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New Meseon tools for Art Collectors

nospam@example.com (Aitor Argomaniz) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:26:14 +0100

After that in the latest months we have been publishing and improving the tools available on Meseon for Artists, Galleries, Museums and Foundations, it was time to offer something interesting for Art Collectors. Is for that we are proud to announce that today, art collectors will be able to get much more from their collection on Meseon. Following suggestions by some users we have created the tools that allow to collectors:

- Publish works of their collection. They will can upload and edit the information about the artwork (title, author, creation date, tags, etc.).
- View and organize their collection. From their user profile they will can view the works of the collection, sort it by author, creation date and art category.
- Manage who can view their collection on the internet. From Meseon the art collections will can can manage who can visit their art collection, enabling that only the users that collectors decide will can view their collection.

We hope that all Meseon art collectors find useful this tools, that enable to enjoy and share their collection on the internet. All feedback about this and other Meseon features is welcome.

Damien Hirst Refuses to Become Royal Academician

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:43:03 +0200

British artist Damien Hirst has turned down an offer to become a Royal Academician at the Royal Academy in London, an institution that was founded in 1768 by King George III.

The refusal was revealed by Secretary and Chief Executive Dr Charles Saumarez Smith CBE, who told the Evening Standard that he does not know the reasons of this decision.

Other contemporary artists, such as Tracey Emin, who made her dirty bed an artistic installation, have accepted to become a Royal Academician.

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A Conversation with Daniel Birnbaum

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:07:00 +0200

Interesting interview with Daniel Birnbaum:

The 53rd Venice Biennale is awaited with great anticipation. At the heart of the event is Biennale director Daniel Birnbaum’s curated exhibition "Making Worlds," which includes a project by the architectural visionary Yona Friedman. Oliver Koerner von Gustorf spoke with Daniel Birnbaum shortly before the opening.

To be sure, he has every reason to feel stressed. In just about two weeks, the Venice Biennale opens under his directorship; after documenta, it’s probably the most important art exhibition in the world. Yet Daniel Birnbaum seems extraordinarily relaxed. This must have something to do with his many years of experience—including with Venice, as he co-directed the international section of the Biennale in 2003. The Swede, who was born in 1963, is rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt as well as the director of the Portikus; he is considered one of the most influential figures on the international art scene. With his exhibition Fare Mondi/Making Worlds at this year’s Biennale, he calls attention to the process aspect of art from the sixties to the present day—particularly art’s interdisciplinary nature and the manner in which things arise.

An important project in the show is The Ville Spatiale—Visualisation of an Idea by architectural visionary and urban planner Yona Friedman, born 1923 in Budapest. Together with his students, Friedman has installed a grid structure of wire cable; hovering above the exhibition, participants have inserted their own models into it. The materials are simple and the ideas democratic: the installation refers back to Friedman’s Ville Spatiale, a kind of megastructure stretching over existing cities that he developed in the nineteen-fifties. His architectural utopias have made Friedman into an art star: he was invited to documenta 11 in 2002 and participated in the Venice Biennale for the first time in 2003. In 2008, together with students of the Städelschule, he realized a site-specific installation at the Portikus in Frankfurt that was sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Foundation. His latest work in Venice continues this collaboration and is once again supported by Deutsche Bank.

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Interview: Célia Lambert

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:15:00 +0200

Once again we talk with the artists of meseon community. Today, we know more about Célia Lambert and her artworks. Enjoy it!!

Célia Lambert:

"Art is an alternative world where anything is possible. A world where music and colours replace the words, a world where freedom is more than just a Word- it’s a law!"

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Art Teacher Wins BP Portrait Award with painting of Twilight Daughter

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:41:44 +0200

The winner of the BP Portrait Award 2009 was announced by Sebastian Faulks at the National Portrait Gallery. In a record-breaking year for entries the prestigious first prize was won by 44-year-old Surrey artist Peter Monkman. His winning portrait, Changeling 2, is part of a series of portraits of his daughter, Anna, at different stages of her life. Peter wins £25,000 and a commission, at the National Portrait Gallery Trustees' discretion, worth £4,000. The second prize of £8,000 goes to Michael Gaskell for Tom and the third prize of £6,000 goes to Annalisa Avancini for Manuel.

There is, also for the third time, the BP Young Artist Award of £5,000 for the work of an entrant aged between 18 and 30. This has been won by Mark Jameson for Benfica Blue.

Peter Monkman (b.1964) for Changeling 2 (oil on canvas, 1220 x 900 mm) was shortlisted for the first time this year, having been included in the BP Portrait Award exhibition in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Currently Director of Art at Charterhouse School, Surrey, Monkman, 44, studied visual arts at the University of Lancaster, John Moores University Liverpool and the University of.

The shortlisted portrait is part of a series of portraits of his daughter exploring the concept of the changeling, a child substituted for another by stealth, often with an elf. ‘I challenge the fixed notion of an idealised image of childhood and substitute it for a more unsettling, complex, representation that exists in its own right as a painting.' The initial ideas for this portrait came from photographic studies of Anna playing in woods in Brittany where the light had a magical quality.

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Liam Gillick Produces German Pavilion

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:39:04 +0200

For more than a year Gillick has been travelling, researching and developing his project in continuous dialogue with curator Nicolaus Schafhausen. Making extensive use of computer modeling of the existing German Pavilion and following a long period of work on site in Venice the final questions for Gillick circle around models of social behaviour and the problem of how to create new forms of address within loaded ideological sites.

Crucial components of the exhibition were determined during the final installation days. However, the first step of the process was the fabrication of an edition in the form of a model of Arnold Bode’s 1957 proposal for a new German Pavilion.

For the final work, the pavilion is not obscured or hidden. Both the inside and outside of the building can be seen and examined. It has recently been painted white, as part of the general maintenance of the building and Gillick has left it this way. A simple table and bench designed by the artist are sited outside for use by the pavilion team. Every room of the building is open. No part of the pavilion has been closed off or used for storage.

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Interview: Luminita Gliga

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:36:17 +0200

Once again we talk with the artists of meseon community. Today, we know more about Luminita Gliga and her artworks. Enjoy it!!

Luminita Gliga:

"Art is a communication form and painting for me is joy and hard working; commitment and responsibility, nutrition and spiritual material, and thanks to it, my life has changed. Through painting I want to get to know what is happening in the world."

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Interview: Caitlin Karolczak

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:21:00 +0200

Once again we talk with the artists of meseon community. Today, we know more about Caitlin Karolczak (Personal Website) and her artworks. Enjoy it!!

Caitlin Karolczak:

"I appropriate feelings and techniques from multiple sources, many are historical in nature. My interpretation of this already existing knowledge manifests a new in my paintings. I'm fascinated by this process. I find that the dialogue between artists and viewer is often accidental but always continuous and ever changing."

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After Ten Year Restoration Pompeii Frescoes Go Back to Naples Museum

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:53:50 +0200

The frescoes from the City of Pompeii will again go on view starting tomorrow in Naples with their original splendor after a restoration process that has lasted more than 10 years and that has not allowed the public to see what might as well be the best collection of Roman painting. There are 400 frescoes in total, exceptionally conserved by the ashes from Mount Vesuvius which wiped out the city in 79 AD. The frescoes will now be on view at the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

The frescoes, on which archaeologist August Mau based his subdivision of styles of mural painting in Rome , were torn out of Roman houses in the 18th and 19th centuries and were taken to the museum. Now they have been placed in a new order, based on chronological as well as in the recreation of the atmosphere and their original order in houses in Pompeii with halls dedicated to the House of Meleagro and Villa Boscoreale, among others.

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Guest Work of Art: Penitent Magdalene of Georges de la Tour

nospam@example.com (Silvia Alonso) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:35:14 +0200

Through the program “Guest Work of Art”, the Museo del Prado inaugurates a new exhibition model that pretends to allow visitors to get closer to great Works of art from other museums with the double objective of enriching the visitor´s experience and to estbalish a comparative term that allows reflection on the museum´s own works of art.

The work of art selected to open the program, The Penitent Magdalene by Georges de la Tour, presents Magdalene, symbol of redemption through repentance, in a night scene, illuminated by a candle that creates violent contrasts in her meditation instruments, the sacred books, the cross and the Skull, symbol of death, objects that conform one of the most beautiful still lifes made by the author. La Tour shows the saint with a delicate aspect, far away from her common laborers, soldiers or street musicians.

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