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Excerpt from the interview between Mladen Miljanović (Artist) and Sarita Vujković (Curator-Commisioner) SV: To what extent is the pluralism of diversity, as a peculiar aspect of our society, a significant invariable affecting your work? MM: As I said at the beginning of this interview, culture and the surroundings shape one according to their peculiarities, operating through various kinds of mechanisms w...   [more]

For the Belgian Pavilion in Venice, De Bruyckere has conceived a new site-specific installation that builds upon her existing oeuvre but derives its potency from connections to the historical context of Venice. She has invited acclaimed writer J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, to serve as curator and artistic collaborator. De Bruyckere and Coetzee have followed one another’s wo...   [more]

Strachan specifically explores often-invisible shifts in cultures, physical environments, and recounted histories over both space and time, in the wake of globalization and narratives of progress. Three geographically and culturally disparate sites—the Venice Arsenale, downtown Nassau, and the North Pole—will momentarily coexist in the Bahamian pavilion. The main exhibition space wil...   [more]

From Baku to Venice : six contemporary artists from the land of fire.At the crossroads of Orient and Occident, Azerbaijan is surrounded by many countries and different cultures. The inhabitants have always been in contact with merchants – Arab, Chinese, Russian, Slavic etc.- who progressively introduced goods such as coffee, tea or bortsch. Later, with the oil industry development (19th-20th ce...   [more]

The Exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) will be laid out in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale forming a single itinerary, with works spanning over the past century alongside several new commissions, including over 150 artists coming form 37 countries.   “Over the years – the President Paolo Baratta explains– in representing the contemporary, our curators...   [more]

Opening: June 1st   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

OBSERVATIONS   We live in a world of sight and sound. Our senses of taste, smell and touch are all but subjugated to our eyes and ears. And though sound barrages our lives daily, it is our eyes that are the most constant filter to our human experience. All our experiences shape our idea of who, what, how and why we “are”. As we ponder these questions abstractly or directly, there is always a...   [more]

Opening: October 4th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Sketches of Bacon brings together the talents of a new generation of Australian artists from across an array of diverse mediums to interpret the work of the modern master, Francis Bacon. Through the collection we see the work of Bacon come to life in new and unique mediums from video art, photography, sculpture, and paint. As understood by each artist different aspects of his life, creative pract...   [more]

Opening: May 28th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Dress Shop brings together recent work by artists Lesia Sochor (Brooks, Maine) and Crystal Cawley (Portland, Maine) that references women’s fashions and garment forms. Both artists’ work incorporates found papers and is exquisitely crafted with close attention to detail, suggestive of the careful craftsmanship associated with hand-tailored clothing. Included in the exhibition are selections from Sochor...   [more]

Opening: May 25th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The fourth installation in CMCA’s Counterpoint series, What Was, Is, pairs recent sculpture by Duncan Hewitt with paintings and selected photographs by Claire Seidl. CMCA’s Counterpoint series is intended to spark an engaging aesthetic dialogue between two artists’ work. In this instance, Hewitt’s sculpture and Seidl’s paintings and photographs create a compelling conversation about mater...   [more]

Opening: May 25th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This exhibition features the latest work by Anna Hepler, who is the recipient of the 2013 Maine Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship Award. Beginning this year, CMCA will offer a solo exhibition to the recipient of this annual award. Upon learning about the award, Hepler, who lives in Eastport, Maine, wrote, "How and where is it best to construct a working life? How and where can I live up to my...   [more]

Opening: May 25th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Bagaduce ->( ) presents selected recent drawings and wall works by artist Peter Soriano, who divides his time between studios in Penobscot, Maine, near the Bagaduce River, and East 19th Street in Manhattan. While in residency at the Calder Studio in Saché, France, in 2004, Soriano sought a new direction in his work. He had been creating biomorphic sculptures in polyester resin that were extreme...   [more]

Opening: May 25th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

M.F.A. in Studio Art Thesis ExhibitionFriday, June 28-Saturday, July 13Fox Building: Decker and Meyerhoff galleries, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave.; Graduate Studio Center: Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy galleries, 131 W. North Ave. The summer thesis exhibition for the M.F.A. in Studio Art program will feature the work of 10 graduating artists from this unique low-residency program. Designed to expand ...   [more]

Opening: July 12th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

August Macke’s (1887–1914) oeuvre is one of the outstanding achievements of the early modern period in art of the 20th Century. The months in the idyllic and fascinating landscape on Lake Thun are assumed to be a high point in his artistic development. “It is almost too beautiful here,” he wrote in October 1913 from Lake Thun to his patron Bernhard Koehler in Berlin. Focus of the exhibiti...   [more]

Opening: May 25th   10:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Jeff F. Wheeler returns to Houston on June 1, 2013, for his first solo exhibition at G Gallery since 2008. In those five years, the legendary Lubbock artist has exhibited extensively, nationally and internationally, collaborated with a number of renowned artists, and curated over thirty exhibitions at his studio gallery, Farm 2 Market Arts, as part of a two-year residency at Charles Adams’ Studio Pr...   [more]

Opening: June 6th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM