COLOGNE.- Lively, open to change, daring and innovative - these are the qualities ART COLOGNE (13th-17th April 2011) is displaying 45 years after it was founded. The 45th International Art Fair is once again the event that showcases the works of well-established artists and also very promising up and coming talents, where art dealers with long years of experience engage in dialogue with daring young gallery owners. About 200 galleries from 22 countries are offering a comprehensive overview ranging from Modernist works to post-war art to contemporary art coming straight from today's studios.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s auction of Russian Art in New York brought $16,089,390 in total today, in excess of the pre-sale high estimate and the highest result for an auction in New York in this category since April 2008*. The Russian paintings on offer were highlighted by Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin’s View of St. Petersburg from the collection of Mikhail Baryshnikov, which sold for $746,500 above a pre-sale high estimate of $500,000. The sale was led by Henryk Siemiradzki’s The Sword Dance, which achieved $2,098,500 and set a new record for the artist at auction, as well as works by Nicholas Roerich, Boris Grigoriev and Yuri Pimenov. Russian works of art were led by An Important and Rare Micromosaic Table by Gioacchino Barberi, Made for the Russian Court, 1830-33, which more than tripled its high estimate in bringing $1,986,500. Competition came down to three determined bidders, who battled for several minutes before the winning bid was cast by an anonymous purchaser over the telephone.
LONDON.- Snap Galleries hosted a solo show for Michael Putland in their Birmingham gallery in 2005 which was a great success, and now they are working with Michael again on this new exhibition of triptychs.
In this new exhibition, Michael Putland presents a collection of work from his extensive 1970s and 80‘s photographic archives in a stunning new format, combining sets of three images as triptychs, presenting three individual frames as a single artwork. The exhibition is on view from April 13th through May 21st, 2011. As Michael Putland explains “The inspiration for the project actually came from the Renaissance. Seeing many Renaissance originals in museums and churches over the years, it struck me that there could be a contemporary twist to this age old method of image presentation, and I started to explore images within my archive to see whether any would be suitable for combining as triptychs. The deeper I dug, the more I came up with, and I’m delighted with the results. In each triptych, my guiding principle was that the three images should work together as a coherent whole - there had to be an anchor image in the centre, and then a natural image for the left and one which sat naturally to the right.“
In this new exhibition, Michael Putland presents a collection of work from his extensive 1970s and 80‘s photographic archives in a stunning new format, combining sets of three images as triptychs, presenting three individual frames as a single artwork. The exhibition is on view from April 13th through May 21st, 2011. As Michael Putland explains “The inspiration for the project actually came from the Renaissance. Seeing many Renaissance originals in museums and churches over the years, it struck me that there could be a contemporary twist to this age old method of image presentation, and I started to explore images within my archive to see whether any would be suitable for combining as triptychs. The deeper I dug, the more I came up with, and I’m delighted with the results. In each triptych, my guiding principle was that the three images should work together as a coherent whole - there had to be an anchor image in the centre, and then a natural image for the left and one which sat naturally to the right.“
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