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In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side, funding came from the Swiss foundation Stiftung GegenwART, with “special thanks to the Sigg Collection”, both museums stress. “Rising prices on the art market make it increasingly difficult for public art institutions to acquire new works by celebrated artists,” says a joint statement. ....
Ulay, on His Own Terms The performance artist, who died in March, was eclipsed by his former collaborator and lover, Marina Abramovic. But he also produced powerful work without her, as an exhibition in Amsterdam shows. “S’he,” (1972-3) a series of Polaroid photographs by Ulay featured in the exhibition “Ulay Was Here” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.Credit.Ulay; via ULAY Foundation By Nina Siegal Published Dec. 29, 2020Updated Dec. 30, 2020 AMSTERDAM Many know Ulay as the man who walked into Marina Abramovic’s performance “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art a decade ago, and brought her to tears. That two-minute encounter between the former collaborators and lovers during her three-month sit-in at the New York museum has been viewed more than 18 million times on YouTube. ....
In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side, funding came from the Swiss foundation Stiftung GegenwART, with “special thanks to the Sigg Collection”, both museums stress. “Rising prices on the art market make it increasingly difficult for public art institutions to acquire new works by celebrated artists,” says a joint statement. ....
In the World But Don t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side, funding came from the Swiss foundation Stiftung GegenwART, with “special thanks to the Sigg Collection”, both museums stress. “Rising prices on the art market make it increasingly difficult for public art institutions to acquire new works by celebrated artists,” says a joint statement. ....
In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side, funding came from the Swiss foundation Stiftung GegenwART, with “special thanks to the Sigg Collection”, both museums stress. “Rising prices on the art market make it increasingly difficult for public art institutions to acquire new works by celebrated artists,” says a joint statement. ....