International Exhibitions
MAP Global Art
Initiative
Explore works by 22 artists and collectives featured in No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia.
Pablo Picasso, Woman Sitting in an Armchair (Femme assise dans un fauteuil), 1941. Oil on canvas, 73 × 60 cm. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway. © Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norvège/Photo Øystein Thorvaldsen © Succession Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2013 L’Art en guerre, France 1938–1947March 16–September 8, 2013Guggenheim Museum Bilbao L’Art en guerre, France 1938–1947: From Picasso to Dubuffet illuminates what has previously remained in the shadows of history: art created in defiance of the political atmosphere in France around World War II. The political and military situation provoked a reaction from artists. In its own way, the cathartic act of creating art provided an opportunity for artists to wage war against the war. With a shortage of resources, they had to adapt their tools to expose their respective situations through the confines of shapes and chance materials. Even in the most hostile environments, such as internment camps, the artists continued to create. 
Robert Motherwell, View from a High Tower, 1944–45. Tempera, oil, ink, pastel, and pasted wood veneer, drawing papers, Japanese papers, and printed map on paperboard, 74.3 x 74.3 cm. Private collection © Dedalus Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Robert Motherwell: Early CollagesMay 26–September 8, 2013
Guggenheim Museum Venice Devoted exclusively to papier collés and related works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s by Robert Motherwell, this exhibition examines the American artist’s origins and his engagement with collage, which he described in 1944 as “the greatest of our [art] discoveries.” 
Installation view: Learning Through Art 2012, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, June–August, 2012. Photo: Erika Barahona Ede Learning Through ArtJune 11–August 25, 2013Guggenheim Museum Bilbao This exhibition presents works by 127 children who participated in Learning Through Art during the 2012–13 academic year. With an open structure encouraging discussions about art and the creative process, students explore a variety of topics in a more creative, personal way and art becomes a tool to discover, explore, and understand reality. 
Nicolas Poussin, Satyrs Taking Sleeping Venus by Surprise, ca. 1625 (detail). Oil on canvas, 77 × 100 cm. Photo © Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to ZurbaránJune 18–October 6, 2013Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Featuring contemporary artworks presented alongside 17th-century paintings, this exhibition attempts to extricate the concept of the baroque from established clichés and traditional perceptions. With a clear shift away from pomp, ornament, and gold, it focuses on the baroque as a celebration of the precarious vitality that was hailed, rediscovered, lost, projected, and threatened by death. 
Franz Marc, Stables (Stallungen), 1913. Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 157.5 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 46.1037 The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces from the Guggenheim CollectionNov. 26, 2013–March 2, 2014This fall the Art Gallery of Ontario presents The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, featuring nearly 70 avant-garde works from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s holdings. |