ARTES

Picasso in Columbus, Ohio

Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

10 June– 11 September, 2016

Exhibition (having toured from the Barnes Museum, Philadelphia) inspired by CMA’s Picasso Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914–15. It features some 50 works drawn from major museums and private collections from around the world. The exhibition explores how Picasso’s work was affected by the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began experimenting with both cubist and classical modes in his art. Important canvases by Picasso’s contemporaries—including Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Diego Rivera— are also shown. The exhibition also features four costumes designed by Picasso for the avant-garde ballet, Parade, which premiered in Paris in 1917 and was the first cross-disciplinary collaboration of its kind. Picasso was the first avant-garde artist involved in such a production. The exhibition will be reviewed by The Burlington Magazine post July 2016. As a complementary display to the main exhibition the CMA will also be showing Pablo Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics, created by the artist in the decade following 1946 in collaboration with Georges and Suzanne Ramie of the Madoura pottery.

Picasso in Jerusalem

Pablo Picasso: Drawing Inspiration

Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art Israel Museum, Jerusalem
7 July – 19 November, 2016

Featuring several hundred works from the Israel Museum’s collection, complemented by notable loans from major museums worldwide showcases Picasso’s artistic evolution, experimentations, and virtuosity from the turn of the 20th century to 1970. Emphasizing Picasso’s graphic works, this exhibition demonstrates the artist’s lifelong interest and extraordinary versatility in drawing and printmaking. Picasso meticulously dated his prints, particularly in his series, keeping close track of the development of his art. The works on view, executed in all of the most important printmaking techniques – etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, lithography, and linocut.

Picasso’s Eyes (Málaga)

Picasso. Juego de ojos. Colección

Museo Picasso, Málaga
14 March – 11 September 2016

Exhibition of 43 works selected from the museum’s own collections of drawings, prints, illustrated books and ceramics focusing on one of Picasso’s artistic obsessions, the gaze, displayed as a chronological survey beginning with The eyes of the artist and concluding with the Head of the Bearded Man II and allowing the viewer to follow Picasso’s stylistic and technical variety.

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (Vancouver)

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
11 June – 2 October 2016

Exhibition examining the significance of the six women who were inspirational to his artistic development: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Picasso’s innovations in painting, drawing, print and sculpture are conveyed through recurring motifs such as the seated woman and reclining nude. Created by Art Centre Basel in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Katharina Beisiegel.

Exhibition catalogue produced by the Art Centre Basel.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Sydney)

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
25 June – 9 October 2016

Exhibition presents 33 artworks from the collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman, including self-portrait paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo, and major examples of Diego Rivera’s canvas paintings. Alongside these works are over 50 photographs by figures such as Edward Weston, Lola Alvarez Bravo and Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, which provide insights into the artists’ worlds and their intriguing relationship.

Exhibition Artboards: click here.

Exhibition catalogue: click here.

Picasso Linocuts at the Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight)

Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum

Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight, Wirral
Merseyside

24 June 2016 – 8 January 2017

17 linocuts from three experimental series created by Picasso in 1962: Jacqueline Reading, portraying Picasso’s recent bride Jacquline Rocque; the rare entire set of progressive proofs of Still Life under the Lamp; and key prints from the Nude Woman at a Spring series, which was inspired by a figure in Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’Herbe. The first two sets were acquired by the British Museum in 2013 and this display is the first time that they have been shown outside London.
The display is accompanied by a brief video of an interview with Hidalgo Arnéra, Picasso’s collaborator in the production of his technically complex linocuts.

Connect here to book with the ARTES Group’s visit to Liverpool, including this exhibition, on 15 August.

Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor

Joana Vasconcelos: Lafite

Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
15 June – 23 October 2016

Major new addition to Waddesdon’s contemporary art collection, and part of its programme to work with contemporary artists. A pair of sculptures by Joana Vasconcelos has been installed on the North Front. In the form of a giant pair of candlesticks made of glass wine bottles (from Château Lafite Rothschild), set on a steel armature and lit from within with fibre-optic strands, they symbolise the Rothschild family’s connection to the world of wine.
Joana Vasconcelos (b.1971) lives and works in Lisbon and exhibits internationally, most recently at the Château de Versailles and at the Manchester City Art Gallery.
Video showing Vasconcelos and her team construct the sculptures, with Lord Rothschild talking about them.

European Capital of Culture 2016: San Sebastián

1516-2016. Peace Treaties

San Sebastián
San Telmo Museum of Basque History &
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea
17 June – 2 October 2016

The main art exhibition of this year’s European Capital of Culture: San Sebastián (jointly with Wroclaw, Poland) throughout 2016. Shows 300 art works on the theme of war and peace. Includes works by Goya, Murillo, Picasso, Ribera, Zurbarán as well as Rubens, and 20th-century and contemporary works by Le Corbusier and Hans Haacke.
Exhibition brochure

Art from Latin America Today (London)

Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today

South London Gallery, Camberwell, London
10 June – 4 September 2016

Touring exhibition from the Guggenheim MAP Initiative, showing works by some 20 contemporary artists born after 1968 and curated by the Guggenheim’s MAP curator of Latin American art, Pablo León de la Barra. The exhibition of installations, paintings, performance work, photography, sculpture, and video includes work by the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, who has also created (with the help of staff from Kew Gardens) a permanent garden for the South London Gallery.

This is the final venue on the exhibition’s international tour, following display at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in June 2014 and the Museo Jumex, Mexico City in November 2015.

El Siglo de Oro (Berlin)

El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

01 July 2016 to 30 October 2016

This summer in Berlin, a major exhibition showcasing 17th century Spanish painting and sculpture in all its fascinating variety goes on show outside of Spain for the first time. El Siglo de Oro: The Age of Velázquez comprises more than 130 masterpieces by Velázquez, El Greco, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Bartolomé E. Murillo, as well as lesser-known artists such as Alonso Cano and Gregorio Fernández.

The Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin pairs its collection of Spanish paintings – one of Germany’s most important – with numerous international loans for the large-scale exhibition. Many of these works are on display for the first time in Germany, and reveal the wealth of 17th century Spanish art on a scale never before seen. A central task of the exhibition is to provide a comparative perspective on the development of painting and the sculpture of the period.

Exhibition catalogue (English ed.): click here for details