The Amex Centurion card, created in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas. Photo: American Express.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, February 9.
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How Deaccessioning Is Playing Out in the Public Sphere – Andrew Russeth captures the battle royal underway in the museum world surrounding deaccessioning in light of new challenges posed by the pandemic. Perhaps the most vocal proponent of a loose constructionist view is Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford, who said: “Museum directors, as a convention, learn art history in the classroom, and they learn economic management in practice. The big revelation, for me, is that my greatest act of creativity is now an economic one, as opposed to a conventionally defined creative one.” (
Brian Rochefort s first solo exhibition in Milan opens at Massimo De Carlo
Installation view by Roberto Marossi. Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO
MILAN
.-Massimo De Carlo is presenting Perhaps An Asteroid Hit, Brian Rocheforts first solo exhibition in Milan and the artists second show with the gallery.
Brian Rochefort is a mixed media sculptor based in Los Angeles, who masters the art of glazed and layered ceramic works with vibrant encrusted surfaces. Perhaps An Asteroid Hit is an ideal extension of Jaguar Jaguar, the first exhibition of the artist with the gallery, held in London between November 2019 and January 2020. Perhaps An Asteroid Hit comprises of a new series of twenty sculptures that resemble craters, oozing with vibrant colours mimicking the explosiveness of natural surroundings, nine vessel-like sculptures made of glazed stoneware and earthenware, and a maple wood cabinet consisting of thirty-five cups.
Chess Game: Massimo De Carlo presents an exhibition dedicated to Carl Andre and Alighiero Boetti
Chess Game: Carl Andre and Alighiero Boetti at Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Lombardia. From 7 November 2020 to 16 January 2021. Installation View: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan / London / Hong Kong.
MILAN
.-Massimo De Carlo is presenting Chess Game, an exhibition dedicated to Carl Andre (1935) and Alighiero Boetti (1940‐1994), two artists who played a pivotal role in the international art scene of the XX Century. The exhibition focuses on affinities and contrasts in Carl Andre and Alighiero Boettis practice during the renewal of the artistic language which arose in America and Europe between the 1960s and 1970s, and presents a selection of the most significant artworks in each artists first twenty years of production. The show is curated by Bettina Della Casa and takes place until 16th of January 2021. Both Carl Andre and Alighiero Boetti have participated in som
Massimo De Carlo presents a new painting series of faces by Rob Pruitt
Rob Pruitt: Masks. Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Belgioioso. From December 1, 2020 to January 22, 2021. Installation View: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
MILAN
.-Massimo De Carlo presents Masks, Rob Pruitts 9th exhibition with the gallery and first solo show at the Palazzo Belgioioso space in Milan. Pruitts exhibition centres on a new painting series of faces, initially conceived as props for a dance performance that never was. The body of work began with the smaller canvases which are scaled to the human face and were to be held by the dancers as masks. Reimagining a project that began a decade ago of quick gestures over gradient fields, Pruitt continues his pursuit of depicting the complexities of personality and emotion through these simple means. With these new paintings, the facial gestures are cut into the canvas with a razor - destructive and creative at the same time,