Andy Warhol s book of desire: A rare and intimate addition to the Warhol canon
Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 19501962. First printing of 7,500 numbered copies. US$ 100. Availability: December 2020.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Well before Andy Warhols rise to the pinnacle of Pop Art, he created and exhibited seductive drawings celebrating male beauty. Andy Warhol Love, Sex, & Desire: Drawings 1950-1962 features over three hundred drawings rendered primarily in ink on paper portraying young men, many of them nude, some sexually charged, and occasionally adorned with whimsical black hearts and delightful embellishments. They lounge or preen, proud of or even bored by their beauty, while the artist sketches them, rapt. They rarely engage with their keen observer, and likewise Warhols focus is on their form, their erotic qualities, and unbridled sexuality. If his subjects are content to revel in their attractiveness, so too is Warhol. His confident hand illustrates a multitud
Crystal Bridges acquires an early Sam Gilliam drape painting
Sam Gilliam (b. 1933, Tupelo, Mississippi), Mazda, 1970, acrylic on canvas, installed: 135 × 90 in. (342.9 × 228.6 cm), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.12.
BENTONVILLE, ARK
.-Crystal Bridges announced the acquisition of Mazda (1970), an early drape painting by the renowned artist Sam Gilliam. For more than 60 years, Gilliam has pushed the limits of traditional painting. In the 1960s, he received international acclaim for his drape paintings as he continued to explore abstraction through works that jumped off the wall, an exploration that would continue throughout his career. His mixed media work, Black and Golden Door (1996), was a gift to the Crystal Bridges collection in 2016, and Gilliam was featured in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which was on view at Crystal Bridges in 2018.
Now Open: William Monk at Pace Gallery in Hong Kong
Installation view.
HONG KONG
.- William Monks latest series of paintings titled Point Datum plot a course across some vast and unknowable fictive landscape. What Monk eloquently describes as a bounded arrangement, are a set of parameters for connection; a series of fixed points made physical through applied paint. A series of determinants within a range of painterly options, from scale and tone to the meeting of colors that produce a line and a boundary. A datum point,Monks inversion for the title suggests a geographyrefers to origin and destination, or rather in order to define a course or path one needs two points. For the artist this recognizes not only the fictive space of the image but the space between images, between paintings and keenly between us the viewer and painting. As he explains The imagined painterly space is both abstract and figurative, and the literal space is equally so. Both are physical a
Three new commissions for Kiasma s collection: Maija Luutonen, Alma Heikkiä and Emma Jääskeläinen
Emma Jääskeläinen, Protector. Collected stones chewing gum, felt. Photo: Finnish National Gallery/Petri Virtanen.
HELSINKI
.- Emma Jääskeläinen s exhibition Proper Omelette ends the three-year Kiasma Commission by Kordelin project on January 10, 2021. In a new initiative launched in 2017 as a collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, three magnificent, extensive commissioned works by three artists were created for Kiasma. The artists were Maija Luutonen, Alma Heikkiä and Emma Jääskeläinen.
The aim was to raise emerging local artists to international recognition and at the same time increase the international visibility of Finnish contemporary art. Each project consisted of the production of works and publishing an exhibition catalogue, a solo exhibition at Kiasma, and support for the exhibition tour and internation
Schilt Publishing releases A Place of Our Own Samar. Aya. Saja. Majdoleen by Iris Hassid
Engaging in spontaneous, pleasurable, and often thought-provoking conversations, Iris Hassid photographed Samar (a fresh graduate from film school) from Nazareth, her cousin Saja (studying psychology) also from Nazareth, Majdoleen (studying architecture) from Kafr Kanna, and Aya (studying social work and gender studies), from Kafr Qara. One can see bits of these conversations in the book.
AMSTERDAM
.- For six years (2014-2020) Tel Aviv-based photographer and artist Iris Hassid followed the day to day life of four young Palestinian women, citizens of Israel, who are part of a recent surge of the young generation of Arab female students attending Tel Aviv University.