Exhibition: The École de Nancy at the Universal Exhibition of Eastern France, 1909
From 02.07.2009 to 03.01.2010
Nancy
www.nancy.fr
Organised by Musée de l’École de Nancy
Exhibition: Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). Seduction, Modernity & Utopia
From 18.10.2009 to 10.01.2010
Tarragona
www.obrasocial.lacaixa.es
Organised by Caixaforum Tarragona
Exhibition: Miquel Utrillo & the Arts
From 23.10.2009 to 10.01.2010
Sitges
www.sitges.com
Organised by Edifici Miramar
Exhibition: New Light on Tiffany. Clara Driscoll & the Tiffany Girls
From 15.10.2009 to 17.01.2010
Munich
www.villastuck.de
Organised by Villa stuck
Exhibition: Edvard Munch and the Uncanny
From 16.10.2009 to 18.01.2010
Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
Organised by Leopold Museum
Exhibition: Experiments In Colour: Thomas Wardle, William Morris and the Textiles of India
From 10.10.2009 to 24.01.2010
London
www.walthamforest.gov.uk
Organised by William Morris Gallery
Exhibition: Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago
From 07.11.2009 to 31.01.2010
Chicago
www.artic.edu
Organised by Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition: Herbert Boeckl. Retrospective
From 21.10.2009 to 31.01.2010
Viena
www.belvedere.at
Organised by Lower Belvedere
Exhibition: Aristides Maillol
From 20.10.2009 to 31.01.2010
Barcelona
www.obrasocial.caixacatalunya.es
Organised by La Pedrera de Caixa Catalunya
Exhibition: Art Nouveau Revival.1900.1933.1966.1974
From 20.10.2009 to 04.02.2010
París
www.musee-orsay.fr
Organised by Musée d’Orsay
Meeting: "Chawan and Art Nouveau Ceramics" by « Chawan et céramique Art nouveau » by Virginie Courtoy, historienne de l´art
05.02.2010
Andenne
www.ceramandenne.be
Organised by Musée de la Cérmamique
The discovery of Japanese earthenware, or more specifically chawan (tea bowls), led to a renewal of ceramics in Europe at the end of the 20th century. The event represented a veritable shock for artists, because its aesthetics of "imperfection" were in contrast to European ceramics at the time. It allowed French ceramicists, and later Belgian, to free themselves from historical conventions. The artisanal and unique nature of these art objects followed the foundations of Art Nouveau and represented a way of opposing industrial art.
French artists such as E. Chaplet, J. Carriès or A. Dalpayrat blazed the trail. Their research led them to experiment with glazes and forms, following the example of Japanese master ceramicists. Their works were notably present in universal expositions at the time, in the Cercle des XX and in the exhibition room of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.
Belgian artists such as A. W. Finch, O. Coppens and A. Craco threw themselves into ceramics under the influence of ideas from the Arts & Crafts and they discovered an example to follow in the work of French and Japanese ceramicists. Their techniques and aesthetic concepts are both personal and close to the spirit of chawan.
Exhibition: The Flower and the Green Leaf: Glasgow School of Art In the Early Twentieth Century
From 27.11.2009 to 06.02.2010
Glasgow
www.gsa.ac.uk
Organised by Mackintosh Gallery
Exhibition: Secret Images. Picasso and Japanese Erotic Prints
From 05.11.2009 to 14.02.2010
Barcelona
www.museupicasso.bcn.es
Organised by Museu Picasso
Exhibition: Views of Hamburg. The city in the painter's gaze
From 09.10.2009 to 14.02.2010
Hamburg
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
Organised by Hamburger Kunsthalle
Exhibition: From Klimt To Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
From 15.10.2009 to 15.02.2010
New York
www.neuegalerie.org
Organised by Neue Galerie
Exhibition: Chicago Cabinet: C.D. Arnold Photographs of the World's Columbian Exposition
From 19.12.2009 to 28.02.2010
Chicago
www.artic.edu
Organised by The Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition: Modernista, Gaudí and his Contemporaries in Modern Day Barcelona
From 14.11.2010 to 29.02.2010
Glasgow
www.scottisharchitecture.com
Organised by Inma Pascual
![Antoni Gaudí i Cornet. Casa Vicens, 1883-1888](../upload/agenda/thumbnail/46.jpg)
Under the title Modernista: Gaudí and His Contemporaries in Modern Barcelona, an exhibition on Barcelona's Modernisme is being held at The Lighthouse in Glasgow until 28 February 2010. Architecture and Design Scotland, the organisation that recently took over running The Lighthouse, has been the main promoter of this exhibition, with the support of the Clydesdale Bank. The Urban Landscape Institute of Barcelona has also participated in the project, a bilateral cooperation of two Art Nouveau European Route members.
The exhibition is to a great extent an author's work: the personal perspective of Michael Thomas Jones, a young Scottish photographer who graduated from the Glasgow School of Art. Jones set out to capture the day-to-day life of Barcelona's Modernisme, with special attention being paid to the people who live and work in the architectural works of Gaudí and other Modernista masters. With the support of the Urban Landscape Institute - which has been running the Barcelona Modernisme Route since 1997 - the photographer was able to access the most hidden corners of the buildings and got to know many of the dwellers on a first-name basis during his month-long assignment.
The result is a collection of striking photographs in which Jones makes no concessions to aesthetic prejudices but instead allows contrasts and contradictions to surface and feature centre stage. Thus we are shown the rear, hidden façades of World Heritage monuments riddled with air-conditioning contraptions, or beautiful ironwork gates next door to anodyne and impersonal modern shop signs. It may be said that Jones's exhibition shows Barcelona's Modernisme as it has never been shown in an exhibition before - and certainly not in a coffee-table book - and that he has undoubtedly captured Barcelona's Modernisme as Barcelonans themselves truly see it every day.
The catalogue of the exhibition, also co-financed between Glasgow and Barcelona, includes an introduction by the Barcelona-resident Scottish architect David Mackay.
Exhibition: Designers of Hungarian Art Nouveau Furniture
From 07.02.2010 to 22.03.2010
Budapest
www.imm.hu
Organised by Zsolt Somogyi
![Marcell Komor, 1912. Painted oak armchair. Manufactured by the company of Mihály Hoffmann](../upload/agenda/thumbnail/48.jpg)
The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest presents "Lilies Sprung upon a Barren Rock": Hungarian Art Nouveau Furniture Designers, an exhibition on Art Nouveau furniture (1896-1914) beginning with Hungarian Art Nouveau and including the most important designers of Ödön Lechner's style. His designs for the museum's original furnishings can be seen, along with armchairs designed by Marcell Komor for the city hall of Subotica and outstanding furniture designs that Ödön Faragó created for Queen Elizabeth's "Garden Room" in Buda Castle.
Many Hungarian Art Nouveau designers were in tune with the New Style's international trends and works by Frigyes Spiegel, Pál Horti, József Rippl-Rónai or unknown Hungarian masters show the influence of French Art Nouveau, German Jugendstil, Viennese Secession and British Arts & Crafts. The museum also commemorates the Gödöll? Arts & Crafts Workshop, with its principal figures and followers - Ede Toroczkai Wigand, Aladár Körösf?i Kriesch, Béla Pálinkás or Károly Kós - committed to finding a "pure source", which they discovered by investigating folk art, thus a national style appeared more faithfully in their works than in Lechner's art.
The museum ends with the precursors of trends between the two World Wars, with late Art Nouveau designers preceding Art Deco and other modern movements, highlighted by the art of Béla Lajta, who designed the furniture for the Bard Music Store in Hungarian Art Nouveau style, chairs for the Institute of the Blind using forms from Hungarian folk art, and the Vas Street Trade School in his own style, which was already leaning towards Art Deco. Pieces by Lajos Kozma, József Vágó, Miklós Menyhért or Dénes Györgyi also show the characteristic features of late Art Nouveau.
The exhibition includes about 100 pieces of furniture from Hungarian and foreign museums and private collections, as well as 120 archival photos, plans and drawings.
Exhibition: The Portrait Workshop, Rodin Faces his Models
From 04.12.2009 to 28.03.2010
Angers
www.musees.angers.fr
Organised by Les musées d’Angers
Exhibition: Vienna 1900. Leopold Collection
From 02.07.2009 to 31.03.2010
Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
Organised by Leopold Museum
Exhibition: Munch and Denmark
From 22.01.2010 to 18.04.2010
Oslo
www.munch.museum.no
Organised by Munch and Denmark
Exhibition: The modernista adventure in the MNAC's collections. Cartagena
From 17.02.2010 to 25.04.2010
Museo de Arte Regional de Arte Moderno in Cartagena
www.obrasocial.caixacatalunya.es
Organised by Obra Social Caixa Catalunya
The Social Work of Caixa Catalunya will transport you to one of the richest periods in the cultural and artistic history of Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, when the city became the privileged setting of modernisme.
The exhibition consists of 90 works of Catalan modernisme by Gaudí among others. The items, including paintings, sculptures, furniture and decorative art, all come from the collection of "Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya" (The National Art Museum of Catalonia).
Exhibition: Tiffany Glass. A Passion for Colour
From 12.02.2010 to 02.05.2010
Montreal
www.mbam.qc.ca/fr/index.html
Organised by Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Exhibition: Joseph Maria Olbrich 1867-1908, Architect and Creator of Early Modernity
From 07.02.2010 to 24.05.2010
Darmstadt
www.mathildenhoehe.eu
Organised by CoupDefouet
![J. M. Olbrich. 1897. Drawing of the Secession building of Vienna](../upload/agenda/thumbnail/47.jpg)
The latest research carried out by the Mathildenhöhe Institute-Darmstadt is the result of a comprehensive retrospective on the work of Joseph Maria Olbrich to be inaugurated in Darmstadt at the beginning of February 2010. The exhibition, entitled Joseph Maria Olbrich 1867-1908, Architect and Creator of Early Modernity, is being curated by Dr. Regina Stephan, professor of the history of architecture at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences, in collaboration with Vienna's Leopold Museum.
Experts on Olbrich's work consider him to be the great moderniser of the world and lifestyles, but his premature death and the destruction of many of his works during the Second World War meant that his output has perhaps not had the same international impact as other artists of his age, such as Henry van de Velde, Josef Hoffmann or Peter Behrens. This is why the instigators of the exhibition and catalogue aim to provide the general public with information about the relevance of the artistic legacy that Joseph Maria Olbrich left around 1900 in Darmstadt and other cities like Vienna or in the Rhineland.
This major retrospective has been made possible thanks to the latest research that has been carried out on this great architect and designer based on the interest created during the international conferences organised by Mathildenhöhe-Darmstadt on the occasion of the centenary of J. M. Olbrich's death (see coupDefouet nº 11). The exhibition includes reconstructions of Olbrich's projects through the use of original sketches, models, historical photographs and many objects from such diverse fields as graphic design, furniture, crafts and textile art.
The show can be visited from 7 February until 24 May 2010 at the Mathildenhöhe Institute-Darmstadt, with family days between 20 and 25 April, including a special games route for children on the 25th.
Meeting: Hobbies in Barcelona in 1900
From 23.03.2010 to 25.05.2010
Barcelona
www.amatller.com
Organised by Casa Amatller
Meeting: "The Art Nouveau Herbarium"
03.06.2010
Terrassa
www.artnouveau-net.eu
Organised by Réseau Art Nouveau Network
As one of the activities forming part of the new "Art Nouveau and Ecology" project, the Réseau Art Nouveau Network is organising a series of five Historical Laboratories with the support of the European Union's Culture Programme for 2007-2013.
The first laboratory will be held in Terrassa on Thursday, 3 June 2010, and will be on the subject of The Art Nouveau Herbarium.It will take place at the Museu de la Ciència i la Tècnica de Catalunya (mNACTEC).
The attached document contains information on the meeting together with the registration form, which should be completed and sent to @terrassa.cat by 27 May.
The activity is free of charge but attendees must register in advance. There will be simultaneous translation into English, French and Catalan.
Programme (Catalan-French-English)
Exhibition: Art Nouveau and Luxury Goods in France
From 15.09.2009 to 13.06.2010
Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr
Organised by Musée d'Orsay
Art Nouveau presents itself with good reason as breaking with the styles of the past, and promoting a "modern" environment based on a revival of forms and decorations. From the point of view of work produced, on the other hand, and this in spite of its social aspirations, it belongs to the tradition of the often-expensive technical experiments that brought fame to the luxury goods industries in France throughout the 19th century and until the early 20th century.
The objects as well as the preparatory drawings presented in this exhibition are evidence of the sophistication that French manufactories and creative artists brought to the art of living.
Exhibition: De Gaudí a Picasso
From 15.03.2010 to 27.06.2010
Valencia
www.ivam.es
Organised by Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno
Exhibition: A Modernista Adventure in the MNAC's Collections
From 12.05.2010 to 27.06.2010
Zaragoza
www.obrasocial.caixacatalunya.com
Organised by Obra Social Caixa de Catalunya
Travelling exhibition.
Exhibition: Utopia Matters: from Brotherhoods to Bauhaus
From 01.05.2010 to 25.07.2010
Venice
www.guggenheim-venice.it
Organised by Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Exhibition: American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
From 07.05.2010 to 01.08.2010
New York
www.brooklynmuseum.org
Organised by Brooklyn Museum
Exhibition: Ignasi Oms, Modernisme and the Hotel Sant Roc
From 12.07.2010 to 08.08.2010
Solsona
Organised by Hotel Sant Roc
Exhibition: Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From 27.04.2010 to 15.08.2010
New York
www.metmuseum.org
Organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition: Tiffany: Color and Light
From 29.05.2010 to 15.08.2010
Richmond, Virginia
www.vmfa.museum
Organised by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)
Exhibition: "Sleeping Beauty". Victorian paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce
From 16.06.2010 to 29.08.2010
Viene
www.belvedere.at
Organised by Unteres Belvedere
The members of the group of artists, founded in 1848, in London called the Pre-Raphaelites were most consistent in pursuing or renewing the arts compared with official Victorian art. At the tail end of the 19th century their art ended up in international symbolism and Art Nouveau amid the increasing symbolism of the collection of pictures.
The exhibition presents major works of the Pre-Raphaelite masters Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and Sir John Everett Millais.
Frederic Leighton's Flaming June, one of the most well-known paintings in art history, and five, in part, monumental, major works by Edward Burne-Jones, are the highlight of this exhibition.
With the support of the young Rossetti, William Morris, Walter Crane and Burne-Jones created a picture sequence after Thomas Malory's Arthur legend. Three works created in this connection by Burne-Jones - one of which is more than six metres wide - can be seen at the Belvedere Show as well as his picture sequence Sleeping Beauty, which was completed in 1873.
The exhibition contains a collection of pictures of the start of the modern trend which, to date, has attracted little attention in Austria, and allows visual scouting trips through the presentation worlds of individual major proponents of the Pre-Raphaelites and the major topics at the tail end of the 19th century.
Exhibition: Camille Martin (1861-1898): A Feeling for Nature
From 26.03.2010 to 29.08.2010
Nancy
www.ecole-de-nancy.com
Organised by Musée de l´École de Nancy
Exhibition: Zuan, Expressions of Modern Design in Early 20th Century Japanese Art
From 24.04.2010 to 31.08.2010
Hanford (CA)
www.shermanleeinstitute.org
Organised by The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture