Silver Age. Russian Art in Vienna around 1900

Jun 27 - Sep 28, 2014
http://www.belvedere.at

The Belvedere’s exhibition Silver Age - Russian Art in Vienna around 1900, scheduled for summer 2014, will be devoted to Russian art and the cultural relations between Russia and Austria at the beginning of the twentieth century. The term Silver Age refers to the cultural bloom in Russian literature and the visual arts after 1900 and is considered an equivalent to the German expression Jugendstil or Art Nouveau. 

Two important exhibitions organized by the Vienna Secession in 1901 and 1908 introduced the Viennese audience to contemporary Russian art, which met with a highly positive response from both critics and art buyers. While the first show dealt with art production in northern countries and therefore presented only a section devoted to Russian art, the second exhibition, entitled Modern Russian Art, entirely concentrated on the latter. The display primarily comprised works by the then-firmly-established group World of Art (Mir Iskusstva), as well as examples by members of a young association of artists named Blue Rose (Golubaia Roza), the very last generation of Russian Art Nouveau. Three paintings on view in the exhibition held in 1908 were acquired for the Modern Gallery, i.e., today’s Belvedere, including the outstanding Portrait of the Polenov Family by Boris Kustodiev, which had been rejected by the conservative Russian art scene.

The exhibition Silver Age - Russian Art in Vienna around 1900 will present works by such Russian artists as Michail Vrubel, Valentin Serov, Nicholas Roerich, and Boris Kustodiev, whose pictures were on display in Vienna more than one hundred years ago, and illustrates the mutual influences of this cultural exchange between Russian and Austrian art.

Jeff Koons

27th June 2014 - 19th October 2014
www.whitney.org

Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, popular, and controversial artists of the postwar era. Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market. Yet despite these achievements, Koons has never been the subject of a retrospective surveying the full scope of his career. Comprising 120 objects dating from 1979 to the present, this exhibition will be the most comprehensive ever devoted to the artist’s groundbreaking oeuvre. By reconstituting all of his most iconic works and significant series in a chronological narrative, the retrospective will allow visitors to understand Koons’s remarkably diverse output as a multifaceted whole.

This exhibition will be the artist’s first major museum presentation in New York, and the first to fill nearly the entirety of the Whitney’s Marcel Breuer building with a single artist’s work. It will also be the final exhibition to take place there before the Museum opens its new building in the Meatpacking District in 2015.

Line and Colour

From 27 Jun to 21 Sep 2014
http://www.gulbenkian.pt/

Drawings and Watercolours in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection

This exhibition presents a small but important set of sketches and watercolours, dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, acquired by Calouste Gulbenkian and presented here in their entirety for the very first time. The exhibition brings together works by Dürer, Watteau, Ruisdael, Boucher, Fragonard, Guardi, Turner, Millet and Jouve, among many others and all artists who made their mark, geographically and chronologically, on the History of Art and Design.

Мимикрия. Вим Дельвуа в Пушкинском музее

26.06.2014 – 07.09.2014
http://www.arts-museum.ru

Выставка известного бельгийского художника Вима Дельвуа  – принципиально новый проект, который, с одной стороны, продолжает многолетнюю выставочную программу музея, посвященную знакомству российских зрителей с творчеством крупнейших представителей современного искусства, а с другой – призван создать принципиально иную почву для диалога классического искусства и современности.

Более двадцати произведений известного бельгийского мастера, снискавшего мировое признание, будут размещены в залах постоянной экспозиции Пушкинского музея. Они создадут особое пространство, в котором станет зримой связь времен, и классическое прошлое окажется одновременно и объектом легкой иронии, и той незыблемой основой, без которой невозможно существование искусства.

Визитная карточка художника – псевдоготическая и необарочная скульптура из резной стали, мрамора и современных материалов; именно она станет основой будущей выставки. Выполненные с помощью сверхсовременных технологий, работы завораживают качеством  своего исполнения. Остросовременное, нередко провокативное и очень ироничное творчество Вима Дельвуа, обыгрывающее бытовые предметы в новом для них художественном контексте, соединяющее современные и классические сюжеты, пронизано множеством историко-культурных реминисценций.

El Greco y la pintura moderna

24 de junio – 5 octubre 2014
www.museodelprado.es

La exposición El Greco y la pintura moderna, coorganizada con Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), mostrará la importancia que el redescubrimiento de la figura del Greco tuvo para el desarrollo de la pintura de los siglos XIX y XX. Una selección de veinticinco obras del maestro cretense junto a más de setenta obras modernas pondrá de manifiesto la complejidad y riqueza de la influencia del Greco en un periodo de transformaciones radicales de la pintura.

La exposición trazará un recorrido que partirá de la consideración del Greco en el siglo XIX a través de artistas como Manet y Cézanne, así como de otros destacados pintores españoles del último tercio del siglo. La influencia, que fue capital, en Picasso y el cubismo, se revisará en la siguiente sección. Luego se presentará la relación con los expresionismos centroeuropeos, entre ellos Kokoschka, Beckmann, y con el surrealismo. Otra sección estudiará su influencia en América, especialmente en Orozco, Matta y Pollock. Para finalizar se mostrará la resonancia de la figura del Greco en las angustiadas figuraciones de los años cincuenta y sesenta a través de artistas como Bacon, Giacometti y Saura.

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938

June 24 - October 13, 2014
http://www.artic.edu

Seeking to make “everyday objects shriek aloud,” or make the familiar unfamiliar, Belgian artist René Magritte created some of the 20th century’s most extraordinary—and indelible—images. This exhibition, the first major museum show to focus on the artist’s most profoundly inventive and experimental years, features over 100 paintings, collages, drawings, and objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, that trace the birth of the themes and strategies Magritte would go on to use throughout his long, productive career—and which make his paintings so unforgettable today.

The exhibition concludes with a remarkable group of works Magritte made in London and in Brussels between 1937 and 1938, with a particular emphasis on the commissions he completed for the eccentric British collector Edward James, including the Art Institute’s own Time Transfixed. The show’s chronological endpoint, 1938, marks both a historically and biographically significant moment: it was just before the outbreak of World War II and the year Magritte delivered an important retrospective account of what had made him a Surrealist painter.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875)

24th June 2014 - 30th September 2014

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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, the son of a stonemason and a lace maker from Valenciennes, built an exceptional career closely linked to the “fête impériale” of Napoleon III’s reign.  Standing out vividly in the artistic milieu of his time, he was also one of the most perfect embodiments of the Romantic idea of the artist cursed by the brevity and brilliance of his career, concentrated into around fifteen years, and by the violence and the passion of an unrelenting struggle with subjects chosen or commissioned (the Pavillon de Flore in the Louvre, The Dance for Charles Garnier’s Opera).

The sculptor of smiling subjects, painter of movement, outstanding portraitist, familiar artist of the Cour des Tuileries, attentive observer of the realities of street life and also a sensitive admirer of Michelangelo, Carpeaux was constantly immersed in sombre melancholy, using broad brushstrokes from his earliest days, for the tragedy of Ugolin eating his own children, and, later, for the ghostly flashes of a religious feeling imbued with anxiety, the violence of shipwreck scenes and for sorrowful self-portraits.

The first retrospective since 1975 devoted to his works as a sculptor, painter and illustrator, this exhibition will explore the varied work of a major figure of French sculpture in the second half of the 19th century who, according to Alexandre Dumas, was “more alive than life itself”.

In the Company of Cats and Dogs

June 22 - September 21, 2014
http://blantonmuseum.org

In the Company of Cats and Dogs provides a multifaceted look at our relationship with felines and canines through the ages. On view at the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin from June 22 – September 21, 2014, the exhibition features over 160 works by masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Francisco Goya, Paul Gauguin, Takahashi (Shotei) Hiroaki, Pablo Picasso, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Hopper, Louise Bourgeois, and others. Examining the ever-changing roles of cats and dogs and our enduring fascination with them, the presentation includes Egyptian sculpture, Chinese and Pre- Columbian ceramics, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and prints, books, photographs, and paintings from the Blanton’s collection and those of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; the Menil Collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San Antonio Museum of Art; Yale Center for British Art; the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and of the private collections of UT alumni and others.

“This exhibition sheds new light on a subject artists have depicted throughout history – our relationships with cats and dogs,” states Blanton Director Simone Wicha

THE WORLD IS AN APPLE: THE STILL LIFES OF PAUL CÉZANNE

22nd June 2014 - 22nd September 2014
www.barnesfoundation.org

Premiering at the Barnes Foundation, this tightly curated exhibition charts a thematic and chronological sweep of Cézanne’s still life painting, showing how the ‘Master of Aix’ recast the genre and set it on a new course.   Traversing the breadth of his still life production—from early paintings engaging with past masters to very late works unique to him, and treating the range of themes, including apples, flowers and skulls—this select gathering of paintings offers viewers a brief reappraisal of Cézanne’s monumental achievement in this genre.

Cézanne’s art remains central to enduring concerns of art making, touching on materiality and representation, as well as on the interpretive foundations of art history itself. Comprised of more than 15 Cézanne masterpieces, in addition to a clutch of works by related artists, The World is An Apple: The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne seeks to render succinctly the richness and novelty of still lifes created by an artist of rare intuition and unerring aesthetic sensibility.

Alexander Calder in the Rijksmuseum Summer Sculpture Garden

21st June 2014 - 5th October 2014
www.rijksmuseum.nl

Around 20 monumental sculptures and mobiles by American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) will be displayed in the museum's new 'outdoor gallery'.

In collaboration with the Calder Foundation, large scale sculptures from museums and private collections across Europe and the USA will be shown in the open air.

The exhibition is the second in a series of annual international sculpture displays which will be presented in the Rijksmuseum’s gardens over the next four years, made possible with funding from the BankGiro Lottery and an anonymous donor.

Рубенс, Ван Дейк, Йорданс… Шедевры фламандской живописи из собраний Князя Лихтенштейнского

20.06.2014 – 19.10.2014
http://www.arts-museum.ru

ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина продолжает знакомить публику с шедеврами мирового искусства из собраний крупнейших музеев Европы и США. Коллекция Князя Лихтенштейнского по праву считается одной из лучших среди музеев мира. Именно здесь хранятся хрестоматийно известные произведения Питера Пауля Рубенса, Антониса ван Дейка, Жака (Якоба) Йорданса и их современников.

На выставке будет показано 55 картин кисти выдающихся фламандских живописцев XVII века. Они во всем блеске демонстрируют различные грани таланта этих замечательных живописцев. Выставку откроют картины Питера Пауля Рубенса (всего 19 произведений), исполненные в разные периоды творческой деятельности мастера и относящиеся к различным жанрам. Прежде всего, это портреты, крупноформатные произведения на религиозные и мифологические сюжеты. В их числе всемирно известные шедевры «Портрет Клары Серены, дочери художника» и «Нахождение младенца Эрихтония». Большой интерес для зрителей представляет одновременный показ хорошо известной картины Рубенса «Марс и Рея Сильвия», эскиза к ней и вытканной по нему шпалеры. Они позволяют наблюдать развитие авторского замысла от камерного эскиза к большеформатной композиции.

Making Colour

18 June – 7 September 2014
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk

‘Making Colour’ will provide visitors with a unique and exceptional opportunity to journey through the history of colour, by exploring the wide range of materials that are used to create colour in paintings and other works of art.

‘Making Colour’ is the first exhibition of its kind in Britain. Each room will be dedicated to a particular colour from the spectrum, as well as a room devoted to gold and silver.

‘Making Colour’ will draw on the expertise of the Gallery’s Scientific Department and the spectacular range of paintings in the Collection. The exhibition will help visitors to understand the history of the use of colour over a 700-year period – from the early Renaissance to the Impressionist movement.

Visitors will explore the origins and developments of the physical materials themselves, from natural and mineral products to manufactured pigments. The exhibition also examines the material problems faced by artists in achieving their painterly aims; the breakthroughs they struggled for and the technical challenges they faced.

Several major national cultural institutions have loaned works for the display – which has painting at its heart but also includes minerals, textiles, ceramics and glass. These form a rich and diverse exhibition, which illustrates the importance of colour in the way that creators of works of art experience and represent the world.

Puro semplice e naturale. nell'arte a Firenze tra Cinque e Seicento

17-06-2014 - 02-11-2014
http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/

Giorgio Vasari nelle pagine delle Vite (1568) assegnava un ruolo fondativo nella ‘rinascita’ dell’arte moderna ai fiorentini Andrea del Sarto e fra’ Bartolomeo, affiancandoli ai triumviri Leonardo, Raffaello e Michelangelo. Eccellente e di elevato ingegno, la loro produzione, incardinata sull’esercizio costante del disegno, si segnalava per onestà d’invenzione e perfetta imitazione della natura, dalla carne alla vivezza degli affetti.

Oltre un secolo dopo Filippo Baldinucci nelle Notizie de’ professori del disegno (1681-1728), confermando il dettato vasariano, vedeva nella fedeltà ai valori espressi da quei capofila di primo Cinquecento la strategia necessaria per superare l’impasse manierista, e al tempo stesso per istituire un linguaggio moderno, aderente alle nuove esigenze spirituali proprie del Concilio di Trento. In questo quadro il registro neorinascimentale di Santi di Tito e di Jacopo da Empoli, insistentemente sottolineato dallo storiografo, costituiva la ragione essenziale per riconoscere a questi due maestri il ruolo di riformatori delle arti figurative a Firenze sullo scadere del Cinquecento. La strenua difesa, al limite dell’autarchia, di una tradizione fiorentina fondata sulla perfetta misura e serena espressività, intimamente confidenziale, interessata alla resa accostante del dato quotidiano, in una semplicità di schemi talora arcaizzante, dalla tecnica pittorica nitida e compatta, avrebbe trovato ulteriori paladini fino alla metà del Seicento, in particolare con l’emblematica personalità di Lorenzo Lippi.

Faberge: Jeweller to the Tzars

14th June 2014 - 5th October 2014

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The most important Fabergé collection outside Russia is coming to Montreal – the exclusive Canadian venue. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Russian jeweller Carl Fabergé (1846-1920) created precious objects for the Czars Alexander III and Nicholas II. The name of this firm became synonymous with elegant craftsmanship in luxury jewellery, and is also associated with the final days of the Russian imperial family, a tragic story that marked the start of the twentieth century.

The exhibition features some 240 objects, including four of the most famous Easter eggs commissioned by the Romanovs. Enamelled picture frames, clocks, gold cigarette cases and knobs for walking canes, rock-crystal flowers, caskets and brooches encrusted with rubies continue to fascinate us as they did when they first appeared in the windows of the Fabergé stores in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and London.

An exhibition organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for the Montreal presentation.

Mondrian and his Studios

6th June 2014 - 21st September 2014
www.tate.org.uk

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was one of the most important contributors to the development of abstract art at the beginning of the 20th century. This brand new exhibition, which commemorates the 70th anniversary of the artist’s death, provides fresh insights into Mondrian’s practice and explores his relationship with architecture and urbanism.

Mondrian and his Studios considers not only Mondrian’s importance in the field of abstraction, but also the relationship between his iconic artworks and the space around them. Mondrian’s studios in Amsterdam, Paris and New York all reflected different stages of the painter’s way of thinking and of his intentions.

The exhibition focuses on this connection between painting and architecture after Mondrian’s move to Paris in 1911, with a fascinating reconstruction of his studio at 26 Rue du Depart, Paris being a major highlight of the display. Visitors can explore a life-size replica of the studio, and physically immerse themselves in Mondrian’s world and work.

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Arshile Gorky and the Collection

From 5 Jun 14 to 31 May 15
http://www.gulbenkian.pt

This exhibition of some works of the CAM's Collection is structured around four major themes: Portraits, Still Lifes, Surrealism and Abstractionism. Various works by Portuguese artists such as Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Mário Eloy, Vieira da Silva, Mário Cesariny and Paula Rego engage in dialogue with the works of Arshile Gorky (c.1904–1948), an artist of Armenian origins who emigrated to the United States in 1920.

Gorky developed a style of painting that allied abstractionism to surrealism and was an early trailblazer of post-war American Abstract Expressionism.

Первая мировая война. 1914-1918

04 июня - 11 августа 2014
http://www.rusmuseum.ru

Выставка посвящена памяти участников и жертв Первой мировой войны 1914-1918 годов. Люди тех лет, недавно отметившие столетие войны 1812 года, называли начавшуюся мировую войну Великой и Второй Отечественной. Сотни русских художников, искусствоведов и музейных работников принимали участие в сражениях; а те, кто не ушел на фронт - рисовальщики, живописцы и скульпторы - включались в борьбу с врагом средствами изобразительного искусства. Они участвовали в работе Военно-художественного отряда и двух Трофейных комиссий, создавали картины и плакаты, призванные поднять боевой дух соотечественников, изображали сражения и их героев, рисовали карикатуры для журналов.

Русский музей первым из художественных музеев России организует выставку, посвященную войне 1914-1918 гг. На ней представлено около 250 произведений из собрания музея - картины и рисунки К.С.Петрова-Водкина, В.И.Шухаева. Н.К.Рериха, П.Н.Филонова, карикатуры Н.В.Ремизова (Ре-Ми), гравюры Н.С.Гончаровой и Н.В.Розановой, лубки К.С.Малевича, В.В.Маяковского, Е.И.Нарбута, О.А.Шарлеманя, плакаты К.А.Коровина, А.Е.Архипова, Л.О.Пастернака, И.А.Владимирова и других мастеров, а также документальные фотографии военных лет.

Выставка организована при поддержке Благотворительного фонда «Система»