Currently showing in The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, New York, is an exhibition by Agathe Snow. Works exhibited are made from recycled materials that went into Agathe Snow’s show at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City in Queens last year. The installations are great in size, yet light to the eye- almost childish in their appearance of clean forms and bold color combinations; they play with conventions of contemporary art but do not defy them in establishing a language of their own. The show of Agathe Snow’s works runs through August 23, 2009.
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The current group show at Skarstedt Gallery on E79th Street in New York exhibits the efforts of nine artists to tackle a genre that is of great importance in the canon of Art History: the Self-Portrait. Once a tool for self-promotion and notoriety, the staff at the Skarstedt Gallery recognize the self-portrait as “a conceptual apparatus of history and are at the disposal of anyone who employs it.” In this instance, the Gallery presents the viewer with the self-fashioned images of Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Rudolf Stingel, John Coplands, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yasumasa Morimura, and Albert Oehlen within the framework of four iconographical themes: Glory, Desire, The Masquerade and Fading.
Untitled (Self-Portrait), Martin Kippenberger (1988). Via Skarstedt Gallery
Some of the 40,000 clay figures from Field for the British Isles. Via Torre Abbey
One of the largest Medieval Monasteries in the UK is hosting the most recent addition to Antony Gormley’s Turner-prize-winning Field series, Field for the British Isles. Earlier works from this series were created and displayed in Mexico, Sweden, London and Porto Velho in the Amazon Basin. The show runs through August 23, 2009. Presently Gormley’s One & Other project is underway on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
Philip Taaffe, “Unit of Direction No. 2” (2008). Via Gagosian Gallery.
Until August 21st Gagosian Gallery is displaying a small group exhibition of exuberant abstract paintings which celebrate circles, dots and spots at their West 24th Street location. The collection of nine paintings covers work from their most prestigous artists; included are works by Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama, Mike Kelley and Roy Lichenstein.
James Ensor, “Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring” (1891). Via Thirteen.
On view now, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is showcasing approximately 120 works by Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor. This exhibition, which focuses on Ensor’s use of satire and carnival scenes, is located on the sixth floor of the museum in The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery. Following its stay at the MoMA, the exhibition will travel to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris from October 2009 to February 2010.
James Ensor, “The Frightful Musicians”(1891). Via NY Times
Detail from Isa Genzken’s “Kinder filmen III” (2005), part of “Sesam, öffne dich!” currently showing at Museum Ludwig.
Isa Genzken’s “Sesam, öffne dich!” moves to Museum Ludwig from a show at Whitechapel Gallery which drew over 50,000 visitors. The exhibition features Genzken’s mixed media pieces from as early as 1970, spanning thirty years of her unique fusion of paint, photography, found art, and architectural installation. Co-curated by Kasper König and Nina Gülicher, “Sesam, öffne dich!” closes at Museum Ludwig on November 15.
Further detail from Isa Genzken’s “Kinder filmen III” (2005), at Museum Ludwig.
From “Civilized Guilt,” a recreation of Ernesto Neto’s “Leviathan Thot” currently showing at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes.
Timed to coincide with this year’s Estuaire, Musée des Beaux-Arts is currently hosting a giant work by Ernesto Neto. “A Culpa civilizada (Civilized Guilt)” is a re-working of his well-known installation piece “Léviathan Thot,” originally shown in 2006 at the Panthéon in Paris during the Autumn Festival. The installation will be housed in the patio space of the museum, and is curated by Blandine Chavanne and Alice Fleury, director and contemporary art coordinator of the gallery, respectively. It will close on September 21.
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From June 24, 2009 through September 7, 2009 the Museum of Modern Art displays their “Project 90,” featuring Beijing-native conceptual artist Song Dong. It is a solo exhibition installation entitled, “Waste Not” (or Wu jin qi gong in Chinese). The piece, done in collaboration between Song Dong and his mother, Zhao Xiang Yuan, was initially unveiled at the Beijing Hua Lang in 2005, and has since traveled to Guangzhou Biennale, the Berlin World Culture Pavilion, as well as the New Art Gallery in Walsall England. “Waste Not” is composed of ordinarily used objects collected by his mother over the span of fifty years, such as pans, plates, buttons, pens, tubes, shirts, buttons, basins, toothpaste and even the original wooden frame of his mother’s home. The moving installation, which occupies 3,000 square feet of the MoMa’s Atrium, is a reconstruction of his parents’ house, which was taken over by Urban Planning in China. Dong’s piece is symbolic of a time when his mother, plagued by poverty, had to abide by the “waste not” dictum as a “prerequisite for survival.”
On view now, the Museo D’Arte Moderna Di Lugano is displaying works by Yves Klein, a prominent artist from the sixties. The exhibit focuses on his collaboration with Rotraut Uecker, both Klein’s wife and an artist who shared his use of imagery and poetics. This exhibition is curated by Bruno Corà and Daniel Moquay who worked in partnership with the Archives Yves Klein of Paris. Klein’s work will be displayed alongside twenty-two of Rotraut’s metallic sculptures which can be located around the city in parks and squares.
Untitled (Chinese Painting), Julian Schnabel. Via Robilant+Voena
New works by the American painter and film director Julian Schnabel are currently showing in Naples. After a successful run in 2008 at the Saatchi Gallery in London the exhibition, produced by Marco Voena, comes to Museo di Capodimonte. The latter is one of the rare museums that houses works of contemporary artists alongside a collection of Old Masters. The show endsSeptember 6, 2009.
Gerhard Richter’s Overpainted Photograph via Artnews
The practices of Photorealism and Abstraction have merged in the work of Gerhard Richter since 1989. 300 works in series and individual pieces from Richter’s personal collection are currently being shown at the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid. Richter’s work is difficult to pin down. He has moved from one medium to another and has examined a variety of stylistic patterns. It is by dragging personal photos, that did not find home in his albums, over wet paint that overpainted photographs are created. The exhibition is at Fundación Telefónica through August 30, 2009.
David Rockefeller, who is the chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of MoMA has donated many works to the Museum and supported it financially over decades. David Rockefeller’s connection to MoMA has been established through his mother – Abby Rockefeller, one of the founders of the museum. Currently showing at MoMA are nine modern European paintings , promised to the museum from Peggy and David Rockefeller’s private collection. Works exhibited are by: Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Signac, André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy ad Paul Gauguin. The show runs through August 31 , 2009
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Barkley L. Hendricks Lawdy Mama, 1969 via Gothamist
The exhibition “Birth of the Cool” by Barkley L. Hendricks will be shown in the Santa Monica museum of Art from May 16th until August 22, 2009. The work showcased is a retrospective of the first career of Hendricks from 1964 through the present. The renowned artist has explored an array of mediums throughout his career and has dived deep into a variety of subject matters. Hendricks is most reputed for his arresting and confrontational life sized portraits of African Americans the Urban Northwest during the 1960’s and 70’s.
Jonathan Meese, “mutter mit roter Brille und roetlicher Perlenkette,” part of “The Figure and Dr. Freud,” a group exhibition on at Haunch of Venison New York.
Haunch of Venison’s New York branch is showing “The Figure and Dr. Freud,” a group exhibition by 31 artists from the last century. These include past and currently producing artists, from the sculptor Alberto Giacometti to the painter Daniel Richter. The show, which closes on August 22, focuses on the human figure as the artists have rendered it, through the lenses of the late Dr. Freud’s psychoanalytic theories.
Andrea Rosen Gallery presents works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Robert Ryman. The works are featured in the Gallery 2- a space initiated in 1999 with the purpose of acquiring freedom to “infuse the gallery with one-time projects.” It is safe to say that the works by the 60s and 70s masters are selected in a manner which make for a cohesive and solid show. The exhibit is presented simultaneously with the show of John Currin’s works in the gallery’s main space and will be over August 21, 2009.
From “Domain Field,” a show by Antony Gormley at Moscow’s Garage
Through September 2, Moscow’s Garage is hosting 287 sculptures by Antony Gormley. Corresponding with “One & Other,” a vastly different show by which participants took over the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square, Gormley presents works molded after the human form. “Domain Field” was first shown in 2003, at the UK’s Baltic Art Centre, which commissioned it.
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Robert Longo, “Shark 14,” courtesy of the gallery.
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC) is hosting the first major European retrospective on Robert Longo since 1991. Featured are 50 emblematic works drawn from collections both public and private. Robert Longo has experimented in various media, including sculpture, photography, performance art, and video. The show closes on November 29.
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Juan Muñoz’s Hanging Figure, part of the retrospective of his work now showing at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Image courtesy of the Museum.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia is hosting a retrospective of the works of Juan Muñoz. The show is rotating between the Tate Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, and Serralves Foundation and will leave its current home on August 31, 2009. This the most complete retrospective of the artist’s work to date, even featuring works never before exhibited. The retrospective spans sixteen years, since Muñoz’s first solo exhibition in 1984 to the last piece he finished before his death in 2001. The retrospective is organized and curated in collaboration with Tate Modern.
Leading art collectors provide works from their collections to a show organized by Claire Distenfeld- a 23 year old curator who came up with the concept of selling works that are “not masterpieces” yet are by contemporary artists with well-established names. The idea was realized quickly, within a few weeks, through Claire’s personal extensive network. Works by artists like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth Peyton, Barnaby Furnas, Jack Goldstein, Ingrid Calame, George Condo, John Wesley, Richard Prince, Mr., Marilyn Minter, Marnie Weber, David Salle, Nobuyoshi Araki, Hope Atherton, and Ryan McGuinness are on show through August, 8.
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Installation View at Deitch Projects in Long Island City via 16 Miles
“The Pig” will “make you show it to your best friend, and say yes” claims the press release. “The Pig” is at Deitch’s new studio in Long Island City and is curated by the participating artists. It is organized by the Italian multi-media artist Paola Pivi and Austrian pair Gelatin, hence the name “Pig.” Works by Jim Drain, Paul Chan, Jeff Koons, Mario Grubisic, Paola Pivi, Gelatin, Simon Martin, Roberto Cuoghi and Schuyler Maehl are at show till August 9.
The Beach at Trouville, Claude-Oscar Monet at The National Gallery in London. Via Guardian
It is in an attempt to embrace the traces of the artistic influences that played a part in the development of the Impressionism, that the National Gallery in London presents a show “Corot to Monet.” The National Gallery relies almost entirely on its vast collection of 18th and 19th century French landscapes in order to chart and examine those influences while rediscovering the lesser known works that have led to the Impressionism. The exhibition includes 90 paintings by artists like: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Simon Denis, Richard Parkes Bonington, Claude Oscar Monet, Narcisse Virgile Diaz, Camille Pissaro, Paul Huet, Thomas Jones, Andreas Schelfhout and others. The show closes 20 September, 2009.
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Pablo Picasso’s Mujer (Woman) (1961), the focus of the new show at Museo Picasso.
The current exhibition at Museo Picasso features forty works by its namesake, alongside three Julio González sculptures and a découpage by Henri Matisse. The show’s highlight is Picasso’s Woman, drawn from Christine Ruiz-Picasso’s collection. The sheet-metal sculpture is presented together with Picasso’s early paper cut-outs, Cubist art, and the paintings and sculptures that characterize the artist’s later years.
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Installation View “As Long As It Lasts” via Marian Goodman
Through August 28, the Marian Goodman Gallery will be showcasing works by 14 artists throughout different generations in “As Long As It Lasts.” The show, curated by Tom Eccles, takes its title from a work by Lawrence Weiner, and features artists such as Oliver Babin, Johanna Billing, Pierre Huyghe and Thomas Struth. When these pieces are “seen in the context of one another, ruminate on the transitory nature of life, the contemplation of morality, impermanence and immanence of death.” The pieces span various mediums from sculptures, paintings and drawings to photography and film installations.
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Exhibition view, “The Female Gaze: Woman Look at Women,” at Cheim & Read. Pictured works include Victoria Civera’s Searcher (far left) and Vanessa Beecroft’s Blonde Figure Lying (floor).
Through September 19, 2009, Cheim & Read will show “The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women.” Featured are works by women of women, with aim to reorient the typically-male framing of women in art. Works range in medium from the paintings of Alice Neel and Lisa Yuskavage to the sculptures of Kara Walker, the text poems of Jenny Holzer and the photographs by Diane Arbus, the installations by Louise Bourgeois and even collage work by Ellen Gallagher.
