NEW BANKSY PIECE
2011-01-10New Banksy piece near the Passport Collections Building, Bridge Place, Victoria, London.
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DAMIEN HIRST – FORGOTTEN PROMISES
2011-01-10In recent years, Hirst has developed his familiar iconography – the skull, the diamond and the butterfly – to explore fundamental ideas about existence. His work highlights the duality that lies at the heart of human experience, from our inexorable struggles between life and death, beauty and decay, desire and fear, love and loss.
The exhibition also includes a series of brilliant diamond cabinets. Forgotten Sorrows, Lost Friends, and Tears of Joy (all 2010) seem optimistic, yet their titles suggest more contemplative notions of memory, melancholy, and loss. A group of paintings (2008-2009) including Age of Magnificence and Fading Magnificence have real butterflies entombed in layers of shiny metallic paint.
Opposite – Cupid’s Lie, 2008, Gold
Exhibition runs from January 18th to March 19th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
12 Pedder Street, 7/F
Central
Hong Kong B
PARRA – FLY NEW COFFEE TABLE
2011-01-03Parra’s artwork is usually presented in 2D mode. The Dutch artist collaborated with the Belgium-based Toykyo for this limited edition furniture, called The Fly New Coffee Table. The Botero-like feet are common for Parra’s work, and on the table they’re used as actual legs. The exclusive Fly New Coffee Table is limited to only 8 pieces, each style with different colorway combinations.
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FUTURA X 12OZPROPHET
2011-01-03Great but brief insight into how Futura’s art work has grown and changed with the introduction of key characters from his life, from The Clash to Unkle.
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2011-01-03Gir and Moebius are two pen names of Jean Giraud, this major exhibition titled Moebius Transforme at the Cartier Foundation, is organized around the theme of metamorphosis, the exhibition is arranged so each visitor can discover the prolific and multifaceted fantasy of the artist, through 400 drawings, comic strip boards, notebooks and paintings.
The most worshipped comic strip illustrator and cartoonist from Japan to the United States- where he contributed on films such as Tron, Alien, and The Abyss. His extremely diverse characters and fictions vary from the western -with Blueberry- a series that introduced him to the public at the beginning of the sixties, to volumes of science fiction.
Exhibition runs through to the 13th of March, 2011
Gosse de peintre
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
SERGEJ JENSEN
2010-12-27The first solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist at a New York museum.
Jensen’s poetic artworks provide a fresh approach to Minimalist painting. Employing a wide range of textiles, the artist uses additive and subtractive physical methods like bleaching, fraying, or sewing to stand in for the traditional gestures of pure painting. Through these processes, Jensen creates fragile and quiet abstractions that become contemplations of the history and reuse of his chosen materials, and conjure a network of visual and visceral associations from the stains, holes, cracks, and other traces of use that in turn become his primary pictorial elements.
Exhibition runs from January 23rd to May 2nd, 2011
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
11101
