- Chicago (USA)
Exhibition: Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines
In his tapestries and textile installations, Adams engages with the gaps—the information that is seemingly absent, overlooked, or rendered invisible in the spaces we inhabit individually and collectively. Through the beads, shells, glass, rope, wire, and found objects he uses to compose his weavings, Adams highlights the material aspects of lived spaces along with the personal stories held within them. Adams’s hometown, Bonteheuwel, South Africa, is a key source of inspiration. This predominantly working-class township in southeast Cape Town was founded in the 1960s as part of the forced segregation during the Apartheid era. Adams approaches Bonteheuwel both as a deeply personal space, imbued with childhood memories and a network of familial relationships, and a politically charged space, shaped by violence and generational trauma. The Art Institute of Chicago.
April 2 – August 1, 2022
- LONDON (UK)
Exhibition: The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen
A major collection of works by Edvard Munch will be shown in the UK for the first time at The Courtauld Gallery. The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Bergen 27 May – 5 September 2022, and is part of a partnership between The Courtauld and KODE art museums in Bergen, Norway. KODE in Bergen is home to one of the most important Munch collections in the world, originally assembled in the early 20th century by Norwegian industrialist Rasmus Meyer (1858 – 1916), who collected Munch’s work during the artist’s lifetime.
The exhibition will bring together some 18 paintings from this collection – the first time a comprehensive group of works from the collection has been seen outside Norway. It will begin with seminal early examples of Munch’s ‘realist’ period of the 1880s which launched his career, such as Morning (1884) and Summer Night (1889), a pivotal work that reflects the artist’s move towards the expressive and psychologically charged work for which he became famous.
27 May – 5 September, 2022
- MADRID (EU)
Exhibition: New sculpture room. Ionic Gallery
The Prado Museum has architecturally rehabilitated the space of the north Ionic gallery of the Villanueva building as part of its objective to increase the visibility of its sculpture and decorative arts collections.
The gallery will be open to the public from next May 19th, bringing together 56 sculptural pieces that range from Ancient Egypt, through the Greco-Roman period, up to the Renaissance and Baroque periods; precious objects that transmit the validity of classical language and its interpretation through the centuries, of the tangible closeness of three-dimensional works and the rich variety of the Prado Museum’s collection.
This intervention recovers the proposal of architect Alejandro Sureda (1815-1889), who intervened in this unique space from 1878 and 1881 with the purpose of devoting it to sculpture exhibition.
From May 19th, 2022
