Vizcaya Museum & Gardens presents site-specific installations by Miami-based sculptor Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Chicago-based theater and film artist Catherine Sullivan. Rodriguez's work opened on November 8 and Sullivan's on November 29, 2007. The artists were invited to explore Vizcaya and its history and to develop artworks as part of the Museum's Contemporary Arts Project. Both installations will be on view at the National Historic Landmark through February 24, 2008.
Shows & Exhibitions : Fine Art & Fine Craft
Brent's laudable community space, The Gallery At Willesden Green, opens the 2008 season with a superb selection of artists exploring Nature and Landscape through a variety of art forms and styles.
Belfast Exposed Photography presents Residency by Anthony Luvera, an exhibition of photographs made over a 16-month period by the artist and people who have experienced homelessness living in Belfast. Residency consists of a new series of large-format Assisted Self-Portraits, landscape images of Belfast and documentation of Luvera’s working practice through photographs, production polaroids and excerpts from the artist’s workbooks. A publication of the work is scheduled for Autumn 2008.
The Browning of Britannia is a major new BFI commission that explores questions of truth and self-perception. An intriguing and controversial hall of mirrors, it continues and develops artist Faisal Abdu’Allah’s investigation of cultural identity. It explores the the story of Ago Piero Ajano, who was first brought to Faisal Abdu'Allah's attention by his 'power of attorney', who was adamant that Ago is a descendant of King Edward VIII. Today, after having led a lavish lifestyle in London in the 80s, Ago lives in a very modest council flat, penniless.
This summer the MCA presents the first solo show in Australia by Scottish painter Callum Innes, with a major exhibition from Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery. Curated by Fruitmarket Gallery Director, Fiona Bradley, Callum Innes: From Memory brings together a diverse selection of paintings which trace the development of this acclaimed British artist.
Concepts of Love is an exhibition that pursues artistic discourses, productions and discussions thematising or – more precisely – thinking proactively the experience of „falling in love“ as a radical form of movement. With international artists Gerry Bibby, Bless, Keren Cytter, Ekkehard Ehlers, Stephan Geene, Frauke Gust, Judith Hopf, Francesca Lacatena, Henrik Olesen, Monika Rinck, de Rijke/de Rooij, Jörg Rode, Deborah Schamoni, Klaus Theweleit, Florian Zeyfang invited by Judith Hopf, Kathrin Jentjens and Anja Nathan-Dorn.
EVO Gallery presents two installations by the pioneering video artist Steina. Born in Iceland, Steina immigrated to New York in 1965, and currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trained as a concert violinist who performed with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Steina weaves the language of musical composition with both digital and analog media. Her minimalist imagery, built up from audio-video signals and waveforms, emphasize the qualities of the electronic media employed, exploring the phenomenology of video. Chance, experimentation, and performance are also central to her creative practice.
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torin presents a sole Italian leg of an important retrospective traveling exhibition dedicated to François-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837), founder of the Montpellier museum. Possibly the most extensive presentation of the works of an artist who was greatly esteemed in his lifetime and who receives more and more appreciation in our days, as attested by the interest raised in neoclassical experts in the last thirty years, by the success of his works in the art market
Marcus Fearon, a promising young artist is launching his artistic career, with a series of upcoming exhibitions. He brings a unique touch to his 'One Blood' series by using the powerful medium of blood in an artistic exercise as a young black man speaking out about the knife and gun culture within the Black community. The series incorporates abstract paintings which comment on this potent issue.
Other than Yourself – An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space presents a range of works, mostly drawn from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary collection, that reference either the immediate space that surrounds or serves the artists’ actions and experimentation or the space that unfolds through the artwork itself.