They say that each head is a different world, but when we talk about a plastic artist the proverb acquires different meanings and significants. And that is because in the mind of an aesthete cohabit a quantity of infinite worlds that create ephemeral relationships between them
The exhibition “Francis Bacon”, that now is showing in the Tate Britain of London, is the first retrospective exhibition of the artist that is presented in the United Kingdom since 1985.
Actually the Kunsthalle Nuremberg presents the exhibit “Kiki Smith: Her Home”, exhibition that will be until the middle of November, previously exhibited in the Museum Haus Esters of Krefeld to continue travelling in the Joan Miro Foundation, in Barcelona, from February to May of the 2009.
The “Richard Avedon exhibition. Photographs 1946-2004”, is the first retrospective show at a large scale that is exhibited, after the death of the American photographer in 2004. After its exhibition in Denmark, actually the exhibition can be admired in Paris.
In the framework of the celebration of the European Capital of the Culture 2008, the Tate Liverpool presents, for the first time in the United Kingdom, a thorough exhibition around the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900, recreates the sophisticated world of the Vienna of the beginnings of the XXth century.
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K21) Museum in Düsseldorf recently opened the Eija-Liisa Ahtila exhibition. The exhibition features a collection of the most outstanding work produced during the artist’s last decades of production.
The “Modigliani and his time” exhibition emerges as a joint Project between the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Fundación Caja Museum in Madrid. At both venues, the exhibition brings together a total of 126 works, as well as 40 photographic enlargements of original works of the time.
En la Tate Modern de Londres se presenta actualmente la exposición Juan Muñoz A Retrospective. Reúne cerca de 90 trabajos entre escultura, instalación, dibujo y piezas en sonido realizadas en colaboración. Esta muestra itinerante será expuesta también en el Guggenheim de Bilbao (jun.-sept. 2008), Museo Serralves, Oporto (oct.-ene. 2009) y Fundación La Caixa, Madrid (feb.-jun. 2009).
There are currently two exhibitions of one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois, one in Boston and the other in various European and US cities.
The New York Museum of Modern Art is currently presenting through the beginning of 2008 the Georges Seurat: The Drawings exhibition. It is the first time in almost 25 years that his drawings are being displayed as a collection. The sample shows some 135 pieces of work, mostly in conté crayon on the characteristic French Michallet paper.