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Edvard Munch: The black tears of Krakatoa (1883)
Edvard Munch , born in 1863, was Norway’s most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on his convulsed and tortuous art. In his works, Munch turned again and again to the memory of illness, death and grief. During his career, Munch changed his idiom many times. At first, influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism, he turned to a highly personal style and content, increasingly concerned with images of illness and death. In the 1892s,…
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Exhibition: Impressions of time
Time: From October 14th, 2017 to March 31st, 2018 Venue: ESPAC, Mexico The exhibition Impressions of time is the first project of the ESPAC Audiovisual Overflow Program. The show contains a series of works by artists who are interested in the museographic and spatial dimensions of audiovisual praxis. It also unveils their relationship with media and content originating in other traditions. The selection seeks to reach beyond the closed definition of any “specific medium” to approach, in contrast, the communicating vessels that exist between audiovisual praxis and contemporary art. Source: http://www.espac.org.mx
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Exhibition: Cathy Busby: WE CALL
Time & Date: May 20, 2017 – April 28, 2018 Location: Teck Gallery, Canada WE CALL is composed of selections from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) 94 “Calls to Action”. This document is one of the series produced by Cathy Busby that draw attention to the ways that governments obfuscate their accountability towards Indigenous rights and title in public address, policy and service. It accompanies the 500-page report that synthesizes the TRC’s inquiry into the inter-generational legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential School System. Busby’s selections highlight the ways that governmental, educational and cultural institutions are called on by the TRC to cultivate Indigenous leadership, stewardship and participation…
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Franz Marc: War Crime: The Assassinated Painter
During his lifetime Franz Marc was widely regarded as one of the most promising German painters of his generation. His death in the First World War was mourned as a bitter loss for the art world. It was also a deep personal loss for his surviving friends, Klee and Kandinsky – his other close friend from the Der Blaue Reiter circle, Macke, had died before him on the battlefield. As a young student, Marc had intended to study philosophy and theology. Then, in 1900, he decided to become a painter instead, and registered at the Munich Art academy. Marc’s early work was relatively naturalistic, but it showed evidence of his…
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Exhibition: “The Cinquecento in Florence. From Michelangelo and Pontormo to Giambologna”
The exhibition “The Cinquecento in Florence. From Michelangelo and Pontormo to Giambologna” is dedicated to the art of the 16th century in Florence, Italy. During the exhibition, more than 70 art works by such artists as Michelangelo, Bronzino, Giorgio Vasari, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Santi di Tito, Giambologna and Bartolomeo Ammannati will be showcased. Date & Time: 21 September 2017– 21 January 2018 Exhibition opening hours: Daily from 10.00 AM-8PM. Thursdays: 10AM – 11PM. Venue: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Photo: Twitter Source: palazzostrozzi.org
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Wassily Kandinsky: Blue Rider
Kandinsky’s art does not reflect and is not burdened by the fate of other Russian avant-garde masters. He left Russia well before the semi-official Soviet aesthetic turned its back on modernist art. He had been to Paris and Italy, even giving Impressionism its due in his earliest works. However, it was only in Germany that he aspired to study. It is obvious that in his preference for Munich over Paris, Kandinsky had been thinking more about schools than about artistic milieu. The qualities of salon Impressionism, a hint of the dry rhythms of modernism (Jugendstil), a heavy “demiurgic stroke” reminiscent of Cézanne, the occasionally significant echoes of Symbolism and much…
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Exhibition: Magritte, Broodthaers & Contemporary Art
“Magritte’s work constitutes a crucial reference for any artist who intends to reflect on the very production of an image, on the representation or transposition of something real as a likeness. This exhibition will bring together artists who, since the 1980s, have productively entered into dialogue with Magritte’s ‘vache’ period. From George Condo to Gavin Turk, from Sean Landers to David Altmejd”. Date: October, 13 2017 – February 18, 2018 Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Source: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/exhibitions/magritte-contemporary-art
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Exhibition: “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist”
Gauguin is one of the most important painters in the 19th century in Paris. He is mostly known for his painting of Tahitian women. In October, there will be an exhibition which dedicates solely to his remarkable career and works. The exhibition “Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist” showcases some 240 works including paintings, ceramics, sculptures, engravings and drawings. It begins with Gauguin’s early struggles with Impressionism, then his time in Brittany and Martinique, to his adventure in Tahiti and subsequent return to Paris. This retrospective concludes with his homecoming to Tahiti and his final years on the Marquesas Islands. The exhibition is held in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago…
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Exhibition: Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread is a leading artist in Britain who won the Turner Prize in 1993. She uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental. Date: 12 September 2017 – 21 January 2018 Venue: Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Photo: Rachel Whiteread, Chicken Shed 2017. Source: http://www.tate.org.uk
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BOOK: HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
BOOK: Painter of Parisian life at the end of the 19th century, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was an artist whose oeuvre stands apart from those of his contemporaries. Oscillating between Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, he loved to paint dancers and singers at work in the cabarets of the capital. His touch is vigorous, his colours pure. Despite his personal handicap, his numerous works and posters are full of turbulent, incessant movement and figures such as the famous Goulue or Valentin le Désossé. Without doubt too entangled in this Parisian bohemia, he died of syphilis and chronic alcoholism at the age of only thirty-seven, leaving behind a substantial body of work. SPECIFICATIONS…
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