Glances at the Art World, January 13-19, 2022

On this page of our website, we will present the most interesting exhibitions in our opinion that take place in the specific week in the museums of the world. Exhibitions that all interested art lovers are required to know. Art is a huge mosaic spanning from prehistory to the present day. It accompanies man from the beginning of his existence because it is that creative expression that in the artwork captures the mental state, emotions, ideas, and visualization of the artist and will always be important in human life because of the magnetism it causes to human emotions by stimulating them.

  • PARIS (FRANCE-EU)

Exhibition: Georg Baselitz – The retrospective

Retrospective "Georg Baselitz" - poster

An unclassifiable artist, wavering between figuration, abstraction and a conceptual approach, Georg Baselitz’s powerful work is inextricably linked to the artist’s imagination and experience, illustrating the complexity of being a painter and an artist in post-war Germany (he is born in 1938 in the GDR). The exhibition brings together his masterpieces of the last six decades in chronological order, revealing his most striking creative periods, including the well known Fractured compositions and the inverted motifs of 1969. Centre Pompidou

October 20, 2021 – March 7, 2022

  • LONDON (UK)

Exhibition: Gainsborough’s Blue Boy

In the winter of 1922, Gainsborough’s ‘The Blue Boy’ hung at the Gallery for three weeks before it sailed across the Atlantic to its new home in California. It was a public farewell to a beloved painting.100 years later (to the day), Gainsborough’s masterpiece returns to the Gallery to go on display in Trafalgar Square once again.On a child-sized canvas, the young subject is dressed in a striking blue costume; he is bright-eyed yet serious, shy yet direct. The identity of the boy in blue is uncertain; more importantly, he is a stand-in for all boys and the idea of childhood. Through a series of high-profile exhibitions, widely published reproduction prints, and countless copies by artists down the ages, he has become one of Britain’s most beloved sons.‘The Blue Boy’ represents the best of 18th-century British art. It is Gainsborough’s eloquent response to the legacy of Van Dyck and grand manner portraiture. It is a proud demonstration by Gainsborough of what painting can achieve. The popularity and influence of the painting have made it an icon, which has been quoted by contemporary artists and referenced in Hollywood films. After exactly 100 years, this exhibition reunites ‘The Blue Boy’ with the British public and with the paintings that inspired it.This is the first time the painting has been loaned by The Huntington – it is a once-in-a-century opportunity to see this iconic work in the UK. The National Gallery.

January 25 – May 15, 2022

  • ROME (ITALY-EU)

Exhibition: Giuseppe Penone at Villa Medici

After the great personal exhibition organized in 2008 by Richard Peduzzi, Giuseppe Penone returns today to Villa Medici with a project conceived specifically for the historic rooms of Cardinal Ferdinando de ‘Medici. From December 16, 2021 to February 27, 2022; the artist presents four emblematic works of his own poetics: Vase (1986) in ceramic and plaster, The emptiness of the vase (2005) in white terracotta and x-rays, and Enveloping the earth – vase (2005) in white terracotta and plaster, the video Ephemeris (2016) and five terracotta and bronze sculptures entitled Terra su terra – basin (2005). While the 2008 exhibition was presented in the most emblematic and majestic spaces of Villa Medici, this time the artist occupies a place with a more intimate character: the private rooms of Cardinal Ferdinando de ‘Medici (the room of the Elements, the room of the Muses , the room of the loves of Jupiter). For this project, Giuseppe Penone tries to highlight the singularity of the spaces by presenting three works that question the material and the concept of sculpture. An example of this is the work Vase, composed of a ceramic bowl that houses a plaster vase whose unstructured silhouette bears the imprint of the artist’s hands, echoing the private, almost domestic functions of the place that hosts it. The artist’s imprint is also found in the work The vacuum of the vase, a composition formed by a vase framed by three radiographs of hands, which plays on the materiality of the forms and on their visual perception. Finally, the encounter between gesture and matter is found in the third work, Wrapping the earth – vase (2005), made of terracotta, the synthesis of a universal form that underlines the complex link between man and nature. Terracotta is also the material of which the vase at the center of the Ephemeris video is made, belonging to the homonymous cycle of 2016, as well as the basins supported by bronze bases also inspired by plant elements in the Terra su terra series – basin (2005).

December 17, 2021 – February 27, 2022

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