Founder and CEO of ART Communication + Brand Consultancy Anna Rosa Thomae talks to The Art Gorgeous about art and style, sharing thoughts and tips from a secret beauty routine to a 'color darker than black'.
Read full interview here.
Kelly Taub for BFANYC
UNAIDS Gala 2016 opens Art Basel week tonight in collaboration with the Hotel InterContinental Geneva, Cartier and Design Miami. The gala will aim to raise funds to increase access to HIV prevention and treatment services for women and children worldwide and will coincide with an exclusive design auction led and curated by Simon de Pury and Design Miami. The auction will feature unique works by the world's best artists and designers including Rolf Sachs who has donated a Kevlar and resin chair, Campana brothers, Daniel Libeskind, Hass brothers and more.
Image: 'Dirty Thoughts', 2009, carbon fibre, Kevlar, bonding resin, paints. H80 x W85 x D45cm edition 2/7 & 3/7. Courtesy of the artist.
This May, Dirimart, one of the leading forces in the Turkish art scene is opening a second gallery in Istanbul's Dolapdere area. Designed by Studio MDA, New York, the new space spreads over 1000sqm, including the offices and an outdoor sculpture garden. “Surface and Beyond,” the inaugural group exhibition on view through July 30 will present well-known international and Turkish contemporary artists. All artworks, be it painting, sculpture, or film, invite the viewer on a visual journey beyond the surface.
Photocredit Işık Kaya. Courtesy of Dirimart Gallery.
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition of Psyche by Saint Clair Cemin, on view from May 26- August 19, 2016 at 297th Tenth Avenue, New York. The internationally renowned sculptor will unveil the ethereal sculpture Psyche, a large-scale marble boat that appears to float atop its bronze cradle.
Psyche, 2015. Marble and bronze. Marble: 39 3/8 x 196 7/8 x 39 3/8 inches,
bronze base: 27 1/2 x 102 3/4 x 27 ½ inches.
Lobmeyr, a glass and chandelier-making manufacturer standing for excellent craftsmanship since 1823, is in its sixth generation as a family business founded by Josef Lobmeyr senior in Vienna’s Weihburggasse. A love of the material, the emotional relationship with the product and the commitment of personal energy defines the Lobmeyr method of working from the beginning. Lobmeyr has always worked with outstanding designers, from the architects of Vienna’s Ringstrasse in the 19th century to the pioneers of the Modern Movement or contemporary artists; the list of collaborating designers mirrors not only the diversity, but also the quality of Lobmeyr’s work with crystal. This May, Lobmeyr will celebrate its 50th anniversary as 50 years ago the first applause went to the 12 Lobmeyr chandeliers installed in the Met Auditorium, designed by Hans Harald Rath .
MET Foyer. Courtesy of Lobmeyr.
The GAA Foundation, dedicated to growing awareness of philosophical themes in art and architecture, in collaboration with global consulting agency PLANE—SITE, announce the official launch of an interview series presenting the ideas and practices of the internationally renowned architects selected for the TIME SPACE EXISTENCE exhibition at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora. The geographically and generationally diverse roster includes Denise Scott Brown (USA), Peter Eisenman (USA), Curtis W. Fentress (USA), Meinhard von Gerkan (Germany), Dirk Hebel (Switzerland), Frei Otto (Germany), and Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell (Singapore).
Participating architects. Courtesy of PLANE-SITE.
Singapore-based firm WOHA announces their contribution to the XV International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia (28 May-27 November 2016), as part of the GAA Foundation’s collateral exhibition TIME SPACE EXISTENCE. Located at the Palazzo Bembo, Fragments of an Urban Future answers to the most pressing issues facing megacities today— unprecedented urbanization, accelerating climate change, and the need for preservation of tropical biodiversity.
Courtesy of WOHA Architects
For Frieze New York Paul Kasmin Gallery will present a solo exhibition by the painter Walton Ford, known for his grand scale watercolors of animals in which he expands upon the visual language of traditional natural history painting. This presentation at Frieze will be the first since his highly acclaimed recent exhibition at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris.
Vollmond, 2016. Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 84 x 60 inches. Courtesy the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery
The Republic of Seychelles announce their first contribution to the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (28 May-27 November 2016), with an exhibition titled Between Two Waters, Searching for Expression in the Seychelles. Located in Palazzo Michiel and facing the Grand Canal, the Pavilion of the Seychelles transports visitors to the 115-island archipelago—the least populated nation in Africa.
House RTM, Sans Souci, Mahe, Seychelles, 2005. Courtesy of ADD.locus.
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Robert Motherwell: The Art of Collage, on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from April 14 – May 21, 2016. The exhibition is comprised of uniquely important works from the artist’s lifelong exploration of collage, showing the unprecedented diversity of approaches Motherwell employed in advancing the medium.
The Irregular Heart, 1974. Acrylic, pasted cardboard, pasted papers, and clear plastic tape on upson board 25 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Artwork © Dedalus Foundation Inc. / Licensed by VAGA, New York.
Artist Rolf Sachs presents a new design concept for the Dolder Grand Hotel’s new restaurant: Saltz. Inspired by the new interior, Chef à la Carte Patrick Hetz presents corresponding culinary creations. The Dolder Grand’s new all-day dining restaurant Saltz opened March 8, 2016.
Saltz © Nico Schaerer. Courtesy of The Dolder Grand and Artist Rolf Sachs.
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the installation of Bernar Venet’s monumental sculpture Disorder: 9 Uneven Angles in Union Square Plaza, at the corner of East 17th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Presented in collaboration with the New York City Department of Transportation and the Union Square Partnership, the sculpture will be installed the first week of March and will be on view through June 2016. An unveiling will be held at the site on Thursday, March 3 at 9:30am EST.
Bernar Venet, Disorder: 9 Uneven Angles, 2015. Steel. 25’
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Marcel Broodthaers on view from March 3 – April 23, 2016 at 515 West 27th Street New York.
The exhibition features important unique works illustrating Broodthaers’ broad range in material and format, including his seminal series of paintings on vacuum-formed plastic, multi-part canvas works, drawings, photography and installation. This show also marks the first time the artist’s complete editions and books have been shown together in the United States and includes twenty artist books from 1957 – 1975, as well as twenty-six editioned works from 1964-1975.
Pipe, 1969. Painted vacuum-formed plastic plate. 31 7/8 x 46 1/2 inches; 81 x 118 CM. © 2016 The Estate of Marcel Broodthaers / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels
The inaugural exhibition in celebration of the re-opening will unveil new leather furniture by Italian designer Mario Milana
Les Ateliers Courbet will open its newly designed gallery and showroom on March 10, 2016. In celebration of its transformation, New York’s Master-Craftsmen’s gallery will unveil its collaborative collection of chairs designed by Mario Milana presenting the impeccable furniture craftsmanship of Northern Italy featuring leather upholstery and bronze casting.
Mario Milana & Les Ateliers Courbet: Mm3 © Mario Milana 2016
William N. Copley is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
The Menil Collection is proud to present the first retrospective in any U.S. museum devoted to the work of the American artist William N. Copley (1919-1996), creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings, and installations in playful, ribald styles of his own invention.
Image: William N. Copley, Remember the Day, 1961. Oil on canvas, 57 1/2 × 45 1/4 in. (146.1 × 114.9 cm). Courtesy of William N. Copley Estate and Paul Kasmin Gallery New York. © 2016 Estate of William N. Copley / Copley LLC / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
