March 11-August 30, 2010

This spring, Neue Galerie New York presents “Otto Dix,” the first solo museum exhibition of works by this major German artist ever held in North America. Organized by Olaf Peters, Professor of Modern Art History and Art Theory at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the show will open at the Neue Galerie, then travel to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

More than almost any other German painter, Otto Dix (1891-1969) and his works have profoundly influenced the popular notion of the Weimar Republic. His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of  that period, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time.

The exhibition includes more than 100 masterpieces by Otto Dix, and addresses four themes. The first is Dix’s traumatic experiences as a soldier in World War I. The second is portraiture, a genre at which the artist excelled. The third is sexuality, a key theme in the Dix oeuvre. The fourth is religious and allegorical painting. The show includes the work that Dix is best know for—paintings from the so-called “golden Weimar years”—but to contextualize them, it also includes Dix’s work from the early 1920s, as well as his later work, produced as veiled protest against the Third Reich.

If you are in New York between now and 7 May you should take a day and visit the MoMA to see William Kentridge’s great exhibition called: Five Themes.

The South-African born artist is famous for his compositions of poetical elements with policital themes. With a range of animated short movies, the museum also shows other drawings, sketches, collages, prints as well as performances that gives a great retrospective on Kentridge’s Œuvre of the last 30 years.

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If you are around Zurich, Switzerland in the next few weeks, you should visit the Gallery of Andrea Caratsch to see some of Damien Hirst’s impressive pieces, including the famous sharks moulded in formalin.

In the 90ties, Damien Hirst was the star amongst the young British artists, with his scandalous pieces that made him to one of the high remunerated living artists on the world.

more info for this exhibition

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Event details

Prototypes and Experiments IV
21st January – 6th March 2010

Tomás Alonso
Michael Antrobus
Arash & Kelly
Thomas Feichtner
Gitta Gschwendtner
Crispin Jones
Ronen Kadushin
Simon Maidment
Nucleo
Damien Poulain
Vladimir Rachev
Hiroko Shiratori
David Sutton
Nina Tolstrup
Vandasye
William Warren & Carl Clerkin
Joe Wentworth
Ben Wilson

The Aram Gallery is delighted to open the fourth in the ongoing series Prototypes and Experiments with a new batch of exhibits sourced from the studios of emerging and established designers. This time there are a significant number of objects exploring ideas in metal.

Prototypes and experiments are critical elements in the development process of any new design. The prototype is the manifestation of the design idea on its way to production; experiments are more like steps on the way. The prototype, being part of a process, makes more real an idea that will lead to a final piece, and is not made with the intention of being sold or shown outside the designer’s studio. Experiments are also unique artefacts but are even less refined and sometimes constitute a partial sketch on the way to the prototype.

These objects however, can hold a rare charm; there’s an increased closeness to the designer’s imagination, and a directness to the making that often changes when manufacturing and marketing forces are fully integrated. The objects might be characterised by a technical or material discrepancy, compared to the final product, due to a lack of access of the designer to technology at the process stage. It’s a stark contrast to the current wave of limited editions – which has made for the unique to be diluted by multiples and for the production piece to be restrained in order to increase the value of singular pieces.

The Aram Gallery is interested in the way designers think and work. We have chosen to present these unique artefacts as part of an ongoing search for insight into the design process. Prototypes and Experiments will include selected drawings alongside the pieces taken from the designers’ physical or digital sketchbooks.

Curator: Daniel Charny
Assistant Curator: Ellie Parke
Gallery Director: Zeev Aram

For press information please contact Anna Meyer at Origin Communications on 020 7278 0068 or email anna@originuk.com

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Victoria Febrer is exhibiting the works of her recent project “Vinografias y Vistas II” in Valencia, Spain on

Saturday, 6th February 2010 at 8 p.m. until Tuesday 23rd February 2010, 9 p.m.

All Artitions are herewith more than welcomed to join the event and see some of here great works that are made uniquely with red wine on paper.

Galería Artis
C/ Cirilo Amorós 78, 46004 Valencia SPAIN
+34 96 351 37 61

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In return, he doesn’t think so. He rather likes shooting his models naked, without any make-up, special lighting or a lot of photoshopping…

He tries to find the natural beauty in each woman he is photographing. With this attitude he revolutionized the scene; and made Kate Moss to his muse.

Juergen Teller
Logisch!
10. Dec. 2009 – 14. Feb. 2010