Louise Bourgeois: Edinburgh

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art –
Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets,
Modern One, 26 October 2013 – 18 May 2014




The National Galleries of Scotland is proud to announce a major presentation of works by the great French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in an exhibition entitled Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Highlighting her late work, the exhibition is a first showing of an outstanding collection of works by Louise Bourgeois now on loan to the national ARTIST ROOMS programme, including Poids (1993), Couple I (1996), Cell XIV (Portrait) (2000), Eyes (2001-2005), and two late masterpieces, the cycle of 16 monumental drawings A L'Infini (2008-2009) and the artist’s final vitrine, Untitled (2010). These works will be augmented by important loans from Tate, The Easton Foundation and private collections. This exhibition will reveal how Bourgeois, working in a variety of materials and scales, explores the mystery and beauty of human emotions.

website

Highlights

Events

Future Bourgeois: A Symposium and Workshop for new work on Louise Bourgeois
Friday 7 February 2014
more info


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Fruitmarket Gallery



Louise Bourgeois is one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she produced some of contemporary art’s most enduring images, making sculptures, installations, writings and drawings which, in mining her own psyche, have entered the collective unconscious.

Bourgeois’s work is personal yet universal, rooted in the details of her own life, but reaching out to touch the lives of others. This exhibition of work on paper presents some of her most intimate work, both drawing and writing.

The exhibition begins with a labyrinthine presentation of Bourgeois’s Insomnia Drawings, a remarkable suite of 220 drawings and writings made between November 1994 and June 1995. Created in the suspended state between sleeping and waking, The Insomnia Drawings contain all the major themes of Bourgeois’s work and reveal the close link between drawing and writing that is such a key part of her practice. Also in the exhibition are two suites of large-scale works on paper, When Did This Happen? from 2007, and I Give Everything Away, made right at the end of the artist’s life in 2010. A mix of writing, drawing and printmaking, these large works are both haunted and haunting.

website http://fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/current/

Book - Louise Borgeois Catalogue
Has the day invaded the night or the night invaded the day?
Insomnia in the work of Louise Bourgeois £15 (special exhibition price)

Published by The Fruitmarket Gallery to accompany the exhibition, this book focuses on the themes and ideas in the exhibition. The book is illustrated with a selection of Bourgeois’s Insomnia Drawings and of her writings, and also includes new texts by Frances Morris and Philip Larratt-Smith.



Events

Curator’s Talk
Wednesday 15 January 2014, 6.30pm. Free.
Exhibition curator Frances Morris (Tate) considers the work in the exhibition in light of the artist’s larger practice in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery.

Future Bourgeois: Panel Discussion
Friday 7 February 2014, 6pm. £5/£3 conc. (or free if attending symposium). Refreshments provided.
The artist Phyllida Barlow, the writer Elisabeth Lebovici (EHESS, Paris) and Professor Mignon Nixon (Courtauld, London) consider the current state of research on Louise Bourgeois in this panel discussion. The event brings to a close a collaborative one-day student symposium organised by the ARTIST ROOMS RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP, The Fruitmarket Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland (and held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One) that showcases new research on the artist.

Cigdem Aydemir

Cigdem (pronounced 'Chidem') Aydemir is a Sydney based Australian artist of Turkish Muslim heritage.  Like a number of other artists she addresses the wearing of the Burqa and the issues facing contemporary Muslim women but she does it with a quirky Australian humour that is uniquely her own.

http://www.cigdemaydemir.net/artworks.html

See Video Showcase of works (2011 - 2012) here

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"Cigdem Aydemir's Bombshell video challenges the viewer's prejudices by featuring the artist wearing a black burqa that leaves only her eyes visible.

Aydemir's outfit billows around her outstretched legs as ominous clouds move behind her. The sound of thunder or possibly bombs can also be heard.
Its a "re-creation of the iconic scene in which Marilyn Monroe stands above a subway vent from The Seven Year Itch"

Aydemir said the video explored the image and idea of the burqa as a possible terrorist threat. ''It's menacing but very beautiful at the same time,'' she said.

Aydemir's Bombshell will be announced on Thursday as the winner of the $10,000 emerging artist award of the Redlands Art Prize. The Redlands Art Prize is at the National Art School gallery in Darlinghurst from May 3 to June 1

full article here
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/monroe-as-undercover-agent-takes-top-spot-20130501-2it9z.html

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"Cigdem Aydemir's Extremist Activity is a series of performances that explore body politics, feminism and Islamophobia, in particular the idea of the Niqab and Burqa being a security threat. These performances, documented in both in video and photography, are about reclaiming body-space. The forms worn on the body (or rather the body worn on the forms) create and exaggerate voids whilst also parodying the proper concealment, or disclosure, of that space. Extremist Activity explores the concept of the body as an occupied space and creates a dialogue between the viewers (both in and out of the gallery) and their perceptions of this culturally, historically and politically significant garment and the women who wear them.'

full article here


Cigdem Aydemir talks about her upcoming show at A-M Gallery 28 March 2012 from A-M Gallery on Vimeo.



Performance and Q&A with Cigdem Aydemir as part of her show ‘Extremist Activity’ at A-M Gallery, Newtown, on 31 March 2012 from A-M Gallery on Vimeo.

Article about "Extremist Activity" here

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"the Newtown mural of a woman in a full-face Muslim covering with a strike symbol over her face and the words ''Say No to the Burqa'' is the subject of an anti-discrimination complaint.

Cigdem Aydemir, 27, a Muslim, artist and high-school art teacher, said she felt ''completely offended and insulted'' when she saw the mural pop up in her neighbourhood."

full article here
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/complaint-lodged-over-burqa-mural-20101125-18967.html

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Hair / Veil (2011) from Cigdem Aydemir on Vimeo.

Rosemarie Trockel

Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos
13 February - 7 April 2013
Serpentine Gallery

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/rosemarie_trockel_a_cosmos.html

This exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke and organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.

A Cosmos reflects the artist's interest in creating a space for ideas to exist between different disciplines, past and present. Many of the objects and artworks, selected by Trockel in dialogue with curator Lynne Cooke, produce a context for the artist's work within other fields of inquiry, such as the natural sciences and natural history. Watercolours painted by the pioneering botanist Maria Sibylla Merian sit alongside intricate models of marine invertebrates crafted by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, initially used as research tools by naturalists who had no access to living specimens.

Listen to an audio introduction to Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, written by Dominic Eichler

Berlin-based writer and musician Dominic Eichler has written a free, downloadable, audio introduction for Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos. Recorded in the style of a radio play for four female voices, this audio work reflects upon the exhibition in the context of Trockel's wider oeuvre, while also discussing several of the objects and artworks in the Serpentine Gallery show. This audio introduction is designed to be enjoyed on visitors' own mobile devices whilst in the Gallery or at home.

About

at Gladstone Gallery
http://gladstonegallery.com/trockel.asp

at Sprueth Magers
http://spruethmagers.net/artists/rosemarie_trockel

on youtube

on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Trockel

Returning Stolen Art

Loot: Stolen Treasurers of the Ancient World

December 3, 2008

Sharon Waxman writer

Sharon Waxman discusses questions of ownership of cultural objects and reads from new her book, Loot: Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World.
Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? If such stunning art objects have admittedly come to Western museums through the heavy hand of 19th century cultural exploitation, do these museums have an ethical responsibility to return them? What if such return harmed these objects because their home country is too poor to maintain, house and protect? What ethical standards should Western museums follow when they obtain art objects from Third World countries? Sharon Waxman addresses these questions and presents her book, Loot: Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World.

http://forum-network.org/lecture/loot-stolen-treasurers-ancient-world

Remembering Louise Bourgeois

Remembering Louise Bourgeois

by Art Basel Miami Beach

Tracey Emin, Artist, London

Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois's longtime assistant, New York

Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Moderator | Ulf Küster, Curator, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel

Art Salon | Art History | Remembering Louise Bourgeois from Art Basel Miami Beach on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/33052795

Suzi Gablik

Paradigm Spinning: Artists as Agents of Social Change
March 14, 2001
Suzi Gablik artist, art critic, cultural philosopher [homepage]

Suzi Gablik departs from what she calls "the faded ethos of modernism," and explains why she sees artists as agents of social change. This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.


http://forum-network.org/lecture/paradigm-spinning-artists-agents-social-change

Linda Nochlin

Cosponsored by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art/USA (AICA: International Association of Art Critics) presents the second annual lecture addressing current issues in the world of art criticism. Vist http://www.newschool.edu/vlc and http://www.veralistcenter.org

This year's distinguished critic, Linda Nochlin, is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Professor Nochlin addresses the issue of how the goals of art criticism differ from those of art history.

AICA was founded after World War II to promote professional art criticism as essential to winning widespread understanding and support for contemporary art.
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
by LINDA NOCHLIN
text here
http://www.bakeru.edu/faculty/adaugherty/wc/module5/artists.html

Tomoko Shioyasu

apanese artist Tomoko Shioyasu was born in Osaka in 1981 and majored in sculpture at the Kyoto City University of Arts. Her immense floor-to-ceiling tapestries are meticulously cut by hand from enormous sheets of paper using utility knives and soldering irons. Her work evokes some of nature’s most complex creations: the organic patterns of cells, the flow of water, and the forces of wind. How these are hung without tearing seems nearly impossible.Her latest work, “Vortex” (first two images) is currently on display as part of the show Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Japanese Art at Japan Society in New York

full article here
http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/03/immense-paper-cut-tapestries-by-tomoko-shioyasu/






MOTアニュアル2010：装飾　塩保朋子　インタビュー
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvlTcV-m89g

Australian Art Market - 4 Corners

"Q. How much has the art market grown by in the last nine years?
A. Well it was around about $35 million total turnover in 1998 and it posted over $100 million two years ago and 150 plus last year. So it’s improved enormously. It’s increased enormously over the last nine years.

Q. That’s still small though isn’t it by international standards?
A. It is. I mean ah Picasso’s Boy with a Pipe for example sold at auction for $120 million in America in 1999, I think. .so a single painting can sell in the States or England for the entire turnover of the art we sell in Australia."

Read an edited interview with Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios, doctoral candidate, Melbourne University

28th July 2008
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2008/s2316181.htm

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Dr. Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios is a researcher and sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include art price formation and how and why economic superstars emerge in the auction market. Part of her research was the focus of a Four Corners program, Art for Art’s Sake, aired on ABC television.

Art Matters
http://wilsonanastasios.com/

Christiane Baumgartner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwMpbrKZbJ8


@Moma

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interview

homepage

For hours, days or even months at a time, renowned German printmaker Christiane Baumgartner can be found painstakingly carving still-life images into enormous blocks of wood. Using a sharp knife, every detail is cut by hand before printing onto handmade paper.

The images Christiane uses are taken from her own film and video cameras and then frozen in time onto the wood in her shared studio, a former cotton mill, in Leipzig, the home of traditional printmaking.

full interview

Marlena Dumas - new work

http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/152/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YIKjh2gSM&feature=digest

Karen Kunc - Artist Books

This is part one of five. You can find the other parts here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JdfsQ1-xDg


"Artists' books are not books about art; they are art expressed through book form." This essay from the University of Delaware Library goes on to say that many artists are inspired to get the reader to think about books as other than text, to create a book that steps out of the ordinary and captures the viewer's imagination. Rare, collectible books are not just found, they are made. Karen Kunc, Cather Professor of Art and Art History at UNL, is a highly valued and sought after print-maker and creator of unique, hand-crafted books. Each of her creations is a work of art that is destined to be an heirloom. She will talk about her perception of the book, from initial conception of a project to final art piece. She will show examples of her own work, have a hands-on viewing of her work and be open to discussing any topic related to contemporary book arts.

Karen Kunc - Print Demonstration

This is the first part of a six part demonstration. The total time is around 50mins. Its very informative on the combined use of stencil and reduction printing with a press.

The other five parts can be found here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-sv3FXO4Q


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Interview 1993
http://www.netnebraska.org/extras/statewide/pers/kunc.html

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Audio interview 2009

Conceptual woodcut artist Karen Kunc is interviewed at Working Proof, a Podcast blog about printmaking, discussing her beginnings in printmaking, how travel affects her work, the role of bookarts in her studio practice, and changes she has noticed in woodcut printmaking over the years.

Direct download: karenkunc.mp3

View available work by Karen Kunc

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website
http://www.karen-kunc.com/info/activity.php

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on google

Karen Kunc - Lecture

Run Time: 1:06:45

Renowned printmaker Karen Kunc talks about some of her recent work, as well as the nature of being an artist. Karen Kunc was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She received an MFA from Ohio State University and a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an internationally recognized printmaker and is the Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her artwork has been featured in many prestigious collections and museums across the United States, Europe and Japan. She is currently represented by galleries in St. Louis, Washington DC, Denver, Washington, and Omaha.

http://www.knowledgestream.org/kstream/index.asp?item_id=1820

Linda Nochlin on Women's Art

Linda Nochlin speaks for just over an hour on "Consider the Difference: American Women Artists".

From the Smithsonian



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYRnH-DmO7E


Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, pioneered the study of women and art with her groundbreaking 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Considered the foremost scholar of feminist art history, she has authored numerous publications, including Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (1988) and Representing Women (1999). She was also the co-curator of the landmark exhibition Women Artists: 1550—1950, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1976. A former professor of art history at Yale University and Vassar College, Nochlin is also known for her work on Gustave Courbet. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and is currently a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nochlin on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Nochlin

It took a while to find the original essay online - however I eventually found it, so if you want to read the essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" go here

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/nochlin.htm

a quote from the essay

"The fact of the matter is that there have been no supremely great women artists, as far as we know, although there have been many interesting and very good ones who remain insufficiently investigated or appreciated; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, no matter how much we might wish there had been. That this should be the case is regrettable, but no amount of manipulating the historical or critical evidence will alter the situation; nor will accusations of male-chauvinist distortion of history. There are no women equivalents for Michelangelo or Rembrandt, Delacroix or Cezanne, Picasso or Matisse, or even, in very recent times, for de Kooning or Warhol, any more than there are black American equivalents for the same. If there actually were large numbers of "hidden" great women artists, or if there really, should be different standards for women's art as opposed to men's--and one can't have it both ways--then what are feminists fighting for? If women have in fact achieved the same status as men in the arts, then the status quo is fine as it is.

But in actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male. The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education-education understood to include everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs, and signals. The miracle is, in fact, that given the overwhelming odds against women, or blacks, that so many of both have managed to achieve so much sheer excellence, in those bailiwicks of white masculine prerogative like science, politics, or the arts. "

Jenny Holzer - Basel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlfShcpuM6g


http://www.vernissage.tv | More info: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2009/11/04/...

Jenny Holzer is considered as one of the most popular contemporary artists. Holzer is known for her use of words and ideas in public space. In 1982 she publicised her statements and aphorisms (truisms) on one of Times Squares gigantic LED billboards, in 2008 she created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York.

Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland, is now presenting Jenny Holzers first large sale exhibition in a Swiss museum. The focus is on recent works, some of which have never before been shown in Europe. On display are Jenny Holzers famous LED installations, combining poetic, socio-critical, and political texts and visual effects, as welll as paintings and sculptures. The exhibition is supplemented by a selection of works the artist has chosen from the Beyeler Collection (Giacometti, Picasso, Malevich, Bacon).

The presentation of Jenny Holzers work is not confined to the museum space. The show extends outdoors to the public space. Jenny Holzer conceived light projections on key buildings and sites in Basel and Zürich. These will only be on view on special nights.

The exhibition has been conceived in close cooperation with the artist and the MCA, Chicago, and curated by Elizabeth A. T. Smith and Philippe Büttner. The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler runs until January 24, 2010.

Jenny Holzer at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Switzerland. Opening reception, October 31, 2009.

Tracy Emin - NY

James Kalm is slumming on the Lower East Side when he comes across this opening. Tracey Emin is a founding member of the YBAs (Young British Artists) and represented Great Britain in the 2007 Venice Biennial. Featuring over 53 works in neon, film, sculpture, embroideries and monoprints, this extensive show continues the artists exploration and objectification of her own sexuality, lust, longing and desire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHEruOXyFyc

check out the animation

Rita Angus - NZ

Rita Angus (1908-70) is one of New Zealand’s most significant artists. A pioneer of modern painting in this country, she created some of our most memorable and best-loved images.

To honour the centenary of her birth, Te Papa presents this major exhibition, which is now touring to Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland. It includes sketchbooks, studies and unfinished works, some of which have never been seen in public before.

Explore this website to find out what can be seen and experienced in the exhibition.

Early Years 1929-39
A Pacifist Vision 1939-58
Later Journeys 1958-70

http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/RitaAngus/Default.aspx

audioguide tracks, podcasts and radio interviews, all available to be downloaded for free.

You can also watch our TV ad, featured on Youtube.

21 paintings have audio tracks available. Drawing on the writing and letters of Rita Angus, they give a unique insight into the thoughts and motivation behind these 21 works.

Download all 21 audio tracks (zip, 11 MB).

more
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/RitaAngus/Downloads.aspx?sender=home

1 August - 1 November 2009

Judy Chicago

"Judy Chicago & the California Girls" is an historical documentary by and about women, at the birth of the Women’s Art Movement in Fresno, California, 1971:

The Women

Dori Atlantis	Susan Boyd
Vanalyne Green	Suzanne Lacy
Cay Lang	Karen LeCocq
Janice Lester	Christine Rush
Shawnee Wollenman	Faith Wilding
Nancy Youdelman	Cheryl Zurilgen

view clips from the film
History/Clips

Fiona Tan

website
http://www.fionatan.nl/

images
http://www.fionatanvenice.nl/pub/26/images/

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at vernissage tv: For some reason I can't get the embed codes to work. Go directly to VTV's blog entry to see the videos here
on blog


Amsterdam-based film and video artist Fiona Tan represents the Netherlands at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Fiona Tan was born in Indonesia and grew up in Australia. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to pursue studies at the Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie. Her work has been exhibited widely in numerous international exhibitions and institutions including Documenta 11 (Kassel), Yokohama Triennale (Japan), and the New Museum (New York). Fiona Tan lives and works in Amsterdam, where she teaches at De Ateliers.

In Venice, she presents three video installations: Disorient (2009), a new video installation that draws on the city’s medieval influence before the discovery of new routes to Asia diminished its power; Provenance (2008), a research on 17th-century, “Golden Age” portrait paintings; and Rise and Fall (2009), a video installation that focuses on images of water — turbulent, churning as well as slow-moving and placid — as a metaphor for how memory is formed. Excerpts of the videos are available on the Dutch Pavilion website.

Fiona Tan: Disorient. Dutch Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009.