together twenty-two photographs, six sculptures and one installation together, the CAC Group offers an astonishing example of the extend to which fashion and its peculiar aesthetics contributes to philosophical commentaries.

FotoFest 2012 Exhibitions

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:30:20 +0200

Festival
Photography, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, United-States
16 mars 2012 - 28 avril 2012
Deborah Colton Gallery, a participating space in the FOTOFEST 2012 Biennale, is pleased to present a series of exhibitions showcasing Russian artists Olga Tobreluts, the Gallery’s main exhibition, Focus on Russia I, and Oleg Dou, a Vignette Exhibition, Focus on Russia II. The Gallery will also feature the Solo Exhibition, Unleashed, by artist Jay Rusovich, as well as Vignette Exhibitions by French artist Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Suzanne Paul, Jonas Mekas and select Chinese contemporary artists. These exhibitions open on Saturday, March 16th with a public reception on March 24th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm

City Stages

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:01:47 +0200

Matthew Pillsbury
Photography, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, United-States
23 février 2012 - 28 avril 2012
Bonni Benrubi is pleased to announce “City Stages” a solo exhibition of new work by MATTHEW PILLSBURY. This is Pillsbury’s fourth solo exhibition at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery. Expanding upon his use of the long time exposure, Pillsbury ventures beyond the interior personal space and into the public sphere where we see ourselves reflected in the ghosts of our collective experience.

Imaging History

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:57:18 +0200

Exhibition
Photography, Photo Museum Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
17 février 2012 - 3 juin 2012
Capture the past. That was the assignment photographers Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys were given at the archaeological site of Sagalassos in Turkey. How does a photographer approach the past? When photographing the ancient city, Vandermeulen and Veys decided not just to record the archaeological finds, but to question the very objectivity of the lens itself. This was the starting point for Imaging History’.

Emigrants

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:45:00 +0200

Stefan Moses
Photography, Johanna Breede Gallery, Berlin, Germany
31 mars 2012 - 19 mai 2012
Stefan Moses is passionate about meeting his fellow humans and seeing their faces. His portraits are unmistakably sympathetic. They are also marked by the humor and fantasy used by the photographer to achieve his subjects' playful cooperation. His art moves beyond mere portraiture to capture the depth of the person's character and energy.

Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:07:55 +0200

Collective Exhibition
Mixed-media, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
14 mars 2012 - 6 mai 2012
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, presents the exhibition Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan intended to introduce the general public to the art trends of Contemporary Japan.

The Dreamkeepers

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:37:33 +0200

Polixeni Papapetrou
Photography, Stills Gallery, Sydney, Australia
25 mars 2012 - 5 mai 2012
A man in blue striped pyjamas stands on a rock by the sea, leaning into the wind. His body seems young yet he supports himself with a walking frame. His face is old, oversized, a little grotesque. He is The Wavecounter. Like the other characters in Polixeni Papapetrou’s series The Dreamkeepers, he is lithe in body yet gnarly of physiognomy, both young and old.

Shaped by War

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:13:37 +0200

Don McCullin
Photography, Imperial War Museums, London, United-Kingdom
7 octobre 2012 - 15 avril 2012
Don McCullin is one of the most important photographers of our generation. For more than 50 years, his uncompromising black and white photographs have shaped our awareness and understanding of modern conflict and its consequences. Don McCullin, alongside other leading photographers, journalists and our curator, will be discussing the issues and challenges of war photography in a series of events that accompany the exhibition.

The New York Times Magazine Photographs

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:17:55 +0200

Collective Exhibition
Photography, Foam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 mars 2012 - 30 mai 2012
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.

Photographs

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:22:26 +0100

Saul Leiter
Photography, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2 février 2012 - 29 avril 2012
Corresponding with the first universal retrospective of the photographer Saul Leiter at the DEICHTORHALLEN Flo Peters Gallery is showing some of his most unique images in an exhibition. Leiter has made an enormous and unique contribution to photography – his abstracted forms and compositions have an almost painterly quality.

Confections & Confessions

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:40:19 +0100

Andy Warhol
Photography, Affirmation Arts, New York, United-States
3 mars 2012 - 5 mai 2012
Affirmation Arts, in association with the Andy Warhol Museum, will present “Warhol: Confections & Confessions,” an exhibition of 53 unique vintage gelatin silver prints.

The Queen: Art and Image

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:33:38 +0100

Collective Exhibition
Photography, National Museum of Cardiff, Cardiff, United-Kingdom
4 février 2012 - 29 avril 2012
To mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, The Queen: Art and Image brings together 60 of the most striking and resonant images of Elizabeth II, spanning her reign. From Cecil Beaton and Annie Leibovitz to Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol, it celebrates and explores the startling range of artistic creativity and media-derived imagery that The Queen has inspired.

Exhibition

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:13:14 +0100

Lara Gasparotto
Photography, Stieglitz19, Antwerpen, Belgium
17 mars 2012 - 22 avril 2012
The images of Lara Gasparotto are raw, inexpected, full of colour. They show us the daily life of a new generation of young people , full of dreams and desires. The images present themselves as they are, you like them or not. They do not need any manual to know what they are about, anybody can find in these images their own dreams and sensations. We see people waking up in strange places , a sudden glance one does not forget, a stroke of light on the naked bodies.

7 Rooms

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:24:38 +0100

Rafal Milach
Photography, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa, Poland
25 février 2012 - 1 avril 2012
Rafał Milach presents the stories of Russians who were born in the USSR, but whose adult lives run their course in the Russia of Vladimir Putin. This is a tale of ordinary people, of their friends and family, and of the world in which they live. In Milach’s photographs are to be found neither extremism nor sensationalism.

Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:02:54 +0100

Collective Exhibition
Mixed-media, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
20 janvier 2012 - 20 mai 2012
The exhibition Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk presents a contemporary perspective of the historical idea of the total work of art. With appropriate scepticism, artists have undertaken to review this legendary figure of thought, thereby casting a critical eye on the history of Modernism: with the upheaval caused by the avant-garde after 1918 and the work theories developed by Schwitters, Duchamp, or Artaud, a holistic and socially critical way of thinking set in as a relevant force.

Cut Out & Keep

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:51:33 +0100

Christian Tagliavini
Photography, Diemar/Noble Photography, London, United-Kingdom
3 novembre 2011 - 14 février 2012
‘Cut Out & Keep’ is the first UK solo show by award winning photographer, Christian Tagliavini. The show includes two series’ by Tagliavini, ‘1503’ and ‘Dame Di Cartone’.

Hokkaido to Huangshan

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:36:28 +0100

Michael Kenna
Photography, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
17 mars 2012 - 29 mars 2012
M97 Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition “Hokkaido to Huangshan”, which includes over 30 recent silver gelatin photographs by internationally acclaimed photographer Michael Kenna. Spanning across Asia from Hokkaido to Huangshan to Halong Bay in Vietnam, this will be Mr. Kenna’s second exhibition in Shanghai, after his 2007 solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum.

Black on White

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:50:05 +0100

Andy Warhol
Photography, SAGE Paris, Paris, France
15 avril 2012 - 21 avril 2012
During the Sixties, Andy Warhol made a rare documentation of subjects in time with his photobooth portraits ; These photobooth strips, no matter how much they are readymades, mark the first instance of Warhol making multiples using a strictly photographic medium, that is, the gelatin silver print.

Retrospective

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:37:35 +0100

Arnold Newmann
Photography, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3 mars 2012 - 20 mai 2012
A person’s entire life represented by a single instant. The photographic portrait as a form of visual biography. With great sensitivity and care, Arnold Newman brought these aspects so strongly into the foreground that they became symbols and clues to the person’s character. With their powerful metaphoric quality, his photographs represent a cross-section of twentieth century culture.

Myth & Landscape

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:12:12 +0100

David Parker
Photography, acte2galerie, Paris, France
8 mars 2012 - 28 avril 2012
When Odysseus instructed his crew to lash him to the mast of their ship, he was preparing himself to hear the sirens song, 'the song of the universe'. Their sweet singing, claims of omniscience and power to calm the waters infallibly lured sailors off course to their destruction. Odysseus plugged his crews' ears with beeswax, so that he alone could savour the seductive laments of the sirens and experience a mystical encounter with the sublime.

MemyselfandI

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:42:36 +0100

Pablo Picasso
Mixed-media, Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain
5 mars 2012 - 10 juin 2012
“What do I see in Picasso that makes him Picasso?” wondered Edward Quinn, who took a large number of pictures of the Andalusian artist. Besides Quinn, many other photographers – some of whom were great names in the history of photography – also shot portraits of the famous artist, offering their own angle on his work and personality. The result is a profusion of portraits of Pablo Picasso that have become part of our collective imagery and which have contributed to building up a myth around the artist, his life and his work.

Beauty in abundance

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:32:45 +0100

Exhibition
Drawing, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2 février 2012 - 23 septembre 2012
The exhibition will show approximately 100 prints from the permanent collection, by artists including Bonnard, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This exhibition marks the publication of the first major study of the museum's print collection, Printmaking in Paris. The rage for prints at the fin de siècle.

Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:04:22 +0100

Exhibition
Mixed-media, The Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, United-States
28 janvier 2012 - 22 avril 2012
The dreams of flight, freedom, and the view from above inspired by the Wright brothers were not segregated, but for almost 50 years after they took to the skies, the paths to the training and expertise necessary to become a pilot were. "Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight" examines the contributions of African American aviators from the past and present who helped make the dream of careers in flight and space exploration possible.

Skull Session

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:17:27 +0100

Peter Tunney
Mixed-media, Clic Gallery, New-York, United-States
1 mars 2012 - 25 mars 2012
It is with great excitement that Clic Gallery invites you to a once-in-a-lifetime in-store “Skull Session” with multimedia artist/art world legend Peter Tunney. They are magical, transporting touchstones of all humanity.” And indeed, Tunney’s skulls are boldly graphic, smart, and palpably infused with the artist’s signature sense of joie de vivre; each piece telling a different story about life’s complexity and ultimate simplicity after all is said and done.

Exhibition

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:44:43 +0100

Diane Arbus
Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
3 mars 2012 - 28 mai 2012
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.

Industrious

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:15:48 +0100

Marco Grob & Hiepler, Brunier
Photography, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2 mars 2012 - 6 mai 2012
Portrait photographer Marco Grob and photographer duo David Hiepler and Fritz Brunier took pictures of employees and production plants around the world in a very unique project for the centennial anniversary of the Holcim Group, the Swiss-based international supplier of building materials. The Kunstmuseum Bern is presenting a curatorial selection from the photographic project Industrious – comprising new fineart photography making masterful statements in large-format black-and-white pictures.

This Must Be The Place

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:04:46 +0100

Pieter Hugo
Photography, The Hague Museum of Photography, Den Haag, Netherlands
3 mars 2012 - 20 mai 2012
The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (b. Johannesburg 1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known around the world. He has already won numerous awards including the KLM Paul Huf award in 2008 and was recently nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. In the coming year the Hague Museum of Photography will be the first museum to exhibit a comprehensive survey of Hugo’s work from 2002-2011.

Un Rêve de Mode

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:13:24 +0100

Cathleen Naundorf
Photography, Hamiltons Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
2 mars 2012 - 31 mars 2012
Hamiltons Gallery marks another first in its exhibition programme with new works by photographer Cathleen Naundorf. Over the past six years, Cathleen Naundorf has worked on her haute couture series “Un Rêve de Mode”, concentrating on six couture houses: Chanel, Dior, Gaultier, Lacroix, Elie Saab and Valentino. Due to her outstanding results, Cathleen was offered the opportunity to choose gowns from the couturiers’ archives for her elaborate, cinematic productions.

Exhibition

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:26:24 +0100

Cindy Sherman
Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United-States
26 février 2012 - 11 juin 2012
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history.

Exhibition

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:21:54 +0100

Hisaji Hara
Photography, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
24 février 2012 - 31 mars 2012
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to be exhibiting a series of beautiful, monochrome portraits by Hisaji Hara who has modelled his photographic compositions upon paintings by Balthus (1908-2001), one of the most revered and controversial artists of the twentieth century.

Exhibition

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:58:56 +0100

Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle, Ewan Gibbs
Photography, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
23 février 2012 - 24 mars 2012
Timothy Taylor Gallery is proud to present an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America.

Photographs 1951-2010

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:38:30 +0100

Cy Twombly
Photography, Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1 février 2012 - 29 avril 2012
The exhibition Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951-2010 presents more than 100 dry prints, generated from Polaroid photographs, which were selected in close cooperation with the artist himself prior to his death on July 5th, 2011. Cy Twombly’s photographs have been a rather recent discovery.

And the Forbidden Paintings of Kurt Schwitters

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:29:37 +0100

Per Kirkeby
Painting, Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
10 février 2012 - 20 mai 2012
The Centre for Fine Arts presents a retrospective of the work of Per Kirkeby (born in 1938), one of the key painters of the Danish avant-garde. But just what does avant-garde mean: rupture, minimalism, abstraction, borrowings, subversion? One can find all of those in a prolific body of work that began in the 1960s in the wake of the Fluxus movement.

European Master of Fine Art Photography

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:09:11 +0100

Course
Photography, International Design Network, Madrid, Spain
10 avril 2012 - 13 mars 2012
The purpose of the program is based on the premise that there is a conceptual European creative identity, which is and must primarily be a reference point in academics, culture and the art market. Faculty includes Martin Parr, Simon Roberts, Alejandro Castellote, Javier Vallhonrat, Jean-François Chevrier, Elger Esser, Beat Streuli, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Dinu Li, Irina Tchmyreva, Joan Fontcuberta.

Son

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:08:46 +0100

Christopher Anderson
Photography, Galerie Magnum, Paris, France
14 février 2012 - 14 avril 2012
This exhibition presents this very personal work of Christopher Anderson accross a selection of about fifteen prints that records his intimate life with his wife and son. With this series Christopher Anderson comes back to color photography after Capitolio, a wonderful black and white corpus about the upheavals of contemporary Caracas,Venezuela Christopher is also well known for his work on politics, war and other news. Born in 1970 in Canada he is a Magnum Photographer since 2010.