International Art News

Until the 16th of Sep 2012 – National Gallery of Canada
Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs has often been described as an aesthete. Through his photographs he gives us the opportunity to look again at our surroundings to see the unusual beauty in the commonplace – in the shapes of people’s heads, the markings of time in old books and paper ephemera, as well as the different typography we encounter in our everyday lives.

Arnaud Maggs: Identification is a survey exhibition that follows the senior artist’s production over four decades. Focusing on seminal and recent works, it showcases the artist’s various working strategies and subject matter. The show features his early portrait series, his monumental photographic installations of found historical ephemera, the typography used in signage and numbering systems, as well as pieces that centre on rare books, including his own Scrapbook (2009), which is filled with the inspiring items Maggs collected while working as a graphic designer. Each work on display records in some way the people, places and lived experiences that have marked him – they can be seen as portraits of the artist.

National Gallery of Canada

From June 14 to June 17, 2012 – Messe Basel, Messeplatz
The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show’s multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.

65,000 people attended Art 42 Basel, the last edition of this favorite rendezvous for the global artworld, including art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and other art enthusiasts.

With its world-class museums, outdoor sculptures, theaters, concert halls, idyllic medieval old town and new buildings by leading architects, Basel ranks as a culture capital, and that cultural richness helps put the Art Basel week on the agenda for art lovers from all over the globe. During Art Basel, a fascinating atmosphere fills this traditional city, as the international art show is reinforced with exhibitions and events all over the region.

Located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany, Basel is easily navigated by foot and trams.

Art Basel Website

From May 31st 2012     – Sin City Gallery
Romance and technology merge as one. Heather Hermann aka “Calliopie” presents a elegantly sexual view into the philosophy of love, and the fascination of repressed desires exemplified by the classic hard-style of pre-WWII Art Deco Germany.
Heather is 23 years old and is a native of Las Vegas. Attended LVA and graduated with a diploma in AP Visual Arts and Photography.

She is a current local rising Las Vegas artist star and has participated in several events contributing to the Cast and Reunion Showgirl Reunions, First Friday and much more. Heather works with Sin City Gallery and is prepping to show at Blackbird Studios this winter.
Heather now works at Emergency Arts in the Las Vegas Downtown Area.

Sin City Gallery

From May 16 to June 3, 2012 – 00130Gallery
Self-portraiture is about treating personal history and documenting a process of self-exploration and self-discovery. Taking pictures of others seems very different from self-portraiture but I approach it as different way of documenting myself. My photographs always have a part of me in them; they contain my personal history, no matter whom they are of.

The emotions reflected in my art are also a common issue for all human beings, so that they can see their own reflection in my work and in the sympathy it evokes

Born in Seoul, South Korea, HyeKyong Yun has been living and working in Montreal since 2003. She holds a BFA in cinema at Sangmyung University in Seoul, Korea as well as a BFA in photography at Concordia University. For several years the focus of HyeKyong’s photography has been self-portrait. In her latest project, “Boys”, she uses this self-portrait approach to portray others.

00130Gallery

7th of May 2012 to 15th of June 2012  – Carbon 12 – Gallery
Carbon 12 proudly presents “Versus”, an exhibition of new works by Jamie Baldridge and Bernhard Buhmann. Buhmann returns to Dubai after a brilliant first solo exhibition at Carbon 12, in 2009 and it is Baldridge first “solo” in the Middle East.

It’s the golden age of struggle: occupy everything; lex talionis; welcoming to the jungle. Acceleration and demise go hand in hand; the hamster’s wheel leaves no room for imagination and introspection.

This is what we need and this is what they do. Baldridge’s meticulously composed images assembled from hundreds of digital photographs. “Existing in a state of quivering potentia, swirling somewhere in a sparkling electric reservoir, waiting to be brought into the light of day”, the very personal darkroom of one’s unconscious abyss.

Buhmann’s magnum opus sucks the viewer directly into a narration, full of marvel and wonder, a parallel universe, an alternative reality, full of buskers and jesters, where rivers flow upstream and clocks go backwards, the irrational, the unexplainable. A place “where not only time is out of joint”.

Baldridge’s and Buhmann’s contemplative, at first glance almost unearthly approach to their respective media is very investigative, in subject and form alike. Their struggle is universal, their matters ubiquitous; the artist as the alchemist or the artist as a prophet.

Baldridge and Buhmann oeuvres are deeply rooted within art history. Hieronymus Bosch, as a very early example, where overall composition and detail are in constant dialogue, not only reflecting world views and belief systems, but deconstructing and reconstructing the semantics themselves. Inner urge as their impulse, friction as their motif. Fighting against, fighting with, fighting for. This is VERSUS.

Jamie Baldridge, born in 1975 in Louisiana, is a professor of photography at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Bernhard Buhmann, born in 1979 in Bregenz, Austria, is the winner of the STRABAG Art Award 2008.

Carbon 12

From April 22 to May 11th 2012 – National Gallery for Foreign Art
After the success of the Bulgarian Pavillion at the 54th Venice Biennale, Gershon Bulgaria is introducing a new exhibition project at the National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia. Stars in Venice presents 90 meticulously arranged photographic portraits from the immense collection of the Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche – a fascinating cross section of celebrities from all genres of art who visited the legendary Venice Film Festival and the Venice Biennale through the years of the second half of the previous century.

We are offering our guests the chance to admire, among others, photographs of Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Sean Connery, Paul Newman, of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at the Portofino Cafe, of Mick Jagger enjoying a Gondola ride and Salvador Dali posing in front of memorable Venetian historic sites. The merit for the outstanding quality of the large format photo reproductions belongs to printer Vittorio Pavan, one of the founders of the Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche.

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