Art Blog

Lumini Mattia - DIgital Artist

Italian Digital artist since 1988, recently he published a new website with all artworks since 1991 to 2006...

http://www.luminimattia.com/

Lydia Schouten: „Le jardin secret” (The Secret Garden)

Ludwig Múzeum: 12 May – 2 July 2006

“A group of people pass through the forest, bird-watching. Their excursion, which provides a way of escaping reality and seeking the beauty of existence, lasts from early morning till late at night. As the cyclical tour advances, the atmosphere becomes unclear, the people ultimately transformed into wanderers. They hang around a place, stirring under leaves, knocking at trees. Occasionally someone disappears in the woods for a period of time, only to join the group again in another forest. Now and then an animal appears, observed by the group, while mist starts to rise and fill all the screens, followed by a mini-drama. The plot brings about a sense of uncertainty and threat. With the end of a mini-drama, the image automatically returns to the wandering in the woods. It is a tour doomed to failure, in which the inability to change the status quo is translated into attempts to talk to birds and nature. ...

http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu

Lyn Carter - Textiles to camouflage the everyday

Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery: Friday, May 12, 2006 To Sunday, June 25, 2006

Lyn Carter's work combines an intricate textile surface with unusual forms. Pattern becomes a codified language that is stretched like a skin over undulating and pendulous shapes. For this exhibition the artist has created ornate fabric sleeves that cover and contain inanimate everyday objects - in this case Dollar store plates, bowls and platters. The artist arranges these pregnant pouches in elaborate mappings or constellations on the wall of the Gallery. ...

http://www.tomthomson.org

Back/Flash

Dalhousie Art Gallery: 12 May to 2 July

David Garneau video still from Black Pepper 1999 image courtesy of the Walter Phillips Gallery

Back/Flash is an examination of aboriginal media art ranging from early video production to ground-breaking video installation, virtual reality, net art, and digital works. By turns amusing, accusing, enlightening and provocative, this exhibition presents installations by Thirza Cuthand, David Garneau, Zachery Longboy, Mike MacDonald, Buffy Saint-Marie, and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, as well as computer-based works by Skawennati Tricia Fragnito and Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew and single channel video by Cat Cayuga, Dana Claxton, Stephen Foster, Zacharius Kanuk. Steven Loft, Darlene Naponse and Shelley Niro. ...

http://artgallery.dal.ca

Seeker, Sentry, Sage: Shades of Islam in Contemporary B.C. Art

Maltwood art museum & gallery: May. 11, 2006 - Jun. 19, 2006

From May 11-June 19 the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery will introduce contemporary artists whose lives have been influenced by Islam and are now living in British Columbia. The art works by the fifteen artists in this exhibition evoke multiple cultural influences, from numerous branches and historical periods of Islamic contexts. With family roots and histories that spin threads among India, Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Iran, England and Canada, some are descended from families who arrived in Canada generations ago; others arrived a few decades ago. ...

http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca

Charles Sheeler: Across Media

National Gallery of Art, Washington: May 7–August 27, 2006

Charles Sheeler Classic Landscape, 1931 Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth 2000.39.2

This is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the complex, often paradoxical relationships between photography, film, drawing, printmaking, and painting that were so central to Sheeler's art. A celebration of the formal clarity and beauty of Sheeler's works, the exhibition will build on a core of masterpieces recently added to the National Gallery of Art collections, including the magnificent painting Classic Landscape, 1931, the masterful Conté crayon drawings Interior with Stove, 1932, and Counterpoint, 1949, as well as three striking examples of the artist's "Doylestown" photographs. Highlights include the finest works from the series of paintings and drawings inspired by Sheeler's photographs of the River Rouge plant, commissioned by Ford Motor Company in 1927. Also featured is Manhatta (1920), a collaboration between Sheeler and Paul Strand that is regarded as the first avant-garde film made in the United States. The exhibition will conclude with images inspired by Sheeler's experiments with montage in the 1940s and 1950s. ...

http://www.nga.gov

Making China in China Paul Mathieu

RICHMOND art gallery: May 2 – June 1

The evolution of Paul Mathieu’s ceramic practice is articulated over the history of its production. He does not simply make ceramic pieces, functional or otherwise, rather the fabrication is a part of his observation and interrogation of the place of ceramics and pottery in the world and in art. He has worked with serial production, commodification and the consequent questioning of originality and authenticity. The works in this exhibition have been produced in a factory in Jinghezhen, China, a city that has many factories and workshops that have been functioning for 1,000 years. Mathieu first visited this area of China eight years ago and returned annually to produce this work in the factories. ...

http://www.richmondartgallery.org

William Forsythe

PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE | KUNST: until 04.06.2006

William Forsythe (*1949 in New York) is the world's leading choreographer of the present day. His name stands undisputedly for new discoveries in the field of performing arts, for the future of dance, for the breaking down of traditional barriers and for crossover with the fine arts. For this reason, the planned project of the Pinakothek der Moderne represents a completely new departure in exhibition format. It will feature a live, stage-like and performative art exhibition to run in different rooms of the museum. ...

http://www.pinakothek.de

The Art of Betty Woodman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: April 25, 2006–July 30, 2006

The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Gallery, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Modern Art, 1st floor American-born artist Betty Woodman (b. 1930) is celebrated internationally for her contribution to contemporary ceramic sculpture and for the interrelationship between ceramics, sculpture, and painting in her work. This retrospective includes some 70 examples of early utilitarian objects, large vessel groups, wall installations, paintings, and drawings. ...

http://www.metmuseum.org

Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest

The Art Institute of Chicago: April 22-August 13, 2006

Jar with Plumed Serpent and Macaw-Headed Serpent, c. 1280-1450. Casas Grandes. Private Collection.

In the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest and Northwestern Mexico, there flourished ancient Indian communities whose ceramics are among the most accomplished in the world. Bearing plumed and horned serpents, macaws, and lively geometric designs, these objects reveal an unknown story in the art and culture of Southwestern American Indian antiquity. This innovative exhibition highlights the imaginative graphic complexity and distinctive symbolism of Casas Grandes ceramics with vessels from c. 1250-1450. ...

http://www.artic.edu

Xi'an – Imperial Power in the Afterlife

Kunst - und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: 21 April - 23 July 2006

This exhibition presents recent archaeological discoveries from the vast necropolis surrounding the city of Xi'an in today’s Shaanxi province, the very cradle of Chinese culture and capital of China through thirteen dynasties.
Taking the unification of the empire under China's first emperor Qin Shihuangdi as its starting point, the exhibition focuses on the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties (221 BC – 907 AD) and showcases around 200 magnificent objects from the sumptuous funerary complexes and rich temple furnishings of the emperor and the aristocracy.
An impressive computer-aided display allows a glimpse into the as yet unopened burial chambers of two imperial tombs. ...

http://www.kah-bonn.de

The Art of the Book from East to West and Memories of the Ottoman World Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection

Sakip Sabançi Museum, Istanbul: From 14 April to 28 May, 2006

The Divan by Mir Ali-Shir Nava'i Persia, Tabriz, ca. 1530 1575 26.3 x 18 cm Inv. no. L.A. 183

The Sakıp Sabancı Museum is preparing to host a magnificent selection of works from Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The exhibition brings together 75 outstanding and rare manuscripts and printed books representing the art of the book around the world, and 35 works of art that are reminders of Calouste Gulbenkian's Ottoman origins, consisting of orientalist paintings, Ottoman fabrics and Ottoman tiles. ...

http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu

erwin wurm. adorno was wrong regarding his theory on art

museum der moderne (salzburg): 08.04.-09.07.2006

Born in Bruck/Mur in 1954, the artist belongs to the most important artists within the Austrian art scene. Within the last years he gained an international reputation through countless national and international museum exhibitions as well as publications. Since many years he focuses on the weaknesses in every day life, the insecurities within human relations and the unpredictable flexibility which can be shown abruptly by assumed security. ...

http://www.museumdermoderne.at/

The art and museum libraries of West Flanders

6 April – 4 June 2006

In the (early) summer of 2006 the Flemish Art Libraries Consultative Group (known for short as OKBV) is organising a project which will ensure that the doors of West Flanders’ most important art and museum libraries are temporarily opened to the general public. In Bruges an evocative exhibition will be held in the Gezelle Museum, based around the many (art) books and (museum) libraries of our province. And there are more of these than you might think, some of them real collector’s items! A small and easy-to-use guide will provide you with more information about the libraries, their collections and their participation in the project. ...

http://www.brugge.be

Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: April 5, 2006–July 2, 2006

This exhibition is the first comprehensive study of armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from the Tibetan plateau, a subject that has remained virtually unexplored until now. Many rare or previously unknown examples of helmets, body armor, swords, horse armor, saddles, and stirrups are exhibited and published here for the first time. Dating from the 13th to the 20th century, these objects include some of the finest examples of Himalayan ironwork embellished with gold and silver and extremely rare decorated leatherwork. ...

http://www.metmuseum.org

All Fired Up!

KELOWNA ART GALLERY (Canada): April 1 to June 11, 2006

Bonnie Anderson
The Three Graces, 2006
clary art

The Okanagan Valley is a region rich in creativity so it is not surprising that this area is also ripe with accomplished potters and clay artists who are experimenting with a variety of techniques and exploring diverse subject matter. The objects produced range from functional cups and bowls to decorative wall murals and everything in between. To complement the touring exhibition Regina Clay in the Treadgold Bullock Gallery, All Fired Up! features a small but strong selection of contemporary clay work produced by Okanagan-based artists including Bonnie Anderson, Angela Carlson, Gillian Paynter, Bob Kingsmill and others.

http://www.galleries.bc.ca

WHITE ON WHITE (AND A LITTLE GRAY)

American Folk Art Museum: March 28–September 17, 2006

Artist unidentified United States 1810–1820 Cotton with cotton fringe 96 x 78"

“White on White (and a little gray)” highlights the vernacular American participation in the vogue for neoclassicism. The pure light of white-on-white textiles was the perfect emblem of rationalism in the Federal era. The American Folk Art Museum holds a breathtaking collection of these textiles executed in a variety of techniques that have never been shown together. About ten whiteworks will be on view, from the Museum’s earliest example, dated 1796, to mid-nineteenth century textiles. ...

The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection

Asian Art Museum (San Francisco): Part I: March 24–June 25 , 2006

“Yaji,” or ‘elegant gathering,’ refers to a tradition among members of China’s intellectual elite who would informally gather to “debate with art rather than words.” The Elegant Gathering features 80 superb masterworks of Chinese calligraphy and painting carefully drawn together by generations of the fascinating Yeh family—scholars, statesmen, and passionate practitioners of the yaji tradition. ...

Orchard Pavilion Preface (Lanting xu) in cursive script (caoshu) (detail), dated 1629, by Gui Changshi (1574–1645). China, another source 1573–1644, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Handscroll, ink on paper. Gift of the Yeh Family Collection, R2002.49.36.A

http://www.asianart.org

From the Fire: Contemporary Korean Ceramics

Asian Art Museum (San Francisco): March 24–May 21, 2006

In Korea, it is understood that if one makes ceramics, one must do it well. From the Fire showcases 108 vibrantly diverse artworks by 54 of Korea’s most important ceramic artists, revealing the latest innovations of the country’s rich ceramic tradition. ...

http://www.asianart.org

Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: March 18–June 4, 2006

Sambo’s Banjo, 1971–72. Mixed-media assemblage, 41 by 14 ½ x 18 inches. (banjo case); 6 ½ by 12 ¾ by 2 ¾ inches. (watermelon slice). Collection California African American Foundation, Courtesy California African American Museum

Betye Saar is widely viewed as one of the most distinguished figures in American art today. Born in 1926 in Los Angeles, she emerged in the 1960s as a seminal figure in the redefinition of African American identity in art. Throughout her career, Saar has made art that challenges us to think about our societal responses to race and to the history of race in the United States. Though politically trenchant, Saar's work moves beyond protest to encompass a profound spirituality and an awareness of the things that link human beings across cultural lines and across time. Best known for her richly evocative assemblages of found objects, Saar has been included in numerous exhibitions and is represented in many major museum collections. This exhibition examines Saar's achievement by focusing on her work with photography, specifically, her incorporation of photographic fragments as a metaphor for her view of the African American experience and of lives too often obscured in American visual history. ...

http://www.norton.org