exhibitions
Spain: Mario Testino in Madrid
This exhibition, entitled "Tout ou rien" (All or nothing), brings together 54 prints that dress - for fashion - or undress - a more personal work - a certain eternal feminine in sophisticated or minimal settings sometimes reminiscent of Goya's elegant young women.Very attracted to emblematic women, he presents his vision of the feminine in a...
Netherlands Kees Van Dongen in Rotterdam
He arrived in Paris in 1899 to find his girlfriend Guus, whom he married two years later, and made a name for himself at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 alongside Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck. With their brightly coloured palettes, they founded Fauvism. A renowned portraitist of the Parisian elite, he also painted cabaret scenes and...
Great Britain: Gauguin in London
A precursor of modern art, he embodied the ideal of the romantic bohemian artist and the great adventurer, surrounded by myths and fables... Here we find his emblematic canvases such as La Vision après le sermon (1888), painted in Pont-Aven, where, in front of Breton women against a red background, he introduces an imaginary motif (Jacob's struggle with...
Henry Moore in London
While visiting Paris in 1925, he was captivated by a Mayan statue, the chac-mol, depicting a man lying on his elbows, his legs bent and his head turned 90°. This work determined his sculptural conception, an imbrication of convex and concave forms articulated around large voids. The exhibition brings together more than 150...
Basquiat in Basel
From the outset, he was obsessed with death, painting graffiti, skeletal silhouettes and masked faces. In 1982, he took part in an exhibition of emerging artists such as Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel, who later made a feature-length film about him. He became friends with Madonna, Keith Haring and, thanks to the Swiss art dealer...
Otto Dix in New York
The German artist (1891-1969) studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Dresden from 1909 to 1914, before being confronted with the First World War. In the 1920s, he asserted his style and described his era - the Weimar Republic - with a certain cruelty, excelling particularly in the art of portraiture. He was...
Irving Penn in London
This exhibition features 120 prints, from his early work for Vogue magazine in the 1940s to his most recent works, which include Salvador Dali, Christian Dior, Grace Kelly, Rudolf Nureyev, Al Pacino, Édith Piaf, Pablo Picasso, Nicole Kidman...Until 6 June.National Portrait St Martin's PlaceOnline ticketing at www.npg.org.uk [gallery...
Italy: Edward Hopper in Rome
A painter of the everyday life of the American middle classes, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) used his canvases, watercolours and engravings to depict the architecture, solitude and atmosphere of a society in the throes of change. Some of the lighting in his paintings - particularly the neon lights in bars and flats - seems very much influenced by the...
London Rothko
This is the first major exhibition in twenty years devoted to the work of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), one of the most emblematic artists of the post-war period in the United States. In the 1950s-1960s, Mark Rothko pioneered a new way of painting with Colorfield Painting, "coloured fields" in flat tints with indecisive edges, moving surfaces, sometimes monochrome or...
Hong Kong: Exhibition explodes
This is hardly a surprise: whether they are exhibitors or buyers, more and more Chinese are attending major international trade fairs. Nor is it a surprise that the main beneficiary of this new flow of business travellers from mainland China is the Hong Kong "special administrative region". In...
