International 01 Art Exhibitions 2011 International 29.01.2011 > 24.04.2011 Art Exhibitions 2011 Gottfried Helnwein 1 Inferno of the Innocents Crocker Art Museum Crocker Gottfried Helnwein’s art addresses Opposite Page themes of inhumanity, violence and Untitled (Payton 4) the virtue of personal expression. This 2005, Mixed media exhibition features 70 major paintings (oil & acrylic) on canvas and photographs from throughout 160 x 106 cm Helnwein’s career. Highlights include 1 his iconic portraits of performer Marilyn The Last Child Manson, works from his recurring Helnwein abseiling down theme, ‘The Child,’ and his most recent an 80ft tall installation in series, ‘Disasters of War.’ For over forty Wexford, Ireland years, the artist has pursued a singular, 2008 radical vision realised in monumental 2 paintings and photographs. With stark The Golden Age 1 and probing psychological intensity, he (Marilyn Manson) critiques not only the past, but present- 2003, Pigment print day veneers, jolting us from the comfort 301 x 195 cm of complacency. Such confrontations Courtesy of Helnwein are informed by his upbringing in the Studio, Los Angeles post-war Vienna – an experience that 3 Sacremento fueled the artist’s passion for truth and The Disasters of War 19 tolerance. Today, Helnwein immerses 2007, Mixed media himself in our everchanging cultural (oil & acrylic) on canvas landscape, working between his studio 152 x 162 cm in Los Angeles and his castle in County In memory of Francisco Tipperary in Ireland. 3 de Goya 4 The Murmur of the Innocents 1 2009, Mixed media (oil & acrylic) on canvas 198 x 290 cm Private Collection 2 4 www.crockerartmuseum.org International 11.02.2011 > 29.05.2011 Art Exhibitions 2011 Picasso 1 Peace & Freedom Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtLouisiana Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is Opposite page intrigued by Picasso (1881-1973). The The Charnel House, Paris museum has three fine works by the (Installation view) artist in its collection as well as drawings 1944-45, Oil and charcoal and prints, and throughout its 50-year on canvas history Louisiana has hosted no less 199.8 x 250.1 cm than four Picasso exhibitions. It is with Museum of Modern Art, great joy and pride, that the museum New York presents ‘Picasso: Peace & Freedom’ 1 with a selection of about 100 works that Picasso with Owl show the artist’s social and political Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953 commitments in the period from 1944 Photo © André Villers until his death in 1973. This Cold War 2 period was a time for reflection and Still Life with Candlestick deliberation after the horrors of 1944, Oil on canvas Guernica and World War II, in which the 2 73 x 92 cm artist had lost several of his friends Centre Georges Pompidou, either at the front or in the concentra- Paris tion camps. But despite the horror and 3 grief, Picasso raised his art to a new level The Studio so it flourished in a perspective of hope. 2 1955, Oil on canvas 80,9 x 64,9 cm After the war, Picasso left Paris and Tate. Presented by Gustav settled in the south of France. Being a and Elly Kahnweiler 1974, socially engaged artist he kept abreast accessioned 1994 of world events, and much of his art in © Succession Picasso / his last three decades deals with human Billedkunst.dk 2011 conflict and wars – the liberation of 4 Algiers; the Cuban crisis; and his support Musketeer with Rapier of the French Communist Party. At the 1972, Oil on canvas Humlebæk same time, he expresses a deeply felt 162 x 130 cm wish for peace, international under- Ludwig Museum, Budapest standing and solidarity. And typical of (Long-term loan from the Picasso, he embraces the events in a Peter und Irene Ludwig, wide spectrum, bringing all his artistic Aachen) passion into play in order to capture the © Succession Picasso / essence of the times. 3 4 Billedkunst.dk 2011 Here paintings, drawings, lithographic The exhibition is divided into 8 themes: Created as a collaboration with Tate prints, letters and photography are Nature morte (still lifes), The Women Liverpool and Albertina in Vienna, the document how Picasso relates to key from Algeria, Las Meninas, Picasso’s exhibition gives Louisiana a unique historical events and a wide array of Arcadia, The Rape of the Sabine Women, chance to unfold yet another theme in material testifies to Picasso’s commit- Mothers & Musketeers, War & Peace and Picasso’s vast, multi-faceted oeuvre for ment, activities and political convictions. The Dove of Peace. the museum’s guests. www.louisiana.dk International 11.03.2011 > 17.07.2011 Art Exhibitions 2011 Opposite page Picasso | Miró | Dalí Salvador Dalí Portrait of my Sister Angry Young Men: 1925, Oil on canvas 92 cm x 65 cm The Birth of Modernity FundacióGala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres Palazzo Strozzi Strozzi Palazzo The exhibition will bring together over 1 60 early works of three young artists: Salvador Dalí Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Salvador The Bleeding Roses Dalí, as well as over 100 of Picasso’s 1930, Oil on canvas sketches. All three were raised in 61 cm x 50 cm Catalonia, but came to fame in France Colleción Caixa Galicia, where two of them chose to live and to La Coruña build up their careers, whereas Salvador 2 Dalí stayed largely in Spain. Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907, Oil on canvas 243.9 x 233.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York, aquired through Florence the Lillie P Bliss Bequest 4 Pablo Picasso The Two Saltimbanques 1901, Oil on canvas 73 cm x 60 cm The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 4 Joan Miró Composition (Petit Univers) 1933, Gouache on card 39.5 cm x 31.5 cm 1 2 Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel The exhibition is structured like a film Picasso’s groundbreaking Cahier 7 is in a series of ‘flashbacks’ that take the shown in its entirety for the first time visitor back in time to the very birth outside Spain. The product of just two of modernity. Beginning with Dalí’s months of intense creativity in 1907, meeting with Picasso (1926), it traces the album’s pages show Picasso clearly the birth of modernism to its earliest straddling two centuries and two beginnings through Dalí’s responses traditions, with one foot in the 19th to Miró, Miró’s encounter with Picasso century, and the other in the 20th. (1917), and ends just before the young Among the 120 spreads we can see the Picasso’s arrival in Paris in 1900, at the first sketches of his revolutionary work start of the new century. The exhibition ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ .Three major moves through a series of spaces that works: Dalí’s ‘Arlequin’, Miró’s ‘Petit investigate the common roots of the Univers’ and Picasso’s ‘La Femme qui styles that later made Picasso, Miró and pleure’ show clearly the debt owed by Dalí household names. the three artists to the sketchbook. 3 4 www.palazzostrozzi.org International 26.03.2011 > 19.06.2011 Art Exhibitions 2011 Man Ray 1890-1976 Museo d'Arte Museo d'Arte Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky) Opposite Page has been one of the most influential Perpetual Motif artists of the twentieth century, and is 1923, Photograph of the replica universally known for such iconic works of original metronome (1971) as Le Violon d’Ingres and Cadeau, which 23.5 x 12 x 12 cm epitomize the artistic canons of a whole Fondazione Marconi, Milano century. The outstanding inventiveness 1 of this prolific photographer, painter, Le violon d'Ingres maker of objects and experimental films 1924, New black & white is presented in the exhibition through photographic print (c1980) some 400 works that document the 30 x 24 cm artist’s creative path, and cast light on Fondazione Marconi, Milano Lugano the leitmotifs underlying his oeuvre: the 2 female figure, his passion for the chess Black & White game, the relationship between reality 1926, New black & white and fiction, the mask and the veiled photographic print (c1980) persona, experimental photography, 23 x 30 cm and many others. Fondazione Marconi, Milano 4 3 Landscape 1913, Oil on canvas 36 x 25 cm Private collection, France 1 3 4 Chess The iconography is further enriched The presentation of the works to the Black & white photograph by the works of some other leading visitor is entrusted to the artist himself: 12.2 x 16.7 cm twentieth century artists – Jean (Hans) Man Ray wrote a brilliant autobiography Private collection Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, in which he narrates the circumstances and Pablo Picasso, to name just a few. in which some of his most famous works These objects and paintings provide were created and recalls the reasons All works useful insights into the context in which and the models – mostly female ones – © Man Ray Trust / Prolitteris, 2 Man Ray’s works were created. which inspired him. Zurigo www.mdam.ch International 08.04.2011 > 28.08.2011 Art Exhibitions 2011 David Draw me Hockney on iPad Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtLouisiana 1 2 3 4 Hockney’s discovery of the inexpensive Opposite page drawing application called Brushes for Untitled 7 iPhones and iPads opened up a different December 2010 world for the English artist. Sometimes 1 on a daily basis, during the past few years, Untitled 10 Hockney has created more than 400 June 2010 drawings, first on his iPhone, and later on 2 his iPad. Louisiana’s installation includes Untitled 11 several hundred of the works displayed January 2011 on 20 iTouches; 20 iPads; a triptych slide 3 show directed by the artist especially for Untitled 31 the Louisiana and several projections.