Ai Weiwei Absent in Taipei

Forever Bicycles

"Opposition politicians and human rights activists yesterday urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to invite Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei (艾未未) to Taiwan in conjunction with a solo exhibition of his works that opens at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum today.


“It’s too bad that Ai himself cannot come to Taipei to attend the opening of the exhibition,” Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tien Chiu-chin (田秋堇) said at a news conference.

Since Chinese citizens are now allowed to travel independently to Taiwan, it is rather odd for Ai to be absent from the opening ceremony of his first solo exhibition in Taipei, Tien said."



Dubbed “Ai Weiwei Absent,” the exhibition will feature 21 works, including photographs, installation pieces, videos, 12 bronze heads representing Chinese zodiac symbols and a new piece consisting of about 1,000 bicycles reflecting China’s social changes.


Taipei Fine Arts Museum deputy director Liu Ming-hsing (劉明興) recently said that Ai was very excited to stage a large-scale solo exhibition in Taiwan.


“We invited him to attend the opening ceremony of the exhibition at the museum,” Liu said. “So far, he hasn’t been able to give us a definite response.”
Museum officials earlier this month said that Ai’s wife, Lu Qing (路青), plans to visit Taiwan early next month.

Tweet

   
Viva el arte de Cabusri>Ma urged to extend invitation to Ai Weiwei 

Art Exhibition of an ugly power

 "The late Libyan leader's would-be heir, Saif al-Islam launched a touring exhibition of Libyan antiquities and contemporary art called "The Desert Is Not Silent" in London's upmarket Kensington in 2002 which was dominated by his paintings.


The show was scheduled to go to Paris, Geneva, Berlin, Tokyo, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Moscow.


"Not only do we buy weapons and sell gas and oil, but we have culture, art and history," Saif al-Islam, who studied at the London School of Economics and portrayed himself as a patron of the arts, said in a statement at the time.


A website set up by Saif al-Islam's Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation to promote the exhibition no longer works."



Several convey political messages, including one bearing a banner in Arabic reading "The Struggle"; another, entitled "Intifada", showing a clenched fist; and a third, "War", depicting NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 during an apocalyptic storm.


"The Challenge", a painting from the period of the embargo against Libya for its alleged sponsorship of international terrorism, shows a stern Muammar Gaddafi gazing down from the skies at the "arrogant Allies" bearing wooden crosses.


In the catalog, Saif al-Islam also revealed a softer side.


"Beautiful Rose", a long-stemmed red rose painted on fabric, was dedicated to "someone who counted in the artist's life, who brought him joyous colors".


His works were not well received by art critics.

Tweet

   
Gaddafi son used his paintings to promote Libyan culture

Virginia Traub | EL BAILE

Virginia Traub de una larga trayectoria en exposiciones colectivas como pintora y ceramistas en la Universidad de Concepción, Concepción y Chillán. Sus pinturas han sido seleccionadas en concursos como “Creación 94, Chillán” y en la Exposición colectiva “Plaza del Lago”, Willmette, Illinois, EEUU. Entre sus profesores podemos encontrar en pintura a Julia San Martín. Vitrofusion con Bárbara Aldunce. Ademas, Taller de Decoración Mayólica pequeño formato en La Habana, Cuba. En Cerámica con Helga Yufer, Chillán y Julio Meyer en la Universidad de Concepción, Chillán.

Tweet

   

Exposición "ELLAS" en Valparaíso

Estimados amigos,

Los  invito a la  inauguración de la exposición "ELLAS"  Mujeres de ayer y hoy a traves del grabado, que se realizará el jueves 3 de noviembre  a las 19:30 horas en la Sala de la Dirección Desarrollo Cultural Valparaíso, Esmeralda 1051, Valparaíso.

Natacha Campos

Natacha Campos, es una artista visual que se comunica a través de variadas expresiones artísticas, se inicio con el dibujo y la pintura y ha desarrollado su quehacer investigando y produciendo arte con tela, papel, dibujo y color, es ilustradora de cuentos infantiles, creadora de figuras mágicas en papel mache, diseñadora gráfica, grabadora.

Espero contar con su importante presencia.

Saludos,

Natacha Campos Ordenes

Artista Visual

02-4152955  /  09.8272737

natailustra@gmail.com

Tweet

   

El arte de Miguel Covarrubias

 "Miguel Covarrubias (1904–1957) was one of the foremost Mexican artists of the twentieth century. A quintessential humanist, he made important contributions in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, theater, and dance.


The breadth of his intellectual interests inspired him to explore cultures as varied as the brilliant hues of his art. He became an expert in indigenous Mexican art and culture and an important figure in the preservation of ancient sites and artifacts. After capturing the creative energy of the Harlem Renaissance, he documented a vanishing way of life on the Indonesian island of Bali. And in the pages of Vanity Fair and other popular American magazines of the Jazz Age, Covarrubias took the measure of the era's statesmen, celebrities, and rogues."

Tweet

   

Viva el arte de Cabusri>Humanities Texas | Miguel Covarrubias:

The Art and the Revolution

 The exhibition "Building the Revolution" will examine Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935. Fired by the Constructivist art that emerged in Russia from c.1915, architects transformed this radical artistic language into three dimensions, creating structures whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state."



The drive to forge a new Socialist society in Russia encouraged synthesis between radical art and architecture. This creative reciprocity was reflected in the engagement with architectural ideas and projects of such artists as Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Liubov Popova, El Lizzitsky, Ivan Kluin and Gustav Klucis, and in designs by such architects as Konstantin Melnikov, Moisei Ginsburg, Ilia Golosov and the Vesnin brothers, as well as Le Corbusier and Erich Mendelsohn, European architects who were draughted in to help shape the new utopia.


The exhibition will juxtapose large-scale photographs of extant buildings with relevant Constructivist drawings and paintings, vintage photographs and periodicals. Many of the works have never been shown in the UK before.

Courtyard Sculpture 


In conjunction with the exhibition, a reconstruction of Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, known as ‘Tatlin’s Tower’, specially commissioned from Jeremy Dixon of Dixon Jones Architects has been installed in the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard.
A supporting exhibition in the Architecture Space (23 September – 29 January 2012) explores the conception, vision and symbolism of Tatlin’s Tower and uncovers the intriguing process undertaken for its special recreation at the Royal Academy.


Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts in collaboration with the SMCA-Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki, and with the participation of the Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, and Richard Pare.

List of objects proposed for protection under Part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (protection of cultural objects on loan)


Tweet

   

Building the Revolution - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts: