‪‬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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Big Torn Campbell’s Soup Can (Vegetable Beef) (1962) by Andy Warhol, via Kunstmuseum

Currently on view at the Kunstmuseum Basel is “Andy Warhol – The Early Sixties: Paintings and Drawings 1961-1964,” an examination of the formative period of Warhol’s work as a painter and a graphic artist. Following a period of some success in advertising design and greeting-card illustration in the 1950s, Warhol began increasingly to explore the medium of painting in non-commissioned works. The seventy-some objects on view in this exhibition explore a transitional period in which the artist expanded and enhanced his methods of pictorial expression. It was during this time that he opened his studio to a synthesis of differing media and ideas, established the Factory, and began working in music and film.

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Preliminary Study (1989) by Rosemarie Trockel, via Kunstmuseum Basel

Currently showing at Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland through September 5^th, 2010, is an exhibition of works by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. Trockel is an artist of contrasts. Her early “knitting pictures” are an example of such; they consist of logo-stamped wool stretched thin across a series of frames. The logos belong to large corporations or countries. For example, one logo uses the symbol of the Soviet Union superimposed on the colors of the United States’ flag. Besides the obvious intimations of a power struggle through the use of symbols, another contradiction can be noted. Knitting is traditionally a woman’s job, but the frames and the logos recall industrial production and manufacturing, or traditional male jobs. While these “knitting pictures” are not on display at the Kuntsmuseum, other equally suggestive works are. The Kunstmuseum in Basel is working with the Kunstmuseum in Bonn, Germany, to coordinate the exhibit.

Untitled (2000) by Rosemarie Trockel, via Kunstmuseum Basel

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van Gogh’s “Ernte in der Provence” (1888), at Kunstmuseum Basel.

The Kunstmuseum Basel is currently showing works by the master painter Vincent van Gogh.  Seventy paintings, both better- and lesser-known, are featured in this first large-scale showing of exclusively landscape works by the artist.  The van Gogh paintings will be accompanied by a biographical video on the artist as well as forty landscape pieces by his contemporaries.  The intended result gives patrons a look at van Gogh’s contribution to the evolution of technique and concept in landscape work. The show closes on September 27.

Related links:
Kunstmuseum Basel
Switzerland’s art blockbuster of the year: Van Gogh landscapes [GenevaLunch]

Vernissage has video of the exhibition.

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