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Beautiful People: Group Show featuring Jean Paul Gaultier, Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Bjork, Dita von Teese

This week marks the opening, and the beginning of the exhibition Beautiful People, at the Cabinet des Curieux, art gallery in Paris.

This exhibition will present a broad overview of the artists who participated in the creation and evolution of a counter culture (from Madonna to Floria Sigismondi, from Jean Paul Gautier to David Lynch, …). Continue Reading

        

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Art Basel Miami Beach: Bing “Travelers” Exhibition

As Art Basel Miami was coming to a close, Bing hosted a party to celebrate actress Shenae Grimes’ photo exhibit “Travelers.” The event marked the first time the “90210” star shared and sold her photos, which feature Venice Beach street performers she Continue Reading

        

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KOEN VAN DEN BROEK: INSOMNIA AND THE GREENHOUSE

In a series of breakthrough exhibitions over the past decade, van den Broek has established a reputation as a major force in Antwerp and as one of the leading painters of his generation in Europe.  Van den Broek’s work transforms seemingly familiar images into compelling contemplations of surface, line, and technique.

His paintings depict shadows, cracks, fragments of architecture and generic landscapes, but reverberate with presence, traces of human encounters, suspense and imminence. Though devoid of people or explicit narrative, he suggests experience by both layering and disconnecting colors, marks, perspectives and planes. It is this range of perceptual possibilities and spatial opportunities that is the primary subject of his work.

Van den Broek takes road trips and frames ideas in on-going photographic diaries. Impressions of journeys are remembered, re-imagined and re-experienced. Contours are lost and edges are obscured. Line and form correlate only vaguely to reality and the world in the painting corresponds not to any place of origin but to the artist’s vision.

Insomnia and the Greenhouse presents the full range of van den Broek’s oeuvre.  The Insomnia works, executed in Antwerp, are monumental, their grand-scale (8 1/2 x 13 feet) and various perspectives are reminiscent of film takes, or camera positions. In “No Service,” an enormous mountain looms within a seemingly shifting foreground and distance and the viewer has to continuously re-adjust focus between the virtuosity of painted brushwork and the dominance of an over-arching image.

The Greenhouse works, including Star Island #1 (5 x 3 feet) are more intimate works, nuanced paintings, executed during the artist’s residence in Williamsburg, New York.  Van den Broek (b.1973) lives and works in Schilde, Belgium. He has a Bachelor in Engineer Architecture, and studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, the Academy of Visual Arts St. Joost, Breda, and the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Flanders, Antwerp. He is currently an instructor at the MAD faculty in Belgium.

The artist’s work is in significant private collections as well as the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Modern Kunst, Oslo; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle; Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul. Van den Broek is currently in two museum exhibitions in Antwerp, at the MAS and at the MHKA. In 2008, van den Broek collaborated with John Baldessari on “This an Example of That,” an exhibition at the Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht. In 2009, he was the subject of an extensive retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) at which point, “Crack,” a monograph on his work, was published.

        

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Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld & Andy Valmorbida in collaboration with Phillips de Pury & Company and Giorgio Armani present Richard Hambelton: A Retrospective

Last Saturday, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Andy Valmorbida, in collaboration with Giorgio Armani and Phillips de Pury & Company, presented Richard Hambleton: A Retrospective, a survey of selected historical works from the legendary painter.

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Facet Moon by Arik Levy

Facet Moon by Arik Levy is one of the works featured in an upcoming exhibit at the JGM. Gallery in Paris. The exhibit runs from March 25 through May 7, 2011.  The exhibit, M+C / design 2008-2011 features work from Genevan gallery Gallery Mitterrrand + Cramer by Maarten Baas, Tom Dixon, Studio Job, Arik Levy, Studio Makkink & Bey and Atelier Oï.

        

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Tony Roko at 323 East

323 East Gallery presents a new exhibition entitled “Elegantly Wasted” featuring art by Tony Roko.  The exhibition will open with an artist reception on Saturday, January 15, 2011 from 6 p.m. and will last until 11 p.m.

Best for his hyper-stylized and urban figurative paintings, Roko uses automotive paints, industrial enamels, and re-purposed Continue Reading

        

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NADA at Art Basel

The New Art Dealers Alliance presented the NADA Party at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, celebrating the NADA Sculpture Garden and the 7 For All Mankind Best Booth Prize Winners Kate Werble Gallery & Francois Ghebaly Gallery. NADA topped off their successful opening in style, drawing over 650 of the art world’s top artists, collectors and gallerists. The VIP fete featured Continue Reading

        

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Indica on 11th

Gallerist, Alex Mallick WIlliams hosted the opening of Indica on 11th with a diverse and inspired crowd of art world luminaries (such as Paul Kasmin and Joe Helman) uptown collectors (such as Michael Shvo, Bob Balaban and Earl McGrath) and downtown cool kids Continue Reading

        

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WRP Fine Art Presents Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: “Someone under the Carpet” opened at Wolfgang Roth & Partners, Fine Art on November 30^th, 2010 during Art Basel Miami Beach.  This exhibition is the first of its scale to be held in Miami by the internationally renowned couple. The exhibition includes early and recent installations and projects by the Russian-born Kabakovs.  The exhibition will be running until Continue Reading

        

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Future Generation Art Prize 2010

The PinchukArtCentre is now in its first exhibition of the 21 shortlisted artists for the Future Generation Art Prize 2010. The group show of the young artists up to 35 from 18 countries from all over the world features the works submitted for the competition, as well as brand new works specially made for the show giving an exciting view on a new generation of artists. The exhibition is now open be open until Continue Reading

        

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