Treasures of Mexico in Kansas City, an intimate exhibition of 30 works from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection, opens May 4 at 6 p.m. at the Consulate of Mexico, 1617 Baltimore Ave. in Kansas City, MO. The paintings, lithographs and drawings on loan from the Nelson-Atkins American and photography collections celebrate some of Mexico’s most recognized artists from the 20th century, and they are being shown for the first time together in Kansas City.
Tapis Volants (Flying carpets)
Villa Medici
30 May – 21 october 2012
The Academy of France in Rome – Villa Medici – presents the Tapis Volants exhibition, from 30th May to 21st october 2012, organized by Philippe-Alain Michaud (Centre Pompidou), realized with the support of the Centre Pompidou, the Les Abattoirs Museum of Toulouse and in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Lyon, the Jacquemart-André Museum and the Quai Branly Museum.
Divisionism in Italy
Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo, Italy
25 February – 24 June 2012
Divisionism represents one of the most exciting periods enjoyed by Italian art during the last centuries and now, at last, it is being celebrated in an important exhibition with a new slant and a choice of works covering the period between 1890 and the aftermath of the Great War.
Gold
Lower Belvedere
15 March – 17 June 2012
The exhibition is devoted to the precious metal gold and its use in art. Displaying 200 works by 125 artists, this comprehensive show staged in the Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables highlights various applications of the shimmering metal. Since the Middle Ages, there have never been more artists working with gold than today. On view are familiar examples and numerous new discoveries, including works by Stephan Balkenhol, Georg Baselitz, Willi Baumeister, William Blake, James Lee Byars, Sylvie Fleury, Richard Hamilton, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Emil Orlik, Gerhard Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, and Franz West.
Gianluigi Colin. Mitografie
Fondazione Marconi Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
April, 14th – May, 17th 2012
The Fondazione Marconi is very pleased to announce the exhibition “Mitografie” by Gianluigi Colin.
Gianluigi Colin, an original and independent personality inside the art world, focuses his attention on contemporary symbols, using “the material that the world presents”. The subjects of his works are icons and events of the present, selected from the infinite amount of informations that the media present us. In Colin’s work there is a constant dialogue between images and words, that pays tribute to the most influencial semiologist of the 20th century, Roland Barthes.
Danh Võ
KUB Billboards
10-04 — 24-06-2012
For the KUB Billboards Danh Võ selected found images from the history of Vietnam and arranged them in pairs.
On the one hand, there are photos of intimate situations among Vietnamese men taken in the 1960s by Joseph Carrier while working as an economist for the RAND Corporation; on the other, illustrations of martyrs in Vietnam who underwent torture and execution for their faith.
Montana Triennial: 2012
Missoula Art Museum
May 4 – August 26
Missoula Art Museum pleased to host the Montana Triennial: 2012. A Biennial or in this case, a Triennial, is intended to serve as a survey exhibition of contemporary work from a particular region. The Triennial is a perfect fit for the Missoula Art Mueum’s programming, whose mission states, “… strives to engage artists and audience in the creative exploration of contemporary art relevant to our community, state and region.”
Minimal Myth
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2 June – 16 September 2012
This summer the museum is exhibiting a selection from its own collection of Minimal art and works by the Dutch Nul group from the 1960s and 1970s alongside related work by contemporary artists. Artists such as Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Jan Schoonhoven and Ad Dekkers will be exhibited in relation to artists including Monika Sosnowska, Nathan Hylden and Oscar Tuazon. The exhibition has been selected by Francesco Stocchi, the museum’s senior curator of modern and contemporary art.
During the meticulous restoration of Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (1663-64), one of the Rijksmuseum’s four Vermeer masterpieces, a number of surprising details were uncovered. Vermeer’s characteristically intense use of blue, for example, can now be viewed in all of its magnificent nuances for the first time in centuries. In addition, several pearls that were added in 1928 were removed, and other details that had disappeared were restored.
La Raza Comica: A celebration of the Latino-American experience in the Comic Arts
Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition
May 5 – September 30, 2012
Cinco de Mayo marks the opening date for a major art exhibition focusing on Latinos in comics: La Raza Comica: A Celebration of the Latino American Experience in the Comic Arts.
Rosângela Rennó – Strange Fruits
Fotomuseum Winterthur
09.06.-19.08.2012
The term Appropriation Art in the narrower sense is used when an artist deliberately copies individual works by other artists with a specific creative strategy in mind. This is a form of appropriation that is not considered plagiary but intentional artistic borrowing.
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Serpentine Gallery
11 April – 5 June 2012
Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941, Dusseldorf) rose to prominence in the early 1970s, earning worldwide acclaim for his expansive and encyclopaedic photographic series. Often presented in the form of books, posters, postcards and installations, these collections link Feldmann’s life-long fascination with collecting elements of visual culture. His exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery will be his first solo presentation in a London public gallery.