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The art of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) transcended traditional borderlines and entered untrodden territory. A customs official, Rousseau had no formal art training and initially painted in his free time. Many years passed before his art, non-academic and long considered merely naive, found recognition in the Paris salons. It was  ... Continue Reading
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The art of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) transcended traditional borderlines and entered untrodden territory. A customs official, Rousseau had no formal art training and initially painted in his free time. Many years passed before his art, non-academic and long considered merely naive, found recognition in the Paris salons. It was poets like Apollinaire and artists like Picasso, Léger, Delaunay, and later Kandinsky, who were the first to appreciate Rousseau´s outstanding significance. On the centenary of his death, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an exhibition to this pioneer of classical modern art, comprising of about 40 masterworks from renowned European and American museums and private collections. Viewers will discover Rousseau´s unusual portraits and the poetic paintings of French cities and landscapes in which he made visible the transition from the mundane to the mysterious. The exhibition culminates in a significant group of the artist´s famous jungle paintings. Although he had never actually seen a jungle, he created his own highly imaginative and colorful vision of it and its exotic denizens in his paintings. With his wonderful, often dreamlike compositions, Rousseau stood for the rediscovery of fantasy at the inception of modernism. He succeeded in opening new worlds for art, which influenced the Cubists and Surrealists and continue to excite art lovers young and old to this day. The exhibition was curated by Philippe Büttner in cooperation with Christopher Green. The Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris gave exceptional support. ]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:20:27 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1625/henri-rousseau http://meseon.net/news/read/1624/paris-and-the-avant-garde silvia

During the first decades of the twentieth century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their diverse customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest creative developments, often fusing novel formal elements with aspects from their  ... Continue Reading
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During the first decades of the twentieth century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their diverse customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest creative developments, often fusing novel formal elements with aspects from their respective local traditions. Although these artists did not adhere to a fixed style typical of a school, they were united in their defiance of academicism. Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection will feature some thirty paintings from the Guggenheim Collection by such artists as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy, among others, as well as showcase a significant group of sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and Alexander Calder. The exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator. This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation. The Leadership Committee for Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection is gratefully acknowledged. Photo: Pablo Picasso, Mandolin and Guitar (Mandoline et guitare), Juan-les-Pins, 1924. Oil with sand on canvas, 140.7 x 200.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 53.1358]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:06:51 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1624/paris-and-the-avant-garde http://meseon.net/news/read/1620/andy-warhol-cars silvia

CARS presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury, and Vincent Szarek. Common to all of the works is their examination of the history, the types, or the design of the Mercedes-Benz car. The core of the exhibit are the thirty-five silkscreen paintings  ... Continue Reading
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CARS presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury, and Vincent Szarek. Common to all of the works is their examination of the history, the types, or the design of the Mercedes-Benz car. The core of the exhibit are the thirty-five silkscreen paintings of Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) series CARS, which employ eight selected types of Mercedes to document the history of the automobile. This important late series by Warhol remained unfinished and after around twenty years is being shown again complete. Joining this series are drawings and airbrushed paintings by Robert Longo (*1953). Videos by Sylvie Fleury (*1961) blend the myth of the legendary Mercedes-Benz automobile with some of the most contemporary ideas from the art and fashion worlds. Vincent Szarek (*1973) uses design elements from the Mercedes-Benz SLR as the starting point for his group of sculptures, which were digitally developed as a modern form of drawing, rendered with 3D programs. Photo: Andy Warhol. Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Coupé, 1954. Daimler Art Collection Stuttgart/Berlin / VBK Vienna, 2010 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.Inc. / VBK, Wien 2010 ]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:18:21 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1620/andy-warhol-cars http://meseon.net/news/read/1619/irving-penn-portraits silvia

A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010. Devoted to one of the greatest photographers of his generation who died earlier this month, the exhibition will include over 120 prints from Penn's seven-decade career ranging from his early portraits for  ... Continue Reading
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A major photographic exhibition Irving Penn Portraits will open at the National Portrait Gallery in February 2010. Devoted to one of the greatest photographers of his generation who died earlier this month, the exhibition will include over 120 prints from Penn's seven-decade career ranging from his early portraits for Vogue in 1944 to some of his last work. The exhibition is a survey of Penn's portraits of major cultural figures brought together from many international collections. Portraits include Truman Capote, Salvador Dalì, Marlene Dietrich, Christian Dior, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Alfred Hitchcock, Nicole Kidman, Willem de Kooning, Jessye Norman, Rudolf Nureyev, Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso, Harold Pinter, Igor Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Irving Penn began his career as a photographer in the 1940s working for Vogue in New York. In 1947 and 1948 he made a series of portraits which were a groundbreaking stylistic shift from existing conventions of portrait photography. In contrast to his contemporaries, who often used complex or dramatic sets or showed sitters in their working environments, Penn worked in a studio that was almost empty. He used a band of tungsten light to simulate daylight and only the simplest props. In some cases his sitters leaned against a length of carpet covering a solid base and in other images the subjects stood in a composed corner. These basic studio settings provided opportunities for performance and self-expression, notably shown in the exhibition in portraits of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning (1947) or Truman Capote (1948). From the 1950s Penn began to photograph many of his subjects close up, rarely showing a sitter from below the waist. Included in the portraits from this period is Penn's iconic image of Pablo Picasso (1957), half of the artist's face is in the shadows of a wide-brimmed hat and the folds of a dark overcoat, leaving a single eye to radiate from the centre of the image. Penn was gradually eliminating the visible framework of the studio, resulting in a greater emphasis on the gesture and expression of the sitter for which he is well known. Penn's portraits since the 1960s are significantly different from the full-length portraits made earlier in his career. There are fewer changes in his pictorial style over the following fifty years than there were in the few years leading to the breakthrough of the 1940s as Penn moves into more intense head and shoulder studies. Later exhibits include his reflective portraits of Ingmar Bergman (1964) Arthur Miller (1983) and Louise Bourgeois (1992) with their eyes closed, cartoonist Saul Steinberg in nose mask (1966) and Woody Allen in disguise as Charlie Chaplin (1972). Also on show will be some of Penn's celebrated group portraits including the 1967 photograph Rock Groups, which captures Janis Joplin and her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, alongside the Grateful Dead, and his photograph of Ellsworth Kelly, Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Kenneth Noland (2002). Penn continued producing portraits well into the twenty first century and the most recent featured in the exhibition is artist Julian Schnabel (2007). The exhibition will include numerous previously unpublished or exhibited portraits including an intriguing early portrait of photographer Cecil Beaton with nude (1946), writer Harold Pinter (1962), and the painter, Lee Krasner (1972). Penn's work rapidly became part of the canon of photographic history. Within a few years of their making his photographs were seen on the walls of public galleries and museums; the first touring exhibition that included his work was organised by the Museum of Modern Art in 1949. A marker of both quality and innovation, Penn's visual language has been assimilated by a wide range of photographers and designers across generations. What was new for him has established the conventions for others. Irving Penn was born in 1917, in Plainfield, New Jersey. In a career of more than sixty years, he created an extensive and influential body of photographs in portraiture, fashion and still life. His work resides in the permanent collections of major museums internationally and has been published in over twenty-five monographs and exhibited throughout the world. Irving Penn passed away on 7 October 2009 at his home in Manhattan. The exhibition is curated by Magdalene Keaney, Associate Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. Rena DeSisto, Senior Vice President, Director, Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs, EMEA; and Global Arts and Heritage Executive, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch says: "As Bank of America Merrill Lynch extends its well-established U.S. art programme to Europe, we are tremendously excited to partner with a leading institution, the National Portrait Gallery, in bringing the works of one of the most influential and important photographers to the United Kingdom." Photo: Alfred Hitchcock, New York, 1947 National Portrait Gallery, London © Condé Nast Publications, Inc.]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:13:55 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1619/irving-penn-portraits http://meseon.net/news/read/1618/ron-mueck-in-the-national-gallery-of-victoria aitor

The National Gallery of Victoria will present a major exhibition of the work of internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck.

Known for his extraordinarily life-like creations, this exhibition will feature twelve sculptures by Mueck including four new works.

Mueck’s sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed, prominent and identifiable works in  ... Continue Reading
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The National Gallery of Victoria will present a major exhibition of the work of internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck. Known for his extraordinarily life-like creations, this exhibition will feature twelve sculptures by Mueck including four new works. Mueck’s sculptures are some of the most widely acclaimed, prominent and identifiable works in the international contemporary art arena. Often naked and suspended in states of self-consciousness, introspection or deep contemplation, his figures present both emotional and physical states of exposure. As viewers we experience a level of unease that is borne of a voyeuristic awkwardness, as though we have invaded some kind of personal space. However, we also identify with the human condition these poignant moments express. Astounding in their apparent realism and compelling in their ability to invite interaction Ron Mueck’s works have earned him a singular place as the creator of some of the most evocative sculptures of our time. This is the most comprehensive exhibition of work by the Australian-born, London-based artist to have been presented in the southern hemisphere. It includes four new works by Mueck in addition to some of his major, recognised works including the iconic Dead Dad 1996/97. Image: Ron Mueck ‘Two Woman’ (detail) 2005]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:40:54 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1618/ron-mueck-in-the-national-gallery-of-victoria http://meseon.net/news/read/1616/magnum-photo-collection-acquired-by-msd-capital aitor

Magnum Photos, Inc., MSD Capital, L. P. and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin today jointly announced a landmark partnership under which the Magnum Archive Collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued  ... Continue Reading
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Magnum Photos, Inc., MSD Capital, L. P. and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin today jointly announced a landmark partnership under which the Magnum Archive Collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center. The Collection will reside at the Ransom Center pursuant to an agreement with its new owner, an affiliate of MSD Capital, which recently acquired the prints from Magnum Photos. Magnum Photos, the venerable agency founded, owned, and managed cooperatively by its member photographers, has been a standard of photographic excellence and innovation over the past 60-plus years. The vintage prints in the Collection have been amassed since the 1930s and include images of major world events, celebrities, family life, poverty, religion and social affairs by Magnum photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, Bruce Davidson, Rene Burri, Eve Arnold, Dennis Stock and more than 80 others. Images of icons from Picasso to Marilyn Monroe, from Sinatra to Gandhi, and from Castro to a young Queen Elizabeth coexist in the Collection with depictions of international conflicts, political unrest and cultural strife. Included are famous photos from the Spanish Civil War, the D-Day landings and the Six-Day War, as well as unforgettable scenes of historic events: the rise of democracy in India, Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.S. Civil Rights movement; the Rwandan genocide; and much more. he Collection will be preserved and cataloged by the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, whose photography collection holds the world's first photograph, and has substantial holdings in fine arts and photojournalism. The Ransom Center will encourage interest in the Collection through scholarly research, fellowships, lectures and exhibitions. The Center will also host visits and programs with Magnum photographers. Photo: Copyright ROBERT CAPA © 2001 By Cornell Capa/Magnum Photos FRANCE. Eure-et-Loir. Chartres, August 18th, 1944. Just after the liberation of the town, a French woman who had had a baby with a German soldier was punished by having her head shaved.]]> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:37:09 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1616/magnum-photo-collection-acquired-by-msd-capital http://meseon.net/news/read/1614/wahala-temi-body-work walsh

The Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University is hosting a solo exhibition of new work by artist Wahala Temi. The show, which is curated by Jeanne Brasile, will feature Temi’s current body of work in various media including; painting, sculpture and installation. Temi’s current artistic output is  ... Continue Reading
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The Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University is hosting a solo exhibition of new work by artist Wahala Temi. The show, which is curated by Jeanne Brasile, will feature Temi’s current body of work in various media including; painting, sculpture and installation. Temi’s current artistic output is an expression of her experiences of having lived in both Brooklyn and Lagos, Nigeria during her formative years. The results are a body of work that critiques contemporary life in the West and elsewhere touching upon themes of abuse, power, beauty, control/submission and pain/sacrifice of African women in particular. Jeanne Brasile says of Wahala Temi’s work, “Temi’s repetitive use of materials such as beading, West African brooms, wooden combs and thread from Nigerian culture politicizes these objects through complex associations of their placement and proximity to one another in the art. Both artist and art act as catalyzing agents for dialogues about cultural practices, consumerism, technology, mechanization and body image.” The “Body Work” exhibition is a two part show. Part one first appeared at The Lower Eastside Girls Club in Manhattan in February, 2010. Part two, on view at the Walsh Gallery will encompass over 2,000 square feet and will consist primarily of large-scale work and installation that have yet to be seen publicly. Open Mon - Fri, 10:30am to 4:30pm ]]> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:44:32 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1614/wahala-temi-body-work http://meseon.net/news/read/1612/the-drawings-of-bronzino silvia

This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and will present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist  ... Continue Reading
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This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and will present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. This monographic exhibition will contain approximately 60 drawings from European and North-American collections, many of which have never before been on public view. Accompanied by a catalogue, authored by a team of international scholars, to be published by the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi and the Polo Museale Fiorentino, Florence. Photo: Agnolo Bronzino, "Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View", ca. 1542-43. Charcoal and black chalk (with stumping), highlighted with white chalk, on of white paper; some outlines stylus-incised. Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques.]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:17:11 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1612/the-drawings-of-bronzino http://meseon.net/news/read/1607/artcore-feb-2010-newsletter dskolberg

The FREE February newsletter ARTCORE has a feature interview with the publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur, and Artist Advocate magazine and much more.
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The FREE February newsletter ARTCORE has a feature interview with the publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur, and Artist Advocate magazine and much more. Read it at http://www.donaldkolberg.com/art_core.htm ]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:37:04 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1607/artcore-feb-2010-newsletter http://meseon.net/news/read/1605/color-balance-paintings-by-felrath-hines silvia

The large scale abstract paintings of Felrath Hines (1913-1993) were much admired during his lifetime but exhibited relatively infrequently. In early 2009, his widow Dorothy Fisher donated a selection of his major works to the Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Nasher  ... Continue Reading
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The large scale abstract paintings of Felrath Hines (1913-1993) were much admired during his lifetime but exhibited relatively infrequently. In early 2009, his widow Dorothy Fisher donated a selection of his major works to the Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and the North Carolina Central University Art Museum, three institutions that had expressed interest in Hines' work in the past. The special exhibition Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines brings these works together in one of only a handful of major Hines retrospectives ever. The exhibition premieres at the Ackland before traveling to the other participating museums. Hines, an African American painter who worked for most of his life in Washington DC, was primarily a colorist, modulating color - often in large geometric abstractions - to profound effect. Though he was inspired early in his career by cubism, his later paintings recall the work of Josef Albers, Piet Mondrian, Ellsworth Kelly, and Ad Reinhardt. In much of his work, each area of color is painted on a smooth surface and sharply defined, often with a narrow hairline crack of white separating the fields of color. The works included in Color Balance include fourteen of Hines' major paintings and four drawings that range in date from the 1960s to his death in 1993. These pieces include Kellylike, an homage to Ellsworth Kelly's shaped canvases, Aquatic Adventures, the last piece completed before Hines' death, and Japanese Landscape, an important early work exploring the interplay of subtle shades of gray. During his lifetime, Hines made his professional living as an art conservator, serving at different times as Chief Conservator of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, personal conservator for Georgia O'Keefe, and conservator for the Museum of Modern Art. As a young man, he trained at the School of the Arts Institute at Chicago while working as a dining-car waiter on the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, then relocated to New York City, where he moved in the same circles as other celebrated African American artists and thinkers, such as singer Harry Belafonte, writer James Baldwin, and jazz musician Billy Strayhorn (who was the first person to purchase one of Hines' paintings). Hines was one of the sixteen founding members of the Spiral Group, which included Romare Beardon and was founded to consider the role of the African American artist in social change. Despite this and other political involvement, Hines felt strongly that art transcended boundaries of race and resisted being identified as an African American artist, hoping to avoid having his work placed in a "special category with a particular group." After being shown at the Ackland, Color Balance will be seen at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (June 10 - September 5, 2010) and the NCCU Art Museum (September 19, 2010 - December 10, 2010). Image:Felrath Hines, American, 1913 - 1993: Escape, 1989; oil on linen. Gift of Dorothy Fisher, wife of the artist]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:11:45 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1605/color-balance-paintings-by-felrath-hines http://meseon.net/news/read/1604/jacob-lawrence-and-the-legend-of-john-brown silvia

Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) - one of the twentieth century's most renowned African American painters - originally created The Legend of John Brown in 1941 as a series of twenty-two gouache paintings illustrating the life of the famous and controversial nineteenth-century abolitionist. By 1977, the original paintings were  ... Continue Reading
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Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) - one of the twentieth century's most renowned African American painters - originally created The Legend of John Brown in 1941 as a series of twenty-two gouache paintings illustrating the life of the famous and controversial nineteenth-century abolitionist. By 1977, the original paintings were in such fragile condition they could not be displayed, and the Detroit Institute of Arts commissioned Lawrence to recreate the series as a portfolio of silkscreen prints. The result was a limited edition portfolio of twenty-two hand-screened prints, one of which was acquired by the Ackland in 2005. The works were printed and published with a poem, John Brown, by Robert Hayden, which was commissioned specifically for the project. This exhibition is the Ackland's first presentation of the series, and coincides with the 150th anniversary of Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Lawrence, who by the age of thirty was already considered by many to be the foremost African American artist in the US, was renowned for his figurative paintings about the lives of significant African Americans, frequently depicting important historical epochs. Though John Brown had been a popular topic for many painters, The Legend of John Brown was the first to explore the topic from an African American perspective and is the only Lawrence series in which the protagonist is a white man. In The Legend of John Brown, almost every frame focuses on the figure of the gaunt John Brown, depicted in large flat forms, bold diagonals, pure colors, and with an extreme reduction of detail. The cubist style, narrative format, and serial imagery seen in the series is indicative of much of Lawrence's work. Exhibition-related materials and programs will draw on the expertise of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members in Art, Afro-American Studies, American Studies, History, and other departments to investigate Lawrence's series. Photo: Jacob Lawrence, American, 1917 - 2000: To the people he found worthy of trust, he communicated his plans., no. 22 from The Legend of John Brown, 1977; color screenprint. Ackland Art Museum, Ackland Fund. (c) 2009 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:01:47 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1604/jacob-lawrence-and-the-legend-of-john-brown http://meseon.net/news/read/1600/philip-taaffes-graphic-work silvia

Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by Philip Taaffe, the first dedicated exclusively to his graphic work.

Taaffe's elaborate images are the slow product of wide-ranging meditations on the interrelation of generic forms and images in art, nature, architecture, and archaeology, filtered through a critical  ... Continue Reading
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Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by Philip Taaffe, the first dedicated exclusively to his graphic work. Taaffe's elaborate images are the slow product of wide-ranging meditations on the interrelation of generic forms and images in art, nature, architecture, and archaeology, filtered through a critical and dynamic relation to the history of abstract painting, both Occidental and Oriental. Drawing has always played an important role in his art. Early appropriationist canvases (after Bridget Riley, Myron Stout, Charles Shaw, and others) were largely hand-drawn. Later, paintings were often assembled from preliminary graphic studies, which were transferred to paper via relief printing, and collaged onto the canvas. Monotypes and other print-transfer processes, including rubbing, have also served as the basis for many of his large-scale paintings. Since 2003, Taaffe has experimented extensively with the technique of marbling, both on paper and canvas. The free-flowing visual energy that he so skillfully manifests in these "floating pigment" works – which refer to Oriental and Islamic calligraphy, as well as to early natural-history illustration -- has unlocked an aspect of his aesthetic that seems antithetical to his often highly controlled and formal working methods. Taaffe's new body of work is an exciting continuation of these explorations. Adapting and adding the paste-paper technique to his wide-ranging visual lexicon, he has produced startling results. Paste papers date back to the eighteenth century and earlier, when they were used in decorative book-bindings. By mixing pigments with flour paste and other natural ingredients, an array of designs were created using combs, brushes, and other embossing tools. Décalcomanie was the French term originally used to describe this process, deriving from the use of decals to transfer imagery and patterns to porcelain. In the twentieth century the technique was re-discovered by the Surrealists and used to remarkable effect, evoking abstract imagery through chance operations and the automatic gesture. In the sumptuous catalog that accompanies this exhibition, poet and Islamic scholar Peter Lamborn Wilson examines the historical practices of paper-marbling and paste-paper production in the context of the lost traditions of European Hermeticism, constructing a parallel lineage in Western art history that encompasses figures such as Paracelsus, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Bernard Palissy, and William Blake, as well as their modern counterparts Odilon Redon, Henri Michaux, Bruce Conner, and Harry Smith. In what Wilson terms "the alchemy of consciousness," and as Taaffe's works attest, in the once-secret techniques of marbling and paste papers lie the very seeds of the abstract image in the twentieth century. Philip Taaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955 and studied at Cooper Union, New York. He has participated widely in international exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, the Biennale of Sydney and the Whitney Biennial of American Art, with individual survey exhibitions at IVAM, Valencia (2000), Galleria d'Arte Moderna, San Marino (2004), and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2008). His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Art, and Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid. Taaffe lives and works in New York City. Photo: Philip Taaffe, "Stromboli", 2008. Mixed media on paper, 10 x 11 1/2 inches. Courtesy: Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever. ©Philip Taaffe.]]> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:39:01 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1600/philip-taaffes-graphic-work http://meseon.net/news/read/1598/peter-loewy-drawings-in-pinakothek-der-moderne aitor

Over the past fifteen years, the Frankfurt-based photographer Peter Loewy (*1951) has gained prominence with a number of powerful series of works. His first book of photographs, »Jüdisches« (Jewish), was published in 1996, showing details taken from inside the family homes of both famous and unknown Jewish families in  ... Continue Reading
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Over the past fifteen years, the Frankfurt-based photographer Peter Loewy (*1951) has gained prominence with a number of powerful series of works. His first book of photographs, »Jüdisches« (Jewish), was published in 1996, showing details taken from inside the family homes of both famous and unknown Jewish families in Frankfurt. This was followed by the volume »Lèche-vitrine«, as well as series on the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt and intimate pictures of the working environment of internationally acclaimed artists (»Private Collection«). Loewy’s photographs of drawings by well and lesser-known artists from centuries past form a new cycle that is to be exhibited for the first time in the showcase passage at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Quite by chance the photographer came across a book on ethnography and was fascinated by the ›photographic‹ accuracy, use of perspective and shading of drawings of people from the most varied of cultures, depicted in their respective local dress. He switched off the automatic focus option, zoomed in so closely that only a detail could be seen, and selected a filter and distance that went against any standard logic until he achieved a rich blurred image. »I was thrilled«, writes Loewy. »On my display I had a picture that was out of focus, not a drawing. I felt as if I had brought the person back to life – that’s how full of himself a photographer can be compared to a draughtsman. … As a lover of drawings I felt I had to rummage through the history of art as well, or rather masses of books, and revive people from across the centuries in the form of photos. That’s how a mass of portraits of famous and unknown people came about. I also produced a collection of famous and unknown artists, too, who I enshrouded in a misty blurredness.« Peter Loewy born in 1951 in Israel | Exhibitions: 1996 Kunstverein Frankfurt | 1997 Julie Saul Gallery, New York | 1998 Kunstmuseum Chemnitz | 1999 Presseamt Frankfurt a. M. | 2000 Bergmann, Frankfurt a. M. | 2001 Jewish Museum Munich | 2003 Historisches Museum Frankfurt; Kunsthalle zu Kiel (participant) | 2004 Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt a. M. (participant) | 2005 Jewish Museum Hohenems; »Design Within Reach« Goethe-Institut Los Angeles | 2006 Kunsthalle Mannheim; »Arte fotografica de la Collección Deutsche Bank« touring exhibition through South Africa; Messe Frankfurt | 2007 Alte Synagoge Wuppertal | 2008 Union International Club, Frankfurt a. M.; Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt a. M.; Galerie Braubachfive, Frankfurt a. M. | 2009 Ausstellungshalle Schulstraße 1a, Frankfurt a. M. Photography: Peter Loewy, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 2009. © Peter Loewy]]> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:31:05 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1598/peter-loewy-drawings-in-pinakothek-der-moderne http://meseon.net/news/read/1597/another-zipper-movie axart

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SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - The M.A. Program in Museum Professions and Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University are pleased to announce a lecture by conceptual artist Fred Wilson on Wednesday, February 3 at 7 pm in Jubilee Hall Auditorium. Wilson’s talk, titled “The Silent Message of  ... Continue Reading
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SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - The M.A. Program in Museum Professions and Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University are pleased to announce a lecture by conceptual artist Fred Wilson on Wednesday, February 3 at 7 pm in Jubilee Hall Auditorium. Wilson’s talk, titled “The Silent Message of the Museum,” is free and open to the public. In his talk at Seton Hall, Wilson will discuss how his projects remind the viewer that there are many stories contained within any single object, and not just the one story described in the wall label or museum catalogue. Wilson will show how his interventions expose the one-directional view typical of traditional museum practice—from colonizer to colonized, settler to native, white to black—and remind us that there are many different perspectives and viewpoints other that those contained in traditional museum wall text. A 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant as well as the 2003 American representative at the Venice Biennale, Fred Wilson is internationally known for his museum installations, in which he re-installs and re-labels objects owned by a museum for the purpose of creating new meanings and non-conventional narratives. Beyond bringing home the point that the way we view and “read” objects is conditioned by context and juxtaposition, Wilson’s installations subvert, criticize, or poke fun at the unspoken assumptions that museums make about the social order, including such issues as class, gender, and ethnicity. He has created such projects across the US and around the world in such diverse venues as the Seattle Art Museum, Museums of History and Ethnography and the National Gallery of Jamaica, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Dartmouth College, and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenborg, Sweden. ]]> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:40:57 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1594/fred-wilson-the-silent-message-of-museums http://meseon.net/news/read/1590/ernesto-neto-navedenga silvia

Since the late 1990s, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) has created interactive, immersive sculptural environments using translucent, stretchable fabric.

Navedenga (1998), acquired for the Museum’s collection in 2007 and on view for the first time in the galleries, is one of the earliest pieces from this evolving body  ... Continue Reading
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Since the late 1990s, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto (b. 1964) has created interactive, immersive sculptural environments using translucent, stretchable fabric. Navedenga (1998), acquired for the Museum’s collection in 2007 and on view for the first time in the galleries, is one of the earliest pieces from this evolving body of work. With its taut contours, rounded appendages, and soft, pliant surface, the installation resembles both the intimate spaces of a body and a fantastical spacecraft; its title, a neologism coined by the artist, recalls the Portuguese word for ship, nave. The artist embedded aromatic cloves within the structure, and visitors are invited inside its hollow chamber to engage their visual, tactile, and olfactory senses. Male and female; internal and external; weight and ethereality—Navedenga encompasses a profusion of symbiotic oppositions.]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:51:49 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1590/ernesto-neto-navedenga http://meseon.net/news/read/1585/silence-vote-on-art axart

I´m trying again, just for the fun of it.

This time with silence, a painted made during the holidays.

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I´m trying again, just for the fun of it. This time with silence, a painted made during the holidays. It´s all in the shapes and colors. I enjoy it, I like it.]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:15:44 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1585/silence-vote-on-art http://meseon.net/news/read/1583/warriors-of-the-plains silvia

Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual

A rare opportunity to explore the fascinating world of Native North American warfare and ritual.

The exhibition focuses on the material culture of Native North American Indians of the Plains between 1800 and the present, and  ... Continue Reading
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Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual A rare opportunity to explore the fascinating world of Native North American warfare and ritual. The exhibition focuses on the material culture of Native North American Indians of the Plains between 1800 and the present, and the importance of the objects in a social and ceremonial context. Men of these tribes were expected to join a ‘warrior society’ – a social, political and ritual group that engaged in warfare and organised ceremonial life. The societies played a prominent role in battles, offering members the opportunity to gain honours through individual acts of bravery such stealing horses, capturing women, and taking scalps during war raids. These societies, however, had a rich ritual life that was marked by a strong sense of spirituality. In their ceremonies society members made use of objects such as pipes, rattles and headdresses, as these were significant to their shared ideas of ritual and honour. The exhibition explores the world of the Plains Indians through exceptional examples of feather headdresses, shields, moccasins, painted hides, scalps, pipes, tomahawks, and traditional and contemporary costumes. Although many of these items may seem initially familiar from popular culture, the exhibition uncovers the deeper ritual significance of these iconic objects. A selection of photographs shows past and present contexts of the objects used in these societies. The legacy of the warrior societies is also examined, revealing how crucial they are in the maintenance of tribal identity among Plains Indians today.]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:33:53 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1583/warriors-of-the-plains http://meseon.net/news/read/1582/renoir-in-the-20th-century silvia

Los Angeles—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Renoir in the 20th Century, an exhibition focusing on the last three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career, until his death in 1919. The exhibition presents approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Renoir, interspersed with select works by Pablo  ... Continue Reading
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Los Angeles—The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Renoir in the 20th Century, an exhibition focusing on the last three decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career, until his death in 1919. The exhibition presents approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Renoir, interspersed with select works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, and Pierre Bonnard, to illustrate the developing avant-garde’s debt to the older master. Curated by LACMA curator Claudia Einecke and Chief Curator of European Art J.Patrice Marandel, the show offers an unprecedented look at Renoir through the lens of modernism, bridging the perceived divide between the art of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Co-organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Musée d’Orsay, and LACMA, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition will be on view from February 14 to May 9, 2010. “Renoir in the 20th Century is unlike any other Renoir exhibition,” says Einecke. “By focusing solely on his later works, it reveals a Renoir who is largely unknown, in a completely new and unexpected context. The juxtapositions with Picasso and his modernist peers are astonishing.” ]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:27:55 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1582/renoir-in-the-20th-century http://meseon.net/news/read/1579/mirabilis-mundus luminita


SIMEZA GALERY
Magheru Blv. No. 20
Bucharest, Sector 1
Phone: (+40)021 659 75 80

LUMINITA GLIGA : MIRABILIS MUNDUS
JANUARY, 11 – JANUARY, 24, 2010

OPENING SHOW : TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 , 2010
HOURS 17.00 – 21.00


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SIMEZA GALERY Magheru Blv. No. 20 Bucharest, Sector 1 Phone: (+40)021 659 75 80 LUMINITA GLIGA : MIRABILIS MUNDUS JANUARY, 11 – JANUARY, 24, 2010 OPENING SHOW : TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 , 2010 HOURS 17.00 – 21.00 After approaching the “travel” concept pragmatically , the visual artist LUMINITA GLIGA revives at “Simeza” Gallery with a whole new exhibition : “MIRABILIS MUNDUS”. Luminita Gliga had traveled within discovering the thrilling, sometimes the intangible one ( in a proper or figurative sense). This exhibition includes works which recommends to continue the “TERRAVISION” exhibitions’ message, both as a subject and as an approach possibility. The interpreted landscapes, e.g. the urban contemporary (especially the New York and the French Riviera) re-engage in a straight way, for the genuine “exploration” message, from the abstract shape to photo-realism, from the painted spot to the mixed techniques, in dynamical compositions. MIRABILIS MUNDUS offers the contemplator a different rumination about the world, anytime they will be watched. As a matter of fact, the whole Luminita Gliga’s artistic activity is based on an initiated analysis. The ambient’ outcome from the visual experience, perfectly merges with the chromatic main springs and with those of the form’s, derived of ideological edifiers. A new element in the artist’s image approach is the human presence - “Tourist at NY” and “Tourists at NY”. The exhibition from the “Simeza” Gallery has the goal to measure the public’s interest for “discovering”. Dana GLIGA Luminita Gliga (born 23rd of October 1975, Brasov) is member of the Visual Artists Union from Romania, Painting section, Bucharest organization and member of the AIAP-UNESCO since 2003. In 2002 she graduated the National University of Arts from Bucharest, Visual Arts College, Painting Department (Professor Sorin Ilfoveanu’s class) In 2008 she becomes Ph.D in Visual Arts at the National University of Arts from Bucharest with the thesis “Graphical expressiveness elements of the self-portrait in the European painting in the XIXth and XXth centuries” (scientific coordinating by Ph.D. Professor Zamfir Dumitrescu). In the same year she becomes corresponding member of the Romanian-American Sciences and Arts Academy A.R.A. The artistic activity contains over 30 personal exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions, both in the country (Bucharest, Brasov, Pitesti, Covasna, Mehedinti, Targoviste, Busteni) and abroad (New York, Montreal, Paris, Cannes, Tokyo, Moscow, Kyiv) ; to all these, adding recognitions for the performance in the domain. Luminita Gliga’s works are in prestigious collections from Romania, France, USA, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Ireland and Italy. Contact: www.luminitagliga.ro ; www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk luminita_ro@yahoo.com ]]> Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:32:03 +0000 http://meseon.net/news/read/1579/mirabilis-mundus