Tag: baroque
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Caravaggio-Bernini: The Baroque in Rome
This is the first major exhibition to pair the greatest painter of the baroque period with its greatest sculptor, along with several of their most accomplished followers. It’s a winning combination
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Jake Wood-Evans – interview: ‘I don’t think you can make a successful painting unless you are bold and commit to the action of taking away and risking something’
Taking great baroque altarpieces as his starting point, Jake Wood-Evans marks out his composition, applies his paint and then starts to move and remove it, leaving abstract traces, like the passing of time
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Luca Giordano: The Triumph of the Neapolitan Painting
An often thrilling exhibition at the Petit Palais asserts the mastery of the inescapable Neapolitan baroque painter, long regarded as an artistic jack-of-all-trades
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Emilia Kabakov: ‘The idea behind this work is that reality can never been seen straight on, but is always obscured either on purpose or by necessity’
Emilia Kabakov, who collaborates with her husband, Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov, talks about working together, their exhibition at Pace Gallery, and other projects they are planning
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Book review: Real Baroque. The Baroque Architecture of Sicily
The Baroque Architecture of Sicily Maria Giuffrè, Photographs by Melo Minnella London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2008 This work is timely in so far as it forms part of the broad revision of architectural history that is underway in the…
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Tales of two cities: Berlin, Dresden
These are stirring times for architecture ‘watchers’ in Germany’s two famous cities; Berlin, the capital, and Dresden, culture capital of the south-east. The re-opening of the neo-Baroque and now restored Bode Museum in Berlin, sitting on its island and commanding…
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Sculptural Architecture in Austria
National Art Museum of China, Beijing 5-23 August 2006 Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 14 October-16 November 2006
