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Valentine Willie Fine Art announced Putu Sutawijaya's second solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.
This recent body of work marks a new transition in the artist's development as he moves away from his signature androgynous bodies in motion to depict landscape and architecture.
Inspired by the splendour of Angkor Wat during his trip to Cambodia in 2006, the artist has begun painting the majestic Borobudur and other temples around Central Java since his return.
Putu Sutawijaya was born in Bali, and pursued his studies at the Art Faculty of the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI), Yogyakarta, graduating in 1998.
Since then he has been producing contemporary works from his studio in Yogyakarta and Bali.
The artist is the recipient of the Philip Morris Top 10 Asean Artists Award (1999) and the Best Fine Art Award from the Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta at the 11th Dies Nathalis.
Putu Sutawijaya's works have been exhibited throughout Indonesia.
His paintings have also been shown in London, Basel, Chicago, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
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In March 2008, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008, a groundbreaking exhibition that fully explores the Rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, textiles, prints, and drawings.
The exhibition will chart the progress of the Rococo style as it radiates out from Paris, travels to the French provinces, migrates to other European countries, and later crosses over to the United States.
Rococo: The Continuing Curve is organized by Sarah Coffin, head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department; Gail Davidson, head of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department; Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design; and guest curator Penelope Hunter-Stiebel.
This is the first museum survey of the Rococo style and its ongoing resurgence that traces how the design style was born, reborn and transformed across centuries and continents.
The exhibition will explore these regional and chronological modifications, and study the social, political and economic influences affecting the migration and assimilation of the Rococo style.
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"Brassai is a living eye," wrote Henry Miller of the Hungarian-born artist who adopted Paris after World War I and became one of its most celebrated photographers.
Originally a painter before he moved on to writing, sculpture, cinema and, most famously, photography, Brassai (1899-1984) was a member of Paris's cultural elite, counting Miller, Picasso, Sartre, Camus, and Cocteau, among his friends.
Camera in hand, he scoured the streets and bars of Paris, unabashedly capturing the city's inhabitants in their natural habitats.
Prostitutes, hoodlums, and other "marginal" characters were the most famous heroes of Brassaï's moody, gritty photographs taken often by night.
Including an extensive selection of Brassai's finest photographs and an essay describing his life and work, this book explores the world of Brassai in thematic chapters: Minotaure magazine, Paris at Night, Secret Paris, Day Visions, Artists of My Life, and Graffiti and Transmutations.
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If fairies do their Christmas shopping on place Vendôme, they won't be surprised by what they see in the Van Cleef & Arpels windows.
Rather, they will wonder how their familiar surroundings - a deep forest, of course - were transported there.
A poetic and fairy tale world has been created by two contemporary artists who combine image with sound to immerse the visitor in a luminous and silent world.
A fairy tale décor. Such is the description one could use to define the unexpected and poetic forest that has appeared in the windows of the Van Cleef & Arpels boutique on place Vendôme from the 15th of November to the end of January.
Where there are fairies... there is magic.
You only need to stop for a moment in front of this three-dimensional scene to discover that it is alive! The light changes imperceptibly, from dawn till dusk, to the crystal sounds of a techno music that was composed especially by Sounds of Silence.
And so, from the pink hues of dawn to the colours of twilight... the gradations of browns, greens and oranges transport this landscape of light and shadow through time.
The décor is made up entirely of white paper: large vertical panes are the backdrop for the shadows of a multitude of projected cut-out silhouette shapes.
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A monumental figure in twentieth-century photography, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) changed the course of the medium not only with his extraordinary photographs, but also with his passionate efforts to establish photography as a fine art and with his innovative publications and galleries.
After Stieglitz's death, his wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), chose several institutions to receive representative gifts of his work, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
This 1949 gift laid the groundwork for the Museum's renowned and ever-growing collection of international photography, now numbering around 29,000 images.
This inaugural exhibition-in the Julien Levy Gallery's new location in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building-pays tribute to the Museum's treasured holding of the master's work with a selection of some of the finest prints from its bountiful collection of six hundred images by Stieglitz, many of them donated by his family and friends.
The exhibition concentrates on Stieglitz's work in several series throughout his career, revealing his consistent concentration on aspects of his own personal universe.
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