Diego Velazquez

28th October 2014 - 15th February 2015
www.khm.at

In 2014 the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna will show the first individual exhibition in honour of this famous artist in the service of the “Casa de Austria”. The focus of the exhibition is to provide a comprehensive display of this artist’s versatile and artistically ever constant and extraordinary creative power, and to present, along with the portraits, also examples of his mythological and religious works as well as still life, landscape and animals studies.

Outstanding items on loan from the National Gallery London and the Museo del Prado allow for a differentiated view of the uniquely artistic works of Diego Velásquez.  He himself was involved in the study of the paintings in the royal picture gallery in Madrid, and he also studied the works of other artists on his trips to Italy.

Thanks to the close familial and political relationship between the Habsburg Houses in Vienna and Madrid in the 17th century the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna owns an important group of extraordinary portraits produced by the court painter of King Philipp IV. Alongside the portraits of Maria Teresa and the Infant Philipp Prosper, the enchanting painting series of Infanta Margarita Teresa in particular achieved worldwide fame. These portraits, which show her as a three, five and eight year old girl, were painted for her future husband from the House of Habsburg.

The Picture Gallery in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers the unique opportunity to compare the works of Velásquez with portrayals of the same themes produced by great artists from Italy and the Netherlands.

Claude Monet

24th October 2014 - 8th February 2015
www.belvedere.at

The autumn exhibition to be held at the Lower Belvedere’s Orangery in 2014 will be devoted to the French painter Claude Monet, one of the principal practitioners of Impressionism, and the profound impact of his painting on Austrian art.

Besides Edouard Manet, the Viennese art scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries regarded Monet as the central and formative figure of French Impressionism. His works were on display in exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus, the Secession, and the legendary Miethke Gallery and were known to his contemporaries from periodicals and books. The most outstanding show, entitled The Evolution of Impressionism in Painting and Sculpture, was held at the Vienna Secession in 1903, where the Modern Gallery (the institution preceding today’s Österreichische Galerie Belvedere) acquired Monet’s painting The Chef (Monsieur Paul); later on, Fishermen on the Seine at Poissy and one of his masterpieces, Garden Path at Giverny, were added to the collection. Monet’s influence on Austrian painters and photographers was immediate and multifaceted. Some artists adopted his stylistic handling, while others were interested in his pictorial motifs, compositions, or conceptual approaches.

The exhibition at the Belvedere assembles works by the exceptional French painter that were either on view in Vienna around 1900 or served as models and presents them together with selected paintings and photographs by Austrian artists active during the period in question. Both this juxtaposition and historical documents will allow us to trace Monet’s impact on domestic art production, such as by Gustav Klimt, Emil Jakob Schindler, Max Weiler,
Olga Wisinger-Florian, and Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel.

Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude

23 October 2014 - 18 January 2015
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk

Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) is one of the most important artists of the early 20th century and a central figure of Austrian Expressionism.

This exhibition brings together an outstanding group of the artist’s nudes to chart his ground-breaking approach during his short but urgent career

Schiele’s technical virtuosity, highly original vision and unflinching depictions of the naked figure distinguish these works as being among his most significant contributions to the development of modern art.

This sharply focused exhibition will be a major opportunity to see more than thirty of these radical works assembled from international public and private collections.   

A Shared History. Treasures from the Royal Palaces of Spain

From 22 Oct 2014 to 25 Jan 2015
http://www.gulbenkian.pt/

This exhibition is due to the initiative of Spain’s Patrimonio Nacional, an institution that preserves the palaces used today by the royal family, several convents founded by the royal house and their respective archives. Placing particular emphasis on collecting and on the patronage practised by the monarchs and members of Spain’s royal family, this exhibition has a third underlying theme in that it evokes and illustrates the political and matrimonial relations between the two Iberian royal houses.‘Shared History’ covers 350 years, beginning in the era of Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504, r. 1474-1504), a key figure in establishing Spain as a European power following the unification of the Iberian kingdoms under her reign. Another Isabella, the Infanta Maria Isabel of Portugal (1797-1818), married Ferdinand VII of Spain and, unbeknownst to many Portuguese, founded the Prado Museum. The museum itself recalls this fact with enthusiasm and gratitude.

Hubert de Givenchy

22 October 2014 - 18 January 2015 
http://www.museothyssen.org

This exhibition, the first major retrospective to be devoted to Hubert de Givenchy and the Museum’s first incursion into the world of fashion, will present a selection of the finest creations by the French fashion designer.

Curated by Hubert de Givenchy himself, it will thus offer a unique focus on his collections over the past half century, from the founding of Maison Givenchy in Paris in 1952 to his retirement in 1996.

On display will be dresses that he designed for some of the 20th century’s most iconic personalities, including Jacqueline Kennedy, the Duchess of Windsor, Caroline of Monaco and his muse and friend Audrey Hepburn (whom he dressed for films such as Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s); examples of Givenchy’s most original creations such as the “Bettina blouse” and the “sack dress”; and his admired prêt-à-porter designs, a concept he invented in 1954. These creations will be shown alongside a group of works of different periods and styles from the Museo Thyssen’s collections.

Death Becomes Her. A Century of Mourning Attire

October 21, 2014–February 1, 2015
http://www.metmuseum.org


This Costume Institute exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Approximately thirty ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, will reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century.

The thematic exhibition will be organized chronologically and feature mourning dress from 1815 to 1915, primarily from The Costume Institute's collection, including mourning gowns worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra.

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist

October 19, 2014–February 1, 2015
http://www.lacma.org

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist presents a full-scale survey of one the most important artists of the Harlem Renaissance, featuring the painter's visual examination of African American culture during the Jazz Age. The exhibition covers Motley's entire career, including periods in Chicago, Paris, and Mexico. Motley received his formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and went on to create strong and somewhat solemn portraits of his community, as well as vividly hued, lively scenes of crowded dancehalls that reflect the colorful spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. The exhibition features a number of paintings depicting the black communities of Chicago and Paris just before and after the Great Depression, and concludes with introspective moments of quotidian life in Mexico, made during the artist's travels during the 1950s.

Van Gogh. L'uomo e la terra

18 ottobre 2014 -  08 marzo 2015
http://www.vangoghmilano.it

A 62 anni di distanza dall'ultima grande mostra che stupì Milano, torna a Palazzo Reale il genio di Van Gogh. Oltre 50 opere provenienti da tutto il mondo - a partire dal Kröller-Müller Museum di Otterlo per arrivare a importanti musei internazionali fino a collezioni private normalmente inaccessibili -raccontano la terra e i suoi frutti, l'uomo, gli umili, la vita rurale e agreste in un percorso inedito verso le tematiche di Expo 2015. 

Sonia Delaunay. Les couleurs de l’abstraction

17 octobre 2014 - 22 février 2015
http://www.mam.paris.fr

Première grande rétrospective parisienne consacrée à Sonia Delaunay depuis 1967, l’exposition organisée par le Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris rassemble, aux côtés de trois reconstitutions exceptionnelles d’environnements, plus de 400 œuvres : peintures, décorations murales, gouaches, estampes, mode et textiles. Cette monographie qui suit l’évolution de l’artiste de l’aube du XXème siècle à la fin des années 1970, met en lumière l’importance de son activité dans les arts appliqués, sa place spécifique au sein des avant-gardes européennes, ainsi que son rôle majeur dans l’abstraction dont elle figure parmi les pionniers.

Le parcours chronologique, largement documenté, illustre la richesse et la singularité de l’œuvre de Sonia Delaunay marquée par un dialogue soutenu entre les arts. L’ensemble des œuvres choisies révèle une approche personnelle de la couleur, réminiscence de son enfance russe et de son apprentissage de la peinture en Allemagne.

Alberto Giacometti

17th October 2014 - 26th January 2015
www.leopoldmuseum.org

In cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, Zurich

With the exhibition »Alberto Giacometti. Pioneer of the Avant-Garde« the Leopold Museum shines the spotlight on an artist who is widely considered to be the most important sculptor of the 20th century. The works of Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1966) are among the most expensive artworks in the world. As recently as 2010 his work »L‘homme qui marche l« fetched the astronomical sum of 74 million Euros at Sotheby's in London, the highest price ever paid for a sculpture.

Born in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, Giacometti moved to Paris in the early 1920s, where he initially joined the circle of artists surrounding André Breton. In the exhibition Giacometti’s Surrealist works are juxtaposed with works from the same period created by his friends and acquaintances, including René Magritte, Max Ernst and Joan Miró. Following his break with the Surrealists in 1935, Giacometti arrived at the inimitable style of his mature period during the 1940s. While he refocused on representational depictions of human figures, he did so in an entirely unique manner characterized by striking changes in proportions. Many of these works have a strong three-dimensional effect which is highlighted in the exhibition through the special positioning and staging of his works. At the same time, Giacometti’s sculptures, paintings and drawings will be juxtaposed with works by masters of International Modernism, including Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly.

Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860 – 1960

16 October 2014 - 11 January 2015
http://www.npg.org.uk

Anarchy & Beauty explores the life and ideas of the great Victorian artist, writer and visionary thinker William Morris. Through portraits, personal items and fascinating objects, many of which will be on public display for the first time, this major exhibition illustrates Morris’s concept of ‘art for the people’ and highlights the achievements of those that he inspired.

Curated by acclaimed author and biographer Fiona MacCarthy, the display features original furniture and textiles designed and owned by Morris as well as the work of his contemporaries including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. These will be innovatively showcased alongside remarkable books, jewellery, ceramics and clothing by craftspeople such as Eric Gill, Bernard Leach and Terence Conran, demonstrating how Morris’s legacy continued into the twentieth century, influencing radical politics, the Garden City movement and the Festival of Britain in 1951.

Сикорский: крылья будущего

15 октября - 15 декабря
polymus.ru

Игорь Сикорский — конструктор, изобретатель и философ. Этот человек мечтал преодолеть границы невозможного и исполнил свои мечты. Сикорский создал первые вертолеты, многомоторные самолеты, летающие лодки, гидропланы и стал первооткрывателем новой эры мировой авиации. На выставке в павильоне №26 на ВДНХ посетители познакомятся с его изобретениями и увидят самолеты изнутри: так близко, как до сих пор их могли увидеть только пилоты и механики начала и середины XX века. Посетителей выставки ждут мастер-классы по авиамоделированию и другие тематические мероприятия.

Rembrandt: the Final Years

15th October 2014 - 18th January 2015
www.nationalgallery.org.uk


Rembrandt: The Final Years offers visitors the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the passion and innovation of Rembrandt’s late works, in an exhibition organised by the National Gallery in collaboration with Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.

The exhibition will bring together approximately 40 paintings, 20 drawings and 30 prints, featuring key works lent by European and North American museums including the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Mauritshuis in the The Hague.

Rembrandt's restless creativity gathered new energy as he aged. Between the 1650s and his death in 1669 he consciously pursued a new style that was even more expressive and profound. His audacious manipulation of printing and painting techniques, and his new and original interpretations of traditional subjects, gave his work a depth that influenced countless printmakers, painters and draftsmen in the generations that followed.

This extraordinary exhibition highlights the formal and iconographic concerns that occupied Rembrandt in the final years of his life. The works he produced during this period are soulful, honest and in many ways define our image of Rembrandt as a man and as an artist.

Baccarat. La légende du cristal

15 octobre 2014 – 4 janvier 2015 
http://www.petitpalais.paris.fr

À l’occasion du 250e anniversaire de Baccarat, le Petit Palais exposera dans ses Grandes Galeries les chefs d’oeuvre de la plus illustre manufacture de cristal au monde, étonnants témoignages de la virtuosité de ses artisans.

Il s’agit de la première rétrospective en France dédiée à Baccarat depuis l’exposition du Bicentenaire aux Arts décoratifs en 1964. En accord avec l’architecture du Petit Palais élevé pour l’Exposition universelle de 1900, l’exposition présentera les créations de Baccarat conçues pour les grandes expositions parisiennes de 1823 à 1937, au cours desquelles la manufacture conquiert une notoriété internationale. C’est également à la faveur de ces rendez-vous que Baccarat attire par son éclat les commandes des grands de ce monde.

Sade. Attaquer le soleil

14 octobre 2014 - 25 janvier 2015
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ 

Alphonse Donatien de Sade (1740-1814) a bouleversé l'histoire de la littérature comme celle des arts, de manière clandestine d'abord puis en devenant un véritable mythe.
L'oeuvre du "Divin Marquis" remet en cause de manière radicale les questions de limite, proportion, débordement, les notions de beauté, de laideur, de sublime et l'image du corps. Il débarrasse de manière radicale le regard de tous ses présupposés religieux, idéologiques, moraux, sociaux.
Suivant l'analyse d'Annie Le Brun, spécialiste de Sade et commissaire invitée, l'exposition met en lumière la révolution de la représentation ouverte par les textes de l'écrivain. Seront abordés les thèmes de la férocité et de la singularité du désir, de l'écart, de l'extrême, du bizarre et du monstrueux, du désir comme principe d'excès et de recomposition imaginaire du monde, à travers des oeuvres de Goya, Géricault, Ingres, Rops, Rodin, Picasso…

HANS MEMLING. Rinascimento Fiammingo

11 ottobre 2014 - 18 gennaio 2015 
http://www.scuderiequirinale.it

Al centro la grandiosa figura di San Michele intento a pesare le anime alla presenza della corte celeste. A sinistra i beati accolti da San Pietro si apprestano a varcare le porte del Paradiso. A destra, i dannati che precipitano nel fuoco dell?inferno.

Questo è ciò che viene rappresentato nel trittico del Giudizio Universale di Hans Memling, conservato al Museo di Danzica, destinato dal pittore fiammingo all?Italia, più precisamente alla cappella dedicata a San Michele nella Badia Fiesolana a Firenze, ma che in Italia non arrivò mai. Commissionata dal banchiere fiorentino Angelo Tani e da sua moglie Caterina di Francesco Tanagli – entrambi raffigurati inginocchiati del retro degli sportelli del trittico – venne caricata sulla galea San Tommaso assalita dai pirati che trasportarono il carico nella città di Danzica, che si era dimostrata il migliore offerente per il prezioso bottino. Il trittico del Giudizio Universale venne ammirato a tal punto dagli abitanti della città che questi decisero di collocarlo nel Duomo della città. Inutile fu la causa intentata per riaverlo. Il Tani era particolarmente legato a quell?opera in quanto per lui rappresentava un riscatto morale e al contempo un chiaro messaggio per un suo ex amico, il quale gli aveva slealmente sottratto un incarico prestigioso in una banca di Bruges. Angelo Tani, scegliendo Memling per realizzare l?opera, si era rivolto al più famoso e caro artista del luogo, perché dipingesse il giudizio universale, come a dire che se la giustizia umana nulla aveva potuto nel suo caso, sarebbe stata la mano divina a punire un giorno i torti da lui subiti.

Frank Gehry

8 octobre 2014 - 26 janvier 2015
www.centrepompidou.fr

Le nom de Frank Gehry incarne à lui seul l'image de l'architecture contemporaine. Mondialement reconnu pour des projets qui ont aujourd'hui valeur d'icône, son œuvre a révolutionné l'esthétique de l'architecture, son rôle social et culturel dans la ville. C'est à Los Angeles que Frank Gehry initie sa pratique. Il côtoie dès les années soixante la scène artistique californienne, proche d'artistes comme Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Bell, Ron Davis, pour n'en citer que quelques-uns. La rencontre avec les œuvres de Robert Rauschenberg et de Jasper Johns ouvre la voie à la reconfiguration de sa pratique architecturale. Elle l'engage notamment à introduire l'usage des matériaux pauvres comme le carton, la tôle, les grillages industriels. L'extension de sa propre maison à Santa Monica en est un manifeste. Les projets de Frank Gehry reposeront dès lors sur une interrogation de ses propres moyens d'expression. Cette position de passeur, entre art et architecture, le conduit à écrire l'histoire la plus récente, et légendaire, de Los Angeles. Alors que triomphe le postmodernisme, Frank Gehry, au contraire, s'en échappe. Il s'en explique par exemple dans un dialogue resté célèbre avec le cinéaste Sydney Pollack qui réalise un film biographique, en 2005.

Британский дизайн: от Уильяма Морриса к цифровой революции

03.10.2014 – 30.11.2014
http://www.arts-museum.ru

Выставка подготовлена Московским музеем дизайна. Историческая часть выставки представлена из коллекции декоративно-прикладного искусства Музея Виктории и Альберта (Лондон). Это – двенадцать произведений выдающихся британских художников конца XIX века, среди которых Уильям Моррис и Уильям Де Морган, Кристофер Дрессер и Филипп Уэбб, Чарльз Ренни Макинтош. В начале XXI века британцы вновь занимают лидирующие позиции в индустрии, демонстрируя миру передовые решения в области дизайна и технологий. В этом можно еще раз убедиться, посмотрев работы современных британских дизайнеров, таких как Заха Хадид, Дэвид  Квайола, Том Диксон и многих других. Их экспериментальные проекты отражают ключевые тенденции в развитии дизайна будущего и находятся в диалоге с предметами конца XIX века.

Lud­wig Goes Pop. Pic­tures of a Cen­tu­ry Col­lec­tion

2. Ok­to­ber 2014 bis 11. Jan­uar 2015

http://www.museum-ludwig.de

„Pop­ulär, massen­pro­duziert, ver­brauch­bar, bil­lig, witzig, sexy, spie­lerisch, auf­fal­l­end, ver­führerisch“ – laut Richard Hamil­ton sind es diese Ei­gen­schaften, die eine Sache in­teres­sant machen und die auch als An­spruch an das ei­gene kün­st­lerische Werk zu gel­ten haben. Was der bri­tische Kün­stler 1957 als neuen Maßstab for­mulierte, war da­mals ein Skan­dal. Eine Ab­sage an die vorherrschende Kunst und ihre hehren Werte Orig­i­nal­ität, Au­then­tiz­ität und „Tie­fe“, die dem Kunst­w­erk doch ange­blich seine Be­deut­samkeit ver­lei­hen. Ober­fläche? Massenmedi­um? Pop­ulärkul­tur? Pop war eine Be­frei­ung für die ei­nen – ein trivialer Af­front für die an­deren.

Die Ausstel­lung LUD­WIG GOES POP bi­etet die Möglichkeit, ge­nau die­s­es Phäno­men zu erkun­den und Pop als Aus­druck eines mod­er­nen Lebens­ge­fühls zu be­greifen. In den 1960er-Jahren hielt der „All­t­ag“ Einzug in die Kunst: In allen Spie­larten von hu­mor­voll-ironisch bis bis­sig und kri­tisch set­zten sich Kün­stler mit dem Zeit­geist au­sei­nan­der, in­te­gri­erten Ver­satzstücke und Zi­tate aus der Kon­sum- und Wer­be­welt, Comics, Wis­sen­schaft, Tech­nik, Erotik, Massenme­di­en in ihre Kunst. Die Grenze zwischen Trivial- und Hochkul­tur war passé – und bald er­oberte Pop die Welt.

Calouste Gulbenkian. More than Mr. Five percent

2 Oct to 3 Nov 2014
http://www.gulbenkian.pt

Very different Gulbenkians are stepping forward from the archives: The nervous schoolboy. The blushing lover, courting his beloved in French. The elder brother, writing to his business partners in a mixture of Armenian and Ottoman Turkish. At long last, we are beginning to see more than Mr. Five Percent.