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From July 7 to August 8, 2012 – A plus A – Centro Espositivo Sloveno
After the New Museum in New York and the Mumok Museum in Vienna, Bosnian artist Mladen Miljanovic comes to Venice for his first Italian solo exhibition Good Night – State of Body at A plus A Slovenian Exhibition Centre. The exhibition will be presented next autumn in Regensburg and New York.

Mladen Miljanovic is one of the most interesting contemporary artists in the East European art scene. He was in fact chosen by Massimiliano Gioni for his triennial Younger than Jesus held at the New Museum in New York in 2009.

After Ibro Hasanovic’s exhibition in November 2011, A plus A continues its exploration of Balkan art with Good Night – State of Body which features two works by Mladen Miljanovic: the film Do You Intend to Lie to Me? and the photographic work Show By Your Hand Where do You Feel Pain. During the opening, the artist will do the performance At the Edge of Margin, in which he will hang his body outside the gallery.

The powerful visual impact of Miljanovic’s work goes beyond the cliché of post-war Balkan art and it has had wide international appreciation. The artist takes as a starting point of reflection the reality that surrounds him. He creates original works that can simultaneously be disturbing and touching for their capacity to unravel truths in a very direct, almost brutal, way.

Mladen Miljanovic was born in 1981 in Zenica, an industrial city in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 70 km north from Sarajevo, and graduated from the Academy of Art in Banja Luka. In 2007 he receives the ZVONO price for best Bosnian young artist. Numerous international participations will follow, such as the Busan Biennal in South Korea in 2008, a show at Palazzo Forti in Verona, Italy, in 2009, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) in Wien in 2010 and the 53rd Belgrade October Salon in 2011.

Centro Espositivo Sloveno

Bruno Timmermans - "Winehouse +" 2011 - Photographie sous Diasec. (Booth F9) Courtesy Mazel Galerie - Bruxelles

From 12 to 15 April 2012 – Lille Grand Palais
With over 15,000 visitors in 2011, Lille Art Fair has become an essential contemporary art event held in the heart of the Paris-Brussels-London triangle.
Variety of methods of expression, diversity of galleries and artists and sheer artistic wealth of the event are the main ingredients making Lille Art Fair an essential cultural event.

Lille Art Fair attracts visitors looking to buy and keen to make the most of the event made up of collectors, knowledgeable art lovers and newcomers to the world of art are all looking forward to the 5th Lille Art Fair taking place from 12 to 15 April 2012 that promises to be a great experience for all concerned!

Buoyed by its success, the 5th Lille Art Fair will bring together 100 galleries and publishers from many different countries in an 8,000 m² showcase.
Paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, engravings, ceramics, photos, etc., -all forms of art will be represented even more than ever before.

Julianne Rose “FLESH & PLASTIC N°2”, 2006, PHOTOGRAPHIE C-PRINT CONTRE COLLÉ SUR ALUMINIUM, SOUS DIASEC, DIPTYQUE, 80 X 120 CM

-The Print Art Fair features the representatives of art printing techniques: lithography, engraving, screen printing, digigraphics, artist’s books, and more…
- The Video Art Fair, is a new addition to the 2011 fair, highlighting a contemporary form of expression so as to discover new talents and specialised galleries.
- La Nuit de l’Art (“The Art Night”), will be an exceptional evening where each exhibitor invites their artists to come and meet the public for a performance, signing session, or other activities and happenings.

The region’s artistic and cultural organisation complete the offering from galleries and publishers. Totally new works by French and European artists will thus be presented to visitors.

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From the 4th of February to May 20th 2012 – National Gallery of Denmark – Statens Museum for Kunst
The great spring exhibition of 2012 serves a dual purpose: The exhibition presents the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) and his art as a phenomenon in itself. In addition to this the exhibition takes a new – and investigative – approach to Hammershøi by having his art enter into a dialogue with fellow European artists of his day.

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) is certainly among the preeminent Danish artists from the late 19th and early 20th century, and his reputation has reached further beyond his native soil than that of any other Danish painter.
Hammershøi lived in Copenhagen and is known for his many paintings of Copenhagen interiors and landscapes poised somewhere between the dreamlike and the realistic. But he also travelled frequently to many destinations within Europe.

Vilhelm Hammershøi: Hvile, Repos, 1905 Photograph by Sharon Mollerus, Creative Commons licensed

Vilhelm Hammershøi was born on 15 May 1864 in Copenhagen to Frederikke (b. Rentzmann) and Christian Hammershøi, a merchant.
He had a younger sister, Anna, and two brothers: Otto and Svend. Svend also became an artist.
Vilhelm received drawing classes from the age of eight. He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1879 and also studied under P.S. Krøyer.
Vilhelm had his debut as an artist in 1885, presenting a portrait of his sister. That year he also made his first journey, travelling to Berlin and Dresden.

In June of 1890 he became engaged to Ida Ilsted; they were married in September 1891. Ida became the main figure within Hammershøi’s life and art and posed for a great many of his paintings.
The couple’s homes were also featured in Vilhelm’s art. In an interview from 1907 he said: “I have always felt that such rooms possess great beauty even if there are no people in it; or perhaps precisely when there are none.”
Throughout his life Vilhelm travelled in Europe with Ida and exhibited his work in several major cities.
He won international acclaim and was supported by his patron, Alfred Bramsen, who bought many of his works and promoted his art.
On 13 February 1916 Vilhelm died from cancer at the age of 51.

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From August 20, 2011 to May 13, 2012 – Museum of Fine Arts Boston
European art of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is dominated by two powerful artistic movements: Neo-classicism and Romanticism. Neo-Classicism is marked by purity, austerity, clarity, and an almost abstract obsession with the linear. The style was stimulated by the recent archaeological discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum and by pageants and festivals of the French Revolution that referred back to Republican Rome. By contrast, Romanticism was an art of extremes, of melodrama: the dramatic interplay of light and shadow rather than linear purity. Romantic artists believed in nature—whether wild landscape, wild beasts, or the animal impulses of humankind—as an uncontrollable force, inspiring awe and terror. “Passion and Precision in the Age of Revolution” features about forty-five works by artists including Ingres, Delacroix, Desprez, Prud’hon, Turner, Blake, Gericault, Girodet, Flaxman, and Schinkel.

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LONDON – Drawings are rarely given the importance they deserve, and very few exhibitions present this discipline, in spite of it being the mother of arts at the beginning of the Renaissance. This exhibit meets the challenge with «absolute» masterpieces such as View of the Arno in pen, both the first landscape drawing in European art and the oldest known work by Leonardo da Vinci (1473). It must be said that the efforts put together to organize this event are colossal, between the funds of the British Museum and the Graphic Cabinet of the Uffizi, in particular this choice of one hundred drawings, including Lorenzo Monaco, Michael-Angelo or Boltraffio that stages the evolution of the genre from 1400 to 1510, between the taste for the line typical of the Florentine school and the appetite for colors of the Venetians.
•Fra Angelico to Leonardo, Italian Renaissance drawings at the British Museum, from 22 April to 25 July 2010.

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