Pop-up bookstore at Massimo De Carlo Milan/Ventura on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 December 2018 from 11AM to 7PM. Catalogues, books and much more at special prices!

The pavilion 9A of the Mattatoio, will host the first exhibition in Europe by the Chinese painter Lu Song (Beijing, 1982), curated by Ludovico Pratesi. Lu Song’s works are figurative canvases that are inspired by an observant and poignant analysis of European art history, focusing in particular on the notion of landscape that the artist transforms into evocative sceneries, blending the surreal and the fantastic with the factual and logical. The large-scale canvases in the exhibition are almost homage to German romanticism and the works of great masters of the time such as Caspar David Friedrich and Arnold Bocklin – whom lived in Rome and interpreted the world of ancient roman classicism with a hint of demure and nostalgic northern soul.

www.mattatoioroma.it

Vanilla Isis takes an irreverent look at the real and pretend extremisms manifest in contexts as disparate as terrorist groups and youth subcultures. Based on an analysis of the communicative strategies deployed by the Islamic State, whose internet-savvy appropriation of everything from computer games to Hollywood movie posters attracts vulnerable youths in the West, the show looks at how aesthetic trends migrate and are transformed or exploited to strange, unsettling effect.

www.fsrr.org

For her exhibition at the Foundation, the artist presents a new series of large-format paintings, which incorporate sculptural objects from previous performances in dialogue with visual backgrounds of different origin—ancient painting, cinema, illustration. Each work reconfigures fragments of images that belong to other works, stories, places, and times, according to a logic that recalls bricolage, or do-it-yourself, in the anthropological sense of the term.

www.fsrr.org

National Gallery Singapore and ArtScience Museum are collaborating for the first time to present the region’s first exhibition focusing on Minimalism. Led by the Gallery and set across these two sites, over 150 works will explore the history and legacy of this groundbreaking art movement, which continues to influence a wide range of art forms and practitioners across the world today.

www.nationalgallery.sg

In the studio of Chicago-based painter McArthur Binion, a handwritten note has been pinned to the wall for a decade that reads “Binion/Saarinen.” The artist’s initial concept was to create a painting inspired by architect Eliel Saarinen and his design of Cranbrook’s historic campus, where Binion received his MFA in Painting in 1973 and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017. This early spark of inspiration will come to fruition at Cranbrook Art Museum and expanded through the creation of seven new works alongside a selection of Saarinen objects curated by the artist.

www.cranbrookartmuseum.org

From antiquity to the present, the exhibition illuminates the various spiritual, political, psychological, social, sexual, and aesthetic implications of euphoric and intoxicated states between asceticism and excess.
In nine thematic rooms, the visitor will become familiar with the various faces of ecstasy and with the shifting social significance of mind-altering states as it changed over the centuries.

www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de

An exhibition curated by Maurizio Cattelan inspired by the Serbian artist's project title. Promoted by Gucci in collaboration with their creative director Alessandro Michele, the exhibition explores the way in which, through repetition, we can arrive at originality, and how the originals can be preserved through copies, investigating the concepts of imitation, intention and authorship.

www.yuzmshanghai.org

Enigmatic and eclectic, are the works with which Paola Pivi has inaugurated her new personal exhibition Art with a view, in the extraordinary art deco setting of The Bass, Miami Beach's contemporary art museum. With the view towards the ocean, Pivi presented a body of works, some of which were presented to the public for the first time, in which the common thread runs through kitschy and playful visual stratifications.

www.thebass.org

Curated by Luc Tuymans, “Sanguine” is a personal interpretation of the Baroque based on innovative juxtapositions and unexpected associations of works by contemporary artists and Old Masters.

www.fondazioneprada.org

The exhibition, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, is focused on the dialogues between Tintoretto’s masterpieces preserved at Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’ d’Oro, with the artworks by leading contemporary artists influenced, for attitude and style, by the Master.

www.zueccaprojects.org

More than just an exhibition, but a workshop for study and debate on themes and issues associated with our relationship with technology and the incredible scenarios opened by its evolution: Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is an immersive, multimedia and multisensory display.

www.maxxi.art

NOW is a series of contemporary art exhibitions displayed across the ground floor at Modern One. At the centre of the fourth instalment is a major survey of work by the Turner Prize nominated artist Monster Chetwynd.

www.nationalgalleries.org

Curated by sculptor and musician, Steven Claydon, ‘The Outside In’ will take the form of a series of interventions in the galleries of the Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL). Melanesian artefacts from Claydon’s personal collection and new sculptural works will be introduced into the displays to explore how we attach meaning and narratives to objects in museums, creating mysterious collisions of cultures and contexts, questioning their utility and resonance in these juxtapositions.

www.readinginternational.org

Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty surveys the prolific and provocative career of the late artist Günther Förg. This exhibition - the first major museum presentation of his work in the United States since 1989 - brings renewed attention to Förg’s work by examining his legacy in relation to key issues of the 20th century, including postwar nostalgia and loss and the utopianism of high modernism.

www.dma.org

Good grief, Charlie Brown! brings together Charles M. Schulz original Peanuts cartoons with work from a wide range of acclaimed contemporary artists and designers who have been inspired by this highly influential and much-loved cartoon. Unique in its enduring appeal, this exhibition explores Peanuts’ renewed agency in contemporary culture and society.

www.somersethouse.org.uk

Explore today’s home through the prism of yesterday’s imagination. Are we living in the way that pioneering architects and designers throughout the 20th century predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change?

www.designmuseum.org

Museion opens the new season with a solo show by John Armleder 'Plus ça change, plus c'est la même has chosen' (the more things change, the more the same). In his paintings, sculptures, environmental installations, performances, video art, editorial and curatorial projects, he reinvents the notions of artwork and exhibition, bringing together elements like random chance and design, high-brow culture and entertainment, unsettling irony and conceptual analysis. For Museion the artist will create a special project, on show on the fourth floor.

www.museion.it

This exhibition juxtaposes a survey of their emotional figurative sculptures with an extraordinary new large-scale installation that meditates on the fate of civic space.

www.whitechapelgallery.org

Bangkok as city of art and culture is full of rich tradition, creativity and contemporary art. Bangkok Art Biennale 2018 will be the first biennale in Bangkok and a new alluring destination for international art scene. Artists, art enthusiasts, writers and media converge in Bangkok for creative encounters.

www.bkkartbiennale.com

In collaboration with Massimo De Carlo, Art Projects Ibiza and Lune Rouge will exhibit for the summer of 2018 a group of works by American artist Tony Lewis (Chicago, 1986), created and specifically selected for this exhibition. Lewis' work is based on the relation between language and drawing, understood as the primary exercise of an artist but also as a cohesive element in contemporary art.

www.artprojectsibiza.com

‘Dancing with Myself’ faces the primordial importance of the artist’s role as actor and material of his own creations, from the 1970s to today.

www.palazzograssi.it