MAK Vienna unveils Asian art reinstallation
The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna unveiled its permanent collection of Asian art after its reinstallation following a concept and design by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata. The MAK Asia Collection is one of the most comprehensive and important European collections of art and applied arts from the Asiatic region. As of 19 February 2014, it will be presented in an exhibition gallery “conceived in a fundamentally new...
New Order II: British Art Today
The second part of Saatchi Gallery’s New Order series opens 24 January 2014 with an impressive line-up of artists following the selections that featured in the first part which opened last year and ended 16 January this year. New Order II: British Art Today features work by Dominic Beattie, Sarah Dwyer, Nick Evans, Tom Gidley, Kate Hawkins, Virgile Ittah, George Little, Oliver Osborne, Hannah Perry, Martine Poppe, Mary Ramsden,...
All set for London's 20|21 Art Fair, 2014
The next 20|21 International Art Fair will take place in the prestigious and historic galleries of the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 15 to 18 May 2014, the organisers announced. Now in its eighth year, the fair moved from February to May in 2013, a change which was popular with both visitors and exhibitors. On show will be modern and contemporary art from Britain and around the world. There are a number of...
Behruz Heshmat's tree houses
Behruz Heshmat, the Iranian artist resident in Austria, will show his sculptural works in a selling exhibition in London 14 October – 14 November 2013. Heshmat moved to Austria in the 1970s and has featured frequently in Eastern Art Report since the 1990s. Heshmat’s treehouses are described as a self-exiled artist’s imaginative interpretation of home. To Heshmat (aka Hechmat), the house is central to human existence, and his...
Behruz Heshmat's tree houses
Behruz Heshmat, the Iranian artist resident in Austria, will show his sculptural works in a selling exhibition in London 14 October – 14 November 2013. Heshmat moved to Austria in the 1970s and has featured frequently in Eastern Art Report since the 1990s. Heshmat’s treehouses are described as a self-exiled artist’s imaginative interpretation of home. To Heshmat (aka Hechmat), the house is central to human existence, and his...
From the Thing Itself: Hadi Tabatabai and Werner Haypeter
Werner Haypeter and Hadi Tabatabai show their sculptural objects and works on paper in a new selling exhibition, From the Thing Itself, 13 September – 18 October 2013 at Kunstgalerie, Bonn. An opening narrative on the show goes: “From the thing itself, the pleasure taken in getting to the bottom of the matter, the concentration, the intensity of dealing with artistic questions and issues, the artist Werner Haypeter, who...