The Art of Living focuses on Horta´s innovations in the programme of civil living and the diaspora of his concepts on Brussels and Europe. Horta designed the most optimal living and residential environment. To Horta Living means an act and atmosphere at the same time. With nature as benchmark he takes stone, glass and metal to form a biomorphous architecture sprouting from the way people are and live.
The Art of Shopping reflects the times when Emile Zola wrote his novel Au bonheur des Dames in 1883 and focuses on shopping in stores and warehouses designed by Horta and the atmosphere of shopping at the turn of the century in 1900 in Brussels and Europe.
Exhibition: Victor Horta Revisited! The Art of Living & Shopping
From 05.10.2011 to 04.12.2011
BELvue Museum, Brussels
www.belvue.be
Organised by Architecture Archive - Sint-Lukasarchief vzw Architecture Archive - Sint-Lukasarchief vzw
Exhibition: Brilliant Times- Jugendstil Jewellery from Europe
From 21.08.2011 to 11.12.2011
Museum Künstlerkolonie - Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
www.mathildenhoehe.info
Organised by Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
Based around the innovative jewellery designs of members of the Darmstadt Artists´ Colony-Peter Behrens, Rudolf Bosselt, Paul Bürck, Hans Christiansen, Johann Vincenz Cissarz, Ludwig Habich, Patriz Huber and Joseph Maria Olbrich-a unique exhibition on European jewellery history from around 1900 will once more take place in autumn 2011. It will be held in the exhibition rooms of the Museum Künstlerkolonie (Darmstadt Artists´ Colony), housed in impressive Jugendstil-era buildings. Highly valued pieces of jewellery by René Lalique, Georges Fouquet, Jan Eisenloeffel and Fabergé present a detailed overview of the outstanding creativity these artists expressed through the Jugendstil.
As well as including the Museum Künstlerkolonie´s finest jewellery, the exhibition displays a selection of particularly exquisite objects from the outstanding Jugendstil jewellery collection in the Hessisches Landesmuseum. This museum´s inventory is based on the collection of the Dutch court jeweller Karel A. Citroen (b. 1922). On display are works by the famous Parisian jewellers, goldsmiths and enamellers René Lalique and Georges Fouquet as well as André-Fernand Thesmar and Lucien Gaillard. Lalique sparked a revolution in the field of jewellery design while inspiring Viennese jewellery production at the turn of the century, which neverthless developed in a different direction. Josef Hoffmann´s stricter designs are a statement that the artistic composition and handworked quality of a piece of jewellery is more important than its value in raw materials.
Exhibition: Victor Horta - A Lost World
From 08.04.2011 to 31.12.2011
Maison Autrique, Brussels
www.autrique.be
Organised by La Maison Autrique
It is difficult to believe that a piece of architecture that was acclaimed in its period, barely more than a century ago, and built with a masterly savoir faire out of the finest quality materials, should be revealed to be so fragile. Its history could become the plot of a modern fable.
This exhibition, which the Maison Autrique is dedicating to Victor Horta, proposes following or retracing the key moments of a piece of architecture which has long since disappeared. This initiative is another push in the movement to recover Art Nouveau history, a movement that has been of the highest importance in the Brussels region for several years.
"Victor Horta - A Lost World", open to the public until 31 December 2011, fulfils expectations: the pieces, works and films presented are simply extraordinary. The exhibition is structured around three themes: projects which were never undertaken (such as the Congo Pavilion), those that destiny has done away with (l´Innovation department store, for example) and those which humans have destroyed (the Maison du Peuple is the most iconic example).
These vanished projects come alive again at the Maison Autrique in different ways: Horta´s plans and sketches, impressive remains (which you can even touch), reconstructions and some period film pieces. The whole forms a highly coherent, varied exhibition.
Guided visits: Guided Tour of Architect Enric Sagnier´s Works
From 01.10.2011 to 08.01.2012
Barcelona
www.rutadelmodernisme.com
Organised by l'Institut Municipal del Paisatge Urbà i la Qualitat de Vida
From Saturday, 1 October 2011 to Sunday, 8 January 2012, a guided route is being offered to get to know Enric Sagnier´s architecture. This is the architect with the largest number of buildings in Barcelona. This itinerary, which coincides with the exhibition that CaixaForum is holding on the architect, aims to reveal the different archaeological styles of this prolific artist by visiting buildings such as the Arnús Bank, the Miquel Fargas House, the Church of Pompeii, or a single-family home situated on the Avinguda Diagonal.
For more information: www.rutadelmodernisme.com
Exhibition: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Architect
From 02.10.2011 to 08.01.2012
Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt
www.mathildenhoehe.info
Organised by Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt
Exhibition: Art of the Poster
From 08.10.2011 to 08.01.2012
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections
Organised by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Exhibition: Egon Schiele. Melancholy and Provocation
From 22.09.2011 to 09.01.2012
Leopold Museum, Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
Organised by Leopold Museum
Exhibition: Edvard Munch L'Oeil moderne
From 21.09.2011 to 09.01.2012
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr
Organised by Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou presents "Edvard Munch, l'oeil moderne" [Edvard Munch, the modern eye], a collection never-seen-before in France of around eighty paintings, thirty artworks done on paper, fifty photographs and a film. Showing the work of the famous Norwegian painter (1853-1944) in a different light, this exhibition shows how much the artist's curiosity for all of the forms of representation of his era fuelled his inspiration and his work. His experience of photography, cinema, his readings of the illustrated press and even his work for the theatre profoundly influenced his work, the brilliant modernity of which the exhibition reveals.
Exhibition: Diaghilev´s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929
From 05.10.2011 to 15.01.2012
CaixaForum, Barcelona
press.lacaixa.es/socialprojects/
Organised by CaixaForum, Barcelona
Exhibition: Jacques Gruber and Art Nouveau: A Tour of the Decorative Arts
From 16.09.2011 to 22.01.2012
Musée de l'École de Nancy, Nancy
www.ecole-de-nancy.com
Organised by Musée de l'École de Nancy
Exhibition: Art Deco Images: From the Ballets Russes to the Decorative Style
From 04.10.2011 to 29.01.2012
Museo Art Nouveau y Art Déco - Casa Lis, Salamanca
www.museocasalis.org
Organised by Museo Art Nouveau y Art Déco - Casa Lis
Exhibition: Between Lights
From 01.12.2011 to 30.01.2012
Fernando Pinós. Galeria d'Art, Barcelona
www.fpinos.com
Organised by Fernando Pinós. Galeria d'Art
Exhibition: Jules Chéret (1836-1932). Artist of the Belle Époque and Poster Pioneer
From 10.11.2011 to 05.02.2012
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
www.villastuck.de
Organised by Villa Stuck
Exhibition: Impresionistas. Maestros franceses de la colección Clark
From 17.11.2011 to 12.02.2012
CaixaForum, Barcelona
obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/impresionistas_ca.html
Organised by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts y producida por la Fundació "la Caixa"
Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas y todo el esplendor del París del comienzo del siglo XX llegan a Caixaforum a través del Sterling and Francince Clark Arte Institute.
La exposición reúne un conjunto excepcional de pintura francesa del siglo xix y comienzos del xx, procedente de la colección de Sterling and Francine Clark.