The exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, which is actually presented in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and will last until February of 2008. compels a great spectrum of the projects realized by the artist since 1993. This retrospective, of halfway through the artistic trajectory, will be pre- senting subsequently in: the Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Australia.
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, in Düsseldorf, is currently displaying the Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition through January 2008. The exhibition will continue uninter rupted through the beginning of 2009 in the Salzburg Modern Museum, the Berlin National Gallery and the Lucerne Museum of Art.
Through the end of September, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the Jeff Wall exhibition before it is moved to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through January el 2008. The exhibition brings together 41 works representative of the work produced by the artist for almost three decades.
The “Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden”, in Washington, DC, is currently exhibiting the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition through August. The exhibition has already visited the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
The sea as a subject of art often appears in the creations of artists of our times, but also to a great extent of the creators of the past. No so far back in the past, about a century, we knew a glorious era of art in which the sea also played an important role.
For the first time, after 400 years, the most outstanding works of religious art by l Tintoretto painted for the church of San Marcuola: The Last Supper (church of San Marcuola, Venice), and Christ washing the Disciples’ Feet (Museo del Prado, Madrid) are together again in an exhibition of 65 works of the Venetian artist who became a legend through his paintings.
Everything is mortal, this we know by looking at a photograph.
Each brushstroke in the work of renowned Catalan painter Manuel Pujol Baladas mirrors not only the artist’s personal talent, but also deep feelings and experiences.
For this reason the artist considers the act of painting to be a state of impersonation where people stop being themselves and suddenly become artists. ‘The advantage that we have as painters is that everyone dares to paint”, he says.
Born in Vic, in 1947, some 70 kilometers from Barcelona, from a very early Manuel Pujol Baladas showed his preference and aptitude for art, drawing, painting, creativity and plastics, but he has to face discouragement from his family, mainly from his father who liked painting from youth but wanted him to be an engineer like him.
Impressionism, currently impressionist paintings and painters are the most expensive, the highest selling and the most in demand by avid collectors, but it was not always like that. Nowadays, these pleasant and illuminating works decorate the houses of the great millionaires of the four continents, but in their time they were the rock of scandal.