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Atlanta, USA
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in 16th-century Netherlands
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Emory University, 571 South Kilgo Street Atlanta 30322
Tel: +1 404 727 4282 Website
Berlin, Germany
Charlottenburg Palace
Cranach and Renaissance Art Under the House of Hohenzollern
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Spandauer Damm 20-24 Berlin 14059
Tel: + 49 (0) 331 96 94 200 Website
This is an exhibition of more than 200 objects in two sites. It has been organised by the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg in cooperation with the Evangelical parish of St Petri-St Marien, Berlin. The main idea of the show is to relate the art patronage of the Hohenzollern dynasty from 1417 to 1613 to the events of that period. The chronological brackets enclose the inauguration of the Hohenzollerns as Electors of Brandenburg, the events of the Protestant Reformation, the uncertain rise to power of Brandenburg as a small, but significant, segment of the Holy Roman Empire to the eve of its establishment as the centre of a quasi-independent state, the emergence of a middle-class urban elite in Berlin, and the internal religious and political tensions within the Hohenzollern territories, as well as those states the empire and the rest of Europe.
The first part of the exhibition in the Charlottenburg Palace opens with a depiction of the founder, Friedrich I, in a donor portrait on the Cadolzburger Altar, a winged altarpiece made around 1430 by an anonymous Nuremburg painter. There follows a series of works by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), his workshop and his son Lucas the Younger (1515-86), commissioned by or during the reign of the Elector Joachim I (1499-1535)—portraits (shown here, of his son and heir, Joachim II, around 1555), the nine Passion Cycle paintings, 1537, a self-portrait and an early version of the Naiad, 1515, as well as sculptures, prints, textiles, ceramics, books and manuscripts by other artists. An ardent Catholic and supporter of the emperor, Joachim I’s personal religious convictions were at variance with many, if not most, of his subjects who were Lutherans. Joachim tried to ensure a Catholic succession, but, following his death and that of the emperor, his successor, Joachim II, converted to Lutheranism in 1555. In the period covered by this part of the exhibition, the viewer is shown how the Hohenzollerns developed a realpolitik that permitted the artistic expression of various antagonistic religious alliances.
The second part of the exhibition at the St Marienkirche illustrates the interests of the emergent bourgeoisie of Berlin. A Last Judgement, 1558, by Michael Ribestein (1539-65) and sculptures by the Swabian Catholic Hans Schenck (1611-45), made for the St Marienkirche, are evidence of lively local, if not widely significant, ecumenical art production. The Renaissance ideal of the educated gentleman was bolstered by a rapidly expanding print culture, demonstrated by many works from the St Marien church library, and documents concerning the foundation in 1574 of “Zum Grauen Kloster”, which became Berlin’s most prestigious grammar school. D.L.
A 272-page catalogue, Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern: Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur, with 327 colour illustrations, is published by Deutscher Kunstverlag (€34.90 ISBN 9783422069107) and the exhibition is sponsored by the Kultur Stiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung. Donald Lee
Joachim II, around 1555
Dallas, USA
Goss-Michael Foundation
Marc Quinn
Dates: 24 Sep 09 - 23 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 2500 Cedar Springs Road Dallas 75201
Tel: Website
Dublin, Ireland
Mother's Tankstation
Michael Snow: So Is This
Dates: 11 Nov 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 41-43 Watling Street, Ushers Island Dublin D8
Tel: +353 (0)1 6717654 Website
Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Voss
Michael Koch: Forever More
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 21 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Südstrasse 9 (am Schwanenmarkt) Düsseldorf D-40213
Tel: +49 (0)211 13 49 82 Website
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Tate Liverpool
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Post-War (1945-70)
Address: Albert Dock Liverpool L3 4BB
Tel: +44 (0)151 702 7400 Website
Los Angeles, USA
Getty Villa
The Chimaera of Arezzo
Dates: 16 Jul 09 - 8 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles 90265-5708
Tel: +1 310 230 7075 Website
Inaugurating the long-term partnership between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence is the display of the fourth-century BC Etruscan masterpiece The Chimaera of Arezzo. On loan from the Florence museum, which according to Getty museum director Dr Michael Brand “houses one of the most important collections of Etruscan art in the world”, this sculpture forms the centrepiece of an exhibition exploring six centuries of representations of the mythical beast described by Homer as “a thing of immortal make…lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and breathed forth flames of fire”. Accompanying the 80cm bronze are antiquities from the museum’s permanent collection as well as loans from such institutions as the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The work was unearthed in the Tuscan town of Arezzo in the 16th-century and entered the collection of ruler and art patron Cosimo I de’Medici. This is the first time the sculpture has travelled to the US. E.S.
The Chimaera of Arezzo
Michael Kohn Gallery
Bruce Conner
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 8071 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles 90048
Tel: +1 323 658 8088 Website
Lyon, France
Biennale de Lyon
10th Biennale de Lyon
Dates: 16 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Biennials
Address: Various Venues Lyon
Tel: Website
For the tenth Biennale de Lyon the Paris and San Francisco-based curator and critic Hou Hanru has focused on the opposing notions of spectacle and the everyday in our society, a theme, he feels, that has a particular resonance at this time. “This biennale happens at a time of financial and economic crisis, but it’s also about questioning the profound roots of the social system that we are in,” he told The Art Newspaper. “I was looking how to put these two opposing notions together to create new energy and new dynamics.” Hou, who is director of exhibitions and public programmes and chair of exhibition and museum studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, curated the 2007 Istanbul Biennale, and lived in France for 16 years before moving to the US in 1990.
The works of nearly 60 international artists (see below) are on display in a variety of venues across the city of Lyons and surrounding areas, and arranged in four main chapters across four museums and public spaces in an interactive way to create what Hou describes as an “urban experience” that reflects the dynamism of the themes of spectacle and everyday. “ You go into a space and it’s like you walk through a city. You will bump into the work of artists who are working on different chapters that somehow try to transform everyday objects.”
“The Magic of Things” focuses on artists who transform such objects, situations and environments, “Celebrating the Drift” explores urban spaces inspired by the situationist strategy of “drifting” (dérive), and “Another World” is Possible” consists of works that envision new social orders and alternative models of living in an age of globalisation.
The fourth section, “Living Together”, which is mainly housed within the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art, “reactivates” works from the collection, or which have been exhibited
in the museum in the past, to create a platform for discussion within different communities. “I feel a museum is not only a place for conservation and display,” says Hou. “It is about
opening its memory up to the public.” For instance, the Paris-based Turkish artist Sarkis is reshowing, with new elements, the central part of his 2002 show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, L’Ouverture, in which air is blown into the gallery through a ventilation system scattering pieces of newspapers from around the world. A series of conferences, happenings, readings and dance and musical events will then take place in this space while the ventilation system is closed down.
Linked to “Living Together” is a related section, “Veduta”, in which three artists or groups of artists have been invited to take residence in the Lyons suburbs to make new works with the involvement of the largely immigrant inhabitants that will be shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art. Eko Nogroho will create puppet shows with local youths, collective Bik Van der Pol builds a floating platform over a lake for discussions and leisure activities, and French artist Robert Milin, who is making ten light boxes featuring sentences from inhabitants talking about their dreams and desires.
About half of the works are new commissions, including a film by Maria Thereza Alves, an installation by Jimmie Durham, two large site specific installations by Pedro Cabrita Reis, a performance piece by Istanbul artist Ha Za Vu Zu and wall drawings by Dan Perjovschi. Michael Lin’s What a Difference a Day Made, shown in the Shanghai Gallery of Art last year, is a reconstruction of a Shanghai shop
of everyday household objects. The artist has invited magicians and acrobats to perform with the objects, which are then reclassified and stored within the shop.
The four main strands of the biennale are shown in two converted warehouses—La Sucriére, the flagship venue of the biennale since 2003, and the Bichat Warehouse, an 800 sq. m former arsenal that is being used for the first time, which houses a single work, a neon drawing by Pedro Cabrita Reis—and the Bullukian Foundation, as well as the city’s Renzo Piano-designed Museum of Contemporary Art. But the city as a whole embraces the event; interventions planned for the city’s streets include a whole series of large-scale murals by San Francisco-based Rigo 23.
The biennale is not just the tenth in Lyons, but the first after a trio of themed trilogies, so was there pressure on Hou to mark this edition in some way? “The number is not that important but it’s a conjunction of different elements: the number, the timing and the momentum of now,” he said.
“I don’t pretend to have the ambition to say this [biennale] will be a revolution...but I think that it is an interesting opportunity for us to think what a biennial, or even in the wider sense a cultural institution, should do in our times” explains the Chinese curator. James Hobbs
Sarkis, Le Monde est Illisible, Mon Coeur Si, installation view at the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyons in 2002
Minneapolis, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)
Michael Kareken and Tetsuya Yamada
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis 55404
Tel: +1 612 870 3000 Website
From Towers to Teakettles: Michael Graves Architecture and Design
Dates: 29 Aug 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Address: 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis 55404
Tel: +1 612 870 3000 Website
New York, USA
Anton Kern Gallery
Michael Joo
Dates: 22 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 532 West 20th Street New York 10011
Tel: +1 212 367 9663 Website
Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Jörg Immendorff- Maoist Paintings: the Early 70s
Dates: 29 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 4 East 77th Street New York 10075
Tel: +1 212 988 1623 Website
Ottawa, Canada
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Pixels and Paper: Alain Paiement and Michael Flomen
Dates: 1 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Photography
Address: National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive Ottawa K1N 9N4
Tel: +1 613 990 1985 Website
Rome, Italy
Casa di Goethe
Michael Ende (1929-95) and Italy
Dates: 7 Oct 09 - 15 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: via del Corso, 18 Rome
Tel: +39 (0)6 32650412 Website
St Ives, United Kingdom
Tate St Ives
The Dark Monarch
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Porthmeor Beach St Ives TR26 1TG
Tel: +44 (0)1736 796 226 Website
This group show of works from the Tate Collection examines esoteric influences on the development of 20th-century art. It consists of works by artists including Derek Jarman, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, John Stezeker and Mark Titchner, tracing the links between the romanticism of the mythological and the forward thinking of modernity. It looks at mysticism and the occult in Britain, and their relationships with modernism, surrealism and neo-romanticism. Curated by the Tate St Ives’ artistic director Martin Clark, alongside curator and critic Michael Bracewell and artist Alun Rowlands, the show has been assembled thematically based around generational artistic influences, to give the viewer an understanding Clark felt would not be seen chronologically. Film screenings, and family events have been programmed to coincide with Halloween. Above, John Russell, Untitled [Fairie Poem], 2009. W.O.
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John Russell, Untitled [Fairie Poem], 2009
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum für Gestaltung
Michael Comte
Dates: 30 Aug 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Ausstellungsstrasse 60 Zurich CH-8005
Tel: +41 (0)1 4462211 Website
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