Ai Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems. "Humanity" includes key works from all phases of the artist's career and examines in detail the aspect of humanity and artistic responsibility in the oeuvre of Ai Weiwei.
The catalogue sheds light on concepts such as surveillance, censorship, human rights, freedom of expression, human displacement, radical responsibility, the power of beauty, and the truth of poetry. Guided by these thoughts, it offers new perspectives to understand the relevance of Ai Weiwei's artistic language. It will encompass a wide range of art-historical paradigms (such as the readymade) alongside more radical activist strategies, all aimed at exploring the extremes of the contemporary human condition on a global scale.
Exhibition details: Abertina Modern, Mar 13 - June 26, 2022.
À l'occasion du cinquantenaire de sa naissance, la Fondation Beyeler consacre une vaste rétrospective à Jean-Michel Basquiat (9/05 - 5/09/2010) à travers près d'une centaine de toiles, travaux sur papier et objets provenant de musées et de collections particulières du monde entier. Ses oeuvres peuplées de personnages semblant tout droit sortis de bandes dessinées, de silhouettes squelettiques, d'objets quotidiens bizarres et de slogans poétiques, frappent par leur force et par la somptuosité de leurs couleurs.
Dans l'oeuvre de Basquiat, l'autoportrait occupe une place centrale et représente l'un des caractères fondamentaux de sa pratique. Ce livre propose plus de cinquante autoportraits de l'artiste en plus de la série de portraits d'hommes afro-américaines, permettant ainsi d'analyser le travail de Basquiat du point de vue de l'identité et de l'introspection, mais aussi du racisme et des préjugés sociétaux.
Avec une centaine d'oeuvres, la galerie Hauser & Wirth de Zürich compare les travaux de Schwitters, Miro et Arp (11/06/2016-18/09/2016). Ce catalogue présente l'engagement des trois artistes envers les formes géométriques plutôt qu'organiques et leur volonté commune " d'assassiner la peinture" en se tournant vers le collage et l'assemblage, plus à même selon eux d'accomplir la révolution du Cubisme.
L'homme que nous vous présentons aujourd'hui n'est pas celui que vous croyez.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) est connu exclusivement pour une seule oeuvre : le Cri. Travail certes emblématique, mais si peu représentatif de l'ensemble de son oeuvre. La notoriété exagérée de ce tableau a eu pour conséquence d'occulter la réelle dimension et le vrai message de l'artiste.
Il est étonnant de constater si tôt dans l'histoire de l'art un artiste se détacher de toutes les conventions auxquelles nous avaient habitué les artistes et les mouvements précédents. Il est prodigieux de remarquer dès les années 1880 Munch s'attaquer aux couches de couleur, de le voir véritablement labourer la surface picturale ou encore laisser son oeuvre sous la pluie et la neige, transférer des photographies et des films muets à l'intérieur de ses toiles et de ses oeuvres graphiques. Surprenant encore la transgression avec laquelle il supprime les frontières entre les supports et les techniques, dans ses gravures, dessins, peintures, sculptures, collages, photographies et films. Il s'inscrit dans la lignée de William Turner et de Gustave Courbet, Il est le chaînon manquant entre les artistes tels que Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Dubuffet et Jackson Pollock dans l'histoire du Modernisme. C'est par ces dépassements sans limite pour l'époque et surtout par son attachement aux qualités matérielles de la peinture et des supports que Munch laisse une oeuvre bouleversante d'une force incomparable.
Jean-Michel Basquiat-artist and art world provocateur-took New York City by storm with his powerful and complex works that relentlessly engaged with charged sociopolitical issues, including race, police brutality, and structural inequity. In this important volume, devoted to an exhibition at the Brant Foundation in their newly opened Manhattan outpost featuring the artist's key works, Basquiat's art returns to its East Village roots, contextualized for the first time in decades in the very neighborhood that served as one of his greatest inspirations.
Dieter Buchhart, noted Basquiat scholar and curator, brings together one hundred of the artist's most important works, focusing on the best examples of the many subjects that informed Basquiat's work, from jazz, anatomy, sports figures, comics, classical literature, the African diaspora, and art history. The exhibition partially restages three of the artist's critical early shows, including an exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings of heads at Robert Miller Gallery; his most important canvases from Gagosian Gallery's 1982 show in Los Angeles; and Basquiat's solo show at Fun Gallery in the East Village. Buchhart also considers in-depth the artist's so-called stretcher bar paintings, in which the normally hidden wooden supports for stretched canvases are exposed, works that have yet to be explored at length by scholars. In so doing, Buchhart offers a critical assessment of the enduring importance and legacy of the artist's work.
Catalogue de l'exposition itinérante Keith Haring The Political Line, qui a débuté son périple au MAM à Paris en 2013, pour aller ensuite au De Young Museum de San Francisco, à la Kunsthalle de Munich, avant de terminer à la Kunsthal à Rotterdam en 2016.
Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series of notebooks from the early to mid-1980s, never before exhibited, Basquiat combined text and images reflecting his engagement with the countercultures of graffiti and hip-hop in New York City, as well as pop culture and world events. Filled with handwritten texts, poems, pictograms, and drawings, many of them iconic images that recur throughout his artwork-teepees, crowns, skeleton-like silhouettes, and grimacing masks-and these notebooks reveal much about the artist's creative process and the importance of the written word in his aesthetic. With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his critical place in contemporary art history.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy-not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages he encoded around political, social, racial, and cultural issues.
This exciting book shows how Basquiat used an intricate network of signs and symbols to challenge the very system that made him a darling of the art world. It traces his inspiration from cartoons, children's drawings, and advertising as well as his own Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage; discusses the influence of African-American, African, and Aztec cultural histories; and shows how Basquiat incorporated into his work classical themes and contemporary icons-from athletes to musicians. What becomes clear is how, even as a young man, Basquiat had a profound understanding of the artist's role in art history, and of his position as a young Black artist in a world of racism, suppression and social injustice.
This book helps readers decode Basquiat's unique lingua franca, an intoxicating body of work brimming with social commentary that was in turns incisive, angry, comic, hip, and heartbreaking, and that remains powerful and meaningful today.
Publiée à l'occasion de l'exposition «Egon Schiele 1890-1918» présentée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, cette monographie retrace le parcours d'un artiste qui compte parmi les plus grands dessinateurs du XXe siècle. Auteur d'une oeuvre intime et sans concession, Schiele a réalisé au cours de sa brève carrière quelque trois cents toiles et plusieurs milliers de dessins. Faisant évoluer son style, il passe de la ligne ornementale de ses débuts - héritée de la Sécession viennoise - à la ligne fragmentée de ses dernières années - reftet du traumatisme de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ses dessins montrent les corps dans leur vérité crue. Ils sont l'expression des tourments intérieurs de l'artiste et d'une quête existentielle, jamais assouvie.
Textes de Dieter Buchhart, Jean Clair, Alessandra Comini et Jane Kallir.
Réédition brochée pour ce catalogue de l?exposition de la Barbican Art Gallery, qui avait eu lieu à l?hiver 2017. Artiste touche-à-tout, Basquiat a pratiqué le collage, la musique, les graffitis et la performance puis la peinture. Cette rétrospective retrace son itinéraire marqué par des influences multiples, du jazz au street art en passant par le cinéma hollywoodien.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York City was financially and socially bankrupt, but the art and music scene was flourishing. During these years, the downtown New York music scene - no wave, hip-hop, disco funk and club culture - shaped Jean-Michel Basquiat as both a musician and an artist. This catalog for a traveling exhibition explores how Basquiat's painting has parallels in his music (sampling, cut-up, rapping), and takes a new look at his production as a writer and a poet in light of his connections with the then-emerging hip-hop culture. This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalog of rarely seen photographs and images sheds new light on Basquiat as a musician, exploring how his art and music are related, and how they reflect on his identity as a Black artist in the United States, the downtown New York music scene, and contemporary culture.
Après la première exposition au musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris qui, en 2010, avait révélé au grand public français l'artiste Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), un des peintres les plus marquants du xxe siècle, la Fondation Louis Vuitton organise à l'octobre prochain une nouvelle grande exposition rétrospective consacrée à cette icône de l'art contemporain. Miroir de l'exposition, ce catalogue monographique parcourt, de 1980 à 1988, l'ensemble de la carrière du peintre en se concentrant sur une centaine de ses oeuvres les plus décisives.
Ce livre-catalogue compte des ensembles inédits en Europe, des travaux essentiels et des toiles rarement vues depuis leurs premières présentations du vivant de l'artiste. Le caractère existentiel de la ligne chez Basquiat, comme chez Schiele, est l'un des ?ls conducteurs relevés par Dieter Buchhart, commissaire des deux événements majeurs de la rentrée artistique parisienne.
Hermann Nitsch, born in Vienna in 1938, is a co-founder of Viennese Actionism, and one of the international pioneers of the Performance Art Movement. This Austrian universal artist's world-famous painting actions have made a major contribution to the development of art post 1945.
More than 90 of these painting actions have been staged thus far, the most recent were held at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2021 to accompany a new production of the opera The Valkyrie. Nitsch's 20th painting action took place at the Vienna Secession in 1987 and is the only instance in which the artist's action works have remained fully available. This is probably Nitsch's most important integrated work of this kind. It symbolises his extraordinary artistic development and constitutes an unrepeatable contemporary document which exudes an international radiance.
