Ai Weiwei’s new LEGO work, Untitled (Saint George Slaying the Dragon), is now on view in the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore. Commissioned for the altar of the Benedictine cloister’s conclave chapel, the project reimagines Vittore Carpaccio’s renowned sixteenth century altarpiece Saint George Killing the Dragon. Constructed entirely of LEGO bricks, Ai Weiwei’s artwork communicates with the historical and spiritual context in which it is temporarily inserted, drawing
CAC Malaga will present Friedrich Kunath’s first museum exhibition in Spain. Informed by the artist’s own personal history, but also music, German Romanticism and American pop culture, Kunath’s oeuvre, spanning painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and video, is imbued with both tradition and modernity, and illustrates themes of tragedy, comedy and romance, occupying a unique space between irony and sincerity.
Louise Bonnet and her partner Adam Silverman will take over the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hollyhock House, which is Los Angeles’ only UNESCO World Heritage site. The project – the first artistic intervention into the house – explores the many forces that have shaped the house’s design and its 100-year-long history of as a platform for artists and experimentation. Bonnet’s paintings and drawings featuring exaggerated proportions and grotesque features and Silverman’s sculptural
Rinus Van de Velde’s drawings, sculptures, installations and video works will be the subject of a special solo exhibition at the Museum Voorlinden, for which the artist will present his own work alongside a selection of his favourite pieces from the museum’s collection. Most known for his monumental charcoal drawings with a picturesque quality, Van de Velde creates intriguing, almost filmic scenes which merge elements from reality and imaginatio
Previously at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio will be on view at the Hammer Museum in LA from 4 February 2023. The first and most extensive institutional presentation dedicated exclusively to Riley’s drawings in over half a century, the exhibition presents approximately ninety works on paper and covers the entirety of the artist’s career, spanning her student days in the late 1940s, her groundbreaking black-and-white optical works
The first museum presentation of Carroll Dunham’s prints in Scandinavia will take place at the National Museum of Oslo in February 2023 and will be the second exhibition in the museum’s newly inaugurated space for exhibitions of prints and drawings. With as many as 161 prints, this exhibition illustrates the artist’s work with series and includes several of his best known and most iconic motifs. Dunham is internationally renowned for his unique pictorial language, encompassing painting,
