museum kunst palast

BONJOUR RUSSIA
French and Russian Masterpieces
1870-1925 from Moscow and St. Petersburg

museum kunst palast
Ehrenhof 4-5, 40479
Düsseldorf, Germany
info@museum-kunst-palast.de

http://www.bonjour-russland.com
http://www.museum-kunst-palast.com

The museum kunst palast, Duesseldorf, with the support of E.ON AG, presents from September 15 in 2007 until January 6 in 2008 a unique show featuring outstanding works of Russian and
French modern art.

For this exhibition, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, more than 120 masterpieces from the collections of four principal Russian museums — the State Hermitage and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as the State Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow — will be shown together for the first time in Germany. Since it is the main sponsor as well as being a company whose relations to Russia go back many years, E.ON was able to be of great assistance in making this unique exhibition a success.

Additional exhibition venues will take place from January 26, 2008 to April 18, 2008 in the Royal Academy of Arts, London, entitled "Before and after the dance".
The exhibition is under the patronage of German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The exhibition, whose only venue in Germany is Duesseldorf, will be devoted to the years from 1860 to 1925 in Russia and France, not only uncovering parallels and reciprocal influences, but also the different developments in both countries.

Key works by the most important pioneers of modern French and Russian painting will be on display, for example "The Portrait of Jeanne Samary" by Renoir, "Mont Sainte-Victoire" by Cézanne, "The Portrait of Dr. Rey" by Van Gogh, "Her Name is Vairaumati" by Gauguin, "The Dance and The Red Room" by Matisse, "Guitar and Violin or Bath" by Picasso, "The Stroll" by Marc Chagall, "17 October 1905" by Ilya Repin, "Composition No. 7" by Kandinsky, "The nude" by Tatlin, and the triptych of Black Cross, Black Circle and Black Square by Malevich.

The 125 paintings and 1 sculpture will be presented in four sections, which encompass the Russian Realism and the Influence of French Naturalism, The Morosov and Shchukin Collections, Sergei Diaghilev and the "World of Art" and Modern Russian Art: From Primitivism to Abstraction.

"The exhibition will focus on the changes that took place in Russia under the influence of their Parisian masters. Here it should not be forgotten how quickly the pupils overtook their masters, opening up new horizons in art not only for Russia, but also for the whole of Europe, and exploring realms hitherto unimaginable in art."
(Sir Norman Rosenthal)

Opening hours: Mon - Sun: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Public tours are offered daily at 11:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Wednesdays also at 6:00 p.m. - registration required.

For offers as well as registrations for public and guided tours please call +49 (0) 211 89 90123.

For more information go to: http://www.museum-kunst-palast.com

MuHKA

"T ZUID
ANTWERP ART OPENING WEEKEND
THU 06th - SUN 09th SEPTEMBER

In the southern part of the city of Antwerp you will find a cluster of galleries and museums that present exhibitions of visual art. From Thursday September 6th to Sunday September 9th, 20 galleries, MuHKA [Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp], PhotoMuseum, The Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp and the Hessenhuis will organise the ANTWERP ART OPENING WEEKEND.

This program will start with a n opening for the galleries [from 6 to 9pm] followed by the opening of the exhibition WELCOME HOME [Homage to Fred Bervoets] at MuHKA. Following this will be a program of several artists talks, a block party in front of The Royal Museum of Fine Arts to celebrate the one year anniversary of the specially commissioned fountain by Cristina Iglesias , the opening of the exhibition Bivak Gloria at the Hessenhuis and on Sunday the finisage of the MuHKA exhibition LUC TUYMANS I don’t get it.

Check for more information:
http://www.antwerpart.be
http://www.muhka.be

This program is a collaboration between the Antwerp Art Galleries, the Photo Museum, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Hessenhuis and MuHKA

For more information go to: http://www.antwerpart.be

poster

Dutch Artistic Research Event #2 (D.A.R.E.)
Symposium

The Politics of Design

Friday 7 September 2007
10.00 – 18.00

What is the role of design/designers with respect to the problems and issues that we face in the world today? This may relate to issues surrounding ecology, globalisation, consumerism, the gap between the Western world and the developing world etc, or other social or political standpoints.In view of these kinds of issues that are currently being addressed in the design field, as well as in the world at large, the participants are asked: How would you define your role as a designer? Do you see design as being able to play a role in solving important (environmental, social, political) problems in the world? Does a designer have to deal both with an artistic and a social responsibility, and how would you define that responsibility? In what way does your own work meet these demands?
Location: Centraal Museum, Nicolaaskerkhof 10, Utrecht
Tickets: 10 euro
Bookings: info@mahku.nl
The Politics of Design: An International Symposium organized by DAF (Dutch Aesthetics Federation) in collaboration with Casco, Centraal Museum and MaHKU as part of DARE (Dutch Artistic Research Event) # 2 and as a satellite of Utrecht Manifest.
More information:http://www.mahku.nl

http://www.cascoprojects.org
Office for Art, Design and Theory

Malmö Konsthall

DAVID SHRIGLEY
Everything must have a name
8 September - 4 November 2007

Press preview Thursday 6 September at 11 a.m.
Opening Friday 7 September 7-9 p.m.

MALMÖ KONSTHALL
S:t Johannesgatan 7
Box 17 127
SE-200 10 Malmö
Sweden

http://www.konsthall.malmo.se

The exhibition Everything must have a name by David Shrigley (b. 1968, in Macclesfield, England) will be the artist’s first retrospective solo exhibition in Northern Europe. Shrigley is best known for his black and white, text-based, deceptively amateurish ink drawings. Besides drawings Everything must have a name will compile a vast number of sculptures, inkjet prints, monotypes, t-shirts, sound works, films, photographs and last but not least, books. Around 600 works will be presented in many different forms and formats at Malmö Konsthall. The exhibition will show animated films such as Who I Am And What I Want (2006), New Friends (2006), Laundry (2006), and sculptures like Nutless (2001), Unfinished letter (2003) and Black pot (2004) among many others. Malmö Konsthall will also present 16 recent paintings made for Deerhoof’s record Friend Opportunity and his own record Shrigley Forced To Speak With Others (2006).

David Shrigley will also make several new sculptural and site specific pieces for Malmö Konsthall, which he has divided into more than 20 individual spaces and corridors with individual names, titles and themes.

The ambition of the exhibition is to present David Shrigley’s extensive body of work, and to show his unique pieces next to the multiplied works made for t-shirts, coffee mugs, record covers, greeting cards and music videos.

In 1991, Shrigley made his first book Slug Trails, and many since, characterized by his humorous, dark satirical drawings and writing. Through the books and his weekly drawings in The Guardian (since September 2005), the animation series Modern thought by David Shrigley for BBC, the music videos Blur’s Good Song (2003) and Bonnie Prince Billy’s Agnes, queen of sorrow (2004) Shrigley has developed different audiences and has managed to bridge the gap between popular culture and fine art.

Throughout Shrigley’s many different ways of working the viewer will find an absurd logic to life. Shrigley comments on the world with a nihilistic wit, word games and interrogations leaving us question ourselves and what is around us.

In many works, there are lists with rules and regulations, "do’s and don’ts" and lists of rights and wrongs. God and Satan walk hand in hand and the turn of the screw is the absence of belief, which leads to doubt and even more questions. There are lists of questions, confessions and suggestions, and the individual — human, animal or non-descript organism — has to select and decide on what ethics and morality to follow (and the bleak consequences if they are broken).

On the backside of the book Grip (2000) David Shrigley gives the following instruction: "RULES: They say that rules are made to be broken but this is just a figure of speech. Rules are made to be kept. Rules are there to guide us. As modern world grows ever more complicated and appears to now be populated mostly by nutters rules have become increasingly important. Those who break the rules will be beaten with a rod of iron a then made to write out the rules one million times. Bending the rules is also forbidden. Bent rules are useless."

What may seem normal to begin with often takes a drastic and grotesque turn in Shrigley’s universe. There are always consequences to one’s actions and below the surface thoughtful truths about the human condition and human soul are revealed.

David Shrigley studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1988 to 1991, and has exhibited widely in Europe and North America including solo shows at Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (Burgos), DCA, (Dundee, 2006), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Geneva), UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), and Kunsthaus Zürich. His illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Esquire (Japan), Donna (Italy), Frieze (UK), The Guardian (UK),
Maisonneuve (Canada), Du (Switzerland).

David Shrigley lives and works in Glasgow.

For more information go to: http://www.konsthall.malmo.se