WES LANG Sittin' on a Rainbow
Sittin’ on a Rainbow, is a one-evening presentation at the Chateau Marmont, of Wes Lang’s intricate drawings, each executed directly onto the Hotel’s stationery. These pieces, all produced during the artist‘s month-long “residency” in room 34 at the infamous Hollywood hotel, provide a visual journal of his experience there, and reveal the contemplative effect this sojourn had on his work. Thursday, June 23, 2011, 8 PM Chateau Marmont, 8221 Sunset Blvd.
Remembering Claudio Bravo
November 8, 1936 – June 4, 2011 www.claudiobravo.com
The World Belongs to You
Boris Mikhailov
The World Belongs to You, an exhibition presented by the François Pinault Foundation, at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy, brings together works by artists from different practices, generations, and backgrounds, exploring artists’ relationships to history, reality and its own representation. "The exhibition revolves around major themes of contemporary history: from the breakdown of symbols, to the temptation of self-withdrawal and isolation, the attraction of violence and spirituality in a troubled and globalized world.” (Caroline Bourgeois) www.palazzograssi.com
Bel'Art Private Collections
[AMERICAN ART] The Early Paintings of Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl's early paintings are haunting and erie impressions of a uniquely American landscape charred by the hopeless fire of the American dream–stoked by the delusion that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is free and ours for the taking. A boy masturbating in a plastic waiting pool and another boy standing in front of a woman sprawled out naked in a darkened room with one hand behind his back in a purse are visual metaphors are our own depraved, amoral, and homicidal predilections–we're capable of anything.
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Eric Fischl's early paintings, mostly painted in the early 80s, are on display till the end of the this week at the Skarstedt Gallery in New York. www.skarstedt.com
Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics
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Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82 is the first New York exhibition surveying the extraordinary diversity of Punk and Post-Punk graphic design. The exhibition showcases a wide range of American and British artistry, with influences that include the Bauhaus, Futurism, Dadaism, Pop Art, Constructivism and Expressionism. The exhibition presents features over 150 rare posters, along with fanzines, flyers, clothing, badges and stickers. Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82 will be on view from July 14th through August 19th, 2011 at the Steven Kasher Gallery.
Fellini, La Grande Parade
A new exhibition at the Musée de l’Elysée reveals the sources of Fellini’s inspiration. Focussing on Fellini’s work through his obsessions by presenting the images that inspired him, those of which he dreamed and those he brought to life, Fellini, la Grande parade provides a new point of view on the maestro’s work. www.elysee.ch
Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now
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Maurizio Anzeri, Round Midnight
Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide: British Art Now brings together the audacious best of contemporary art straight from London’s internationally acclaimed Saatchi Gallery – arguably the biggest influence on contemporary British art over the past 25 years. It features groundbreaking works that challenge conventional artistic sensibilities, created by more than forty of the new generation of daring British contemporary artists.
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Clunie Reid, Take No Photographs, Leave Only Ripples
www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
The Color of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art
portrait of GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
On view now at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art features 350 works by leading Surrealist artists, including André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Leonora Carrington, Brassaï, André Masson, Man Ray, Edith Rimmington, Wifredo Lam and many others. On view until September 25, 2011 www.vanartgallery.ca.bc
René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle
René Magritte (1898–1967) is one of the most revered and popular artists of the 20th century. This summer, Tate Liverpool presents René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle, the biggest exhibition of the Belgian surrealist’s work in England for twenty years. www.tate.org.uk
AMIE DICKE: Infinitely Suffering Thing
Dissolving floors of memory, 2007
Artist Amie Dicke, from Rotterdam, transforms magazine pictures into intriguing works of art and so much more. On view now at the Venice Bienalle see close to 27 gallons of foundation get dumped and sprayed over an environ specially constructed by the artist.
Detail Destruction of Memory, Infinitely Suffering Thing, 2008
Violent Contradiction, 2008
Effacement, 2008
Infallible, Close-Up
"One hundred liters of foundation (make-up) is going to be sprayed automatically by spray-guns that hang above an interior I have set up in the middle of the industrial environment of the former AkzoNobel factory. This room mirrors my private memories. Most of the objects which I have (re-)used would normally be thrown away, but some stuff just tends to stay, because you keep carrying them with you either mentally or physically. In a way they have become physical reminders of our inability to let go of life. The many layers of foundation will cover up the original colors or patterns of the objects and eventually the whole room will be in one tone, concealed under a thick layer of foundation, like a strange make-up. The interior will be changed into a skin colored "flesh", like a radical makeover that will turn the dead objects into a self-portrait."
www.amiedicke.com
Overpainting in Twentieth Century Press Photography
Before the invention of photoshop in 1991, it was commonplace for press agencies and the photographic departments of newspapers and magazines to enhance, crop and embellish their press photographs prior to publication. An upcoming exhibition, entitled Overworked: Overpainting in Twentieth Century Press Photography, at Flash Projects UK explores the ways in which photographs were worked-over in paint, gouache, watercolour and pencil prior to their publication, challenging the veracity of the image.
www.flash-projects.co.uk
In Praise of Leonora Carrington
"I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist."-Leonora Carrington, April 6, 1917 – May 25, 2011
FLUXUS and the Essential Questions of Life
Ben Vautier, Let's Fuck
It could be said that John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "bed-in" for peace movement was the ultimate expression of Fluxus performance art. Yoko One is of course one of the most famous of the Fluxus artists. John Lennon actually met Yoko at a Fluxus performance and fell in love that very night. The Fluxists are sort of like modern Dadaists. Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, a major traveling exhibition based on the Hood Museum of Art’s George Maciunas Memorial Collection of Fluxus art, is "designed for visitors to experience the radical and influential cultural development that was Fluxus, and maybe learn something about themselves along the way." Fluxus was an international network of artists, composers, and designers that emerged as an art (or ―anti-art‖) phenomenon in the early 1960s and was noted for blurring the boundaries between art and life. The Hood’s exhibition runs from April 16 through August 7, 2011. www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
Man Ray and Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism
From 1929 to 1932, Man Ray and Lee Miller -- two giants of the European Surrealism movement -- lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Their mercurial relationship resulted in some of the most powerful work of each artist's career, and helped shape the course of modern art. Combining rare vintage photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, a new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, tells the story of the artists' brief but intense association and reveals the nature of their creative partnership. On view from June 11 to December 4, 2011. www.pem.org
[EROTICA] Pornography Celebrated at UCLA
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It seems as though even California's leading university is accepting pornography as art as UCLA currently exhibits a nearly month long retrospective of films by the legendary art house pornographer Radley Metzger–famous for such films as The Opening of Misty Beethoven and Therese and Isabelle. www.happenings.ucla.com
[LAST DAYS] Marilyn Minter Retrospective in Hamburg
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Marilyn Minter, Chewing Green, 2008 C-Print
In Marilyn Minter’s work, pride of place goes to the complex relationship between body, photography and painting. Here, Minter exposes all our cultural inhibitions in dealing with sexuality and desire, the hyperrealist shots of high-gloss surfaces and sections of the body are both seductive and irritating at once. In the fragmented representation of lips, eyes, mouths and necks, decadence confronts beauty and the pitfalls of glamour collide with the fascination it exerts. Minter’s voyeuristic hallucinations seem both tempting and dangerous. Beauty here proves to be a brittle construct in which sensuality and self-destruction are two sides of the same coin; flesh, yearning, sexuality and gender models are revealed to be commercial products. For the first time, the oeuvre of US artist Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is the subject of an extensive exhibition in Germany. On view until June 12. www.sammlung-falckenberg.de
Rei Kawakubo and Matt Groening
Dover Street Market window installation by Rei Kawakubo to celebrate the launch of a small collection of T-shirts in collaboration with Matt Groening. www.doverstreetmarket.com
Film, Sports, Sex, and The American Way of Life
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