TEL AVIV.- The exhibition, extending over two halls, presents single sculptures and a sculpture installation – a selection of recent works by sculptor Zadok Ben David (born and immigrated to Israel in 1949, lives in London). The sculptures are steel cutouts of figures whose bodies are an image of boughs and foliage, or of trees whose foliage is a silhouette of human activity; sculptures that are isolated, enclosed, anonymous presences, each standing alone in space. The installation is a wide field of sand planted with 20,000 cutouts of defined, specified flowers, and its appearance transforms and astounds throughout the viewing.
The Speed Art Museum Announces $10 Million Given for Expansion
LOUISVILLE, KY.- At its first annual Legacy Society Dinner honoring donors who have included the Speed Art Museum in their estate plans or given or pledged more than $100,000 in art or cash contributions during their lifetimes, Dr. Elizabeth Pahk Cressman announced that she and her husband, Dr. Frederick K. Cressman, have pledged $10 million to the Speed Art Museum’s upcoming renovation and expansion project. The Cressman gift is among the largest donations ever made to the Museum since its founding in 1927. The Cressmans are avid art enthusiasts and since moving to Louisville in the 1980s have been long-time supporters
Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973 by Philip Guston on View at McKee Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Although the McKee Gallery has mounted many Philip Guston shows over the last 35 years, it has never exhibited the small oil panels together as a group. The early figurative acrylic panels were begun in 1968, but the date of the first smaller oils is undetermined. The dated oil panels begin in 1969 and the last ones in 1973. Many are undated. These small oils, ranging in size from 9 x 10 to 12 x 16 inches, have always been special. Their diminutive size does not diminish their pictorial strength, whether as complex compositions of hooded figures in conversation, studio interiors, still-lifes or as paintings of single objects, such
Prehistoric Mammoth Site in Waco, Texas Opens to Public
WACO, TX (AP).- A site where dozens of prehistoric mammoths died in a landslide and flooding some 68,000 years ago has opened to the public in Waco, Texas. The fossils were discovered in 1978 by two men hunting for snakes. They took one of the bones to a Baylor University museum official who identified it, triggering an archaeological dig. Baylor and the city preserved the remains for two decades and, following a community fundraising effort, a permanent pavilion was built over the site, which opened to the public for the first
Carles Congost: ‘Adult Contemporary’ at Galeria Joan Prats
BARCELONA.- Galeria Joan Prats is presenting ‘Adult Contemporary’, Carles Congost’s first solo exhibition in Barcelona since 2005. The new works of multifaceted artist Carles Congost bring forth a variety of ways to approach the production of images related to the miscellaneous imaginarium of pop culture. In his recent photographic works he combines the sketch with the photo romantic novel in stories that allow aesthetic and character association in dissonant social circumstances. His visual references go from the comic strip genre, portraying camp super heroes, to celebrities from the European show
Künstlerhaus Bethanien features Brazilian Photographer Dirceu Maués
BERLIN.- Dirceu Maués is a photographer whose oeuvre
constitutes a far-reaching investigation into the photographic process and the
techniques and equipment involved. His works, therefore, are always in-depth
examinations of the photographic mechanism as such, and this study presents him
with his own opportunity to define a camera’s functional categories. The current
omnipresence of digitally generated images is an occasion for Dirceu Maués to
reflect on more original forms of photography in his works. Deliberately setting
them apart from the predominantly functional parameters to be found in today’s
modern cameras, he constructs his own cameras using the simplest of means. Over
the course of time, in this way the so-called “pinhole” technique based on the
principle of the camera obscura has developed into his main means of aesthetic
expression.
Ben Benaouisse Presents the Performance Jan Fabre Revisited
GHENT.- Ben Benaouisse (b. 1971, Familleureux) is a dancer, performer, visual artist and especially difficult to place precisely under one of the abovementioned categories. In S.M.A.K. he presents the performance “Jan Fabre Revisited”, a re-enactment of Fabre’s Bic-Art Room in 1981. The Bic-Art Room by Fabre was a performance lasting 72 hours in which the artist had himself locked up in a white room lit by artificial lighting. Closed off
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Mike Figgis Creates Short Films Inspired by Liverpudlians’ Reactions to Art from the Tate Collection
LIVERPOOL.- Four short films inspired by art at Tate Liverpool and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Mike Figgis will be broadcast on Channel 4’s Three Minute Wonders. From Monday 14 – Thursday 17 December 2009 Channel 4 will broadcast four art films that show the people of Liverpool reacting and responding to renowned artworks from the Tate Collection, currently on display at Tate Liverpool as part of “DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture”. The short films are a Red Mullet Production with Tate Media for Channel 4 and will be broadcast at approximately 19.55 each evening. In addition to their broadcast on Channel 4 the films are also available to view alongside the artworks in the current DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture display at Tate Liverpool and will be available to view on the Tate website. The first film sees Carl Andre’s “144 Magnesium Square “(1969) relocated to Rapid, a hardware store in Liverpool City