10 upcoming museum exhibitions to substitute the coercive Autumn art fairs’ agenda

Autumn will come soon and the art institutions all over the world are getting ready to fulfill the scene with some seminal exhibitions. Let’s pin down the most awaited ones and how they are going to inspire the buyers’ appetite. It could be a good option for those who by now are sick of the predictable art fairs’ path and need a new outlook.

 

On 9 October the Guggenheim Museum in New York will open a major retrospective to celebrate the Italian master Alberto Burri in occasion of the centenary of his birth. Titled “The trauma of painting” and organized by professor Emily Braun, an expert in Italian masters of the last century, the show is going to be the seminal step in the artist’s post mortem career that Europe hasn’t in any way been able to help.

 

“Jim Shaw: The end is here”, will open at the New Museum in New York on 8 October. The key role that Los Angels art scene has played in the last three years is reaffirmed once again by this main retrospective dedicated to this irreverent LA art icon. Along with a wide selection of the Jim Shaw‘s most representative works, the exhibition showcases also objects from his collection of vernacular art and religious didactic materials. To be added in the “artist as collector” category.

 

The third main show that is going to open in New York in October is the one dedicated by the Frick Collection to another Italian master, Andrea Del Sarto, and to the artist’s influential workshop (Andrea Del Sarto, ecc.). As proudly stated by the museum’s web site, this will be the first major monographic exhibition on Del Sarto ever to be presented in the US and the first in nearly thirty years shown anywhere. On show nearly fifty drawings and three related paintings coming from major institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Louvre, the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, the National Gallery of Art and the British Museum.

 

The next artist taking part to the “Projects” of the Hammer Museum in Los Angels is the New York-based artist Avery Singer (born 1987). After her solo presentation at the Kunsthalle Zürich occurred last year, her approach to the visual side of the figurative painting seems to have become one of the most influential one at the moment and collectors are starving to get hold of her works. Furthermore, this exhibition at the Hammer Museum is the first solo presentation of her work in the United States.

 

How did Sandro Botticelli become the popular icon that he is today? The exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin – “The Botticelli Renaissance“, from 24 September – enquires this evergreen phenomenon which started with the rediscovery of the Renaissance master at the end of the XIX Century by the Pre-Raphaelists. A selection of almost fifty original works by Botticelli is paired with 150 modern and contemporary pieces by artists such as Edgar Degas, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman and Bill Viola. The trend of linking epochs and masters is clearly still running.

 

After a long period of art production focused on abstraction, young artists all over the world working with painting are sooner or later expected to turn to figuration. But even if Spain has not produced significant contemporary art in the last years, the exhibition dedicated to Dominique Ingres that the Prado in Madrid is gong to open next 24 November – “Ingres” – will surely be a powerful stimulus to the new generation. And as the exhibition wishes to prove, rarely an academic painter has been so anti-academic and secretly revolutionary in his approach to human body and history as Dominique Ingres has.

 

The career as a portraitist of the brilliant Spanish artist Francisco de Goya will be explored for the first time in a comprehensive show which will gather together around 70 of his works, some of which never-before-seen in London. The show titled “Goya: The Portraits” will run at the National Gallery in London from 7 October 2015 until 10 January 2016.

 

The trend  of linking contemporary art with that of the past seems to continue, as proved by the exhibition “Picasso. Mania”, which will inaugurate  on 7 October 2015 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The show will place in dialogue major works by Pablo Picasso, such as Guernica, with contemporary works by artists like David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons, to name a few.

 

Conceived and organised by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, the show “I Love John Giorno”, dedicated to his boyfriend, John Giorno, will delve into the life and career of the America poet. The exhibition, which will open during the FIAC week at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and aims at shedding some light on how Giorno’s body of works, ranging from poetry to visual art and music, have been influencing upcoming generation of artists. A further evidence of the endless tie between form and info.

August 26, 2015