Art in NYC: Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim Museum

March 7, 2019June 19, 2019 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim Museum

The Guggenheim Museum presents Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future; on view until April 23, 2019

Hilma af Klint, Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907 from untitled series; tempera on paper mounted on canvas, 315 x 235 cm The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm / Photo: Albin Dahlström, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City presents an extensive expose of works by Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. Stunning and mysterious, af Klint’s large and small paintings of abstract forms and shapes were created years before Abstract art took its place in the hearts and minds of artists and the public.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, af Klint started developing her own expressive language from 1906. Stripped bare from imagery, her works were way ahead of the established giants of Abstractionism like Kandinsky, Mondrian or Malevich. Yet af Klint’s art remained unknown to the public partly due to her belief that the world was not ready for her art and in accordance with her wish to show her works 20 years after her death.

Many of af Klint’s paintings were inspired by and served as a medium to express the spiritual beliefs which emerged from occult teachings and Theosophy. The cycle of the large bright-colored canvases at the entrance of the exhibition was conceived as The Paintings for the Temple. The lively palette of pastel colors with pink symbolizing femininity, yellow for masculinity, and gentle blue for the universal unity express the unseen world channeled through the art. Walk up the spiraling hall of the museum to absorb the art created a century ago in all its untouched novelty.

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Art in NYC: Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum

June 25, 2018September 10, 2018 contact@arts-ny.com 1 Comment

Art in NYC: Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum

Expansive expose of Giacometti’s sculptures, paintings and drawings on view at the Guggenheim until September 12, 2018

Paintings Sculptures Giacometti Guggenheim Museum New York City Dog — Alberto Giacometti Dog (Le Chien), 1951 Bronze, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Alberto Giacometti doesn’t need an elaborate introduction. His signature figures of striding tall men and extremely elongated silhouettes of women standing on heavy pedestals are immediately recognizable and treasured. Yet with all its familiarity and accessibility, the exhibition at Guggenheim uncovers the roots of artist’s journey from Cubism in his early years to figurative compositions in his later period adding layers of depth and influences.

Guggenheim’s spiraling rotunda which houses the exhibition’s vast number of sculptures, painting, and sketches serves as a symbolic climb to the triumph of Giacometti’s life work. His search for a true representation of humanity in its stillness and action are accompanied by meticulous curatorial introductions and labels. There is a lot behind each piece of work from the tiniest figurines to the towering sculptures. Get close to the artist’s thinking and immerse yourself into the existential art of “a Certified Genius™” as the FT calls the artist. The exhibition is on view until September 12, 2018.

April – August, 2017 Art Event in NYC – Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III at Guggenheim Museum

April 11, 2017August 9, 2017 arts-NY

April – August, 2017 Art Event in NYC – Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III at Guggenheim Museum

“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the first-ever realized work from a group of installations conceived by Doug Wheeler during the late 1960s and ’70s: Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, the Guggenheim installation is developed from drawings executed in 1968 and will be on view in the museum’s Tower Level 7. In […]

via Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, through August 2, 2017 — Arts Summary

The installation recreates the experience of the desert with its stillness and near silence to synthesize “lunar space”. To reach that state the gallery has controlled optics and sound environment with Wheeler’s large abstract paintings of infinite geometric forms in hermetically closed gallery. That way the visitor can experience the cosmic infinity of space.

Doug Wheeler is associated with the Light and Space art movement popular on the West Coast in the 60s.

The installation is best experienced with as little distraction as possible, so it requires a timed ticket. You can reserve it here.

Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY Time: Though August, 2, 2017

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