ur appetite for inspiration and creativity could never be fully satisfied. Illuminating people, urban settings, and spaces surround us, but we still crave more. Here are some inspiring findings from the art arena we couldn’t wait to share with you:
East Meets East: Transmissions, MoMA
Focusing on art in Eastern Europe and Latin America from the 1960s, to the 1980s, this grand scale exhibition charts latent and unexplored connections between artistic production under different socialist regimes and dictatorships. Working in distinct political climates, artists from Buenos Aires to Prague had developed networks of circulation and partnerships that transcend the physical and conceptual borders dividing them. This exhibition brings together works from the museum’s collections with new archives, while also re-creating fascinating installations that explored technologies and spaces of communication. See more in the museum’s website.
Circle in the Square: Robert Ryman, Dia: Chelsea
Robert Ryman’s vital pictorial spaces explore the relationships of form, color and perception. This comprehensive exhibition presents six decades of his work, beginning with the 1950s. The visual environment his work creates allows to explore the color and light frequencies of space, with changing tonal values, reflections and spatial abstractions. This unique body of work is not to be missed (Opening: December 9). Read more here.
From Around the World: Olafor Eliasson, Baroque Baroque, The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna
And here is a very different experimentation with the construction of space. In this recent exhibition, Olafor Eliasson brings together a selection of works from two different private collections into the lavish setting of Vienna’s Winter Palace.
Taken from the private collections of ThyssenBornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) and Juan and Patricia Vergez (Buenos Aires), the works are charged with new contexts and meanings as they are suddenly placed in a completely different environment: the former city residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), which was in and of itself, a central site of artistic and scientific patronage.
Explaining this seemingly unexpected turn toward the baroque era, Eliasson said: “I find it inspiring that the baroque exhibited such confidence in the fluidity of the boundaries between models of reality and, simply, reality.” This project therefore continues his ongoing exploration of the cognitive and cultural aspects of seeing, as well as the challenged he poses to the boundaries that define the art world. See more from the exhibition here and his website here.
