Since 2001, Duda Penteado has been considering the consequences of September 11, 2001, in the face of the increasing globalization developing since the 1980s. Beauty for Ashes represents his re-consideration of some of the key elements of this topic, six years later. For this exhibit, held in the Project Gallery, the artist worked for three weeks on a colossal wall drawing for the longest walls in the exhibition space. Articles, notes, images, preparatory sketches, personal logs and drawings that were critical to the creation of the final piece will be included in the show.
A resident of Jersey City, Brazilian artist Penteado works in what has been called “the modern tradition of the arts of Brazil.” In addition to painting, Penteado’s artistic productions include printmaking and sculpture made from found objects. He modeled his own reaction to 9/11 on Picasso’s Guernica, which was Picasso’s reaction to the bombing of a Spanish Village during the Spanish Civil War.
Jersey City Museum
350 Montgomery St
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Telephone: (201) 413-0303
Web site:www.jerseycitymuseum.org
Rafael Montañez Ortíz
Archaeological Find #3, 1961
Burned mattress destruction on wooden backing
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gift of Constance Kane, 1963
Raphael Montañez Ortíz wrote his first Destructivism manifesto in 1962. Subsequently, three themes have pervaded his works throughout his career: dualities, transcendence and ritual.
Born in New York in 1953, Ortiz made his mark in the art world in the late 1950s as one of the central figures in destructivism, an international reaction to the social detachment of the postwar avant-garde. In 1969, Ortiz co-founded El Museo del Barrio, the first Latino art museum in the U.S. His works include painting, sculpture, installation, film and performance. Although he and his works were prominent through the 1960s, after that his activities became obscured by other movements.
This retrospective includes works from 1970s to the present and redresses the artist’s continued relevance to art history and for the twenty-first century.
Jersey City Museum
80 Grand St.
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Telephone: (201) 332-5200
Web site: www.jerseycitymuseum.org
Armando Reverón (Venezuelan, 1889-1954)
Light Behind My Arbor
Luz tras mi enramada
1926
Oil on canvas, 18 7/8 x 25 1/2″ (48 x 64.7 cm)
Collection Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas
Photograph by Francisco Kochen
© 2007 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
On view at MoMa is the museum’s first showcase for celebrated Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón (1889–1954). The show features figurative and landscape paintings, drawings, life-sized dolls and other sculptural works, as well as many objects created for Reverón’s home in Macuto, in the Caribbean.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
Telephone: (212) 708-9400
Web site: www.moma.org
A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993
Silver dye bleach transparency in light box
7 ft. 3 3/16 in. x 12 ft. 4 7/16 in. (229 x 377 cm)
Tate, London. Purchased with the assistance of the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation and from the National Art Collections Fund
© 2007 Jeff Wall
MoMA’s retrospective of work by Canadian photographer Jeff Wall (b.1946) surveys the artist’s career from the late 1970s to the present . The 41 works include Wall’s major lightbox photographs.
The exhibition catalogue has an essay by Peter Galassi and an interview with Wall by James Rondeau, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The next stop for this traveling exhibit is the Art Institute of Chicago. In fall 2007, the show makes its final stop at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
Telephone: (212) 708-9400
Web site: www.moma.org
Summer
Mucha’s studio
Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) created lush, decorative and highly seductive images that captured the philosophy of Art Nouveau as few others could. Mucha’s style appeals to the broadest of audiences. His designs are icons of their time and continue to draw enthusiastic admirers. Posters, note cards, tote bags, t-shirts and much more sport reproductions of his graceful mademoiselles.
Sweden’s Dansmuseet has on view the largest selection of Mucha’s work to be seen in the country. This exhibition is a collaboration between the Mucha Foundation in association with the Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki.
Dansmuseet
Gustav Adolfs torg 22–24
Stockholm, Sweden
Telephone: 08-441 76 50
Web site: www.dansmuseet.nu
Čiurlionis, Sonata of Stars
The works of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) are being presented for the first time in Denmark at the GL. Holtegaard Gallery. More than 80 works from the M.K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas have traveled to Denmark for the show. The artist’s works have not been seen outside Lithuania to this extent since 2002, when the Musée d’Orsay in Paris staged its Čiurlionis exhibit.
Čiurlionis is Lithuania’s national artist. The first of ten children, the young Čiurlionis showed extraordinary musical talent. His father was a church organist. Later, Čiurlionis studied music at the conservatory in Warsaw, Poland. His painting was seen by his family as something of a hobby, and it wasn’t until he was a student in Leipzig, Germany, that he devoted more time to developing his talents as a painter.
The artist’s works and his commitment to developing the native arts of his homeland sparked a resurgence of the arts in Lithuania. Today, Čiurlionis is a symbol of national unity and culture.
GL. Holtegaard Gallery
Attemosevej 170
Holte, Denmark
Telephone (45) 4580 0878
Web site: www.holtegaard.org
The IDEA PROJECT is a collaborative venture between IDEA arts + society magazine, IDEA Publishing House and Studio Protokoll, located in Cluj, Romania. Launched in 1999 as Balkon, the magazine functions as a forum to discuss events and organizations promoting the arts in Romania and around the world. Published in English and Romanian, IDEA is issued tri-annually by IDEA Publishing House.
This exhibit highlights artistic projects championed in the pages of IDEA as catalysts for critical reflection on contemporary arts and social issues.
The show opens on March 29 with a reception and panel discussion at 7 p.m. Panelists include IDEA director Timotei Nadasan and editors Adrian T. Sirbu, Alex Cistelecan and Attila Tordai, who also serves as curator of Studio Protokoll.
Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
200 East 38th St.
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 687-0180
Web site: www.icrny.org
The Hollywood cinema is Sola’s preoccupation and artistic currency. Specifically, by examining and turning Hollywood’s construction of the male identity on its head, Sola comments on an firmly rooted and developed thread in the American mythos.
Many of Sola’s performances portray and exploit the stock-in-trade stereotypes created and perpetuated by the film industry.
The artist’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City; InSite 2000 in San Diego and Mexico; the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; and the Berkley Museum of Art/Pacific Film Archives.
This solo exhibition of Joe Sola’s works includes video, watercolors and a performance at the opening reception.
Opening reception: March 3, 5-8 p.m.
p|m Gallery
1159 Dundas Street East.
Toronto, Canada
Telephone: (416) 937-3862
Web site: www.pmgallery.ca
Miguel Angel, Golden Breasts, Gilded Terra-cotta
Twenty contemporary artists interpret The Sensual Nude. With this exhibition, Limner Gallery continues a tradition popular since ancient times–the portrayal of the human nude. Various media represented will include digital photography, painting, drawing, graphics and sculpture.
Reception: Saturday, March 3, 6-8pm
Limner Gallery,
123 Warren Street,
Hudson, NY 12534
Phone: 518-828-2343
Web: www.slowart.com
An array of images and words arranged on unstretched canvases are the hallmarks of Jeff Gibbons’s paintings. Sometimes the ideas he works with are played out on small canvases, but more often his works are large.
In recent years, Gibbons has developed the idea of walk-in paintings. These will be exhibiting in the gallery’s adjacent project space. Made from groups of large canvases fixed to simple wooden structures, these walk-in works literally form their own environment and enclose the viewer within the created space.
In response to what he sees as the increasing difficulty that painters, or any artist, has to make work that is not redundant, Gibbons works within what one might call parenthesis, or the space-in-between..
Art Space Gallery
Michael Richardson Contemporary Art
84 St.Peter’s Street, London N1 8JS
Telephone (44) 20 7359 7002
Web site:www.artspacegallery.co.uk
