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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019
introIt’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, so our quarterly pick of the season’s must-see art events encompasses not only exhibitions at the big urban museums, but also sculpture parks, summer pavilions, regional art trails, rural studio visits and the French home of a great painter. Get out there and enjoy the weather as much as you appreciate the art! [Image: Relative Fields in a Garden, Photo: Hai Zhang, courtesy of the Queens Museum]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
SoloOpen studio days usually mean traipsing through a semi-gentrified urban district popular with creative types, dipping in and out of artists’ studios. At Solo Studios, it means booking a long weekend in Riebeek Kasteel, about an hour outside Cape Town, and becoming part of an exclusive group invited into the homes and studios of local artists – for a true insider experience. [Image: Andre van Vuuren Studio, Solo Studios]
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SerpentineIf ever there was an annual tradition designed to convince outsiders that the art world is FUN, it’s surely the Serpentine Pavilion, summer party and Park Nights. This year’s annual architecture commission goes to Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. [Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2019, Design Render, Interior View, © Junya Ishigami + Associates]
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EliassonAn Olafur Eliasson exhibition in London is all but guaranteed to be a crowd magnet, calculated to create maximum impact and hit us right in the feels. Last time, the Scandinavian artist baked visitors to the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with a giant indoor sun; this time he is bringing a large exhibition and outdoor artwork, as well as a vegetarian dining concept. [Image: © Olafur Eliasson, Big Bang Fountain, 2014, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles, Photo: Anders Sune Berg]
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CollageKindergarten craft activity, postmodern culture technique, the offline version of Pinterest… Collage is familiar to most of us in all these iterations, both high- and lowbrow, but we usually think of it as a contemporary phenomenon. Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art puts it into a larger historical context. [Image: Annegret Soltau, GRIMA – Self with cat (the scream), 1986, © DACS 2018. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
Kiki SmithConversely, the art of Kiki Smith often looks like it could be from another era, preoccupied as it is with motifs from legends, myths, fairy tales and religion. Its themes, however – feminism, identity, ownership and control of the body – are firmly contemporary. An exhibition of the American artist’s work titled “Procession” opens at Vienna’s Lower Belvedere in June. [Image: © Kiki Smith, Untitled, Photo: Wolfgang Woessner, courtesy of the artist and MAK Vienna]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
BaselitzIn another case of old meets new, German artist Georg Baselitz recently became the first living artist to be honoured with an exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. Baselitz-Academy opened ahead of the Venice Biennale and will run alongside the biennial until September. [Image: Georg Baselitz, Academy, 2019, Installation view]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
HolzerElsewhere in Spain, the Guggenheim Bilbao is gathering works of art that are not usually created for – or viewed in – museums. American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer designs her works for public spaces. From there, they often travel via social media and their concise messages wind up printed on clothing and posters. This retrospective, titled “Thing Indescribable”, is a rare opportunity to see her work in context. [Image: Jenny Holzer, Purple, 2008, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Collin LaFlech]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
CourbetGustave Courbet was no classical studio painter. Dedicated to realism, he painted life and nature as he saw it, including scenes observed in and around Ornans, on the Loue River in eastern France. To mark the bicentenary of Courbet’s birth, his home town is honouring him with an appropriately outdoorsy programme of events, including several hiking trails, an exhibition on the changing landscape of the Loue Valley and two special bike races to be held in August. [Photo courtesy Musée Courbet]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
RenoirBy pure coincidence, Ornans also lies on a touring route dedicated to another great French artist. The Renoir Route takes visitors to destinations across France and Europe where Pierre-Auguste Renoir lived, roamed and worked. The route is being promoted with special events and exhibitions to mark the 100th anniversary of the famed impressionist’s death. [Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paysage, 1917, Wikimedia Commons]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
GarageHow we care for our environment, and what we do to ensure this planet remains a place that can sustain human life, is increasingly becoming the most pressing global issue. Moscow’s Garage Museum acknowledges that importance with an exhibition titled “The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100”. [Image: Mella Jaarsma, DogWalk, 2015–2016, Photo: Mie Cornoedus, Courtesy of the artist]
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15 Fantastic Art Exhibitions For Summer 2019.
Campo AbiertoTextile, tactile and highly Instagram-friendly – the work of Sheila Hicks is pretty easy on the eyes. However, dig a little deeper and it reveals entangled layers of meaning. “Campo Abierto (Open Field)”, a new exhibition at The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida, “explores the formal, social and environmental aspects of landscape” in pieces both old and new. [Image: Sheila Hicks, Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands, 2016-17. Photo: Zachary Balber, courtesy of The Bass, Miami Beach]
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