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News from 2010

  • TACITA DEAN

    TACITA DEAN

    The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
    20 November 2010 – 5 February 2011

    This exhibition presents a selection of recent works that can be seen as still lives, using imagery of various natural forms, including trees and neolithic stones or ‘dolmens’. It focusses on the gradual processes of growth, transformation and demise.

  • GIUSEPPE PENONE

    GIUSEPPE PENONE

    Des veines, au ciel, ouvertes
    Musèe des Arts Contemporains – Site du Grand-Hornu, Belgium
    31 October 2010 – 13 February 2011

    This solo exhibition curated by Laurent Busine features a selection of iconic sculptural works as well as several recent bronzes.

  • MARLENE DUMAS

    MARLENE DUMAS

    Tronies: Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters
    Haus der kunst, Munich, Germany
    29 October 2010 – 6 February 2011

    This exhibition presents a selection of Marlene Dumas’ paintings and drawings – amongst them some new and previously unshown works – in dialogue with significant works of the Dutch Old Masters.

  • FIONA BANNER:  HARRIER AND JAGUAR

    FIONA BANNER:  HARRIER AND JAGUAR

    Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010
    Until 3 January 2011

    Tate Britain has unveiled its new Duveens Commission, Harrier and Jaguar, by Fiona Banner.

    Banner’s largest work to date, Harrier and Jaguar brings the highly-charged physicality of two real fighter jets, both recently in active military service, into the unexpected setting of the neoclassical Duveen Galleries.

  • MASSIMO BARTOLINI

    MASSIMO BARTOLINI

    Dews
    ICA Sofia, Bulgaria
    10 September – 23 October 2010

    In these works a delicate layer of artificial dew covers the surface of a series of monochrome enamel panels. The moisture seems fleeting, even incidental, as if it was a reaction to atmospheric changes or the breath of a passer by.

  • DAYANITA SINGH

    DAYANITA SINGH

    Huis Marseille Museum voor fotografie, Amsterdam,
    The Netherlands
    4 September – 21 November 2010

    This mid career retrospective contains over 100 works which trace Singh’s practice from 1989 until the present. The exhibition includes many of Singh’s most well known series such as I am as I Am, Myself Mona Ahmed, Go Away Closer, Dream Villa and Blue Book.

    Exhibition travelling from MAPFE Foundation, Madrid, Spain

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
    15 July – 1 November 2010

    This exhibition encompasses voluminous sculptures that reflect the life of ordinary people in everyday situations; architectural models; memorial sites; drawings and watercolours. The exhibition was planned in cooperation with the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

  • MARLENE DUMAS: AGAINST THE WALL

    MARLENE DUMAS: AGAINST THE WALL

    Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
    2 July – 10 October 2010

    The works in this exhibition have evolved primarily from media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting Israel and Palestine. However, Dumas’ representations acknowledge universal themes of instability, isolation, and the lack of communication, while moreover addressing the medium of painting and referencing the artist’s struggle with the boundaries of her chosen medium.

  • CORNELIA PARKER: Doubtful Sound

    CORNELIA PARKER: Doubtful Sound

    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    19 June – 19 September 2010

    The exhibition, which brings together drawings, photographs and small works from the artist’s ongoing Avoided Objects series, will include new and rarely seen work, including Perpetual Canon, 2004. Shown in the UK for the first time this piece consists of 60 silver-plated instruments from a brass band that have been squashed and suspended in midair.

  • BRIDGET SMITH: NOBODY ELSE EVEN KNOWS

    BRIDGET SMITH: NOBODY ELSE EVEN KNOWS

    PEER, London, UK
    10 June – 31 July 2010

    This exhibition includes photographs and a film portrait that were produced in Tokomaru Bay on the remote eastern cape of the North Island of New Zealand. It focuses on the story of Mark, a former possum trapper who vividly recounts his earlier days of life in the bush – memories which are perhaps more sustaining than his current everyday reality.

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE CAPITAL OF ACCUMULATION

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE CAPITAL OF ACCUMULATION

    Part of Polski Express III – The Promised City
    Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
    25 May – 4 July 2010

    The Capital of Accumulation is a double screen projection whose narrative structure follows Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. The film imagines an economic, political, social and urban history that could have occurred in 20th century Berlin, Mumbai or Warsaw. Weaving together the past and present, fact and fiction to create a compelling story of failure and possibility.

  • CORNELIA PARKER: LANDSCAPE WITH GUN AND TREE

    CORNELIA PARKER: LANDSCAPE WITH GUN AND TREE

    Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
    Open 14 May

    Cornelia Parker has created one of five major new site specific commissions for Jupiter Artland – a contemporary sculpture garden outside Edinburgh.

    Landscape with Gun and Tree is a nine metre steel sculpture of a shotgun, taking its inspiration from the Thomas Gainsborough painting Mr and Mrs Andrews, c.1750. Parker’s gun leans against the tree, possibly loaded, but the human presence is strangely absent.

  • FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
    8 May – 6 September 2010

    This exhibition examines the concerns at the heart of Tan’s practice which is underpinned by a preoccupation with memory and history. Tan’s recent photographic works and video pieces, such as Rise and Fall (2009), Provenanc_e (2008) or _A Lapse of Memory (2007), revolve as much around issues of identity and belonging as around remembering and forgetting.

    The exhibition will travel to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montréal.

  • FIONA BANNER WILL CREATE THE TATE BRITAIN DUVEENS COMMISSION 2010

    FIONA BANNER WILL CREATE THE TATE BRITAIN DUVEENS COMMISSION 2010

    We are delighted to announce that Fiona Banner has been invited to create the next installation for the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010, supported by Sotheby’s. Her new work, created especially for the neoclassical Duveen galleries at the heart of Tate Britain, will be unveiled on 28 June 2010 and will be on display until 3 January 2011.

    Image (left): Tate Britain

  • RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN FALLING IN LOVE

    RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE: THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN FALLING IN LOVE

    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
    2 April – 20 June 2010

    For BALTIC, Raqs will create a new installation that explores ways of life that die and are reborn elsewhere, and where fortunes of both love and labour are framed and dismantled by global forces. Like on-shore sweethearts bidding farewell to men in ships, the world watches its own histories float away.

    The show takes inspiration from archival images of two giant shipbuilding cranes on a voyage to India from the River Tyne. Raqs’ proposition generates an exhibition exploring a global web of wills and longings that sustain life and that can encourage strange intimacies across vast distances.

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE: HINDSIGHT

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE: HINDSIGHT

    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    17 February – 17 May 2010

    This important exhibition examines many aspects of Schütte’s practice from his homonym series that examines moments of human isolation, vulnerability and hopelessness, to the architectural models-designs that push to the extreme their ability to simplify and exaggerate, and which unintentionally provide viewers with a sense of protection and mental refuge. His works have at once a handcrafted and a utopian appearance to them. All of Schütte’s oeuvre is imbued with social and political questions, as well as his concern for the artist’s relevance to and place within society.

  • FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    FIONA TAN: RISE AND FALL

    Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
    30 January – 18 April 2010

    This exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Tan’s work in Switzerland, examines the concerns at the heart of her practice which is underpinned by a preoccupation with memory and history. Tan’s recent photographic works and video pieces, such as Rise and Fall (2009), Provenance (2008) or A Lapse of Memory (2007), revolve as much around issues of identity and belonging as around remembering and forgetting.

    The exhibition Rise and Fall was initiated by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Following its presentation at the Aargauer Kunsthaus the exhibition will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montréal.

  • JUAN USLÉ: NUDOS Y RIZOMAS

    JUAN USLÉ: NUDOS Y RIZOMAS

    Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma, Spain
    29 January – 2 May 2010

    Juan Uslé‘s work reflects on the possibilities of painting. It has an intriguing intensity borne from plays of colour and the nuances of pattern and gesture. The works in this exhibition communicate the accelerated buzz of New York City as well as the nature of the Cantabrian village of Saro; the places between which he divides his time.

  • DAYANITA SINGH

    DAYANITA SINGH

    MAPFRE Foundation, Madrid, Spain
    20 January – 2 May 2010

    This mid career retrospective exhibition contains over 100 works which trace Singh’s practice from 1989 until the present. The exhibition includes many of Singh’s most well know series such as I am as I Am, Myself Mona Ahmed, Go Away Closer, Dream Villa and Blue Book.

    Dayanita Singh’s work is also included in Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a group exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, 21 January – 11 April 2010. The exhibition will travel to the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, in June.

  • JAKI IRVINE: CITY OF WOMEN

    JAKI IRVINE: CITY OF WOMEN

    The LAB, Dublin, Ireland
    15 January – 27 February 2010

    Inspired by William Hogarth’s 1732 series of prints, A Harlot’s Progress, Jaki Irvine’s short film City of Women was shot on Dublin’s Foley Street, an area once notorious for its prostitutes. In Irvine’s work the presence of the women on the street at night is ambiguous as they respond to scenes depicted in the 18th Century print. Also included are six of the Hogarth etchings, on loan from the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

    Jaki Irvine will have a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery from 12 March to 30 April 2010.

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