ArtNews Magazine – Artists, Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions
ConteArt Fine Art News visual arts world, covering international contemporary art news artists, museums, galleries exhibitions around the globe by Topalski
PORTLAND, OR.- Beyond Place: Recent Photography
Acquisitions explores place as a subject in photographs by an international
roster of artists. The selected works are mostly free of the human
figure and focus instead on the power of the photograph to imaginatively
transport the viewer, to inspire emotional musings, and to reveal the unknown.
On exhibition through 14 March, 2010 at the Portland Art
Museum.
LONDON
(AP).- A Scotland-based painter known for destroying his large-scale
wall murals after they have been exhibited won Britain’s best-known art award,
the Turner Prize, on Monday. Richard Wright said he was surprised he beat three
other finalists to win the annual 25,000 pound ($40,000) prize, which
was announced at London’s Tate Britain gallery. The award was presented by
British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Wright is known for painting intricate,
large-scale patterns on walls or ceilings, as well as for his insistence that
his work be destroyed after the exhibitions end. He said he gave up painting on
canvas because those paintings were “rubbish” and didn’t represent who he was.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Since 2005, as part of the
Hirshhorn Museum’s commitment to the creative possibilities of new media,
the Black Box has presented the work of a range of emerging and established
international artists, such as Francis Alÿs, Mircea Cantor, Ori Gersht,
Jesper Just, Rivane Neuenschwander and Guido van der Werve. From single
camera shots to computer-generated animation, the Black Box explores the wide
variety of film, video and innovative media that have become so pervasive in
contemporary art.
LONDON.- An innovative art project developed by the
National Gallery is giving a group of stroke survivors the chance to get their
creative juices flowing. Ageing Creatively is an outreach
programme that aims to make it possible for people who may be isolated,
vulnerable or unable to visit the Gallery independently, to access and enjoy the
collection. During November, members of the Greenhill Aphasia Group
took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia
is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs
following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke.
DUSSELDORF.- Running in parallel with the Per
Kirkeby show, Museum Kunst Palast is holding an exhibition of 83 paintings and
84 drawings by the Swiss artist Caspar Wolf (1735-1783). A number of
interesting parallels emerge from the simultaneous showing of the two artists.
After all, Wolf has been described by the Danish artist as one of his !old
favorites” and indeed as a “tip for insiders”. “Wolf is a painter of the lofty,
gentle, yet terrifying beauty of Switzerland. He penetrated more deeply into the
ice and snow of the Alps and their snow-clad peaks than any enthusiast or artist
before him.” (Karl Gottlob Küttner, 1786). On view 26 September through
10 January, 2010.
BREMEN.- Susanne M. Winterling works primarily in
film, collage and photography. The various media of the individual installations
developed for each of the exhibition contexts lead, altogether, to a
whole. Her works produce thereby a system of concrete references,
without resulting in the telling of a distinct story or following any clear
narrative threads. But instead, meaning emerges in a delicate weave of
references; narrative volatilizing and branching out. Literature, music, art,
architecture and in particular film history become artistic materials for
Winterling in just the same ways as everyday objects are staged in her works.
They can be of a porcelain cup from an erstwhile family manufacturer, a bird’s
feather that changes colour in differing light, the delicate flying fiery spikes
of a sparkler or of the historical inscription discovered at an exhibition site.
On exhibition at GAK through 7 February, 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark exhibition on the
extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479
BCE ) will be on view at China Institute Gallery from February 11 though June
13, 2010. “Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” will focus on the
teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly
synonymous with Chinese culture. Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius
and his ennobled descendants will be on exhibition, including hanging scrolls,
album leaves, bronze vessels, stone carvings, jade ceremonial implements,
wood-block prints and textiles. The works are on loan for the first time
in the U.S. from the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan and the Confucius
Museum in his hometown of Qufu.
NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark exhibition on the
extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479
BCE ) will be on view at China Institute Gallery from February 11 though June
13, 2010. “Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” will focus on the
teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly
synonymous with Chinese culture. Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius
and his ennobled descendants will be on exhibition, including hanging scrolls,
album leaves, bronze vessels, stone carvings, jade ceremonial implements,
wood-block prints and textiles. The works are on loan for the first time
in the U.S. from the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan and the Confucius
Museum in his hometown of Qufu.
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.
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s is confident the recession is
well and truly over in the world of fine art, with a record old masters
sale in London next week that includes important works by Rembrandt,
Raphael and Il Domenichino. The world’s largest
auctioneer is calling its December 8th old masters and 19th century
auction a “landmark,” and pre-sale estimates range from 45-63 million
pounds ($75-105 million), its highest ever for such a sale. “This auction promises to be a
landmark sale for the art market,” said Richard Knight, international
co-head of old masters at Christie’s.
