Frankfurter Kunstverein The Frankfurter Kunstverein presents the group exhibition “Per Speculum Me Video” as its contribution to the new B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt/Rhein-Main. It brings together works by nine artists who explore the construction of the self in contemporary video art and photography. Sounding like a long forgotten magical spell, the …
Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1980, a groundbreaking look at a vibrant community of artists and the experimental performance art they produced. This exhibition organized by Jay Sanders, the Whitney’s Curator and Curator of Performance, Rituals …
Platform China What is time? Can time be compared to a line – unique, straight and continuous? Does this line have a beginning or end? Few people have time to think about time. However, This is one of the fundamental questions of humankind dating as far back as antiquity. Yet some people do take the …
Asia Society Hong Kong Center The Asia Society Hong Kong Center presents No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the inaugural touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, from October 30, 2013, to February 16, 2014. Featuring 18 recent works by 13 artists from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, …
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Galerie Perrotin, Paris Galerie Perrotin presents the exhibition Dear by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu gathering a film (“If I die”) four installations, three of which are monumental (“Teenager Teenager”, “Spilling out”, “Dear” and “If I die”).Their works come across as provocative takes on complex issues of our contemporary era. Although they are among the …
Paris Yvon Lambert presents The Eternal Fetal Movement by Chinese artist Zhang Huan at Petit Palais during the FIAC.This monumental installation, just like a circular room, embodies an eternal, solemn and respectful meditation place. Composed of an opening structure in eucalyptus wood of a diameter of 9.5 meters (354,33 inch) and high 3.61 meters (142,1 …
Paris Multiple Modernities is a manifesto-exhibition, presenting a refreshed and broadened view of modern art. The Pompidou Centre has delved into its rich and varied collection to present a history of art from a global perspective, for the first time. This exhibition is an overview of modern art from 1905 to 1970 and contains an …
Paris The Bibliothèque nationale de France, in partnership with the New York Morgan Library and Museum, organizes the first retrospective of Matthew Barney’s drawings in France, disclosing a more intimate and secret aspect of this exceptional artist.The exhibition presents about 80 drawings made by Matthew Barney between 1988 and 2011, housed in public and private …
Per la prossima stagione turistica l’Isola Bella totalmente restaurata.Al via il recupero dei manufatti nei giardini, delle Torri, della Voliera, dell’Atrio di Diana I Principi Borromeo hanno deciso di procedere all’integrale restauro dell’Isola Bella, punta di diamante dei loro Domini sul Lago Maggiore. Lo scorso anno è stato impiegato per completare il restauro delle facciate …
“In China, modernity in art is not a quality in and of itself. Each new generation of artists does not feel obliged to provoke a breach with the past in order to affirm itself and to exist. The teaching of the techniques of painting – on paper or on canvas – have not changed and …
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Zeng Fanzhi has been deploying since the 1990s a distinctive language marked by his kinship with both Asian art and the many Western influences he has been subjected to. Confronted with this all-embracing style, the viewer is reminded of Chinese landscape painting at the same time as …
CRAC Alsace CRAC Alsace presents Smog a Los Angeles, Elisabetta Benassi’s first solo exhibition in a public institution in France. “Smog a Los Angeles” was a jotting on the back of a photograph in one of the archives Elisabetta Benassi is building up: in all some 70,000 photos collected from major press agencies and national …