A ghost museum exhibiting lost works
London, 08/31/12 "A ghost museum displays lost works". The headline sounds like joke but the truth is that this is a real project that condenses more than two years of work. The Tate has managed to reconstruct the history of twenty contemporary pieces through documents, photographs and videos that now comes in a unique exhibition of their new virtual...
Visa pour l'Image 2012
Perpignan, 08/30/12 Over 24 years, during the first two weeks of September Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan becomes the world capital of photojournalism and turns his attention to the main events of war, political and social aspects during last year. The festival consists of thirty exhibitions in six sections and numerous workshops and showcases of meeting for...
'Heads, arms, legs, body'
Barcelona, 08/29/12 Antoni Tàpies. Cap, braços, cams, cos concerns on the last 13 years of the artist's production and, more specifically, on those compositions that are particularly intended in the exploration of human anatomy. A collection of 74 works selected by Laurence Rassel and Miquel Tàpies, of which 56 belong to the family collection Tàpies and the...
Two companies avoid the closure of Esteban Vicente Museum
Segovia, 08/28/12 The Museum of Contemporary Art Esteban Vicente will keep its doors open until the end of this year. A doble grant related to the painting Canto will allow the institution to continue its cultural and educational activities, at least until December. The center, which houses the largest collection of the Abstract Expressionist author's works,...
Ron Arad and his 'circle' 720 Degrees
Jerusalem, 08/28/12 Ron Arad has created a circle 720 Degrees. This is not a miscalculation, nor a mathematical impossibility but an optical illusion that invites you to enjoy the video art in two ways: from inside and from outside. For that reason, the installation occupies these days the gardens of the Israel Museum entitled 720 °, the sum of two full...
13th International Architecture Exhibition
Venice, 08/24/12 The 13th International Architecture Exhibition titled Common Ground, directed by David Chipperfield and organized by la Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, will open to the public from Wednesday August 29th until Sunday November 25th 2012, at the Giardini della Biennale and at the Arsenale. Four nations will be participating for the...
Variations on color by Josef Albers
New York, 08/23/12 Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper explores the influence on Josef Albers (1888-1976) of the journey through Mexico and the United States in the '40s and '50s, which is reflected in his Homage to the Square series that explore colors in a composition of concentric squares. Some works executed in oil on paper that also denote an...
'Rodin: Flesh and Marble'
Paris, 08/21/12 Coinciding with the renovation of the Hôtel Biron, more than 60 works in marble and some preparatory studies from private collections are presented these days in Paris under the theme Rodin: Flesh and Marble, an exhibition curated by Aline Magnien, Head Curator of the museum's collections. The exhibition explores, once again, the symbolic...
A Doric monument to the Abstract Painting
Valencia, 08/16/12 Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945) presents a new work at the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM) which is intended to claim the Greek Doric from their usual pictorial reflections about optical illusions, perception of the relief to through serial structures and the sense of movement from the overlay. A series - Doric –, which chase to convert the...
The magic of The Quay Brothers revealed
New York, 08/13/12 The Museum of Modern Art presents Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets, a retrospective exhibition that reveals the constant anxiety for adaptation of this two audiovisual creators among the most influential of our time. The exhibition includes graphics and audiovisual projects, and some of his...
Illusion, Elegance & Refinement
Washington, 08/10/12 Renowned for the luxury and magnificence of his still lifes and the brilliance of his palette, Willem van Aelst has not been the subject of a monographic exhibition until today. A special case though justifiable because of the limited expectations generated by the still life in the great museums, despite being one of the most renowned Dutch...
¿Souvenir or not souvenir?...
Barcelona, 08/09/12 ... That's the question for many photographers who challenge their integrity and curriculum - friends, relatives, coworkers ... - at the time to take a holiday snapshot that meets the paradigm of the excited tourists. The result is always contradictory, like those unclassifiable objects that one day we put forward into the suitcase and next day...
Scale Architecture at MAXXI
Rome, 08/08/12 Some of the projects that have marked the history of Italian architecture of the twentieth century to the present are presented these days in the MAXXI. Something unusual in the exhibitions scenario that, however, brings the scale architecture to a better understanding and valuation of design and realization of the idea in the complex technical...
'Bodies and Shadows': in the wake of Caravaggio
Montpellier-Toulouse, 08/06/12 Four decades have already passed since the pioneering exhibition curated by Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Arnauld Brejon of Lavergnée, and almost two from the Neapolitan painting retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1983. Therefore, the Musée Fabre and the Musée des Augustins have allied with the aim of examining the mark of Michelangelo Merisi in...
Fabergé, synonymous of the splendor of the Romanovs
Venaria Reale, 08/03/12 Gold, gems, diamonds, pearls ... The luxury and splendor of the Romanov finds its highest expression in the Faberge's eggs the Tzar gave to his wife every Easter day. The tradition began in 1885, when Alexander III gave to Maria Fyodorovna a unique piece which hided a surprise inside. Since then, these objects have become one of the hallmarks...
Design in the material world of children
New York, 08/01/12 From the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gerrit Rietveld, Laura Kriesch, Mariska Undi, Lyonel Feininger and Joaquín Torres-García to the theater elements of Pee-Wee, the airship by Graf Zeppelin or the LEGO mountables, children's games have represented an inexhaustible source of inspiration for great designers, engineers and artists of...