Crossing Borders
This exhibition will present an extensive ‘cross section’ of today’s art, with works by over 100 artists – both established and emerging – representing over 50 countries. Each member of this diverse group has been invited to submit work resulting from his or her subjective, personal reflection on the concepts of ‘Time, Space and Existence’.
Participating artists include Katrin Fridriks, an abstract conceptual painter born in Reykjavik in 1974 and living and working in Luxembourg. She fuses the natural energies of her native Iceland
with an explosive, yet organic, abstract expressionism as well as with subtle elements of Japanese calligraphy.
Often presented via installations or visual compositions, Fridriks adds an architectural dimension to her paintings. Shown here is ‘Perception of the Stendhal Syndrome’ comprising one of her large scale, white on black paintings and a custom made, sculptural magnifying glass hung above allowing every viewer a different perception of the work.
Until November 22nd 2015 at Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
www.personalstructures.org
Wim Wenders
Landscapes. Photographs
Internationally renowned for his films (including Wings of Desire, Pina and The Salt of the Earth), Wim Wenders considers photographic work to be the other half of his life. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Museum Kunstpalast is presenting, in collaboration with the artist and the Wim Wenders Foundation, a selection of about 80 large-scale photographs – all analogue creations, made without artificial lighting or tripod.
Works on display include the artist’s early black-and-white photographs, his monumental landscape panorama pictures, rarely shown photographs of ‘Ground Zero’ and new creations from the past year.
Until August 16th, 2015 at Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
www.smkp.de
Jimmie Durham
Venice: Objects, Work and Tourism
Born in 1940 in the US, Jimmie Durham is an artist, essayist and poet. His works often, but not exclusively, challenge the idea of architecture, monumental works and narration of national identities by deconstructing those stereotypes and prejudices on which the Western culture is based.
The installation at the Spazio Carlo Scarpa will feature new objects formed from unexpected combinations: broken glass collected over the years alongside brightly coloured paint, 300 year-old Venetian bricks posed against elements from the tourist industry and everyday commerce of Venice.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an artist book conceived as integral part of a single project. In this book, Durham has compiled writings and images – of objects he has assembled, as well as images of people and scenes of Venice – also his analysis of the underlying connections between the tourism industries, the stories of local workers and Venice’s history.
Until September 20th, 2015 at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
www.querinistampalia.org
Alice Anderson at Wellcome
Memory Movement Memory Objects
Anglo-French artist Alice Anderson creates sculptures from objects entirely mummified in copper thread, producing glistening, beautiful and uncanny landscapes.
Over 100 works wrapped in wire will be on display in this major solo show. Both the making and display of these works will question the processes of creation and of memory, examining how the present can be transformed and the future imagined.
As part of this exploration, visitors will be invited to contribute to the creation of a new and ongoing artwork during the run of the exhibition: the mummification of a car in the gallery.
From July 22nd – October 18th, 2015 at the Wellcome Collection, London, UK
www.wellcomecollection.org
Charles Pollock
A Retrospective
The eldest brother of Jackson Pollock, Charles Pollock (1902-1988), was an artist whose life and career exemplify what has been called ‘the American Century’.
This major exhibition is the first full retrospective of his work and includes over 120 paintings, sketches, drawings, photographs, and documents, many on loan from the Charles Pollock Archives in Paris. Some have never before been exhibited. Among these, early letters, photos and sketches will document the relations between Charles and Jackson Pollock.
Works by Jackson Pollock and Thomas Hart Benton complement those from Charles’ early years in New York and Washington, shedding light on what amounted to a Pollock family enterprise – studying to be artists – in the years before World War II.
Until September 14th, 2015 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
www.guggenheim-venice.it
Barbara Hepworth Sculpture for a Modern World
With over 70 works ranging from major carvings and bronzes to less-familiar pieces, this major retrospective will highlight the different contexts in which Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) created and presented her work, from the studio to the landscape.
The exhibition will recall the often overlooked international prominence of one of Britain’s greatest modern artists, presenting works by Hepworth’s predecessors and peers, including Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) and Henry Moore (1898-1986), revealing how her sculpture related to a wider culture of wood and stone carving. A selection of photographs and film will consider the different ways in which Hepworth’s sculpture was presented or imagined – in landscape, in a gallery, in the garden and on stage – and the impact such variant stagings have on an interpretation of her works.
Until October 25th, 2015 at Tate Britain, London, UK
www.tate.org
