What’s Happening in Europe? Artview NYC goes to Paris, London and Berlin and Miami Event for the Society of the Four Arts March 23, 2012
Artview NYC Miami Event for the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach
VIP Visit to Private Art Collections in Miami with Lacy Davisson Doyle on Friday, March 23, 2012. Reservations required.
Basking in the Miami glow from last year, Lacy Davisson Doyle, art historian, contemporary art advisor, and member of the International Association of Professional Art Advisors returns to lead us on a VIP Tour of Private Art Collections in Miami. This full-day event will give art enthusiasts a curator-led, insightful view of some of Miami’s top contemporary art collections.
Call (561) 805-8562 or e-mail campus@fourarts.org to make reservations and for more information.
What to see in Paris – Short List
By Lacy Davisson Doyle
Giorgio De Chirico at the Musee d’Art Moderne
The Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation has donated sixty-one works of art by the artist to the City of Paris. Included in this exhibition are 30 paintings, 20 drawings, and 11 sculptures which present de Chirico’s well-known metaphysical compositions. The full career of this audacious surrealist artist can be seen in this exceptional display of works of art confirming his reputation as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Fantin-Latour at the Musee National Eugene Delacroix
This is a jewel box of a museum located in the 7th arrondissement, which occupies the painter’s apartment as well as his studio, located in his private garden. A lively little exhibition can be seen currently in the studio about Henri Fantin-Latour and his famous group portrait painted in homage to Delacroix. Various sketches, studies and states are presented showing important artists and writers of the day including Manet and Cezanne. Your ticket to the Louvre will give you free access here if used on the same day.
What to see in London – Short List
By Lacy Davisson Doyle
Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition at the National Gallery
If you missed this exhibition, as I did, you can see the movie!
Click on: http://leonardolivehd.com/
Ori Gersht Photography Exhibition “This Storm is What We Call Progress” at the Imperial War Museum
A significant new exhibition of work by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht is being presented at the start of IWM London’s Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations. It is Gersht’s first major solo museum show in the UK.
Gersht’s work often deals with conflict, history and geographical place. The three central works in this new exhibition each disguise dark and complex themes beneath seductive, beautiful imagery.
Will You Dance For Me? depicts an 85-year-old dancer rocking back and forth in a chair, slowly recounting her experiences as a young woman in Auschwitz. Her punishment for refusing to dance at an SS officer’s party was to stand barefoot in the snow, and she pledged that if she survived she would dedicate her life to dance.
The two-screen film Evaders explores the mountainous path of the Lister Route, used by many to escape Nazi-occupied France. The film focuses on the ill-fated journey of Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin, whose own words give the exhibition its title.
The photographic work Chasing Good Fortune examines the shifting symbolism of Japanese cherry blossoms, which came to be linked with Kamikaze soldiers during the Second World War.
Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
“I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.”
– Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) was one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. Paintings of people were central to his work and this major exhibition, spanning over seventy years, is the first to focus on his portraiture. Produced in close collaboration with the late Lucian Freud, the exhibition concentrates on particular periods and groups of sitters which illustrate Freud’s stylistic development and technical virtuosity. Insightful paintings of the artist’s lovers, friends and family, referred to by the artist as the “people in my life”, demonstrate the psychological drama and unrelenting observational intensity of his work.
Yayoi Kusama at the Tate Modern
The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as “Accumulations”, to her “Infinity Net” paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns. Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a desire to escape from psychological trauma. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessively charged vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space.
David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts.
‘David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture’ spans a 50 year period to demonstrate Hockney’s long exploration and fascination with the depiction of landscape.
The exhibition includes a display of his iPad drawings and a series of new films produced using 18 cameras, which are displayed on multiple screens and provide a spellbinding visual journey through the eyes of David Hockney.
What to see in Berlin – Short List
By Ann Fensterstock
Architektonika at the Hamburger Bahnhoff
Another brilliant conversion of a nineteenth century industrial dinosaur along the lines of London’s Tate Modern or the Musée d’ Orsay in Paris, Berlin’s once majestic railway station now serves as a multi-departmental power house for the exhibition of contemporary art. Currently on view in the main hall, a stunning installation of multiple works by Tomãs Saraceno. Aptly named Cloud Cities the balloon like structures, often occupied by museum visitors, bob and weave airily amidst the Banhhoff’s glass and steel rafters.
Of the many options in the side galleries, the massive exhibition Architektonika showcases work, not all of it three dimensional, which takes architectural space as its premise. Some wonderful footage of Gordon Matta-Clark cutting up abandoned buildings in 1970s New York.
Divided Heaven 1945 to 1968 at the Neue Nationalgalerie
Works from the permanent collection installed both chronologically but also by intriguing formalist clusters, an hour spent here reminds us that not all of the great art is in New York City. There were a number of works by brand name greats that I had never seen before, plus a host of names new to me – but I suspect not to most Europeans.
The museum is a Mies van der Rohe building and merits a visit for that alone. We were unfortunately a day too early to see the much-hyped Gerhard Richter Panorama exhibit that is now open.