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Erwin Wurm: " WEAR ME OUT "

This summer, the Middlelheim Museum of Antwerp will be a playground for Austrian contemporary artist Erwin Wurm. A selection of 20 pieces, some on loan from international collections and others new, will be on display. The Wear me out exhibition is a true voyage of discovery through the open-air museum, where the visitor can wonder at Wurm's expressive art, while at the same time becoming a part of it. Erwin Wurm has invited fashion designer, Walter Van Beirendonck, to collaborate for the occasion.

Although Wurm claims that he became a sculptor almost by chance, he is completely at home in the genre. The forms and the materials he chooses always yield surprising results that both examine and push the boundaries of sculpture. A visitor to one of Wurm's exhibitions is far from a passive onlooker, but gets the chance to take part, to become a part of the artwork himself, to join in with it.

Wurm's work often makes use of everyday designs and situations from our own experience. His work is everywhere, in the streets, in everyday life: furniture, old clothes, houses, comics, household goods, amid cars, hand-knitted sweaters, and more...

Wear me out

Big Pumpkin, 2010 @Erwin Wurm @Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels

Photo Jesse Willems

Big Psycho, 2010 @Erwin Wurm @Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris

Photo Jesse Willems

Big Psycho, 2010 @Erwin Wurm @Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Photo Jesse Willems

Big Gulp, 2009 @Erwin Wurm @Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels

Photo Jesse Willems

Melting House @Erwin Wurm @Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris

Photo Jesse Willems

Big Sweater, 2010 @Erwin Wurm @Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Photo Jesse Willems

Fat House, 2003 @Erwin Wurm @Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels/ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Photo Jesse Willems

UFO, 2006 @Erwin Wurm @Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels

Photo Jesse Willems

Misconceivable, 2010 @Erwin Wurm @Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris

Photo Jesse Willems

Knitwear Ceiling, 2011 @Erwin Wurm

Photo Jesse Willems

Wurm has created a new artwork in the Braem Pavilion using colorful knitting. The artist is wrapping the entire ceiling of the pavilion in a gigantic "sweater."

Performative Sculptures

@Erwin Wurm @Walter Van Beirendonck

Photo Jesse Willems

Performative sculptures, 2011 @Erwin Wurm and Walter Van Beirendonck
Braem Pavillion

Courtesy Erwin Wurm / the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp

Wear me out

May 29 - September 25, 2011

Bonsai Couture or the Haute Couture Fabric Art of Guerra de la Paz

Bonsai Couture is the latest series of artwork from Guerra de la Paz, the Miami-based Cuban artistic team of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. Originally sourcing their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami's Little Haiti, the duo still make their sculptures primarily from the discarded, repurposed or recycled items of daily life.

Bonsai Couture combines the traditions of bonsai making with the practices of haute couture or high fashion. Each piece represents individuality redefined not only with delicacy but also with an element of fantasy and extravagance.

The ancient practice of aesthetic miniaturization of trees has existed for over a thousand years. This meditative process of cultivation involves shaping and sculpting a tree to resemble mythical dragons, animals, and birds. The process of design and creation in haute couture has similar characteristics - time-consuming, hand-executed techniques, custom fitting one-of-a kind pieces made of high-quality fabrics.

For Guerra de la Paz, integrating the techniques and philosophies of these two disciplines contributes to a universal dialogue inspired by the divine quest for perfection.

Bonsai Couture is on exhibit at the Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, and is also the first Swiss exhibition of Guerra de la Paz.

Guerra de la Paz

Bonsai Couture
Chinois, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Painterly, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Aye, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Fifi, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Gaughin, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Pink Pom Pom, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Red Pom Pom, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Indochine, Bonsai Tree, 2011

Courtesy Guerra de la Paz / Galerie Kashya Hildebrand, Zurich

Bonsai Couture, June 8 - August 15, 2011

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Anton Ginzburg: At the Back of the North Wind

A mythical journey, commencing in the American North West (Astoria, Oregon), continuing to St. Petersburg and then to the White Sea, the site of the Soviet Gulag prison camps.

Imagine a place on Earth devoid of seasonal change and natural disaster, whose inhabitants were free of pestilence, aging, and war. It was a land situated so far from explored territory that it seemed otherworldly and could only be described or imagined through second-hand accounts of its existence. First chronicled by Hesiod, Homer and Herodotus, the ancients believed in such a place. They called it Hyperborea, a realm lying far north of the winter territories, where the sun never set and whose landscape and waters were lush, fertile, and wild.
~~ Except from "The Shape of Time" by Matthew Drutt, curator.

At the Back of the North Wind is an exhibition of new works by Russian artist Anton Ginzburg, which will open to the public from June 3 to November 27, 2011 during the 54th Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Bollani.

In the exhibition, Ginzburg explores the presence of mythological patterns in the fabric of everyday reality, particularly the tension between the actual and the potential. By combining new technologies with traditional forms of art, media, and cultural artifacts, the installation conveys a currently relevant approach to these universal themes in visual terms.

Anton Ginzburg lives and works in New York. His works have been shown in worldwide museums such as Palais de Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and more. At the Back of the North Wind marks his debut showing at the Venice Biennale.

" I was drawn to the theme of Hyperborea, a region thought to be far north, "beyond the Boreas" (the North Wind), through recent sensationalistic exposes claiming the discovery of a mythical land on the White Sea around the Kem' and Solovki Islands (site of the Gulag camps).
~~Anton Ginzburg

"Hyperborea" series, 2011

@Anton Ginzburg

American North West

St. Petersburg

The White Sea

Courtesy Anton Ginzburg

At the Back of the North Wind at Palazzo Bollani / Venice Biennale

June 1 - November 27, 2011

Kimiko Yoshida: " Painting. Self-portrait "

Since she fled her homeland to escape the mortifying servitude and humiliating fate of Japanese women, Kimiko Yoshida - through what is called "self-portraits"- has refined and amplified a feminist stance of protest, cultivated and distanced from "current affairs": against contemporary cliches of seduction, voluntary servitude of women, stereotypes of "gender" and biological determinism of heredity.

Kimiko Yoshida's quasi-monochrome self-portraits are well known and well acknowledged. These large, square, subtly lit monochromic photographs constitute her signature works since 2001.
Her new series of photographs, majestic and indecipherable portraits conceived with the history of art in mind, is entitled Painting. Self-portrait. This symbolic transposition of the chefs-d'oeuvre of the old masters into large archival prints on canvas is based essentially on the diversion of haute couture garments and accessories designed by Paco Rabanne.

Born in Tokyo (1963), Kimiko Yoshida lives in Europe since 1995.

" To be there where I think I am not, to disappear where I think i am, That is what matters."

~~Kimiko Yoshida

Courtesy Kimiko Yoshida / Jean-Michel Ribettes

Painting. Self-portrait is currently on exhibit at Ruarts Gallery, Moscow

April 4- May 21, 2011
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Paris: Life & Luxury, a vision of elite 18th-century Parisian lifestyle

Opening on April 26th at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exhibition Paris: Life & Luxury re-imagines, through art and material culture, the complex and nuanced lifestyle of elite 18th-century Parisians who made their city the fashionable and cultural epicenter of Europe.

Evoking the elegant, prosperous world of Rococo Paris, this major exhibition brings to life daily activities that took place inside a Parisian townhouse. Through constellations of art and related artifacts, the exhibition follows the conventional activities in the cycle of a Parisian day, such as dressing, writing, collecting, eating, and evening entertainment. Featuring approximately 160 objects, half of which will be on loan from various museums and private collections around the world, the exhibition will include a wide range of paintings, sculpture, furniture, musical instruments, clocks and books.

Here are some of the most exquisite pieces from the exhibition Paris: Life & Luxury