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Pyke Koch: A sphinx in the art of the 20th Century
An interview with Andreas Koch, co-founder of the Pyke Koch Foundation Pyke Koch before “De Oogst” (The Harvest), 1953 This autumn the Centraal Museum is holding a large exhibition dedicated to the work of Pyke Koch, an important painter of the Magic (Neo) Realism....
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Ishara Art Foundation: Shilpa Gupta and Zarina “Altered Inheritances: Home is a Foreign Place”
Home is of course here—and always a missed land. –Land, Agha Shahid Ali The foundation launches with an intergenerational conversation between artists Shilpa Gupta and Zarina curated by artistic director Nada Raza. Altered Inheritances: Home is a Foreign Place...
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UCCA: ‘Civilization: the way we live now”
This monumental photography exhibition featuring over 250 artworks by more than 120 photographers from Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, focuses on the development of human life on a global scale in the 21st century, and the patterns of...
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Fondazione Ragghianti: “Childhood and primitivism in Italian art of the early twentieth century”
The exhibition, curated by Nadia Marchioni, explores the “regression” toward the childish drawing and the desire, of important artists of the early twentieth century, to recover a primitivist language. Starting from the archaisms of Tuscan painters, devoted to the...
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Nam June Paik: “Nam June Paik Media ‘n’ Mediea”
“Like McLuhan say, we are antenna for changing society. But not only antenna... My job is to see how establishment is working and to look for little holes where I can get my fingers in and tear away walls.” (Nam June Paik) Nam June Paik Art Center presents its new...
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Fondazione Magnani Rocca: “De Chirico and Savinio: A modern mythology”
This major exhibition dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico and Savinio, the "dioscuri" of 20th century art. The two brothers have rethought the myth, the ancient, classical tradition through the modernity of the vanguard and the quotation, translated and reinterpreting...
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K11 Atelier: “Glow Like That”
“Glow Like That” explores the luminary surfaces and reflective plane between one culture and another, and features artists who work with various types of glow and radiance including Advisory Board Crystals, Chen Wei, Chen Zhou, DeWain Valentine, Donna Huanca,...
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Allora & Calzadilla “The Tropical Pharmacy”
Working at the intersection of video, performance, and sculpture, artists Jennifer Allora (b. Philadelphia, USA, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b. Havana, Cuba, 1971) are a major reference in the art of the past two decades. The Tropical Pharmacy exemplifies the...
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Kamel Lazaar Foundation: “Climbing Through the Tide”
B7L9 is an experimental art space imagined and developed by the Kamel Lazaar foundation (KLF) in Bhar Lazreg, commonly written B7ar Lazra9 phonetically which has given life to B7L9, a rural land whose landscape has morphed organically amidst the political vacuum in...
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Siebold House: “Japanese Nudes”
This exhibition illustrates the development of Japanese nude photography from the 19th century to the present. The works of over 30 top photographers, including Araki Nobuyoshi, Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikoh, Izu Kenro and Honjo Koro reveal their artistic vision of...
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Bonniers Konsthall: Torbjørn Rødland “Fifth Honeymoon”
Artist Torbjørn Rødland (TR) in conversation with Magnus af Petersens (MaP), curator and director at Bonniers Konsthall. MaP: Many of your photographs seem to be as much about tactility as visuality. There are many fluids, sticky substances and hands with fingertips,...
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Fondation Gulbenkian (Paris): Alexandre Estrela “Métal Hurlant”
Since the mid-1990s, the work of Alexandre Estrela (born in Lisbon in 1971) has been distinguished by its original and idiosyncratic way of agglutinating and superimposing a wide range of fields, themes and references: studies on the perception of science fiction,...
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Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard: Pierre Leguillon ” 見習うParler aux yeux / Learning from Looking”
Pierre Leguillon, born in Nogent-sur-Marne, France, in 1969. His works, performances, and projections have been the subject of many monographic presentations, notably at Raven Row (London, 2011), Mamco (Geneva, Switzerland, 2010), Moderna Museet (Malmö, Sweden, 2010),...
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Fondation Louis Vuitton:” The Collection of the Fondation, a new selection of works – A Vision for Painting”
This exhibition brings together 72 works by 23 artists representing different horizons and generations with most of the works presented here for the first time. The exhibition, displayed across three floors of the building and on the terrace, is shown simultaneously...
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Museum Barberini: Picasso – the Late Work (from the collection of Jacqueline Picasso)
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is famous for shaking up art in the 20th century, for resetting the bar in painting, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics. Not so well-known are the last two decades in his career, when Picasso produced more portraits of his wife Jacqueline...
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The 500 Capp Street Foundation: “Amulet or He calls it chaos”
I think my worst demon is myself….I don’t like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to search out the new frontier and go past the place where I really understand what I’m doing. That’s excitement, to get out in space where some wires might get crossed and...
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Dia Art Foundation (Beacon): Charlotte Posenenske “Work in Progress”
This first North American retrospective dedicated to the German artist, opens this spring at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York. The exhibition traces the evolution of Posenenske’s practice from early experiments with mark making, to transitional aluminum wall reliefs, to...
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Garage MCA: Rasheed Araeen “A Retrospective”
The first solo exhibition in Russia of Rasheed Araeen (b. 1935, Karachi, Pakistan) is presenting six decades of work by the seminal practitioner who has had a profound influence on generations of artists, writers, and thinkers around the world. Known for his strident...
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Fondazione Merz:”Solo da Bambini”(Only as Children)
Fondazione Merz presents, Solo da Bambini (‘Only as children’), an exhibition curated by Maria Centonze, featuring the work of three artistic personalities strongly linked to each other: a couple, comprising artist Lina Fucà and film director Daniele Gaglianone, and...
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Pyke Koch: A sphinx in the art of the 20th Century
An interview with Andreas Koch, co-founder of the Pyke Koch Foundation Pyke Koch before “De Oogst” (The Harvest), 1953 This autumn the Centraal Museum is holding a large exhibition dedicated to the work of Pyke Koch, an important painter of the Magic (Neo) Realism....