To mark the 10th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2007 the Museum launched a series of exhibitions called Laboratories: Insights into the Permanent Collection. The purpose was to give the public a chance to learn more about selected works in the Collection, including each artist’s creative process, cultural or intellectual references, materials, and artistic discourse
LOOP Fair has been invited to participate in the videoart programme of SH Contemporary- Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, the most preeminent fair in mainland China- which will take place from the 8th until the 10th of September. Each year at LOOP Fair, a jury of experts is formed to choose the best piece exhibited at the fair, which is then acquired by Screen Projects / LOOP and donated to MACBA’s Foundation – Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. Throughout the nine edition of this fair exclusively devoted to video art, acclaimed personalities such as Bartomeu Marí (MACBA), Mark Nash (Documenta 11), Manolo Borja-Villel (MNCARS – Museum Reina Sofia), Christine van Assche (Centre Georges-Pompidou) or Barbara London (MoMA) have contributed in selecting the awarded pieces.
Introduced by LOOP Fair’s manager Julia Morandeira, a selection of the pieces awarded at the fairs’ latest editions will be presented.
The new edition of the Festival Savignano Immagini will show Taj Forer's exhibition in the Fondazione Titus Balestra Onlus from September 9.
His new photography book Stone by Stone edited by Kehrer will be presented also on the Savignano SI Fest.
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The Museum of Contemporary d Art explores the early years of the Catalan artist Àngels Ribé, with an exhibition that covers the period between 1969 and 1984 and which title, In the maze, is inspired by one of his most emblematic works.
The exhibition can be viewed until October 23 and investigates in more than 70 works all the elements that shaped the language of the artist: the fusion with nature, the presence of his own body and the integration of geometric shapes.
“ L’Herbier Merveilleux” title of Jean Michel Othoniel’s last solo show will take place at Castillo Real in Provence from the 7th of July to the 30th of Septemeber. The exhibition gathers some of Othoniel’s works as well as the medieval miniatures of King René the 1st, Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence.
The exhibition is curated by Ado Bastié and it’s framed on the context of the tenth edition of APART (art contemporain des Alpilles et de Provence), festival of contemporary art which will take place in the city of Tarascon.
The current ACFNY Visiting Artist, Isabel Rocamora (U.K/ Spain) will present a screening of two of her short films. The artist/filmmaker will present Body of War and Horizon of exile on 1st August
Body of War (2010) reflects on how a man becomes a soldier through the relentless repetition of acts of violence. Set in the Normandy Landing geography, punctuated by testimonies of serving soldiers, a visceral hand-to-hand combat is gradually deconstructed – inviting the viewer to engage in the relationship between human intimacy and the brutality of war choreography. An observation of the momentary collapse of the heroic, Body of War stages the pathos of military strategy by using documented mise-en-scène as a form of discourse rather than celebration.
The relationship between architectural practice and artistic creation in the work of Juan Navarro Baldeweg (Santander, 1939) has marked out a territory with few limitations throughout the author’s creative career. That concern for experiment, beyond the limits of architecture, has found one of its best examples in the project titled La mesa (The table, 1974-2005), made up of a large stage for positioning a number of pieces, in which balance, gravity and structural tension make up a unique work of art.
The sculpture comprises 31 works, positioned on a unique structure of 130 x 220 x 950 cm with a laboratory-style continuum in which the structural and formal combinations multiply on the large surface of the table to create dynamic spaces laden with meaning.
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Oleg Dou's work develops and pushes to the limit the idea of the human body as an object of subversion, distortion and other mutations that undermine their integrity.In an interview with Zoom Magazine, the young photographer said: “I have a passion for a human face. I use artificial nature of a digital photography as a tool to reach the point between opposites such as alive and dead, attractive and disturbing, beautiful and ugly.”
Oleg Dou uses digital photography to portray fictional characters and inquire about the concepts of beauty, perfection and innocence. His images, which refer to the video game universe, kitsch or fashion, are disturbing and calming at the same time, undoubtedly sick but peculiarly youthful and alive. With his extremely careful work, Dou encourages these ambivalent emotions, seeking to agitate the viewer’s sense of what is a normal appearance
Second participation of Espai 2NOU2 gallery in SWAB from May 26th to 29th with a selection of Spanish and international artists.
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