ART NEWS:Dec.03
The exhibition “I Love Panoramas”, seeks to demonstrate how the notion of the panorama surpasses typical categories of representation in art. Stemming from scientific and military logic prior to being appropriated by the society of the spectacle, the panoramic experience poses the question of our relationship to the landscape and to the world, mastered or unknown, to mass tourism, and to the consumption of formatted points of view as a source of entertainment. Info: Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, 7 Promenade Robert Laffont, Marseille, Duration: 4/11/15-29/2/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Mon 11:00-18:00, www.mucem.org
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, who represented France in the 2015 Biennale in Venice, brings visual arts and music together with his living and ephemeral work, an organic installation specifically conceived for the spaces of the Contemporary Art Square, as transformed into a gigantic aviary. An sonic arrangement featuring 70 zebra finches loose in an aviary, and the only perches are the strings of 14 electric guitars and bass guitars. This is the 19th time the artist has created this installation. Info: Curator: Marie-Eve Beaupré, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Duration: 25/11/15-27/3/16, Days & Hours: Thu-Sun & Tue 10:00-17:00, Wed 10:00-21:00, www.mbam.qc.ca
Best known for her iconic photographs of struggle and conflict, Newsha Tavakolian creates opportunities to decipher the human condition with candor and sensitivity. Her exhibition “I know why the rebel sings”, for the first time, integrates Tavakolian’s stirring warzone images and NGO projects with her more formally conceived portraits. It considers her photographic practice as a whole and examines her journalism as an integral component of it. Her ongoing engagement with the human figure has produced intense portraits of intimacy and silence. Info: Curator: Vali Mahlouji, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Herengracht 603, Amsterdam, Duration: 27/11/15-23/3/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00, www.princeclausfund.org
“Picture Gallery in Transformation” presents a selection of 119 artworks drawn from the MASP’s Collection, spanning from 4 BC to 2008. The easels were first presented at the opening of the museum’s current venue on Avenida Paulista in 1968, and were withdrawn in 1996. The exhibition’s focus on figurative art reflects the history of the collection and the interests of Bardi and Bo Bardi. In the context of the promotion of geometric abstraction by the US through its Good Neighbor policy during the Cold War, they were wary of its potentially depoliticizing effects. Info: MASP—Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Avenida Paulista, 1578, São Paulo, Opening 10/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-20:00, http://masp.art.br
The first Asia Biennial/fifth Guangzhou Triennial not only intends to give an impetus to a topical way of thinking about time that comes from the arts, which may lead to a response to the crisis currently unfolding in the face of globalization and capitalism. The historical and current context of Guangzhou will also be involved as a starting point for searching alternative models and multiple perspectives able to better articulate the notion of “Asia Time.” Subsequently, new modes of thinking about Asia could emerge going beyond geographically and historically defined concepts. Info: Guangdong Museum of Art, Yuexiu, 38 Yanyu Rd, Guangzhou, Duration: 11/12/15-10/4/16, www.gdmoa.org
Paz Errázuriz knows and lives with the people she takes portraits of, obtaining the necessary atmosphere of trust and respect after weeks of intimacy, in order to capture all of their dignity. Her work captures contemporary social life through characters full of dignity and naturalness, such as boxers, transvestites, psychiatric hospital patients, circus performers and tango dancers. She focuses on marginal environments and people who live a life beyond what is considered conventional, many times in private property and closed spaces. Through her photographs, the photographer builds images with characters full of dignity and naturalness. A retrospective of the works is on presentation at Fundacion MAPFRE, Barbara De Braganza Exhibition Hall, Bárbara De Braganza, 13, Madrid, Duration: 16/12/15-28/2/16, Days & Hours: Mon 14:00-20:00, Tue-Sat: 10:00-20:00, Sun 11:00-19:00, www.fundacionmapfre.org
The group exhibition “Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me” is built in a collage of ideas, artworks and emotions, echoing the novel of the same name by Spanish writer Javier Marías, is not developed around the novel’s plot, but is concerned rather with its construction, most notably in the recurring appearance of the lines, taken from Shakespeare’s “Richard III”, deformed and reassembled to become a ritornello. In a hypersensitive yet contained violence, a tension emerges from the exhibited works, all of them in some form of movement, of renewal, of becoming. Info: Curator: Magalie Meunier, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, 11 rue Docteur Dolard, Villeurbanne, Duration: 11/12/15-14/2/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat-sun 13:00-19:00, http://i-ac.eu
Shen Yuan’s installations are spectacular and aesthetically pleasant, however, the feeling is delicate, deeply mingle with the triviality of the everyday life. In her words, art means reborn in a new body. “I am trying to show language which lives in the material, the objects, I change something dead into something living, something useless into something useful”. Shen Yuan emphasizes that art should be originated from life. I believe that while her art sought inspiration from her life, her life is also enriched through her art. Her new exhibition entitled “Étoiles Du Jour” in on show at: Kamel Mennour Gallery, 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris, Duration: 11/12/15-23/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00, www.kamelmennour.com