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From Vienna to Venice, from London to New York: here are the best art exhibitions you can’t miss this November.
November has alway been one of the best time of the year to go around exploring and discovering culture and art exhibitions, especially this month, full of interesting and exciting expositions all around the world. Special guests: music, design, photography and contemporary art as mirror of our society.
This is the last call to visit the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the six month contemporary art exhibition closes its doors November 22nd. Themed “All the world’s Futures” and cured by Okwui Enwezor, one of the most famous contemporary art curator and critic name in the world and director of Haus der Kunst in Munich, the 56th edition wants to observe the indissoluble relationship between art and humans, to investigate on art as expression of artists, always powered by external forces like politics, society and history. ‘Till November 22nd you can admire contemporary art masterpieces by 136 artists coming from 53 different countries in the pavilions in the Giardino and the Arsenale: 11K square meters of art. If you are in Venice, you must visit these three masterpieces:
Finland Pavilion, “Hours, Years, Aenons” by IC-98, a dark room with a hypnotic loop animated video, depicting a cold and sad future.
France Pavilion, “Revolutions” by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, instead is a total white minimal exposition. In the middle of the room you find an uprooted tree symbol of the nature’s taking over.
Korea Pavillion, “The ways of folding space and flying” by Moon Kyunwon & Jeon Joonho, is a sci-fi futuristic installation formed by video walls and a rolling video of a woman trapped in there who pretends to travel around time and space.
There is also another exhibition inspired by nowadays society and politics, that will take place this November. Let’s stay in Europe with Vienna Art Week 2015 a modern and contemporary art marathon arrived at its eleventh edition. “Art has never been more visible, tangible and influential than today, and it is more a part of social processes than ever before”, this year is titled “Creating Common Good” which aim is to give an answer to the question: “How does art contribute to the public interest?”.
From the 21er Haus to the Albertina, from the Mak to Momuk a week full of exhibitions opening, guided tours, talks and performances awaits you in Vienna.
If you are in London, from November 9th you can’t miss the photo exhibition dedicated to one of the most iconic, elegant and classy character ever; Audrey Hepburn. “Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon” has been hosted at the National Portrait Gallery in London and now it’s touring to The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums. Reviewed as “truly hypnotic” by the Telegraph, this exhibition shows more than 70 picture of Audrey Hepburn’s iconography by the most popular twentieth century photographers, like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, prints and everyday life snaps collected by her sons Luca Dotti and Sean Hepburn Ferrer. With these photos, but also magazine covers and film stills, Luca Dotti wanted to recreate the real image of his mother: Audrey was really far away from the character in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and people, especially youngest generation, are really interested in getting in touch with the true Audrey searching for always new photos coming from her movies and fashion, but also from her humanitarian missions and daily and personal life.
Not only society, politics and real life, art has also a strong relationship with music. This is “Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye”, an art exhibition that is taking place at the third floor of the MoMa in New York City. “Modern design has empowered us to create and explore an unprecedented range of music […] Music has been a model for many avant-garde designer” said the curator Juliet Kinchin that wanted to discover the connection between design, art and music, a relationship that became stronger year after year. With design objects coming from auditoriums, instruments to make and to listen music, posters and album covers, this exposition also wanted to explore the 20th century new music genres and the way of life connected to them. This exhibition is also “social”: all the visitors or the enthusiast of the theme can share a photo of their favourite album cover using the hashtag #MakingMusicModern, contributig at the creation of a virtual gallery.
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