| Stubbs and Whistlejacket in York
One of the National Gallery's most iconic images is heading to York in 2008. Whistlejacket was painted by George Stubbs who spent his early career in York - even marrying in the city.
This exhibition will showcase this magnificent work and will bring together work from local galleries and private collections, including a portrait of the famous racehorse Gimcrack, his midwifery... |
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| Oskar Kokoschka: Exile and New Home 1938 – 1980
There has long been a need for an exhibition of the late works of Oskar Kokoschka and a corresponding new positioning. The Albertina’s show pays tribute to this important creative period, exhibiting 40 paintings and some 160 watercolours, drawings and graphic prints. More than half of the objects on view come from the holdings of the Albertina, whose collection of some 1200 of... |
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| GORAZD SATLER - Transitions: Paintings 1976-1993
Posthumous exhibition that shows the most characteristic works of each period of the painter's opus.
Curator: Miloš Bašin, Marina Mihelič Satler
Gorazd Satler was born in Ljubljana in 1948. After finishing the Secondary School of Design in Ljubljana, Satler went on to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, graduating under Prof. Maksim Sedej. He worked as a... |
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| RONALD KODRITSCH: This is not a love song
Ronald Kodritsch´s artistic field is a media- pluralistic one. The constant move from traditional media such as painting and drawing to photography and motion pictures is primarily rooted in the intention to depict the self, the image of the artist – whether as authentic mirror image or as staged distortion of reality. The artist meanders in a dream-like state through his personal... |
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| Action Painting
Jackson Pollock, circling like a dancer around a canvas spread out on the floor, dripping and throwing paint – this image of an “action painter” not only made Pollock the leading representative of one of the most influential avant-gardes of the twentieth century. It also became an unforgettable icon of modern art in general. The exhibition Action Painting is devoted to the... |
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| Albert Bitran: 1955-2005
Ankara Galeri Nev continues the 2008 season with the personal exhibition of Albert Bitran. Nev, who showed the works of Bitran in Turkey for the first time in 1998, is now organizing a retrospective that brings together the milestones of his artistic career of over fifty years.
Born in Istanbul in 1929, Albert Bitran traveled to Paris at the age of twenty to study architecture.... |
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| RECORDING BRITAIN: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY LANDSCAPE
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the influential art historian Sir Kenneth Clark initiated an ambitious extension of the Official War Artist scheme, calling it 'Recording Britain'.
This exhibition is in the spirit of that project. It aims to encapsulate the variety and beauty of Britain as it changed throughout the century, and highlight the renaissance in landscape painting... |
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| Simon Gales at the Albemarle Gallery
SIMON GALES was born in 1964. He studied at Ipswich School of Art followed by Goldsmiths College, London where he was a top student graduating with first class honours. In 1988, Gales was selected as one of 25 young contemporary artists to take part in an unprecedented and highly publicised sale at Christies where his work fetched up to four times the estimate. Since then his work has... |
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| Luciano Ventrone
LUCIANO VENTRONE was born in Rome in 1942. He is regarded by the Italian art establishment, museums, curators and critics as one of the leading exponents of his genre. He is loved, admired and respected by the Italian people, collected by the Italian Government, Corporate Institutions and avid collectors to such extent that his one-man shows are complete sell-outs. Described as... |
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| The Painters Master
In 1937 DechkoUzunov was appointed Professor at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. At the time, at an unusually young age for a professor - only 38, he was already a distinguished painter with many awards. His studio in the Academy quickly became the scene which gave rise to the artistic accomplishments of the most talented Bulgarian painters.
The exhibition “THE PAINTERS’... |
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| CHAVAZ – Colour from the heart
Albert Chavaz – 100th anniversary
Just over a year ago, Edouard Vallet (1876-1924) was being honoured at the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny. His compatriot, Albert Chavaz (1907-1990), now succeeds him. What they have in common is that, with a thirty-year interval, they both attended fine arts courses in Geneva, they both made the Valais their second homeland, celebrating... |
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| Simon Keenleyside
Rokeby is presenting Simon Keenleyside’s second solo exhibition at the gallery in which he continues to examine the formal and psychological possibilities of landscape.
Keenleyside’s recent paintings explore places on the fringes of his Essex home; peripheral or marginal sites, familiar to the artist from his youth. Considerable parts of this backcountry is inhabited with... |
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| Christodoulos Kodjapashis (Christos Eleftheriades): Exhibition of Paintings
The first Posthumous Exhibition of Paintings by the Naive Painter Christodoulos Kodjapashis or Christos Eleftheriades (artist's pseudonym) is organized by the Gallery Kypriaki Gonia in Larnaca in cooperation with the painter's family from die 1-22 February 2008, 20 years from his death.
Christodoulos Kodjapashis was born in Mammari on the 28th October 1926 and died on the 6th of... |
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| MONET - KANDINSKY - ROTHKO AND THE AFTERMATH
In spring 2008 the BA-CA Kunstforum is showing an exhibition of around 70 pictures associated with the development of abstract painting. The timeline ranges from pioneers of modern art - Kasimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky - the exponents of abstract expressionism (Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock) to contemporary examples (Gerhard Richter, Brice Marden, Sean Scully). The exhibition is... |
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| Hans Staudacher : Eine Retrospektive
Galerie Hilger is showing a representative selection of Hans Staudacher’s drawings and paintings on paper and canvass. The artistic work produced by Staudacher has maintained a homogeneous style from the 1950’s to his present-day pictures. It focuses on calligraphy, on Tachistic gestures. Staudacher belongs to the first generation of abstract artists after World War II, although he... |
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