International Art News

Jeff Koons – Ballerinas, work in progress – Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating – 100 x 70 x 62 inches © Jeff Koons – Hall 2.0 / B15 – Courtesy Gagosian Gallery NY

From June 13 to June 16 2013 – Halls 1 and 2 of Messe Basel at Messeplatz.
Art Basel has been described as the ‘Olympics of the Art World’. Over 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa show the work of more than 4,000 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars.

Hermann Scherer Selbstbildnis in Landschaft, 1924 – 1926 Oil on canvas 109 x 89 cm – Hall 2.0/A3 – Courtesy of Galerie Carzaniga

The show’s individual sectors represent every artistic medium: paintings, sculpture, installations, videos, multiples, prints, photography, and performance. Each day offers a full program of events, including symposiums, films, and artist talks. Further afield, exhibitions and events are offered by cultural institutions in Basel and the surrounding area, creating an exciting, region-wide art week.

Art Basel

Lynn Hershman Leeson. Roberta’s Construction Chart #2. 1976. Chromogenic color print, printed 2003, 22 15/16 x 29 5/8″ (58.3 x 75.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Modern Women’s Fund. © 2013 Lynn Hershman Leeson

May 10, 2013–January 6, 2014 – Museum of Modern Art
This exhibition addresses photography’s influential role in contemporary art through a selection of recent major acquisitions, primarily multipart and serial works. Presented at MoMA for the first time, these works by 19 artists are grounded in diverse photographic traditions, suggesting the creative fertility of the medium from 1960 to today. They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such as photograms and photomontages), to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera, to political and documentary engagements with labor history and globalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to forms of archival and historical reconstitution made since 2000.
The international, cross-generational group of artists includes Yto Barrada, Phil Collins,* Liz Deschenes, Stan Douglas,* VALIE EXPORT, Robert Frank, Paul Graham, Leslie Hewitt,* Birgit Jürgenssen, Jürgen Klauke, Běla Kolářová, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dóra Maurer, Oscar Muñoz, Mariah Robertson, Allan Sekula, Stephen Shore, Taryn Simon,* and Hank Willis Thomas.*

*Works by these artists will be on view beginning August 23, 2013.

Museum of Modern Art New York

Sans titre vers 1937
Laure Albin Guillot
Collection musée Nicéphore Niépce,
Ville de Chalon-sur-Saône.

From 26 February 2013 until 12 May 2013 – Musée du Jeu de Paume
Laure Albin Guillot (Paris, 1879–1962), a “resounding name that should become famous”, one could read just after World War II. Indeed, the French photographic scene in the middle of the century was particularly marked by the signature and aura of this artist, who during her lifetime was certainly the most exhibited and recognized, not only for her talent and virtuosity but also for her professional engagement.
Organised in four parts, the exhibition, “Laure Albin Guillot: The Question of Classicism” allows one to discover her art of portraiture and the nude, her active role in the advertising world, her printed work and, at last, a significant gathering of her “micrographies décoratives”, stupefying photographs of microscopic preparations that made her renown in 1931.

Estampe pour F. Marquis chocolatier-confiseur, Paris
sans date
Laure Albin Guillot
Collection particulière, Paris

The photographer’s work could appear as a counter-current to the French artistic scene of the 1920s to 40s, whose modernity and avant-garde production attract our attention and appeal to current tastes. It is however this photography, incarnating classicism and a certain “French style” that was widely celebrated at the time.

Micrographie – vers 1929
Laure Albin Guillot – Collections Roger-Viollet /
Parisienne de Photographie.
© Laure Albin Guillot / Roger-Viollet

She was notably one of the first in France to consider the decorative use of photography through her formal research into the infinitely tiny. With photomicrography, which she renamed “micrographie”, Laure Albin Guillot thus offfered new creative perspectives in the combination of art and science.

Musée du Jeu de Paume

Shell-shocked US marine, Hue, Vietnam, February 1968. Photograph: Don McCullin

From February 1st to the 14th of April 2013 – National Gallery of Canada.
Prints, Drawings and Photographs Galleries

Don McCullin/Contact Press Images, Homeless Irishman, East End, London 1969.

This exhibition of 120 black and white photographs by British photojournalist Don McCullin traces the artist’s journey from working class England to the world’s most notorious conflict zones, including Cyprus, the Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Lebanon and Ireland.

Don McCullin. Near Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin(detail), 1961. © Don McCullin / Contact Press Images

McCullin is part of the tradition of humanist photography and war art associated with names such as Goya, Dix and Capa. His more recent work – lyrical, brooding landscapes of Somerset wetlands and Indian elephant festivals – invites quiet reflection.

National Gallery of Canada

Mountain Climbers – 2012 – Allan Teger, Florida, USA

January 3 thru February 16, 2013 – Sin City Gallery
Teger has made his creative mark on the art scene by using the nude human form as a literal landscape for inquisitive fun-spirited scenarios that are often creatively suggestive. Examples would be a skier going down a breast or his winning image last year of mountain climbers going up a breast. Other images feature landscapes ranging from rolling farmlands to beaches and outer space.

The art world is sitting up and taking notice of this self-taught photographer’s signature format and sexy-fun style. He was recently featured in the “Huffington Post” and “Juxtapoz Magazine” and has released his book “Bodyscapes” on Amazon. The former psychology professor’s collection shows more than 100 black and white images photographed in a single exposure without any post processing or manipulation and is a result of his 35-year career.

© Allan Teger

“Sin City Gallery is excited to present Allan Teger’s thought-provoking body landscaping photography,” said the gallery’s curator, Dr. Laura Henkel. “Teger’s ingenious edgy images continue to add to the sexual tension that is becoming the gallery’s distinct position in the Las Vegas’ growing and sophisticated downtown art scene.”

Sin City Gallery

Hans Kotter – 1012 – Tunnel View – Rectangle, Down Under, Left Curved Plexiglas, mirror, metal, color-changing LED lights and remote control – 23 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 9 inches – 60 x 90 x 23 cm
Courtesy of Debuck Gallery New York

From January 25th to January 28th, 2013 – Palm Beach County Convention Center
ArtPalmBeach is considered one of the most influential contemporary art fairs on Florida’s Gold Coast by both critics and art enthusiasts since its opening in 1997. This year fair will debut the most extensive program in its history by encompassing premiere events, special exhibitions, topical lectures, special museum tours, site specific art installations, art performances and exclusive VIP programs.

Jefro – A Muse in Waiting – 60 X 48 – Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of: RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery – Jupiter – Florida – Booth #715

ArtPalmBeach 2013 welcomes back many returning exhibitors as well as introducing newcomers to the Palm Beach art scene. The fair is comprised of over seventy international galleries presenting works of all forms of contemporary art including painting, sculpture, photography, design, fine art glass, video and installations from modern art to new cutting-edge artists.

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