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?The fundament of art - The sculpture and its base since Alberto Giacometti? in Heilbronn (D)
The museums of the city Heilbronn often focus on ?Sculpture? and thus create surprising exhibitions. The curator of the art and sculpture museums Dieter Brunner just had a new Brilliant idea: he picked the topic about the base of art.In cooperation...
Dialogues ? Chillida, Oteiza, Serra? at Atrium? Arte Garaikideko Euska in Vitoria Gasteiz (E)
Dialogues is a tribute to three of the greatest artists in contemporary sculpture: Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastian, 1924-2002) Jorge de Oteiza (Orio, 1908. San Sebastian, 2003) and Richard Serra (San Francisco, 1939). The exhibition takes the form...
?Art for the millions" ? 100 sculptures from the Mao age at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (D)
In conjunction with China?s appearance as Guest of Honour at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn will be showing, for the first time ever in the West, the spectacular Chinese sculptural group Rent Collection Courtyard (Chin.: Shouzuyuan)....
?The Wolfsburg Project?- James Turrell at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (D)
In collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the American light artist James Turrell has created his largest-ever walk-in light installation in a museum context: an 11-metre-high, ?space within a space? structure that covers a floor area of...
?Moving Sculptures? - a book project by Adrian Bütikofer (CH)
Every artist desires exhibitions and catalogues ? both represents the own achievements. If you can't accomplish this ? how can you realise to finance your own catalogue? Our Swiss member Adrian Bütikofer made this happen in a quite unusual way ?...
Aristide Maillol in Barcelona (ES)
Aristide Maillol has always been fascinated by Catalonia: he spoke Catalan, wore traditional clothes and danced ?sardines?. He publicly announced: ?Catalonia is my true homeland.?This is reason enough for a large retro perspective of one of the...
Slovenian Sculpture Exhibition 2009: In the Maelstrom of European Values
In the period where sculpture itself is more and more difficult to define, where various artistic media is entering the field of so called object art instead of sculpture, and where classical form is no longer predominating way of production, the...
"For a new world: Georges Vantongerloo (1886-1965) and his circles from Mondrian to Bill" at the foundation Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (D)
The Belgium born artist Georges Vantongerloo (1886 ? 1965) is one of the great, still underestimated pioneers of modern art. Being an utopian he was looking for avant-garde forms of expression of a new way of living and a more human society.?For a...
"Alberto Banuelos: liturgy of stones" at IVAM, Valencia (E)
Alberto Banuelos has been one of the leading sculptors in Spain for the last 25 years. Now the IVAM Centre JULIO GONZALEZ dedicated him a large exhibition in Valencia. His pieces do not appear in chronological order, but are a reflection of his...
"Robert Rauschenberg - Jean Tinguely. Collaborations" in the Museum Tinguely,Basel (CH)
Paris ? New York. The leading art centres, with trans-Atlantic exchanges around 1960. An example thereof is the exhilarating, multi-level collaboration between Robert Rauschenberg and Jean Tinguely that can be re-discovered at the Museum Tinguely....
