October 2005

The top 15 in art

1 (78) Damien Hirst Artist

2 (1) Larry Gagosian Dealer/gallerist

3 (13) Francois Pinault Owner of Christie's /collector

4 (3) Nicholas Serota Museum director

5 (2) Glenn D Lowry Museum director

6 (22) Eli Broad Collector/philanthropist

7 (5) Sam Keller Art fair director, Art Basel

8 (11) Iwan Wirth Dealer/gallerist, Hauser and Wirth

9 (-) Bruce Nauman Artist

10 (34) David Zwirner Dealer/gallerist

11 (-) Herzog & de Meuron Architects

12 (8) Ronald Lauder Collector/philanthropist

13 (23) Richard Serra Artist

14 (15) Marian Goodman Dealer/gallerist

15 (6) Dakis Joannou Collector

http://www.guardian.co.uk

William Kentridge: Black Box / Chambre Noire

Deutsche Guggenheim: 29.10.05 - 15.1.06

 

Untitled (drawing for Black Box/Chambre Noire), 2005

Photo: John Hodgkiss

©William Kentridge

In conceiving of a new art work as part of the Deutsche Bank and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s commissioning program for the Deutsche Guggenheim, William Kentridge, a South African artist very much grounded in geographies and histories of place, took as a point of departure the commission’s originating site—broadly speaking, Germany. In addition to his body of work exploring the history of Africa and South Africa, Kentridge has also long exhibited an affinity to German art and culture, creating works inspired by or in response to German visual artists and literary figures. ...

http://www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com

Vadim Voinov. The State Hermitage Under a Full Moon

Hermitage Museum: 25 October 2005 - 28 February 2006

 

Square "Sailor from the Baltic"

The exhibition in the General Staff building presents works by the artist Vadim Voinov. The 73 works on display consist of collages and installations made from very old and authentic materials. Each group of collages and the various installations are thematically linked. Among the names are Red Wall, Circle - Father of the Square, and Vienna Set.

The artist’s unique manner of presentation is itself a major achievement of the exhibition. It demonstrates original methods and conventions invented by the artist which, undoubtedly, will become part of the arsenal of museum construction. ...

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

ArchiSculpture

Guggenheim BILBAO: 28 October, 2005 - 26 February, 2006

 

The relationship between architecture and sculpture is one of the most exciting artistic phenomena in the 20th century. Since its birth in the late 19th century, modern sculpture has absorbed key influences from architecture, while contemporary architecture has developed in such sculptural terms that some of the trends look like built versions of modern sculpture. ArchiSculpture examines many aspects of the close, reciprocal relationship between architecture and sculpture. The exhibition is based on a selection of some 180 works of art, models and photographs by the most influential artists and architects contributing to this dialogue between two disciplines. ...

http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es

Big Bang Destruction and creation in 20th century art

CENTRE POMPIDOU: Thursday, October 27 2005

The Centre Pompidou's collections, reshuffled into a theme-centred, discipline-mingling and chronology-devoid experience, for the first time ever. Big Bang is a free association of modern and contemporary plastic arts, photography, cinema, video, architecture, design, and literature, showcasing works and styles from the turn of the last century to the present day side by side.(...)

http://www.cnac-gp.fr

Fra Angelico

MET: October 26, 2005–January 29, 2006

This first major exhibition of Fra Angelico’s work since the quincentenary exhibition of 1955 in Florence—and the first ever in this country—reunites approximately 75 paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations covering all periods of the artist’s career, from ca. 1410 to 1455. Included are several new attributions and paintings never before exhibited publicly, as well as numerous reconstructions of dispersed complexes, some reunited for the first time. An additional 45 works by Angelico's assistants and closest followers illustrate the spread and continuity of his influence into the second half of the 15th century. (...)

http://www.metmuseum.org

Rubens: A Master In The Making

The National Gallery: 26 October 2005 - 15 January 2006

Detail from Rubens, 'Saint George', 1605-7. © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

The exhibition tells the remarkable story of Rubens's dramatic ascension from working as a pupil of a minor Antwerp artist, to become the dominant international painter of his time. It is the most thorough explanation of the flowering of his genius ever attempted. The story traces his hesitant beginnings in Antwerp (1598-1600) to his eight-year study trip to Italy (1600-1608), where he embraced the Renaissance greats of Michelangelo and Raphael and the revolutionary style of Caravaggio.(...)

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk