An Engaged Eye
Alice Neel loved to paint people who had been rendered socially invisible. With her »engaged eye« , she roamed New York and captured their stories in portraits. The Centre Pompidou is now showing her life's work in France for the first time, starting October 5.
John Singer Sargent's travels through Spain
Rarely shown artworks by a famous painter: in Sargent and Spain, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. exhibits about 120 works by John Singer Sargent. They are related to Sargent's travels in Spain, which spanned three decades. The exhibition opens on 2 October.
Wax painting: the beauty of the light flowing color
How can a picture shine from itself without a light source? Sybille Pattscheck's works provide an answer to this question. Using the ancient technique of encaustic, in which liquid beeswax is applied in combination with pigments, she creates works that seem to radiate. In the interview, she explains to us how she came to this exciting painting technique and what she likes so much about it.
Lucian Freud rethought
Lucian Freud is one of the most famous painters of the 20th century. In the new exhibition Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, the National Gallery attempts an experiment: an objective analysis of his work that tries to fade out Freud's fame. Visitors will be able to judge whether this succeeds from 1 October.
In and out
Few things seem so self-evident and at the same time indispensable: the majority of people is rarely aware of breathing in and out . An impending shortness of breath, on the other hand, overrides everything bearable. With BREATHING, the Kunsthalle Hamburg explores the artistic facets of this automated process. The audience experiences breathing as a political issue, threat and elixir of life.
Susanne Stähli: »diluting, trying, layering...«
Susanne Stähli's work usually begins with an experimental investigation of suitable color tones. In doing so, she starts from an approximate idea of the color and approaches it through an additive method by adding very thin layers of paint. As the artist tells us in the interview, light plays a central role here, because it is not only part of the surroundings, but becomes an active component of her artworks.
Art fair paper positions returns to Hamburg
Diverse, multi-layered and accessible to everyone: directly opposite Hamburg's main railway station, an art fair worth visiting will take place from 29 September. Over 30 international artists will be exhibiting their paper-based works at paper positions hamburg − the show.
100 days, 100 nights
Mixed feelings arise when thinking back on the last hundred days. The documenta attracted more criticism than probably ever before. Certainly, many artists made contributions to the »world art exhibition«. But the »spirals of escalation, « as Kulturzeit presenter Cécile Schortmann calls the incidents, cast a long shadow over documenta fifteen. The Hessenschau even asks, »Was it the last one? «
Why is the art market so opaque?
Those who buy real estate as an investment first seek advice. Location, condition, age, type of construction, size - the information flows and the price is fixed. The situation is different in the art market: Who actually sets the prices here?
Of Lamps and Public Places: Noguchi's experimental sculptures
The US sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi is considered one of the most versatile and experimental artists in his medium. From 23 September, in the exhibition of the same name, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern presents him as a citizen of the world who combined influences from the USA, Japan and Europe.
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