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CLOUD STUDIES at Fotomuseum Winterthur

CLOUD STUDIES – The Scientific View of the Sky
Fotomuseum Winterthur
26.11.2011-12.02.2012
The English pharmacist and meteorologist Luke Howard wrote in 1802 in the preface to his manuscript On the Modification of Clouds: “Clouds are subject to certain distinct modifications, produced by the general causes which affect all the variations of the atmosphere; they are commonly as good visible indicators of the operation of these causes, as is the countenance of the state of a person’s mind or body.”

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Shozo Shimamoto at Palazzo Magnani (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Shozo Shimamoto. Artworks 1950-2011. East and West
Palazzo Magnani
25 september 2011 – 8 january 2012
The exhibition Shozo Shimamoto. Artworks 1950-2011. East and West, promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani aims to document the artistic career of the master, from first innovative experiments of the forties and fifties, to the performance of recent years, investigating the notion of physical movement in space in which the artist moves poetically patrolling places. The exhibition is the first and only major retrospective dedicated to Italy Shimamoto.

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Ansel Adams at Missoula Art Museum

Ansel Adams: A Legacy
Missoula Art Museum
October 7, 2011 – April 15, 2012
Missoula Art Museum is proud to host a definitive exhibition by one of America’s most legendary photographers. The exhibition Ansel Adams: A Legacy consists of over 130 gelatin silver prints by the artist whom many consider an American master.

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Indian Highway at MAXXI (Rome)

Indian Highway
MAXXI
22 September 2011 – 29 January 2012
The exhibition is an itinerant collective show that, through a vast selection of works, presents the multiform panorama of the Contemporary Indian artistic scene. Indian Highway offers an exciting opportunity to learn about Indian artistic research and constitutes the first investigation by an Italian museum of the art of this fascinating country.

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Jiga Daizessan at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Jiga Daizessan – My Artwork Amazes Me
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
November 23, 2011 – March 20, 2012
In today’s society, with its passion for efficiency and ease of understanding, are we not inclined to seek guidelines—even in our creative activities, which by nature should be spontaneous and free? Are we not inclined to seek reasons and standards of evaluation for what to make and how to make it?

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Brett Weston at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City)

The Photographs of Brett Weston
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
23 Nov., 2011 – 1 April, 2012
Over his long and prolific career, photographer Brett Weston (1911-1993) exemplified the modernist aesthetic. The son of famed photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), Brett Weston was a “natural” with the camera. The Photographs of Brett Weston, Nov. 23, 2011, through April 1, 2012, presents a condensed survey of his career of about 40 prints at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.

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Necrorealism at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Necrorealism
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 13 – October 30, 2011
Necrorealism emerged in the early 1980s in Leningrad, founded by Evgeny Yufit, artist and independent film director. Necrorealism overturned the established Soviet concept of death as the only possible heroic ‘death in the name of Motherland’. Necrorealism was born as a social protest, full of absurdity and black humor, and based on forensic medicine textbooks.

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George Ault at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City)

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
15 Oct. – 8 Jan., 2012
During the turbulent 1940s, artist George Ault (1891-1948) created eerie and evocative paintings that are some of the most original made during those years. To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., will be on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Oct. 15 through Jan. 8, 2012.

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Light Years at Art Institute of Chicago

Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph
Art Institute of Chicago
December 13, 2011-March 11, 2012
There is a general consensus that new art of the 1960s and 1970s was heavily invested in photography. Not since the promotion in the 1920s of photomontage, photograms, and the “new vision” had so many painters and sculptors turned to photography for a renewal of artistic practice. Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 is the first major museum exhibition to examine that vanguard involvement in its full scope.

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