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Miquel Barceló, in Faenza the first anthological exhibition devoted to his ceramics.

From 1^st June to 6^th October the International museum of Ceramics in Faenza devotes an outstanding solo exhibition to the Spanish artist Miquel Barceló one of the greatest protagonist of the contemporary international context. The exhibition in Faenza, curated by Irene Biolchini and Cécile Pocheau Lesteven, is the first anthological event devoted to his ceramic production, from his debut to nowadays. It concerns a special project created by the artist just for the MIC Faenza, in a dialogue with the works belonging to the history of ceramics, housed in the greatest museum of the world devoted to this language. 

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Image: Miquel Barceló, Retrat de Familla, 2015, terracotta e smalti/ earthenware and glazes, 71 x 122,5 x 45 cm, courtesy private collection, ph. Agustí Torres

The Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and Flash Art present Heterotopia I, an installation by Peter Halley in the historic spaces of the Magazzini del Sale, no. 3, on the occasion of Venice Biennale. The exhibition is curated by Gea Politi, director of Flash Art, and will run from May 8 through August 10.

With works by Laurent Clay, RM Fischer, Andrew Kuo - Texts by Elena Sorokina, curated by Geo Politi, presented by the Academy of Fine Arts Venice and Flash Art.

Magazzini del Sale 3
Fondamenta Zattere Ai Saloni
Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy

Jannis Kounellis, curated by Germano Celant, is the major retrospective dedicated to the artist following his death in 2017. Developed in collaboration with Archivio Kounellis, the project brings together more 60 works from 1959 to 2015, from both Italian and international museums , as well as from important private collections both in Italy and abroad. The show explores the artistic and exhibition history of Jannis Kounellis, establishing a dialogue between his works and the eighteenth-century spaces of Ca’ Corner della Regina.

Ca' Corner della Regina
Santa Croce 2215
Venice, Italy

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Jannis Kounellis, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro 2016
Photo: Michele Alberto Sereni

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is collaborating with the artist estate on an exhibition of works by Günther Förg at the historic Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice. It follows on from the survey show, Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty, which took place in Dallas in 2008, and brings together aver 30 pieces from the artist’s multidisciplinary practice- focusing on his paintings and lesser known sculptural work- to reflect on the expansive and intuitive methods of this manifold, intellectual artist.

Dorsoduro, 874
Venice, Italy

Promoter: Dallas Museum of Art
Photo: Günther Förg, Untitled, 2007 / © Estate Günther Förg, Switzerland - Courtesy of Matthew B. Gorson

Ryoji Ikeda and George Condo are included in the 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff.
May 11 - November 24, 2019

The title of the exhibition is a phrase of English invention that has long been mistakenly cited as an ancient Chinese curse that invokes periods of uncertainty, crisis and turmoil; "interesting times", exactly as the ones we live in today.

The 58th Exhibition is curated by Ralph Rugoff, currently the director of the Hayward Gallery in London. Between 1985 and 2002 he wrote art and cultural criticism for numerous periodicals, publishing widely in art magazines as well as newspapers, and published a collection of essays, Circus Americanus (1995). During the same period he began working as an independent curator.

* Ryoji Ikeda's participation in Venice is supported by Audemars Piguet, The Vinyl Factory and Institut Français.

Image: Ryoji Ikeda at Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, 2018 / © Ryoji Ikeda - Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut

Booth C35
Tour & Taxis, Brussels

Preview and Vernissage ( by invitation only) : April 25th
Opening days: April 26 – 28 / 11 am - 7 pm

Almine Rech is pleased to announce its participation to Art Brussels 2019.

The gallery will present a highlight of works by Jan-Ole Schiemann and a selection of works by  Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Todd Bienvenu, Brian Calvin, Johan Creten, Genieve Figgis, Sylvie Fleury, Joseph Kosuth, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Erik Lindman, Rudolf Polanszky, Matthieu Ronsse, Turi Simeti and 
Tom Wesselmann. 

Image: Jan-Ole Schiemann, Kavex12, 2019 - Ink, acrylics, oil pastel, charcoal on canvas - 112 x 92 x 5 cm (framed), 44 1/8 x 36 1/4 x 2 inches (framed) / © Jan-Ole Schiemann - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.

Almine Rech is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2019.

The gallery will present works by John M Armleder, Ha Chong-Hyun, George Condo, Günther Förg, Peter Halley, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Taryn Simon, Kim Tschang-Yeul, De Wain Valentine, and Tom Wesselmann.

We look forward to welcoming you at Booth 3E05.

Image: Tom Wesselmann, Still Life with Blonde (Blue Curtain), 1999, Oil on canvas, 99 x 127 x 7 cm (framed);  39 x 50 x 2 3/4 inches (framed) / © 2019 The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Estate and Almine Rech. Photo: Melissa Castro-Duarte.

For its first participation to TEFAF Maastricht, Almine Rech is pleased to present a group exhibition on Booth 501, in the Modern section, featuring artworks by Miquel Barceló, Agustín Cárdenas, Ha Chong-Hyun, Günther Förg, Markus Lüpertz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Antoni Tàpies, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Cy Twombly and Tom Wesselmann.

Image: Tom Wesselmann, Face #5, 1967-68 - Oil on canvas - 130,8 x 190,5 cm; 51 1/2 x 75 inches / © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York - Courtesy of The Estate of Tom Wesselmann and Almine Rech - Photo: Eric Simon.

In 2019, as an exceptional cultural highlight, the Fondation Beyeler is mounting a unique exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces of his early Blue and Rose periods. This will be the most comprehensive presentation ever seen in Europe of Picasso’s paintings and sculptures from 1901 to 1906, each one of which is a milestone on the road to recognition as the twentieth century’s paramount artist. Picasso’s pictures from this period are counted among the most beautiful examples of modern art and are certainly some of the most valuable art works anywhere in the world.

www.fondationbeyeler.ch

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the nomination of Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019.

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The Prix Marcel Duchamp reflects above all the collector’s view – the view of the informed and enthusiastic lay art-lover – of the French scene today. But beyond the very wide-ranging roster of artists shortlisted since 2000, a glimpse of the vast artistic panorama of our times, the prize is also the vehicle of a humanist message reflecting the French spirit of open-mindedness and even-handedness that I value enormously and which seems to me ever more important to defend in the divided world we live in. 

Founded by the aDiaF in 2000, open to French and French-based artists and organised from the first in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, the Prix Marcel Duchamp has made its mark as one of the most effective vehicles for raising awareness of contemporary art in France, gaining a prestige that makes it one of the most important of national prizes on the international scene.

Deliberately intended to recognise the most innovative artists of their generation, the Prix Marcel Duchamp seeks to promote the whole spectrum of contemporary art while setting different forms and practices into dialogue. The prize has to date been awarded to 16 artists from among some 70 shortlisted candidates. 

- Gilles Fuchs