The Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisboa

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When visiting Lisboa, Portugal, don’t miss these two:

a) the Museu Colecção Berardo

At the outskirts of the City of Lissabon with many other things to look at, this museum definitely has some very attractive and important things to offer. In it’s permanent collection you will find the art works of “greats” like Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Alighiero e Boetti, and … you name them.

Gabriel Orozco
Anish Kapoor
Juan Munoz

Sol LeWitt
Tony Cragg
Richard Deacon

Joseph Kosuth
On Kawara
Jeff Koons


All images © artists and courtesy of Museu Colecção Berardo

The permanent exhibition part currently (spring 2013) is set up into different defining directions of contemporary art: Systemic Painting (Agnes Martin, Neil Williams, Stella, and more), Minimalism (Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, plus more), Conceptualism (Joseph Kosuth with Self-Described and Self-Defined), Revolutionary Body (Ernesto de Sousa, Ana Mendieta), Nam June Paik and Bill Viola, James Coleman, Support-Surface and BMPT (acronym for Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni), Marcel Broodthaers, Land Art (Hamish Fulton, see our blog on his art walk in Zurich and Richard Hamilton), Arte Povera (Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz et al), Christian Boltanski, The Return of Genre (Richter, Poltke, Kiefer), Jeff Wall, Appropriationism, German Photography (the Bechers, Andreas Gursky), Nan Goldin, Traumatic Realism (big Judy installation by Tony Oursler), Discourses of Alerity (Ricardo Reis), Stan Douglas, Gabriel Orozco, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva. The italic titles and names are sourced from the great little script by Director Pedro Lapa with AnaMary Bilbao and Ana Dinger which is a must take away, free as the entry to this wonderful place.

In addition to this you will enjoy the temporary exhibitions, of course.

and, … oh, nearly forgot …

b) the Pastéis in the Antiga Confeitaria de Belém wonderful vanilla sweets in the nearby café, best with some cinnamon on top.

Hungry? See here for the recipe

Now tell others and write an ecard by Portuguese artist Eduardo Bessa on ARTregards.com!

Das Bindemittel ist der Schweiß

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Guest Blog by Michael-Franz Woels | 09.01.2013   skug magazine

Luis Mario Casanova Sorolla macht Tanz und den Entstehungsprozess sichtbar und zeigt die Bewegungsflüsse aus einer anderen, ungewöhnlichen Perspektive.

Luis Mario Casanova Sorolla

Der bildende Künstler und Tänzer Luis Mario Casanova Sorolla hat ein künstlerisches Aufzeichnungssystem für die Makro-Raumschriften der Raumwege eines Tänzerkörpers entwickelt. Die fixierten Bodenmuster stellen farbliche Kartografien von Choreografien dar. Sie visualisieren Bewegungsphrasen und -akzentuierungen und wurden im Selbstversuch mit dem akrobatischen Bewegungsvokabular der afrobrasilianischen Tanz- und Kampfkunst Capoeira, die Luis schon seit langem praktiziert, getestet. Continue Reading

Angels by Emily Puetter – a perfect gift of good wishes for Christmas

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Emily Puetter is fascinated by angels. On the shores of Marocco, in Ifitry, she discovered the form of angels formed by the movement of the water. She photographed the angels and made fine art prints out of this. By adding charcoal, pastel colors and gold-pigments she accentuated the forms and gave the angels a shine.

Angels Zikiel & Ziquiel © Emily Puetter - Angels that shine a light on us and fulfill wishes, show us the way and appear in special times like Christmas

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Ana Soler – Installation and Pain

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Ana Soler is a new artist exhibiting at ARTregards.com. Born 1972  in Sevilla, Spain, she has already a tremendous portfolio to present with most interesting themes and varied approaches. She followed her art education, starting in Sevilla, and was awarded scholarships to Firenze, Edingburgh, Strasbourg, Rome and Basel. She was invited to several stays in Nagano and Tokyo in Japan, Taiwan and to a resident program in Ottawa. Furthermore Ana Soler received scholarships from various art museums in Spain.

With her most recent art installation project with 2’000 suspended tennis balls that appear to bounce through Mustang Art Gallery in Alicante she gained international attention also throughout the world wide web.

Causa Efecto © Ana Soler

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Jeff Koons @ Fondation Beyeler in Basel

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When I first met an art piece of Jeff Koons, roughly guessed 20 years ago – it was some sort of porcelain work with flower sujets as we know them for instance from the Meissen porcelaine produced near Dresden since the 18th century – I wondered and I asked myself: “Will I ever understand the fame of this artist and will I ever like it? Isn’t this pure kitsch?” This is a good example why one cannot judge an artist’s work by seeing just one piece of art. These days and only until September 2nd 2012, you have the opportunity to see a wide selection of Jeff Koons’ oeuvre in Basel at the excellent Fondation Beyeler and I promise , you will end up saying: “Wow! Jeff Koons is an absolute genius!”

First, I have to share my enthusiasm for the huge paintings of his “Celebration” series. I am catapulted back to my childhood (even though the toys painted compare rather to the ones of my children). These huge, ultra-realistic toy landscapes make you wish to enter this happy child’s world. I especially love the little snowman who is stepping ahead full of enthusiasm, happy, unafraid and ready to conquer the world, not being aware of any bad things around him. Also the happy pig makes you want to be part of this everything-is-good-world. Another painting shows an oversized playmobil figurine, that is looking at you in this unspoiled, innocent, pure and happy manner that makes you want to be back in this magic world of childhood. But I tell you, of course you cannot have these true feelings looking at this image below, you have to see the painting in real!

Jeff Koons Shelter, 1996/1998 Oil on canvas 300 x 376,2 cm collection of Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Royal Academy of Arts

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Zurich West Art and the City Tour

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We met at the Rivington & Sons Hotel Bar in the Prime Tower to make a tour through Zurich’s hippest area at the time and see a selection of the Art and the City public art festival 2012. Where the highest building of the city (also referred to as downtown Switzerland) stands now, formerly  the industrial area of Maag gearwheel factory was situated. Maybe it is a tribute to this company founded in 1913 that our meeting place looks like a New York bar back from this epoque. Beautiful setting!

We started our walk and can you believe it? Right at the beginning everybody was handed out a personal art work! Yes! Matt Mullican, the 1952 born US artist, now living in Berlin, designed the Art and the City map that locates all shown art works. He calls his conception of the world: „the theory of the five worlds“: yellow stands for the idea, black and white for the language, green for subjects matters, blue for the daily routine and red symbolizes the subjective conceptions.

Art and the City Map by Matt Mullican, image courtesy of www.artandthecity.com

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Hamish Fulton Art Walk @ Art and the City in Zurich, Switzerland

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Have you ever got a diploma for a walk? You might get one if you were ready for a special experience on one of the walks of famed artist Hamish Fulton. He lives in Canterburry, UK, and works around the world with his very special walking art experiences. “An object cannot compete with an experience”, says Fulton. True, I must say, it was a very special afternoon following the Art and the City’s, Hamish Fulton’s and the Haeusler Contemporary’s joint call for a walking art action. Also, a new experience was blogging while walking. Read and enjoy the result here. Continue Reading