Art and Travel
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Some suggestions on where to get your 'art fix' on holiday this year
AUSTRIA
Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg Perched on
the Mönchsberg (Monk's Hill) overlooking one of
Europe's most picturesque towns, Salzburg's Museum
of Modern Art shines like a white marble beacon of
modernity over the classical architecture below. The
floor to ceiling windows flood light into galleries
containing works by Austrian greats such as Gustav
Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka alongside
special exhibitions. There are magnificent views
of the city from the veranda of M32, the museum
restaurant.
Until July 6 A Guest of Honour: From Francis Bacon to Peter Doig Based on permanent loans from a private English collection, this exhibition examines the broad network of relations and friendships between Francis Bacon and Peter Doig and their British art colleagues, including prominent 20th century painters Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Ronald B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff. Rejecting abstract tendencies in art, they all depict the human figure and its environment in portraits, landscapes and cityscapes which have exerted tremendous influence on a younger generation of painters. Bill Viola/Nan Hoover: Some Times This exhibition presents films by the internationally renowned American video artist Bill Viola juxtaposed with photographs by the Berlin-based multimedia artist Nan Hoover. Though using completely different methods, both artists blur the borders between 'outside' and 'inside' to highlight time as a fundamental element of perception. www.museumdermoderne.at
Until May 5 Exact+different: Art and Mathematics from Dürer to Sol LeWitt This large scale exhibition investigates the relationship between two traditionally related but often separately considered disciplines, mathematics and art, two worlds which since the Renaissance at least have displayed surprisingly parallel tendencies and which made possible many of the developments of modern art. Cézanne's dictum that 'everything in nature models itself on the sphere, cone and cylinder' underlines the influence of mathematical thought on the visual arts. The exhibition explores this complex relationship through works by among others Dürer, Duchamp, Man Ray, Kazimir Malevich, Carl Andre, Ruth Vollmer and Sol LeWitt.
Until May 29 Albin Egger-Lienz Featuring over 180 paintings and graphics from museums, galleries and private collections in Austria and abroad, some shown here publicly for the first time, this is the most extensive exhibition ever staged of this important Expressionist and pioneer of 20th century Austrian painting. Egger- Lienz's working process is revealed in first versions of the individual subjects acquired by the collector Rudolf Leopold. The works concentrate on memories of the artist's birthplace in the Austrian Tyrol and of Munich and include religious motifs, portraits, landscapes, the terrors of war and everyday agrarian life. www.mqw.at
NETHERLANDS
Until May 25 A selection from the collection of contemporary art With no precise theme, works by Joseph Beuys, Jan Dibbets, Tom Claassen, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Cai Guo Qiang and Dennis Oppenheim demonstrate the artists' search for the right form with the help of the right materials, stimulating the visitor to ponder the same questions the artists asked themselves when making the works.
Until June 8 Eylem Aladogan Aladogan (b.1975) makes monumental installations characterised by an intelligent interplay between architectural and organic elements. In 2005 Aladogan was awarded the ABN Amro Art Prize for the remarkably topical and extremely personal oeuvre that she produced at such an early age. This exhibition includes several of her sculptural installation pieces, including a new work, Before Departure (all my changes were there), being shown here for the first time. www.kmm.nl
Leaving nothing to the imagination, this 'only in Amsterdam' museum explores artists' age-old fascination with sex as a source of inspiration for their work. Imagery spans several millennia, from ancient Greece, China, Japan and the Roman empire to 20th century prints. Well known featured artists include Toulouse-Lautrec and George Grosz.
Currently showing Eric Wallis Americanborn Wallis' prolific output - he produces over 200 paintings a year - has resulted in over 20 one-man exhibitions, bringing him to the attention of collectors in the United States, Canada, Britain, Italy, Australia and Turkey. Two of his major figurative works are included in The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today, Vol. 1. www.ameanet.org
USA
Currently showing The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery Nearly 300 vessels created by outstanding ceramic artists of the pueblos (villages) of New Mexico and Arizona trace the history of the craft from the inception of pottery-making in the prehistoric period (c.AD400- 1500), when the ancestral potters of the southwest experimented with clays, slips, paints and textures to create regional styles, through the historic period (c.AD1500-1800), which saw the development of unique traditions at each pueblo, to the modern period (c.1880 to the present), when individual potters began to be recognised internationally for their work. The gallery draws from the museum's exceptional collection of over 6,000 ceramic masterpieces. www. miaclab.org
Until June 22 Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption Painting, sculpture and crafts help viewers connect with the victims and give an insight into and appreciation of the world of the artists who made them and the owners who cherished them.
Until Aug 3 Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection Presenting some 50 works designed by leading architects of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, this exhibition features vessels, mantle clocks, flatware, tea and coffee services and other forms demonstrating the various international stylistic influences during the period. www.mfah.org
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