International 07 Art Exhibitions 2013 International 18.10.2013 > 23.02.2014 Art Exhibitions 2013 Opposite page Mauve violet et rose 1954, Oil on canvas Serge Poliakoff 89 x 116 cm Private collection The Dream of Forms © Courtesy Galerie Applicat- Prazan, Paris. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Ville Moderne de la Musée d’Art A large-scale retrospective devoted to Photo: Art Digital Studio. the abstract painter Serge Poliakoff 1 (1900-69) comprising some 150 works Composition abstraite from the period 1946-69. Since 1970 à la bande bleue there has been no significant exhibition 1951, Oil on canvas of the work of this major representative 89 x 116 cm of theSchool of Paris in what became Private collection, Frankfurt his home city. Lauded by leading © All rights reserved historians of abstraction as Charles 2 Estienne, Michel Ragon and Dora Espace orangé Vallier, and championed by dealers 1948, Oil on canvas Denise René and Dina Vierny, Serge 92 x 150 cm Poliakoff drew the interest of many Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège private collectors. The exhibition is laid © Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts out in sequences revolving around key (BAL) works: from his exploratory years and 3 the postwar period – when he was part Jaune et noir of the abstract avant-garde, showed in 1952, Oil on canvas various salons and caught Kandinsky’s 130 x 97 cm eye – until the pared-down modernity Centre Pompidou, Musée of the late paintings (1968-69). 1 national d’art moderne- Centre de création industrielle especially sensitive approach and the © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, intense spirituality of a body of work Dist. RMN-Grand Palais rigorously focused on what Pierre All rights reserved Guéguen called the ‘dream of forms in themselves which is the great mystery All works of the abstract’. © ADAGP, Paris 2013 The presentation is rounded off by a cluster of gouaches, while other projects involving fabrics, stained glass and ceramics underscore Poliakoff’s relationship with the ornamental. The exhibition is backed up by a mass of documentary material providing an 2 insight into the painter’s life. The tumultuous beginnings of a young Like all practitioners of full abstraction, Crucial here are concentration of colour, Russian emigrant fleeing the revolution; Serge Poliakoff was concerned with the vibrancy of texture and skilful arrange- the postwar artistic ambience; and relationships between line and surface, ment of forms that balance each other ultimately the years of success, but form and content, colour and light. But in contained, energetic tension. This is most of all, the young art scene of the apparent formal unity of his works the interpretation offered by a show the 1960s, which saw Poliakoff as one of conceals a host of painterly solutions. that demonstrates the singularity of an painting’s most radical modernists. 3 www.mam.paris.fr International 18.10.2013 > 02.03.2014 Art Exhibitions 2013 All images (except 1) Willi Baumeister Archiv Baumeister im Kunstmusem Stuttgart 1 International © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Kunstmuseum Stuttgart native Willi Baumeister is one of the most important artists in post- war Germany. Not only was he instru- mental in the development of art in the young state, but as part of the avant- garde he also had a major influence on the advancement of abstract painting in Europe. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart holds the most comprehensive collection of this works in the world and houses the Baumeister Archive. In the large retro- spective Baumeister is presented as an 4 artist of international standing. Works from his own art collection, including pieces by Josef Albers, Hans Arp, Julius Bissier, Georges Braque, Carlo Carrà, Marc Chagall, Albert Gleizes, Roberta Gonzales, Camille Graeser, Hans Hartung, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, 4 Franz Krause, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, August Macke, Opposite page Kasimir Malewitsch, Otto Meyer-Amden, Tori with Blue Dot Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, 1937, Oil on canvas Amédée Ozenfant, Pablo Picasso, Oscar 100 x 65.5 cm Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Michel 1 Seuphor, Gino Severini, Alexej von Willi Baumeister Jawlensky und Zao Wou-Ki, assembled Photograph by Adolf Lazi, through friendships with other artists 1947 3 will be, for the first time, shown in public. 2 2 Red-Olive II The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart has The archive advises on content and 1924, Oil on canvas housed the Baumeister Archive since loans works to both comprehensive 100.5 x 81.3 cm January 2005. It contains the estate of retrospective exhibitions and smaller 3 artist Willi Baumeister (1889-1955). themed presentations. The archive is Apollo The archive was compiled by his widow administrated by Hadwig Goez. Opaque paint and and daughters and is now accessible for Felicitas Baumeister – as daughter of graphite on cardboard the purposes of academic research. the artist especially familiar with the 50 × 35 cm estate contents – fulfills a consulting 4 Several art historians were involved role with her knowledge of and about Orange-Green in producing the different catalogues the works and continues to produce 1923, Oil on canvas dedicated to paintings, drawings, specialist reports with the co-operation 123.7 x 68.3 cm 3 gouaches, collages and prints. of the catalogue authors. www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de International 21.10.2013 > 21.12.2013 Art Exhibitions 2013 Opposite page John Chateau Meyney 2013, Oil on canvas Currin 106.7 x 86.4 cm Gagosian Gallery Currin’s ambitious paintings seduce, repel, surprise, and puzzle. His masterful technique is achieved through the scrutiny and emulation of the composi- tional devices of 16th & 17th century Northern European painting, while his eroticized subjects exist at odds with the popular dialogue and politics of contemporary art. With inspirations as diverse as Old Master portraits, pin-ups, pornography, and B-movies, Currin paints challengingly perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs and dour matrons to more ethereal prototypes. Paris 12 1 Consistent throughout his oeuvre is sharp, brightly coloured figure stands Tapestry his search for the point at which the out within a fluid, grisaille-like setting 2013, Oil on canvas beautiful and the grotesque are held of floral patterns, light fabrics, and 117.2 x 86.4 cm in perfect balance. John Currin’s latest blurry bodies joined in sexual ecstasy. 2 paintings present an increased Conflating a heady mix of historic A Fool with Two Young complexity of background treatment. technique, humour and fantasy, Currin Women In Tapestry (2013), a casually dressed continues to provoke and titillate. 2013, Oil on canvas modern woman is portrayed in his 50.5 x 61 cm signature baroque style; her torn jeans Born in 1962 in Boulder, Colorado, Currin 2 and bohemian, peasant-style blouse now lives and works in New York. His Lynette & Janette contrast with the elaborate manner in work is sought after and represented in 2013, Oil on canvas 3 which she is painted. Her exquisitely major museum collections worldwide. 106.7 x 86.4 cm www.gagosian.com International 23.10.2013 > 02.02.2014 Art Exhibitions 2013 Albrecht Dürer 1 His Art in Context Städel Museum Städel Opposite page Albrecht Dürer Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher 1499 © Museumslandschaft, Hessen, Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel 1 Albrecht Dürer Study for the Heller-Altar: Feet of an Apostle 1508 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Frankfurt 2 Albrecht Dürer Saint Jerome in his Study 2 1521 © Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, A comprehensive survey of the work of Lisbon, General Directorate for Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), arguably the Cultural Heritage most famous German artist of the 3 Renaissance. The exhibition compises Albrecht Dürer more than 250 works, including 190 by Portrait of Barbara Dürer Dürer. The Städel obtained loans from 1490 the Prado (Madrid), the National Gallery Germanisches (London) and the National Gallery of Art Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (Washington). Further important works 4 are from the Louvre (Paris), the British Albrecht Dürer Museum (London) the Uffizi (Florence), Melancolia I the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the 1514, 24.2 x 18.9 cm Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and the Städel Museum, J Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles). 3 Frankfurt am Main On show will be 25 panel and canvas The Städel Museum is home to one of paintings, 80 drawings, 80 works using the world’s most prominent collections various printmaking techniques, and of German, Dutch, and Italian art of the books illustrated and written by Dürer. Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern These works will be juxtaposed with 70 period. Thus far it has been host to examples by forerunners and contempo- internationally acclaimed Old Master raries of Dürer, artists such as Martin exhibitions, for example ‘Cranach the Schongauer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Elder’ (2007-08), ‘The Master of Flémalle von Kulmbach, Joos van Cleve, Giovanni and Rogier van der Weyden’ (2008-09) 4 Bellini and Lucas van Leyden. and ‘Botticelli’ (2009-10). www.staedelmuseum.de International 24.10.2013 > 27.01.2014 Art Exhibitions 2013 Opposite page Vienna | Berlin Franz Lerch Girl with Hat The Art of Two Cities 1929 © Belvedere, Vienna From Schiele to Grosz 1 Otto Rudolf Schatz Berlinische Galerie Balloon Seller 1929 © Belvedere, Vienna 2 Egon Schiele Eduard Kosmack 1910 © Belvedere, Vienna 3 Otto Friedrich Elsa Galafrès 1 2 3 1908 © Belvedere, Vienna In their first major themed exhibition The dawn of modernism is reflected on Young Austrian artists such as Oskar 4 together, the Berlinische Galerie and both sides in a quest for new tools of Kokoschka and Egon Schiele stepped Ernst Ludwig Kirchner the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere expression, but while the Berlin Seces- out of Klimt’s shadow, presenting their Women on the Street will show key works of modern art from sionists around Max Liebermann took a avant-garde work to a more open- 1915 Berlin Vienna and Berlin ranging from the growing interest in everyday reality and minded yet critical audience in Berlin.