18/08/2010 Folk Art Paradise: Joe Minter’s African Village in America
In 1989, retired construction worker and artist Joe Minter, Sr. had a vision: He wanted to commemorate 400 years of Africans in America by creating an installation using found materials, and erect it in his backyard. Concerned that the then newly opened Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham would exclude the masses of ordinary people involved in the movement, he prayed, and received his mission from God, to document the struggle in his own way. The installation is created by his home into the west side of Birmingham, Alabama.
29/07/2010 11th edition of the EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE
05 September 2010
This year edition 26 European Countries taking part to the event.
Every year, a special subject matter is chosen, around which activities and events are being organized. The subject matter of this year, “Art and Judaism”, offers an especially wide field of topics to explore different kinds of art, artists, periods and more.
05/07/2010 Reflections on Nelson Mandela. Icon of Peace
With quotations from celebrities such as Kevin Spacey and Kate Moss, as well as working professionals, artists, and kids, Reflections on Nelson Mandela presents a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning leader’s power to inspire and influence the world. A fashion photographer and native South African, author Antoinette Haselhorst approached a diverse range of individuals for the project, armed with a camera and a single question: “What do you think society, mankind, and humanity can learn from Nelson Mandela’s values and virtues?” The result is a volume of touching photos and poignant reflections, with proceeds from sales going toward the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund: www.nmcf.co.za
23/06/2010 Sacres Music Colloquium XX
Fino al 27 giugno 2010 Duquesne University
Church of the Epiphany
Pennsylvania, USA
The largest and most in-depth teaching conference and retreat on sacred music in the world. Gregorian Chant has been called the most beautiful music this side of Heaven. But as Pope Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican Council have emphasized, it is also integral to Catholic liturgical life and should be heard and experienced with wide participation in every parish. The Church Music Association of America is working to bring about this ideal with its Sacred Music Colloquium.
June 18 - September 12, 2010 Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
New York, NY USA
This exhibition from the collection of the oldest monastery in Ukraine, the Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra (or Monastery of the Caves) will survey the history of Ukrainian icons and their stylistic evolution over the centuries. Ukrainian icons, unlike their Russian counterparts, incorporated noted influences from western art, particularly during the Renaissance and Baroque styles. The blending of East and West in their iconography and style is unique and needs to be better known in the US. Alongside icons the exhibition will display textiles, ceremonial and altar crosses, chalices and other liturgical objects. MOBIA will be the first venue in the United States.
15/06/2010 FIRE - FROM ERACLITO TO TIZIANO FROM PREVIATI TO PLESSI
6 March - 4 July 2010 Palazzo Reale
Piazza Duomo
Milan, Italy
Exhibition postponed until 4 July 2010
Fire is the second event in a four-year project about the four elements (Water, Air, Earth, Fire) developed and implemented by the Foundation DNArt with the Lombardia Region in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan-Culture. The exhibition is an exploration into the symbolic and archetypal roots of the Fire element by comparing them through the exhibition of archaeological, artistic and contemporary works allowing the visitor to follow a thread that come with the growth of our culture from antiquity to present. Among the splendid works selected, all masterpieces, it ranges from ancient Greece to Imperial Rome, from Tiziano to Plessi, from Cranach to Domenichino and from Previati to Burri. The path is divided into 11 thematic sections that highlight the symbolic value of the Fire: Fire creator, Fire in myth, Fire Underground, Rebirth, Fire helpful, Fire community, ancestral Fears, Light of redemption, Light and Darkness, Apocalypse of knowledge, Dis-concealment.
It will start on 18th June the 53rd edition of Spoleto Festival, rich and multiform appointment. An International Festival of culture and entertainment in a cosmopolite region with a great tradition in reception, wich become a point of reference for art, nature and food. Gogo No Eiko opens the Festial with a new japaneese opera by the musician Hans Werner Henze.
[ download allegato ] 01/06/2010 4th Cairo Video Festival - Video Art & Experimental films
Deadline for submission: 15th of June 2010
Medrar for Contemporary Art is a common cultural corporate and philanthropic platform for young emerging artists based in Egypt. It aims to contribute to the motivation of different means of communication, developing experiences and financial support for contemporary praxis on the national, regional and international level. Medrar aims to drive the interest of young emerging artists and provide them with chances of experimentation and accession by encouraging their activities and the intercultural exchange between them globally, as well as creating a space for dialogue between young art critics by producing serial prospectuses and critique researches and providing data base for curatorial based projects. Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submission to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown. To submit videos as only screening copies in (DVD-PAL or NTSC) format along with a completed application form in a sealed envelope to:
Forth Video Festival - Cairo
Medrar for contemporary art
22 khayrat st. El Sayeda Zeinab
Postal code:11461
[ download allegato ] 29/05/2010 The Soul and the World. Religious art between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries
Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle Via Monastero Maggiore 38
Cividale del Friuli, (UD) Italy
POSTPONED UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010
The Cividale exhibition will exhibit about sixty pieces of various age and type strictly unpublished: paintings, sculptures and sacred vessels made between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the works from private collections included paintings attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, Andrea Schiavone, Alessandro Magnasco, Johann Carl Loth, Giandomenico Ferretti and Pompeo Batoni. An important exhibition, organized by the City of Cividale and curated by the art historian Roberta Costantini in collaboration with the University of Udine.
[ download allegato ] 28/05/2010 Festarte VideoArt Festival -3rd International Competition 2010
Federculture, a Public Services Federation operating in the sectors of Culture, Tourism, Sports, and Leisure has, among its institutional objectives, the objective of promoting territories through culture. Federculture promotes events and projects in favor of minimizing the gap between diverse realities, providing occasion for comparison and thus a direct dialogue between artists of different nationalities and backgrounds. Festarte, with the theme - INVISIBLE VIOLENCE Private / Public / Social - challenges the artists to investigate on a kind of violence that does not injure the body, that is not visible, that hurts without touching, that dims the mind, deteriorates the existence and the vital force. A competition of Video Art that comprises an exhibition, awards, and subsequent touring shows of selected works in a few principal Italian museums.
Prize money Euro 5.000
Deadline to send the requested Videos and Documentation - Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Maximum length of videos: 8 minutes
Awards night September 15, 2010: At “La pelanda” (MACRO Testaccio) Rome – piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4 New Cultural Area of the Municipality of Rome, managed by MACRO.
With the patronage of: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ministro della Gioventù, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione del Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali della Provincia di Roma
26 – 28 May 2010 Fondazione Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice, Italy
The international conference on Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the West has been organised with the aim of exploring the relations between the intangibility of thought and its transformation into a visual, written and intelligible matter. This will be done by considering the differences and interactions between various forms of writing and by highlighting the relationship between types of thought and forms of communication in different cultural contexts (especially in Asia and Europe). In this case the conference will begin by looking at writing in its most suggestive material manifestation – calligraphy. In the European tradition, calligraphy makes use of abstract symbols which basically refer to phonetic expression. To a large extent this process is also found in the calligraphy of Islamic and Indian languages. In the Far East, on the other hand, calligraphy takes on a more material aspect, not so much because there is a strong visual component binding the written sign to an object or a concept, but because calligraphy and image are very often merged in both art and literature and especially in painting on religious themes.
The appointment with the Salone returns every year in May at Lingotto. Today, the Salone is the biggest bookshop in Italy and the cultural area of the MediterraneanThe Salone is also a buzzing international festival of culture with a programme of over one thousand conferences, meetings, debates and shows with more than 2,000 speakers and guests over five days. The Salone Internazionale del Libro is organised by the Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura (Foundation for Books, Music and Culture), the Province of Turin and the City of Turin.
15 May 2010 Museums and archeologiacal areas
Italy
For the second year the MiBAC participates to “the Night of the Museums”, the European event with admission free in museums and archaeological areas in evening and night timetable. An occasion that involve the young public to partecipate. A lots of involved places of art will enrich the proposal organizing events as concerts, thematic exhibition and evocative guided tour.
20/08/2010 I Dialoghi di San Giorgio Protecting nature or saving creation?
14 Settembre 2010 - 16 Settembre 2010 Fondazione Giorgio
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venezia, Italia
The meeting is based on the now widely accepted notion that the gamut of passions mobilized by ecology so far has not reached the level or intensity of what is required for the immensity of the tasks at hand. In the past only religion seems to have mobilized the right set of transformative passions. But it is not clear whether this level of energy is still available nor it is clear whether it is really useful. Our idea is to review the topic of ecology and theology and try to explore some new paths in what would very easily otherwise risk becoming an accumulation of “feel good” attitudes. Two reasons, we think, explain the relative sterility of many debates at this junction between ecology and theology. The Dialogue will involve a select number of experts and scholars from different experiences and disciplines – philosophers, historians, anthropologists, theologians (representatives of different religious traditions), environmentalists, economists, political strategists and authors. These experts will meet and discuss their points of view, visions and experience over three days (14, 15 and 16 September) in the unique setting of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, a place capable of creating a suggestive atmosphere, encouraging calm refl ection and open debate. All the participants will sit around a table for three days and the general public will be allowed to attend the debate. The conversation is likely to be held mostly in English. The following scholars have already agreed to take part: Matthew Engelke, Eric Geoffroy, Izabela Jurasz, Bruno Latour, Ignazio Musu, Ted Nordhaus, Anne-Marie Reijnen, Simon Schaffer, Michael Shellenberger, Elizabeth Theokritoff, George Theokritoff, Andrea Vicini and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
Until 31 october 2010 Chiesa di San Rocco
Venice, Italy
Twelve Artists (not only painters but also sculptors, glassmakers and goldsmiths) reinterpret Giotto's cross: the show has been conceived and promoted by the Melori & Rosenberg Art Gallery and organized with the Parish of San Salvador. The famous template on which the Giotto's Crucifix was painted has been delivered on forex to each Artist: Annalù (San Donà di Piave, Venezia), Anna Madia (Torino), Franco Murer (Falcade, Belluno), Igor Molin (Burano, Venezia), Lucia Sarto (Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine), Luciano Meggiarin (Venezia), Luigi Rocca (Venezia), Mario Formica (Rimini), Mario Gualandri (Roma), Miria Malandri (Forlì), Norberto Moretti (Venezia) and Riccardo Costantini (Burano, Venezia). Each Artist faced a novel challenge: the request to represent the crucifix by using their specific styles and the materials used in their everyday work, creating a new representation on a particular material and the imposed framing of its bounds.
Until 18 October 2010 Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY
This is the first exhibition of contemporary Tibetan art in a New York City museum. The nine Tibetan artists featured each explore contemporary issues--personal, political, and cultural--by integrating the centuries-old traditional imagery, techniques, and materials found in Tibetan Buddhist art with modern influences and media.
The exhibition began with an invitation: the nine artists were asked to submit new and recent works that served as the show's formative voice and inspired the curatorial response. Specific works by the same artists were then selected from New York private collections in order to complement the new pieces and highlight each artist's range. Tradition Transformed represents the unique position of this groundbreaking generation of Tibetan artists that includes Gonkar Gyatso, Tenzing Rigdol, Losang Gyatso, and Dedron.
29/07/2010 Nove artisti per “Napoli milionaria” - Contemporary art exhibit
21 July - 31 August 2010 Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Roma
Martina Franca (TA) Italy
The exhibition Nove artisti per Napoli milionaria (tr. Nine artists for Side Street Story) stems from the desire to create a dynamic relationship between contemporary art and the musical, introducing new ideas and oblique reinterpretations into current artistic production. This year’s edition brings together works by nine Italian and foreign artists Ennio Bertrand, Bianco-Valente, Filippo Centenari, CONIGLIOVIOLA Group, Raffaele Fiorella, Raffaela Mariniello, Ottonella Mocellin-Nicola Pellegrini, Anila Rubiku, Tarshito, whom works on display are inspired more or less directly by the events in the play and film, as well as by the city they are set in, providing novel re-readings and poetic reflections on some of the issues raised in what is today considered one of the most remarkable works by the world-famous Neapolitan playwright. Despite being set at a specific time and place, its emphasis is on timeless, universal issues: war and physical destruction, the individual suffering and decadence of moral values that are its consequences, the struggle for survival, the need for human solidarity, and the hope for a better future.
18/07/2010 Flare II - Antony Gormley - St Paul's Cathedral Arts
Summer 2010 St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul's Churchyard
London UK
St Paul’s has unveiled ‘Flare II’, a new work by Antony Gormley in the dramatic setting of the Cathedral’s Geometric Staircase. The installation forms part of St Paul’s Cathedral Arts Project, an ongoing programme which seeks to explore the encounter between art and faith. Antony Gormley said: "Wren understood proportion, space and gravitational dynamics as no other British architect of his time and the Geometric Staircase is a supreme and elegant outcome of this understanding. "Flare II" is my attempt to use applied geometry to construct an energy field describing a human space in space. I am delighted to have the opportunity to show this work in such a brilliant and relevant context."
From 27 June 2010 Basilica de Zacatecas Cathedral
Hidalgo, Zacatecas, MEXICO
Sculptural project by Javier Marin in collaboration with Gantous Arquitectos. On June 27th the unveiling of the piece 'Retablo,' executed by Javier Marin in collaboration with Gantous Arquitectos, will take place at the Basilica de Zacatecas Cathedral. This contemporary artistic intervention, dedicated to the people of Zacateca and to the bishop of Zacateca, Fernando Mario Chávez Ruvalcaba, will be unveiled by the state governor Amalia Garcia Medina. The Cathedral will open its doors to the general public on June 27th at 9:30 p.m. In 2008 the State of Zacateca and the Zacateca State Tourism Secretariat made a call to artists to execute the principal nave and the presbytery of the Basilica de Zacatecas Cathedral, located in the historic centre of the city. It was decided that the Cathedral be endowed with an important work of contemporary art, which will enhance the existing aesthetics of the building and the city. Javier Marin was selected among sixteen Mexican artists who were invited to propose a project for the Cathedral's principal nave and the presbytery. As of June 2010, the Basilica de Zacatecas Cathedral, declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco, will house the piece 'Retablo,' executed by Javier Marin in collaboration with Gantous Arquitectos.The artwork, sculpted in less than a year, consists of the high altar as main visual focus in the principal nave, the presbytery area and the altar - composed of four wings that hold a marble plaque, as well as low relief carvings and sculptures of smaller dimensions. The body of the altarpiece, composed of rhythmic geometric and modular forms of great precision, provides space to house images of saints executed in linear organic forms; the result is a balanced composition in accordance with the conditions and the nature of the site. Even though the high altar and the presbytery were conceived, executed and sculpted as a single piece, the singularity of the gestures, the expressiveness of the molding, the characteristics of the materials, and the evidence of the process clearly show the artistic personality of Javier Marin, in harmony with the architectural proposal of Gantous Arquitectos.
Until 11 July 2010 CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino
Via Tamaro, 3
Bellinzona, Switzerland
CO RPUS is the first personal exhibition to be presented by the artist Pier Giorgio De Pinto (Italy-Switzerland_1968) in Switzerland, in the venue of the CACT Centre of Contemporary Art in Canton Ticino. After already featuring in QUEER/SCHRÄG (2009) and INTIMACY AND DESECRATION (2009-2010), which is soon to be the subject of a forthcoming publication, De Pinto ‒ as the exhibition’s evocative title suggests ‒ forges a cross-section, a ‘body’ of his production; just as for him the ‘body’ itself is a thematic element, one with which he has been working for years. For each room, 5 at all, there are 5 installation works: KYRIE ELEISON, SACER, IT’ S ALL ABOUT LOVE, SICILIAN YELL FOR AYAAN HIRSI ALI, FREE FROM THE MEN OF GOD.
19/06/2010 Il Paesaggio Descritto. UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. Photographs by Luca Capuano
Until 16 July 2010 Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò
New York University
24 West 12th Street
New York, NY USA
The exhibit "Il Paesaggio Descritto - UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy", concerning the collection of 44 shots of 44 different Italian UNESCO Heritage Sites by photographer Luca Capuano. The display is the result of a collaboration between the Casa, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the Associazione Città e Siti Italiani UNESCO. The exhibition wants to produce an accurate documentation of the state of preservation of these UNESCO sites in Italy; and wants to offer the public a comprehensive overview of this extraordinary country. The pictures chosen remove all of the external contemporary elements that could distract the attention of the viewers, from the advertisement posters to the people walking by and the traffic.
16/06/2010 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF VILLA ADRIANA - LAZIO
15 giugno - 18 luglio 2010
Villa Adriana
Tivoli, Lazio Italy
An amazing crossing of cultures and various style will characterize the 4th edition festiVAI - International Festival of Villa Adriana - Lazio, promoted by the region of Lazio and produced by tFondazione Musica per Roma in collaboration with MIBAC - Direzione Regionale Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici of Lazio and the city of Tivoly. The programme will give an unknown overview of the international scene.
15 - 16 June 2010 h. 21 Gnosis di Akram Khan
22 - 23 June 2010 h. 21 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
"Songs of the wanderers"
26 June 2010 h. 21 Vertigo Dance Company
"MANA. Vessel of Light"
01 July 2010 h. 21 Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Rizzari, Filippo Timi
"Pierino e il lupo"
04 July 2010 h 21 Mimmo Cuticchio
"Tancredi e Clorinda"
8-9-10 July 2010 h. 21 Aurélia Thierrée
"L'Oratorio d'Aurélia"
13 July 2010 h. 21 Enrico Rava, PMJL - Parco della Musica Jazz Lab
"Rava Noir"
16-17 July 2010 h. 21 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet
"Babel"
18 July 2010 h. 21 Elvis Costello
"Elvis Costello & the Sugarcanes"
12/06/2010 0, 1 and visions personal exhibiton of Hitoshi Kuriyama
18 June - 1 August 2010 Venice Projects
Dorsoduro 868
Venice, Italia
Hitoshi Kuriyama an archivist at the Japanese Aerospace Agency, today is a 31-year-old emerging artist. His work considers and examines the paradoxical dialogue between such diametrically opposed concepts as "life vs. death", "creation vs. destruction", "presence vs. absence" and considers from an artistic and scientific point of view their affinity through the equation 0 =1. His curiosity about the dynamics governing matter and the universe and about the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of existence, have led the artist to choose light as his preferred medium for artistic creations. Light as a metaphor for life. Light as transformation of matter from one state to another, as the sublimation of energy in life. After all, what is life, if not the transformation of the body or the soul into something else? Whatever one’s belief – religion, philosophy or science – as Lavoisier said, “Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed”.
12/06/2010 Identity Eliminating System. Paintings and Installation by HU Xing Yi
19 Jun - 1 Aug 2010 STIR ART GALLERY
1 Mao Ming South Road
Shanghai, China
Shanghai artist Hu Xing Yi extends his work from paintings to three-dimensional mediums and spaces. His work continues to discuss human character and individuality, or the lack of them in the current social environment. Some of the pieces in the exhibition include face casts of people from all walks of life. These faces fill up all sorts of rice bowls and take-out boxes. Other pieces are large casted iron woks with vaguely painted faces inside, and birdcages with live birds pecking breads made from the casts of artist's own face. Its symbolism expresses the helplessness in the current social and cultural environment where idealism, human nature and individuality are being put under house arrest, consumed and eliminated. In this helplessness, people can only immerse in the vicious circle of senseless and excessive acts of being consuming and consumed. People of different identities are lost in the entrapment of their own dreams. The rice bowls and take-out boxes in the exhibition are also full of cultural significance and specific symbolism.
12/06/2010 The Cross the head and the plate. History of John the Baptist
12 June - 24 October 2010 GALLERIA COMUNALE D'ARTE - PALAZZO DEL RIDOTTO
Corso Giuseppe Mazzini 1
Cesena, Italy
It's a particular event in which are exposed sisxty paintings of the 1600's about italian and foreign painters in Italy, coming from the Koelliker collection. Masterpiece that come from Ribera to Lanfranco, Caroselli to Pietro da Cortona, Desubleo to Cantarini, Cairo to Pagani, and other painters to create a rich anthology on the figure of the saint which covers a period that goes from the 16th to the 18th Century. In Biblioteca Piana are exposed works of ten contemporary artists who are invited to work on the topic of the Batiste: Enrico Azzolini, Laura Baldassari, Cesare Baracca, Giovanni Blanco, Fabio Castellani, Lorenzo Di Lucido, Massimiliano Fabbri, Franco Pozzi, Nicola Samorì and Erik Turroni, they have interpreted the iconography of the saint in personal way and their works will go to replace the usually placed papal portraits in the room for all the duration of the exhibition.
8 June - 17 July 2010 Wannabee Gallery
Via Genova Giovanni Thaon Di Revel, 3
Milan, Italy
The Wannabee Gallery in Milan from 8 June until 17 July, the exhibition of two photographers and Roman Winkler+Noah entitled ‘Awakening’. Among the new works there are women on the cross. Portraits of “news Christ” that rattle and throw back a defiant message, a critique of the darkest aspects of religion and contemporary society. Winkler+Noah expose formed in the advertising photography where they kept many important communication campaigns for prestigious brands.
6 June — 18 July 2010 Les églises centre d'art contemporain
Rue éterlet
Chelles, France
Opening: 5 June 2010, from 11.30 am
Stefan Nikolaev is one of those artists still young enough (he was born in 1970) to hang out in night clubs and believe at the same time in art as something that abstracts competitive atmospheres, merging paroxysm and pith aimed at caustic and nevertheless tempered consumption. His sculptures, with their finish befitting flawless knick-knacks, often offer the spectacular presence of monumental religious by-products, marrying industrial design with the luxury of handmade gold and silver work, idolatrous formalism with Pop icons, and commercial promotion with metaphysical disillusionment. His huge packets of cigarettes spring to mind, made of marble and engraved with gold, conjuring up, through their very size, kinds of advertising gravestones, brutally lending substance to the warning message printed in all cigarette packs. Or, more recently, his replica on the scale of an ATM galvanized with 24-carat gold, turning the cold cash-vending machine into a seductive medium of extravagance, a disturbing decoy for dazzled onlookers who are thus only able to remove the reflection of their eternally suspended and hor(au)rified greed…
28/05/2010 IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS: THIRTY YEARS LATER
28 May - 5 September 2010 CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Valle Inclán s/n
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The project In Search of the Miraculous: Thirty Years Later is centred on the last episode in a creative life that was marked by risk and adventure: the Ocean Wave, the boat in which the artist Bas Jan Ader set out in July 1975 to challenge nature to its ultimate consequences, in his posthumous work, was found ten months later, capsized, in the Irish Box fishing grounds by the Spanish trawler Eduardo Pondal whose base was the port of Corunna. This event was essential to the understanding of the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, and constitutes the focus of the exhibition proposal. Curator: Pedro de Llano
Collective ritual events
A day in Rassa ... in search of well-being
The day of the festivity of Saint Joseph is an appreciated and a lot felt tradition in Rassa and this year it becomes rich of various moments of encounter with the art as well as religious. In fact, Sunday 8 August 2010, after the Mass and procession in honor of the Saint, starting from 9:30 a.m., the Mayor Fabrizio Tocchio will inaugurate the exhibit of Contemporary Sacred Art curated by Andrea B. Del guercio and overseen by ASC artesacracontemporanea and by Comunicazione Creativa.
20/08/2010 SIR FRANCIS BURT MEMORIAL RECITAL Colin Walsh
MONDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 7.30PM St George's Cathedral
38 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
A chance to hear one of the world’s most highly respected organists. Colin Walsh has performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall and across the cathedrals, abbeys and chapels of England, toured most European countries, North America, New Zealand and Australia, and recorded many times for the BBC. Colin will select an exciting programme of pieces to suit the Cathedral’s magnificent West Organ.
15/08/2010 The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting
3 September 2010 - 23 May 2011 Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY USA
With the destruction of Indian Buddhism in 1203, Tibet's previous source of artistic inspiration was wiped out. Tibetan artists then turned to Nepal, the only nearby surviving center of traditional Buddhist art, and also home to the Newar artists of the Kathmandu Valley who were well known and sought out for their extraordinary skill in painting, sculpture, and wood working.The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting traces the chronological development of the Beri style, highlighting key stylistic features such as dark indigo blue backgrounds, predominant red tones, decorative scrollwork, and distinctive architectural details. Among the most noteworthy works from the exhibition are a masterful painting containing four minutely-detailed mandalas created in the mid-15th century by Newari artists; the last two known major commissions in the Beri style; and important loans from the Walters Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a number of private collections.
29/07/2010 LA PIETRA E IL LEONE. SAN PIETRO E SAN MARCO NELL’ORIENTE CRISTIANO
Until 10 October 2010 GALLERIE DI PALAZZO LEONI MONTANARI
Contra' Santa Corona 25
Vicenza, Italy
The exhibition proposes, through twelve precious tables, the majority of which usually conserved in warehouse and not visible to the public, a deepening on the figures of the saints Peter and Marcus in the Russian art; personages who in the iconography of the Christian East appear in discreet way and, more often, as second lead, on the contrary than happen in the western Christianity. The topic of the exhibit is connected to the recent initiative on Saint Peter and Saint Marcus, connected with the celebrations for the fifth century of the construction of the basilica of Saint Peter in Vatican, for which has been published the volume "San Pietro e san Marco. Arte e iconografia in area adriatica" (curated by L. Caselli, Rome 2009). A precious exhibition-dossier, curated by Michele Bacci, in order to invite to discover the main collection of Russian icons in the West, one of the more important out of Russia: the rarest tables exposed in fact come from that treasure represented by the Collection of icons that Intesa Sanpaolo guards into the Palazzo Leoni Montanari.
23 July 2010 - 1 January 2012 Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY
The exhibition introduces visitors to the art of the Himalayan cultural sphere, presenting the major concepts comprehensively and equipping visitors with the tools to understand, appreciate and contextualize many of the works of art throughout the museum's six floors of galleries. The exhibition begins with a large map and multimedia display of the Himalayas which orient visitors to the geographic scope and diversity of this region, including Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan as well as adjacent areas of India, China, and Mongolia, that are distinct but culturally interrelated.
Beginning in October 2010, Gateway to Himalayan Art will be home to a spectacular Buddhist shrine room, on long-term loan from the Alice S. Kandell Collection and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The shrine room will contain approximately 170 works of art created between the 13th and 19th centuries from the Tibetan Plateau, China and Mongolia shown in the religious context in which these sacred objects would be found in a private Tibetan shrine.
29/07/2010 The Two Qalams: Islamic Arts of Pen and Brush
Until 5 August 2010 The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Gallery 228, second floor
Philadelphia, PA USA
In Arabic, the word qalam originally meant the calligrapher’s reed pen. Calligraphers were and are esteemed in Islamic circles because their pens write the sacred words of the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam. The attitude toward painters, however, has not always been so positive since their brushes could depict—thus create—human and animal figures, thereby challenging the sole creative authority of God. Persian poets of the sixteenth century countered this negative perception by describing the painter’s brush as a second qalam, equivalent to that of the calligrapher’s pen. The two qalams came together in the vibrant bookmaking workshops of the Islamic courts of Persia and India where calligraphers and painters collaborated to produce a wealth of illustrated manuscripts and elaborate albums filled with specimens of beautiful writing and painting.
07/07/2010 José Carreras play Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez
Friday 9, Monday 12 and Wednesday 14 luglio 2010 Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano / VivilDuomo
Milano, Italia
For the third proposal in July, on the Milan Cathedral Terrace, José Carreras will marvellous play the La Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez which represent for the author the attempt to merge west sacred music with t the Andean popular music, example of polulates integration through the spiritual force of the religion.
With the project ViviDuomo the Veneranda Fabbrica wish to involve the city and the national and international public in a program of initiatives that value and open all the monument symbol of Milan. In the 2010 VivilDuomo has the main purpose to start the restoration of the Greater Guglia.
23/06/2010 XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara
June 26 - October 31, 2010 Teatro Animosi, Piazza Cesare Battisti
Carrara, Italy
Artistic director: Fabio Cavallucci. The fourteenth edition aims to position the Biennale among the leading contemporary art events in Europe. Some of the most internationally acclaimed artists together with a large number of emerging artists will be invited to create specific works. Over the years, the Carrara Biennale, which began in 1957, has hosted artists of international fame as Henry Moore, Robert Morris, Luigi Mainolfi, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giulio Paolini, Louise Bourgeois, Mario Merz, Stephan Balkenhol, Antony Gormley, Marc Quinn, as well as some of the most significant Italian curators such as Luca Massimo Barbero, Bruno Corà, Enrico Crispolti and Francesco Poli. The International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara is instituted by the Council of Carrara, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Carrara and the Cassa di Risparmio of Carrara; it is supported by Regione Toscana and Provincia di Massa Carrara, and is organized thanks to the collaboration with the Fine Arts Academy of Carrara, the Agency for Tourism Promotion of Massa Carrara and the Internazionale Marmi e Macchine Carrara Spa.
June 16 – July 3, 2010 New Jerseyy
Hüningerstrasse 18,
Basel, CH
We had a discussion about the Church, the Church signs in the US along the streets, about their poetry, about seduction, repression and basement tapes. The fact, that these Church signs make you laugh, but that the Church isn't funny, not the Catholic Church, none of them, no. Signs like "The Most Powerful Position Is On Your Knees" or "Don't Be So Open-Minded Your Brains Fall Out" or "There Are Some Questions That Can't Be Answered by Google" or "Everyone Needs to Be Loved Especially When They Don't Deserve It" or "Sunday's Message: Jesus Said, Bring Me That Ass". One idea was to bind these Church sign-images into a book, together with Josh Smith, to touch each page. Another discussion we had was about cynicism, maybe a misunderstanding.
04/06/2010 The Old Testament in Medieval Manuscript Illumination
1 June - 8 August 2010 The J. Paul Getty Trust
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA USA
The Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible modified and reordered for Christian use) served as one of the richest sources for narrative art in the Middle Ages. It provided familiar stories–such as those of the Creation of the World and Noah's Ark–and held up heroes such as David and Solomon for emulation. Medieval readers turned to the Old Testament not only for inspiration and moral guidance, but also as a source of entertaining tales and historical information. This exhibition features illustrations of the Old Testament in a wide variety of books, including: Bibles, private devotional manuscripts, books for the mass, and world histories. This image of the Old Testament hero Samson with a lion is taken from a page of a "bestiary," or medieval encyclopedia of nature, that also includes moralizing lessons. Samson's identity is confirmed by such details as his long hair, the source of his strength, and his closed eyes. Behind the figures, a delicately painted graphic background repeats heraldic images of the fleur de lys and a cathedral.
01/06/2010 The Beffi Triptych at the Getty Museum of Los Angeles
Until 5 September 2010 The J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, USA
One of the most important works from the National Museum of Abruzzo in the city of L'Aquila, the Triptych is on loan to the Getty from the Italian government and will be on view through September 5th in the Museum’s North Pavilion (Gallery N201), alongside other paintings from Italy that were created around the same time period (early to mid-fifteenth century). Painted by an unknown artist, The Beffi Triptych is representative of the late Gothic period in Abruzzo and embodies all the qualities of figurative painting from the region during the fifteenth century. Named for the nearby town of Beffi, where it once adorned the Church of Santa Maria del Ponte, the Triptych depicts scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, who appears in the central panel, enthroned with the Christ child beneath an elegantly brocaded canopy. The Beffi Triptych, unlike many other works of art in the National Museum of Abruzzo, has now been repaired after suffering only minimal damage in the earthquake. The Beffi Triptych has been lent by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici Artistici ed Etnoantropologici dell'Abruzzo and Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici dell'Abruzzo. Its tour in the United States has been organized and made possible by the Direzione Generale per la Valorizzazione del Patrimonio Culturale del Ministero per i Beni e le Attivitá Culturali.
29/05/2010 Vasari singers - Mass in B minor by J.S. Bach
Saturday 19 June 2010, 7.30pm St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
London, UK
To celebrate 30 years of superb performances, the Vasari Singers will be staging a series of concerts and cathedral services throughout 2010 highlighting some of the finest works in the choral repertoire, for which the choir has become justly and widely acclaimed. The centrepiece of the year is a performance of the sublime Mass in B minor by J.S. Bach. The choir is delighted to return to St Martin-in-the-Fields together with world-class soloists and Britain's young professional orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia for this Gala Performance. Jeremy Backhouse, the choir’s director, recognised as one of Britain’s leading choral conductors, has been inspired to perform the B minor Mass as it is “quite simply, one of the best choral works ever” and it is particularly suited to the Vasari Singers who combine technical expertise with the depth of feeling and passion required to realise the profundity of such a work.
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