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Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya: The Disasters of War
Malmö Konsthall
17.12 2011 – 26.2 2012
The best-known graphic work of Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is Los Desastres de la Guerra, known in English as The Disasters of War. Its message remains just as relevant today. Goya’s etchings depict for the first time war from the viewpoint of the civilian population’s suffering, without any attempt to soften the impact. We are ruthlessly presented with the brutality of war and the inhumanity of mankind. The etchings are an intense visual report of a barbaric behaviour that has since been repeated and is still continuing around the world today.

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Gerhard Nordström

Gerhard Nordström
Malmö Konsthall
17 December 2011 – 26 February 2012
Born in 1925, Gerhard Nordström has taken a clear stand for much of his career against the abuse of power and the destruction of the environment. In his art he depicts in a direct and unavoidable way social injustices and the consequences of consumer society. He made his big public breakthrough in the early 1970s with a suite of paintings entitled Sommaren 1970 (The Summer of 1970), which are now regarded as some of the most important examples of 20th-century Swedish art.

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Small Press Spotlight

Small Press Spotlight
Cartoon Art Museum
December 10, 2011 – March 4, 2012
Beginning on December 10, 2011, the Cartoon Art Museum’s ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of ten Bay Area LGBTQ cartoonists.

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Valérie Blass, Montreal

Valérie Blass
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Valérie Blass is one of the most captivating artists to have emerged in Québec in the last ten years. She is a sculptor in every sense of the word: she is concerned with the object, with the way objects relate to one another and with their placement in space.

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Ghada Amer, Montreal

Ghada Amer
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Multidisciplinary artist Ghada Amer is known primarily for her pictorial work, which she augments with embroidery, temporarily blurring our reading of the works. Moving in closer to decipher the composition of her paintings, viewer turns into voyeur as the eye makes out, amidst the clumps and “drips” of thread, the female bodies displayed in situations of erotic pleasure.

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Wangechi Mutu, Montreal

Wangechi Mutu
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
February 2, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Wangechi Mutu’s work reflects her very original thinking on the state of the world and the relative hegemony of Western civilization. In her drawings and collages, as well as her sculptures, assemblages and videos, she conjures up the interplay of relationships between living organisms, humans and the power of nature. Highly regarded as a multidisciplinary artist, Mutu has exhibited regularly since the late 1990s.

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Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium, San Francisco

Black and White and Read All Over: Comics of the New Millennium
Cartoon Art Museum
December 17, 2011 – May 6, 2012
The newspaper comics page is known for its sense of tradition. The Katzenjammer Kids is still in syndication more than 110 years since its debut, and popular favorites Peanuts, The Family Circus, Blondie, Beetle Bailey and Dennis The Menace are among the comics still going strong as they’ve passed the half-century mark. New strips are introduced every year, however, and millions of readers worldwide enjoy classic comics—and new ones—on a daily basis.

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Glenn Ligon, Fort Worth

Glenn Ligon
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
February 12-June 3, 2012
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the first comprehensive midcareer retrospective of Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American artists to have emerged in the past two decades. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition surveys 25 years of Ligon’s work, from his student days until the present.

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Moment – Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm

Moment – Ynglingagatan 1
Moderna Museet
26 November, 2011 – 22 January, 2012
Following this spring’s events and magazine projects on the 1980s, Moderna Museet moves on in Swedish art history to the 1990s, with the exhibition Moment – Ynglingagatan 1. The non-commercial gallery Ynglingagatan 1 was a vital forum for Swedish contemporary art in the 1990s, featuring international artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Takashi Murakami and M/M (Paris), decades before their works were recognised by critics and major institutions all over the world.

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Egon Schiele, Munich

Egon Schiele
Kunstubau
3 December 2011 – 4 March 2012
Egon Schiele is one of the most popular modernist artists, who stands like almost no other for the close relationship between an artist’s work and life. His early tragic death, his turbulent friendship with his model Wally, and the Neulengbach affair, in which he was imprisoned for twenty-four days in 1912 for allegedly seducing a minor, have all led to ongoing public interest in his private life. His best-known works have therefore often been seen in terms of this narrow focus on the autobiographical – nudes of young women showing their sex in provocative poses, and seemingly pathological self-stylisation.

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Mavis Smith, Doylestown

Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities
Michener Art Museum
January 14 – May 20, 2012
You’re strolling down a busy sidewalk, absorbed in your thoughts. Suddenly someone walking the other way glances in your direction, you glance back, and your reverie is broken. Two souls meet, briefly, then the moment passes, and without breaking stride you each walk on.

The paintings of Mavis Smith are about that moment, hinting at a narrative, yet remaining intentionally elusive. Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities will be on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum January 14 to May 20, 2012 in the Fred Beans Gallery.

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