Don Quixote Pavilion and Garden at the Rijksmuseum |Amsterdam

 Don Quixote Pavilion and Garden at the Rijksmuseum |Amsterdam | The Netherlands 

An exceptional donation from the Don Quixote Foundation will enable the Rijksmuseum to enrich the city of Amsterdam with a public sculpture garden of international stature. In this green space with three pavilions, visitors will enjoy sculptures by world-renowned artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jean Arp, Roni Horn and Henry Moore. The new garden will also host temporary sculpture exhibitions. The Don Quixote Foundation is donating 60 million euros to fund the development of the new site. It is also giving a large number of sculptures on long-term loan to the Rijksmuseum. The museum’s new exhibition space will be known as the Don Quixote Pavilion and Garden at the Rijksmuseum.

 Sculpture garden

The sculpture garden will be situated just a stone’s throw from the Rijksmuseum, at the intersection of Boerenwetering, Ruysdaelkade and Stadhouderskade. Three existing pavilions and their adjoining gardens will be merged with Carel Willinkplantsoen to form a single sculpture garden. The pavilions, built in the Amsterdam School style, will be open to the public for the first time. These buildings will be transformed into sculpture exhibition spaces designed by the London firm Foster + Partners. The garden itself will be designed by the Belgian landscape architect Piet Blanckaert.
Greater biodiversity

In addition to the outstanding sculptures, more space will be made for trees and plants. Twenty-two new mature trees and a wider variety of native flowers and plants will contribute to increased biodiversity in the city.
Free public access

The main entrance to the sculpture garden will be located on Stadhouderskade. Visitors will be able to access the sculpture garden free of charge during the day. Exact opening hours will be determined in consultation with the municipality and local residents.
Don Quixote Foundation

The Don Quixote Foundation is the Rijksmuseum’s largest private benefactor. It has supported the annual sculpture exhibition in the Rijksmuseum Gardens since the museum reopened in 2013, ensuring admission to the exhibitions remains free. Thanks to an additional donation of 12.5 million euros in 2023, the foundation has made it possible to continue staging exhibitions in the Rijksmuseum Gardens. In 2017, the foundation gave the unique flora and fauna albums of Anselmus de Boodt—containing more than 700 16th-century watercolours and drawings – on long-term loan to the museum. The foundation also supported the Rijksmuseum’s 2022 exhibition Crawly Creatures.

>>>  The permit application has been submitted, and the plan is for the sculpture garden to open in autumn 2026.

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The iconic Rijksmuseum in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the things you need to see when you visit the Netherlands. Rijksmuseum moves you through more than 8,000 works of Dutch art and history including masterpieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh.

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 Rijksmuseum | Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam

 

 

Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life @ TATE

Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life @ TATE

Runs until 1st of May 2023

 

Barbara Hepworth Disc with Strings (Moon) 1969  © Bowness

Barbara Hepworth is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. She was at the forefront of international modern art, deeply spiritual, and passionately engaged with political and technological change. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, she moved to St Ives in 1939, where she lived and worked for the rest of her life. Her works reveal a singular vision of art and life, integrating her interests in music, dance, science, space exploration, politics, and religion, with personal events and experiences.

This exhibition presents almost five decades of her sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and designs. Hepworth expanded the possibilities for sculpture and art’s purpose within modern society. Working in both abstraction and figuration, much of her art expresses our relationships with each other and our surroundings, and how art can reflect and alter our perceptions of the world. Hepworth considered St Ives her ‘spiritual home’. Her former residence and workspace in the town, Trewyn Studio, is now the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. Hepworth’s works – from drawings to monuments – are treasured in public and private collections and civic spaces worldwide. Celebrating her extraordinary life and achievements, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life is organised by The Hepworth Wakefield in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh) and Tate St Ives.

Tate St Ives
Porthmeor Beach
St Ives
Cornwall TR26 1TG

A 22-metre-high bronze sculpture by Thomas Lerooy in Knokke, Belgium

A 22-metre-high bronze sculpture by the Belgian artist Thomas Lerooy in Knokke

A 22-metre-high bronze sculpture by the Belgian artist Thomas Lerooy will be installed in Knokke on 16 June 2020. The sculpture, entitled Tower, is Lerooy’s first permanent sculpture in the public space.
Tower consists of 49 bronze heads – busts – all facing the sea. The faces have been manipulated and abstracted in such a way that the noses, eyes, ears and chins are all on the same vertical axis, levelling out the differences and making everyone look alike.

As is often the case in Lerooy’s work, Tower, which can be seen as a sequel to Lerooy’s earlier works Obelrisk (2007) and Never Listen to Your Best Friend (2007), refers to the transience, the ephemerality of life and the meaning of existence – or the lack of it. The bronze will patinate and age naturally under the influence of time, the salt from the sea, and the wind.

The title of the work is as simple as it is powerful. Tower refers to today’s society, which is made up of various elements that are more valuable together than separately – a society in which we depend on each other, in which we need to listen to each other and make compromises. Just as a child stacks blocks to make a tower, Lerooy stacks heads to create something meaningful.
But the sculpture is just as much a reference to Brancusi’s Endless Column, a column 30 metres high with an infinitely repeated motif of a diamond-shaped bead that seems to rise to infinity. Just like Brancusi’s column, Tower has a strong verticality. It is as if a line is drawn by hand from the horizon of the sea to the sky. Like a struggle with the infinity of the sea, the sculpture functions as an obelisk, an anchor point, or a cathedral.
Duality and tension are inherent in Lerooy’s work, which provokes, plays and challenges. Lerooy is a master of seduction and deceit. He combines drama and humour, and reconciles the theatrical with the intimate, but he also focuses on the tension between transience and timelessness, between old and new, life and death.
The Belgian public first became acquainted with Thomas Lerooy in 2006 when one of the artist’s first bronze sculptures, Le Petit Jean, was shown on the roof of the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum. The putto – the name for a chubby nude child figure – peed in the direction of the visitors. Fourteen years later, we see Leroy’s first permanent work in the public space, a bronze sculpture 22 metres high.

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Thomas Lerooy
Thomas Lerooy was born in Roeselare in 1981 and now works in Brussels, producing a coherent oeuvre of drawings, bronze sculptures and paintings. In 2015, Lerooy was the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris. In his own country, his shows have included a solo exhibition at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in 2017, a duo presentation with Félicien Rops at the Kasteel Van Gaasbeek in 2018/2019, and a solo exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSK) in Brussels.
Lerooy’s works are included in the collections of important international museums and institutions, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Belfius Art Collection in Brussels.

7th EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE NETWORK’S BRUNCH

INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE IN EUROPE
7th EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE NETWORK’S BRUNCH
date 24 january 2016 | Europe-wide |18 countries | 58 venue

 

image : the installation by Cornelia Konrads Walkaway, 2013

photocredit : sculpture network

"Nature as a material for sculpture" is the theme of this year’s edition of sculpture network’s new year’s brunch. Taking place at 58 locations, in 18 countries throughout Europe and beyond, on Sunday, January 24, 2016, 11 am (CET)
sculpture network organizes the International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture for the seventh time. new year's brunch'16 takes place Europe-wide on the 24th of January 2016, in 18 countries, at 58 venues and presents a broad panorama of contemporary sculpture, this year focusing on the theme of “nature as a material for sculpture”. Participants are linked via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and can share images on a live photo-wall.
Diverse venues throughout Europe open their doors again for this International Celebration of Contemporary Sculpture. Friends of the arts can see exhibitions and installations, attend panel discussions, lectures, workshops and artist talks, and join guided visits at art studios, museums, galleries, sculpture parks, foundries and production spaces. 58 venues – a record participation – show how contemporary sculpture is created and the attending public can meet the protagonists.
The event’s unique aspect is that it takes place within an existing network. Each participant at the 58 events is virtually linked and can share impressions live on the event’s Photo Wall. Images and comments posted on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #newyearsbrunch16 or #natureforsculpture can be followed live by all visitors in 18 countries.
The new year's brunch in January is the kick-off for sculpture network’s on-going 2016 programme on "Nature as a material for sculpture". With this event as a prelude, the theme will shape the content of other events including the XIV International Forum in Belgium next autumn and a series of Dialogues with experts and artists taking place all year long throughout Europe.
Raise awareness of contemporary sculpture - sculpture network is Europe’s leading platform for three-dimensional art. A non-profit organisation, which supports, encourages and promotes contemporary sculpture. sculpture network organizes local and international events, where the European sculpture community meet, network, discuss and enjoy sculpture. sculpture network new year's brunch is a Europe wide celebration of sculpture. Every year since 2010, people who are fascinated by contemporary three dimensional art get together at the beginning of the year, on the same day, same time, at different types of venues throughout Europe. The new year's brunch brings people together to exchange ideas, network and celebrate sculpture in all its varieties.
The new year’s brunch is an important date in the calendar to catch up with colleagues and friends, to meet experts and artists, make new contacts and hear news, successes, concerns and needs in the struggle for contemporary sculpture.



www.sculpture-network.org

2015 Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, Taiwan

2015 Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan
Deadline: January 16, 2015

Artist in Residency/Call for Proposals)
Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a large-scale site-specific outdoor environmental sculpture installation to be created during a 25-day residency in Cheng Long, a small coastal village in southwest Taiwan, working with elementary school students, residents and volunteers. The 6 selected artists will receive an artist’s fee of US$2,000, airfare, accommodations and meals; for more information visit http://artproject4wetland.wordpress.com

Theme for 2015:  “Fragile – Handle with Care”
Residency in Cheng Long, Taiwan: April 9 - May 4, 2015
Deadline for Entries: January 16, 2015

To Apply: Send the following to Curator, Jane Ingram Allen at allenrebeccajanei@gmail.com  Proposals in Chinese to Ms. Chao-Mei Wang at chenglong.artproject@gmail.com

1. Description of proposed sculpture including dimensions and materials (limit one page, sent as attached .doc or .pdf file).
2. Artist Statement about how your art relates to the theme and including your experience working with children and communities and how you will involve them in your artwork (limit 1 page sent, as attached .doc or .pdf file).
3. Sketch of your proposed artwork (attached .jpg file of less than 1 MB).
4. 6 images of previous related works (6 attached .jpg files, each less than 1 MB)
5. Image list about the 6 images, including title of work, date made, materials used and location of the artwork (sent as attached .doc or .pdf file)
6. CV or Resume (sent as attached .doc or .pdf file) including present address, nationality, education, awards, residencies and exhibitions.

Sofia: Hortus Memoriae | solo exhibition sculpture&installations by Paolo Vivian (IT)

HORTUS MEMORIAE | PAOLO VIVIAN (ITALY)
16.07.14 - 31.07.14 
Gallery of UBA "Shipka" 6, Sofia, Bulgaria

After the great success in Varna during the contempo - International Festival of Contemporary Art on July 16, 2014 in Sofia, in the presence of the artist will be opened the solo exhibition - sculpture and installations of Paolo Vivian entitled "HORTUS MEMORIAE". This exhibition brings together 28 works - sculptures, installations and objects created in recent years, the result of the creative researc of the Italian artist Paolo Vivian into the field of collective memory.The idea of the project is to create an imaginary picture of the European family, combining the relationships and influences generated in the process of globalization, migration and distribution of cultural models in a united Europe.
"HORTUS MEMORIAE" is exhibition with coded layout of the works involves the visitors in an intellectual and aesthetic puzzle where everyone creates his own imaginary garden of memory.The curator of the project is Dora Doncheva.

image: Paolo Vivian with his object "Codici ed Incroci" 

during openg of the exhibition in Sofia ;2014;photocredit:Art News Bulletin

The exhibition is realized with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute - Sofia and it is under the patronage of the Municipality of Varna, Fund "Culture" , the program "Varna 2019". Partners of the project are Graffit gallery , Raya Georgieva Foundation. Sponsors: Insurance company "Armeec" ; Devnya Cement, Bulgaria Air. Supporters are Dieter hotel / restaurant; Schenker group, Gran Mobil, Ginger cofee, Plaza hotel, Top-Print.

image: exhibition view ;Hortus Memoriae project;  Paolo Vivian,Sofia ;2014

photo credit: Istituto Italiano di Cultura-Sofia

bio 
Paolo Vivian (1962, Trento, Italy) working in the field of sculpture, installation and performance. His works have been presented in the program Vilnius - European Capital of Culture in 2009, in celebration of the 100th anniversary from the foundation of the city of Differdange in Luxembourg; in the curatorial project "Heroes Corners" in Budapest, "Art & Nature", the Netherlands under the auspices of Dutch queen; in the "Mythology of the tree" in Italy, Off-On project in Hamburg, International Biennial of visual Arts, Exi (s) t; Bulart gallery, Varna, gallery "Aktus Magnus", Vilnius and others. He has over ten solo exhibitions in private galleries and cultural institutions in Italy and abroad, including the Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Palazzo Liberia Lagarina Cultural Institute Bernstol, Italy, gallery Artstudio, Ravenna, gallery Laravelina Ferrara, Augustinian Abbey in Bolzano etc.Lives and works in Palu del Fesina, Trentino, Italy.


address: Exhibition Centre Union of Bulgarian Artists Shipka 6, 3rd floor;
1504 Sofia, 6 Shipka Str | www.sbhart.com

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships 2014-15

Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships 2014-15 
Historic and contemporary sculpture
deadline: 13 January 2014

Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators working on historic and contemporary sculpture who can make particular use of the Institute's resources: our Research Library, Archive of sculptors' papers and the Leeds sculpture collections, which we manage in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries.
In 2014-15 up to four Research Fellows will be given the opportunity to spend a month in Leeds to develop their own research. In addition we will support up to two six-week Senior Fellowships, which are intended to give established scholars time and space to develop a research project free from usual work commitments. Up to two Senior Fellowships, for periods of between four to six weeks will be offered.
Both Fellowships provide accommodation, travel expenses and a per diem.

For application:
- 750-word research proposal, that also indicates how you will use the resources
- CV
and send it to : kirstie@henry-moore.org.

Application in detail: (click here)
More about it in: Henry Moore Institute Leeds

contacts:
The Henry Moore Foundation
Dane Tree House
Perry Green
Much Hadham
Herts SG10 6EE
01279843333