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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

And we’re off!! — BMW Guggenheim Lab | log

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever

ANY EVER (Trailer), Ryan Trecartin PS1

On view June 19, 2011–September 3, 2011
MoMa PS1

A collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, the annual Premiere Brazil! festival introduces New York audiences to original and accomplished work by both new and established Brazilian filmmakers.

The ninth edition of the festival shines a light on the strength and vivacity of recent Brazilian film production with several promising debuts, including the opening-night feature Craft, Gustavo Pizzi’s fictive portrait of the ups and downs of a creative personality; and Toniko Melo’s VIPs, a stylish, fictionalized look at a real-life con artist. Other films mine historical subject matter to offer new perspectives on the present, including Carlos Adriano’s Santos Dumont’s Mutoscope; Silvio Tendler’s Utopia and Barbarism; and Flavia Castro’s Diary, Letters, Revolutions…. MoMA and MoMA PS1 also pay special tribute to Cao Guimarães, an artist whose work is equally at home in galleries and movie theaters. Several of the artist’s haunting, evocative documentaries and film essays will be screened at MoMA, and a selection of looped short films will be on view at MoMA PS1 on July 16 and 17.

More info go to MoMa Film exhibitions.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

MACRO Rome

Nunzio, Alfabeto, 2009, Collezione MACRO

MACRO interior lobby, design by Odile Decq

MACRO interior lobby, Odile Decq

Claire Fontaine, Dignity before Bread, Collezione MACRO

Macro Rooftop Cafe

Nathalie Junod Ponsard

Adrian Tranquilli, All is violent, All is bright, Playing cards and wood

Paolo Grassino, Madre

Arcangelo Sassolino, Untitled, 2011, Paper pressed under 1000 tons

Giuseppe Pietroniro, Interno MACRO Roma, 2010

Arthur Duff, Rope, 2010, Neon Laser

Maxxi Rome

Maxxi photos courtesy of my BlackBerry

MAXXI National Museum of XXI century Arts is a Foundation established by the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture.

It is the first national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity thought as a great campus dedicated to culture, a laboratory of experiment, study and research.

Thus, in the adventure of an institution so projected towards the future, it was decided to carry out a grand public work with the innovative and spectacular architectural forms of the architect Zaha Hadid. -Maxxi

“I see the MAXXI as an immersive urban environment for the exchange of ideas, feeding the cultural vitality of the city.”Zaha Hadid

Currently showing, Michelangelo Pistoletto

Foto di Sebastiano Luciano - MAXXI, backstage della mostra

Monday, June 20, 2011

Fondation Beyeler

The Fondation Beyeler at dusk, Foto: Mark Niedermann


La négresse blanche [I], 1923 (White Negress [I]) and Delineator, 1974 / 75

Richard Serra

Le baiser, 1907/08 (The Kiss, 1907/08)

Muse endormie [I], 1910 (Spleeping Muse [I])

Bronze, polished, 16 x 27.3 x 18.5 cm

Besides its commitment to the preservation of cultural treasures, the museum also sees itself as a public forum for innovation. To this end, one third of its 3800 square metres of display space is given over to the two to three special exhibitions the museum mounts every year. The aim of these exhibitions is to create a stimulating and illuminating dialogue between the permanent collection, which covers a set period of time, and the present-Mission Statement

Currently Showing Richard Serra + Constantin Brancusi until Aug 21, 2011. Basel Switzerland.
All images taken from Fondation Bayeler's website. Click here for additional info.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Pier Paolo Cazolari

On the top floor of Ca' Pesaro Musei Civici Veneziani, you'll find the works of Pier Paolo Cazolari. The space is anchored by Rodin's larger than life sculptures at each end of the room. Loved everything about this exhibition. Cazolari plays with the whiteness of white. In this case, he freezes the water to make white in his installations. This exhibition is on display until Oct 31, 2011.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Art in the Streets

I am sure many of you have already seen loads of images of the exhibition at MOCA LA, Art in the Streets as shown in arrested motion and on Juxtapoz online. I have selected few to show here as historical reference. I didn't love the show on its entirety. Although it was an educational exhibition, I felt it was a bit Disneyfied and safe. I do love Os Gemeos' and JR's work so I spent most of my time looking at their work. Blu's mural would have made the show have some contemporary social relevance and rebellious edge. Plus the whole idea around censorship is just everything Street art stands against. I am the first person to know what is like to work in a corporate institution trying to find a voice. My question is, how does a curator push the envelop without dumbing down the entire movement?