International 08 Art Exhibitions 2018 International 06.10.2018 > 06.01.2019 Art Exhibitions 2018 Opposite page Made in Germany Martin Kobe Untitled Art since 1980 Acrylic on canvas 1 FROM THE RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION 85 x 145 cm Vero Beach Museum of Art Vero This exhibition of sixty works which is on display in the Holmes and Titelman Galleries is selected from over 500 objects of contemporary German art from the renowned Rubell Collection. Don & Mera Rubell have established one of the first major private museums of contemporary art that has become an international model. Based in Miami, it is a destination for visitors 6 from around the world. This exhibition 1 features cutting-edge painting, Anselm Kiefer sculpture and photography from some Untitled of the most important practitioners of Charcoal, chairs, branches contemporary art. During the post- and plaster on canvas World War II era, Düsseldorf and 280 x 571.5 cm Cologne became leading centres for 2 contemporary art. 2 Neo Rauch Vorfuehrung Oil on canvas 300 x 420 cm 3 David Schnell Schilder Miami Oil on Canvas 120 x 180 cm 4 Thomas Schütte Grosse Geister II (Big Spirit II) Polished bronze 243.8 x 142.2. x 86.4cm 5 Candida Höfer Kloster Mehrerau Bregenz I 1999, Chromogenic print 3 4 59.7 x 59.7 cm 6 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, both pioneering artists from the late- Thomas Struth Berlin and Leipzig also emerged as twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Monreale, Palermo important contemporary art centres. including Anselm Kiefer, Andreas C-print, 6/10 Few countries have had four major Gursky, Thomas Schütte, Candida Höfer, 186.1 x 231.8 cm centres of contemporary art at one time. Thomas Struth, Neo Rauch, David This exhibition features exceptional Schnell, Martin Kobe and Thomas Courtesy of Rubell Family 5 examples from these cities by Demand. Collection www.vbmuseum.org International 07.10.2018 > 13.01.2019 Art Exhibitions 2018 Charles White 3 A Retrospective Museum of Modern Art The exhibition includes representative 1 work from the three artistic centers in Preacher which White lived, created, and taught 1940, Tempera on board throughout his life: Chicago, New York, 76.2 x 54.6 cm and Los Angeles. It begins with early The Davidsons, Los Angeles, paintings and murals White made for California the Works Progress Administration 2 (WPA) in Depression-era Chicago, Headlines where he grew up. Shortly thereafter, 1944 between 1942 and 1956, White lived Ink, gouache, and mainly in New York City, teaching newspaper on board drawing, exhibiting at the progressive 50.8 x 40.6 cm ACA Gallery on 57th Street, and From the collection of supporting the Committee for the William M & Elisabeth M Landes Negro in the Arts in Harlem. A selection 3 of Charles White’s personal photo- Sound of Silence graphs, also on view in the exhibition, 1978, Lithograph capture his life in New York. 63.8 × 89.7 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Fisher Fund 4 New York Our Land 1951, Egg tempera on panel 61 x 50.8 cm Private collection 5 Soldier 1944, Tempera on Masonite 76.2 x 63.5 cm The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Gift of Sandra & Bram Dijkstra 1 | 2 4 5 6 Five Great American The inclusion of his work for album Negroes covers, publications, film, and television 1939, Oil on canvas emphasize his dedication to more 152.4 x 393.7 cm) accessible distribution outlets for his art. From the Collection of the The presentation concludes with the Howard University Gallery inventive output from his last decades of Art, Washington DC as an internationally established figure and influential teacher in Los Angeles during the 1960s and ’70s. 6 www.moma.org International 11.10.2018 > 17.02.2019 Art Exhibitions 2018 From Magritte Opposite page René Magritte to Duchamp | 1929 The Double Secret 1927, Oil on canvas 1 GREAT WORKS OF SURREALISM FROM THE CENTRE POMPIDOU 114 x 162 cm Palazzo Blu Palazzo For the first time in Italy, the Centre 1 Pompidou will lend a series of master- Giorgio de Chirico pieces from the permanent collection Ancient Battle of what is the most important European Oil on canvas museum of twentieth-century art. 73 x 100 cm Around 150 works, including paintings, 2 sculptures, surrealist objects, drawings, Salvador Dalí collages, installations, author photo- Invisible Sleeping graphs and archival documents will Woman, Horse, Lion trace the extraordinary adventure of 1930, Oil on canvas the surrealist avantgarde, through the 50.2 x 65.2 cm Pisa masterpieces produced when the 3 movement was at its highest point, in Marcel Duchamp around 1929, which as we will see was a L.H.O.O.Q. crucial year for the group of artists who 1930, Graphite on were working at the time in Paris, the photographic support hotbed of the avant-gardes and the 61.5 x 49.5 cm capital of contemporary developments Image 48 x 33 cm in international art. 2 4 Pablo Picasso L’atelier 1928-29, Oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm 5 René Magritte The Red Model 1935, Oil on canvas applied on cardboard 56 x 46 cm 6 Max Ernst Chimera 1928, Oil on canvas 114 x 145.8 cm 3 45 1929 was a catastrophic year for the foundations of the movement. This new pieces by Magritte, Dalí, Duchamp, world (the stock market crash and the approach was not supported by all the Ernst, De Chirico, Giacometti, Ray, Miró, crisis of the Communist International, members and seemed to create an Tanguy, Picasso and many others, this etc), It also marked a decisive turning irremediable division within the group. project aims to present the works, the point in the history of Surrealism. In this Despite this internal rift, the vitality of relationships, and the aesthetic visions year the Surrealist theoretician André the movement remained intact. of the main surrealist artists, universally Breton and the poet Louis Aragon Surrealist art seemed to gain in strength. considered to be among the great sought to modify the theoretical With a selection of surrealist master- masters of the twentieth century. 6 www.palazzoblu.it International 17.10.2018 > 25.02.2019 Art Exhibitions 2018 1 Pablo Picasso Portrait of Gertrude Stein Cubism 1905-06, Oil on canvas 100 x 81.3 cm 3 1907-1917 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dist RMN-Grand Palais / Centre Pompidou Pompidou Centre The Centre Pompidou takes a fresh look image of the MMA at Cubism (1907-1917), one of modern © Succession Picasso 2018 art history’s founding movements. 2 This is the first exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso Cubism in France since 1953. The show’s Breads and fruit compote originality lies in its unusual stance, on a table broadening a standpoint usually 1908-09, Oil on canvas focused on its two inventors, Georges 163.7 x 132.1 cm Braque and Pablo Picasso, to other © Kunstmuseum Basel artists. These pioneers, soon followed by © Succession Picasso 2018 Fernand Léger and Juan Gris, reserved 3 their ground-breaking experimental Georges Braque work for a small-scale gallery in Paris run Guitar ‘Statue d’Epouvante’ by a young unknown German collector November 1913, Pasted paper, and dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. charcoal and gouache on paper 73 x 100 cm Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Droits réservés © ADAGP, Paris 2018 4 Pablo Picasso Self-Portrait 1907, Oil on canvas 56 x 46 cm © The National Gallery, Prague © Succession Picasso 2018 2 5 Juan Gris The Breakfast 1 | 2 4 5 1915, Oil and charcoal on canvas 92 x 73 cm In contrast, artists like Albert Gleizes, members also paved the way to modern Centre Pompidou, Musée Jean Metzinger, Francis Picabia, Marcel art. This major exhibition is presented national d’art moderne, Paris Duchamp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay chronologically in fourteen sections © Centre Pompidou brought the movement to the attention and contains 300 works and documents 6 of critics and the public through their illustrating the influence of Cubism. Albert Gleizes contributions to the Paris Salons. The The exhibition highlights Cubism’s The Editor Eugène Figuière show highlights the rich inventiveness momentous, multi-faceted develop- 1913, Oil on canvas and wide variety of the movement. ment, going back to its primitivist 143.5 x 101.5 cm Not only did it introduce a geometric sources and the Cubists’ fascination Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon approach to forms and challenge with Gauguin and Cézanne. It also © RMN-Grand Palais / classical representation, but its radical reflects the movement’s formal journey René-Gabriel Ojéda 6 explorations and the creative drive of its from its initial Cézannian period. © ADAGP, Paris 2018 www.centrepompidou.fr International 18.10.2018 > 17.02.2019 Art Exhibitions 2018 Opposite page Sitting Woman 1920, Oil on canvas Picasso 92 x 65 cm 1 1 Metamorphosis Tile decorated with a bacchanal: a musician, a Palazzo Reale Palazzo The exhibition focusses on the multi- dancer and a drinker faceted and fruitful relationship the 6 March 1957, red chamotted Spanish genius entertained with myth clay; decoration engobe and antiquity throughout his remark- 19.7 x 39.4 x 4 cm able career. This project sets out to 2 explore Picasso’s intense and complex The Kiss creative process from this particular 26 October 1969, Oil on canvas perspective. On show are around 200 97 x 130 cm displays, consisting of a selection of 3 Picasso’s creations paired with ancient The Kiss artworks that inspired the great master 25 August 1929, Oil on canvas from the Musée National Picasso in Paris 22 x 14 cm and other leading European museums, 4 Milan such as the Musée du Louvre in Paris, Head of a bearded man Musei Vaticani in Rome, Museo Archeo- 3 1938, Oil on canvas logico Nazionale in Naples, Musée 55 x 46 cm Picasso in Antibes, Musée des Beaux- 5 Arts in Lyon, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Nude with bouquet of iris Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and and mirror Museu Picasso in Barcelona.