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Melbourne’s magnificent eleven 2012
. Here’s my pick of the eleven best artists/exhibitions which featured on the Art Blart blog in 2012. Enjoy! Marcus . 1/ Review: The work of Robyn Hosking, AT_SALON at Anita Traverso Gallery, Richmond...
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Exhibition: ‘America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 21st September 2012 – 13th January 2013 . I hope you enjoy this HUGE posting. There are some rare photographs and little known artists. I have kept the photographs in the sections of...
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Exhibition: ‘Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974′ at Haus der Kunst, Munich
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 20th January 2013 . “Not taking Land art as a given the exhibition revisits various milieus and networks of heterogeneous practices around the world where the...
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Exhibition: ‘Manuel Álvarez Bravo. A Photographer on the Watch (1902-2002)’...
Exhibition dates: 16th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . What a dazzling, sensual (sur)realist Manuel Álvarez Bravo was, one of my favourite photographers of all time. What an eye, what an artist! The...
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Exhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Wolfgang Tillmans’ at Moderna Museet Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . In this bumper posting, a big call: in my opinion, the greatest photography based image maker in the world today. Tillmans challenges the way we...
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Exhibition: ‘Imogen Cunningham’ at Fundación Mapfre, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 18th September 18 2012 – 20th January 2013 . This is the first posting on one of my favourite photographers of all time: Imogen Cunningham. The sensuality of this artist, from the...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . “War is, above all, grief.” . Dmitri Baltermants . “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” . Salvor Hardin in Isaac Asimov’s...
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Review: ‘Ingeborg Tyssen: photographs’ at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 23rd November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . “Tysenn clearly felt a deep sense of dislocation from her country of birth, its national identity and cultural conventions. It was apparent in...
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Exhibition: ‘Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour’ at Somerset House, London
Exhibition dates: 8th November 2012 – 27th January 2013 . They may be channelling the master, but none does it like Cartier-Bresson. There is a spareness and spatial intensity to Cartier-Bresson’s work...
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Exhibition: ‘nude men: from 1800 to the present day’ at the Leopold Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – extended until 4th March 2013 . . Martin Ferdinand Quadal Nude Life Class at the Vienna Art Academy in the St.-Anna-Gebäude 1787 © Paintings Gallery of the Academy...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . Part 4 of the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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Exhibition: ‘Flatlands: photography and everyday space’ at the Art Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 13th September 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This posting contains one of my favourite early works by Fiona Hall, Leura, New South Wales (1974, below) which is redolent of all the themes...
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Exhibition: ‘XTRAVAGANZA. Staging Leigh Bowery’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 19th October 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . I can die happy now that I have had the opportunity to do a posting on this amazing man. He challenged social stereotypes turning his body into...
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Exhibition: ‘Che Guevara: Images of revolution. From the Skrein Photo...
Exhibition dates: 24th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . Many thankx to the Museum de Moderne Rupertinum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for...
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Review: ‘Terraria’ by Darron Davies at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 16th January – 9th February 2013 . This is the first “magical” exhibition of photography that I have seen in Melbourne this year. Comprising just seven moderately large Archival...
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Exhibition: ‘Cabinet of Curiosities: Photography & Specimens’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 12th September 2012 – 10th February 2013 . Many thankx to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs...
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Exhibition: ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto. Revolution’ at Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Exhibition dates: 25th October 2012 – 10th February 10 2013 . “Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention – and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The...
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Photo Album: ‘Our trip to Nouméa’ (1934) Part 1
. Over the next few months I will be posting photographs from a recently purchased album that features snapshots of a group trip to Nouméa aboard the 16,504-ton S.S. Mongolia (1922), a steam...
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Review: ‘Vestige II’ Melissa Powell and ‘Darkness by Day’ Shannon McGrath at...
Exhibition dates: 5th February – 23rd February 2013 . ves·tige /ˈvestij/ Noun 1. A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists. 2. The smallest amount (used to emphasize the absence...
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