Cardi Gallery opens the first major solo show of Paolo Canevari s work in the UK
A museum-scale exhibition occupying four floors at Cardi London in Mayfair, Self-portrait / Autoritratto brings together over 30 works including sculptures, drawings and installation that range from the artists notorious 1990s rubber sculptures to his most current series Monuments of the Memory: Landscapes and Constellations.
LONDON
.- Italian contemporary artist Paolo Canevari is best known for transforming everyday materials and icons into large-scale sculptures that confront his audience with stark, political and philosophical commentary. Throughout his career, Canevari has worked in a variety of media, most notably tyres and inner tubes, painting, drawing, performance, animation and film.
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Updated 18th February 2021
Why Louise Bourgeois made her iconic spider sculptures
Written by Anya Ventura, CNN
Louise Bourgeois s spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, Maman French for mother stands 30 feet tall at London s Tate Modern; powerfully crouched, its spindly bronze legs taper down to exquisite pinpoints. Underneath the spider s abdomen, a metal egg sac full of white marble orbs hangs ominously over viewers heads. Though Bourgeois didn t begin her spiders until she was in her eighties, they have become her best-known works.
Bourgeois s origin story is recounted often in the numerous monographs, films, and exhibitions devoted to the influential late artist, whose biomorphic, large-scale works rank among the most important of the past century. She was born in 1911 in Paris, where her family operated a business restoring tapestries. As a child, she honed her drawing skil
David Nolan Gallery announces the death of Barry Le Va
Barry Le Va installing a glass sculpture at Documenta, 1972.
NEW YORK, NY
.-David Nolan Gallery announced the death of Barry Le Va on January 24th. A pioneer of process art, Le Va rose to prominence in the late 1960s through sculptures and installation work of unconventional materials made according to meticulous yet dynamic drawings.
Barry Le Va was born in 1941 in Long Beach, California to Arthur and Muriel Le Va. In his youth, he was greatly interested in cartoons, architecture, and the artwork of Frank Lloyd Wright, Öyvind Falhström and Roberto Matta as well as detective stories, all which would influence his work later in his career. Le Va attended California State University, Long Beach from 1960 to 1963, continuing his studies at Los Angeles College of Art & Design, and Otis Art Institute of LA County, where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1967.
Remarkable creativity of painter Doug Argue brought vividly to life in new book
Its wonderful to be reminded of the 35 year trajectory of Doug Argues work. Its a gorgeous book- great images, beautifully printed. Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
NEW YORK, NY
.- The remarkable creativity of protean American painter Doug Argue is brought vividly to life in Doug Argue: Letters to the Future. Words and images explore, explain and contextualize Argues trajectory from art-school rebel to celebrated, much-exhibited artist on a global stage.
With a colossal curiosity and tireless dedication to his solitary studio practice, Argue stands as a thinker-painter admired by a growing circle of curators and collectors. His work has been shown in museums and galleries from New York (where three large paintings are on permanent view at One World Trade Center) to Sydney and from Vienna to Venice. His often giant canvases shed virtuosic light