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Vicente Todoli, Director of Tate Modern, Concludes Seven Successful Years
Vicente Todolí announced recently that he has decided to leave London after seven years as Director of Tate Modern. He said: "In my earlier career I worked for seven years in Valencia and further seven years in Porto. It was always my intention to take a pause at that point, but the opportunity to work in London was so compelling that I came directly in 2003. Now I feel that the time has arrived to take that pause, though I look forward to working with Tate Modern on future projects, including a major exhibition for 2011 which will be announced this autumn." Nicholas Serota said: "Vicente has made an enormous contribution to the success of Tate Modern during his period in London. His distinctive vision has shaped the display of the Collection, while a series of exhibitions has redefined early modernism, including Kandinsky (2005), Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World (2006), Dali and Film (2007), Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia (2008), Rodchenko & Popova (2009) and the current Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World. The tenth anniversary of Tate Modern in May will be a celebration of his achievement.”
Artists Dinner, May 4 2010
Our second Artists Dinner will be held on Tuesday May 4, 2010 at the Hearst Tower in New York City and will be chaired by Glenda Bailey (Editor-In-Chief, Harper’s Bazaar) and Lynn Forester de Rothschild (Chair, American Patrons of Tate). The combination of Sir Norman Foster’s stunning architecture, Richard Long’s Riverline lobby installation and wonderful views over Manhattan from 44th floor will help make this a very memorable evening and we are limiting the event to 20 tables, with each table honoring an artist. A small number of individual tickets remain, please do contact us if you would like further information.
Mala Gaonkar Appointed a Tate Trustee
The Prime Minister has appointed Mala Gaonkar as a Tate Trustee for a four year term. Mala Gaonkar has been Managing Director of Lone Pine Capital LLC since 1998 and will bring to the board expertise from a distinguished career in investment management. After graduating in economics at Harvard in 1991, she worked for The Boston Consulting Group until 1994, primarily in Munich and Hong Kong and in 1996, she completed her MBA at Harvard Business School where she was awarded a Kauffmann Fellowship. From 1996 to 1998, she worked at Chase Capital Partners in New York City where she researched investments in internet and technology companies. Her community activities have focused on the arts, as well as supporting public health and infrastructure projects. Ms Gaonkar is a Founders’ Council member at the Harvard University South Asia Initiative, a trustee of Artangel, a member of the board of The Paris Review Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Clinton Climate Initiative. Ms Gaonkar is married with two sons and lives in London. There are fourteen members of Tate’s Board of Trustees, thirteen appointed by the Prime Minister, and one is a member of the National Gallery Board of Trustees (correspondingly, one of Tate's Trustees sits on the National Gallery Board). Three of Tate’s Trustees are practicing artists (currently Jeremy Deller, Bob and Roberta Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans).
The Sites of Latin American Abstraction, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection opens in Europe
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) announces the opening of The Sites of Latin American Abstraction, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection at the Museu d’art modern i contemporani de Palma, Mallorca. The Es Baluard is the second venue on the international tour of the exhibition, and the first European venue following the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California. The exhibition will be on view at the Es Baluard from March 27 – June 20, 2010 before moving on to the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, Germany. The exhibition, drawn from The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, proposes a fresh approach to Geometric Abstraction in art from Latin America produced between the decades of the 1930s and the 1970s. The visually engaging display of over 200 works, range from intimate drawings to black and white modernist photography to paintings and mechanized constructions, and showcase works by 81 Latin American artists such as Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel, Julio Le Parc, Alejandro Otero and Carlos Rojas. The pursuit of geometric abstraction by these artists coincided with Latin America’s mid-20th century shift towards modernity, industrialization, urban development and a renewed cultural identity. This is the first time the foundation will be touring one of its exhibitions outside of Miami, hence globally expanding its mission of showcasing work by artists from Latin America and international contemporary art.
Erica Roberts, member of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, has collaborated with Facundo de Zuviria on a book about Cartagena de Indias
The book is a beautiful photographic guide of the region exploring if coastal culture with Hispanic and Afro-American roots. Her next publications will include Montevideo followed by Sucre in Bolivia and Cuzco in Peru.
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Latin American Art on Display at Tate
Tate Britain
Melanie Smith Room 26: BP British Art Displays 1500-2009
Tate Modern
Hélo Oiticica Level 5: Energy and Process
Ana Mendieta Level 5: Energy and Process
Tate Liverpool
Lygia Clark
Santiago Sierra
Luis Camnitzer
Carlos Amorales
Latin American Exhibitions and Shows
Elias Crespin: Hiperficies
Ars Longa
67 Av. Parmentier
75011 Paris
www.arslonga.fr
April 7-May 8, 2010
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Wiels
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
March 5-April 24, 2010
Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY, 10021
www.americas-society.org
March 2-April 30, 2010
Luis Camnitzer
Daros Exhibitions
Löwenbräu-Areal
Limmatstrasse 268
Zürich, Switzerland
museum@daros-latinamerica.net
March 10-July 4, 2010
Tania Bruguera: On Political Imaginary
Neuberger Museum of Art
January 28-April 11, 2010
Carmen Herrera: Painting and Drawing 1948-2007
Pfalzgalerie Museum
Museumsplatz 1
D-67657 Kaiserslautern D-67657 Kaiserslautern
Telefon 0631.3647 -201E-Mail: info@pfalzgalerie.bv-pfalz.de info@pfalzgalerie.bv-pfalz.de
January 23-May 2, 2010
Al calor del pensamiento
Selections from Daros Latinamerica’s collection:
Carlos Amorales, Belkis Ayón, Los Carpinteros, José Damasceno, Gonzalo Díaz, Leandro Erlich, León Ferrari, Julio Le Parc, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jorge Macchi, Oswaldo Macià, Marco Maggi, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujín, Vik Muniz, Oscar Muñoz, Liliana Porter, José Alejandro Restrepo, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Betsabeé Romero, Doris Salcedo, Humberto Vélez
Sala de Arte Santander
Ciudad Grupo Santander
Avda. Cantabria, s/n
28660 Boadilla del Monte
Madrid, Spain
www.fundacionbancosantander.com
February 2-May 2, 2010
Tropicália
The exhibition Tropicália at the Kunsthalle Wien focuses on Brazilian art from the 1960s. Nelson Leirner, Cildo Meireles and Hélio Oiticica are represented by works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition opening is on Thursday, January 28, 2010.
Kunsthalle Wien
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
Austria
www.kunsthallewien.at
January 28-May 2, 2010
Ernesto Neto: Navedenga
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
www.moma.org
January 22-April 26, 2010
Información de comunidad
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