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Andrea Bellini (curator)
Andrea Bellini (born October 9, 1971) is an Italian and Swiss curator and contemporary art critic based in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2012, he is director of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, and artistic director of the Biennial of Moving Images ( Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement). Life and work Andrea Bellini holds a degree in Philosophy (1996), and a postgraduate diploma in Archaeology and History of Art, University of Siena (2002). From 2004 to 2007, he was US editor of Flash Art magazine, based in New York City. In 2007 he was named director of Artissima. Beatrix Ruf, director of the Stedelijk Museum, interviewed by Frieze Magazine chose Andrea Bellini's Artissima as one of the most important events world-wide in 2008. In 2009, in the context of Artissima, he organized the events program "Accecare l'ascolto / Aveugler l'écoute / Blinding the ears", focusing on a single theme: the interaction between the visual arts and theater. From 2007 to 2009 he was hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva, and a centre for international diplomacy. Geneva hosts the highest number of International organization, international organizations in the world, and has been referred to as the world's most compact metropolis and the "Peace Capital". Geneva is a global city, an international financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy hosting the highest number of international organizations in the world, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Cross. In the aftermath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCracken (artist)
John Harvey McCracken (December 9, 1934April 8, 2011) was an American minimalist visual artist. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York. Education and teaching After graduating from high school, McCracken served in the United States Navy for four years before enrolling in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, earning a B.F.A. in 1962 and completing most of the work for an M.F.A. During these years he studied with Gordon Onslow Ford and Tony DeLap. Taught: *1965–1966: University of California, Irvine *1966–1968: University of California, Los Angeles *1968–1969: School of Visual Arts, New York City *1971–1972: Hunter College, New York *1972–1973: University of Nevada, Reno *1973–1975: University of Nevada, Las Vegas *1975–1976: University of California, Irvine *1975–1985: College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Work John McCracken developed his early sculptural work while studying pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Koester
Joachim Koester (b. 1962) is a Danish contemporary artist who primarily works in installation, photography, and sound art. His work can be found in major metropolitan museums including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Biography Joachim Koester was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1962, and lives between Copenhagen and Brooklyn. He travels the world, using art as a tool to document lesser-known locations and draw attention to historical events. He combines elements of both reality and imagination to tell his stories. Art critic Hal Foster Harold Rudolf Foster, FRSA (August 16, 1892 – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip '' Prince Valiant''. His drawing style is noted for its high level of draftsmanship ... has characterized his work as being "along the borders between documentary and fiction." Education Joachim Koester attended the Royal Danish Academy of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of artistic identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art. Early life Abramović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia, on November 30, 1946. In an interview, Abramović described her family as having been "Red bourgeoisie". Her great-uncle was Varnava, Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Both of her Montenegrin-born parents, Danica Rosić and Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Bronstein
Pablo Bronstein (born 1977, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist based in London. He attended Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, at the University of the Arts London, the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art. He specialises in architectural sketches in ink and gouache, set in ornate frames and depicting imagined buildings incorporating styles from 18th century France and the 1980s. His work also includes live performance: his Plaza Minuet for Tate Triennial 2006 used involved choreographed movement about the gallery space by Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...-trained dancers. He has also given an architectural tour of London. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Piacentino
Gianni Piacentino (born 1945, Coazze, Province of Turin)Gianni Piacentino Biography. http://www.giannipiacentino.com/BiographyShows.html is an Italian artist known for his sculpture and painting inspired by motorcycles, automobiles and planes. Life Gianni Piacentino was born in Coazze in 1945. In 1965 he enrolled in the University of Turin where he studied philosophy until 1966. During his studies, he worked for a year as a disc jockey and worked part-time at a paint factory that produced special paints from 1967 – 1968. Following his break from the Arte Povera group in 1968, he purchased a 1930s Indian motorcycle that deepened a lifelong fascination, as well as an intimate knowledge of the vehicle. This captivation heavily influenced his work as an artist and eventually led to him participating in numerous motorcycle races, both as driver and sidecar passenger, between 1971 and 1977. He eventually resumed racing as a sidecar passenger and decorating racing sidecars in 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andro Wekua
Andro Wekua ( ka, ანდრო ვეკუა) (born 1977) is a Georgian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. Wekua was born in Sokhumi and witnessed an ethnic conflict in Abkhazia in the 1990s. His father, the Georgian political activist Vova Wekua, was killed by the Abkhaz nationalists during the 1989 Sukhumi riots. His work encompasses painting, collage, drawing, installation, sculpture, and film.Press release froKilchmann Galerie/ref> Selected exhibitions 2011 *''Pink Wave Hunter'', Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, cur. Rein Wolfs (solo show*''A Neon Shadow'', Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (solo show) *''Never sleep with a strawberry in your mouth'', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (solo show) *''Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011'', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berli*''ILLUMInations'', 54th Venice Biennale 2011, Venic 2010 *''10,000 Lives, the 8th Gwangju Biennale'', Gwangju, cur. Massimiliano Gion*''Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno (born 1964 in Grenoble, France) is a French contemporary artist, living and working in Paris. His works include films, Installation art, installations, performances, drawings, and text. Parreno's work centers around both expanding ideas of time and duration through his artworks and distinctive conception of exhibitions as a medium. He began examining unique approaches to both narration and representation in the 1990s, and has been exhibiting internationally since. Early life and education Parreno was born in Grenoble, in France. From 1983 to 1988, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble and at the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Institute des hautes études en arts plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris from 1988 to 1989. Work Parreno has exhibited his works since the early 1990s, while also working collaboratively with other artists in various media throughout his career. Exhibitions and exhibition-making has been a central aspec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunsthalle Bern
The Kunsthalle Bern is a ''Kunsthalle'' (art exposition hall) on the Helvetiaplatz in Bern, Switzerland. It was built in 1917–1918 by the Kunsthalle Bern Association and opened on October 5, 1918. Since then, it has been the site of numerous exhibitions of contemporary art. The ''Kunsthalle'' gained international acclaim with solo exhibitions by artists such as On Kawara, Paul Klee, Christo, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Gregor Schneider, Eva Aeppli, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner, Bridget Riley and Daniel Buren, Hans Haacke and has hosted seminal group exhibitions such as Harald Szeemann's '' Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form'' (1969). Szeeman's work for the institution was re-visited in recent years by various exhibitions that took place in Fondazione Prada and Kunsthalle Bern, among other places, such as Impossible Encounters, according to the ''Financial Times''. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary the Kunsthalle Bern became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Consortium
Le Consortium is a contemporary art center based in Dijon founded by Xavier Douroux & Franck Gautherot, among others, from the association Le Coin du Miroir (The Corner Mirror). The center was run by Douroux, in collaboration with Gautherot and Eric Troncy. In 1982, The consortium was awarded the Art Center label, and moved to an old appliance store in downtown Dijon and in 1983, Le Coin du Miroir, À La Limite and Déjà Vu joined and became a single entity. In 1991, Le Consortium expanded by moving to a factory on the outskirts of Dijon. In 1996, Troncy joined Le Consortium as co-director and in 2000, Kim Seung-duk joined as co-curator and director of international development. In 2009, Le Consortium launched an office on Hoxton Street in London, directed by Sophie Claudel and in 2011, a new building was opened, designed by Shigeru Ban Organization Contemporary art center The objectives of Le Consortium are the production and exhibition of contemporary works, the enric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Ontani
Luigi Ontani (Grizzana Morandi, 24 November 1943) is an Italian multidisciplinary artist, known as a painter, photographer and sculptor. Early life and education Luigi Ontani was born 24 November 1943 in Grizzana Morandi, Italy. Ontani studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. Ontani began his artistic career in the 1970s when he became known for his ''tableau vivants'': photographed and videotaped performances in which he presented himself in different ways: from Pinocchio to Dante, Saint Sebastian to Bacchus. These displays of "actionism" (different from Viennese Actionism, to which Hermann Nitsch is associated) verge on kitsch and raise personal narcissism to a higher level. Career Throughout his long career Ontani has expressed his creativity and poetics through the use of many different techniques: from his "oggetti pleonastici" (1965–1969), made in plaster, to the "stanza delle similitudini," made with objects cut in corrugated fiberboard. He has often anticipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham Contemporary (formerly known as the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (CCAN)) is a contemporary art centre in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. The gallery opened in 2009. The gallery describes its site as being "the oldest in the city", having been the site of a Saxon fort. To celebrate the area's history of lace manufacture, the cladding of the building is embossed with a traditional Nottingham lace pattern. Nottingham Contemporary is a registered charity under English law. Exhibition programme Nottingham Contemporary organises four to five major exhibitions a year, bringing the work of the world’s contemporary artists to Nottingham. The ideas raised by the exhibitions are explored in educational programmes for all ages. The museum opened on 14 November 2009 with an exhibition of early works by David Hockney and recent works by Los Angeles-based artist Frances Stark, including some from the Tate collection. Since then, the gallery has hosted a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
