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

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

Burning Camera: Fernell Franco's Prostitutes

Fernell Franco worked as reporter and advertising agent. Throughout his career his professional duties crisscrossed constantly with brilliant results. The series Prostitutes is the starting point of an exhibition that encompasses his analysis of urban life as well as his experimental take on temporal processes. On view until July 4 as part of Photo España 2011 at the Bellas Artes De Madrid. www.bellasartesdemadrid.com

If You Want To Reach Me

Gwilym Gold is a DJ and musician based in the UK. Gold has a new single, "Flesh Freeze", out now on a bespoke self remixing platform developed by Gold called Bronze. www.gwilymgold.com

MP3: Bullion : "If You Want To Reach Me (Gwilym Gold Remix)"

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Henry Wessel: Vintage Photographs

Since the 1960s, Wessel has photographed vernacular scenes of the American West, particularly in California. Immediately drawn to the quality of light he encountered during a visit from New York to Los Angeles, Wessel moved cross-country to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971. From stretches of dusty highway to modest California bungalows framed by telephone poles and palm trees, Wessel's often spare and solitary images capture the idiosyncrasies and irony of American life with a wry objectivity. His photographs of parking lots, beach-goers, and shrubbery -- all illuminated by the brilliance of Western light -- find beauty and intrigue in the commonplace and document the social landscape in a manner that is casual yet formally compelling. Pace/MacGill Gallery is presents Henry Wessel: Vintage Photographs, on view April 21 through July 8, 2011. The exhibition marks Wessel’s first show at the gallery and features over 30 vintage gelatin silver prints made between 1968 and 1987. www.pacemacgill.com

[PHILOSOPHY] Contextualizations of a Genius

To honor the 60th anniversary of the death of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein the Shwules Museum (Gay Museum) in Berlin is holding a special exhibition. Wittgenstein was a giant in 20th century philosophy–the exhibition explores his jewish identity, his coming to grips with his family and the suicides of his three brothers, and his unique dialectics. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Contextualizations of a Genius is on view until June 13. www.ludwig-wittgenstein.com

Life in Photographs

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Phillips de Pury & Company is announces Life in Photographs a "selling exhibition" of 26 photographs by Linda McCartney. The exhibition, a selection of highlights from an archive of 200,000 will showcase the work of a exceptionally talented photographer, capturing spontaneous and moving moments of her life. The exhibition is curated in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and the McCartney family. On view from June 7 to June 16 in London. www.phillipsdepury.com

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