All Things Art & Photography
Working in the vein of the abstract expressionist’s but mostly known for his work with crushed auto bodies John Chamberlain was a master sculptor who could turn the ugly into the sublime in a monumental way. Watch him work in a wheelchair on one of his last exhibitions.
Survey via The Guggenheim
“How to explain the sudden renown of 90-year-old artist León Ferrari? Few knew this Argentinean figure before he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial in 2007. When his MoMA exhibition was announced in 2009 (a retrospective he weirdly shared with the late Brazilian conceptualist Mira Schendel), news of the show elicited as many blank stares as it did words of praise. So how did the work of a mostly forgotten South American gadfly go from last century’s oblivion to this season’s revelation?
Ferrari’s story is, among other things, part of the larger narrative of the making and unmaking of artistic influence—especially as it applies to the world’s two most influential museums, namely MOMA and the Tate. Another artist whose career, like Marina Abramovic’s, announces the expansion of these buttoned-down institutions into new arenas of art history, Ferrari and his newfound popularity effectively illustrate the most recent reinvention of the worldwide modernist canon.
via Village Voice Article Wednesday, Feb 9 2011
León Ferrari exhibition at MoMA (with Mira Schendel)
His website containing all his work is here
One of the few sculptors to have been Knighted by the Queen of England, Sir Anthony Caro at 89 shows he still has the goods…
“One of the most important things about sculpture is the way in which the viewer is invited to look at it. Whether she/he looks up, walks around it, whether it corkscrews like a Michelangelo or moves around like a Brâncuşi—the way in which it would be seen was governing how I approached the sculpture for Park Avenue”.
—Anthony Carovia Anthony Caro – June 6 – August 23, 2013 – Gagosian Gallery.
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Ironically Mr. Penone is known as the leading figure of the Arte Povera movement – meaning “poor art,” but there is nothing poor about these massive bronze sculptures that cost a small fortune to produce and install in this very beautiful exhibition at the Palace Versailles.
From 11 June to 31 October 2013, the Palace of Versailles hosts the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone for a major exhibition of contemporary art, Penone Versailles, presented mostly in the French formal gardens and also in the Palace itself.
The 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion annual commission is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the youngest architect to accept this invitation to design one of the most famous temporary structure commissions in the world
Sou Fujimoto: The Serpentine Pavilion
