Утопия и реальность. Эль Лисицкий и Илья Кабаков

29.06. - 25.08.13
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org

 Что общего между Элем Лисицким и Ильей Кабаковым, и что они думают о космосе, мусоре и советском жилье.

Кураторы пригласили Илью и Эмилию Кабаковых не только в качестве художников, но и как кураторов, предложив им сделать выставку из собственных работ и работ известного конструктивиста и авангардиста Эля Лисицкого. Лисицкий и Кабаков как бы маркируют начало и конец советской эпохи и представляют два ее полюса — большие надежды, а затем глубокое разочарование. Выставка поделена на несколько тематических разделов, общих и для Кабакова, и для Лисицкого: космос и пустота, чистота форм и мусор, повседневность и прочие. Только вот акценты оказываются немного смещены. Если конструктивист предлагает нам взглянуть на новый мир и посмотреть в будущее, наш современник Кабаков говорит о несостоявшемся будущем и утопии.

The New French follies, exhibition at the Domaine National de Saint-Germain, Le Nôtre Year

26.06-14.10.13
http://www.musee-archeologienationale.fr

Contemporary follies in natura.
Année Le Nôtre à Saint-Germain-en-Laye

After Nature mutante®, an exhibition awarded the prize for Innovation by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, essayist and curator Patrick Amine has organised an ambitious project to recreate contemporary "new follies" in the National Domain of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Soliciting 27 renowned international artists (Hervé di Rosa, Bob Verschueren, Jan Fabre, Bae Lee, Loris Cecchini, etc.), the gardens become a stage for ephemeral (or perennial) works and in natura vegetable sculptures around the garden, its avenues and terraces. It is also a playful and imaginative area for walks, to be enjoyed by people all ages, adapted to the site and its history.

Thanks to his passion for gardens and history and his knowledge of contemporary art, Patrick Amine is the ideal organiser for this project which is to be part of the tribute to André Le Nôtre, in a dialogue between heritage and contemporary creation.

Exhibition of international contemporary artists in the National Domain and the National Archaeological Museum.

Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

26.06 - 08.09.2013
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Explore the musical pastimes of the 17th century Netherlands through a lively display combining the art of Vermeer and his contemporaries with rare musical instruments and songbooks of the period.
For the first time the National Gallery’s two paintings by Vermeer, Young Woman Standing at a Virginal and Young Woman Seated at a Virginal will be brought together with Vermeer’s Guitar Player, which is currently on exceptional loan from the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House.

These beautiful and evocative paintings by Vermeer will be displayed with works by his contemporaries and juxtaposed with musical instruments and songbooks from the same period.

Music was one of the most popular themes in Dutch painting, and carried many diverse associations. In portraits, a musical instrument or songbook might suggest the education or social position of the sitter; in scenes of everyday life, it might act as a metaphor for harmony, or a symbol of transience.

The exhibition will display 17th-century virginals (a type of harpsichord), guitars and lutes alongside the paintings to offer a unique insight into the painters’ choice of instruments, and the difference between the real instruments and the way in which the painters chose to represent them.

The exhibition will also incorporate music of the era in various ways, enriching the visitor’s experience of the serene and elegant ambiance created in paintings by Vermeer and other masters of the Dutch Golden Age

Collecting Gauguin: Samuel Courtauld in the 20s at The Courtauld Gallery

20.06 - 09.09.13
www.courtauld.ac.uk

Collecting Gauguin offers a fascinating insight into the development of Gauguin’s reputation in the UK.

The Courtauld Gallery holds the UK's most important collection of works by the Post-Impressionist master Paul Gauguin. Assembled by the pioneering collector Samuel Courtauld, it includes major paintings and works on paper as well as one of only two marble sculptures ever created by the artist.

This special summer display presents the complete collection together with the loan of two important works by Gauguin formerly in Courtauld’s private collection: Martinique Landscape and Bathers at Tahiti.

Today, Gauguin is widely celebrated as one of the most important artists of the 19th century.

Stradivarius

13.06 - 11.08.2013
www.ashmolean.org

Antonio Stradivari (c.1644–1737) – or Stradivarius as he is usually known – is the only maker of musical instruments whose name ranks alongside those of the great composers. For the first time will twenty of his instruments, from guitar to cello to violin, be on display together in the UK.
While the details of his life are not as familiar as those of Vivaldi or Mozart, his name succeeds in evoking a creative genius in the popular imagination. The Ashmolean’s summer 2013 exhibition will feature twenty of the world’s most important musical instruments, some of which have never been shown in public, on loan from international collections: from the early Silvestre violin of 1666, to the Fountaine violino piccolo, the Boissier-Sarasate of 1713, to his later violins of the 1730s. It will also show a recreation of Stradivarius’s workshop where visitors will be able to follow the creation of a violin from a log of spruce through to the finished instrument.

Белый город. Архитектура Баухауза в Тель-Авиве

12.06. - 15.09.13
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org 

Над застройкой Тель-Авива в 30-е годы XX века работали архитекторы немецкой школы «Баухаус», дома строились 2—3-этажными, бетонными, улицы строго перпендикулярны или параллельны побережью. Главной целью постройки было создание недорогого массового жилья. Дома 30-х годов XX века являются сегодня архитектурным памятником, и благодаря им Тель-Авив занесён в список культурных ценностей ЮНЕСКО под названием «Белый город»

Белый город был сооружен в период с начала 1930-х до 1950-х гг. на основе градостроительного плана Патрика Геддеса, отражавшего самые прогрессивные в то время принципы органичной планировки. Здания были спроектированы архитекторами, получившими образование в Европе, где они занимались профессиональной деятельностью до иммиграции. Они создали выдающийся архитектурный ансамбль в стиле «Современного движения», выполненный в новом культурном контексте.

Залы современного искусства в Главном штабе, 4 этаж

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945

08.06-01.09.2013
http://www.phillipscollection.org

This exhibition is the first in-depth study of still life in Georges Braque’s (1882–1963) career framed within the historical and political context of 1928 to 1945. Approximately 40 paintings chart Braque’s work in this genre from small, intimate interior scenes of the late 1920s, to vibrant, large-scale canvases of the 1930s, to darker and more personal interpretations of daily life in the 1940s. Duncan Phillips played a pioneering role in introducing this important European modernist to American audiences, acquiring 11 works by the artist and presenting Braque’s first U.S. retrospective in 1939.
The exhibition is co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dale Chihuly: A Master of Contemporary Glass

8.06 - 20.10.2013
www.mmfa.qc.ca

Considered the "Tiffany" of our time, American artist Dale Chihuly has been exploring the plastic potential of blown glass for over forty years. His spectacular pieces challenge the apparent fragility of the material and transport us to a magical world. Inspired by nature, this consummate master plays with colours, reflections and organic shapes.

 Come and discover the spellbinding environments created by his brilliant glass installations, presented for the first time in Canada.
An exhibition organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Chihuly Studio.

55th International Art Exhibition

1.06 - 24.11.2013

http://www.labiennale.org

The Encyclopedic Palace

The 55th International Art Exhibition will take place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale (preview: May 29th, 30th and 31st  2013), as well as in various venues the city.   The title chosen by curator Massimiliano Gioni for the 55th International Art Exhibition is: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace. Massimiliano Gioni introduced the choice of theme evoking the artist self-taught Italian-American Marino Auriti that“on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite. Auriti’s plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all-embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried - often in vain - to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness.”   

От Гверчино до Караваджо

21.05 - 14.07.2013

www.hermitagemuseum.org

Гербовый зал

Сэр Денис Мэон и итальянское искусство XVII века.

Сэр Денис Мэон — почтенный английский коллекционер, на 97-м году жизни обнаруживший, что авторство картины, купленной на аукционе Sotheby’s по бросовой цене, принадлежит вовсе не н/х, а Караваджо. И стоимость ее должна составлять не $100 000, а в $100 000 000. Но это не единственная история с детективной развязкой, принадлежащая сэру Мэону. Чем обернулись его приключения после нашумевших аукционных торгов, покажет выставка итальянского искусства XVII века. Экспозицию должны открыть полотна кисти Гверчино — художника-феррарца, наследника традиций Доссо Досси.