January | 2010 | Art.Jet.Set

CURIOUS? Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections

January 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany presents Curious? which opens tomorrow. Germany has a great tradition of wonderful private collections which are multi-use spaces where collectors open parts of their home to the public. This exhibition brings together the best of contemporary art from their most cherished collectors. Collections:About Change, Collection * ArtJetSetSammlung Boros *Sammlung Evergreen BerlinSammlung Falckenberg, HamburgCollection Antoine de Galbert, ParisCollection Marc et Josée Gensollen, MarseilleSammlung GoetzSammlung HaubrokSammlung KiCoSammlung Paul Maenz, Berlin*Olbricht CollectionPrivatsammlung […]

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Christian Boltanski for Monumenta

January 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Christian Boltanski has been invited to present an installation for Monumenta the annual exhibition at Paris’ Grand Palais. Personnes is an exhibition that discusses society, religion, and humanity, in the notions of destiny, death, memory, and chance.

Categories: Installations • Tags: Christian Boltanski, Grand Palais Paris, Monumenta

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Zhang Huan: Neither Coming Nor Going

January 19, 2010 by ArtJetSet

New works by Zhang Huan, on view at Pace Wildenstein‘s 22nd Street space, is a dramatic departure from his iconic work.Still heavily referencing his Chinese culture but moving away from the self reflective performative work we are so used to expecting from Huan.Rulai is a massive 5.5meter tall sculpture created with ash steel and wood. Skulls, bones, and unidentified remnants build up the layers of this pensive Buddah. Encircling Rulai are 3.5meter tall ink drawings made on handmade paper, featuring […]

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Robert Longo at Metro Pictures

January 18, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Metro Pictures presents a dialogue between Robert Longo, John Miller, and David Maljkovic. Longo’s photos are actually preliminary photos used for Men in the Cities, his 1970’s series of drawings. Static and at once dynamic, these works speak to Maljkovic’s film projections.

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Richard Misrach at PaceWildenstein

January 15, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Richard Misrach large scale inverted photographs present Nevada desert scenes and lush greenery as reversed ice tundra with his negative reversed colour negative technique.

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Diango Hernandez at Haus der Kunst

January 12, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Love this image by Diango Hernandez We Can’t Celebrate, part of a history of commodity in photography show currently en view at Haus der Kunst

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Jeffrey Deitch appointed director of Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

January 9, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Beloved and influential New York gallerist Jeffrey Deitch has been appointed as the LA MOCA’s new director. Deitch pioneered the banking world’s art advisory businesses, co-founding Citibank’s art advisory and art finance practices in 1979. he has a 30-year career as an independentcurator who has produced innovative exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world. As an art advisor to some of the world’s leading institutional and private collectors. A very strong reaction to Jeffrey Deitch’s new appointment, click video […]

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Hunter MFA Thesis show

January 7, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Hunter College/Times Square GalleryPresents their MFA winter Thesis show. 450 West 41st Street, (between 9th and 10th) This is an amazing exhibition space, with rooms upon rooms of very brilliant and promising young artists. Highlights included: .Brilliant installation by Seldon Yuan, Untitled (vacuum and plenum) combining mirrors and a reflective two-way glass box to negotiate space void and presence. Paining by Peter D. Gerakaris, and photos by Vivienne Griffin Large abstracted cityscapes by Noah Landfield, James Weingrod‘s interpretation of space, […]

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Roni Horn aka Roni Horn at The Whitney

January 3, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The first integrally comprehensive show of New York based artist Roni Horn, ashow which negotiations perception, memory, passage of time, identity and representation. Often working in pairs and series and the use of water as reflections of identity is Horn a thematic predominant in her work, be it her photographes or her large cut glass sculptures. Still Water, like the River Thames, is a stunning photo series of water underlined by footnotes which give anecdotes and refrences from films and […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Roni Horn, Whitney New York

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Monthly Archives: January 2010

CURIOUS? Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections

Christian Boltanski for Monumenta

Zhang Huan: Neither Coming Nor Going

Robert Longo at Metro Pictures

Richard Misrach at PaceWildenstein

Diango Hernandez at Haus der Kunst

Jeffrey Deitch appointed director of Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Hunter MFA Thesis show

Roni Horn aka Roni Horn at The Whitney