Tuesday, July 31, 2012
YOUNG ART STARS IN THE SHADOW OF THE OLYMPICS
Young art stars in the shadow of the Olympics
If you pop along to the Olympic Park in Stratford ,
east London Hannah
Barry Gallery
Published online 27 Jul 12
SYDNEY BIENNALE AIMS TO STITCH US ALL TOGETHER
Sydney Biennale aims to stitch us all together
The international exhibition presents art as a cathartic
experience
By Cristina Ruiz. Web only
Published online: 29 June 2012
Sewing, basket-weaving, music-making, story-telling and
other communal activities are at the heart of the 18th Biennale of Sydney,
which opened 27 June and runs until 16 September. The exhibition, spread over
five venues in the city, is entitled “All Our Relations” and presents a vision
of art as a cathartic experience capable of healing wounds and building
bridges.
“Humanity is in need of a renewed attention to how we
relate to each other and to the world we inhabit,” write curators Catherine de
Zegher and Gerald McMaster in one of the texts accompanying the exhibition. “We
tend to forget how small acts in our daily life can influence the larger whole
and thus destroy or recreate a greater harmony between the spheres.”
One of these “small acts” is currently being performed by
the Taiwan-born, New York-based artist Lee Mingwei who has taken up residence
at the newly-enlarged Museum
of Contemporary Art
Over on Cockatoo Island, a sprawling industrial site with
nearly 150 buildings which has been both a prison and a ship-building yard in
the course of its history, Nadia Myre from Canada is encouraging members of the
public to pick up spools of thread themselves and apply it to small linen
tablets so they can “sew their wounds” as part of The Scar Project creating
images or text which relate to past traumas. Elsewhere on the site, Erin
Manning, also from Canada
The hand of the maker is present everywhere in an
exhibition that explores the female domain. Around half of the 100 artists from
40 countries included here are men but many of them are skilled in arts which
are traditionally performed by women, such as the South African Nicholas Hlobo
who has created an enormous whale-like creature rising up from Sydney Harbour
to rest on a boat launch cradle, its long, wispy tail winding down to the water
below. The animal, created from rubber and hosepipe, is festooned with ribbons
that have been carefully embroidered through its rubbery body.
Monday, July 30, 2012
OLYMPIC FEVER SPREADS TO LONDON’S AUCTION HOUSES
Olympic fever spreads to London
Sales centred on sport and British art and design aim to
make a splash
By Riah Pryor. Web only
Published online: 25 July 2012
It may traditionally be a quiet season for the art market
but this summer auction houses in London
Bonhams staged “The Olympic Games Sale” on Wednesday 25
July. Among lots sold was the Henry Robert “Bobby” Pearce rowing archive, which
sold for £49,250 (est £30,000-£50,000) to an Australian buyer. A set of
photographic prints of the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Leni Riefenstahl also sold
for £3,125 (est £2,500-£3,500) and five lithographs of poster designs for the
1972 Munich Olympics by David Hockney, Tom Wesselmann, Victor Vasarely, Allen
Jones and Paul Wunderlich, fetched £500 (est £400-£600). The sale collected a
total £198,350 (est £275,000-£380,000), with just 36.1% sold by lot.
At Christie’s, staff drove a double-decker bus to South Kensington , which has been pedestrianised during the
Olympics. The 1966 example of the Routemaster design is being displayed
alongside other lots from the “The London Sale” until the auction begins on 3
September. It has an estimate of £20,000 to £30,000. The sale, which aims to
celebrate “all things British”, has a total pre-sale estimate of £1m to £1.6m
and also includes a selection of outfits once belonging to Margaret Thatcher,
priced between £800 to £1,500 and an example of the much reproduced Second
World War “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster (est £800-£1,200).
Meanwhile, Sotheby’s is hosting a series of exhibitions
until 11 August, including photographs of the painter Lucian Freud from the
Cecil Beaton archive, a selling exhibition of diamonds and a display
considering Arab women in sport by the photographer Brigitte Lacombe, which was
commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority.
BLUE-CHIP WORKS FIND BUYERS AT CHRISTIE’S AND SOTHEBY’S
Blue-chip works find buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's
Post-war and contemporary sales in London
By Gareth Harris and Javier Pes. Web only
Published online: 28 June 2012
On the eve of the post-war and contemporary art auctions in
London London
Bidding was notably sluggish for works by blue-chip
artists. Jean-Michel Basquiat's Warrior, from the most coveted period of the
early 1980s, limped to £4.95m under the hammer, just short of its £5m low
estimate; the work fetched £5.6m with buyer's premium, making the arresting
image the top lot in the sale. Even a strong 1980 painting by Francis Bacon,
Study for Self-Portrait, backed by an irrevocable bid, failed to ignite the
restless crowd in the saleroom, attracting one bid on the phone via Cheyenne
Westphal, Sotheby's chairman of contemporary European art; the work sold for
£4.5m with buyer's fee (est £5m-£7m). There was, nonetheless, an appetite for
art by the current market bellwether, the German stalwart Gerhard Richter,
whose 1995 photorealist painting Jerusalem achieved an albeit anti-climactic
£4.2m (est £3m-£5m).
Few works surpassed their high estimates but notable
exceptions included Jean Dubuffet's Chérubin Oiuistiti, 1962 (£993,250; est
£300,000-£400,000), and Damien Hirst's 1994 painting Jolly (£601,250; est
£180,000-£250,000). A tense bidding war between seven international bidders for
a large-scale apocalyptic canvas by Glenn Brown, The Tragic Conversion of
Salvador Dali (after John Martin), 1998, was a rare high point, culminating in
a record sale for the artist of £5.2m (est £2.2m-£2.8m). Big-name rival dealers
in the room swooped on established names: Larry Gagosian bought a 2003 c-print,
Arena III, by Andreas Gursky (£265,250; est £250,000-£350,000), while Thaddaeus
Ropac appeared delighted with his acquisition of Joseph Beuys's installation
Tisch mit Aggregat, 1958-85 (£601,250; est £500,000-£700,000).
Such activity prompted the question of whether the material
on offer, or the market itself, was flat, with mid-range works especially
vulnerable. “The material was difficult and the Bacon self-portrait could have
done better,” said the secondary market New
York London
Sunday, July 29, 2012
MORE MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE AT THE HERMITAGE
More monumental sculpture at the Hermitage
Enrique Martínez Celaya's towering bronze work explores the
plight of children exiled from Cuba
By Anny Shaw. Web only
Published online: 08 July 2012
A monumental bronze sculpture by the Miami-based artist
Enrique Martínez Celaya is due to be unveiled in the courtyard of the State Hermitage
Museum in St Petersburg Tower of Snow
According to Martínez Celaya, who left his native Cuba as a
child, the work is about his own experience of exile, but also about Operation
Peter Pan, when more than 14,000 Cuban children were sent to the US between
1960 and 1962 by parents who feared the Cuban government would take away their
right to decide how their children should be educated. “It's about the anguish
of those children,” Martínez Celaya says. “I wanted to memorialise that event.”
A smaller version of The Tower of Snow is due to be installed at the Freedom Tower
in Miami
Martínez Celaya's first ever video work, The Master
(edition of five, priced at $45,000 each), 2011, was bought by the Hermitage during
Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2011. The work, in which the artist acts out
Beethoven's death, is due to go on show at the museum this autumn.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
CRYSTAL FLAT ON THE MOVE
Roger Hiorns's copper sulphate rooms, now part of the Arts
Council Collection, head north
By Gareth Harris. News, Issue 237, July-August 2012
Published online: 06 July 2012
Roger Hiorns’s public art piece Seizure, which opened to
critical acclaim in London in September 2008, is
due to be shown at Yorkshire
Sculpture Park London
The artist pumped more than 75,000 litres of copper
sulphate solution into the flat to create a thick, shiny, jagged crystalline
growth on its walls and floors. The fate of the piece, last seen in London in
2010, was for some time a mystery, with speculation that the building was due
to be demolished. Hiorns subsequently donated the sculptural installation to
the Arts Council Collection. Artangel, the non-profit public art agency which
commissioned the work, supported the acquisition along with the Jerwood
Charitable Foundation (through the Art Fund) and the Henry Moore Foundation.
Structure Workshop, a London-based structural engineering
design practice, helped to take down the 31 tonne-installation in February last
year. “We worked with a team to develop the strategy for removal. This included
demolition of the end wall and the design of a skid [frame] onto which the
piece was jacked before being craned onto a lorry in one piece. It was
successfully transported to Yorkshire ,” says a
statement on the company’s website. The work, the subject of a ten-year loan
agreement between the Arts Council Collection and Yorkshire Sculpture
Park
A spokeswoman for Artangel previously said: “After the
project opened, 157 Harper Road
Friday, July 27, 2012
MITING PANG-ABANSE
FILVADRO General Assembly
The Filipino Visual Arts and Design Rights Organization
(FILVADRO) will hold its first annual general assembly for its members on July
28, 2012 in the Pearl Room of the Stonehouse Bed and Breakfast along E.
Rodriguez in Quezon City
FILVADRO's "Miting Pang-Abanse" includes the
election of the new Board of Trustees, voting of members to amend the
organization's Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, a report on the 2011
accomplishments, and a discussion of future plans.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
FOTO + ABSTRACSION 3
Cebuano abstractionist Dennis “Sio” Montera mounted his
first solo exhibit at the Bluewater Gallery six years ago. It was aptly named
abstractSIOn, a colorful play of words branding his great passion for abstract
art and the nickname that he is fondly called by his closest friends and
associates.
On July 25, 2012, Sio proudly brings his latest installment
of his Bluewater Gallery series, foto+abstracSIOn3. Established as a serious
abstract artist for more than a decade, this new exhibit allows him to expand
to a new medium - photography as a design source for his abstracted imagery. He
wants to experiment and use technology as a different means to convey his art
and creative vision. Even as the medium evolves, the goal remains the same. That
is, to evoke a viewer’s aesthetic response by focusing on the effectivity of
the visual organization rather than meaning.
The art exhibit, foto+abstractSIOn 3, opens to the public
on July 25, 2012 at 3:00 in the afternoon at the Bluewater Gallery at Bluewater
Maribago Beach Resort. An artist talk will be conducted prior to the opening.
It will run until August 25, 2012.For further information please call the
Bluewater Gallery at (032) 492 0100 local 512 or Erik Monsanto at mobile number
(922) 836 1862.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
FILVADRO CALLS FOR COPYRIGHT REFORMS IN PHILIPPINE LAW
FILVADRO calls for copyright reforms in Philippine law
City of Makati
Officials of FILVADRO, the Filipinas Copyright Licensing
Society, Inc. (FILCOLS), and the Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers, Inc. (FILSCAP) had met with Senator Manny Villar, chairperson of
the Senate committee on trade and commerce, and personally submitted and
discussed their organizations' respective position papers and proposed
amendments to the copyright law.
The Philippines
is the only country in Southeast Asia that has
a provision for resale rights; however, it has not been able to successfully
enforce the provision in favor of the artists or the copyright-holders since
the IP Code’s creation in 1997. This information is based on an informal survey
conducted by FILVADRO between 2008 and 2011 among its constituents.
The contested provision is Section 200 titled “Sale or
Lease of Work” which states that: “In every sale or lease of an original work
of painting or sculpture or of the original manuscript of a writer or composer,
subsequent to the first disposition thereof by the author, the author or his
heirs shall have an inalienable right to participate in the gross proceeds of
the sale or lease to the extent of five percent (5%). This right shall exist
during the lifetime of the author and for fifty (50) years after his death.”
FILVADRO crafted its proposed amendments to Section 200 of
the IP Code based on the existing practices in the United
Kingdom and Australia
An update on the proposed amendments to the copyright law
is one of the agenda on FILVADRO's first annual general assembly for its
members on July 28, 2012 in the Pearl Room of the Stonehouse Bed and Breakfast
along E. Rodriguez in Quezon City
FILVADRO’s “Miting Pang-Abanse” includes the election of
the new Board of Trustees, voting of members to amend the organization’s
Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, a report on the 2011 accomplishments,
and a discussion of future plans.
Atty. Ricardo Blancaflor, Director General of the
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
The current Board of Trustees consists of Karen Ocampo
Flores who is the organization's president; Rita Badilla-Gudiño who is the vice
president; Grace Dimaranan, corporate secretary; Tina Colayco, treasurer; Yael
Buencamino-Borromeo, vice treasurer; Josephine Turalba; Egai Talusan Fernandez;
Emmanuel Garibay and; Noel Soler Cuizon.
Other FILVADRO members include Ambie Abaño, Susan Abrera,
Rolando Acuña, Ana Rhea Adonis, Nunelucio Alvarado, Eric Ambata, Maria Eugene
Aniar, John Paul Antido, Cruzaldo Arbozo, Adjani Arumpac, Cynthia Atud,
Virgilio Aviado, Jose Badelles, Recci Bacolor, Rogger Basco, Christopher
Bayani, Bernard Bertumen, Jenica April Cahayom, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Jeffrey
Carnay, Delfin Castro Jr., Jason Christopher Castro, Clarissa Chikiamco,
Salvador Ching, Joey Cobcobo, Salvador Concovar, Marika Constantino, Olivia
D’Aboville, Camille Dagal, Maria Venus Dante, Nadya Melina David, Don Reich De
Dios, Iris Joy Deganos, Fil Delacruz, Jan Olympus Delacruz, Sheila Rose dela
Paz, Jocelyn Diaz, Jemimah Grace Dumawal, Daniel Enriquez, Noell EL Farol, Arvi
Fetalvero, Jemima Keren Flaminiano, Noel Flores, Jade Ellaine Gadin, Genaro
Gomez Sr., Maria Lourdes Inosanto, Raul Isidro, David Justimbaste, Jerry
Jimenez, Marisa Laudinez, Alfredo Liongoren, Manuel Lumbao, Meneer Marcelo,
Angelo Magno, Raymund Malicay, Frances Nicole Manzanero, Dalisay Mendez, Ma.
Rowena Monsale, Maria Francesca Nacionales, Marcus Nada, Gerry Navilon,
Othoniel Neri, Eden Ocampo, J Pacena II, Darryl Pagulong, Dantes Palmes, Noel
Pama, Lala Pavilando, Josefina Pineda, Al Perez, Stacey Kate Posion, Azenith
Elaine Ramirez, Jocelyn Ramos, Dan Antonio Recalde, Ma. Rhoda Recto, Mitzi
Marie Reyes, Kirby Roxas, Mutya Sambile, Rogelio Santos, Fidel Sarmiento, Bru
Sim, Judy Talan, Daniel Tayona, AJ Tolentino, Lia Torralba, Nikki Tucay,
Josephine Turalba, Wesley Valenzuela, Andrei Venal, and Rhener Griego Vive.
IP Philippines, the World Intellectual Property Office
(WIPO), the NCCA and the Cultural
Center
Friday, July 20, 2012
TOLSTOY’S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON APPOINTED CULTURAL ADVISER TO PUTIN
Tolstoy’s great-great-grandson appointed cultural adviser
to Putin
Vladimir Tolstoy has been the director of Yasnaya Polyana,
the writer’s estate and museum
By Sophia Kishkovsky. Web only
Published online: 28 June 2012
Vladimir Tolstoy, the great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy,
has been appointed a cultural adviser to the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The appointment was made in May, shortly after Putin returned to the Kremlin as
president after serving as the prime minister for four years.
Since 1994, Vladimir Tolstoy has been the director of
Yasnaya Polyana, the writer's estate and museum. Situated near the city of Tula , south of Moscow
In his new role as a cultural adviser to the president,
Vladimir Tolstoy told The Art Newspaper that he will be addressing a range of
cultural issues, from literature to music, theatre, cinema and museums,
especially those in protected zones such as Tolstoy's museum.
While he was the director of the museum, he made it more
accessible to tourists, scholars and Tolstoy family members, whom he gathers
there regularly for reunions. Tolstoy's wife, Yekaterina Tolstaya, who has
worked at the museum for years, has been named its new director. She told the
Russian media that one of her first tasks as the director will be to build a
store for the estate's collection. Museum stores have become a sticking point
for Russian museums, and the question has been addressed by Putin at meetings
with museum directors and the minister of culture.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
A GIFT OF 4OO DRAWINGS PUTS FRENCH PAINTER’S LEGACY ON SHOW
A gift of 400 drawings puts French painter’s legacy on show
The late artist’s sons donated the works to the Musée des
Beaux-Arts Eugène Leroy in Tourcoing
By Ermanno Rivetti. Web only
Published online: 28 June 2012
Around 400 works on paper by the French painter Eugène
Leroy, who was admired by artists such as Georg Baselitz and Markus Lupertz but
worked in relative isolation for most of his career, are on show at the Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, which was renamed the Musée des Beaux-Arts Eugène
Leroy in honour of the artist’s centenary in 2010. The exhibition has been made
possible thanks to a donation from the artist’s two sons, Eugène Jean and
Jean-Jacques Leroy, who gave the drawings and sketchbooks containing around 400
works, which cover their father’s entire output from 1927 until his death in
2000, to the museum in 2009.
The exhibition, “Eugène Leroy: Le Dessin” (Eugène Leroy:
the Drawings), which is on show until 17 July, presents this collection of
crayon, charcoal, pastel and watercolour drawings. The two guest curators, the
British artist Orlando Mostyn-Owen and the Chilean artist Humberto
Poblete-Bustamante, are the co-founders of a loose collective of artists and
writers called the International Bongo-Bongo Brigade.
Leroy did not enjoy a meteoric rise to fame, but
Mostyn-Owen says: “Particularly in his earlier drawings, we can see Leroy
striving towards immortal status. They tell us that he knew what he wanted to
achieve.”
Leroy was born in Tourcoing
in 1910, and despite his prolific output he only found real, lasting
recognition after the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris Albright-Knox Art
Gallery , Buffalo
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
RESTORATION COMPLETED AT TURIN’S COLLEGIO DEI NOBILI
Restoration completed at Turin
Baroque building is home to Academy
of Science and Egypt
By Ermanno Rivetti. Web only
Published online: 28 June 2012
Six years of restoration work has brought a number of rooms
in the Collegio dei Nobili, one of Turin
The building houses the Accademia delle Scienze, and work
was carried out on the ceilings, floors, tapestries and furniture in the
academy’s rooms, while the grand staircase, designed by the architect Guarino
Guarini, was extensively renovated. The project was overseen by Valerio Corino,
an architect from Turin
Work was delayed following a flood in 2009, the result of a
faulty fire alarm system, which caused more damage to one of the rooms. The
building also houses the Museo Egizio, considered the third most important
Egyptian museum after The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo ,
and the British Museum ,
London
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
AUSTRALIA’S NEW VENICE PAVILION TO BE BUILT
All A$6m needed for the building will be raised from the
private sector, although the government owns and manages the site
By Louisa Buck. Web only
Published online: 27 June 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that the
new Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is to be designed by
Melbourne-based architectural practice Denton Corker Marshall. The new
building, which the architects describe as “a form of the utmost simplicity: a
white box contained within a black box” is due to be completed in 2015, with
the existing pavilion that has occupied the site since 1988 and was always
intended to be a temporary structure, having its swansong at next year’s
Biennale when it will house the work of Simryn Gill.
Although the site is owned by the Australian federal
government and managed by the Australia Council for the Arts, the government’s
arts funding and advisory body, all of the A$6m ($6.04m) needed for the new
building is to be raised from the private sector. “We don’t have any funds for
capital projects,” says Julie Lomax, the Australia Councils’s director of
visual arts. “We give some money to organisations but our main remit is to
support artists.”
Leading the funding drive is Simon Mordant, joint chief
executive of corporate advisory firm Greenhill Caliburn, who is the
commissioner of the 2013 pavilion. Mordant, who also serves as the chairman of
the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Sydney
Monday, July 16, 2012
OPENING THE GATES OF PARADISE
Opening the Gates of Paradise
Thirty-four years work has gone in to the Ghiberti
masterpieces, scheduled to go on display at the Museo dell’Opera in Florence
By Laura Lombardi and Ermanno Rivetti. Web only
Published online: 27 June 2012
After 12 years of planning and a further 22 years of
conservation work, all ten panels from the Gates of Paradise, a Florentine
Renaissance masterpiece by Lorenzo Ghiberti, have been restored to their former
glory by a team from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure—one of the foremost
conservation institutes in the world. The monumental set of gilded bronze
doors, constructed between 1425 and 1452, stand at just over five metres tall
and contain scenes from the Old Testament. The panels, admired by Michelangelo,
once adorned the east entrance to the Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence
The Baptistry, located in the Piazza del Duomo, was built
between 1059 and 1128, making it one of the oldest buildings in the city. Together
with the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, also known simply as the Duomo, and
Giotto’s Campanile, the three buildings form part of a Unesco world heritage
site that covers the centre of the city. Italy
The sculpted doors, however, will not go back on their
hinges at the Baptistry where replicas have been installed since 1990. Instead,
they are set to go on display on 8 September at the Museo dell’Opera. The doors
will be installed in their own room in a protective case commissioned by the
Museo dell’Opera under guidance from the Opificio, which has overseen the
project since it began in 1978. The doors will be moved to a new space
following the completion of the museum’s planned enlargement project, which is
expected to finish sometime between 2014 and 2015. This new space will enable
visitors a 360-degree-view of the work.
Anna Maria Giusti, a conservation expert from the Opificio,
says the damage to the panels was caused by excessive humidity which allowed
salts to crystallise on the bronze. These crystals slowly corroded small holes
in the surface. “The protective casing will guarantee a constant level of
humidity at 20%. We used a nitrogen atmosphere to protect the individual panels
[which were detached for cleaning], but that is an expensive technique. Now
that the door is whole again, we filter the air in the casing, removing dust
and harmful gases. It took a year of research to fine-tune this technique.”
Sunday, July 15, 2012
AMERICAN ARTIST’S SCULPTURE TO SOAR IN FRONT OF CONSULATE IN CHINA
American artist’s sculpture to soar in front of consulate
in China
The New York-based Joel Shapiro has been commission to
create a bird-like work for Guangzhou
By Eric Magnuson. Web only
Published online: 26 June 2012
A 22-foot-tall bird-like sculpture is due to land in front
of the new US Consulate building in Guangzhou ,
China Long Island City
studio, was commissioned to create the bright blue piece in 2009 by the United States ’ Foundation for Art and
Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), which is dedicated to improving the country’s
image abroad through US
Commenting on the sculpture’s airy, freewheeling
appearance, Shapiro tells The Art Newspaper, “Perhaps the work is about
overcoming the pervasive effect of gravity in the organisation of form. That’s
something I’ve struggled with for years. This sculpture is really free and not
constructed from or dependent upon the ground.” It is Shapiro’s second piece
for FAPE. His first work for the foundation, Conjunction, 1999, stands outside
of the US Embassy in Ottawa ,
Canada Guangzhou
Artists participating in FAPE’s program are chosen by a
volunteer advisory committee chaired by Robert Storr, dean of the Yale School
of Art. FAPE has placed the work of more than 200 US
Saturday, July 14, 2012
MOSCOW’S MONUMENTS UNDER THREAT
The destruction of the Russian city’s architectural
heritage has contributed to recent anti-government protests
By Sophia Kishkovsky. Web only
Published online: 25 June 2012
Preservationists are voicing growing concerns about Moscow Russia , even though a number of preservationists
believe that Moscow
The disputed sites include two that are now controlled by
the state-owned VTB Bank: Dinamo Stadium, which is being redeveloped as a
potential venue for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in a project worth at least Rb20bn
($635m), and Detsky Mir, a children’s store in Lubyanka Square
According to Natalia Samover, a co-ordinator of the
Moscow-based Archnadzor movement, which monitors threats to architectural
heritage and organises protests and lawsuits in its fight to save endangered
buildings and monuments, officials ignored the fact that Dinamo Stadium was
listed as a monument. The stadium, built in 1928 by the architects Arkady
Langman and Lazar Cherikover as a homage to athleticism in the Stalin era, was
“the last major sports facility in the constructivist style that was still
preserved in Russia
“Sobyanin’s new government has made numerous politically
correct statements about the importance of cultural heritage,” Samover says.
“In those places where the city makes decisions, there is progress. Where
vandalism is to the advantage of a powerful state bank, they meekly obey
everything they are told to do,” she says.
The new stadium, provisionally called the VTB Arena, will
have a capacity of up to 45,000 people. The plans include an arena that can
hold 15,000 people and a large area devoted to retail outlets, while a
neighbouring park is earmarked for property development. The Dutch architect
Erick van Egeraat was originally commissioned to create a design that would
preserve part of the stadium’s original walls, but Samover laments the loss of
these walls in the final project. It is being carried out by the American
architect David Manica, who has worked on major arena projects in China
Friday, July 13, 2012
RECOLLECTIONS 1081: CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
'Recollection 1081: Clear and Present Danger' opens on July
14 at CCP
July 8, 2012 10:54am
In commemoration of the 40th year since the declaration of
martial law, "Recollection 1081: Clear and Present Danger" will bring
together visual artists whose creative output captured the mood and sentiments
of that political era.
"Recollection 1081: Clear and Present Danger"
aims to capture memories, issues, and concerns from that pivotal period of
September 21, 1972 all the way to the fall of the Marcos regime in February
1986.
It aims to capture memories, issues, and concerns from that
pivotal period of September 21, 1972 all the way to the fall of the Marcos
regime in February 1986. Also included are recent works that continue to
resonate with issues prevalent then and now.
Among the featured artists are National Artist BenCab,
Jaime de Guzman, Alfredo Liongoren, Pablo Baens Santos, Egay Fernandez, Biboy
Delotavo, Al Manrique, Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi, Anna Fer, Nunelucio Alvardo,
Manny Garibay, Jose Tence Ruiz, Imelda Cajipe-Endaya, Neil Doloricon, and
Orlando Castillo.
This exhibit is organized by the Center for Art, New
Ventures and Sustainable Development (CANVAS) and Liongoren Gallery in
collaboration with the Cultural Center of the Philippines
The exhibit runs from July 14 to September 30 at
the Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery) and Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino
(3/F Hallway).
Press release and photo from the Cultural
Center of the Philippines
MIRO SETS RECORD AT SOTHEBY’S IN LONDON’S MODERN ART SALES
Miró sets record at Sotheby’s in London
But Christie’s auction was stronger overall, with a
better-edited selection of work
By Georgina Adam. Web only
Published online: 22 June 2012
The June sales of impressionist and modern art in London
Things got off to a limp start at Sotheby’s evening sale on
19 June in a session that was marked by poor quality and overly high estimates.
The 48 works in the catalogue had a target of £72.9m-£102.6m, and totalled just
over £75m –slightly short of the low estimate, as pre-sale figures do not
include commission. Fifteen lots failed, making a sold-through rate of 68.8%.
“In view of the material on offer, things did better than I expected,”
commented the London
The highlight was Miró’s Peinture (Etoile Bleue), 1927,
which was effectively pre-sold as it carried a guarantee and “irrevocable bid”
symbol. The work had recently been exhibited at the Zurich Kunsthaus (“Miró,
Monet, Matisse—The Nahmad Collection”, 21 October 2011–15 January 2012) and
carried an estimate of £15m-£20m. It was chased by Sotheby’s head of
contemporary art, Tobias Meyer on the telephone, as well as Stephane Cosman
Connery, who has just left his position as head of private sales at Sotheby’s,
on a mobile phone in the room. Meyer bagged the painting at £23.6m, setting a
new record for Miró.
The other standout was a fine group of Kandinsky works on
paper which attracted bidding from the room and on the telephone. The highest
price of £1.33m was given for Entwurf zu ‘Grüner Rand’, 1919 (est.
£750,000-£900,000), from a telephone bidder. But there were many casualties,
including two Munchs [Seated Young Woman, 1916, bought in at £2.3m, estimate
£2.5m-£3.5m, and Kragerø in Spring, 1929, bought in at £800,000, estimate
£1m-£1.5m.] and Otto Dix’s, Sitzender akt mit Blondem Haar, 1931, estimate
£4m-£6m, unsold at £3.1m.
Christie’s sale the following night on 20 June was far
stronger. It totalled £92.6m (pre-sale estimate £74.5m-£100m) with 80% of the
lots finding buyers. The total could have been higher, but as the sale started
the auctioneer announced that the top lot, a fleshy Renoir Baigneuse, 1888, had
been sold privately.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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