A new, site-specific work by Maurizio Cattelan opens at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on September 16, 2016. For Maurizio Cattelan: “America”, the artist replaces a toilet in one of the museum’s public restrooms with a fully functional replica cast in solid gold. Cattelan is often described as the art world’s resident prankster and provocateur; […]
The world premiere of The Orchid Seller (El Vendedor de Orquídeas), a documentary film about Oswaldo Vigas, one of Latin America’s most influential artists, will take place at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 8 at 3pm at the Cinema Giardino. The Orchid Seller is directed by Vigas’ son Lorenzo, whose debut feature […]
Daily impressions, expressed in a collection of 16 paper tiles. Dedicated to Rosolina that has become my Home and residence. Some tiles are also expressions and thoughts not directly about Rosolina but matured or inspired by living there. The tiles are, in a way, daily impressions, eye & thought, and with a high degree of […]
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most acclaimed artists working today. Since the 1950s, she has created art that is as personal as it is universal. Like few other artists she moves freely between painting, sculpture and installations, between art and design, and between East and West. In summer 2016, Moderna Museet and ArkDes are […]
Qin Feng performance: the sound of his artwork during “Waiting for Qin Feng” the solo exhibition at San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
From the 25 May to the 26 June 2016 and coinciding with the first month of the International Architecture Exhibition – the Venice Biennale, Venice will stage the first design fringe festival spread around the town. Historic buildings, hidden cloisters, design boutiques, private galleries and unexpected places will become the cardinal points of DESIGN.VE design […]
“Waiting for Qin Feng,” a solo exhibition of work by Chinese ink artist Qin Feng, will be on view in Venice from May 19-June 19, 2016. Installed in three locations including the former Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, now home to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (the first contemporary Chinese art installation), The Armenian Catholic Monastery […]
“Oswaldo Vigas 1943–2013,” a three-year, traveling exhibition featuring sixty-three paintings and six sculptures by the late Venezuelan artist will be on view at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC- USP) from April 2 – July 3, 2016. Organized by the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation, the exhibition, which spans seven decades of […]
Ignored for decades by official art history, Italian artist Carol Rama is now recognised as essential for understanding developments within contemporary art. Her influence can be seen in the work of a later generation of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Sue Williams, Kiki Smith and Elly Strik. Rama was belatedly recognised in 2003, […]
From February 5 to April 27, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, the first comprehensive survey in a New York museum of the remarkable 33-year artistic partnership between Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012). Gathering more than three hundred sculptures, photographs, slide projections, and […]
The Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum is presenting the first retrospective in Europe on Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and his son Jamie (born 1946), both leading representatives of 20th-century American Realism. More than 60 works loaned from public institutions and private collections, some never previously exhibited in public, will offer visitors […]
LA CAMERA: Sulla materialità della fotografia (La Camera: On the Material Nature of Photog-raphy) is the third installment in a broader exhibition program, curated by Simone Menegoi and ti-tled The Camera’s Blind Spot, which explores the relationship between sculpture and photography. The first two parts of the project (The Camera’s Blind Spot I and II) […]
