Art Diary
 

Our Selection for the Winter Season 

Be My Guest: 10 Encounters with Aboriginal Art
The Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art will be celebrating its 10th birthday with 10 curators (artists, academics, museum directors and curators), who have taken on the challenge to pair up several artworks by major aboriginal artists with other masterpieces from around the world. The result can be seen as a very diverse dialogue between various art disciplines, including not only painting and photography, but also video and sculpture – among others. The museum hopes to educate visitors about aborigines and their contemporary art through this exhibition, which is part of Be My Guest, a program that consists of aboriginal films, debates, theater, poetry, photography and a special magazine.
Dates: May 27-January 8 (2012)
Location: Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art, Utrecht
For more information, please visit www.aamu.nl  
 

 Snapshot. Painters and Photography 1888-1915
At the end of the 19th century, many artists were also enthusiastic users of the earliest amateur cameras. The exhibition Snapshot. Painters and Photography, 1888-1915 sheds a light on the role and influence of photography through 220 photographs and 70 paintings, prints and drawings by seven artists.
Dates: October 14 - January 8 (2012)
Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit www.vangoghmuseum.nl  

 

Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens
The Hermitage Amsterdam presents a stunning selection from the Flemish art collection of the St. Petersburg Hermitage: 75 paintings and about 20 drawings including numerous masterpieces by the three giants of the Antwerp School, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.
A legend in his day, Rubens will be represented by many drawings and 17 paintings including one of his masterpieces, the famous Descent from the Cross (c. 1618) that depicts Christ’s suffering with compelling drama, and has never before been displayed outside of St. Petersburg.
Dates: September 17 - March 16 (2012)
Location: Hermitage, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit www.hermitage.nl  

Extended Drawing
Focusing on Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra, Extended Drawing shows works in which line and drawing are taken beyond their original boundaries. Paragons of new options in the art of drawing, the four American artists explore the potential of architectural or public spaces; the drawings no longer revolve around personal style, but enter a specific relationship with the wall (LeWitt), the painting (Mangold), the sculpture (Serra) and the public space (Nauman).
Dates: September 18 - January 15 (2012)
Location: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
For more information, please visit www.bonnefanten.nl  

Eugène Atget
The Netherlands Photography Museum features an overview exhibition of the French photographer Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927). Present in every photography history book, Atget is placed at the top of the international canon of photography. His works, which will be showcased in the Netherlands for the first time, depict a unique image of Paris, both in detail and atmosphere.
Dates: September 24 - January 8 (2012)
Location: Netherlands Photography Museum, Rotterdam
For more information, please visit www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl  

Conversation Piece III: John Currin meets Cornelis van Haarlem
In an attempt to present the collection of 16th and 17th-century paintings in a new light, the Frans Hals Museum presents six paintings by John Currin (1962) juxtaposed to the work of Cornelis van Haarlem (1562 – 1638). Although four centuries separate them, both Van Haarlem and Currin show an interest in nude paintings that feature twisted poses and distorted anatomy.
Dates: October 7 - January 8 (2012)
Location: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
For more information, please visit www.franshalsmuseum.nl  

What's Next?
Four different concepts, four different guest curators, four visionary presentations and one museum that offers them a stage. Foam celebrates its 10th anniversary and invites four experts to envision how photography exhibitions could be presented in the future.
The What's Next? exhibition is more about the various underlying concepts of exhibiting photography than the kind of photography presented, although these are inextricably connected.
Dates: November 3 - December 7
Location: Foam, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit www.foam.org  

Studio Tuscany – Karel Appel and Roberto Barni
For as far back as anyone can remember, Tuscany has held deep and lasting appeal for artists wishing to link their work with both the present and the past. In 1989, Karel Appel established himself on an estate in the hills of Tuscany. Inspired by nature and his immediate surroundings, he made a spectacular series of sculptures out of found household objects that had originally come from a vineyard. Sculptures are an essential part of Karel Appel's artistic oeuvre (1921-2006). The childlike spontaneity of his rebellious and colorful sculptures can be seen as personal expressions of the emotional life of the artist. This exhibition deals with the genesis and meaning of the Tuscan sculptures. On show is a unique series of sculptural works that were created on the estate between 1989-1999. The artist’s relationship with Tuscany is illuminated in more detail through the work of Italian painter and sculptor Roberto Barni (1939), who lives and works close to Appel’s former estate and in whose work the relationship between man and nature is central.
Dates: through January 15, 2012
Location: Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
For more information, please visit: www.cobra-museum.nl

Mark Wallinger – Mark
The work of the British artist Mark Wallinger (1959) is very diverse. Though trained as a painter, he also employs the media of photography, video, performance, sculpture and installations. In addition to this, language plays a significant role. In his work Wallinger raises social, political and religious issues, often with remarkable lightness. With the much-discussed State Britain, he won the Turner Prize in 2007. Measuring forty-three meters in length, this work now comprises the core of his exhibition at De Pont—the first to be held in the Netherlands.
Dates: through February 19, 2012
Location: De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg
For more information, please visit: www.depont.nl  

Saul Leiter – New York Reflections
This is a retrospective exhibition of the work of the American photographer and painter Saul Leiter (born in 1923), the first exhibition of his work in the Netherlands.
Saul Leiter is celebrated particularly for his painterly color photographs of the street life in New York, which he produced between 1948 and 1960. Amid the hectic life of the city he captured tranquil moments of everyday beauty. He was able to transform mundane objects into what has been described as 'urban visual poetry'. His photographs are frequently layered, near-abstract compositions of reflections and shadows, which recall paintings by abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, with whom Leiter felt a strong affinity.
Dates: through March 4, 2012
Location: Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit: www.jhm.nl  

The Road to Van Eyck
In the autumn of 2012, the extremely valuable and fragile works of one of Europe’s most brilliant painters, Jan van Eyck (c.1390 - 1441), long considered the father of oil painting, are coming to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen from all across Europe and the United States. The exhibition is an art-historical voyage of discovery and presents a rare collection of images of Holland in the early Middle Ages; practically all the paintings that still exist from this period will be assembled in Rotterdam and this is the first time – and due to their fragile condition, probably also the last – that all these paintings have been brought together .
Dates: through January 13, 2013
Location: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
For more information, please visit: www.boijmans.nl  

Joel Sternfeld - Color Photographs since 1970
This is the first major retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of Joel Sternfeld (1944, New York), one of the pioneers of color photography. Foam will be showing more than 100 photos from ten different series in an exhibition spanning two floors. A highlight is Sternfeld's early work from the 1970s, which has never been previously exhibited. A large selection from famed series such as American Prospects, the result of his legendary journey through the United States, and Stranger Passing will also be on show. A constant factor in his work is his native land America, its inhabitants and the traces left by people on the landscape. With a subtle feeling for irony and an exceptional feeling for color, Sternfeld offers us an image of daily life in America over the last three decades.
Dates: December 6 - March 14, 2012
Location: Foam, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit: www.foam.org

Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century
This exhibition displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Alaïa is one of the last major couturiers still active. Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa is one of the most important fashion designers of the last decades and his name stands for glamour, sensuality, style, cut, self-confidence, comfort and, of course, sex appeal. His range of clothing has received great acclaim from celebrities.
Dates: December 11 - May 6, 2012
Location: Groninger Museum, Groningen
For more information, please visit: www.groningermuseum.nl  

A Gift from Heaven
A Gift from Heaven is a special Christmas exhibition with new and restored master pieces; an exquisite collection of sculptures and paintings, such as Mary and Child, by
Adriaen Isenbrant (1490-1551) and the beautiful Middle Age painting The Holy Kinship (ca. 1490) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans.
The spectacular sculptures have been donated to the museum from the last large private collection of Middle Age art in the Netherlands and include Madonna and Christ, Peter’s Lament and the earthenware Pietà.
Dates: December 14 - March 5, 2012
Location: Rijksmuseum, Philips Wing, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit: www.rijksmuseum.nl  

Naoya Hatakeyama – Natural Stories
In 2001, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama presented Blasts, a series of photographs of explosions in an open-cast limestone mine, in Huis Marseille. This exhibition made a strong impact, not least of all because the photographer succeeded perfectly in combining harmonious photographic compositions with the violently destructive power of dynamite. Since then, beautifully aesthetic images of the terrible powers we routinely deploy to shape nature to our will have become Hatakeyama’s trademark. His photographs of the Westfahlen mine in Ahlen (2003/2004) and the recent tsunami in Japan illustrate this very well. All three themes are included in the exhibition.
Dates: December 16 - February 26
Location: Museum for Photography Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit: www.huismarseille.nl  

Judaism: A World of Stories
In the winter of 2011-2012, De Nieuwe Kerk and the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present an exhibition about Judaism. With more than 500 objects on display, this exhibition will tell the fascinating story of 3,000 years of Jewish religion, culture, art and history, the chronicle of a world religion that takes diverse international forms but has always held on to its identity. The exhibits come from internationally renowned museums and private collections, and most of them will be on display in the Netherlands for the first time.
Dates: December 17 - April 15, 2015
Location: De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
For more information, please visit: www.nieuwekerk.nl  

Chuck Close – Prints, Process and Collaboration
American painter and photographer Chuck Close (1940) is one of the best-known portrait artists since the 1960s. Most of his paintings are large portraits based on photographs of family or friends. With approximately 125 works ranging from 1972 to the present day, the exhibition Prints: Process and Collaboration at the Kunsthal Rotterdam provides a comprehensive overview of his work. The exhibition demonstrates Close's creative process, which comprises several time-consuming phases and proofs, from concept through to the final version.
Dates: January 28 - May 6, 2012
Location: Kunsthal, Rotterdam
For more information, please visit: www.kunsthal.nl

TEFAF – The European Fine Art Fair
As a visitor to TEFAF Maastricht you will be present at an outstanding event, one that offers the best choice of the very best in fine art. You will have a unique chance to view and to buy paintings from Bruegel to Bacon as well as objects reflecting 6,000 years of excellence in the applied arts. Nowhere else will you find such an elegantly displayed selection of genuine masterpieces from 260 of the world’s most prestigious international dealers from 16 countries, and nowhere else will you find such rigorous investigation of their quality, condition and authenticity. Every item is checked by one of 29 vetting committees made up of over 175 internationally respected experts.
At the fair, you will find yourself in such a distinguished and stimulating company of dealers, academics, art critics, and collectors. During the week of the fair, anyone who is anyone in the field of fine art will be at TEFAF Maastricht. Here you will find: 20th-century Decorative Art, Porcelain and Ceramics, Jewellery, Snuff Boxes and Miniatures, Oriental and Asian Art, Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, Clocks and Barometers, Books, Manuscripts and Maps, Photography, Textiles, Carpets and Tapestries, Old Masters, Arms and Armour, and much, much more.
Dates: March 16- 25, 2012
Location: MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Center), Maastricht
For more information, please visit: www.tefaf.com  
 

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