Saudi Gazette Genera#ion Venue: Minnesota Street Project 15 Saudi artists are part of Genera#ion a multi-city art expedition throughout the United States. The exhibition marks its third stop at San Francisco. It is supported by The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (ithra) in partnership with Gharem Studio and prominent Saudi artists. The project aims to generate interpersonal dialogue between nations. "The artists in this show present a new intellectual paradigm that utilizes unique concepts and terminology to define the artists' role within their society and their generation. Rather than analyzing art and society separately, the artists confront art as a reflection of society, positioning themselves as its mirrors," said Abdulnasser Gharem, a prominent Saudi artist and founder of Gharem Studio. Dates: 11 August - 6 September 2016 Location: Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco, CA 94107 Picasso Sculptor Venue: Musée Picasso Paris Don't miss it! Organized with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Picasso Sculptures" at Musée Picasso displays the lesser-known yet luxuriously dynamic oeuvre of Pablo Picasso's sculptural practice. The exhibition will offer a new perspective at the cast iron creations by methodically representing them with their "double" or "variants." Dates: Mar 8th – Sep 18th Location: Paris, 5, rue de Thorigny Phantom Limb Venue: Shulamit Nazarian Phantom Limb is an exhibition featuring five artists whose works operate between figuration and abstraction. The artists survey layers of history, personal accounts, cultural upheaval, the intricacy of human psychology, and the physicality of the body itself. The works intend to speak to audiences' in a way that they are able to feel a presence of the body liberated from its illustration. ‘Viewers experience the work viscerally, perceiving their own corporeal being relative to the scale and weight of the objects.' Dates: Aug 4th – Sep 9th Location: Los Angeles, 17 North Venice Blvd Trust Issues Venue: Ronchini Gallery Ronchini is hosting a group exhibition titled ‘Trust Issues', curated by Ryan Steadman featuring new work by Arielle Falk, Samuel Levi Jones, Augustus Nazzaro, Rachel Rossin and Rose Salane. Trust Issues is based on showcasing the inherent fallacy of today's mass media. "Before the Information Age, the media was seen as an objective think tank that nevertheless ignored viewpoints outside its jurisdiction—as well as minority viewpoints within it. The Internet, and social media in particular, exposed the factional nature of these institutions, and the media as we'd known it was splintered into thousands of partisan players who were forced to become servile to monetary interests. These biases are more transparent than ever, but the public is often left with more information than they're prepared to digest. Dates: 16 September - 18 November 2016 Location: 22 Dering Street, London W1S 1AN Excitement - An Exhibition by Rudi Fuchs Venue: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam The production demonstrates a review of contemporary craftsmanship made all through the latest fifty years, including stimulating figurative painting, and works that have wound up highlights in the collections of the Stedelijk, Van Abbemuseum and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. "Hanging art works in close proximity throws their singularity into sharp relief. Look at the 1970s – there were so many radically different kinds of art that were, or seemed to be, at odds with each other. But if you looked at the works with an open mind, each excelled in its own way. At least, that's how it struck me. You could be biased, as many people were, or accept the plurality as abundance – and take that view of art. As early as 1980, Markus Lüpertz and Richard Long told me: it's about the quality of our generation. There's no such thing as ‘right'. There is taste, and preference – but that's something else altogether. In today's world, no one is automatically the first. In art, no one is the best. That's what this exhibition is about – from my perspective, and with the works that are available," Rudi Fuchs said. Dates: May 27th – Oct 2nd Location: Amsterdam, Museumplein 1
