EUROPE EXHIBITIONS: Dieter Roth and Björn Roth: Islands, The Weak Sex - How Art Pictures the New Male, Hélio Oiticica: The Great Labyrinth
Islands features over 50 major works by German-Swiss artist Dieter Roth (b. 1930, d. 1988), many made in collaboration with his son Björn. Visitors are taken on a journey through the multidisciplinary creative universe of the artist.
Dieter Roth and Björn Roth: Islands HangarBicocca, Via Chiese 2, 20126 Milan, Italy. 6 November 2013 - 9 February 2014
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
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| Dieter Roth and Björn Roth, Islands, Installation view HangarBicocca, Milan, 2013 Photo by Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. © Dieter Roth Estate, courtesy Hauser & Wirth. |
The Weak Sex - How Art Pictures the New Male is a group show exploring new role definitions of the male gender. Works by male and female artists address the issue of how contemporary art stages male role models and masculinity.
Participating artists: Vito Acconci / Bas Jan Ader / Luc Andrié / Lynda Benglis / Luciano Castelli / Martin Disler / VALIE EXPORT and Peter Weibel / Gelitin / Pascal Häusermann / Alexis Hunter / Cathy Joritz / Jesper Just / Jürgen Klauke / Frantiček Klossner / Elke Silvia Krystufek / Marie-Jo Lafontaine / Peter Land / Littlewhitehead / Sarah Lucas / Urs Lüthi / Manon / Paul McCarthy / Tracey Moffatt / Josef Felix Müller / Ursula Palla / Adrian Piper / Anne-Julie Raccoursier / Ugo Rondinone / Carole Roussopoulos / Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier / Sylvia Sleigh / Nedko Solakov / Megan Francis Sullivan / Sam Taylor-Johnson / Costa Vece / William Wegman / Silvie Zürcher.
The Weak Sex - How Art Pictures the New Male Kunstmuseum Bern, Hodlerstrasse 8-12, 3000 Bern 7, Switzerland. 18 October 2013 - 9 February 2014
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| Valie EXPORT and Peter Weibel, Aus der Mappe der Hundigkeit (From the Underdog File), 1969 Documentation of the performance, photograph, 50 x 44.4 cm. Sammlung Generali Foundation, Vienna. Photo: Josef Tandl © Generali Foundation © 2013 ProLitteris, Zürich. |
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| Alexis Hunter, Approach to Fear: XVII: Masculinisation of Society - exorcise, 1977 10 vintage colour photographs, mounted on 2 panels. 25 x 101 cm each panel. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery. © 2013 ProLitteris, Zürich |
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| Sylvia Sleigh, Paul Rosano in Jacobson Chair, 1971 Oil on canvas. 131 x 142 cm. Courtesy of The Estate of Sylvia Sleigh & Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Zürich |
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| Ursula Palla, balance, 2012 Video installation with audio. 8 mins. Courtesy the artist |
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| littlewhitehead, The Overman, 2012 Mannequin head, polyurethane, towels, boxing glove, glove, child mannequin. Saatchi Collection, London. Courtesy of the artist/Sumarria Lunn Gallery/Saatchi Collection |
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| Pascal Häusermann, Megalomania, Nr. 8, 2009 Xerox, oil, shellac on paper. 43 x 29cm. Privately owned. Courtesy of the artist |
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| Bas Jan Ader, I'm Too Sad to Tell You, 1970/1 Video 3:34 mins, still from video. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
The Great Labyrinth is the most comprehensive retrospective in Germany of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (b. 1937, d. 1980). Throughout his career, Oiticica was filled with a constant urge for renewal and experimentation.
Hélio Oiticica: The Great Labyrinth MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Domstraße 10, 60311 Frankfurt, Germany. 25 September 2013 - 12 January 2014
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Hélio Oiticica with Bólides at his studio in Engenheiro Alfredo Duarte
Street, Rio de Janeiro, ca. 1965
Photo: © Projeto Hélio Oiticica |
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| Luiz Fernando Guimarães wears Parangolé P30 capa 23 “m’way ke”, 1965 / New York, 1972 Photo: Hélio Oiticica © Projeto Hélio Oiticica |
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| Hélio Oiticica, Parangolés, 1965-1979. Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photo: Hélio Oiticica © Projeto Hélio Oiticica |
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| Hélio Oiticica, Rhodislândia, 1971. Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Photo: Hélio Oiticica © Projeto Hélio Oiticica |
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| Hélio Oiticica, Tropicália, 1967/2013. Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photo: Axel Schneider © MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst |
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| Hélio Oiticica, Tropicália, 1967/2013. Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photo: Axel Schneider © MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst |