ART NEWS:Oct.01
“The Dancing Artist”, is an exhibition exploring the influential work of German artist and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer who revolutionized the art of dance and performance within the Bauhaus. Oskar Schlemmer, conceiving the human body as an artistic medium and placing the study of body movements at the core of his artistic thinking and practice, played a pivotal role in the history of performing arts. The exhibition shows his desire and ambition to establish a modern theatrical and choreographic art through his manifesto-work, the “Triadic Ballet”, but also through the Bauhaus performances and dances, or his staging of works by important composers, such as Igor Stravinsky or Arnold Schönberg. Through the work of Oskar Schlemmer, we discover another Bauhaus, which is not only a school of applied arts, but also a key territory for performative and choreographic experiments in the interwar, until the closure in 1933. Info: Curators: C. Raman Schlemmer andEmma Lavigne, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 1 Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, Metz, Duration: 13/10/16-16/1/17, Days & Hours: April to October : Mon & Wed-thu 10:00-18:00 Fir-Sun 10:00-19:00, November to March: Mon & Wed-Sun 10:00-18:00, www.centrepompidou-metz.fr
Being presented for the first time in 2016, GALLERY WEEKEND KOREA is a major international event in the field of contemporary art, highlighted by 20 Contemporary Korean artists of 20 participating galleries. Other core programs of GALLERY WEEKEND KOREA, include 3 types of Open Talks, entitled “Art Dealers Talk”, “Collectors Talk”, and “Talking Galleries Talk”. In these discussions, which are open to the public, various members of the International Art Market will deliberate upon diverse issues impacting their field. Info: Venue NEMO, Art Space, Interpark Theater Co., Ltd., 294 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Duration 13-16/10/16, http://galleryweekend.kr
“The Natural Flow of Things” is a group exhibition that reflects on the most basic, contemplative acts of creation. The selection of works is not a reinterpretation of Land Art or an art and nature exhibition but a combination of both, an inventory of simple gestures directly related to artistic creation and the construction of a narrative of forms. With an expressive rotundity conceived from different perspectives, all of these works possess a degree of aesthetic joy, epic gesturality and childlike innocence reminiscent of traditional disciplines and a certain primitivism that situates them in an absolute space of timeless freedom. Info: Curator: Tania Pardo, La Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia, 2, Madrid, Duration: 14/10/16-8/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-22:00, www.lacasaencendida.es
Wurtz is known for gathering and accumulating ordinary objects, mostly related to consumer habits, which he later assembles and groups into sculptural pieces. Rather than sublimating or altering the meaning of these items for everyday use, the sculptures underscore their formal quality and function. The exhibition “B. Wurtz: Selected Works, 1970–2016”, brings together more than 60 works. The exhibition presents works produced from the beginning of his career in the ‘70s to the present day. In addition to sculptures and installations, visitors will be able to view paintings and two-dimensional creations as well as one photographic piece. The latter works are important for understanding how, through the intrinsic properties of the materials he uses, the artist shifts almost imperceptibly from sculpture to the two-dimensional plane. These meticulous structures made from food wrappers, plastic carrier bags, shoelaces, locks, takeaway trays and mesh bags allude to the human essentials of food, shelter and clothing and allow viewers to reflect on the many possibilities of everyday materials. Info: Curator: Laurence Sillars, La Casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia, 2, Madrid, Duration: 14/10/16-8/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-22:00, www.lacasaencendida.es
On the occasion of its reopening, the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition “The End of the World”. Through the works of 50 artists the exhibition is set up as a kind of exercise of distance which will incite us to take a look at our present from a great distance. Along the way the audience will experience the feeling of being projected thousands of light years away to view our current world as if it were a fossil, geological eras from the present time, resulting in a feeling of being suspended in a limbo between a now distant past and a still distant future. Info: Curator: Fabio Cavallucci, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Viale della Repubblica 277, Prato, Duration: 16/10/16-19/3/17, Days & Hours: Tue & Thu 13:00-18:00, Wed & Fri 10:00-15:00, http://centropecci.it/en/home
The exhibition “Figurative Geometry” brings together works by nine artists who can be thought to represent abstraction or, equally, to Abstract Representation. Though seemingly in two dimensions, some of these works play with depth of field in terms of material, layering and transparency, spatial dislocations that involve the rooms in which they are shown. For the artists, the act of painting is clearly represented in their work, and it can be seen as a statement. In a period when anything hung on a wall must be instantly afforded the status of painting, when we are confronted by “paintings” that have been made without any recourse to paint whatsoever, created with printers and scanners, or with the assistance of nature, bleached by the sun, stained by the rain, a pretense of process art to painting en plein air, and very late in the day, an engaged practice of painting, rather than dismissed as a thing of the past, is ever more present. Info: Collezione Maramotti, Via Fratelli Cervi 66, Reggio Emilia, Duration: 16/10/16-2/4/17, Days & Hours: Thu-Fri 14:30-18:30, Sat-Sun 10:30-18:30, www.collezionemaramotti.org
For her first exhibition in Paris, Josephine Meckseper has devised an installation for the Gagosian Gallery’s street-level vitrine, informed in part by Walter Benjamin’s paradigmatic The Arcades Project. The mirrored interior walls of Meckseper’s vitrine reflect the objects contained as well as the outside street. The artist utilizes banal materials, from denim jeans to car parts, confronting the “readymade” with the refinement of “high art,” though unlike her postwar predecessors, they maintain a pristine quality. Even a lurid purple toilet mat feels sumptuous and dignified when framed with plumbing pipe and hung like a painting. Info: Gagosian Gallery, 4 rue de Ponthieu, 2nd Floor, Paris Duration: 19/10-21/12/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.gagosian.com
“Le Grand Balcon”, the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal, explores an unusual question: is hedonism possible today? The project posits the urgency of forming a materialistic, sensualistic approach to the world that mobilizes the capacities of both brain and body to their fullest. It sets out the challenge of developing an ethical hedonism and a joyous utilitarianism. The exhibition features new and/or recent works by 55 artists and collectives at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, La Biennale de Montréal’s main venue, and across a number of downtown spaces. This multi-site exhibition operates in parallel to a dynamic program of talks, performances, concerts, screenings and publications. Info: Curator Philippe Pirotte, Curatorial Advisors: Corey McCorkle, Aseman Sabet and Kitty Scott, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 185 Saint-Catherine St West, Montreal, Duration 20/10/16-15/1/17, Days & Hours: Tue & Thu-Fri 11:00-18:00, Wed 11:00-21:00, Sat-Sun 10:00-18:00, www.macm.org
YIA Art Fair #07Paris presents a selection of 65 galleries from 16 countries and 3 continents. In addition, the fair will have a rich supporting program with a series of talks in the auditorium and a space dedicated to drawings and. The Fair is a opportunity for emerging artists to increase their visibility and make valuable connections with the audience and international art collectors. For 2016 YIA Art Fair in partnership with Marais Culture +, present a cultural Hors-Les Murs for the 3rd year in a row, curated by a committee guided by Marion Zilion, the program features exhibitions, dances and performances, screenings, as well talks and special meetings between art enthusiasts, artists and other art professionals. Info: YIA Art Fair #07Paris, Le Carreau du Temple, 4 rue Eugène Spuller, Paris, Duration: 20-23/10/16, Days & Hours: Thu (20/10/16) 10:00-22:00 by Invitation Only, Fri-Sun (21-23/10/16) 11:00-20:00, Admission: Full-fare: 15€, Reduced fare (‐ 20 years, students and art schools) 8€, http://yia-artfair.com