27 mars 2009

man looks at Joan Miró's "Jeune fille s'évadant", 1967 at Bancaja Foundation. EFE/Manuel Bruque VALENCIA.-The Bancaja Cultural Center presents Joan Miró. Evoking the Female Image, on view through June 21, 2009. The exhibition was organized together with the Joan and Pilar Miro Foundation. Women as a theme run through all Miró’s work. It was an early allure that began during his training as an artist. It was a constant obsession that persisted into his maturity. Miró equated the female figure with the universe.... [Lire la suite]

David Montgomery, Grace Coddington Five Point Cut by Vidal Sassoon, 1964. Vintage silver gelatin print. 10 x 7.9 inches. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery NEW YORK.- One of the most important international photography events, The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by AIPAD from March 26 through 29, 2009. Seventy-three of the world's leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video,... [Lire la suite]

Ivan Vassilievitch Kliundov, dit Kliun, Composition suprématiste, 1915, huile sur toile, 59 x 43,5 cm. Estimation : 80 000/100 000 €. Le nom d’Ivan Kliun ne vous dit peut-être rien... Derrière cette personnalité pour le moins confidentielle aux yeux du grand public, se cache pourtant l’un des plus fidèles élèves et amis de Malevitch. Nul besoin de présenter le père du suprématisme, premier artiste à franchir la ligne blanche de la non-objectivité, à faire table rase de la peinture figurative, complaisamment illusionniste.... [Lire la suite]

Emil Cadoo © SEXUS 35.56 x 24.77 cm, 1963 vintage gelatin silver print LONDON.- The White Space Gallery presents today Emil Cadoo - I Regret Nothing. Anya Stonelake / White Space Gallery are to present the UK’s first exhibition of works by photographer Emil Cadoo, focusing on his seminal period of the 1960s-70s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Emil Cadoo (1926 – 2002) was one of the defining photographers of the 1960s. In May 1960 he emigrated to Paris, not only to escape the racism of America at that time, but also finding that... [Lire la suite]

Yan Pei-Ming BEIJING.- UCCA will present Nature & Innocents, an exhibition by painter Yan Pei-Ming, from June 18 to September 13, 2009. Nature & Innocents will stand as a surprising exhibition and for the first time in Yan Pei-Ming’s career, he will produce a show without canvases. Huge landscapes directly painted onto UCCA big hall’s walls, will frame a series of painted flags, representing portraits of 200 new born Chinese children. Imagined as an experimental walk through, the exhibition powerfully conveys Yan Pei... [Lire la suite]

Karl Blossfeldt: Passiflora, Passionsblume, o. J. Frei zur Veröffentlichung COLOGNE.- Die Photographische Sammlung presents Plant Studies by Karl Blossfeldt and Related Works, an exhibition presented by Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne in co-operation with the Berlin University of the Arts, compiled by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Rajka Knipper and Claudia Schubert. The exhibition will present for the first time in this volume the famous and influential plant studies by Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) from the... [Lire la suite]

Willem de Kooning and his wife, Elaine, photograph by Hans Namuth, 1952. Hans Namuth "Nothing is less clear than geometry". Willem de Kooning