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From March 10 to June 2, 2024, the Municipal Museum of Modern Art in Ascona, Switzerland, will present the first in a series of exhibitions that will enhance the holdings of 189 works on permanent loan from the Werner Coninx Foundation in Zurich: beginning with an exhibition on 14 avant-garde artists, from Klee to Kandinsky. ....
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In the 22nd article in a series on 20th century artists who shaped Maltese modernism, Joseph Agius delves into the world of Harry Alden. La Pietà Art history has provided us with numerous examples of artists who are defined by a preferred stylistic choice, sometimes trickling into a thematic disposition as well. One can mention Giorgio Morandi and his still lifes that exude musical silence and metaphysical properties, Carlo Mattioli and his ephemeral trees amid minimal landscapes and Mark Rothko and his exploration of the spiritual through the minimalistic reduction of elements. In Maltese modernism, Harry Alden (1929-2019) stands out as being exclusively and almost religiously devoted to the technique of hard-edge. ....
November 13, 2020–January 23, 2021 For their debut exhibition here, the Croatian-born artists Ivana Vukšić and Bruno Pogačnik Tremow who work together as the collaborative entity TARWUK present an astonishing assortment of drawings, sculptures, and paintings that interrogate trauma, violence, and loss. (Their name, according to the show’s accompanying text written by critic Bob Nickas, is “meant to signal an entwining of identity towards a common purpose: four hands, one mind.”) Per Nickas, TARWUK’s art calls to mind myriad sources, including dystopic science fiction (such as the 1982 movies Blade Runner and Road Warrior), the visceral phantasmagoria of H.R. Giger and Paul Thek, and, perhaps most significantly, the duo’s experiences living through the Yugoslav Wars, which started in 1991 and lasted for an excruciating ten years. ....