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Art Museums at Saatchi Gallery

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:54:10 +0000

The Saatchi Gallery is an indispensable resource to Museum directors and art enthusiasts who seek to keep their fingers on the pulse of the contemporary art scene. The online gallery provides a hub that links to a large number of the most popular and prolific museums around the world. Because of the site’s popularity with viewers who possess deep interest in the visual and fine arts, Museum directors find this resource to be an invaluable marketing tool for garnering visits to their own sites. The Saatchi Gallery allows museum directors and curators to upload information about their site and even grants linking privileges to these museums. Therefore, the extensive community of persons who frequent the Saatchi Gallery immediately become prospective patrons of your own museum.

Your museum will be listed with some of the greatest and most well respected museums in the business, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA), the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. Your museum will also benefit from the peripheral amenities that the Saatchi Gallery offers, such as the opportunity to set up guided tours and to facilitate school visits to your museum. It also grants you the ability to solicit sponsorship from a worldwide viewing audience, as well as hire your premises out as a venue for special events. In addition, the site facilitates the hosting of specific content detailing your museum’s history, upcoming events, business hours, and allows you to give detailed directions to the location of your establishment. It also facilitates the uploading of pictures, brochures, and other marketing tools so that your museum will be properly represented in all its dimensions. In essence, this service is one that grants your museum worldwide exposure to a local and international audience.

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Art Museums Around the World

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:43:48 +0000

Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in small cities.

At Saatchi Gallery you can see the List of Main Art Museums around the World few of those are given as below.

The Museum Of Modern Art – New York

The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The rich and varied collection constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views of modern art. The Museum Archives contains primary source material related to the history of Museum of Modern Art and contemporary art.

National Gallery – London

The National Gallery houses some of the most famous and familiar paintings in the world, in a building that is an internationally recognised landmark.

The Metropolitan Museum – New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from pre-history to the present and from every part of the globe.

Tate Modern – London

Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art and of international modern art from the year 1500 to the present day

National Gallery of Art, Washington – Washington DC

The National Gallery of Art, one of the world’s preeminent museums, was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937.

Guggenheim Museum – New York

The Foundation realizes this mission through exceptional exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications, and strives to engage and educate an increasingly diverse international audience through its unique network of museums and cultural partnerships.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles

Established in 1910 as part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Art and Science,

Experience European masterpieces, cutting-edge contemporary art, an extensive collection of American art from the United States and Latin America.

By: Amit

Selected Fang Lijun Artwork at Saatchi-gallery

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:40:13 +0000

Fang Lijun is known to be one of the main forerunners of the early 1990’s movement known as Cynical Realism. This artistic trendevolved as a result of the aftermath of the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen and the closing of the “China Avant-Garde” exhibition at the China national Gallery in Beijing.Fang Lijun born in 1963 in Handan, Hebei province is one of the leading and most influential contemporary artists in china.

The exhibition of their works at the China National Gallery was the culmination of that decade and signalled to the artists that they had been recognised. The dramatic closure of the exhibition soon after it’s opening marked the destruction of those goals. The 1990s were characterised by a loss of idealism, a more ironical, a more personal viewpoint and a greater detachment from any regeneration of culture and society – a cold, realistic view of changing Chinese society

Fang Lijun’s work has been exhibited at:

1) The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2) Pompidou Museum, Paris

3_ Museum of Modern Art, New York

4) National Gallery of Art, Beijing

5) Venice Biennials, Kwangju Biennials, Sao Paulo Biennale

6) every significant exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art since 1990

Fang Lijun painting owned by the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Series 2 – Number 2, 1992. The main figure, a friend of the artist, could be yawning or yelling while the mute, menacing figures in the background bring to mind mindless, manipulated masses. Fang Lijun’s famous figure, have already become well known icons in the world of Chinese contemporary art. Fang Lijun’s bald man with his ambiguous expression and dreamlike background of unlimited space and freedom became a symbol of the subtle mockery that one can detect in the works of the Cynical Realism artists.

CONCLUSION:

Fang Lijun’s practice exhibits a rarefied technical skill rigorously studied through his Social Realist training; his combination of this aesthetic with references to contemporary comics, folk art, and dynastic painting characterise a national identity in flux, distilling a position of integrity from tradition and the modern world.

Find More about Fang Lijun Paintings and Exhibitions at Saatchi-Gallery

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/fang_lijun.htm

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Buying Art in San Francisco

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:19:28 +0000

Destination San Francisco

San Francisco is known around the world for the Golden Gate Bridge, the Fisherman’s Wharf and Lombard Street famed for supposedly being the most crooked street in the world. However, did you know that San Francisco is also known as the art capital of the western hemisphere? Thousands of art lovers arrive in the city each year to visit its galleries, art exhibitions and museums. The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, the Asian Art Museum, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and the world famous San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have all emerged as the centerpiece of attraction for passionate art lovers from all over the world. Many of them buy art objects and take them home. Buying art in San Francisco isn’t simply an exercise, it’s an experience of a lifetime for many.

San Francisco and the International Art Circuit

The art-buying spree we are all experiencing currently is global. From Dublin to Dubai, scores of art lovers are hopping on to cheap discounted flights and globetrotting in their quest to buy art. What has fueled this fire a downturn in the economy not withstanding? The answer may not be obvious at first glance. The economic slowdown has now made it possible for many art lovers to become art collectors because art has become affordable.

Cybertising Art in San Francisco through Online Art Auctions

The Internet has helped tremendously with its ability to transfer JPEGs in a wink and allow potential art buyers to examine art objects remotely. San Francisco too has benefited from its proximity to the Silicon Valley in that much if not most San Francisco art has gone online in one form or another. Online art auctions are regularly held in San Francisco and you can purchase art from San Francisco artists and online art galleries from the comfort of your home or office.

Art Galore for Bay Area Residents

The number of art fairs being held in San Francisco has mushroomed over the past few years. Public art fairs such as the Festival on the Hill,

SF Open Studios and the Capsule Design Festival have become increasingly popular not only among art lovers who live in the Bay Area but also among those who love to travel for Art’s sake. The city’s place on the international art circuit is beyond validation. The art collectors’ stampede has provided an unparalleled opportunity for young artists to join the ranks and bask in the limelight. The works of many young artists in San Francisco have been showcased in local galleries and have been snapped up by art enthusiasts. So if you are an art collector or planning to wet your toes and test the waters in the exciting world of art collection, it is time for you to get in touch with a reputable san Francisco art dealer, preferably one with an online art gallery so that you can make wise investment decisions that bring rich returns on your investment.

By: Noa Bloch

About German Artist Martin Kippenberger Biography and His Exhibitions at the Saatchi-gallery

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:54:37 +0000

As one of the most prodigious artists of the 1980s and 90s, Martin Kippenberger epitomised the romantic notion of the artist in the late 20th century. Inventing himself as the centre of the art world, Martin Kippenberger’s practice was based on shameless self-promotion. Mythologizing himself as an Everyman-hero, Kippenberger’s vast body of work is a testament to a larger-than-life character, a tragic-comic paladin, plagued as much by his own talent and success as by his ego and shortcomings.

Martin Kippenberger’s Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1953 Born in Dortmund, Germany

1971 Moved to Hamburg and lived in various communes

1972 Hamburg College of Art, Fine Art, BA

1978 Moved to Berlin. Became manager of the famous S.O. 36 hall venue.

1980 Moved to Paris and worked on his first novel

1983 Settled in Cologne, worked with Albert Oehlen

1997 Died in Vienna

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004

Brasilien aktuell: The Magical Misery Tour Gagosian Gallery, London

2003

Das 2. Sein (The Second Being) Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM, Karlsruhe

Multiples Kunstverein, Braunschweig

Nach Kippenberger (After Kippenberger) Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

2002

Dear Painter, paint me CentreGeorges Pompidou, Paris

1997

Documenta X Kassel, Germany

Der Eiermann und seine Ausleger (The Egg man and his Jib) Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1994

The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s America Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1993

Kunstverein Kippenberger Fridericianum, Kassel

Kandidatur für eine Retrospektive Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Founds

MOMAS (Museum of Modern Art Syros), Greece Construction of the first subway station, Syros

1991

Put Your Eye In Your Mouth Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Heavy Burschi Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

Tiefes Kehlchen Installation, Vienna

Martin Kippenberger always went too far. Going too far was what the German artist did, in art and in life. It was said he once bought a dilapidated petrol station in Brazil and renamed it Gas Station Martin Boormann, after the Nazi war criminal. It was also rumoured that he installed a telephone line, with the greeting “Boormann… Gaz” on the answerphone. He certainly had a photograph taken of the service station, which he blew up to wall size for an installation.all his work is that. He wants to really invent and with every piece to make something new and to be real avant-garde. All day long and with all of his heart he really does believe in nothing else but in art. He doesn’t define it, his father was an artist, he is an artist and his friends are artists.

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