International 01 Art Exhibitions 2013 International 23.01.2013 > 05.05.2013 Art Exhibitions 2013 Max Ernst 1891-1976 1 Retrospective Albertina This is the first retrospective exhibition Opposite page in Austria devoted to Max Ernst, the Monument to the Birds great pictorial inventor. Presenting a 1927, Oil on canvas selection of 150 paintings, collages, and Musée Cantini, Marseille sculptures, as well as relevant examples © VBK, Vienna 2012 of illustrated books and documents, the 1 Albertina has assembled works related Unmarried Tree to all of the artist’s periods, discoveries, and Married Trees and techniques, thereby introducing his 1940, Oil on canvas Vienna life and œuvre within a both biographic Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, and historical context. Together with Madrid Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max © VBK, Vienna 2012 Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky and Andy 2 Warhol, Max Ernst numbers among the The Entire City leading figures of 20th century art 1935-36, Oil on canvas history. An early protagonist of Dada- Kunsthaus Zürich ism, a pioneer of Surrealism, and the © VBK, Vienna 2012 inventor of such sophisticated tech- 3 niques as collage, frottage, grattage, The First Word Limpid decalcomania and oscillation, his work c1665, Oil on plaster eludes pidgeon-holing. 4 transferred to canvas K20 Kunstsammlung His inventiveness when it comes to Max Ernst was a restless personality Nordrhein-Westfalen, the handling of pictorial and inspira- who always strove for freedom. Düsseldorf tional techniques, the breaks between A misunderstood and revolutionary © VBK, Vienna 2012 his countless work phases, and his artist, he had moved from Cologne to 4 switching back and forth between Paris in 1922, where he joined the circle Temptation of St Anthony themes has been the cause of irritation of the Surrealists. Being of German 1945, Oil on canvas to some critics and art historians, nationality, he was detained in France as Lehmbruck Museum, yet what remains a constant is his an alien twice. He attempted to escape, Duisburg 2 consistency in terms of contradiction. and was finally released thanks to an © VBK, Vienna 2012 amalgam of lucky coincidences. In 1941 5 he escaped into American exile where Woman, Old Man and he remained until 1953 when he moved Flower to the South of France. He died in Paris 1924, Oil on canvas in 1976. Remembrance, discovery, The Museum of Modern Art, recycling, and collage were the New York combined motor that drove him in his © VBK, Vienna 2012 work. Under these aspects, the exhibition positions Max Ernst’s œuvre 5 between references to the past, contemporary political events, and a prophetic and visionary perspective of 3 the future. www.albertina.at International 25.01.2013 > 20.05.2013 Art Exhibitions 2013 Windows From the Renaissance 1 to the Present Fondation de l’Hermitage Fondation The theme of the window has forever Opposite page fascinated artists. With this exhibition René Magritte the Fondation de l’Hermitage offers Eulogy of the Dialect a look at the motif of the window, 1936, Gouache on paper retracing its significant role in Western 38 x 32 cm iconography from the 15th century to Collection du Musée d’Ixelles, the current day. Organised in partner- Bruxelles ship with the Museo Cantonale d’Arte 1 and the Museo d’Arte de Lugano, the Henri Matisse display will bring together more than Nice, Black Notebook 150 works from Swiss and European 1918, Oil on canvas galleries, as well as from numerous 33 x 40.7 cm prestigious private collections. Hahnloser/Jaeggli-Stiftung, Winterthur 2 Lorenzo di Credi Portrait of a Young Woman or Lady with Jasmines 1485-90, Oil on wood 75 x 54 cm Musei San Domenico, Pinacoteca Civica, Forlí 3 Lausanne Pierre Bonnard Interior c1905, Oil on canvas 59,5 x 40,5 cm Stiftung Sammlung E G Bührle, Zürich 4 2 4 Edvard Munch The Kiss Although inherently linked to research The window’s opening, frame and light, 1895, Aquatint and drypoint on perspective, carried out during the allow multidisciplinary artists to explore 34.5 x 27.8 cm Renaissance, the window has constant- new territories, some of which have led Musée Jenisch Vevey – ly been reinterpreted throughout to the discovery of an abstract and Cabinet cantonal des different historical periods and artistic minimalist art.This path spanning 500 estampes, collection de movements. Until the end of the 19th years of art history includes major la ville de Vevey century artists used its frame to guide artists such as Dürer, Dou, Constable, our eyes towards ideal landscapes, Monet, Hammershøi, Munch, Delaunay, realist panoramas, or, on the contrary, to de Chirico, Mondrian, Jawlensky, Ernst, allow light to filter indoors. Many artists Matisse, Duchamp, Vallotton, Bonnard, have used the window in order to blur Vuillard, Klee, Delvaux, Picasso, Balthus, 3 the limits between interior and exterior. Rothko, Scully among many others. www.fondation-hermitage.ch International 26.01.2013 > 14.04.2013 Art Exhibitions 2013 Photographic credits Aji V N Main image and images 2, 3 & 4: Peter Cox 1 Drawings Image 1:Tom Haartsen Stedelijk Museum Stedelijk Landscapes from various continents but also comprises specific reflections Opposite page converge in the drawings of Aji V N: on life in various parts of the world. Untitled familiar and distant worlds. Occasion- As Aji V N explains in the publication to 2008, Charcoal on coloured ally a Dutch scene appears, with straight accompany the exhibition: ‘The River paper rows of poplars, and then again we see Ganges, which issues from the divinity 160 x 113 cm the luxurious green of coco palms, Shiva, flows from the Himalayas Collection Abu Jani Sandeep banana plants and cashew nut trees, through India as the sacred river. And Khosla, Mumbai characteristic of the landscape of his this holy water blends with the water of 1 youth. But even more frequently we the world. Regardless of whether it Untitled see an imaginary world. comes out of a tap or falls as a shower 2004, Charcoal on paper upon the earth: where water is, there is 150 x 150 cm The earliest-shown work dates from a unity with the source.’ Collection of the artist 2004 and could be a self-portrait. On 2 the paper we see a fragile youth, as in Between 2005 and 2009, Aji V N created Untitled a dream world, up to his waist in water. various drawings and watercolours of 2008, Charcoal on coloured Aji V N remarks: ‘It is a self-portrait, but oceans and rivers. Looking out over the paper not in the strict sense of the term. It is ocean, the surf spatters up right before 160 x 113 cm Schiedam more a reproduction of an imaginary our feet, and before we become aware Collection Abu Jani Sandeep situation. The location is indeterminate, of it we are mesmerized by the water. 2 Khosla, Mumbai independent of the Netherlands, independent of India, without any The intensity of the drawings arises specific geography. (…) The boy is from his concentrated compositions, bathing in the water and in the light of and also from the shades he applies the moon and the stars, while he has with the precision of a miniaturist, some kind of understanding with the despite the large format. This paradox- fish. This physical experience is compac- ical combination of scale and nuance ted into a world of thoughts: a philoso- evokes the idea of luxurious refinement. phical image. ’ The drawing, dating from This also applies to the exuberant hair- the early years of the artist’s time in styles of the yogis and yoginis who Rotterdam, not only induces questions place themselves day and night at the about our position in the universe, service of tantric philosophy. 3 3 The stately posture, presented full- Untitled frontal and life size on drawing paper 2008, Conté on black since 2008, reminds us of living statues. 75 x 152 cm They pose in the style of classic sculp- Collection Stedelijk Museum tures, naked, with the self- conscious- Schiedam ness of Greek divinities: the women as 4 the three Graces, the men as a sacred Untitled trinity. But they use the mystic sign 2008, Charcoal on coloured language of Indian dance and Buddhist paper art. They arrest us with their concentra- 160 x 113 cm ted gestures and looks, rooted to the Collection Abu Jani Sandeep 4 spot like guardians of life. Khosla, Mumbai www.stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl International Opposite page Jan Elburg Without Title Collection Stedelijk Museum Freedom & Vitality Schiedam Stedelijk Museum The exhibition presents the highlights Jan Nieuwenhuijs of the CoBrA movement from the Sleepwalking Cockerel Museum’s own collection, while simultaneously telling the story of the hardboard genesis of the CoBrA movement. The Gift of Mr & Mrs Verwey de Graaf exposition contains more than seventy artworks realized in various techniques Karel Appel (oil paintings, gouaches, watercolours, Little Man with the Sun drawings, sculptures, prints, ceramics) and original CoBrA documents (magazines and booklets). For those Collection Stedelijk Museum interested in CoBrA, the Schiedam Schiedam, © Karel Appel collection contains much important Foundation, c/o Pictoright work. Corneille in Holland was founded in the presence Schiedam of Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Gift of Muys & de Winter Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Anton Rooskens and (Builders & Contractors) Theo Wolvecamp. In August, Eugène Collection Stedelijk Museum Brands also joined the group. Schiedam Later that year, the Group in Holland fused with kindred groups from Denmark and Belgium to form the CoBrA movement. Favourite themes included imaginary animals and other creatures, depicted in bright colours. Several artists also illustrated the horrors of World War II. The spontaneous expression of the CoBrA artists led to a wholly new experimental visual language. The Schiedam CoBrA collection was Constant Birds of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, it is the most important early CoBrA collection, with a particular focus on the Collection Stedelijk Museum Dutch CoBrA artists.