Exhibition "Italian Renaissance Drawing" Takes Place in London
UNITED KINGDOM
Italian Renaissance Drawing, April 22 – July 25, London. This exhibition, where visitors can clearly see the evolution of Italian Renaissance drawing, was created in close cooperation between two of Europe's largest museums – the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the British Museum in London. It features over 100 drawings by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Fra Angelico, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Vittore Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Andrea Mantegna, Michelangelo, Andrea Verrocchio, and Titian. Tickets cost €12. /www.britishmuseum.org
Dance, April 24 – June 6, Edinburgh. The National Gallery of Scotland has recently opened a themed exhibition dedicated to the depiction of dance in painting and sculpture of the 19th-20th centuries. Wedding dances, ballroom dances, partner dances, ballet, variety shows; the harmony of movement, music, light, and emotions – these are the main themes of the works presented in this exhibition. Among the exhibits are paintings and sculptures by Edgar Degas, Alexander Cars, William Quiller Orchardson, Arthur Melville, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Walter Richard Sickert, Edward Burra, Jean Tinguely, Roger Hilton. /www.nationalgalleries.org
Picasso: Peace and Freedom, May 21 – August 30, Liverpool. A major new exhibition of Pablo Picasso at the Tate Liverpool is dedicated to one aspect of his life and work and, according to the organizers, is "a challenge to the widespread view of the artist as an introvert, a pure genius, and a playboy." Pablo Picasso's political convictions, his concern for issues of war and peace – this is the main theme of the exhibition. It will feature over 150 works created in his late period – from 1944 to 1973.
The centerpiece of the exhibition will be the famous "Dove of Peace," created in 1949 as the emblem of the World Congress of Peace. Among the exhibits, visitors can also see the paintings "The Charnel House" (1944-45, New York, Museum of Modern Art), "Monument to the Spaniards Who Died for France in 1945–1947" (Madrid, National Museum Art Centre Queen Sofía), "The Rape of the Sabine Women" (1962, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris), which was created at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world faced a new world war. Tickets cost €10. /www.visitliverpool.com
GERMANY
Retrospective Exhibition of Frida Kahlo, April 30 – August 9, Berlin. The Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin has opened an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). This large retrospective exhibition tells the story of an era and the artist's difficult life, filled with turbulent political events, personal suffering related to the car accident she had to endure at the age of 18, and her family life with the artist Diego Rivera, and how her passion for art allowed this woman to overcome pain and misfortune. The exhibition will feature about 150 works by the artist, including numerous self-portraits, from museums and private collections in Mexico, the USA, and Europe. In the fall, this exhibition will move to the Kunstforum in Vienna. Tickets cost €10. /www.berlinerfestspiele.de
Verism and "New Objectivity", April 23 – August 15, Berlin. A new exhibition recently opened at the Exhibition Pavilion of the Berlin Kulturforum introduces visitors to one of the trends in German modernist painting of the 1920s-30s. The art of "New Objectivity" was largely based on the aesthetics of Verism (from Italian vero – truthful) – a realistic and naturalistic movement in literature, music, and painting of the late 19th century. "Magic Realism" becomes the main method of depicting an "inadequate world" filled with a "metaphysics of absence."
The product of such a conceptual approach to the work of art, according to the artists of "New Objectivity," was to be an adequate expression of the inadequacy of the world, a realistically recorded "absence of reality." Among the exhibits presented in this exhibition are 25 paintings and 130 watercolors and drawings by artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Conrad Felixmüller, Alexander Kanoldt, Franz Radziwill, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Schrimpf. /www.smb.museum
DENMARK
"Meeting of Masters". Landscapes by Caspar David Friedrich and Christen Købke, May 21 – July 18, Copenhagen. Recently, the National Gallery in London opened the exhibition "Master of Light". It is dedicated to the work of the greatest artist of the "Golden Age" of Danish painting, Christen Købke (we wrote about it in our last review of European exhibitions). At the end of May, an exhibition for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Christen Købke (1810-1848) will open at the Glyptotek in Copenhagen. However, unlike the London exhibition, this one will not be monographic, but will be constructed in a dialogue format. Købke's landscape paintings can be compared with the romantic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). "Meeting of Masters" – that is the name of the Danish exhibition. /www.glyptoteket.dk
SPAIN
Wine exhibition Vinoble, May 30 – June 2, Jerez de la Frontera. The traditional wine exhibition Vinoble, dedicated to fortified, dessert and natural sweet wines, will be held in the ancient Andalusian city of Jerez de la Frontera. On the first day, visitors will taste Tokaji wines, sweet Bordeaux wines and muscat wines from Spain, Greece, and Portugal. The following day, a tasting of dessert wines from the Canary Islands, as well as sweet wines from Austria and Germany, is scheduled. On June 1, the exhibition will feature wines from Chile and Australia, as well as sweet champagne and sparkling wines. On the last day, Madeira, Marsala and sherry will be tasted. All tastings, seminars and conferences will take place in the palace and gardens of the 11th-century fortress Jerez's Arab Alcazar. //www.vinoble.org
Picasso and Rusiñol, May 28 – September 5, Barcelona. The Barcelona Museum of Picasso is preparing a new exhibition dedicated to the influence of the painting of Spanish artist Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931) on the early work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). This exhibition is based on the latest research by art historian Eduard Vallès, who also became the curator of the exhibition. The two artists met in Barcelona, where Picasso moved in 1895. They were united by a passion for the painting of El Greco, Zurbarán and medieval Catalan sculpture. The young Picasso created several of his own versions of Rusiñol's paintings, and in the 1960s, several more variations based on his works. It is also known that Rusiñol became one of the first collectors of Picasso's works – these paintings will also be presented at the exhibition. //www.museupicasso.bcn.es
NETHERLANDS
Photographs by René Burri, April 16 – August 22, Rotterdam. Over 200 photographs by the famous Swiss René Burri (born in 1933), known worldwide primarily for his portrait of a young Che Guevara with a cigar, are presented at a recently opened exhibition at the Rotterdam museum Kunsthal. In 1953, he began making documentary films and became interested in photography. Burri's first success came after the publication in Life and other European magazines of a photo essay about deaf-mute children. In 1954, he joined the famous association of documentary photographers Magnum.
"They threw me into the world," Burri said many years later, "and so I unexpectedly became a photojournalist." Among the photographer's works are series shot in Vietnam, Cambodia, Beirut, Cuba, China, capturing the crisis in Cyprus and the conflict on the Suez Canal. Many of these works will be presented at the exhibition, as well as his famous portraits of Charles Le Corbusier, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti. //www.kunsthal.nl
19th Sand Sculpture Festival, April 29 – June 28, The Hague. The opening of the beach season in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague coincides with the holding of the sand sculpture festival there. Twelve teams of sculptors, including from Mexico, Ukraine, Great Britain, Russia and the Netherlands, will begin creating sand sculptures for the 19th time. They will need clean 'young' sand, water, shovels, knives, trowels and cocktail straws to 'blow away the excess.' Then a special jury will select winners, evaluating the perfection of composition and technical complexity of execution. Viewers will be able to admire the objects for another whole month. According to Gazeta.Ru, the theme of this year's festival is 'Sport.' //www.sandsculptures.nl
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