5 art exhibitions to visit in August 2022
Love Life: David Hockney Drawings 1963 to 1977
The Holburne Museum, Bath
May 27 – September 18, 2022
Celebrate the beauty of everyday life through the designs of artist David Hockney. The love of life underpins the art of David Hockney, beautifully demonstrated by this collection of works on paper. Drawings on display include some of his well-known portraits, as well as many works that focus on the little things like twisted ties, furniture and windows. With over 40 Hockney drawings borrowed from private collections, Love Life is a wonderful way to appreciate Hockney's art and his extraordinary powers of observation and skill in using small mundane details to help capture a situation or a place. David Hockney's discovery of beauty in the ordinary is most beautifully expressed in still lifes. This sense of delight is also expressed in his interpretations of architectural exteriors and interiors, with a particular interest in empty rooms, chairs and windows.
Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
12 March 2022 – 8 January 2023
This vibrant display of exterior and interior sculpture is by American artist Robert Indiana, known for his colorful, pop art-inspired works. Combined with rare paintings and prints never seen before in the UK, the sculptures address the themes of unity, acceptance, love and anti-discrimination movements, as well as exploring the darker side of the American Dream.
Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018 traces the development of the artist's sculpture over six decades of significant social and political change. Through a selection of 56 works, six of which will be shown in the landscape, the exhibition explores the nuanced character of Indiana's practice and his perception of the darker side of the American dream. Unity, acceptance and love are themes that run throughout Indiana's work and remain relevant even today, such as movements against racism and discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities.
RUI CHAFES — ARRIVING WITHOUT DEPARTING
Serralves Museum and Park
20 JUL 2022 - 26 FEB 2023
Rui Chafes (Lisbon, 1966) and the Serralves Museum present Arriving without departing, a large exhibition that extends from the interior of the building to the museum's exterior gardens, which serve as inspiration and setting for a reflection on the diversity of his sculptural practice. Curated by Philippe Vergne and Inês Grosso and planned in close dialogue with the artist, this exhibition covers more than three decades of activity and invites us to revisit key moments in the career of one of the most important sculptors of our time.
With a theoretical work conceptually anchored in the fundamental premises of late Gothic and German romanticism, enriched by the universal heritage of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), American post-minimalists and unavoidable artists such as Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), Chafes is an author who is defined by an unusual consistency and rigor in the creation of families of enigmatic and mysterious objects, shadows or negatives of a world that imprisons and imprisons the void, the absolute silence: cocoons, nests, insects, breastplates, masks or pieces of clothing simultaneously represent a memory and a skin that protect and announce an absent body.
MAX FERNANDES • PRELOAD THE FUTURE
International Arts Center José de Guimarães
Curated by Marta Mestre
A visual essay about the past and the future.
“Preambular o Futuro” is a video intervention that occupies the interstitial spaces of the CIAJG. It is configured as a visual essay, composed of a careful assembly of words and images, which starts from archive images related to the inauguration of the museum, in 2012. Max Fernandes (b. Guimarães, 1979) revisits the speeches that were produced by the community (politicians, artists, visitors, etc) when the doors of this building are opened, and sheds light on images of anonymous people, gestures, expressions, seeking to reveal a collective unconscious. At a time when the city reflects on development cycles, in the context of the ten years of the European Capital of Culture, this intervention that combines film/archive montage, image recycling and intertextual montage, gives new meanings to existing images, populating the our past from the futures latent in it.
Interferences – Emerging Urban Cultures
Bethlehem until 09/5/2022
Curated by Carla Cardoso, António Brito Guterres and Alexandre Farto, this exhibition explores “urban cultures and how they contributed to the design of the city of Lisbon and this new metropolis”. Patented in the maat building, it brings together works of different genres, such as panels, portraits, sculptures, installations, films and video clips, and by more than 30 artists – including already established names, such as ±MaisMenos±, Wasted Rita or Obey SKTR, and emerging ones , like Petra Preta or Fidel Évora. “The exhibition speaks of the construction of the city from 1974 until today, of a Lisbon in democracy”, exposes António Brito Guterres. The first part is dedicated to the 25th of April 1974 and the “frenzy of the revolution”, followed by areas that recall the “absence of certain bodies in the city” and how this shaped it until today.
