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Juan Miro Foundation: Juan Miro: Parade of Obsessions
This exhibition is organised around the preliminary drawings and sketches that Miró produced in 1968 for L’Śil-Oiseau, a show combining music, poetry and dance, with scenario by Jacques Dupin, based on the artist’s work and creative process. They ...
Joan Miró Foundation: Klee, Tanguy, Miró. Three approaches to landscape
Paul Klee (München-Buchsee, Berne, 1879 – Locarno, 1940) stands as a lone figure in the panorama of twentieth-century painting. A member of
the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, he was also a teacher at the Bauhaus. In the 1920s he began to t...
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein: Klee, Tanguy, Miro
Three Approaches to Landscape.
The art-historical tradition of landscape painting was radically
transformed by classical modernity. In the wake of the
Impressionists, landscape was turned into an artful construction
that uses Nature merely as a stimulus ...
Joan Miro Foundation: Espai 13, Homo ludens. Art at play - Olympia by Grazia Toderi
Born in Padua in 1963, Grazia Toderi lives and works in Milan. Focusing on video, she operates with real images, altered very discreetly by computer. Distant galaxies, theatres, stadia – her subject matter is varied but she creates an atmosphere t...
Juan Miro Foundation: Irony: Works by Over 30 Artists Dealing with the Subject of Irony
The exhibition consists of video projections, installations, photographs and sculptures by Francis Al˙s, Ibon Aramberri, Marcel Broodthaers, Joan Brossa, Maurizio Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Christian Jancowsky, Jeff Koons, Zbigniew Libera, Javier Long...
Joan Miro Foundation: Limits of Perception: Works in Photography, Sculpture, Painting and Video-installation
The 16 artists in this show are some of the more radical exponents of an artistic manifestation in recent decades that questions the role of art, adopting postures that strike at the frontal act of contemplation.
Their works present segments...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: From Picasso to Tŕpies: Spanish 20th Century Art from the Reina Sofia
Spanish artists working in the period before 1945 exercised a major influence on artistic developments in the twentieth century. They were in the vanguard of the changes taking place in the art world, in style, in professional attitudes and in the...
Galerie Miro: Frank Ettenberg: Non-objective Painter
Ettenberg also recently learned that the Chairman of Northwestern College's art department in St Paul,
arrived at his Santa Fe studio and selected an entire set of Postcard Paintings (Acrylic over a reproduction of
'Standing Fast', Acrylic on Ca...
Joan Miro Foundation: Jean Arp: A Retrospective
Jean Arp (Strasbourg, 1886 – Basle, 1966), sculptor, painter and poet, moved to Zurich during the First World War. There, in 1916, together with Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and Richard Huelsenbeck, he founded the Dada movement, which had its centre o...
Joan Miro Foundation: Homo ludens. Art at play: You and I by Thomas Huber
The emphasis is on the notion of the pictorial space – a space with a certain depth where a very "different" universe develops in which the radical figures, landscapes and architecture exist in two dimensions, totally unconcerned with what is goin...
Joan Miro Foundation: Angle of vision: 143ş - Objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear
The work of the artists taking part in the cycle explores new perspectives, in an approach to the world around them from out-of-the-ordinary points of view. They believe in the possibility of difference and therefore accept discussion and question...
Fundaçăo Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Derriere le Miroir: 35 Original Engravings from the Magazine 1946 to 1982
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Quen...
Joan Miro Foundation: Cycle: Once upon a time... Sebastián Díaz Morales
Each action and each object represented in the video is a metaphor that is open to multiple interpretations. The viewer accompanies the man and feels his anxieties, transported along by events. The sensation is accentuated by the line that divides...
Joan Miro Foundation: Woman. Metamorphosis of Modernity
The list of artists comprises Tarsila do Amaral, Gertrude Arndt, Jean Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Braque, Louise Bourgeois, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Emmanuel Goundouin, Lotte Jacobi, Yv...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in
1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec,
M...
Toledo Museum of Art: THE MODERN WOODCUT
The Modern Woodcut draws on the permanent collection of the Toledo Museum of Art to exhibit European and American artists using this traditional technique in a variety of formats. The show includes individual prints and prints bound into books, a...
Joan Miro Foundation: Flock by Aernout Mik
This exhibition by Aernout Mik, his first one-man show in Spain, was preceded by those by Xavier Veilhan, Daniel Chust Peters, Grazia Toderi, Vik Muniz and Thomas Huber.
Born in Gröningen in the Netherlands, Aernout Mik lives and works in Am...
Metropolitan Museum: Painters in Paris: 1895–1950
Painters in Paris: 1895–1950, an exhibition
of more than 100 paintings by many of the 20th
...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: THE ARCHITECT DRAWS: Homage to JL Sert
Linked to the city of Barcelona, these architects present drawings in pencil and ink, watercolours or sketches that weave the complex tapestry beauty and the creative process. Somewhere between the architectural plan, sometimes visionary, and the...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Requiem for the Staircase: Curated by Architect Oscar Tusquets
Professor Juan
Antonio Ramirez has selected a few very important paintings and drawings
representing the entire history of art, in which each of the stairways has
been represented by great artists. These are accompanied by film footage
and lit...
Joan Miro Foundation: Space Concept: 26 Works from the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
Anne and Patrick Poirier, Ilya Kabakov and Günter
Förg create architectural pieces and mythological
images, metaphors for models of human
communication and social relations. These objects
and installations reflect the impor...
National Galleries of Scotland, Dean Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art: THE SURREALIST AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER: ROLAND PENROSE AND LEE MILLER
Already a Surrealist artist of considerable talent, Penrose became a tireless champion of modern art through his activities as a collector, writer and exhibition organiser. A former Vogue model, Lee Miller was a remarkable photographer who later ...
Juan Miro Foundation: Something for Everyone: Cycle Selected by Ferran Barenblit, Frederic Montornés and Mňnica Regŕs; Works by Douglas Gordon, Joseph Grigely, Joăo Louro, La pensée et l’erreur
Douglas Gordon will be showing in the Octagonal Room at the FJM, Joăo Louro will be using the Espai 13 itself, and Joseph Grigely's proposal will consist of a poster – which is in fact the exhibit – displayed at selected points around the city as ...
Joan Miro Foundation: ESPAI 13: Psychodrome - Curated by Grazia Quaroni and David Renaud
Psychodrome, the title of the cycle, refers to a circuit in a defined space – the exhibition space in which a basic module will be installed in the form of a circular structure that will change according to the needs of the different artists. It a...
Juan Miro Foundation: Homo ludens. Art at play: Lightworks
This cycle is concerned with art and play, two concepts that are and always have been necessary in all epochs and all civilisations. As children, we learn about the world through play, and at every stage of our life we need time for play so that n...
Joan Miro Foundation: Sunflower
This idea of transformation is fundamental to his entire work, and the fact of converting a work of art – traditionally an aesthetic object destined only to be looked at – into an inhabitable object with a specific function reveals his capacity fo...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Paris and The Surrealists
The Centre de Cultura Contemporŕnia de Barcelona presents the exhibition PARIS AND THE SURREALISTS, curated by the art historian and critic Victoria Combalía, which will run in Gallery 2 of the CCCB from 17 February to 22 May 2005. The exhibition ...
Joan Miro Foundation: Fernand Léger: Selected by Brigitte Hedel-Samson
Brigitte Hedel-Samson, the curator, divides Léger’s career into six periods: 1905-1907, when he was trying to find his own style; 1918-1924, when he was working in a very personal Cubist style; 1925-1930, when he produced his highly original compo...
Catto Contemporary: HONEY, I shrunk the Turner Prize: the Little Turner Prize
Catto Contemporary is proud to confirm a major solo Christmas exhibition of The Little Artists in November 2003 until Christmas Eve. Included in the show will be a brand new piece (which is larger than previous work), presenting a gallery scene fe...
Joan Miro Foundation: The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society that can never exist.
The show is divid...
Galerie Magda Danysz: Erwin Olaf : Recent Works
The images of this series honour the works of
historical painters such as Velazquez, El Greco or
Zurbarán, to whom refers Erwin Olaf. His models have
the elegance of Menines of the royal court of Spain,
fabrics are shining and postur...
Museo del Prado: The Spanish Portrait from El Greco to Picasso
Over the course of three and a half months and through a
selection of 84
works, the exhibition devoted to the Spanish portrait will
present a survey
of the development of this genre in Spanish art from the
late fifteenth
century to the ea...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Ramon Canet : Recent painting
Characterised by their structural geometry and their exhuberant expressionist gesture, the paintings of
Ramón Canet are closely connected to the Mallorcan Joan Miró as to the abstract tradition of the New
York School or the Paris Informalists,...
Susan Hobbs Gallery: Didier Courbot
In each instance, Courbot translates the act of observation into a work, as he did in his needs series, a series of photographs that documented the artist making improvements to a particular environment – painting the lines of a crosswalk in Rome,...
Pump House Gallery: japan four: London Based Contemporary Japanese Artists and London-Tokyo Digital Projects Present New Works
Hiroko Nakao received an MA in Fine Art from the RCA in 2000. Since then she has exhibited her elaborately layered collaged paintings and installation works at Pump House Gallery, in the new project space at Victoria Miro Gallery, Snow Gallery and...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a
greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition
will count off the major historical ev...
Morfi Gallery: Urban Behaviours: Painting by Vassilis Karakatsanis
Vassilis Karakatsanis was born in Athens 1957 and was educated at
Athens & Barcelona Graduate Schools of Fine Arts, Painting, Stage Design and Book Art, with scholarships by the IKY, (Greek State Scholarship Foundation) & the Spanish Governme...
Portland Museum of Art: Collage : Piecing It Together
Collage (from the French, coller, to glue) is a work of art made from the assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. It became a distinctive part of the modern movement in the early 20th century, notably deployed by Georges Braque a...
gallery twenty-four: Christopher Gulick: Kinetic Sculpture
Christopher will be “artist in residence” for the duration of the exhibit.
Gulick comments about is work: "Kinetic Mobile sculpture is like a companion. They occupy space similar to a friend. They converse with us at a deep,inner level. They a...
Scandinavia House: Ars Fennica: Finnish Art Now
Ms. Brotherus’s serial photographs of landscapes and figures are like a series of songs or a book of preludes, resisting the temptation to impose a narrative as each image makes the others resonate. Mr. Kĺhre’s installations disorient and disrupt ...
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