Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Venice, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco - how the world's leading museums will surprise the audience
February
The David Hockney retrospective will take place at the Tate Gallery in February 2017. PHOTO: RICHARD SCHMIDT
David Hockney
David Hockneyeverywhere now. This year the British artist celebrates his 80th birthday. The celebration will be on a grand scale and will mark the first retrospective on this side of the Atlantic in 30 years. The exhibition, which will present more than 160 works by Hockney, created by him over 60 years, will be one of the largest in the history of the museum. Hockney's famous pool paintings, his experiments with portraiture and photography await visitors. In addition, the exhibition will include recently painted landscapes of Yorkshire and a number of other new works. In June, the exhibition will travel to Paris at the Pompidou Center, and in November will move to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A. D.
Mears Cunningham and his troupe perform Re-Television in New York in 1975. Photo: JACK MITCHELL / GETTY IMAGES
“Merce Cunningham. Total time"
Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, Feb 8 - Sep 10
Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, February 11 - April 30
Two American museums jointly present an overview exhibition of the choreographer's heritage Merce Cunningham... The Walker Center for the Arts, home to the Cunningham Dance Company collection of more than 4,500 pieces related to the group's half-century history, will showcase stage sets created by artists such as Frank Stella and Jasper Johns... In addition, the exhibition will include recent installations Ernesto Netoand Tasita Deaninspired by the work of Cunningham. And the Museum of Modern Art in Chicago will show, among other things, the project Charles Atlas, it includes a video of Cunningham's choreography, which the artist and director filmed for 35 years. In addition, dance performances specially ordered for the exhibition will be shown in both institutions. P. P.
Jan Vermeer. "Thrush". Around 1660. Courtesy of RIJKSMUSEUM AMSTERDAM
"Vermeer and masters of genre painting"
Exhibition, which collected about a third of the paintings Jan Vermeer, refutes the claim that he was a lonely genius, and demonstrates that the artist actually worked during a rich and fertile period in the history of painting alongside colleagues who respected, inspired and sometimes competed with each other. “Vermeer and his compatriots constantly strived to surpass each other in technical prowess and aesthetic appeal,” says Adrian E Waibur, curator of the National Gallery of Ireland, where the exhibition was conceived and where it will travel in June. Together with the Paris and Dublin museums, specialists from the National Art Gallery in Washington worked on the exhibition, where the exhibition will open in October. J.C.
March
Niki de Saint Phalle. "Pterodactyl over New York". 1962. Courtesy of NIKI CHARITABLE ART FOUNDATION
“Act of creation. Performance, process, presence "
Visitors to the Manarat Al-Saadiyat Art Center for the second time will have the opportunity to get a glimpse of the growing collection of the Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi, which has long postponed its opening. In contrast to the 2014 exhibition "Seeing Through the Light," which focused primarily on abstract art, this time will show more figurative works from the 1960s, with special attention to the artists who created them from around the world. There will be works by 18 authors, including Rashid Arain, Mohammed Kazem, Anish Kapoor, Niki de Saint Phalle, Kazuo Shiraga, Susan Hefuna and Gunther Ueckerand cities such as Abu Dhabi, London, New York, Paris and Tokyo will be a cross-cutting theme.
The Blue Window (1913) by Henri Matisse, who had a strong influence on Richard Diebenkorn. Courtesy of MоMA
"Matisse / Diebenkorn"
This exhibition will come from the Baltimore Museum of Art. It is dedicated to the long-term passion of the American artist Richard Diebenkorn creativity of the Frenchman Henri Matisse... Diebenkorn's interest can be traced back to 1943, but it really blossomed in 1952, when the Matisse painting exhibition was held in Los Angeles. It was after her visit that Diebenkorn adopted the palette and texture of the French painter, which he continued to explore after visiting the State Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum in the USSR in 1964, where Matisse's work is widely represented. The exhibition in San Francisco includes 40 paintings by Matisse and 60 by Diebenkorn. P. P.
Gillian Waring explores gender and identity in I'm Kaon with a Mask of Myself. COURTESY OF FXP PHOTOGRAPHY
“Gillian Waring and Claude Caon. Under the mask - another mask "
Despite 70 years separating British conceptual artist Jillian Waringand the French surrealist Claude Caon, they are united by themes of gender, identity, masquerade and performance. The works of the two artists will be shown together for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition will include more than 100 works, including “I am Kaon with a mask in my hands” (2012) Waring, which is a recreation of Kaon's self-portrait entitled “Don't Kiss Me, I'm Exercising” (c. 1927). Curator Sarah Howidge says the exhibit "seems particularly timely" this year, which marks the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in England and Wales. A. D.
April
A kneeling archer (221-206 centuries BC) was discovered in 2001 during excavations of the tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuang. COURTESY OF QIN SHIHUANG MAUSOLEUM MUSEUM.
"Age of Empires. Chinese art of the Qin and Han dynasties "
The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is an outstanding event in the field of cultural exchange: 31 Chinese museums have sent 160 exhibits to New York, representing the art of the Qin and Han dynasties. The exhibition, spanning a historical period of about 440 years, examines the development of a unified Chinese Han identity in light of new research and archaeological excavations that have taken place over the past 50 years. The exhibition opens with a group of famous terracotta warriors who guarded the mausoleum of the first emperor of China Qin Shihuang... In addition, later works are displayed, including a monumental carved stone lion, in whose image the influence of Persian and Hellenistic art can be traced, which indicates the existence of early links between East and West. P. P.
Almost nothing is known about the eagerly awaited spring exhibition of Damien Hirst, except for the place and time of the exhibition. COURTESY OF GAZANFARULLA KHAN
Damien Hirst
This is not only the first major Italian exhibition Damien Hirst over the past ten years, but also the first exhibition that will occupy both venice collector sites Francois Pinault at the same time. According to a press release, it is "the fruit of a decade of work." The exhibition is shrouded in a veil of secrecy: with the exception of the opening date, practically nothing is known about it. In an interview with the Guardian newspaper last year, Hirst gave a few hints about what to expect from her. So, the artist spoke about his intention to get the work, which he plunged into the sea off the coast of Mexico two decades ago, because "he wanted them to be completely covered with coral." He may have been joking. However, the sheer scale of this double exhibition will make it an important topic of conversation on the eve of the Venice Biennale. J.S.
"Martin Luther in the Circle of Reformers." 1625-1650. Courtesy of DEUTSCHES HISTORISCHES MUSEUM
“The Luther Effect. 500 years of Protestantism "
The beginning of the Reformation era is considered to be October 31, 1517, when Martin Luthernailed his 95 theses criticizing the Catholic Church to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg in Saxony. This year marks the 500th anniversary of this event, which changed the religious and political image of not only Europe, but the whole world. Luther's criticism of the church gave rise to many Protestant movements and became the seed from which both modern individualism, and human rights in their today's understanding, and nationalism grew. This exhibition, organized by the German Historical Museum (but displayed in the house Martin Gropius) illustrates the history of the Reformation and its international significance from its beginnings to the present day. D. L.
May
Alberto Giacometti. "Male bust". COURTESY OF THE FONDATION ALBERTO ET ANNETTE GIACOMETTI
Alberto Giacometti
Following the highly acclaimed portrait exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery, Alberto Giacometti returns to the British capital for an even larger show at the Tate Modern. Half a century ago, the Tate gallery already exhibited the works of Giacometti - then it was organized by the critic David Sylvesterand the Swiss artist himself. Now Tate Modern will present an exhibition that will cover all of Giacometti's work in its development: from early works to surreal compositions and the formation of the artist's mature style. The museum has gained unprecedented access to the vast archive and collection of the Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation. The curators will pay particular attention to the various influences that have shaped the sculptor's creative style. E.R.
Photo of Paul Fusco of Magnum, taken in 1968 from the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train. Photo: PAUL FUSCO / MAGNUM PHOTOS
The Magnum Manifesto
Seventy years ago, shortly after the end of World War II, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rogerand David Seymourfounded the photo agency Magnum. This is perhaps the most famous group of photographers who have produced an endless array of iconic images. As organizer of this exhibition at the International Center for Photography, founded by Capa's brother Cornell, spoke Clement Cherouxfrom the Museum of Modern Art of San Francisco, formerly at the Center Pompidou. According to a representative of the center, the exhibition, where the agency's photographs will be presented in the form in which they were originally published - in newspapers, magazines and art books - will be devoted to "the tension between objectivity and subjectivity." J.C.
Pink Floyd's 'Animals' 1977 album cover
Pink Floyd. Their mortal remains "
A laser show, previously unknown concert footage and more than 350 exhibits await visitors at the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum dedicated to the British rock band Pink Floyd. Following the example of the previous super popular exhibitions about Kylie Minogue and David Bowie, this exposition, according to a press release, will be "immersive (immersing the viewer in an immersive environment - TANR), multi-sensory and theatrical." She will talk about the group's experiments in the field of music and design, about their performances in different periods - from the London underground psychedelic scene of the 1960s to the present. Exhibits will include Pink Floyd's iconic images of flying pigs, cows, marching hammers, giant inflatable teachers and a prism from the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. A. D.
June
Head (1984-1995), featured in a retrospective of Marisa Merz at the Hammer Museum, showcases her contributions to the arte povera movement. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND FONDAZIONE MERZ
“Marisa Merz. The sky is a huge space "
Italian sculptor Marisa Merz remained in the shadow of her husband for a long time Mario, but this retrospective proves that her work is completely independent. The exhibition, which will come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will include her early works created from unconventional materials, installations made in the middle of her career, and a series of clay busts dating back to the period after 1975. According to the curators, Merz's sculptures reflect the fact that she was the only woman in the arte povera ("poor art") movement, hence the deeply personal nature of her works. It is also seen as a harbinger of the future of art: the busts that Marisa Merz created in the 1970s paved the way for the return of figurativeness to Italian art in the 1980s. P. P.
Grayson Perry's tapestry, Death of a Worker Hero (2016), explores British notions of masculinity. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
Grayson Perry Presents: The Most Popular Art Exhibition in History!
Behind the self-confident title of the exhibition Grayson Perryserpentine has some serious questions. “What art do people like? What are the topics? Why do they like going to art galleries today? What is the relationship between traditional art and social media? " Perry asks. The exhibition will feature mainly new works; they are about how contemporary art can most effectively attract the attention of people whom, according to the artist, museum workers call visitors "with an unconventional background." In addition, the exhibition will include a number of works featured on the artist's recent television show Grayson Perry: All Man, where he explored the concept of men and masculinity in contemporary Britain. A. D.
Pete Mondrian. Boogie Woogie Victory. 1942-1944. Courtesy of GEMEENTEMUSEUM DEN HAAG
“Discovery of Mondrian. Amsterdam, Paris, London, New York "
The art movement De Stijl originated in Amsterdam 100 years ago. In honor of its first centenary anniversary, the Municipal Museum of The Hague organizes a number of exhibitions, including “Piet Mondrian and Bart van der Leck. Inventing New Art ”(February 11 - May 21) and“ Architecture and Interiors De Stijl ”(June 10 - September 17). The museum has the world's largest collection of works Pete Mondrian and plans to present in the exposition "The Discovery of Mondrian" all 300 of its works. This large-scale exhibition will lead the viewer along the paths of Mondrian, focusing on the large European cities that the artist considered his home until he moved to New York during the Second World War, where he lived until his death in 1944. During the short time that Mondrian spent in this American city, he managed to create some of his most significant canvases, which were influenced by grid layouts and the sounds of boogie woogie. J.C.
July August
“Eliu Oytisica. Streamline delirium "
New York is the final destination of the first major survey exhibition in the United States Eliu Oitisiki, one of the most influential Brazilian artists. The exhibition is co-organized with the Art Institute of Chicago, where it will open in February, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, where it took place last fall. Despite the fact that European modernism influenced the work of Oitisiki, the artist soon broke with this tradition and began to create works of a different kind, such as those included in the series "Double-sided" and "Spatial reliefs". In them, the artist transformed two-dimensional works into three-dimensional ones, which he himself called "painting in space." Oitisiku was also interested in rethinking the traditional relationship between the artwork and the viewer, so visitors to the exhibition at the Whitney Museum will have the opportunity to interact with some of the elements of the exhibition and even try them on. J.C.
Henri Matisse. “Pumpkins. Issy-les-Moulineaux ". 1915-1916. Courtesy of THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK / MRS SIMON GUGGENHEIM FUND
"Matisse in the workshop"
"Matisse in the Studio" will be the first large exhibition of the collection from the artist's workshops, which includes Asian and African masks, fabrics, decorative vases and jugs. The exhibition will travel to the Royal Academy of Arts from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where it will open in April. Curators set themselves the task of re-creating the environment in which the artist worked and demonstrating the various objects that influenced him. Have Matisse there were several studios: in Collioure, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Nice and Venice - and the exposition will include photographs of their interiors and many paintings in the process of creation. The exhibition will include exhibits from the Matisse Museum in Nice, as well as previously unseen works from private collections. J.C.
Picasso's Bathers, painted around the same period as the artist's work on Guernica, will be exhibited in Venice. SUCCESSION PICASSO BY SIAE
"Picasso on the Beach"
This thematic exhibition based on the painting Pablo Picasso "Bathers" (1937) from the collection Peggy Guggenheim, will be dedicated to the image of the beach as the leitmotif of the artist's entire work during his stay in Provence. This year also begins a two-year series of 40 exhibitions on the artist's relationship with the Mediterranean, organized by the Picasso Museum in Paris. The first in it will be an exposition of costumes and scenery created by the artist for the ballet "Parade" of the troupe Sergei Diaghilev, it will open in April at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. Another, more poignant, exhibition entitled Compassion and Horror. Picasso on the way to Guernica ”(until September 4) can be seen from April at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. It commemorates the 80th anniversary of the first public display of a masterpiece depicting the horrors of the bombing of a Basque village during the Spanish Civil War. J.S.
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Pierre Huig
"Untitled / Human Mask"
2014
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"Modernism without a manifesto"
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The collector's two-part project, deployed in the halls of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art this fall, opened to the general public a personal, painstakingly collected for almost a quarter of a century, and a large layer of experiments by painters who did not fit into the harmonious chorus of mass propaganda and were persecuted in the USSR for formalism. Shevchenko, Barto, Istomina, Fonvizin, Rusakov, Udaltsova, Ermilova-Platova, Grinberg - the names of only a few of them.
Edward Krimmer
"Two peasant women"
1929–1932
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Ekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg claims to be the cultural capital and deservedly so. This year, at least two impressive exhibition projects took place here - a blockbuster that gave a comprehensive picture of the Russian avant-garde based on items from the collections of seven Russian museums, and a biennial show, which is already familiar to many. Of the many biennials of contemporary art held this year in Russia, the 4th Ural (commissioner, curator of the main project Joan Ribas) presented the public with the highest level of projects, their conceptual unity (including a brilliantly prepared program of art residences) and a deep understanding of the declared topic "New literacy".
Alisa Prudnikova and Joan Ribas
4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art
“Cai Guoqiang. October"
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
A large retrospective that united under the guise of two museums in the capital - the Tretyakov Gallery and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. The last time the Tretyakov Gallery showed the works of Lazar Lissitzky was in 1990, but only from what was in its own funds. Now the Basel Art Museum, the Moritzburg Art Gallery, the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, the Stedelek Museum in Amsterdam, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan have been involved in the project. And even despite the fact that the exposition does not contain the most valuable items from the private archive of this master of the Russian avant-garde, designer, architect, and inventor of prouns, donated by his son to the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, the exhibition turned out to be grandiose.
El Lissitzky
"Constructor"
self-portrait
1924
Collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery
The Winter Palace and the Hermitage in 1917. History was created here "
State Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Of the numerous exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the Hermitage one opened later than anyone else and turned out to be, perhaps, the most heartfelt. The post-revolutionary history of the great museum and its collections here again tinted blood red - this is the main color of the large-scale exposition, which every visitor willy-nilly will pass through. Through the faces of the royal family and museum staff, a difficult story is told here, which, no doubt, everyone should know.
State Hermitage
On April 17, the Ming Dynasty: Radiance of Learning exhibition will open. The exposition will unfold in the halls of the Patriarchal Palace and the Assumption Belfry. It will be dedicated to one of the brightest chapters in the history of China - the culture of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Passion for art, literature, music, deep knowledge of philosophical and historical treatises became a real cult at that time. This is what was used in medieval China for the concept of "learning."
“The exhibition continues the tradition of cooperation between the Moscow Kremlin Museums and the Shanghai Museum, which began in 2012 with the display of the Faberge collection in Shanghai. In 2015, we presented the project “The Armory Treasury of the Russian Autocrats”, which was visited by 642,948 people in three months - this is a huge figure even for China. A reciprocal exhibition dedicated to the culture of the Ming dynasty - the most important period in the history of the Celestial Empire - will open in Moscow in April. All the things that the guests of the museum will see will be shown in Russia for the first time and will allow them to get acquainted with the most diverse areas of art, to feel the charm of time, ”said Elena Gagarina, General Director of the Moscow Kremlin Museums.
One of the main exhibits will be a magnificent procession - a set of 66 porcelain figures of an honorary escort: scientists, military men, musicians - horse and foot, young and old, dressed according to their rank and social status. The group was found in the burial of representatives of the imperial family, but its exact identity is unknown. The fact that such an escort was placed in a tomb meant that after death a person would occupy high positions, enjoy the same benefits as during his lifetime. The richly decorated set is well preserved and executed with amazing attention to detail.
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