Art Of The Day Weekly

He is one of the giants of XXth century art but his inspiration comes from much further back, as we can see in Rodin et l’antique at the musée Rodin (19 November to 23 February 2014). This other artist was one of his contemporaries, but his line, his remarks and his palette that sums up the end-of-century elegance are at the complete opposite: Vallotton is in Paris at the Grand Palais (2 October to 20 January 2014) right after the museum welcomes the founder of Cubism, Braque (18 September to 6 January 2014). Kokoschka started his long career under the wing of Expressionism. He is the object of two exhibitions, one at the Bojmans in Rotterdam on his later work (13 September to 19 January 2014), the other at the Leopold in Vienna, on his ill-known photographic production (4 October to 27 January 2014). Klee is awaited at the Tate Modern (16 October to 9 March 2014) while the star of posters, Frida Kahlo, who would never have imagined her posthumous success, is at the Orangerie in Paris this year, with her lover-friend-husband-competitor, Diego Rivera (9 October to 13 January 2014). Here is another type of sacred monster: Malevich and his geometric designs will be at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam (as of 19 October to 2 February 2014). Another great Russian artist, Poliakoff, is at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (28 October to 23 February 2014). Le Corbusier, under his “brutalist” form of architecture, wraps up the cultural season of Marseille in the J1 warehouse (11 October to 22 December) while another architect, known for his high refinement- van de Velde - is at the musée du Cinquantenaire in Brussels (13 September to 12 January 2014).

We will need to have a quick means of communication between Paris and Madrid to see two exhibits that practically reflect one another: Renaissance and the Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg (9 October to 26 January 2014) and Surrealism and the Dream, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza (8 October to 12 January 2014). And then, it is mandatory to rush back to Paris, to the Centre Pompidou, to plunge into the infinite universe of du Surrealism and the Object (30 October to 3 March 2014). The retrospective on Male nude, inspired by the one that created a mini scandal in Vienna last spring, will land at the musée d’Orsay (24 September to 2 January 2014). As far as the beauty of anatomies, we will be invited to visit Désir et volupté - Victorian Masterpieces, at the musée Jacquemart-André (13 September to 20 January 2014). An unexpected offer awaits us in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi, with The Russian avant-garde and Siberia (27 September to 19 January 2014) and how the artists at the end of the XIXth and beginning of the XXth centuries looked at the immense territories to the East. A true symphony of colors wraps this up with Matisse and the Fauves at the Albertina in Vienna (20 September to 12 January 2014). Following this overabundance of color, a certain sobriety and pureness are found at the Cité de l’Architecture in Paris that looks into the great exhibition of decorative arts of 1925, that signed the birth certificate of Art deco (16 October to 17 February 2014).

Contemporary creators are also remembered, of course, from Tàpies, with a beautiful retrospective at the Guggenheim Bilbao, to Tony Cragg at the musée d’Art modern Saint Etienne Métropole (14 September to 5 January 2014). This is also the season of collections, and not only fashion ones: the Kahnweiler-Leiris collection is closely studied at the LAM in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (27 September to 12 January 2014) while the Pinault Collection will partly leave Venice for a much awaited stopover in Paris, at the Conciergerie (21 October to 6 January 2014). There are exhibits for all tastes, and mostly for all the tastes of our readers. So please note the very original initiative at the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris, Cookbook (18 October to 10 January 2014), that blends art, cuisine and literature, or the consecration of Astérix, , the little intrepid Gaul at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (16 October to 19 January 2014). Mira Schendel is at the Tate Modern while Pierre Huyghe will take over the Centre Pompidou with a whole bee colony that will shiver on the esplanade (25 September to 6 January 2014)…