Articles in Fine Art
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opens Beverly Pepper. Palingenesis
The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids presents Beverly Pepper. Palingenesis, an exhibition on view May 25 – August 26, 2012.Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Beverly Pepper has been a major force across the international scene since she first captured widespread critical acclaim in the 1960s. This exhibition focuses exclusively on her pioneering efforts in metal beginning with her debut at the famed Spoleto exhibition in 1962 through major recent ... Read More
Chisenhale Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Amalia Pica
Chisenhale Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Amalia Pica, open 25 May–15 July, featuring newly commissioned works across sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. The exhibition elaborates upon Pica’s ongoing interest in the social act of listening, sites of celebration, and technologies of mass communication. This exhibition also marks the culmination of Pica’s year-long, off-site project, I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of ... Read More
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen announces Ballads by Sarkis installation
The Submarine Wharf on the RDM Campus is presenting the installation Ballads by Sarkis (born 1938). On view 2 June–30 September 2012. Sarkis, photo by Tot en met ontwerpen The building’s original function—submarines were once built here—and the surrounding water are central to the installation. Sarkis unites the building’s past and present, creating an extraordinary experience for the visitor with monumental objects, music, and coloured films that filter the daylight like a ... Read More
Naples Museum of Art presents Juan Genoves retrospective
The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art presents a retrospective of work by Juan Genoves on view through Saturday, June 30, 2012.Juan Genoves, Arcos, 2011. Acrylic on canvas on board, 35 3/8 x 47 1/4 inches© Juan Genovés, courtesy Bob and Terry Edwards. Image courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New YorkOne of Spain’s best-known contemporary artists, Juan Genovés is celebrated for his provocative expressionist paintings, which explore issues of social and political realism. Since ... Read More
Kunsthaus Zurich opens Adrian Zingg. Precursor of Romanticism
Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Adrian Zingg. Precursor of Romanticism’, an exhibition on view from 25 May to 12 August 2012. This is Switzerland’s first museum exhibition devoted to the work of Adrian Zingg (1734-1816). Zingg is one of the most important representatives of landscape between the European Enlightenment and Pre-Romanticism in Dresden. He explored the countryside around Dresden and produced numerous views of what has since become known as the Saxon and Bohemian Switzerland. ... Read More
La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre presents Invisible Monuments exhibition
La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre presents Invisible Monuments, an exhibition on view 26 May–21 July 2012.Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Lost Monument, 2009. Video still. As part of the annual foreign curator in residence programme, La Galerie is welcoming Costanza Paissan, from Italy. Chosen by a judging panel after a call for candidates, she will be in residence from 5 April to 5 July 2012 and will devote her time at La Galerie to the exhibition project Invisible Monuments. In his essay ... Read More
AMOA-Arthouse names Jeff Williams as winner of Texas Prize 2012
AMOA-Arthouse has named Jeff Williams as the 2012 recipient of the Texas Prize, an ongoing program highlighting talented, under-recognized professional artists working in the Lone Star State. An internationally respected jury selected Austin-based Williams from among three finalists—Williams, Jamal Cyrus, and Will Henry—vying for the revered prize in an exhibition of new work at the museum’s Jones Center location. The winner was announced at a private event on the evening of May 18, ... Read More
Sprengel Museum Hannover / kestnergesellschaft / Kunstverein Hannover open Made in Germany Zwei exhibition
The Sprengel Museum Hannover, the kestnergesellschaft, and the Kunstverein Hannover present a large overview of the contemporary international art scene in Germany entitled MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI, on view May 17–August 19, 2012. The exhibition shows groundbreaking positions of a younger generation of 45 international artists living and working in Germany. MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI focuses on six main themes conceived to highlight current artistic concerns. The curators of the exhibition place the ... Read More
Germanisches Nationalmuseum presents Albrecht Durer exhibition
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nurnberg presents the largest Dürer exhibition in 40 years. With more than 150 objects displayed in over 1,300 square meters, on view 24 May through 2 September 2012.Germanisches Nationalmuseum This is the first large exhibition devoted to Dürer’s early art and the circumstances of the young painter’s life which enabled his unique work. Dürer’s artistic development will be shown for the first time within the context of his time in order to ... Read More
Walker Art Center announces exhibition by Minouk Lim
The Walker Art Center presents the first in-depth museum exhibition by Seoul-based artist Minouk Lim. Merging performance, video, and documentary, on view May 31–September 2, 2012. Lim has created a body of riveting work that critiques the social and political conditions of a contemporary global society fueled by rampant growth and development. Describing her video-based work as “performance documentary theater,” Lim engages with the arteries of city life—the streets—to create ... Read More
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