ISSUE12 /
SUMMER 2010
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Dreamlands – Centre Pompidou, Paris
May 5 –August 9, 2010
Dreamlands considers the question of how World's Fairs, international exhibitions, theme parks and kindred institutions have influenced ideas about the city.Duplicating and reduplicating reality through the creation of replicas, embracing an aesthetic of accumulation and collage that is often close to kitsch, these self-enclosed parallel worlds have frequently afforded inspiration to the artistic, architectural and urbanistic practices of the twentieth century, and may even be said to have served as models for certain contemporary constructions.
For more information: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/0/0E463....
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Gabriel Orozco – Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
April 18 – August 8, 2010
Orozco. La DS (1993)
In a major survey, the Kunstmuseum Basel will exhibit installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings, and drawings by the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, born in 1962. He is considered one of the most important artists of the present, and divides his time between New York, Paris, and Mexico City. His peripatetic lifestyle, and the principle of constant motion characteristic of his generation, is reflected in many ways in his work. This ranges in scope from a photographically recorded trace of breath on a piano, to a Citroën DS that has been cut apart lengthwise and put together again as a one-seater. The exhibition will previously be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and will subsequently travel to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Modern, London.
http://www.museenbasel.ch/en/institution/exibitiondetails.php?id=5549
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Where is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects
National Museum of Modern Art – Tokyo, April 29 – August 8, 2010
Ito Toyo. Study model for installation (2010)
The exhibition features installations by seven groups of Japanese architects.
This exhibition of architecture consists entirely of new installations by seven groups of Japanese architects, representing a variety of ages and styles. To create "architecture," architects are expected to deal with a variety of conditions. This requires a way of thinking that deftly balances logic, technique, and aesthetics. One might also argue that this profound sense of balance is what has led to the international recognition of Japanese architecture. In trying to determine the special characteristics of "architecture," therefore, examining where and in what form it arises seems more viable than simply addressing the question, "What is architecture?" In this wide-ranging group of installations, including a space created out of three types of polyhedrons, a place where a "space" is "born and dies," a summer house that resembles an animal, a video space that presents a day in the life of an architectural model, a fragile structure, and a field with a fantastic sense of scale, we invite the viewer to search for the architecture. For more information: http://www.momat.go.jp/english/artmuseum/where_is_architecture/index.htmlart agenda
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective – LA MOCA
June 6 – September 20, 2010
Gorky. Bethrothal I (1947).jpg
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Paul Gauguin at TATE Modern, London
September 30, 2010 – January 16, 2011
Britain will soon host its first major Gauguin show in half a century. The artist who drew upon impressionism and symbolism perhaps better than any other (while contributing to a new expressionist colour palate) has, alongside of van Gogh, become a favourite of his generation. Along with van Gogh he possessed the gift of the painter who understood that colour could be sumptuous. He also held to a poetic theory of light which, unlike scientific theories, understands that light emanates from the object.
Gauguin. Teha \'amana has many parents (1893)(2).jpg