Archive for January, 2012
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Philip Taaffe,
Vizor (2011)
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Philip Taaffe has two exhibitions currently on display at the
Jablonka Galeriein Köln, and nearby Böhm Chapel in Hürth, both in Germany. Taaffe’s work consistently explores the intersections between painting and architecture, anthropology, archaeology, and natural history.
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
MOCA announces 2011 acquisitions, including works by Cindy Sherman and John Baldessari [AO Newslink]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Christie’s International sales rise 9% in 2011 as market-weary investors turn to classic contemporary art, with biggest sellers Lichtenstein, Warhol, Rothko [AO Newslink]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
New Museum Associate Director Massimiliano Gioni appointed Director of Visual Arts for the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, the youngest director in 110 years at age 39 [AO Newslink]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
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Banks Violette. All images via Blum & Poe.
In his first Los Angeles solo exhibition, Brooklyn-based artist Banks Violette presents a body of work that blends the signifiers of diverse subcultural communities with the formal aesthetics of Minimalist and Post-minimalist sculpture. With their slick black surfaces, elegant physicality, and decidedly graphic sensibility, Violette’s works harken back to the machismo of 1960s sculpture, but with the added twist of nostalgia for the nihilism and aggression of a punk rock past.
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
MoMA PS1 and Volkswagen unveil ‘Performance Dome’ for ‘Sunday Sessions’ this spring [AO Newslink]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
James Rosenquist interviewed by Vanity Fair about new full-room installment in MoMA, originally shown at Leo Castelli’s 77th Street gallery, “All you need to see my work is to bring your own intuition and sunlight.” [AO Newslink]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Takashi Murakami to release “Jellfish Eyes” movie addressing recent earthquake/tsunami victims with CGI monster companions [AO Newslink]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
New Museum announces spring exhibition schedule (May through August) featuring focused solo presentations by Phyllida Barlow, Tacita Dean, Nathalie Djurberg, Klara Lidé [AO Newslink]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Kunstmuseum Basel settles dispute with Malevich heirs, returning one gouache, “Landscape with Red Houses,” while retaining another and 60 drawings [AO Newslink]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Robert Rauschenberg, Canto XIV [from XXXIV Drawings for Dante's Inferno (including KAR)] (1959–1960)
HIDE/SEEK, the controversial exhibition that was first featured at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, is now on view at The Brooklyn Museum. Exploring issues of gender, sexual identity, concealment, and transgression in modern America, it simultaneously presents both a eulogy for the irreversible past and a radiant hope for the present and future. The works subtly meditate on universal themes of love, companionship, interaction, conversation, transience, transformation, dissolution, loss, and death.
Installation view
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Kunsthalle Zürich to reopen June 2012 post renovations which include an intermediate floor within the Löwenbräu art complex, and an additional white cube floor atop the building.
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
’Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ awarded U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance at Sundance Film Festival [AO Newslink]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Frieze New York announces 8 Frieze Projects from John Ahearn, Uri Aran, Latifa Echakhch, Joel Kyack, Rick Moody, Virginia Overton, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and Ulla von Brandenburg, to be showcased at Randall’s Island Park in May [AO Newslink]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto,
View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo. Via
Bloomberg.
Sotheby’s and Christie’s closed the week strongly with sales of the concurrent Old Masters auctions reaching $120 million. Sotheby’s came out on top, bringing in $67.7 million thus far, with Christie’s totaling $51.8 million, including commissions. These sales continue to reinforce the vitality of the art market, despite international economic turbulence. Many record prices were set for artists this past week, as the cross section of European Master Works drew interest from buyers and institutions around the world.
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Madison Avenue Gallerist Robert Scott Cook of Cook Fine Art faces up to 20 years imprisonment for secretly selling one client’s 16 works worth $4.2 million by Picasso, Manet, Matisse and Renoir to auction houses [AO Newslink]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Donald Judd , Untitled (1965). All images via Sprüth Magers.
Currently on view at Sprüth Magers London is Working Papers: Donald Judd Drawings 1963–93. The show consists of 33 drawings made when Judd was creating exclusively three-dimensional objects, offering an extended insight into the artist’s work during this period. Judd is considered a central figure of Minimalism, and although he strongly rejected the association, his explorations of volume, space, and the elimination of the artist’s ‘hand’ were pioneering efforts for Minimalists. Judd abandoned painting to work with three-dimensional objects in 1963, exercising a vocabulary of forms that he had established such as “stacks,” “boxes,” and “progressions,” which focused on the relationship between the object, the viewer, and the environment.
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Eva Rothschild, Natural Beauty (2009). All images courtesy of Kunstverein Hannover
Hot Touch is on now at Kunstverein Hannover, an exhibition dedicated to the work of artist Eva Rothschild, her first ever in Germany. Creating work that is both new and referential, the artist recalls the mid-20th century concept and tradition of Minimalism, and the fragile, ephemeral work by Eva Hesse. Utilizing a variety of materials including leather, Plexiglas, and wood, Kunstvereine Hannover claims Rothschild as one of the most important artists today working to confront and challenge the “formal aspects of sculpture.”
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (2011)
Luxembourg & Dayan‘s Grisaille explores the use of a generally monochromatic color palette in works spanning multiple centuries. The exhibition is divided between the gallery’s new space in London and the 77th Street location in New York; the show began in London in October, overlapping with the New York show throughout November and December. Both shows feature a variety of artists including Albrecht Durer, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. The New York gallery also shows new work by Richard Prince and John Currin.
Gerhard Richter, Grau (1974)
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Abu Dhabi’s Louvre, $27 billion Zayed National Museum, and Guggenheim openings delayed to 2015, 2016, and 2017 respectively from their 2013-2014 previous deadlines, though substantial work has been completed. [AO Newslink]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Marina Abramovic hosts ‘Silent Party’ where guests wore mufflers and lab coats without speaking, to coincide with her film showcase of “The Artist is Present” at Sundance Film Festival. [AO Newslink]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Ellsworth Kelly, Orange Relief with Blue (2011). All Images via Matthew Marks.
American abstract painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly has unveiled a so-called ‘shop sign’ for the inaugural exhibition of the latest Matthew Marks Gallery in West Hollywood, California, while the gallery continues to maintain four spaces in New York City. The sign is a wide strip of painted black aluminum set across the top of the white stucco building (a converted garage, now 3,500 square feet). This is Kelly’s first major exhibition in Los Angeles after over a decade, and the showcase of Kelly’s paintings inside the gallery runs concurrently to his print retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which opened Sunday.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Francesco Vezzoli,
The 24 Hour Museum, 2012, Palais d’Iéna. All images via
The 24 Hour Museum.
On January 24th, duo Francesco Vezzoli and designer Miuccia Prada team up with AMO, the research division of Rem Koolhaas’s architectural firm OMA, to transform Paris’ Palais d’Iéna into The 24 Hour Museum. The palace, which ordinarily houses France’s economical, social, and environmental councils, will instead be populated with high-end fantasy fashion and explorations of celebrity and sex. Known as a prankster of sorts, Vezzoli’s work often involves a certain kitchiness while perhaps masking a deeper political significance. In this exhibition, Vezzoli pays homage to the female figure in particular, featuring renditions of neo-classical sculptures outfitted with heads of “contemporary divas.” The museum is divided into three sections—historic, contemporary, and forgotten—with three segments of the 24 hour period as well: first a private dinner at 8:30 Tuesday evening, followed by an exclusive dance party, then opening to the public at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, before closing at 8:30 p.m.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
All installation views courtesy of David Zwirner.
David Zwirner is currently presenting Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities, a collection of work by On Kawara that spans the 46-year series of paintings. Blending the personal with the historical, the artist’s work uses variations of sans serif fonts and hand-mixed colors to record the date on which he painted the canvas. Kawara consistently exudes a fascination with chronological time, exploring the human perception of its passing, and the nature of our relationship to it. By notching the passage of time and cataloging the procession of his physical life and travels, Kawara creates a body of work that not only testifies to the grand scope of the human life, but also creates a complex interaction with the idea of history—both of the self and of mankind—and the history of the future.
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