Weekly Roundup
A major exhibition, The EY Exhibition Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy , will show works by one of the 20th century art pioneers, Pablo Picasso. It will open at Tate Modern in March 2018 and is to set light on the most influential year in his artistic career, expecting thousands on visitor per day.
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence documentary revealed all about the world famous artist. The program was created from interviews with Bacon’s friends, colleagues, employees from Marlborough London (the gallery which represents the artists' work), and even from interviews with the man himself. Richard Curson Smith assembled these clips and insights from friends into a savagely intimate biography of a tormented and tormenting man.
Aimed at exploring the relationship between the overwhelming scope of imagery available through social media and current social issues, Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change features photography and video works displayed on tablets and TVs, while also welcoming active participation from viewers by allocating some of the works on Instagram and YouTube and leaving them open to feedback. The show is on at International Centre of Photography until 7 May 2017.
Paris court recently heard that five paintings were stolen from the Modern Art Museum with "disconcerting ease" by Vjeran Tomic in the early hours of 20 May 2010. The burglar, with a history of similar convictions in the past and a nick-name of Spider-Man reflecting his wall-climbing skills, claimed his initial intention was the theft of Still Life with Candlestick by Fernand Leger only, however upon entering the museum he decided to take four more paintings, including Dove with Green Peas (1911) by Picasso, Pastoral (1906) by Henri Matisse, Olive Tree near l’Estaque (1906) by Georges Braque and Woman with a Fan (1919) by Amedeo Modigliani, with total worth estimated at over €100 million.
New York-based artist Amie Siegel is holding her first solo show in London, Amie Siegel: Strata, at South London Gallery. The installation explores mechanisms through which meaning is attributed to objects, featuring two immersive video displays that document the journey of fine marble excavation from deep underground quarries to modern sky-srapers in Manhattan, and invite viewers to witness Freud's various artefacts being cleaned at Freud Museum in North London.
A lost drawing by Leonardo da Vinci valued at £12million has been discovered 530 years after the Italian master produced it. The work was found hidden in a portfolio of unsigned sketches inherited by a retired doctor and wasn't until he took the drawings to an auction house for valuation that the previously unknown da Vinci drawing was revealed.
The Photographers Gallery in London is to begin its Conspiracy week on the Tenth of February. the event will feature 2 new exhibitions Divisive Moments and SELACHIMORPHA alongside a series of talks and screenings.
