From October 9, 2024, Pinault Collection presents a major exhibition dedicated to Arte Povera at the Bourse de Commerce. Between heritage and influence, the exhibition features over 250 historical and contemporary works from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s.
From October 10th, 2024, to February 2nd, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan presents Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation, one of the most extensive and detailed retrospectives dedicated to one of its most important authors. Curated by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori, it offers an innovative perspective with its main narrative focus on the city of Milan, captured in its many facets.
The Drawing Hall, the space that presents contemporary drawing at the centre of its investigation, opens on 4 October with Paradossi dell’abbondanza (Paroxes of Plenty), the solo exhibition by Marzia Migliora curated by Alberto Fiz, on view until 17 November 2024. As it is customary for this space located on the outskirts of the city of Bergamo, the exhibition project focuses on drawing as a fundamental research tool for production in the contemporary visual arts.
Electric Op is the first major exhibition to examine how the Op art of the 1960s and 1970s related to not only industrial machinery, but also the new electronic media of the dawning post-industrial era. At the very moment that Op artists began making works that short-circuit our optical systems, new video and digital technologies began reformatting the nature of images and how we see. Could it be more than coincidental that the undulating lines of Op art resemble electronic video signals, or that its grids suggest the pixilated structure of digital screens? In fact, many Op artists would turn to using these technologies, some as early as the late 1960s, while at the same time, many of the first video and digital artists openly turned to Op art for inspiration. In this way, Op art became more than just the final chapter of modernist geometric abstraction; it was also the first artistic movement of the global Information Age, heralding the transformation of vision from a mode of embodied perception to an algorithmic process executed by the computer systems that produce and process images today.
Gary Hill has tagged the exhibition Loop Through, referring to a singular work as well as being suggestive of a path or circuit from which to experience the selected works.His multimedia installations, performances and video works incorporate a wide range of materials and technologies, along with diverse linguistic concerns. From his early experiments with video and sound to his complex intermedia installations, Hill has consistently challenged conventional notions of perception, engaging audiences with artworks that operate on multiple levels. The installations range from silent projections of “being” and confrontations with physicality, to ambiguities between inside and outside. The works have been strategically placed to reflect all the industrial spaces that constitute the heart of the Art & Design District Palma, with a total of six industrial spaces and eight installations.
Cutting Clouds is a program featuring actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and the impermanent. The title refers to Cloud Scissors, a work conceived in the early 1960s by George Brecht. A few cards dictating places, times, and modes provide the instructions for a possible combined happening, drawing on multiple events: random directions to follow in order to shift creative boundaries through play and experimentation. The tools bequeathed by Brecht thus provide the stimulus for an exercise in imagination. In the liminal spaces of the museum, interventions and works present a potentiality, an idea of incompleteness by adopting various media—video, painting, poetry, graphics, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, and performance. Cutting Clouds reflects the movement of clouds that flow fluidly and take shape through our gaze, changing yet never repeating, thus evolving through operations that aim to trigger potential creativity by appreciating the random, the improvised and the indeterminate.
On stage at the San Carlo Theater in Naples is the one-act tragedy “EleKtra” extracted from Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto from Sophocles' 'Electra'. The sets and costumes are by artist Anselm Kiefer.
A Shadow of a Shadow is a survey of 17 performances created by Kentridge from the late 1980s to the present, from his interpretations of King Ubu—the outrageous protagonist from Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi (1896)—and Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, to Kentridge’s original works such as The Head and the Load (2018) about Africa and Africans in World War I. On view are objects and artworks produced for the development and presentation of these performance projects: drawings, stage backdrops, animations, puppets, props, costumes and installations inspired by theatrical illusions. The title of the exhibition is drawn from a play by thirteenth-century playwright and puppeteer Ibn Daniyal, who fled Iraq to escape the Mongol invasions. Prompted by the sense that the world was ending, Ibn Daniyal created shadow plays that ridiculed authorities and exposed corrupt social mores
Salta art presents a public intervention by renowned Chilean artist Alredo Jaar curated by Espacio Temporal at Sorry Square, Munich as part of Various Others. The exhibit in Sorry Square will present Alfredo Jaar’s installation Chiaroscuro, 2024.
Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker. For over 40 years, he has examined complex sociopolitical issues and the limits and ethics of representation. For the Kesselhaus at the KINDL, he has created a new site-specific installation that reflects on the current state of our world. Drawing from a five-year research project on our ailing planet, the artist presents his critical assessment of the ecological and political crises facing our present and future.
At gres art, the greatness, the loneliness, the myth and the transience of the human being are on display. A journey that begins with the film installation Seven Deaths, which Marina Abramović dedicated to Maria Callas, and unfolds through 30 recent and historical works, including in an osmotic relationship the garden with the soundscape Tree, first presented at the SKC Cultural Center in Belgrade in 1972. Seven Deaths takes the form of an immersive cinematic experience based on seven untimely deaths that Marina Abramović presents on the screen, as a soundtrack seven solos by Maria Callas. The talk will be held on 14th of September at 11:30 am
Moco Museum London has revealed that Healing Frequency, a new performance art exhibition by Marina Abramovic will be its inaugural exhibition opening opening 11th September. Bringing together 12 works from Abramovic’s series Transitory Objects for Human Use, visitors will be invited to come together and participate in a state of unified healing in a new exhibition that marks the opening of Moco Museum’s major new flagship location in London’s Marble Arch.
The Daegu Art Museum is pleased to present Wael Shawky as part of its 2024 International Exchange Exhibition. Wael Shawky is known for his vibrant international career. This marks his first solo exhibition at a public museum in Korea and offers a unique opportunity to appreciate his distinctive artistic vision. Shawky combines film, performance, and storytelling to create comprehensive works of art that encompass various mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and music. His works explore the intersection of fiction and reality, focusing on the question, “How trustworthy is written history?” and presenting new historical perspectives.
For the 2024 edition of Panorama Monferrato we will present a work by Marzia Migliora from September 4 to 8 at the Montemagno Castle.
On Wednesday, july 10, 11:30 a.m. at the LUMA Arles there will be a conversations between William Kentridge and Homi K. Bhabha. The discussion will follow the world premiere of the chamber opera The Great Yes, The Great No, presented this summer at the Grande Halle. Artist William Kentridge and theorist Homi K. Bhabha, one of the leading thinkers on postcolonialism, will discuss the major themes that run through Kentridge's work, including the connections between surrealism and the literary movement of Negritude, as well as migration and anti-colonial struggles of the World War II era.
This evening will feature a unique series of animations and films hand selected by the artist to illuminate his work and methodology. Introduced and each one contextualized by William Kentridge himself the evening is full of wild possibilities. With support from the LUMA Foundation. THU 04 JULY 2024 21H45
The by now customary dialogue with the contemporary is entrusted to the work "Paradoxes of Abundance #51 (big wave)", 2023, by Marzia Migliora, part of a cycle of drawings that the artist has created in recent years and that investigate the relationship between food production, commodity and surplus value of the capitalist model and the exploitation of human, animal and natural resources.
William Kentridge will debut at LUMA Arles this summer, the exhibition Je n’attends plus (I am Not Waiting Any Longer) presents a group of major works, some of which have not been seen in Europe before. Dealing with issues of migration, oppression, racial relations, the transmission of history, and the role of the artist in a society under duress, the exhibition brings together a remarkable body of experimental and performative work.
