International Art News

Colin Chillag

From May 31 to September 8, 2013 – The University of Arizona Museum of Art
Each of the four artists featured in the exhibition critically examine place by questioning and exploring connections to each other and our surroundings, according to Brooke Grucella, who curated the exhibit. “In their explorations, the artists, Colin Chillag, Carrie Marill, Matthew Moore and Kevin Cyr look at the personal bonds we maintain with the spaces we inhabit, often times without sincere reflection,” she said.

Colin Chillag scrutinizes the immediate geography that surrounds his home.  He then creates paintings that represent his observations, incorporating fragments from his art-making process, such as his paint palette, sketches and notes, directly into the scenes. By doing so, Chilag allows the viewer to witness his entire creative process.

Carrie Marill

Carrie Marill’s points out commonalities within what are thought to be opposite states, such as nature versus built environments.  In her series, Doing a Lot with Very Little, she renders plants, discovered in an online Japanese architectural book, translating them from virtual objects to physical drawings.  The plants become symbols for the comforts of home.

Matthew Moore – Digital Farm Collective_Sundance installation

Matthew Moore, who is both a farmer and an artist, has never seen the carrots his farm produces in the marketplace.  His artwork encourages the consumer to gain knowledge of the production process, healthy living through education, and promotes community building through food.

Kevin Cyr – Little Tag Along – Sculpture

Home is also the central character in Kevin Cyr’s art, however, home is often mobile, transitive and compartmentalized.  Cyr’s “Little Tag Along” sculpture is a dwelling that needs no fixed foundation, but offers the comforts of homeownership without damaging the surrounding environment.

The University of Arizona Museum of Art

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

Trudy Good – Courtesy of Christopher Walker Art – London

January 18 to 21, 2013 – Intercontinental Hotel Dock
Miami International Art Fair is one of America’s most exciting mid-winter contemporary art fairs. Located in Miami’s premiere downtown Art & Entertainment District, MIA will bring together international and emerging artists to the waterfront scene for a five day extravaganza of art and culture aboard SeaFair, the megayacht venue.

The contemporary fair will gather a carefully selected array of 30 international dealers presenting both established contemporary and emerging artists. Works will be composed of contemporary, cutting-edge art of all media including photography, painting, mixed-media, sculpture, jewelry, installation and video. The mission of the fair is to showcase galleries representing the most talented and visionary artists of the 21st century.

Miami International Art Fair

Peter Keene & Piet.sO – Big video light bulbs – Grandes ampoules 1000W, Vidéo projecteur, électroniques – 170 x 45 x 45 cm – 2010

From February 8 to March 16, 2013 – Mazel Galerie
The Sun has a rendezvous with the Moon.
The two artists Peter Keene and Piet.sO in residence in Brussels since 2010, venture between two spells: the sun, the moon, man, woman … in this vast gap where compasses are crazy, meetings ectoplasmic, childhood ubiquitous but worried.

Peter Keene & Piet.sO – Happy Birthday Mr.Président 2009 – Sculpture lumineuse, Leds RGB, Jelly en silicone, chassis métallique, moteur et bande sonore – 210 x 140 x 140 cm – © Mazel Galerie

Crazy machines, ghostly appearances, we feel like walking cautiously between two accomplice worlds, robots, giant dresses, projections of light bulbs filaments becoming constellations.
He has this crazy British inventor eccentricity, free and unclassifiable. Born in the vicinity of Birmingham, in the land of the industrial revolution, Peter Keene manipulates techniques as a big box of games and he does what he wants: waves, rays, reinventions of the world.

Peter Keene & Piet.sO – Red in Red – 2010 – Résine molle transparente, structure en fil cuivre et lumière – 130 x 120 x 200 cm – Crédit photographique : A.Meyer

Her, she wears this playful melancholy which diverted the myths and stories to better capture a story. Granddaughter of Polish immigrants in France in the twenties, having lost touch with her roots, Piet.sO invente for herself weird memory transmission devices.
In chemistry, the association of two elements allows the creation of a new compound which possesses different characteristics. Poetically and simply, one plus one equals more than two. Peter Keene and Piet.sO somehow embody this “miracle” chemical and poetic where plastic dresses dialogues with mechanical Christ all that in a melody electronic and binary.

Mazel Gallerie Bruxelles

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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Ugo Rondinone, nude, 2011 © the artist. Courtesy of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich photo ©: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich

Until September 19th 2012 – Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation – Museum of Cycladic Art
The Museum of Cycladic Art is pleased to announce an exhibition by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, under the title nude. The exhibition is a new site specific installation. Rondinone intervened and changed everything about the space, the floor, the light and the colours of the walls and ceiling to create his characteristically otherworld, dreamlike environment.  A special sculpture wall was installed in the first room to make sure this world is separated from everyday life. Neon lights and a lightbox sculpture create an even light that confuses our sense of time or place. Seven life-sized nude figures inhabit the space, in peaceful repose, informally posed on the floor. Jointed like store-window mannequins, the figures are exquisitely detailed, as they are cast in wax directly from the human body. The sections of each figure are made of different earth colors, a mixture of wax and earth pigments. Naked and vulnerable, they seem to be resting after having performed. Rondinone himself says he chose dancers at the peak of their youth, bodies full of energy to accentuate the contradiction with their state of slumber. Why are they resting? From what? Maybe from life? Did they ever have their own life? In the context of the Museum of Cycladic Art, where the figurines of the permanent collection, dating from 3000BC, remain hermetically closed, resting in enigmatic serenity, Rondinone’s resting figures invite the viewer to reflect on the evolution of the figuration through the centuries but also on how humanity deals with existential question through time.

Museum of Cycladic Art