MALAGA.- In January 1937, Pablo Picasso began to work on Sueño y mentira de Franco, eighteen scenes etched on two plates. He created them in protest at the military uprising of July 1936 and with the aim of collecting funds for the Republican cause by…
The Merry Karnowsky Gallery Shows New Work by Edward Walton Wilcox
Los Angeles, CA.- The Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present “The Taciturn Sea”, a new body of work by Edward Walton Wilcox. According to the artist, the title ‘Taciturn Sea’ stands as a metaphor for the subconscious mind. “My work take…
Tutto Fellini, a Fellini Season in Switzerland Opens with Exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée
LAUSANNE.- Tutto Fellini, a Fellini season in Switzerland with the Fellini, la Grande parade exhibition at Musée de l’’Elysée, a complete retrospective of Federico Fellini’s films at the Cinémathèque Suisse and an exhibition dedicated to …
Thomas Hirschhorn Explores Explosive Issues at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
MANNHEIM.- The Bernese artist Thomas Hirschhorn (*1957, lives in Paris) is one of the most important artists in the international art scene. It became clear in 2004, at the latest, when in his scandalous show, Swiss Swiss Democracy (Paris), an actor in…
Thomas Hirschhorn Explores Explosive Issues with It’s Burning Everywhere at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
MANNHEIM.- The Bernese artist Thomas Hirschhorn (*1957, lives in Paris) is one of the most important artists in the international art scene. It became clear in 2004, at the latest, when in his scandalous show, Swiss Swiss Democracy (Paris), an actor in…
A Selection of Important Works from the Van Abbemuseum Invite Visitors to Play Roles
EINDHOVEN.- On Saturday 26th February, Play Van Abbe Part 4: The Pilgrim, the Tourist, the Flaneur (and the Worker) opened in the Van Abbemuseum. The exhibition presents a selection of important works from the museum’s collection together with sev…
Move For Life! with ArtParis 2011
PARIS.- For the first time in its history, ArtParis is acting on the urban public scene with Move For Life, a mobile art intervention against poverty, aids, violence, racism and environmental destruction by Littmann Kulturprojekte (Basel). The aim of M…
Maison de Balzac Shows Work by Louise Bourgeois Especially Created for the Museum
PARIS.- The preeminent contemporary artist, Louise Bourgeois wished to present an exhibit in the intimacy of the Musee Balzac. This original work especially created for the museum is not a confrontation with one of Balzac’s most famous novels but …
Kunsthalle in Dresden Opens Exhibition of Works by German Artist Eberhard Havekost
DRESDEN.- Central to Eberhard Haverkost’s artistic realization is the critical reflection on the present, being saturated with pictures. He deals with the optical perception of the realistic world and its pictorial abstraction. Purposefully, he ex…
Last Exhibition on which Louise Bourgeois Collaborated Opens
THE HAGUE.- The new cultural season at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opened with an exhibition on artist Louise Bourgeois, who died on 29 May this year. The exhibition confronts her work with that of Hans Bellmer and is being held in cooperation with the…