Art du XXIème siècle/21th century art

Lightning-struck Tree (2012), Giuseppe Penone. Photo: © Jonty Wilde; courtesy the artist and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. WAKEFIEL.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is presenting an extensive exhibition by Giuseppe Penone that recognises a partnership between one of the most eminent artists working today and one of the world’s foremost sculpture parks, marking the culmination of a dialogue that has evolved since the artist’s first visit to YSP in 1989. Works drawn from five decades of Penone’s career, from the... [Lire la suite]

Jan Fabre at work. Photo: Attilio Maranzano, Assistant: Flavio Pescatori, Copyright Angelos bvba ANTWERP.- In 1628, the Antwerp trinity of Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck received the assignment from the Augustinian monks to make altarpieces for their cloister church in the Kammenstraat. This year, Jan Fabre is receiving the same honour upon the occasion of Antwerp Baroque 2018. The former Augustinian church is now the reception and music centre AMUZ. Specially for these new works of art the church site is open from July... [Lire la suite]

Rob and Nick Carter, Transforming Landscape Painting,  2013-2017, 2.5-hour looped film, monitor with player, frame, 99 × 81 × 13 cm (39 × 32 × 5 in.), edition of 12 + 5 AP. Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts © Rob and Nick Carter 2018 LONDON.- Celebrated British artists Rob and Nick Carter are exhibiting their acclaimed Transforming series at Masterpiece 2018, from 28 June – 4 July. The husband-and-wife artistic duo present... [Lire la suite]

Lot 194. Miquel Barceló (b. 1957), Es Maculi del Gegant (The Giant from Maculi), signed and dated 'Barceló 07' (on the reverse), mixed media on canvas, 112 ¼ x 112 ¼in. (285 x 285cm). Executed in 2007. Estimate GBP 180,000 - GBP 250,000. Price realised GBP 320,750. Courtesy of Christie's Images Ltd 2018. Provenance: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008. ‘ Wherever he may be, Miquel Barceló... [Lire la suite]

Lot 6. Lucian Freud (1922-2011), Portrait on a White Cover, oil on canvas, 116.5 by 143 cm. 45 7/8 by 56 1/4 in. Executed in 2002-03. Estimate: £17,000,000-20,000,000. Sold for £22,464,300. Courtesy Sotheby's. LONDON.- One of Lucian Freud’s last great nudes, Portrait on a White Cover sold hours ago in Sotheby’s London’s saleroom for £22.5million / $29.8 million, making it the most valuable painting by the artist ever sold in London. The previous highest price for a London auction of the artist’s work... [Lire la suite]

Lot 232. Yan Pei-Ming (1960-), Autoportrait. Huile sur toile, 130 x 200 cm. Signé, daté Août 2002 et titré au dos. Estimation: 160 000 € / 190 000 €. Courtesy  Brussels Art Auction Provenance: Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles  Exposition: 2003, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fils du Dragon, Portraits Chinois, 14.5-1.9.2003  Littérature: Yan Peï Ming, Portraits Chinois, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005, repr. en pleine page. Maitres Anciens, Art Moderne, Cbjets de... [Lire la suite]

Lot 18. Zhan Wang, Artificial Rock No. 92, 2016, signed 'Zhan Wang [in Chinese] 2006 3/4' on the reverse, stainless steel, 75 x 40.5 x 21.9 cm. (29 1/2 x 15 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.) Executed in 2006, this work is number 3 from an edition of 4. Estimate: HK$400,000 - 600,000. Courtesy Phillips. Provenance: Haines Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the above by the present owner. Phillips. PIONEERS OF MODERNISM: A SELECTION FROM THE SCHEERES COLLECTION, HONG KONG AUCTION 27 MAY... [Lire la suite]

The Adoration (after Jan Gossaert), 2015-16 by Raqib Shaw. © the artist. Courtesy Raqib Shaw and White Cube EDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) is set to showcase the art of one of the most extraordinary and sought-after artists working anywhere in the world today, the Kashmiri artist Raqib Shaw (b. 1974). Raqib Shaw: Reinventing the Old Masters will be the very first time the work of Shaw – known for his intricate, opulent and incredibly detailed enamel paintings – has ever been... [Lire la suite]

Miquel Barceló, On the sea © Image source: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Villa Kast SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting the exhibition On the sea, with new works by Miquel Barceló. As one of the most important representatives of Spanish contemporary art, Barceló is known for his pastose, relief-like mixed media and expressive ceramics, which also show influences from Catalan tradition and from his travels to West Africa. The artist’s native Mallorca, and in particular the view from the terrace of... [Lire la suite]

Jan Fabre. The appearance and disappearance of Bacchus, Antwerp, Christ (2016). Special creations for The State Hermitage Museum. Courtesy Templon, Paris & Brussels.  BRUSSELS - Galerie Templon in Brussels, is unveiling a series of work by artist Jan Fabre, previously unseen in Belgium, produced for his major exhibition Knight of Despair, Warrior of Beauty at St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in autumn 2016. The exhibition coincides with the presentation of the series My Queens (2016) at the... [Lire la suite]