Peter Doig at Musée National du Québec
15 March 2012 through 25 June 2012
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec presents À ciel ouvert. Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, featuring new drawings and paintings by Peter Doig.
Aaron Curry in major Calder exhibition
16 February 2012 through 17 June 2012
Organized by MCA Chicago, Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, featuring works by Aaron Curry, opens at the Nasher Museum at Duke University on February 16th. Exploring Calder's work and its impact on sculptors working today, this exhibition includes works by contemporary artists who are directly influenced by Calder.
Per Kirkeby at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel
10 February 2012 through 20 May 2012
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel presents Per Kirkeby and the Forbidden Paintings of Kurt Schwitters. In 1961Per Kirkeby, as a young artist, fell in love with the landscapes painted by the German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) when he was in exile in Norway in the 1930s. Schwitters is known for his Dadaist collages, but Kirkeby has drawn attention to another side of Schwitters, revealed in these works that the Danish artist calls his “forbidden paintings”, “the ones that did not correspond to ‘history’”.