10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes The Lost Paintings Series by Taner Ceylan which is an exhibition exploring the different facets of orientalism, a set of twelve drawings especially created by Richard Serra for the Courtauld Gallery in London, an exhibition covering the whole career of Lawrence Watson who photographed the most well-known musicians in the world, Urs Fischer鈥檚 impressive installations at Gagosian Gallery in Rome, and Portraits of People and Animals by the Austrian artist, Oskar Kokoschka.
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17 Sep, 2013
In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes The Lost Paintings Series by Taner Ceylan which is an exhibition exploring the different facets of orientalism, a set of twelve drawings especially created by Richard Serra for the Courtauld Gallery in London, an exhibition covering the whole career of Lawrence Watson who photographed the most well-known musicians in the world, Urs Fischer’s impressive installations at Gagosian Gallery in Rome, and Portraits of People and Animals by the Austrian artist, Oskar Kokoschka.
Taner Ceylan: The Lost Paintings Series
at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 27th Street
New York, NY, USA
Sep 18, 13 - Oct 26, 13
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Taner Ceylan The Lost Paintings Series, 18 September – 26 October, 2013 at 515 West 27th Street, New York. This will be Ceylan’s first exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery. Well-known for his provocative, emotional realism paintings, Ceylan began The Lost Paintings Series as a contemporary exploration of the Orientalist gaze in all its facets. read more...
Paola Pivi: ok, you are better than me,so what?
at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, New York
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Sep 18, 13 - Oct 26, 13
Galerie Perrotin will inaugurate its New York space with an exhibition by the audacious and playful Italian artist Paola Pivi. Pivi creates artworks that are disorienting and simultaneously poetic. Though formally different, her work pushed the limit of what can be done in this world as an artwork. read more...
T. J. Wilcox: In the Air
at Whitney Museum of American Art
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Sep 19, 13 - Feb 09, 14
For T. J. Wilcox: In the Air, the New York-based artist has created a remarkable new panoramic film installation, which will fill up most of the second floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Here Wilcox revisits the “cinema in-the-round” panoramic presentations that appeared at the dawn of film history in the late 19th century, bringing the concept up to date with state-of-the-art technology to create an immersive cinematic environment. Wilcox’s work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven from fact, myth, memory, associations, and the bombardment of information we all receive on a moment-to-moment basis. read more...
Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld
at The Courtauld Gallery, Courtauld Institute of Art
London, UK
Sep 19, 13 - Jan 12, 14
Richard Serra: Drawings for The Courtauld presents twelve of Serra’s most recent drawings, created especially for this installation at The Courtauld Gallery. Rising to prominence on the New York art scene more than forty years ago, Serra is now celebrated internationally, notably for his groundbreaking sculptures and for his radical approach to drawing. Serra’s Drawings for The Courtauld are extraordinarily powerful works. read more...
Lawrence Watson: Pop Portraits
at The Lightbox
Surrey, UK
Sep 21, 13 - Dec 01, 13
Lawrence Watson is a leading photographer who has worked with some of the world’s most renowned musicians and bands. This exhibition will span his 30-year-career in the music business and will feature some of the most well-known musicians in the world, including Oasis, Pulp, Morrissey, Snoop Dogg, Pet Shop Boys, David Bowie and Grace Jones. read more...
Anna Hallin: Interplay
at Reykjavik Art Museum, Ásmundarsafn
Reykjavík, Iceland
Sep 21, 13 - Jan 05, 14
In her exhibition Interplay at the Ásmundur Sveinsson Sculpture Museum, Swedish-Icelandic artist Anna Hallin explores the threads that form so many connections in the history of art, between different countries, cultures and periods, and between one artist and another. In this exhibition Anna works with a kind of interplay between her own works and the sculptures of Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893-1982), while also examining Ásmundur’s links with Sweden and the work of Carl Milles, who was Ásmundur’s tutor for several years in Stockholm. read more...
Urs Fischer
at Gagosian Gallery, Rome
Rome, Italy
Sep 18, 13 - Oct 26, 13
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of Urs Fischer's work in Rome. Fischer's large-scale installations and sculptures posit genres traditionally evoked in painting—portraits, landscapes, nudes, and still lifes—in a profusion of rich, often impermanent sculptural materials. Whether utilizing comestibles such as bread or fruit, or other delicate substances such as candle wax, Fischer mines the literal and metaphorical potential of materials to introduce a fourth dimension—time—into the work. read more...
Oskar Kokoschka: Portraits of People and Animals
at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sep 21, 13 - Jan 19, 14
Gustav Klimt called him ‘the greatest talent of the younger generation’. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the work of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), the master painter who has inspired generations of artists. This major retrospective brings together Kokoschka’s confrontational portraits more than half a century after his work was last exhibited in the Netherlands. read more...
Art Moscow 2013
at Art Moscow, International Art Fair
Moscow, Russia
Sep 18, 13 - Sep 22, 13
Moscow will host the 17th edition of International Art Fair ART MOSCOW at the Central House of Artists from September 18th - 22nd, 2013. ART MOSCOW is a meeting point for art dealers, gallerists, museum and cultural institution representatives, curatThis year is special for ART MOSCOW – the fair will be held in a completely renewed format. Organizers listened to the criticism of previous years about the art quality and the contemporary art market in Russia and decided to close the fair in its traditional format. read more...
Gigi Scaria: Dust
at The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Melbourne, Australia
Sep 18, 13 - Feb 02, 14
Dust is an exhibition of new work produced especially for the Ian Potter Museum of Art. Displayed over three galleries, Dust takes as its subject the geography of the Rann of Kutch and the Thar Desert, located on India’s border with Pakistan. In April and May this year, Scaria travelled to this far western part of India to experience the landscape on foot. The photographs installed in the ground floor galleries record the seasonally affected terrain of salt marshes, quarries, distant ‘islands’ of vegetation, and endless horizons. read more...