Author: Darko Topalski

LONDON.- Fiona Banner has been invited to create
the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010, supported by
Sotheby’s. Her new work, created especially for the neoclassical Duveen
galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be unveiled on 28 June
2010 and will be on display until 3 January 2011.
Artists who have previously undertaken the Commission include Eva Rothschild
(2009), Martin Creed (2008), Mark Wallinger (2007), Michael Landy (2004), Anya
Gallaccio (2002) and Mona Hatoum (2000).

Oklahoma City, OK – Explore African American art of the 1920s and 1930s and its lasting legacy with a one-of-a-kind exhibition held only at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, February 5 through April 19, 2009. Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Harlem Renaissance  will include more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald J. Motley Jr., James VanDerZee, and others. From the “vogue” of Harlem in the twenties to the Great Depression in the thirties, artists created innovative works that expressed the uniqueness of their experiences as African American artists, while participating in larger developments in American art.

Florence, Italy – An exhibition of major works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters reveals the secrets behind some of the world’s best-loved paintings.  Painting Light: The hidden techniques of the Impressionists is being staged at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence through 28 September 2008.  The exhibition comprises over sixty works including masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Caillebotte and Signac which are shown alongside such evocative objects as one of Monet’s palettes as well as technological images of the pictures themselves. 

ST. Gallen, Switzerland – The work of the
Norwegian writer and artist Matias Faldbakken (*1973) mixes a conceptual
procedure with trivial gestures, vandalism and appropriation, poetry and
pop-culture. He has produced a series of new works for the Kunst Halle Sankt
Gallen which he has brought together under the title «Extreme
Siesta». The exhibition circles around the idea of artistic production
as the practice of doing nothing and of negation – and this not without a fair
dash of sarcasm. His sculptures, wall paintings and video works, for which he
uses adhesive tape, spray paint, rough canvases and found footage, realise this
concept precisely and radically.

NEW YORK CITY – Dada , on view at The Museum of Modern Art to September 11, 2006, is the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus exclusively on Dada, one of the most influential avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century.  Responding to the disasters of World War I and to an emerging modern media and machine culture, Dada artists led a creative revolution that both boldly embraced and caustically critici ~ DADA COMES TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.

Liverpool, UK – This major exhibition captures the excitement of the steam train in art from the earliest days, through the boom years of Victorian railways to the end of the line in the 1960s. On view at the Walker Art Gallery through 10 August, 2008. Art in the Age of Steam is the most wide-ranging exhibition yet held to look at how artists responded to the extraordinary impact that steam trains had on landscape and society. It is one of the major highlights of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture year.

CARINTHIA, AUSTRIA – Beginning 8 July 2008, the Austrian Federal Province of Carinthia, together with eight Carinthian art institutions, presents the first comprehensive major exhibition on contemporary art and architecture in Carinthia under the title “K08 :: Emancipation and Confrontation – Art from Carinthia from 1945 to the Present”. The exhibition documents that many artists from Carinthia have influenced the contemporary context of the Austrian art scene and are important beyond this region. They live and work largely outside Carinthia.