Duration: 26 min. Year: 2014 Synopsis: Featuring nearly 200 works divided into several thematic sections, including installations, objects, films, drawings, photographs, text, audio, and documentation of past performances, ‘Yoko Ono. Half-A-Wind Show — A Retrospective’ presents a comprehensive overview of the manifold output of this pioneering conceptual and performance artist. Ideas, rather than materials, are […]
Duration: 25 min. Year: 2010 Synopsis: Monographic exhibition on Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential sculptors on the contemporary international scene. The show was tremendously successful at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and has been organized in close collaboration with the artist. Born in Bombay (India) in 1954 and a graduate of London’s […]
Duration: 22 min. Year: 2014 Synopsis: Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s pieces (Rio de Janeiro, 1964) have been created so that they may be penetrated, inhabited, felt, and even smelled, allowing viewers to experience their own bodies, feelings, and minds through the works of art. Neto has commented: “What we have in common is more important […]
Duration: 23 min. Year: 2013 Synopsis: Organized by the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris-Musées and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, this exhibition shows how, in the ominous and oppressive context of France’s defeat during World War II and Nazi occupation, the artists of the day rebelled against official slogans by coming up […]
Duration: 30 min. Year: 2011 Synopsis: Curated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Deputy Director and Chief Curator Nancy Spector, and Assistant Curator Katherine Brinson, ‘The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection’ presents the work of more than 30 international artists drawn from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, one of the world’s most significant private collections of contemporary […]
Duration: 25 min. Year: 2010 Synopsis: Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) had the ability to find new and often improved uses for what others tossed aside, reinvigorating detritus with a revealing second life. In Gluts (1986–95), his last sculpture series, the artist assembled metal objects such as traffic signs, exhaust pipes, radiator grilles or blinds to create […]
Duration: 25 min. Year: 2010 Synopsis: Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a melancholic longing for […]
Duration: 25 min. Year: 2012 Synopsis: Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, ‘David Hockney: A Bigger Picture’ is the first major exhibition held in Spain to celebrate the crucial role landscape plays in the career of this artist, considered the most […]
Duration: 24 min. Year: 2012 Synopsis: ‘The Inverted Mirror’ presents both Barcelona-based collections together outside of their respective venues for the first time. This survey of art from the late 1940s to the present includes painting, sculpture, photography, and video and is organized into six thematic sections: Dau Al Set and El Paso Group; Function […]
