Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Wednesday, Novembre 13th 2013, Sotheby’s, New York
Contemporary Art Evening auction. Works by Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Martin Kippenberger, Brice Marden and other set records.
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visits on art, design, architecture and literature
November 12, 2013
Francis Bacon’s triptych
Tuesday, Novembre 12th 2013, Christie’s, New York
Francis Bacon’s triptych became at that night the most expensive artwork ever sold at an auction.
http://www.christies.com/sales/post-war-and-contemporary-new-york-november-2013/#overview-section
November 10, 2013
Agnieszka Kurant: exformation
Agnieszka Kurant at the Sculpture Center, New York. On view: November 10, 2013 – January 27, 2014
read more about the artist and the exhibiton at: sculpture-center.org
November 9, 2013
Munich; Barbara Gross Galerie;Carlos Garaicoa
11.9.2013-January 17, 2014
Artist talk
Carlos Garaicoa and Okwui Enwezor,
Director Haus der Kunst München
Saturday, November 9, 2013, 6 pm
Carlos Garaicoa casts a critical eye upon the connections among architecture, ideology, and power structures.
The question of the guilt and innocence of architectural forms serves as a parentheses for the works that Garaicoa has created for the exhibition in Munich. At the center of the show are two iconic buildings, whose symbolic language is exposed by the artist’s deliberate shifts in size and material: the German Federal Bank headquarters in Frankfurt and the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
November 6, 2013
Munich:opening exhibition;Pinakothek der Moderne: “Jeff Wall in Munich”
Wednesday, November 6th 2013 – Pinakothek der Moderne – Munich, 7pm
Opening of Jeff Wall in Munich
Curator: Inka Graeve Ingelmann
“….The exhibition, created in close cooperation with the artist, unites works in different collections in Munich for the first time. Largely dating from the 1980s and 1990s, this selection of 20 works provides a precise overview of the most important aspects in Jeff Wall’s work and includes now famous, frequently exhibited works such as “The Thinker” and “An Eviction”, as well as less well-known pictures that are seldom shown such as “Park Drive” or “Diagonal Composition no. 2″…..
http://www.pinakothek.de/en/kalender/2013-11-07/38511/jeff-wall-munich
lenders of works for this exhibition: Sammlung Chrisa Döttinger; Sammlung Goetz; Sammlung Lothar Schirmel, Rüdiger Schöttle.
Film Matinees: 11.30 am in original language with german subtitles at the Siemens-Auditorium at the Pinakothek (entrance free)
10.11.2013 The Phantom Carriage/Der Fuhrmann des Todes, 1921 / Regie: Victor Sjöstrom
08.12.13 Das Weibe band, 2009 / Regie: Michael Haneke
12.01.14 Faustrecht der Freheit, 1975 / Regie: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
09.02.14 Old Joy, 2006/Regie: Kelly Reichert
09.03.14 The informant!/ Der informant!2009/ Regie: Stephen Soderbergh
October 31, 2013
Salzburg_ at Villa Kanst; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac: Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by Isabelle Huppert
August 31, 2013-January 11, 2014
photo: courtesy of Ropac gallery
A lovely visit at Ropac gallery-Villa Kanst and private tour of the exhibition by the director of the gallery, Dr Arne Ehmann
“….. The gallery has invited French actress Isabelle Huppert to curate the exhibition. This is the latest in a series of exhibitions devoted to Robert Mapplethorpe that have been curated by artists such as Cindy Sherman, David Hockney, theatre director Bob Wilson and, in 2011, film director Sofia Coppola. The idea is to offer the public a different and more personal take on his work…..
...Naturally affected by beauty, Isabelle Huppert’s selection of these often unexplored images creates a poetic atmosphere of mysterious softness.
As Isabelle Huppert herself admitted, “I look at each Robert Mapplethorpe photo as if I were reading a poem. In the ones I have chosen, his way of seeing the world is pent with softness – and silence. They are silent photos. In that particular world that he made his own, everything is connected. He blurred the frontiers, merged the mobile and the immobile. His flowers are alive, almost human, and his bodies are frozen in their eternal beauty. Each photo is pure emotion. In each one of them there is a perfection of form, the delicacy and mystery of light and shade. Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer poet.” (gallery press release)
October 29, 2013
Munich; opening at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle; “Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky”
29.10.2013-01.02.2014
photo; courtesy of the gallery
An amazing, powerful and beautiful show in this joint exhibition..fantastic pieces!
“…While the idea for such a project – based on mutual appreciation and respect – was conceived a great many years ago, it is not until now that these two exceptional exponents of contemporary photography have explicitly undertaken to show their works in a joint exhibition.”…… (gallery press release)
October 26, 2013
Gala at HdK
Saturday, Octobre 26th 2013 – Haus der Kunst – Munich
Gala at HdK – Der Öffentlichkeit- Von den Freunden Haus der Kunst
Manfred Pernice: a site specific sculptural installation concieved exclusively for the museum’s Middle Hall.
http://www.hausderkunst.de/index.php?id=83&no_cache=1&L=0&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=8217
October 24, 2013
Alfred Flechteim: Kunsthändler der Avantgarde
24.10.2013 – 26.01.2014 – Pinakothek der Modernen – Munich
Alfred Flechteim: Kunsthändler der Avantgarde
http://www.pinakothek.de/en/kalender/2013-10-24/38519/alfredflechtheimcom
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